Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 27, 1888, Page 4

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THE DAILY B chinc Sworn Statement of C State of Nebraska, County of Douglas, | Geg. 1, Tzsehuck. secretary of The Bee Pib- Hhije contpany, doss solemily swear that the actual circulation of ik DAILY Bk for the week ending Augnst 2, 188, was us follows, Bunday, August 19 Thursda; Friday, Al Baturday, Augu Average. . 3 TR0, Sworn to hefore me and subscribed in iy presénce this 25th 'llfl‘flf August, A, D, 188 FEIL, Notary Public, 4t duly gwor ¥ of Th wetual averaga Tok Dary Beg for the coples; fos; en and Publishiug com daily circulatic month_of for Heptembe Octavor, Ix 18744 col “Jurie, 148, WYOMING can’t become ex a presidential election, but she has an Indian seare at present which serves the purpose just as well ALL tho fish of Lake Erie ave attend- ing a public reception at Bass Island. General Harrison is there with aline or two which he reels off at his own pleasure, —— MANUFACTURERS of wall paper who are trying to form a trust should be the first to read the hand-writing on the wall of the people’s protest against monopoly. THE sugar trust is storing refined sugar with a v of foreing the pric: fow cents higher in September. Has Claus Spreckles gone over to the enemy in this deal? TnE agitation of grand hotel projects has had one good effect alveady. It has gpurred Omaha hotel proprictors into enlarging and bettering their accom- modations and beautifying their hotels inside and out. —_— IN VIEW of the congressional inquiry into the abuses of Italian pauper emi- gration, it was somewhat embarassing for Senator Evarts to accept the bust of Garabaldi, presented by Italians, with an eulogy on the Italian people. THE many attractions for fair week promise to be novel and entertaining. Chief Galligan and his fire department are the latest additions to the list, and the display to be made by the fire lads will undoubtedly be one of the finest ever made in the cit) THERR is still fully one hundred and seventy-five feet. of wooden walkson Farnam in the district that has been ordered paved with stone and concrete. These wooden patches would be an eye- sare to visitors and should by all means be covered before the 3@ of September. No.s00NER do prices on mex breadstuffs go up thun the railroads begin screwing on freight rates. It looks very much as if the profits will be divided between the middlemen and the railroads loaving the poor farmer to pay for carrying his wheat to market “all that the traffic will bear.” and PARTISAN displays during exposition week would be naturally out of place but a night parade of the flambeau clubs of both parties, reinforced by uni- formed clubs and a promiscuous torch- light and fireworks demonstration would be very attractive, and add ma- terinlly to the other features of the fes- tival week. THE BEE'S letter from Rosebud Tn- dian ageney will be read with interest, as a concensus of seutiment among the Indians there upon parting with their possessions has not before been given to the public. Our correspondent gives intevviews with the leading chiefs whose influence with the various tribes is great, and who state at some length the grounds upon which their oppo- sition to the objects of the Sioux com- mission is based. They seem to have lost faith in the Great Father in partic- ular and the white man in gencral. PoOsTMAST Jupp, of the Chic postoftice, has been caught in a peeuli transaction out of which he will extri- cate bimself with difficulty, Mr. Judd is the senior member of the law firm of Judd, Ritchie & Esher, and by indirect methods he hasaided the campaign fund of the democratic party by violation of the spirit if not the letter of the civil service law. Tt seems that the lotter- carriers and other employes of the post- office have been *“nterviewed” by Mr. ‘Esher, the junior member of the law firm, with the result that each employe was nssessed from 10 to 15 per cent of his salary for eampaign purposes. Mr, Judd explains this rank partisan out- rage by saying that he has merely & nominal comnection with tho junior member of his law firm, and as Mr. FEsher has no rela- tion to the publie serviee he 1s not amenable under the law prohibiting as- sessments upon civil servants for polit- feal purposes. The explanation is so extremely ganzy that Mr. Judd will hardly clear himsel! from the offense of having so nicely caleulated this misde- meanor as not to offend the letter of the law. The Real Motive. The more carefully and dispassion- ately the message of the president re- Iating to retaliation ' is con<idered and discussed, the more obvious does it-ap- pear that the real motiyve which prompt- ed it was purely political. It was a move lost d, made by a man déspe determined to leave no expedient untricd that he thinks will contribute to his re-election. This is the view which is universally held ing what Mr. Blaine has char- as the most extraordinary that was ever sent from the white house to the capitol. The republican senators hav- ing distinetly shown that the tre ated in disregard of the well- tood wish of congress was in v surrender on the part of States, and, therefore, re- fused to ratify