Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 6, 1888, Page 4

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HARRISON goc Cleveland ono better, He is o sportsman as well as o fisherman. Mr. REDMAN has once more been taught that carrying a pucked primary does not insure an election. ] THE saG announcement cowmes that John Bright is dying. So passes away one of England’s noble men, BENATOR ALLISON and the treasury- shipare likely to become hetter ac: quainted as the 4th of March draws ncar. ALL this tallk about democrat and republican in the council is mere bosh. The council is divided into boodler and anti-boodler THE defeat of Joe Redman is only auother proof that the people do not forget a man who has been tried and found wanting. THE republicans of the First ward do not seem to have enough confizgence in Kelley, ar else they had more confidence in Lowry than in Kelloy. — SouTH OMAHA has a Shakespearian club. All that is necessary to make the Little giant a literary center is to add a Browning circle to its hog packing Sy tiposiums. MR. SAORIVER has every reason for gratification upon his vietory in the Sixth ward, in view of the fact that his opponent was the strongest man in the ward by all meaus. ‘WirTH an exciting municipal election out of doors and a determined woman suffragists’ convention within doors on Tuesday, there wasno lack of enter- tainment for the politici DURING the year eight hundred and ninety-one persons wore arrested for of- fenses in the postofice department. And Don Dickinson points to that with pride as “increased efficioncy.” AND now it is whispered that Hg call 15 to be made president of the new council by the coutractors’ combine. Tn the fuce of the recent landslide, under which Haseall was buried by nearly four thousand majority, this would be in accord with the cternal fitness of things. —_— Ir it be asked who are the greatest land-grabbers in America, the question must be answered unreservedly, the railroads. Since the advent of Mr. Cleveland’s administration nearly eighty-three million acres claimed by railroads under land grants as aids to counstruction have been forfeited by them for failure to fullfil the terms of Sheir contracts. There are moreover @uits .pending in the courts and bills Bow (before- congress praying for $ue restoration to the public domain of about fifty-five million acres. If to this total of one hundred and thirty- eight million acres to which the United States lays claim be added the millions ©f acres which the railroads have ob- tained through doubtful titles, the peo- ple of this country may obfain an ink- ling of the manner in which the public domain has been despoiled of its richest lands. ——— THE last act in the election of a presi- dent of the United States will take placo on the second Tuesday in January. On that date the electoral college of each state meets at its state capitol. The electors cagt their vote for president and vice-president, The vote is read, eortified and scaled, and three copies are prepared, one to be taken to Wash- ington by a special messenger and one sent by mail, The secretury of state likewise reccives a copy to be placed in the archives of the state. The business of the college has become mechanical and perfunctory, The electors are no longer frae to choose whom they think proper persous for the high office as was intended by the fathers of the re- public. They are mere machines, *‘in- structed” delegates to register the na- tion’s choice. For all practical pur- poses the electoral college could be abolished. The people, by their votes on November 6, sot their seal for presi- dent and vice-president, and the elec- toral college 1s simply a survival of an obsolote custom. INCITING LAWLBSSNESS. Hecause tho IHerald sugwested that the council might not confirm Mayor Hrontch's appointments as olerks and judges of elec- tion, Tnr Ber declares 1t to be an effort to incite lawlessness and amarchy. [s it an archy to decline to confirm the appointment of a mayor's heolers and strikers \—Herald Refusing to confirm 1s one thing, and refusing to consider is another. The Herald was well aware that a plot had been hatched in Bd Maurer's saloon, which for months has been the resoret of boodlers, contractors and econspirators against law and order in this city, that councilmen should disobey the eall for a special meoting of the council to consider tho mayor's nominations for judges and olerk of eleotion. By staying away and fusing to consider these appointments the seleetion of judges and ciorks was to be left to mobs of mercenaries and gangs of street-sweepers, pavers and graders, who lived promiscuously all over the city, many of whom notoriously are not v v he cflfect of this plot w nothing more or less than to encourage mob vule, viot and anarehy. Docs the Herald pretend to justify such plots? Does it pretend that the mayor was ¢ fault in asking the council to pass upon the judges and clerks nom- inated Dby himas the charter requires? Was not every councilman who joined in this effort to subvert the charter, which he had sworn to obey, guilty of an impeachable misdemeanor? W not every paper that