Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 15, 1888, Page 4

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FEIL, Notary Publie, State of Nebr County of Do Publishit wetunl avers dally circu! DALy Bee for the month of Angust, was 1,151 copies; for September, 1 MY Coplea: for October, 18 i r November December, 1857, 15,041 cc or February %0 coples: for for May, l’;""i l;.l“l Tor July, 155, UK. 1 inmy 1853, 16,2 copi 1 I8R, 15,902 copie April, I8, 18T conies for Jurie, 1568, opie GEO. 1} 1 to “before me und subscril esence this Ist day of August, A. D, 188 N.P.1 ary c. Tui bulletin from the white house—President Clevelund has vetoed another pension bill. OMAHA is ahead of her s in one respect. She has an independent can- didate for the presidency, with a double-decked platform, TiE protest of the hoard of trade to the withdrawal of fast trains between Omaha and Chicago is timely. This is a fast age, and once having established all Dusiness interests demand its continuance. Tue Bank of England has increased its discount from 24 to 3 per cent. This shows that the return movement of gold from Europe to America has setin, and is likely to assume large proportions when the exportation of grain begins. A AIN sage philosopher once truthfully obser “Every cup has its bitter. Sometimes you will find it at the bottom and sometimes at the top.” Political aspivanis in Omaha and throughout Nebraskaare draining their cups. They will discover the ‘‘bitter” at the bottom. T democratic branch of Nebraska will meet in Lincoln on the 29th of this wmonth for a grand pow-wow and place a state ticket in the field. Omaha has a number of *little big” Indians who will attend in all their glory. But by the time of election they will all be for- gotten and forgiven. OVERCLOUL skies with occasional cold-water showers ought to please the prohibitionists who hold th state convention 1n Omuha. When the saloonkeepers me. the weather clerk will accommodate them with 101= in the shade and atmosphere exceedingly dry. Omaha is determined to become the convention city. THE railroads of Ceylon, many of which cost 175,000 per mile, are in a deplorable condition, only paying about 8 per cent on the investmert. If the Ceylon managers wish to put their roads on & solid financial basis, paying 15 per cent on the money invested, they should dmport one of America’s many railroad magnates, Mr. Gould for instance, PALESTINE, Texas, is mourning over the death of her beloved ex-marshal, Chris Rogers, who was murdered on the 27th ult. The only claims that Mr. Rog- ers could lay at the feet of Fame were that he had killed six men. This, the Texas city of binlical name, but not tendencies, considers amply sufficient 1o parade him before the American pub- lic as a hero. —_—— MR, BLAINE returns to America stronger than ever in his adherence to wepublicanism. During his perigrina- tions abroad he has had excellent op- portunities for studying the American political book through European glasses, The simple fact that England looks up- on the democratic party as her friend and free trade as beneficial to her in- dustries is a convineing argument that the republican party and protection are for America alone, THE improved condition of Governor Saundors, reported by the correspond- ent of Tue Bee at Colorado Springs, will be welcome intelligence to the nu- merous friends of the governor in ©Omaha and throughout Nebraska. It seems his illness was from heart failure, due to the altitude, and not apoplexy, as at first reported. 1t is expected that . he will be sufficiently strong to return me in a fow days, and itistobe oped nothing will occur to interfere with the fulfi]lment of this gratifying promise, AN important step in the progress of the Nicaragua canal enterprise was effected a few days ago when the gov- ernment of Costa Rica ratified the con- tract with the canal company giving it eertain important and necessary {ran- chises and concessions. These are in tenor and form similar to those granted by Nicaragua, and were essential to the progress and the security of the enter- prise. There is now nothing in the way ©of pushing forward to completion this ~wholly American project, the great commercial advantages of which when finished are now acknowledged. It is designed that the canal shall be fully weady for teaffice within a period of five years. : Workingmen Thinking. There are cvidences that theé work- ingmen of the country are giving more careful, earnest and intelligent thought to the priucipal issue in the present campaign, and to the claims of the two areat rties to their suppc than the ver done in any previous national cnnpaign. This is o fact to be encournged. The intelligent worki man should think for himself, and he should be quick to distrust those politi- cians, of whichever party, who insist upon doing his thinking for him. He owes 1t to his personal inter- ests, and to his obligations as a cit to consider carefully and thoroughly, ¢ far us his opportunities will permit, the questions which affect his own and the general wellare, resting bis faith upon the vicws of no man and the dictum of no party until, by investigation and study, he has satisfied himself on which side is the largest measure of truth, wisdom and sound polic It is unfor- tunately true that the great majority of workingmen have not in the past pur- sucd this plain line of duty with the e and consistency they should have exercised, and as a conse- quence they have been o drilte ing and uncertain quantity in politics, losing thereby in influence and respect. The labor parties have nomin their presidential candidates, but the indications are not favorable to these candidates veceiving a very large gen- eral