it. Mr, Cleveland felt that the almost certainly disastrous effect of this action upon his ch a presidential candidate must be coun- tevacted, if possible, by a bold move that might restore the waning confi- dence in his administration of a large clement of voters particularly hostile to British interests, create a fecling of v among another class of citi zens who might be disposed to hold the republican senite vesponsible for perpetuating and ag- gravating the difficulty between this country and Canada, and thus draw to his support those who would welcome the most extreme measures toward ¢ ada, even though it should lead to a war h Great Britain, and those who from apprehension of such @ possibility would vote so as to rebuke the senate. It looks very much as if Mr. Cle land were doomed to expericnce a great disappointment, and to find his efforts to impress the country with the idea that he ardently devoted to the protection of American vights and interests a sorry fail- ure. The result of the discussion thus far has been to conviet the admin- istration of having trifled with this matter in a way humiliating 6 the na- tion, and of having failed to use an au- thority given it for redressing the vio- lated rights of American citizens when there was justifiable reason for exercis- ing that nuthority. The admissions of the presidentregarding the wrongs that have been suffered by American fisher- men compel the question why they were tolerated with no greater effort to se- cure justice for these citizensand pro- teetion for their interests and rights than' weak statements to the Brit- ish govermment which were either ignored or received only the most per- functory and flippant attention. Tho history of all this controversy, so far as the present administration is concerned, shows that if the president hasany gen- uine concern for the American rights involved it has been developed since the rejection of the treaty, The thoughtful voters of the country, of whatever class, will have no faith in so sudden a con- version to patriotic duty, particularly when they take into consideration the political exigency that inspiresit. They must doubt the sincerity of the president when he secks to intensifythe feelingand inercase the difficulties of the situation without any present or urgent reason for doing so. They must question the honesty of a request for greater author- ity to retalinte upon a people who are not now giving any cause for retaliation, and whose conduct does not. promise to be any more hostile to Amevican inter- ests this year than it was last. Thus it is that the blustering and menacing message of Mr. Cleveland has already ceansed to bea sensation, and its author stands in a far less faxarable light, and on more insecure ground as to his political fortunes, than he would had he been content to remain silent until a proper occasion was presented and then have honestly and firmly acted upon the authority congress gave him a yearand a balf ago. The transparent motive of Mr, Cleve- land defeats its purpose of uniting in his support the inveterate anti-English element among our citizens, while his professed desire to put an embargoupon all commerce with Canada has ruined whatever democratic chances existed in the northwest. The Minneapolis 7%ib- uneé thus expresses the seniiment of that section: *“In this part of the country the president’s message has served a good purpose. It has convinced the people that the railroad and trust wagnates comprising the dem- ocratic n:kfolml committee, the demo- atic party, the great railrond corpora- tions of the east, and the president as a willing tool of them all, have entered intou comspiracy against the commer- cial independence and prosperity of the great northwest,” But the interests of that section are in no imminent danger from s the president pro- ve. Congress will not en- his authovity in this mu st until there shall appea reasous for it than the president given or than exist in the actual situ- ation. tor N rot regn acterized document nego! n- Buropean and American Crops. The review of the European crop situ- ation given in THE BEE'S cable dis- patehes of Sunday was in the main con- irmatory of previous advices, all agree- ing that this it to be one of the worst wheat and corn years Europe has known inalong time. In every country ex- cept Russia the crops have been cut down by continued rain and cold weather. In England they will be at least twenty-five per cent less than last year on the most favorable estimates. ‘The yield in Germany and Fraunce will fall far below the average of the last few years, and the same is true of Austria, Italy, Hungary and Spain. The India wheat crop is not in a favorable condition,and it not greatly improved in September will be largely short, Russia has the promise of a fair erop, probably equal to that of the last two or three years. Tt is expected that Great Britain alone will be dependent upon an outside sup- ply for one hundred and fifty million bushels of wheat, and very likely the deficit in other Furopean countries will make an additional demand from countries having a surplus amount- ing to several times that of Great Britain, The promise is that this must nearly al be supplied by the