cncouraged such luwlessness inciting anarchy? If not, we do not understand the meaning of the term. It is our conviction that the time has come for the mayor and the courts to deal with . con- spiracy and lawlessness in tho council without kid gloves. The resorts where such plotting and lawlessness are hatehed should be summarily deprived of their licenses to sell liquor. We have reached a stage in municipal gov- ernment that demands dical treat- ment. The present council has sean- dalized the city in its defiance of law, its high-handed efforts to incite vio- lence, and in catering to the most dan- gevous elements: Through this malign influence the city has fostored and encouraged a gang ‘ol scoundrels whose only vocation is to hang around two or three resorts and keep up plot- ting and scheming against the public, the mayor and all officers who are try- ing to protect the city against outlawi Tt is about time that these nests of cor ruption be brokeu up, and we call upon the [Herald to join THE BEE in its effort to uphold good government. Politics is out of the question. If the republican mayor is trying todo hisduty fearlessly, he should not be obstructed by any re- putable citizen or newspaper. TARIFF REFORM PROSPECTS. The senate will to-day proceed with the consideration of its tariff bill. The measure will be discussed from day to day by sections, amendments to be voted on in their order as offered. The intention is to bring the bill to a final vote before the holidays, and it is thought this can be done. It can be if the belief that the democrats will offer little obstruction is vevified, and there appears good reason to expect that it will be. The democrats ia the senate are mnot manifesting an obstinate disposition. They will doubtless have numerous amendments to offer as the consideration of the senate bill advances, partly with reference to claiming a part of the credit for their party should the measure finally be- come a law, and it is not doubted that the republicans will make some con- cessions to them, but the indications are that there will be no concerted plan of obstruction on the part of the senate democrats, and that they will not be un- willing to let the bill go to the house before the holiduy recess. As to the fate of the measure in the house, provided certain changes are made in it, the outlook appears also to be favorable. One of the proposed changes is a modification of the sugar schedule, by which the reduc- tion of revenue from that source would not be so large as contem- plated by the Dill as it now tands. The scnate measure pro- vided for a vevision of the sugar duties which would cut down the revenue about twenty-eight million dollavs, while the house bill would reduce the revenue only about eleven million. This feature of the latter measure is chiefly objectionable as being favorable tothe trust, and it is to be supposed that no considerable number of demo- crats will oppose a change that would got rid of this objection and effoct a re- duction of the revenue from sugar of eighteen or twenty million doll It is thought also that if the senate shall propose the repeal of the entire tobacco tax its measure will obtain the support of anumber of democrats in the house, par- ticularly those from states whose tobucco interests are extensive. Even Mr, Mills 15 said to entertain this view, In the event that the senate bill receives the full support of the republicans in the house, but few changes from the democrats would be necessary to pass it in that body, and the chances of sccur- ing these would seem now to be very good. ‘While it 15 to be expected that the large majority of the democrats in the house will refuse to recede from the policy of tariff revision expressed in their bill, for one rveason, if for no other, that to do so would be a con- fession of the fault of that measure and a stultification of the party, it may veasonably be supposed that there are others with whom suoh a con- sideration will have little force now that the necessity of party unity is less pressing. It required a vigorons appli- cation of the party lash to secure the .small majority for the house bill by which it was passed, and some of those whom the political exigency forced to accept this measure may readily justify themselves now, after the absolution of defeat, in supporting a compromise that will carry tarift revision a considerable step forward, reduce the revenues of the government to a safe extent, and stop the acoumulation of a dangerous and demoralizing surplus, Such demo- orats, undoubtedly, there are in con- gress, and it only remains to be seen whether they are numerous enough to effect at this session legisiation that within the coming year will relieve the people of unnocossary taxation and put an end to an excessive accumulation in the national treasary, which the demo- cratic president and party profess to re- gard with such serious apprehension. AVERT THE DANGER. The business of the rich agrieultural districts of northwestern Nebraska and of the thriving towns of Norfolk, Q'Neill, Neligh and others should be tributory to Omaha. We should ve able to receive all their