vore, though i localities they may show a strength that will affect more or usly one orother of the political It is certain, however, that ve November the vast majority of kingmen will have arrayed them- selves under the banners of the repub- lican and democratic parties. Already both of these political organizations are seriously at work to capture their sup- port. Neither party can hope to obtain all of it, but the party 11 be so fortunate as to secure the larger part, especially in the doubt- ful states, will be pretty sure of the election. A great deal is being reported vegarding the tendency of the labor vote, much of which should unquestion- ably be placed to the account of inven- tion and exaggeration. But it all indi- cates the great importance of this vote and the solicitude with which it is re- garded, and should suggest to the worl ingman the urgent necessity and duty there is upon him to investigate care- fully and intelligently the issue that is paramount in the campaign, and to do his own thinking in determining which of the two great parties he prefers to trust in the settlement of the overshad- owing issue. The task need not be a difficult one. The facts are easy of nce The arguments on both sides can be had for the asking. The history of the two parties on the vital question of a na- tional fiscal policy is familiar to all. Having these before him, every intelli- gent working man isat least as com- petent to decide which policy is the more favorable to his interests, and to the welfare generally of his fellow workers, as is the politician whose first thought and concern is for the success of his party. The present campaign not only ofters to workingmen a great op- portunity to think for themselves, but malkes an urgent demand upon them to do so, and there is no reason to believe that they are thinking more carnestly and morve independently than ever be- fore. Losing Courage. It is suggested that the recent action of Mr. Cleveland regarding certain measures of legislation indicate that he 15 losing courage. Particular reference is had to his permitting the river and harbor bill to become a law without his signature, although objecting to cer- tain important features of it, of which, however, he failed to make any official statement, leaving those who assume to speak for him to explain his action. In the matter of vetothg pension bills, however, the president secems determ- ined to maintain his record. Undoubtedly Mr. Cleveland is giving very close and careful attention to the trend of the political current. and if he has ordinary political sagacity he cannot fail to see that its course is far less fuvorable to him than it appeared to be sixty days ago, when there was a perplexing uncertainty regarding whom the republican candidate would be. Viewing the events of the past month with the keen self-interest and absorb- ing solicitude that must possess Mr. Cleveland, it is not at all to be wondered at that his courage, or rather his ob- stinacy, should begin to weaken, and that he should manifesta desire to avoid whatever he can of responsibility with- out completely stultifying himself. To witness the vepublican party everywhere exhibiting its old- time zeal and enthusiasm, while the democracy is nowhere show- ing any heart or iuterest, is a spectacle well calculated to discourage a candi- date who dictated his nomination and expected the party to follow it up with a whoop and a hurrah that would grow steadily in volume until the day of election. If Mr. Cleveland is not disappointed and discouraged at the situation there is every reason why he should be. The party has apparently fallen into a con- dition of complete apathy, and it isn't easy to see what is going to lift it out of that condition. All along the line there is & conspicuous lack of zeal and interest, and necessarily a steadily de- clining confidence. Mr. Cleveland might arouse the party a little if he would give out his letter of acceptance, but he seems to bo afraid to do this, Mr., Thurman will soon try to infuse some interest in the campaign, but the old gentloman cannot spare much energy for this work. Mean- while republican organization goes steadily on, and republican zeal and confidence grow and expand. There 18 everything in the present aspect of the politioal situation to lead Mr. Cleyeland to lose courage. Sepe— The Prohibition Convention. The state convention of the prohib- ition party of Nebraska will assemble 1 Omaha to-day. A iarge attendunce is expected, and these worthy citizens will have a cordial welcome to the metropolis of the state. They will not fail to find some things to interest them besides the duty they come to perform: They will sce evidences of steady, ma- terial improvement and They will find unimpaired all the con- ditions which assure Omaha a future pre-eminence among the commercial centers of the west, They will note on every hand an enterprise and prosper- ity which are the augury of great- ness indefinately extended. They will see & happy, peaceable community, wher the policy of high liconse has reccived a most complete and entively satisfactory vin- dication. As citizens of Nebraska they caunot fail to feel proud of Omaha. It is claimed that the prohibition party now has organizations in thirty counties of the state, and the more san- guine members of the party profess to progress. betieve that it will cast thirty thousand votes next November, Four ngo the prohibition vote in Nebraska was two thousand eignt hundred and ninet, nine, and in the state election of two years ago it had increased to eight thousand one hundred and seventy If the same ratio of increase has be maintained during the last two years the vote in November next