United States and Russin, The erop outlovk in this favorable to our being able to mee e of the demand. In ‘some loca the earlicr promise has not be kept, but very generally the estimates will lie realized. The wheat crop of the west and northwest will give a gencrous surplus for export, while the corn pro- duct is almost certain to be the largest in the country’s history. To this crop Nebraska will make a splendid contri- bution. At no previous time in the iast ten s have the corn prospects in this state been better, and the esti- mates place the yield at from sixty to soventy-five per cent over last year and above the aver while the quality will be first ¢l Of course corn is not, yet entirely beyond danger, but only most exceptional climatic conditions could now preveut a yield in this state il ab least to that of any year in the ast ten. Referring to this cheering outlook an eastern paper says braska some day—and that day very far off—will be the corn state of the union. Kansas s suddenly up with heat and scorching winds, Illinois and Towa drowned out by floods, yet theve scoms to be an equi librium of conditions in the state of Ne- braska which is always pleasant to con- template.” The cropsituation in Europe,in which the chance of improvement is now slight, means higher prices than have prevailed for perhaps half a dozen years for American grain, a promise which the farmers of this conntry will regard with entire satisfaction. And those of Nebraska will share la; y in the re- sultant prosperity. country is our li= ge, While buried Tie funds which were v Northern Pacific from the German syn- dicate will in all probability by used in extending that railroad into Manitoba. Negotiations are about to be closed be- tween Northern Pacific officials and the Manitoba government to that effect. An important part of the contraet is the clause limiting the amount of bonds per mile that the government allows the company to issue. The bonding limit is $16,000 per mile, the governmont re- taining bonds to the amount of 38,000 per mile, leaving the company the other 88,000 to sell in order to complete the work. If the product of the sule of these bonds is not suffi- cient, the govornment will supply such an amount as is to be clearly shown necessary for the Northern Pacific to finish the building of each mile of the road. By such terms the Manitobians propose 1o protect themselves against stock watering. The plan certainly commends itself to those countios in this country asked to vote honds for the con- struction of new railroads. If the con- gress of the United States had taken similar precaution in the building of the Union and Central Pacific, there would have been no Pacific watered stock, no jobs, and no such enormous debt due from these railroads to the government, ‘WrrH brick at six dollars and a half a thousand there should be an increase of brick cottages. Frame buildings after all are frail and unsubstantial. They have to be repainted every year and repaired from time to time at con- siderable expense. They cost more to keep insured and will not bring as good rental nor sell to as great ad- vantage as a brick house of the samo dimensions. Kansas City is all built up in brick and for that reason creates a betfer im- | pression than Omaha, in point of sta= bility aud solidity. These impressions have gnuch to do with property values and investments of foreign capital. sed by the THE incorporation of new railroads in Nebraska ts taking place right along despite the threats of eastern magnates that they would not lay a foot of ivon in the state so long as the state board of transportation fixes rates. The latest road incorporated isa branch of the Burlington & Missouri from Wahoo to Beatrice and its construction will prob- ably beginnext sp STATE AND TEXRRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. West Pomnt musicians are going to organize an orchestra. A man loafed around Blair last week eat- ing onions, chewing bolozna and drinking alcobol until he became insane and was sent 10 the poor house. The Buffalo connty farmers will hold a picnic at Ravenna Thursday and will there form a farmers’ club for the county, to meet overy year after harvest, A Sidney cowboy was discovered in the act of forming a nucleus for a herd of hisown by changing brands last week, and now Cheyenne county isw't big enough to hold him. Tha South Sioux City Sun is one year old and is in good hoaith, It will still continue to shine as of yoro, but at the reduced price car, and hopes soon to drop to a While running a threshing machine near Ashland the sleeve of Gus Weidman's shirt “was caught in the machinery, and before Gus could extricate himself his wrist was broken in two places. The delinquent tax list of Dawson county o past ten years has been made up and vé a delinquency of #4 S84, which after adding the interest will run the figures up to a cool $50,000. A couple of quacks are catching sick suckers in Platte county, They claim to be able to cure incwrablo discases, and all of the incurables are taking their nostrums and blowing in their money. The giddy young chambermaid of the Tn- man nouse at Broken Bow who a fow weeks ago robbed the proprietor and his guosts of ull their