corn, cattle and hogs, and to sell them the greater part of their grocervies, dry goods, clothing and hardware. There is danger how- ever that the exchange of trade which should naturally flow between our city and that section of the state will be cut off and diverted to other channels, The complaints of the farmers and mer- chants ave that they have no'direct and proper railroad communication with Omaha, that the facilities for shipment irregular and unsatisfactory and that the local rates are higher and out of proportion to the through rates made from the east. Such a state of affairs should be rem- edicd, and it behov our business community to bestir itself to remove these artificinl barrviers. These com- plaints ave founded on facts. Almost the whole of the northern part of the ¢ is drained by the Chicago & Northwestern system. All the princi- pal towns in northeastern Nebraska tapped by the feeders and braneh s of this railway which converge at points near the Missouri . river to feed the main lines running to Chicago. From the nature of its business, it is to the advantage of the Chicago & North- western system to carry Neb s pro- duct the whole length of its line to Chi- cago, and bring backto our state the groceries and dry goods and commodi- ties used. That is the reason why Chi- cago and not Omaha is favored. And that explains why the CKicago & Northwestern discourages trade be- tween northern Nebraska and Om t.h:t by ivrogular servics and disproportion- ate rates. The remedy in the matter can be applied. The people of northern Nebraska want to trade with Omaha. They recognize that it is to their advantage to find a ready market for their produce here. Itis necessary, therefore, for the jobbers of Omaha and the business communities of the northern part of the state to take such action as will puta stop to the dis- crimination against Omaha. They should encourage the extension of com- peting lines from Omaha into the vari- ous counties drained by the Northwest- ern railvoad. And above all the project of building an independent line from our city into that territory should not be abandoned. 15 AN EXPLODED SCHEME. Tt is reported that theschema of creat- ing a great railroad trust, disguised under a misleading title, has been abandoned, and that the railway situa- tion remains a problem to be solved, if solution be possible, by some other plan. The trust project, by whomsoever con- ceived—and it may be remarked that Mr. Gould, who was suspected of 1ts authorsliip, disclaims all responsibility for it—failed to commend itself to all of the railrond managers whose acquie- scence was necessary to its consumma- tion, prominent among them being Mr. Hughitt, of the Northwestern system, to whose opposition the failure of the scheme is chiefly credited. It would be interesting to know the pre- cise grounds on which the president of the Northwestern refused to have any- thing to do with the trust, but it is a fair inference that his opposition was dueless to any conscientious considera- tion for the public welfare than to a reasonabte fear of being entrapped by Mr. Gould, who, whether or not the author of the clearing house scheme, is by his own statement desivous of some sort of combination. The Northwestern president certainly does wisely, both in his own and the public interest, in koep- ing out of any alliance or arrangement that proceeds from ov has the approval of Mr. Gould. and the example he hs set in this matter may prudently be emulated by other railway managers who are ina position to-act independ- ently. In doing so they are certain to be on the safe side. 5 Accovding to Mr. Gould he had an- other and wholly diffevent plan for remedying the difliculties of the situa- tion, but what it was is not unfolded. He expresses a willingaess, however, to enter into any arrangement that will give the railroads paying rates, and it is more than evident that he was chagrined over the failure of the clearing-house scheme. - His present attitude is one of menace. His rofer- ence to the difference between him- self and other railroad managers, in the fact that they munaged the properties of other people while he owns the properties he manages, is significant when read in connection with his subsequent suggestion of a concentration of controlling power. What Mr. Gould obviously meant was that he proposes to move against the salavied officers on the roads that refuse to go into his deals, and freeze them out by combinations with the big bankers who furnish the money for railroad building, This would be a very large scheme, not, perhaps, too daring for Mr. Gould to undertake, but possibly beyond his power to consummate, That he is determined to do something in the way of a rvadical departure, bowever, there is every reason to believe, and it is not impossible that within a short time there may be some very interesting developments in con- neotion with this railroad contr oversy. 