will be about twenty-five thousand, but it is not at all probable the party has reul- lized any such growth. We think it en- tively safe to predict that General Iisk will not receive more than ten thousand votes in Nebr: cand in view of the fact that his associate on the ticket is a man whom no former repubiican now acting with the prohibitionists can port without a sacrifice of self-respe it is not improbable thatthe prohibition vote in Nebraska on the national ticket will be less than the vote of two years ago. Doubtless four-fifths of the prohi- bition party of this state were formerly republicans, and we question whether a majority of these will be dis- posed to homor with their votes @ man who publicly proclaimed that he had been arebel and a democrat, and thanked God that he had notf to an- swer for the sin of having ever been a republican. Nowhere will the burden imposed on the prohibition cause by the nomination of Dr. Brooks weigh morve heavily than on the Nebraska branch of the party But there will com time than now to discuss the candidate: policy and prospects of the prohibition part) Meanwhile the action of the state convention will be awaited with some degree of interest by men of all partios, a more opportune death Tie Charles Crocker, the rail re at Monte rey, California, is rapidly drawing to a close the last chapters in the lives of the pro- jectors of the Central Pacif Crocker was one of the four founders of the cific railroad. A storekeeper in Sac mento he was induced to enter into the project of an overland route through the influence of Stanford, Huntingdon and Hopkins. The actual work of build- ing the road was entrusted to Crock Tlor six years hesuperintended the difti- cult undertaking while his partners were engaged in raising money for the purpose. As his share of the deal, Crocker retired with a for- tune estimated at $20,000,000. Of late he has not been directly identified with railroad and exposure manipulation, The work incident to the building of the Pacific railroad undermined his health, Of the intevesting group which built the great Pacific railroad without a dollar, whose financial operations have never been equalled for audacity and brilliancy, only one member, C. P, Huutington, retains his full vigor. Mark Hopkins and Crocker are dead and Stanford is very n Europe. A7 the couclusion of the rifle prac- tice at Bellevue on Mondas General Morrow in his address before present- ing the prizes made the interesting statement that not only is marksman- ship in the American army at the high- est point in the history of the army, but had reached a standing not sur- pussed by any other nation. Marks- manship is one of the most important achievements of the soldier, and as General Morvow said has value not restricted to the one thing of rendering its possessor more effigient inservice. It helps to improve the character and conduct of the individual, and hence its pursuit is an aid to the whole work of discipline. The entirely satisfactory vesults of this sort of train- ing supply all the argument required in behalf of its continuance and en- courageme nt., A TAXPAYER who evidently keeps his eyes open to municipal affairs, calls at- tention to the loose and unbusiness like methods on the part of the board of ed- ucation. In the affaivs of the building committee alone, it is safe to say that at least $25,000 of the school fund squandered owing to the cavelessuess and ignorance of certain members of the board. The result has been that contractors have grown fat at the tax- payers’ expense. If the records of the committees on teachers and text books, supplies and property were looked into the report would likewise be damaging to the business sagacity of the board. The new board has béfore it a great task. Order and business methods must take the place of the loose and shiftless policy so long in vogue. Mg. M. W. DONAKEY, of Omaha, who offers himself as an independent dem- ocratie candidate for the presidency, is commended to the favorable considera- tion of the American party, now in con- vention at the national capital. There is very close accord betwoen the avow- als of this party and those of Mr. Don- akey vegarding immigration, while throughout the platform of the latter there is voiced such an ardent spirit of Americanism as should make him an ideal candidate of the projected new party. And we feel warranted in saying that Mr. Donakey (great care should be taken not to omit the **a” in the name) would promptly accopt a nomination. ————— THERE is likely to be a big drop in passenger rates to the Pacific coast. It is elaimed by the Atlantic and Pacific that the Union Pacific started the war by cutting rates 81 to 86, Not to be out- done that road met the Union Pacific by a rebate of $10 on tickets from San Fran- i | ordered by a the grape THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15 18%8 cisco to Missouri river points. The row is hardly on as the Santa Fe is yet to be heard from should the Union Pacifie ve- taliate. The mordl'ed this is, that the public hears no {hojvl when railroads slash ench oth n.