valuables and then went to the mountains for her summer vacation, has been arrested in Oregon and will return to Broken How for trial. Al of the business houses in Lindsay are being moved one bloek east. This is (¢ Decause the old location is on & hillside, und by moving, the business street of the town will be located on lovel ground, where it shoull have been located wken the town wus first laid out and started. ‘The Louse croek coal prospect hole, near O'Neill, has been temporarily abandoned. When the holo was down 300 fect and the outlook for coal was most encouraging, tha drill became fastened and eannot be rom. from the well. The proprietor is now trying 1o find some way to overcome the difficulty. David Tyler, was the vietim of a pamful accident near Plum Creek last week, He slid from a stack of wheat, landed on the handle of a pitehfork, which entered his Dody about five inches, and_was thrown vio- lently forward. The wound and shock tem- porarily paralyzed his lower limbs, but ho is now recovering. Ed Drew, o traveling man, and John Weers, an undertaker of Diller, have made a footel during the' month of Decomber. if Cleveland is defeated, and Weers will do the ted. A forfett 3, boch placed i, the hands of-a Diller prohibition s The ¢ was urro relt ased, N toits gentl raments: 7o learn observe the decoria in the pre of ladies mes a gentlemany ay to all evil Vh ¢ bohind me Satan and be quick nlmm it.' In short, it teaches that ‘the way of the transgressor is arc and that virtue is its own glerious reward, and should be fostered and entfivated even a8 you would cultivate a Neoraska corn tield.” ton, who and t e Seatinel 1o read this simen readers’ with ardent self-controls, to Towa. in _county's shoriff 11,500 bottles of b of whisky seized at F: The law and order league of Dibuque will prosecute fifty-one cases agamst suloonkeep. ers at the next term of district court 1edabout gotting hay in 18 hay i'he wet interfered ser with its making. Jefferson ¢ Ha last week de and several jugs \ins the owa in ¢ age of 16w lowa state horticultural soci n adjourned meeting at the ca nes at 10 o'clock on Thursda tember 4. A1l persons interested in horty culture, whother members of the socicty or not, arc cordially invited to be at the meeting. J. D. Denison, Clarion, Wright county, asks ‘Tue B to mention hingas o candidate for the vice presidency, on the platform framed by Mr, M. W. Donukey, of Omaba, as printed in Tue Bee recently. Mr. Deni son endorses the ideas of our townsman and y's he hopes the platform will win, are fast becomi veeds therein. A through ote of principal thoroig . was bitten by a snake lurking in a tangle of burdocks, The reptile was 1 a serious result . Circumstances jus- t tlasks in Oskaloosa, and we presume there are few men there so bold as to go without them. younges John W, thirteen soldic Wupner, o who served throughout t The hold Des v will Dakota. The total grain storage capncity now in St. I nce is about 250,000 bushels. T'he poundmaster at Deadwood has now so L business on hand that he vatrols the ots on horseback, A silver cel, three and one-half fect long, neht in the Sioux near the polishing t Sioux ifalls last Tuesday. A young man in Rapid City recently wanted a bible for some purpose. He was unuble to buy one at the stores, and his search at the houses of several of his frionds proved fruitless, The report of the board of pharmacy in sossion at Huron showed 425 registored south Dakota, with fifty- 3 cash roceipts for the year ending Juno 20'were $1,003; ex- punrmur«u 4. The Aberdéen News says: ‘Tt is reported that the prairie chicken is becoming. so bold that he does not hesitate to attack the un- wary traveler who ventures out alone. The result is that no one dares to go into the country unless they huve a gun with them.” WHAT THF THINK OF IT. Comment bv Press and People on the Fisheries Message, The New York World says: Presi- dent Cleveland’sbold retaliation mes- sage has filled thi demoeratic hosts delight. The New Englaund fishermen are all happy and the republican poli- ticians ave grourys Our Canadian neigh- bors faney that if the president’s policy is adopted they will be able to inflict as much damage upon us as we possibly can inflict upou: them. The nglish s disposed to regard the situation serious, and altogether we have something 1o tall about at the very trme when the publicwas getting justa'shade tired of the tariffi discussion, The New York Tribune says: A di- rect answer may be made to the presi- dent’s message on the rejectod treaty. He asks for enlarged retaliatory powers, on the ground that those with which he has been alrendy armed ave inadequate. If he had enforced either of the retalin. tion acts he would have been ina posi- tion to decide whether they were or we e not adequate for the protection of Awerican interests. If he had availed himself of the legislation alveady en- acted and found it insufficient, he wounld have been justified in recommending more stringent measures. Asit is he simply begs the question. The New York Times say His m e confronts the republican sen- ators, amt thay ean not get-away from it any more than they have been able to get away from the issue which he launched upon the country