1t is not questionable that it would be in the public interest if the relations between the railvoads could be ad- justed on a betfer basis, with some as- surance of permanence, 8o that rate cutting, whioh is the source of present diffioulty, might be obviated, but such schemes as the “‘clearing house” pro- ject will not be tolerated under any cir- cumstances. No such dangerous power over the business interests of the coun- try could be permitted, nor would it be allowed to coutinue, The problem is certainly a difficult one, but its solution cannot be impossible. IT is undoubtodly true that the peonle of Colorado and the territories hardly realize the great natural resources of that section of the country awaiting to be developed. We have repeatedly called attention to the possibilit and benefits which will come to the west through the development of the petro- leum fields and asphaltum beds of Wyoming and Colorado, Itnow comes to light that there is a great future for the uses to which the soda doposits so plentiful in all the territories can be put. In Wyoming, especially, there aro remarkably rich déposits of pure soda found in the so-catled sodn lakes. The proximity of soda to fine beds of quartz, sand and limestone makes 1t future exten- possible that in the near sive glass works will be established. There is but one thing necessary. Nature has provided everything in the laborator except ithracite coal, which isa prime nec y to supply a hot blast for making blown or pressed gluass. Unfortunately anthracite conl is not known to exist in the bowels of the Locky mountains. But its place can be supplied by petro- leum, which can be made to yield s flame equally as reliable and as hot as from anthracite c 1t is plainly evi- dent that not only the glass industr, but other great manufacturing enter- prises are a ting the development of the natural oil regions of Wyomingand Colorado. For that reason the petro- leum beds of these localitics should be developed without further dela THE complexion of the new council, from u political wdpoint, will be elaven republicans to seven democrats, but while the democrats, as a rule, have stood solid, the republicans are divided by Hascality R — THIRTEEN thousand names, says Su- san B. Anthony, have been added to the cause of woman suffrage in this state. Nebraska never takes n back seat even when it comes to signing fruitless peti- tions. VOICE OF THE STATE PR Priend Telegraph: O. C. Sabin’ ment of the Stone affair sounds v like his insurance matters in this state. Falls City Journal: Some means for inves- izating the permanent school funds should be provided by the coming legislature. There is a large amount of that fund lying in the vaults at Lincoln unemnloyed. Beatrice Republican: And now it is hinted in political circles that Church Howe has an itching ror United States senatorial honovs. But he will hardly enter the ring against Senator Manderson. No, hardly. Dundy Democrat: Nebraska has the rank- est, rottenest revenue laws of any stato in the union. Every legislature has tried a remedy, but always did worse than nothing. If the present legislature will remedy the evils of the assessment laws, it will in a measure atone for its promised sins in other directions, Fremont Flail: The great trouble in equal- izing taxation, so that it will represent more nearly the actuat value of the property as- sessed, s that the great railvoads of the country are valucdl at only about 25 per cent of their cost, and this value is fixed by a state board, instend of the authorized city and township assessors, The next legisla- ture should perfect some system of taxation that would bear equally on all. Garfield County Quaver: John M. Thurs- ton has his cap set for a cabinet position. John has got too much of a railroad cap ou to suit President-elect Harrison, and he had just as well hang up nis fiddle. ~ State pride, they say, should cause us to lay aside all local matters, and leg for Nebraska's man, Very proper if ne is nota railroad man. If we are to have a cabinet in tho new adminis- tration what's the matter with C. H. Van Wyck for secretary of the interior? McCool Junction Record: The state board of transportation, as it now stands, is a farce and is robbing the people of Nebraska out of 6,000 a year for which they receive not a dollar's worth of services. If mon cannot be selected on this board of transpor- tation that will represent the interasts of the people, the fivst act of our legislators this winter should be to abolish the law as it now stands and save the salaries of the board, then proceed to cstablish a maximum of rates. Holdrege Progress: Governor Thayer 1s to Dbe commended for his discretion in refusing 10 sign a petition circulated in Lincoln, ask- ing President-elect Harrison to appoint John M. Thurston to the position of secretary of the interior. The Progress would like to see Nebraska represented in the coming cabinet, but would profer to see the selection fall upon some honored citizen of the state who would more truly represent an a commonwealth iike Nebraska than the so- lieitor of the Union Pacific railroad. Howells Journal: The republicans have a majority in both houses of the Nebraska legislature, and can if they foel so disposed, pass a number oflaws that will bo of great valug to the people of Nebraska, The con- viet labor bill should be repealed