& a mild reduction ta hahed of transporta- tion is fought as il itiinvolved the con- iscation of the railroads fiscy T1iEk idle boys of San Francisco have been offered free transportation to go into the interior amd pick grapes, as California is just fow in the middle of ason. The state hoard of nxious to supplant the Chinese coolies by white labor and has issued circulars to the grape growers through the state to give the boys a chance. The experiment will be watched with inter- est. The Chinese have had the monop- oly of harvesting in California so long trade that white labor in the fields is a nov- elty. TiE coils of the lumber trust are tightening in the northwest by which the people of Nebraska and other states will be squeezed. A combination of all the principal lumber interests of Min- nesota und Wisconsin has been effected, backed by a capital of sixty millions of dollars. When the plans of this syndi- cate ave perfected, every foot of lumber sent 1o this state will be controlled by the trust The prospect is far from pleasing. As A result of the recent investiga- tions into the sugar trusts by the state of New York, the attorney general has instituted suits against the monopoly. Between the law on one side and Claus weckles on the other, the eastern sugar pool is as it were between the devil and the deep sea POLYTICAL POINTS The purchase of Canada would be a fiue way to reduce the surp! ‘nator Evarts expects eongress to ad- journ election day, w Sunset Cox de- claves it 1s liely to remain in session till the 4th of next March John B. Haskin, a prominent New Y wcrat, member *of cong befo r, and a warm friend of Jolin Kel laved for Harrison, Anna Dickinson will take the stump in the pending campai and will make several speeches for the republican candidates in New York, ) S0} Indiana. vin S. Brice, the new Ohio field marshal of the democratic pa does not secm to be ittering sucee Two of Lis pet schemes were reeently voted down at a single meet- ing of the national committee A bani building against a drug store that Hurrison es Indiana is the latest and oddest election bet from the “cotton velvet west.” The property is rated at about $10,000. 1. P. Warner, of Rochester, N. Y., owns handkerchief that has been in ince 1840 It is emblazoned with dev wned to fire the patriotic heart und has mottoes printed in red on a white ground. He has been offered $100 for it, but declines to part with it. Col. Fred Morley, of Detroit has sent Gen. Harrison the original manuscript of his grandfather’s inaugural gddress. President Harrison gave the document in charge to a colored body servant named De Baptiste, and Col. Morley obtained it from an acquain- tance of Baptiste whom he had befriended. Mvrs, Lydia Dickinson Courtney, of Ken- nebunkport, Me., denies 'that Mr. Blaine's action in refusing a presidential nomination is unparalleled. She wishes it ‘remembered that her late honored father, Daniel S, Dickinson, declined a presidential now tion when actually in his hands at the demo- cratic ccavention held at Baltimore . Juue, 1852, The smallest man longest speech durin, in the house made the the great tariff debate, He is ph Wheeler of Alabama, the cele brated cavalry leader who hung on Sher- man’s flank and gave him so much trouble during the historic march to the sea. Gen- 1 Wheeler does 1ot look much liké a man who had made a record as a cavalry leader. General Wheeler's tariff speech filis thirty- two pages of the Congressional Record. No one has ever read it except himself, but a glance over it shows that the offort is made up of quotations from the various president big tables of ires and innumer illustrations The ex-rebel leader was so proud of it that he had a copy of the specch handsomely bound in woroeco and presented it to Mr. Cleveland. gt The Bulletin Fake. Utica Herald, We move that when the next man loved of the nation falls sick the doctors let the bulletin business alone. From Gartield to Sheridan they have covered the ground of 1t is best to quit. The Savages Must Move On. Minneapolis Tribune., The idea of the government being thwarted in its great plans for the civilization of the Indians and for the conversion of the wild prairies into farms and villazes and citios by a few unscrupulous renegades is not a pleas- ant one to contemplate or one that is lixely 10 be submitted to —_————— Lets Go Fishing. Chicago Tribune. The Prssident—Dan, what worries me in this letter of acceptance is this second term business. How am I going to get around it! I can't explain away that letter I wrote four years ago denouncing second terms, and if I don't say something about it the people will think it looks like cowardice. What would you do, Dan. Dan—I would dispose of it, sir, in a few lines— The President (eagerly) —Lines, Dan? That g, Dau, reminds we. Let's go fishi Sl A False Alarm, Milling World, Auother shock awaits wheat grower and miller, vhantom has materialized. ar the American Auother grain Another “gran- of the world” is announced. This time is the valleys of the Congo, in interior Af- rica. As usual, the new “granary of the worid" 18 more fertile than all the rest of the earth, its waterways are the fiuest, its clim- ate is the most heavenly, and it is able to turn out at least 999,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bushels of wheat so excelient that, when Congo wheat becomes known, ordinary Da- kota and Minnesota wheats, now kuown as the best on earth, will be relegated to the station of hog-feed and ornamental grasse ‘Welcome the ‘‘granary of the world!” Adieu Chili, Argentine Republic, Australia and India! All aboard for Cong —————— The South Confesses, Globe-Democrat. ‘General Morey, at a meeting of his society held in New Orleans a few days ago, expa- tiated eloquently on the soil and climate of Louisiana, but added significantly, that 1t is not a pleasant state .0 live in for persons who “differ politicali, from the dominant element.” He himself, he declared, *“‘had not had the right of expressing his opinions when he differed with his neighbors, as he would have had in the north.” The general evidently made the acknowledgement more in sorrow thau in anger. as he bas o personal and pecuniary interest in the advancement of the state. He dared to tell the truth however, and in doiug so he confessed that “at the last