in his an- nual message last December. If they comply with his request in regard to retaliation they will have to accept his position us right. If they refuse to com- ply with his requost they will stand be- ore the country as not oniy- blocking the settlement of the fisheries trouble by treaty but as preventing the adop- tion of an effective and clearly-defined policy of retaliation, which is the ouly alternative left. Let them add this to their position of obstruction to tariff reform and there can be no question of the judgment of the people at the com- ing clection between this administra- tion and its opponents. An Indianapolisspecial tothe Chicago Times says: Irish democrats think that Mr. Cleveland’s Canadian retaliation message will greatly strengthen his candidacy among Irish votors. Several messages commending his pluck and patriotism were sent to the president. The democrat lub in General Har- n's ward wired congratulations, ndd- ing: “The senute must now shoot or give up the gun,” A. W. Endicott, Hendricks eclub, telegraphed: **Your able message heartily indorsed by the Hendricks elub. The people of this country are to be congratulated on hav- ing an executive who has the courage to uu the right thing.” Anman, presic unon, also president of the of the saw- congratu- ent sent lations. enator MeDonald said that the message was presented to the senate an s he left the capitol, but that it expected by the democratic mem- bers of congroess, who were prepared to receive it with enthusiasm, The cabi- not the day of its: prosentation to the senate had given oxclusive attention to the documont, which had been previ- ously preparod by Mr. Cleveland. When asked what ho thought of the assertions mators Kdmunds and Hoar that the dont is at fault for having delayed action for eight months Sendtor MeDonald said: cian not hurt Mr, Cleveland, He has now shown just where the respomsibility lies. It is within the province of the senate to amend as \u-ll asroject treaties that are submitted to it! yot it merely rejected tho treaty without indicating in any way where the dofect was or suggestini anything better. The president has only asiced for power to protect the in- terests of the country, w York Su We have made wer Cleveland a democe rae, and we will yet make him a home o Call home . J. Pholps and send Patrick A, Collins to London in his place. That would be homo rule indeed; likewise polities Miuneapolis Journ The senate having dured to reject the humiliating and inadequate document which the state department had submitted, the pre -uln-m, in afit of ill-temper and with the intention of making the alternative of his poliey as injurious and unpopalar as possible, for the sake of having iv renct upon those who proposed ret | peculiar eloetion wager. Drew is to go \mn» | vion in the first place, has goue squarely back on his previoys position and now asks for .\.......W.Y power to do that which a year ngo, when he was com- mencing ‘tieaty nogotiations. he de- 1a 1 there was no oceasion for doing, Philadelphin i ¢ President Ol land his gone biack in the messs wnt 1o congress yesterday ata bound,wo might sny a somersct, to the stand on the fisheries question takeh by Seeretary Manning, which both parties in con- gross and a part of the administration held until Mr. Manning retived, and which is and was the only sound na- tional position. New " York special to the Chicago Time, the first to come to muu.u. wlquarters yesterday was Henr, Vatterson. He bounded up the stairs two at a time, and when he reached the chairman’s private office he dashed 6 the following telegram to President Cleveland, which was at once sent: W Yonrg, August 24, —PresineNt Creve 1AND, Washington, D, C.: As John Kem ble said when he gave the b a sover. clgn, may you say at this moment: “lt is not often I'do these things, but when I do them, 1 do them handsomely." Uhen Mr, Watterson and General LeFe- vreand Colonel Brice told cach other how cased they we with the messagzo sital stroke it was for the tional committee preparations to flood the the mess: It will trough New York and can do the most good. that it wiil be more than the Mills Inll, “You that? That's what I think about it,” said Secretary N lanand he pointed up to the wall, Hanging to uil was a card which had been issued by the republicans. It had a British flag in the center .lml above it were th words: “A Free wder,” Cloveland Applauded in Engla “Low Tariff Means Low Wages.” card was very carefully turned ups d.m n, so that the rlish flag apped to be hanging union down. I think it isasettler to that British flag busi- ness,” he continued. “By the way, I never saw the people about the head- quarters more enthusiastic and gener- ally happy. Everybody is working with renewed interest,’ nator R. C. Bell, of Tndianapo- talking earnestly to a group of dem- ats, said: ©1t is a great strategic movement. [ think it will have a greater influence than the tariff mes- sage, important as that was. The re- publican members of the United Ssates senate, influenced by partisan consider- ations, were disposed to shirk a plain constitutionul duty, that of either ap- proving the treaty submitted to them, or, as part of the treaty-making power, of amending