and a law regulating freight rates should be passed. The passage of such @ law is of greater im- portance than is the clection of a United States senator. The railroads downg busi- ness in this state have been allowed to rob the people long cnough, and they have a neht to expect relief from the lawmakers of the state. ‘Wayne Herald: The submission of a pro- hibitory amendment this winter is very doubtful, to say the least. The declaration of the state platform will have little weight with a member whose district is opposed to submission, and many who are personally in favor of nubmxssg!wm hesitate to offend a large number of their constituents by voting forit. Besides \hiy there will bo a strong, but quict, opposition from an element of the prolubitionists o? do uot want submission until they feel more confident of being able 10 carry an amendment, With the assistance they will get from these two sources the anti- submissionists will almost certainly be able to defeat any mgagure looking toward sub- wission. e Dreary and Hopeless, Kansas City Journal, The message has 8 dreary, hopeless style galculated to give the blues to persons who had enough confidence in Mr. Clevelynd to et on hus statesmanship. —_— He Has Set the Stakes. Chicago News. President Cleveland has “set the stakes' for the legislation of the countyy during the next few years, and his last annual e will live long after his ofticial career is euded, e The Rallying Cry. 8t. Louis Republic, message is his closing word. No wore tous trushs of political and social ogon- omy were ever pus on paper. He will soon leave oftice, having done ali he cowld for his country. No mau could have done more againat suoh odds. The country respects him. It does not understand him yet, but the century will not oclose before what he said yesterday of the money power will be a rallying cry for millions of Americans bent on overthrowing it by any means aud at avy cost to it or to themselver ————ee Of Interest to Kverybody. Globe-Democrat. The message, in fact, covers nearly every subject of national concera, itisa mine of information on nearly every public question of importance, and cannot fail to be of in- terest to all intelligent persons. - What a Demoorat Says. Chicago Herald The nation likes backbone. There is not & passage in this important and significant state paper but relmpresses the country with asonse that Grover Cleveland, as president, was the right nan in the right place. privietban- el by Why It 1s Long. Chicago Tribune. The president—Dan, have the republican papers made any suggestions about the mes- sagel Dan (1hoking up from havo generally oxpressed the will be short. The president (sternly)—String it out to his work) —They hope that it B S TR ‘I;':‘n an oat meal mill, with a capital of &75,- John Mufit, of Lo Mars, whils skating, went through'the ice into five feet of water and remained thore for an hour before he WAS rescuod A number of Musquakio Indians are camped on the banks of the Wapsie near Wheatland. Thay will spend _scveral weoks in the vicinity in “nunting, fishing and bog: glng. Dakota, All the leading churches at Volga are pas- torless There is talk of reviving the old cracker factory at Sioux Falls The seworago systom of Abecdecn has been tosted and found to work like a charm There were Lwonty-six cacos in the police at Sioux Falls during the month of No. vember, There have not been enough arrests at Deadwood recently to give even one police man employment, The corner stone of th copal Astor memorim Falls was laid Wednesda A company has been organized and partics are soliciting funds for the starting of a first class creamery in Cass county, The Leader declares that a grand busin oss wave has struck Madison, and ovorything in tho business line is being conducted on the hurrah plan, St. Augusta Fpis athedral at Sioux ten columns, Dan. it i Close Mouthed. Clovcland Leader, General Harrison is proving himself a great listener and an exceedingly” close-mouthed tudent of men and events. The politicians get no promises and the mewspaper corres. pondents no interviews upon public ques- tons, A man who keops his own counsel so A Catholic paper is to be established at Yankton under the pateonage of Bishop with its headquarters at his resi 1t will be edited by Fathor Hopkins, Farmer's allianco of Minnehaha county met_in_Sioux Falls and appointed Henry W. Smith delegate to the Faruer's allisuce which meets in town. Hon. Joln 1T Klomer, representing the cities of Pierre, Chamberlain and Rapid well, especially whon he 1s a first olass talk and as genial and sociable a companion as Bonjamin Harrison, is pretty cortain to pro; strong, sensible, and self-possessed in any tests to which he may be subjected. The one thing most certain about the next adminis- tration is that the president will run it in the fullest sense of the word. g o A Perfunctory Message. Chteago Tribune. The bulk of the message is a perfunctory document. What the president has to say upon the issue which has defeated him might have been suid in 2 third of a column. What else he has to say is contained in the reports of the department offcials. The message bears