election I cast my vote for War- moth, and it was counted for General Nicholis.” For twenty years General Morey has lived in. Madison parish. He owns property there and pays his share of the taxes freely i and promptly. There 18 good reason to be- | mont and other places can do a whole- lieve that he obeys the laws rigidly and cheerfully, and that Lo is in all respects a worthy member of the comuunity, And yet General Morey is obliged to confess that he not opinions wi lius the right of expressing his n he differs with his neighbors. - Grover at Red Top. Woshington Critie, \g my palm-leaf fan, 0 and I'll shut my eyes und try to think It I'm not down below. “hat pleasure T might have just now f it were so, dear Dan ad of what Lam, [ wero A cold and hauglity man. I have'not time to take a trip, My work grants no rele 1ty Daniel, if this thing k i bound to go Lo gre. If politicians come these days And want to talk about This oftice for this mun or that, I cannot freeze them out. I Mrs. Cleveland ¢ 0 he irs, My heart g soft; | can't refusey L melt and run down stairs, STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. A fourth saloon was started at last week. There are pro s in G 11s to me Niobrara Jects of peac and Island, The ! in newspaper e s about to chan hauds, ng citizens of Gandy have 1 the weeds in the court house hid the trees from paper, a man in ated a patent fiy trap. He saturated a blanket with coal oil and when it had become covere { with flies set fire to it. He is now trying to find his house. A youthful ball player at and Islund thought he could curve the sphere with the of the twirlers, 1 in demonstrating ability curve breaik the bone, more this season The Knox coun that the woman who lived with the late John legal wife, notwithstanding marriag mony b The case 1 be ¢ his arm so suddenly as to He will not play bail any just decided many v i Mitehell was his the t that no 1 ever been performed. vied up. Annie Schurf, the ten-year-old niece of John Bodewig, of Hoover, Dod has just arrived from rmany, making the Jjourney alone. A card was uttached to her {ress felling who she_was and her destima- wid thus ticketed she found no difficulty ting through all right. ‘uster coun o last we sheriff went to ter a couple of fellows d some pr then skipped I in the nty and and bo but wlien the them they rm of the law reached for led under the bed and trem- bled. In the favorable report submitted by Con- cressman MeShane on the bill for a” public at Beatrice, the following facts were rice has a population o about t 18 0 rapidly grow- size in the state, and third largest county in respect of population, busi- th. It has three trunk lines ailroad and is the center of large munu- The post office at prosent is located in the Masonic building, which is occupied by stores of various kinds, of facturing industries, offices, and @& printing estab) ment.' In consequen the risk to the government from 1ts present situation is vel The room now occupied by the postoffice would readily rent for 1,500 per annum, and when the pires, which will occur about time a government building could be , if the bill now pendiug should b @ law this sion, the rent would un- cony doubtedly be much greater than it is at pre ent. reduc the time it w cted to be ¢ The rent under the existing lease was 18 mad These cannot be ntinued when the lease expir tion provided for in the bill is in amount. The mterest on the cost of the building at 3 per cent—and this is a b would amount to a rental of $1,200 a y which will be less by several hundred do than the same wo be if the department should depend upon renting. lowa, A Des Moines butcher has been fined £5.45 for sclling meat on Sunday. Colonel Chase, the landlord of the Lyons house at Rock is, was robbed of his pocket book, containing & The_state auditor has sued a warrant to s orphans’ home at Davenport for 00, voted by the last legislature for im- ovements. A reun of the Thirtieth. Towa will oceur at Birmingham August 2 The Sixth (Corse’s old comman: semble at Osceola on the The recent death of noted sporting man, recalls hi Towa with the famous horse, *Small Hopes," in 1875, under the name of “Lothair,” and particalarly the clean scoop wade at Du- buque. th ) will as- ame dates. Bob Conner, the campaign in Dakota. Hermosa wants to incorporate, The oyster season is announced as opened at Deadwood. The average shipment of butter from the Brookings creamery is about 3,000 pounds ver w in buyers at Armour will heat market at from 55 to 62 ing to the quality of the grain. The city council of Dell Rapids has d no bunks'in the calaboose, us prisoners break them up and use the pieces to diz out with. The city council of Woonsocket has passed an ordinance making it unlawful to | all on the streets or to ride bicycles on the' side- walks, The city council of Brookings has madae ar- rangements with the cornet band of that ‘e for ten concerts, for which the band is 1o receive $100. e Omaha in Politi Lin-oln Daily Call, The action of the republican county convention at Omaha on Saturday was charactevistic of that town in politics. It voted down a resolution favoring the renomination of Attorney General Leese because he has favored freight vates for Nebraska and a cessa- tion of the discrimination made by the roads in favor of Omaha and against every other shipping point in the state. It was an Omaha against the state dec- laration. Mr. Fred W. Gray, who has made some money out of cedar blocks laid in Lincoln strects the past year, was the chief spokesman in the conven- tion against the Leese resolution. Ac- cording to the newspapers he stood up in the convention and declared Leese an enemy to Omaha. An enemy for- sooth, because he, as