it to suit their views under uhe existing conditions of affairs. This they declined to do and endeavored to put the entire res- honsibility of action on the president. ic accepted in his usual honest and fearless manner. He is for the execu- tion of the law in this instance as he vs has been, and he only asks the to uphold him. His action will strike a responsive chord in the hearts of the people and will largely influence the result. of the campaign. In my opinion it will turn the wavering Irish vote inelined to follow Blaine to the democratic side, and they will enthusi- astically support. Mr. Cleveland. This movement is Jac! *kson in_its charac- Clev: 18 making countr 1t is thought widely civeulated s, & promi- neut figure in Indiana polities, said: **Tt is a wonderful document. I think it is the most powerful Mr, Cleveland ever issucd. It puts the republicans at a complete disadvantage. They forced the message by rejecting the treaty and Jeaving us no other defense but retalin- tion. [ dont think the republicans will be so anxious about that letter of ac- ceptance now. When it does come I fancy they won't like it any better than they do the message A dozen reporters attempted to get an expression of opinion from Mayor Hewitt, but he would not be interviewed. “I have long since made up my mind nov to express any opinion upon any- thing which does not relate to the busi- ness of the mayor’s office,” he said. *I have all T can attend to without paying any attention to outside matters.” e VIEWS OF A TAX-PAYER. He Apprais to Common Sense in the Management of Schoois. OMAHA. August 21.—To the Editor of THE BEE: Your recent articles have induced me to attend a few meetings of the school board, in order that I might form an opinion of the make-up of its members. There are some features of the work expected of the board of edu- cation in which every citizen who either pays taxes or has childven to educate is, or should be interested. T am thoroughly persuaded that the intelligent vesidents have taken very little part in the choice of men. N such results could possibly obtain as a preference of well-informed citizens who have in view the public welfare, If the patrons of the schools might oc- casionally look in on the board of educa- tion, when in session, they will readily decide for themselves whether the best educational interests of the city can be subserved by some of the men ' compos- ing the bou Such characters are 10- capable of originating anything pertaint ing to the bu and attempt making the impression they are doing some- thing by vociferously opposing motions made by the members who project the e citizens of Omaha are of the magnitude possibly not the work to be done by the board of ed- ucation; and may of the city ng for new se S buildings,the procuringof the best heat- ing and ventilating apparatus, ing and applying the best or approved toilet fixturcs and furnishing schools with the best text hooks, ete., ete. The item of plumbing and heating the school rooms is very expensive, and is the occasion of the outlay of money that is squanderod, except good jut sed in the choice of the nd mechanics. Any attempt otism in obtaining such things the same as a failure to get The selection of building sites, sioning large expenditure of money quires ot only th re of “good judgment as to but, also, as re- wards location, The man who cannot unu\xp.n, within a gun ~hm ul may be the growth of a ¢ the city, und, hence, venson shall ~ be unable any extent to foretell either the mmediate or future demands of that portion of the town, or bestows no study in that Jine of duty, has very little any. fitness for the office he holds. Tavger sums of money are required meet the cost of new buildings t must be erected aunually. cost, externul design, and inter X ment and nee ol 1 houses demand the vise of dis tion, caleulation, tastc good judg ment, if suceess is reached and pul 2x poetation satisfied. L esolution should h.l- uvr.-liui‘_ to ta ; motion irom the tuble and discuss it. the motion iy it ocea- L re- to THE LANCASTER DEMOCRATS. Not a Single Ballot Taken in Thelr Convention, THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED. A Wreangle Over the Prohibition Question Knocked Out by the Gag Law—Other Lincoln Gossip. 1020 P Stuger, LiscoLy, August 26, The democrats of Lancaster county met in convention in this city yesterday afternoon, The mecting was held in Bohanon's hall. It was a cheerful, if not an enthusiastic convention, and was quite largely attended, There was very little wrangling during the deliber tions of the most respe democrats (in point of assembled in the county. The convention was ealled to order by Lincoln's chief of police. The task of selecting a ticket was a most difficult one, and, what is more signiticant, not a single ballot was taken dur- ing the convention session. Fve nomination was made b aceli- mation. The trouble was to candi- dates whe wanted to be sacriticed, The ticket is as follows: For county attorney, N. Baker; ('mlniv commissioner, I'red Schwetzer te senators, J. J. Butler and ndiff; representutives, g Huff, Henry I\\'m]vm nd W. H. Dunn. De ll‘;::\(l'~ to the state convention wore s follows: 12, Il ('nnp . O. Cassady, \W. J, | Openheimer, Charles n,-ma_\. Pat Me- Gue, R, H. Moflit, J. V. Wotfe and Tom Pric LINCOLN BUREAU OF Tip OMAna Bee, } able body of numbers) ever To congressior braska_ City—IL, Weyant, George I. ml;,ml H. A T ion at Ne- Whitmore,” O. I, Rogers, John Moo N Hubbard, W, P Lush, A Sawyer, W. H. Palmer, James Kelly, Oppenheimer, Dr. Dragg, W. L. Cundlifl, B. . Wiggen- horn, Pat McGue, J. H. O'Brien, Patsey Mears and C. Ba The following platform was adopted: Resolved, That we the democrats of Lan- caster county in convention assembled do heartily endorse the platform adopted by the last national democratic conyention, and pledge our support to the candidates nomi- nated, Resolved, That we are opposed to prohi- bition and believe that the interest of the state will be best subserved by the continu- anco and enforcement of the present license aw. Resolved, That we are opposed to the im- portation of armed police, and in favor of ex- tendiug our present mechanics' lien law to public buildings, so |||urk|npz all convict made goods that they y be known by the purchaser when placed on sale Resolved, That we heartily endorse the acts of the Hon. J. A. M Shane as our mem- ber of congress, cpecially in voting for the Mills bill e L The convention wrangled some over the prohibition question, but Editor Klutsch applied the gag law and knocked all opposition to the foregoing resolution to the winds. He was on the war path. BETIHANY IEIGHTS, The landed site of Bethany Heights isone of the most beautiful in all the surrounding country. It mevits a pass- ing notice from the press of the state. It is situated three and ore-half miles east of the cityon Vine strect and over- looks the entire city, and is the seat of the new Christian university under con- struction, and to bo finished early in Septembe: 1889, What will ho the university lawn a year or two hence is between one and two hundred feet above the level of the country around, and will comprise twenty acres furnishing a magnificent view of Lin- coln on the west and a country at all other points as beautiful as a panorama. The Woesleyan university lies to the north and \m! which is now alm ready for occupancy, awd dwel houses are going upand under contmct and before the year closes Bothnnv Heights will be ‘swarming with busy builders, and what will be one ot the most notable and attractive additions to the Capital city will be under way. The corner stone of the university will be laid with imposing ceremonies on the 30th, and on that day there will be a public sale of lots for the purpose of adding to the building fund. The tract of land, constituting over three hundred’ acres, has been subdivided into lots and blooks. Central avenue, or Saunders street, is 100 feet wide and extends to the south far beyond the college grounds to O street and to Leighton avenue on the north, which bounds the Wesleyan uni- versity addition. The rest of the strects are named after the different institu- tions of learning of the denominati and for prominent men of the chu; Nebraska. The plat is an admirable one. The foundation of the university will be finished by the Ist of January” next. The building will be 87x108 feet and four stories high, The foundation will be built of blue stone and the walls of the building of Milwaukee brick and the trimmings of red sandstone. It will be the most sightly building of the city or vicinity, Theé main hm](lvn” will !nlluv«m] by a lar pride in o stitutions of learning. Ilu- prom- 15e much for the city’s future, A.ml the drive to thei attractive and popular. ites of hoth institu- tions have 1 ted with an eye to the futur arthe Missouri Pacific railroad, “and a station will be established for their convenience in a short time. LINCOL At the Capit 'S SUNDAY GU C ana .\\h Chicago; € Kruz, 5 burg: | nuw.ud Johu A.Canard, Kansas ¢ J Y W, Russell, man, Kansas City; W J. L. Epperson, Fair liet, St. Loui , Windsor—R. K. Cooper, St. ll, W. . Hn\\vxw ILuL'mnl (mn \| ( w\vl\n,, Hon. D. V. Stovonnon Shuberf; A. B, Stevens, Omaha; Tko. N. Hahn, St. Loui Racing; F. Hunt, St, Loui: K . on, Omaha: J. Wright, Omaha; S, T. Brown, Detroit{ A. C. Fisher, Bridgepoit, Conn.; 8. W, Struck, Atchison; T, I Richards son, St. Joseph: J Gilbert, St. | Louisi W, K. Miles, St. Josephy . W, Sweet, Omahas Thomas J. Stewart, Harvey Joseph, St. Joseph H + Wyomin 3. Strang, Omy . MeCullough, Chic M Granbel Janesville, Wis, Juiney: John R. Juxte Haymond; I\ J. Smith V. Wells, Fond du 1 Johnson D. Hubt crs, Racine; J. AL Wilson, £ “ronton: N, 1. Nooman,( L L White, Burlington: 1 Onminhay Go Lo Bratton, & Leavenworthy Huamilton, corge L. W. lLerres, D. J. Helke, M. Cameron’ Clarke lexander, C. Parrie, Princeton. 