signs of weariness and the lassitudo that follow defeat and of resentment against the authors of that defeat, and lncks the en- thusism that might have pervaded it had not the people of the United States taken tha prosident at his word and limited his tenure ofoMico to one term. Aside from its freo trade argument it certainly presents no point of special interest to republicans, PROMI T PERSONS. Senator John Sherman, an insurance paper reports, carries $550,000 in insurance policies on his life. James MecMillen, of Detroit, who will probably be the next senator from Michigan, is worth §15,000,000. He is fifty yearsold and began hfe poor. Carl Schurz is reported to be engaged upon a life of Lincoln, which will published this winter. An interesting a ddenda would be a chapter upon the extinction of the wug- wump. George W. Childs, the good Philadelphia editor, wears a wig. This issthe only bit of “property”’ about the man, and this has the happy quality of deceiving no one except the owner. 5 President Cieveland denies that he has any intention of going abroud after the close of his term, except in so far as a foreign jour- noy is involved in passing through New Jer- sey to New York. President Cleveland's futuro continues to be a theme of rossip and rumor. But the probability is that as soon as he finds an “lex” profixed to his present title ho will want to do nothing for a while but just sit still and think. Connt Herbert Bismarck, the most rising man of the day in Europoan diplon the only new representative of st who bears a scar received in battle. He v shot through the thigh in the cavulry charge at Mars la Tour, in which he rode as a pri- vate dragoon. Chauncey Dopew 18 suffering from a sprained ankle and i unable to_attend pub- lic dinners. Yet under even these painful circumstances there are people so lacking in asense of the fitness of things and the proprieties of life as to go on calmly discus- sing the late election and President Harri- son’s cabinet ! > Lige Halford, the President-cleot’s secre- tary, 15 o man of marked plety. He is a Methodist and something of an exhorter. In his early carcer as & journalist ho distin- guished himself as a reporter of exceutions in Indiana. ~George Hurding conferred upon him the title of “Ranter Around the Gal- lows,” which he bore with honor for many years. Miss Ethel Ingalls, daughtor of the Kan- sas senator, will this season have charge of the society columns of the New York World. She gives us her reason for accepting the position her desire to devote the mmount this carned to_the refurnishing of lier futher's ibrary, which was_ entirely destroyed in tho ich consumed the senator’s’ dwelling Colonel John a San Francisco shy announces through paver that he will go 1o Washington next month and remain_until aftor the inaugaration. The colonel thinks that it is not unliiely that ho may be ap pointed to some consular position, but says he would like to be sent swhere than Houg Kong, as ho has spent already six years upon that *rock in the sea.” —— STATE AND TERRITORY? Nebraska Jottings. The farmers around Burwell are working hard to secure the building of a creamery. A clothes wringer succossfully amputated one finger for a Niobrara iufant the other dy. It is claimed that £50,000 has been paid out for city property in Norfolk during the past weels. The people of Broken Bow aro being urged o wake up to the importance of secur- iug a canning factory. Mudison county claims the neatest and most conveniently arvanged court house in the Seventh judicial district, The Browster News save the peonle of that town expressed their thankfulness for a full haryest by feasting and o night spent w devout cotillion and the sucred walz. Sncak thicves are so thick at Brewster that u man can't take u chow of tobacco ont of his mouth and turn around to get a drink but what some whelp wall steal the cud. Sol Drapor is the slookest looking man in Niobrara, togged out in a £50 suit of clothes, & $100 watch and chain and a §10 silk hat, all won on tho result of the late election. The new proprictors of the Norfolk nows signalized their advent 1o Ui control of the paper by giviug 1t a new head and chavging the wake-up, all of which is for the better. Dr. John W. Blake, a prominent Platts- mouth citizn, aftor & ninc-month struggle with disease, has recovered. He is sovent, vears of uge and the regaining of his health s considercd lwost & miracle. lowa. Atlantic is in need of better church build- ings. Free weckly concorts are given by the Story City band. The Western Poultry Journal has been started at Shellsbury. A stove foundry is one of the institutions that Burlington hopes to secure. The Sloux City corn palace has been razed to the ground and the last of it has disup- pear The great revival closed in Davenport with & monster meeting attended hy #,000 people. A-lodge of the “Order of Red Men” is to tituted in Atlantio with about one hun- mempors. The average daily attendance of pupils at the Creaton lxmhlw schools during the past month was 1,163, The Franz brewery ot Bioux City, which ).Au not been ronni slace its Or“‘lemn yort, was seacetad for Lo rz‘ =) fiuldwk, i3 800n to be turng City, has gone to Washington to look the interests of a new reservation bill open- ing the land for sottlement without the In- dians’ consent. - WESTERN PACKING INTERESTS. A Big Shortage in Hogs as Compared With a Year Ago CrNeisyarn, 0., Dee, b—|Speeial Tele gram to Tie Bre.