a member of the board of transportation, has engaged in the work of making the roads do justice to the people of the state outside of Omaha, Mr. Gray was oneof the Ilers and Griffiths who came to the meeting of the state board of transpor- tation clinging to Mr. Kimball's and and Holdrege's coat tails, and testifying that rates were low enough in the state. It was all testimony showing fraud on the face, the testimony of men who have thrived upon the rates given them at the expense of every other town in the state. Mr. Gray is an extensive lumber ealer, 1t'isanotorious fact that up to a short time ago the rates were such that not a city in Nebraska outside of Omaha could wholesale lumber and live. The railroads gave wholesale lumber dealers in Omaha the state of Nebraska for a field and killed compe- tition with ruinously high rates. The state board of transportation after much work, partially righted this wron‘? 80 that lumber dealers at Lincoln, Fre- start the cents, accord- eed sale trade, but still at a_ disadvantage cumynrenl with Omaha. Mr. Gray may be pinched a little when he declares Mr. Leese an _enemy for the o he pl in giving par- t justice to all the state out- side of Omaha, Ttisa good thing in advance to know not only that the rail- roads own the Douglas county delega- tion, but that individually, sowme of them at least, are willing o denoun {8 4 comnmon enemy anyone who see to give the state justice in rates. The state of Nebraska ought to be greater than Oma It ought to assert itself as done paying tribute to that place on the rate dictation of the railroads. The Call predicts that the action of the Douglas county convention in voting down the L resolutions will be worth a hundred votes in the couven- tion. This city is ready to go before the people of the state on the issue laid down by the Omaha convention. ettt oy A COUNTY SEAT CONTROVERSY. Hyannis Boomers Charged With Vi lating the Blection Laws, Wiy, Neb., August 14.—To the nd litor of Tue Brr: In the issue of Tur Brr of August 11, appeared an article under the heading “Hyaunis Gets the County Scat," which is misieading and which does not tell the truth, It has been well said that the “truth is not to be spoken t all times,” and this may be the view that the Hy writer hus of this case. However, be that as it last fall or winter upon # petition by afidavits, asking for a temporary ization for Grant county, G appointed J. S, Dellinger spc Thomas IR. L Westover special co nnis as the tempor te of Nebr ver and s and sclected ary county seat, s ska plainly deflnes of these special comumissioners to be to divide the county into precmncts and to appoint a polling place in each precinet and to call g ion_in the county if necessary, and to announce to the public the us officers to be voted for, as well as to prociaim the places to be voted for for per. anent conn’ at. And the d of said pecial elork is to act as cler d special commissioners. Among other things done said commissioners divided t into ur voting precincts, t llins, Hyannis and Ashby, and calle special election for Ju and in addition to announcing the var s to be voted for proclaimed that t s might s permanent county seat by casting their bal- lots for Whitman or Hyannis, as their con- science might dictate The election occurred on 815t of July, and ou the August 1, ‘found the and said special officers ou hand to canvass, as people generally supposcd and as the law provides. Although several electors from Whitman and other parts of the county were in attendance upon the ses- sion of special commissioners, from August 1 up to the night of August # nothing had been done, so far as the public could learn, towards the canvass of the votes, although Tuesc foliow retur the g day, s all in Hyannis it was well known that the seals on the r. ad been broken and in two instances to turns b the 1s the ballots had been broken. This is traceable directly to the special clerk, it is claimed. Ou the night of August Speeial Clerk Dellinger went to Lincolu by request of the Lincolu Town Lot and id ompany, and the board adjourned to await his return the following Tuesday, August 7, without making a finding or announcing the result of the vote. Onsaid August 7, at 0 o’clock a, he special board completed their labors, there being no one present aside from that august body, and amidst whereases and ejaculations found that by throwing out and flinging to the wind the vote of Ashby pro- cinet Hyannis would have a majority of one for the county seat, and that James Forbes, one of the special commissioners, would be elected county treasurer by one major whereas by the straight vote, had it been c vassed and declared as the law provides, fo the enti unty, showed the Joteat of tho entire Hyannis outfit. Suid special clerk, J. 3. Dellinger, as a candidate at the election ity i, fai rry one-fourth of the votes of the y, and such the case with H. R. Dellinger, candi- date for superintendent ot schools, and R. A. Westover for commissioner and Mike Yakeem for surveyor. As aforesaid, James Forbes, by an act unprecedentes nd with- out any shadow of law, whatever, by dis franchising the electors of cinet, procured bis el Whoever course, s or two'c clerk—s cou one whole pro- on by one majorit aw the like or a similar caset Of id special commissioners and clerk— the commissioners anyway and the letermined on Hyannis for the ty seat and it has been asserted th they would have turned any stone or cut caper which would have afforded any avenue of escape in this their dire extremity. The pretext for throwg out the vote of Asnby precinet was that the electors them- selves changed the place of voting from the tent as announced by the commissioners to a house only