111, DEGE WATER DELEGATES, The following is a supplemental list delegates appointed by Governor wer Lo the Deep W convention, to he held in Deny August 28 1888: M. R Floy kamahy Try- ing J. Manatt, Line J. D, Moore, Grand 1« Scott, Kearney W. G, Cannor, Kearney; Henvy \l.x\llu-\u Atkinson, I|I RO OF spIRIT tt, the hero th Opelt to- LAK of Spirit wk \\IId Balti- Vow York Cit B. \iuluu veling, Dwight T l}ichn-q Hands, Omaha; E. el T. Collins, Des Moines; [‘. F. l!.u‘rn»\, Phil Jacobs, Kansas (! ity . Joseph; W W. Belvin, J I W s Louis; Charles Chieagor L, M Ium tz Louis; H. A, Aplin, Chic 1‘ ~u||,'bun:\ Fred L. b 1 , St. Francis, \\'unm A. C. Rountru, Maines. At Opelt’s—F. J, Smi 05 M. W. Brady, P. Marsh, Omaha; L. A, Ottumwa, I[a.; O, Thomas, Miss Etta Layton, Mount Pleasant, 1 Des rrotie & Co.'s genial hat” man, of I ¥ be remem- 1 that about two mouths ago he lost his gold wateh and diamond ving in a successful effort to rescue a drowning girl at that place. Ho says there is a gold find on the pebbled bottom of that Benutiful sheet of water. — - As to Franchises, Pioneer Press: The city council, in postponing for future consideration an ordinance granting exclusive rights to a company proposing to furnish St. Paul with natural gas for illuminating purposes, emphasized its record asa cavetaker of the public interests in the matter of franchises, The city is now entering upon the period whon it will be besieged, in season and out' of it, by numberless corporations and combina tions of individuals for the grant of pub- lic vights and privileges. There isa time, in the earlier history of a city, when, concessions having been granted to water, gas and street railway com- panies, the public wants are supplicd for the time being. There is no money to be made out of ‘other franchises, and therefore none are asked. But there comes another time when, the city hav. ing given carnest of its fature, and showing by its growth and by the opportunities lying before it that it is destined to be a mighty centre, the demand for other privileges quickens and grows insistent. Tha metropolis has other wants to be sati fied in addition to the primitive n sities of the thriving town. Possibil ties of monopoly and of inordinute profits streteh out before the happy man who shall be first in the field. There will b room for_competition in trans- portation, and ch are asked for elevated steam voads, and electric ele- edor surface roads; for cable lines, and for systems of communication con- structed beneath the streets. Thera will bo room for competition in illum nating, and gas companies and electric light companies hasten to oceupy the ficld. There will be room for compcti- tion in heating, and the companies which supply steam from great central plants to stores and oflices apply for permission to carr) their pipes along the public highways. There are conduits to be laid for electric w there are a score of methods by which a corporation may supply a public want, and make itself wealthy, if it can obtain a right and an exclusive right to the ogcupation of the streets for its particular ]I\ll'?fi\'\L There is, them, no way in which the city authoritios can serve the people moro faithfully than by suh]u'nng every ap- plication for special privileges ant!IV- ing some surrender Fof publie triie o the severest sorutiny, and by holding the possessions which the people still retain in careful guardianship. A great and growing city does not need to be prodigal of its favors in order 10 scoure every apphiance of the most highly de- veloped municipal life, Exelu franchises ave or'ought to be a thing of the past. And franchisos not exclu- sive must be so limited that the public shall receive a full equivalent for all that it grants, The Harriso s ain's A-Coming. Ambrose Keith sw Lisbon, O., an old soldier, always democratic, has come’ out for Harrison and Morton, becauso of Cleveland's attitude on the pension questio At Liberty, Sullivan county vison and Morton club has beon formed with cighty seven members, every one of whom voted for Cloveland four years ago. H. Newhall, of Fairfleld, M ading lumbermen on the' Kenne v always boen a stalwart domo- crat, has joined the republican ranks. The best spocch at a v 1 mecting in s ok was made by W. od democrat. M listencd and appluuded. Bonuett Lanry and Connclisy atic ticket b ison, M wre who Knows it. a, prominent Brooklyn , has had his stomach cord, and he hus the party. He will find comfort in the and Morton camp, Jamea Bird, two old P Im oted have come uand protecton, and Pilden, his b iiel V sland (1‘ mo- who did H it to defont Gene ) do the same 1o elect Harrison in 1858, [t is needless to success will attend his efforts this v Iy shall democrat and (., hus raised u with ulof hean Jacob Hoose, o loading builder of Skaneateles, Havrison aud Morton pole in that town, the aid of seventeon other democrat whom say they intend to vote the v ticket, acob S, Galentine, of Lima, N. Y., an old admocratic war horss and ofilco ‘holder, known in his vicinity as the Lima," says ho won't vote fc account of his tarif policyand pensio f Alden, N. Y., & united labor voted for Henry Georw In my neighborhood Mr. G got sumulhlrls volea for secrotar) luat yoar, and 1 do not know of ai Jthat will not go for Harrison this v The Rochester A American puper which supported Cle four vears ago, hu ¢ 4 front because of Mr. Cloveland's failure to fuliil is pl of reform and because “we Cannot po advocate protection for the south and free trade for iho north,”! Ex-Congressuan . M. Murray of Pigua O. & prowcsionist denwcrat who voled st the Morrison bill, i now hard at work for Harrison and Morton. Ho says the Buckeye state can be depended upon to give phenomenal majority for the republican candidates in Novewb