|—To-morrow's Price Cur. ront will s Iiftoon of the largest pacl- ing points have handled 330,000 hogs the past week, about the same as the preceeding weck. During the corresponding time last year their packing wus 425,000, a decrease of 95,000 for the week for these places, which nave packed a total of 1,405,000 since Novem- ber 1, against 1,930,000 a year ago, a decrease of 525,000, Including sixtcen other points m which we have returas, the total pack- since Novembor 1 i8 1,500,000 hogs,against 110,000 & year ago. Othier packing is prob- uabiy cqual to the corresponding time last year. “The entire west is about 515,000 hogs behind a year ago. Pucking, Nov. 1 to D IS, hicago 450,000 Kansus Clty = 1000 Omaha ) St. Lou Tndian Cincin Milwankee Cedur Rapids Cleveland. ... D ey bol Board Affairs. The investigating committee of the board of education will hold its firstJfmeeting to- morrow night at the board rooms. The pro ceedings 'will begin at S o'clock. The committee will inquire into the causes which have given rise to the charges against certain members of the board. ‘The teachers of the city schools called yes- terday and of them got checks for last month's work. The money expended for salaries alonc for day teachiers during the month is $15,656.50, while night schools cost the city for the same period $634. All the teachers save one who are engaged at night teaching are employed during the day n some of the public school: Train Changes, Some important changes in the train ser vice at the St. Paul depot took place yoster] day Tho Missouri Pacific main liue train ar- viving p.m. will, in tho future, ar- rviveat 6:10 p. m. Tho Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, Ozkland mixed train will, in future, leave at 8:30 4. m. and arrive at 5:00 p. m. The Siovx City express which has hitherto leftat 11: & m. will now leave at 1:20 p. m., and arrive at 2:45 p. m. These trains do not run on Sunda A new platform is bei onstructed at the St. Paul depot. This will materially as- sist tho traffie, and be a gréat convenience to pusseng The Weather Indication chraska and Towa: Fair, warmer, by slightly colder iu Iowa, winds ) . warmer, southerly Fo preceded becoming southe For Dalota: winds. Faie e Nebraska in the Cabinet. Fremont County (Towa) Herald, Thurston is the mun who took his grip sack and fled from Omaha when iov- ernor Pattison’s Pacl Irond com- mission came to Omaba to inquive into fic com- erime of the erimes of the Union Pac pany, and especially into its Dbribing and corvupting the Nebraska legislature, including the defeat of Seuntor Van Wyck, after the people of that state had instrueted the legislature to elect him. The Nonpareil lauds on all oceasions John M. Thurston as a great statesman, and knows of no rea- son why he should not go into General Hurrison’s cabinet, save “that he has scarcely doue enough work yet for the party to entitle him to such distinc- tion.” The truth is, that such organs as the Nonpareil do not know the dif- erance between a railroad manager und a statesman, and in this way unwittingly bear testimony to the fact that it has never consid suffi- cientiy to comp and that “is that the vailroad estub- lishment of this country 15 a col- ossal power, command the high- ways of the country and robbing the cople of the country through their }’muduln:uh stocks and bonds in the enormous charges based thercon, of more than $700,.000,000 annually, and feeling in the plentitude of their pow- ers and the docility of their victims, that they are more than a match for the people 1 their govermentul capacity. They are developing & few g ters'of population and prosperity from twelve to twenty-four bours' runs apart and driving the intermodiate sections into a mortgaged indebtedness that will transfer it to themselves and their con- federates if their career is not checked, In short, the people arg to-day living in railroad corporation and the people’s president is but a figurehead as the real divectors of the country are the divectors of the railvoad compunies. Myr. Johu M. Thurston is the mcanest and worst form of tool and instrument for the most gigantic and iufamous band of highwa, and robbers that this or any othe BOCN, Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. ‘When Baby waa sick, w ber Castoria. Whea shie was & Ohild, she eried for Castoris, ‘Wiieo sho became Mis, she clung W Castorla, Whes shohad Children, sho gave them Cagtorla 4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6. 