a few yards distant. The facts are that a notice of the would-be change was posted for more than a week prior to the election at both places, that the change was beneficial on aceount of the buildings and that every voter w agreed, no one being inco nienced or a vote lost. Had the voters anti ed the straights that said commissioners and their clerk werein no chauge would have been made, and no loophole or avenue of escape offered. Be it everlastingly said to the credit of the Ashby electors, no illegal act can be laid at their door, and that not a sympathizer with the nefarious schemers can be found in th precinet. Grant county isa young count but the voters are as intelligent as anywhe No deceptiye article written by this same 8. Dellinger and published in Tur Bee or any other paper of standing will have sufi- cient weight to overcome the damage done to decent and respectable people in Grant county. The real facts are as recent events have demonstrated that this man came here from Broken 3ow with the intent to mak money: that he took the land at Hyannis, made his proof with the money furnished by the Lincoln Town Lot company, and that he decded one-half to said company, agrecing at the same time that the county séat should be located the It was fortunate, indeed, tha the people *‘caught on’’ 1n time to prevent his election to an important county oftice. It is strange that the Lincoln Town Lot company would sust#in aud uphold the acts of this man, iy AKIN TO CROOKEDNESS, More Light Thrown Upon Recent Transactions of the School Board. “What do you know to-day?” remarked Tie Bek man as he met Mr. Taxpayer, “any- thing more about the school board " ““Yes, sir!” was the reply. ‘‘Now there's the Webster street school; there's lots of fun going on up at that school, and the end is not yet, by any means. When the erection of this building was commenced the old school board was in office, and before the present Dboard appeared upon the scene the plans and specifications for the plumbing and steam- heating, as compiled by the architect, were approved by the old board, and the contract, amounting to §3,200, awarded. Upon the nc- cession of the new board, however, these plans were rejected, and a member of tho board, together with a local steam-heating firm, ‘compiled @ system of plumbing and steam-heating to suit themselyes, “The system recommended by the archi- tect provided for two boilers with a separate brick flue for each one. The new system compiled by the amateur architects only pro- vides for one boiler, conscquently there is not a flue w the building large enough to ac- commodate the systom. ““The boiler, as provided by the ‘amateurs,’ was 80 large that it could Dot be taken mto the building through any of the apertures already built, so they knocked a hole in the wall aud succeeded in getting it in, Then a new difficulty vresented itself. Cold air ducts had been left in the walls by the masons to accommodate the original sys- tem, but these were found to be impractica- ble for the ‘amateur’ plan, and they cut holes for themselves.” “And where do you think they cut themi Right in the piers of masonry, twenty-nine inches u}uuro. seriously tacking the strength of-the building. This was done not- withstanding the protests of the superintend- ent; butit was so preposterous that they are now being filled in again.” “I'he ‘awmateur’ system does not provide for steain rudiatses in’ the play-rooms i tho b - T vr'q provided. Thess pluy. rooms arcusod madnly durmg the' witee months, st (0151008t important that 1) shioura o n some manncr. | having no ratiators in the play-roor v have cut « only possible cha W ‘pagkin:’ the main and " \ ipes, It is v ny 1man W " anything what team hio: he steam pipes e pack Vi but in the boiler-rc 1 that they 1 SOrVe as meaus to he plumbing fvom fr ing." W, the whole cu fall this b 84 soems to be In the fact (st the board mom- who helpod compile | amateuy N and who succeeded in having the con- ct awarded to his steam-beating fricnds, is the partner of this samc n, bat ) other branch of thelr busi T tract, as awarded, amounted 1, © more than the first, or_origii: Another feature of this affair is t \ who egot the plumbing contru ) through the influence of this o board mwember, - the considerat ing that the plumbers buy ol . material used in the contrac 1 a supply house in this city of whiel 1! terprising board member is & partuor 1 understand that there has b ¥ loose method in the manner in o architects have been allowed to i o s and the way in which they were (o sated for their work." The old board had & certain areh: this city make plans for an_addition ) Nigh school building, but they were be utterly impracticable, and not used r, they paid this architect §700 ¢ vorlk before it was found out that th yuld not be used, and it is a dead loss the present boa ¢ to get up plans for the same pur- pose, and pawd him 3500 for them, but fon some reason they were not used, aud now 1ot going to do anything about ity rd has also paid a local firm of arch #3500 to £00 for planning buildings sme reason or other could not be rd employed a which for erected.’ That Mason School Blunder. Look here, young man, Tue Bee's ine formant was not well advised onon e point as pnted in yesterday's Bre. He thinks the superficial feet of the loton Twenty-fifth and Mason streets are not adequate to tha large new school building now being erectod pot. Vithout any effort to be precise T woéuld say that the ot is large enough, but a better e might have be chosen, The school building now being reared on thatdot is the largest in the city, except the High school, and the one on L street, of which {tis a duplicate. It may be regretted eventually that u more sightly and sppropriate location 1 ln.»x been found for such a massive and ¥ ho cature of extra expense was not as But after the excavation was sup- mpleted, Morrison, the mnew- chairman of the committee on build- and property of the school board, or- ed the grading “contractor to cut deeper, and, by so doing, the udditional and heavy expense was incurred. It is understood that other members of the board were not consulted, and the aforesaid clinirman is the responsible party to the extra cost. But no one would have occasion for fault-finding if the added cost had effected an improvement. It is suspected, on the cont that the deepening of the cut is damaging to the grounds and the building, on account of their both being too far below the grade on Twenty-fifth stroot, i sty 4 THE FLY SENTENCED, Bur the e posed 1o be mad, Spiders Skipped and Are Still at Large. O. H. Haynes and L. W. Greene, perpe- trated such a wholesale fraud and Yobery in government lauds throughout Nebraska that the poor government has not money enough left to arrest them, but their agent, a ono- armed man, has been arrested, tried and was Monday sentenced to do three years in the United States prison at Sioux Falls, Dal, The man who reccived the sentence is Lou Passoo, familliarly kuown as “‘Happy Jack." He was arrested over a year ago charged with forgery in making out bogus land recciver’s receipts. The facts are that Pas- 800 i8 not able to write his own name, but pleaded wuilty to hundling the papers and received the sentence us stated above, whioh is the lightest that could be given him, He was not rezarded by the court as a forger, but merely the agent of some men who have perpetrated the greatest land fraud on people in this state that has ever been discovered, The men at the head of the scheme were O. M. Haynes, a member of the Omaha bar, aud L. W. Greene, a land agent. Haynes waes admitted to_the bar about three years ago and made Greene's acquaintance when he was asked by the latter to de- fend him in a suit in the United States court on a land fraud. Hayaes conducted the trial and acquitted his client. It was the last case he tried and em- barked at once with his brother in this large and magnanimous scheme to seil all of the goverument land in Nebraska. Their plan was to make a survey of the land, draw up & description of it, und this, with pictures of the surrounding countr; was sent cast among people wiio were seeking homes in the west. The fishing was good and soon the fins began to swim into the net. Real gov- ernment papers were uow nccessgry and were supplied to the firm by a brother of Mr, Haynes, who had charge of the government land oftice at Box Butte. They were thus not forged papers, but the genuimne, The business soon became so profitable it needed no longer to be run behind a n, but an oftice was opened in Lincoln across the str rom the genuine g land oftic This was the head of- were opened at Box entine, Omaha and er t fice and br Butte, Br in fact all ¢ The business was lucrative beyond the ame ken Bow, V r the state, ticipation of the managers of it and it is said that in the first year the Lincoln oftice paid to the sharks a revemue of #5000, Tha branci offices also sent in good returns over and above the good salaries of their mana. gers. The tures cast, for scheme made was to by the and when send these pie- surveying parties an applicant came homestead they would issue him a re« iver's receipt for the land which was his it and title to it until he received his tent from the land ofMice. The date of tho issuing of the patent was so far ahead that the schemers intended to sell the state and, when 1t came time to prove up, they would a0t be in Nebraska, u d in cacl se £130.50 for his 1 s receipt. ‘The duties which Passoo performed in this deal were to conduct purchasers to their land when they were ready to settle. For this he received 5 @ month and exd penses, He _ fnally quit his job and returned to Omaha whera he had always lived and after being at home somo time, they sent for him and made him collecting agent at a satary of £100 per month and expen It was in this position he was working when he was arrested and arraigned in court. Huynes and Gireene were also ins dicted but have never boen placed under ar- rost owing to the fact that there is no money in the treasury to prosecute their cases. Passoo has been retained in the county jail to be used s a witness against thom when they are brought to trial. During his confine- mentd he has received kind treatment at th hangds of the United Staf marshal ane county jailer, and has even been allowed to work on the wagon which stands in front of the jail and for which he Las applied for & patent on the ground of the dumping attachment. He is fifty-four years old and u general favorite at the jail and has charge of the laundry department. 1t is gen- erally believed among the men that he will not be taken to Sioux Falls, but w still be retained here to serve as a witness in future land fraud cases. City Bonds at a Premium, City Treasurer Rush closed the contract yesterday for the sales §242,000 worth of 6 per cent district paving bands due in from one to nine years at the premium of $10,244.66, There were seven bids, as follows: Blake, Bros. & Co., of Hoston, $1.03.4; Brewster, Cobb & Estabrook, of Boston, #1.! John Day, of Omaha, $1.03.1; S. A. Keene & Co., New York, $1.02.57; Omaha Loan & Trust company, of Omaha, $100 and one-half of 1 percent; Central Loan & Trust company, a sight advance above par. Each bid included the accrued interest, The sale was made Lo Blake, Bros. & Co. et Prince Joseph Dead Bemuiy, August 14.—Prince Joseph of Saxe-Coburg-Gothe has died of imfiamma. tiou of the lunge