188 ; VACCINATING ~ CHILDREN. s cn A Prominent Physician Talks About Vaccination, The Operation being performed School Chldren Very Kxten- sively--The Small Pox Scare. — “Are you vac HOW? waked onr v W day or t do much f ing many school children erof & prominent phiysiolan ) igo; “not very niany, as 1 do not ! mily practice.” answored the doctor, but I had two littie fellows step into my offi ral diys ago wnd one of them wanted th ation performed, Which 1 id to his entd fuction, apparently for e left the oM iling Thion the operation s not at pafo, 15 17 queried the writer , 1t 1% not painful, & Iittle seratehing and then apply the virus and it is all over, | huve vaccinated a great mARY persons, hare and elso. Where, and have vaccfuated them at all age from one year wnd upwards. Only w fow diy ago I vaceinated a little baby girl not more than a year old, and whilo she criad some 1ot hiet her but she was badly frightensd, 1f you would like to see how 1t Tooks call on Mrs, T, Stanenhorst, at No, & South 10th street, 1§ or 1ittlo girl thit | speak of and she will tell you all about it, -1 vacciated her little boy 100 and have treated her son William, and sho Wil be pleased to tell you all about i, The writer callod on Mrs, Stapenhiorat at 1 South Iith strant, and found o very plevsane motherly Tooking ludy, who gavehim the followine about her child i Ves, the doctor did vace baby, but that is nott did tov Willie, not a complaining for & lomg th horeible A pains oy et i ual headuche, had & bt 1058 Was always shile then the othe spitting all the time, snded with mucl Willie was. would have s with a contin- o fu his mouth, bis stopped up, metimes ong and he w .M»;Iu[( and it all o o Lt ded o all'this waa sometl vorse, Tie was gradually growin, deaf, ho 1 scarcely hoar ordinary N‘!llf tion and unless we spoke very loud to him he could not understand; he had a steady runntng from both ears, and 1 was v much alarmed for foar he would lose his b 1g entirely, that ho had catarrh; 1was sure for 1, myselé hwd had that dread trouble and had Deen treated ssfully for it by Dr. €. M. Jordan, at After’ consulting with my k Villie 10 sco Dr. Jordan and placed him und s treatment and the result s that he is entirely cure; his catarrh and he can hear as well as you or an.. Herehe and YOu cau talk to nim' yourselt WILLIE STAPENHORST, The next moment the writer was engaged fit conversation witha very bright and intelligent Iooking and very mammerly young man who, on belng questioned about his hearing, said s, 8ir, the doctor has improved my hear- ng wonderfully. I conld scarcely newr invthin and now I can hoar as well as evor | conld and it makes me feol 50 much botter and more am- Ditious. My ears both discharged continuousiye He first stopped the dischargs aud then fited an artifical ear drum, one of his own contriv- . in my ears, and now | can hear the slight. est whisne My friends among the boys are very much surprised at tne chuange in_my hear- ing. The doctor hus cured me entirely of my catareh, and [ K sympfoms any thankful I ui ve none of the distressing L and T can't tell you how SOMETHING WORTH KNOWING. A Few Symptoms of Disease That May Prove Serious to You. Doyon have frequent fits of mental depros- mon? Do you experience ringing or buzzing nolses in your e Do you feel a4 though you must suffooate when Iying down? Areyon troublod with a hacking cough and general debility? your frequently fifl Does your voic annsnlsort of t Is yon breath frequently oftensive from s unuccountablo cause? Have you i dull, oppressive Leadache, goner- ullg’ located over the eyest T avé to awk and congh froquently in the eifort to clear your fliroat? 5 Are you losiug ¢ wense of smell and i YOur snse of taste bocoming dulled? Does your 106 always fesl stopped up, fores tug you to breatlie (hrougl your mouth? Do you frequently Pt when stooping to pi Wi Tis oo Docs every 1ttle draft of i and every siight chunge of temperature give you a cola? AT6 you anne 1o to hawk spit out an endloss quantity of phlogm ! Do you from bedas tlred and weak as you it buforo and feel s thou there forever? ally weak and watery and © & husk, thick sound and larly o the 1 wanted to 1 only be discharged after violont 1 spitting ¢ from o tr 5 if you hud just by chokiig? Theabove are some of the mptoms of catarrh and the heginning of ling ‘oublos. Not one case in a hundred wil havo all of thew, but every one affected will have o fow oF ninny of them.” The Eresler or 110re 8 2r- i1y your sympLoms, Uhe more danigerons your condition.” 1£you kirve some or all of them, READEN DOCTOR J. CRESAP McCOY, (Late of B vue Hospital, New York,) Buccended by DOCTOR Charles M. Jordan (Late of the Universi: York Howara University, Washington, b, HAS OFFPICES No. 810 and 311 Ramgze Bullding Corner Fits enth and Haruey sts., Omana, Nob, Whero all cirable cases ure (reated With success. Note—Dr, Chiarles M. Jordan bas boen vesls dent physiclan for by, McCoy, iu Owmaha, for the pisat year and 14 tho pliysicla wio hus wade theé cures that bave been publisbed weekly 10 this paper. Medical digeases traated skillfully, Cox ol ton, Bright's dlacune. Lyspepsa, fthoumatism and wll NEQWVOUS I)IE(!BA» 8. ALl dise m-nr - cullar 10 the scxes a speclalty, CATARRIL CURED p CONBULLATION at oflice or by wail, #1. Office hours—to 11 a. w., 2tod p.u., 740 8p, ., Buuday ollice hours troi 0 &, ., (0'1p. . Correspondence recelves prompt i lteRtic Maguy dlseusos axe tioated successtully by Dr. Jordou througn the malis,and it s this possible BT R 8 PHEIR HOM kS,