Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 7, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED nNY MORNING, TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. For 51X N ot Three Months Tie OMANA SUSDAY BEF, mailed to any nidress, One Year WiEkLy | 14 ANT) 010 FARN AN STREET. Wi ROOKERY BUTLDIN ROOMS 14 AxD 15 Tt No. BUILDING, N Orrice, W FOURTEENTH STR and sal the EpITOR All communications rel foriul matier should be ad OF THE DK RUSINESS LETTERS, All biisiness lettars and addressed to Titk Bek Pt OMAITA, Drafts, chacks a Ve wade payable to the Tl Bee Puhlisniniflmnnauy, Proprietors. ROSEWAT L Editor, TH Y BEB, Sworn Statement ol Circutation. Btataof Nebraska, | ¢ Connty of Douzias, | George B, Tzschnck, sec Aishing Company, doss <o uctual cirenlation of Trk week ending December 1. 148, was as follo any, Nov <ibed in my yiesence this 15t day of Decenber A, D, 1888, Seal N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. George B, Tzschuck, heing duly sworn, de. oses and_says that retrry of the lie Publishing compan t the actial average dally cireulation of [ 1month of Novem! DAILY for th Dlos: for v, 1888 R 7181 v July, 184 o fo) 153 Presence this 7th day of November, 1885, > FEIL Notary Public, Tuere is every indication that con- gross will spond the days of its bricf session in a jaw-working tournament. COUNCILMAN KAsrar may well feel gratified over the reception which the citizens of the Second ward tendered to him on his re-election. Tie Nebraska chicken show takes place at Lincoln in a few days. The opportunity should not be lost to ex- hibit the stratting cabinet ¢ Johnmthurston. We are warned that there is great danger to Omaha by changing the licenso board. There is greater danger in leaving it where it is, as a source of corruption and blackmail. CLeAr the way for the St. Louis, Omaha & Sioux y railroad. Will that be the road toinvade the North- western’s territory and stop the dis- crimination against Omaha? A MERRY war in passenger i ‘been inaugurated between Chicago and ‘Omaha. Is the Iowa railroad commis- sion or the Nebraska state board of transportation responsible for it? ALL this talk of impeaching the mayor is mere gabble. If the council as now constituted could vent its spite on the mayor by impeaching him they would not be backward indoing so. But they will never venture into the district court. WiEN the duved farmers present their compliments to Dr. Billings with bilis for the hogs he has killed by Ius Pasteur treatment for hog cholera, the wegents of the state university will not in s0 much haste to endorse lis medi- ciune. NEBRASKA is very little interested whether Mr. Cleveland approves or vetoes the direet tax bill, should it pass both houses. If it becomes alaw, some- hing like fifteen millions will be re- turned to the various states, which were assessed by the direct tax in 1861 for war purposes. Nebraska being a terri- tory at that time was not called upon to pay in its quota. Consequently the state has nothing to expect or lose by the action of congress or the president. ACCORDING to the New York World Ex- Senator Suunders, who wears o venc ble white beard, made millions in sily amining and lost much move afterward in enttle raising, and has recouped himself wecently out of Nebraska coal lands. The World is somewhat-mixed, with one ex- ception—Senator Saunders never made uny money in silver mines; he has nover lost any mouney in cattle raising, and nobody ever heard of such a thing as Nebraska coal lands. But the ex- sonutor weavs u venovable, white beard. DAKOTA has prepgred its crop report to date which shows some interesting facts regarding the yield of wheat for the season. It seems that, although there has been an inerease in the acre- nge of all grains, it has been an unfa- vorable season for large yields of wheat. Nevortheless the high prices have en- abled the farmers torealize more money grom their crops than last year when e yield was greater but the prices @uch less. As compared to Dakota, Nebraska can show a much move favor- able report. Not alone was there an in- crease in theacreage of corn and wheat but the yield in both crops was unpre- cedented in the history of the state, Ax important decision has just been rendered by the courts in New York. I'he Oregon Navigation company, in which the Union Pacific is largely in- terested, has been restrained irom building branch lines in the far uvorth- west with money raised by the proceeds of the Oregon Navigation company’s bonds, It would have been a good thing if the court had gone a step farther and wvestrained the Union Pacific from spend- dug the money wrung from the people ©f Nebraska in building expensive Pranch roads in Utah, Idaho aud Mon- taca. For the last fow years the Union Pacific has neglected its lines and pa- yont stem in Nebraska for the extension of mountain railways in the territories. Bt has not been & policy vhat has ptrengthened the road, On the con- fravy the so-called feeders have been a constant drain on the main system. ffhe result has been that other roads k’u stepped in and oceupied the Union 'acific’s lerritory in this state. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, STATE REVENUE REFORM. Among the several very important and urgent questions which should command the careful attontion of the noxt legi ure of Nebraska, none is of ter concern to the people of the than that of veforming the r laws. The people of Ncbrasl are overtaxed, and under the system of nssessment, taxation is un- equally and unjustly distributed. TIn a recent issue we showed that the rate of taxation in this state is greater than that of any other state In the union, with two exceptions, and this with a debt very much smallep than the large majority of state A tax of eighty-one and one-guarter centson ono hundred dollaes is oppressive, and it hecomes very much more so when by Tand unjusy falls 1y uvon those w e to Every intelligent citizon un- derstands how thisisdone. Lasty the total value of the taxable property assos- sed wos 3160500 5, of which the share of the railronds was only Unquestionably the corporations permitted to escape with little more than half of the amount upon which they should haye been assessed. But the system also permits othor cvasions and false veturns, and very likely there 18 not another state in the union where more of this is done than in Nebraska, Men other hon- orable in their business affairs do not hesitate to grossly misrepresent the amount and value of their taxable prop- erty, and the conscicnee tions of all kinds studiously avoid their just obligations under the law, defeat- ing its intent, and saddling upon those who are honest the greater part of the burden of providing for the expenses of government. In his inaugural address of two ars 0go CGovernor Thayer referred to this all-important subject in foreiblo language, which it will be timely to reprodt He said: Tt is evident that a revision and amendment of the present revenue law ave neces- ry. especially in regard to the method ssment and taxation, which is nd liable to abu In its exe- there is incquality and par- tiality. Tt leads to dishonest and cor- rupt practices. There are many who will resort to every scheme, device or deception which ingenunity can devise. Even to falsehood, to deccive an honest assessor, while they casily arrange mat- ters with a dishonest one. They are gtilty of that for which, uhder other designations of crimes, convi ure serving the state in tha penitenti- ary, and yet they are honorable men, of course, and good citizens, though half or two-thirds of their property es- capes taxation and the assessors grow rich, and these property owners admire their own shrewdness in devising sue- ful schemes to defraud the state.” ‘What was then true is true still,and will continue to be so long as the present lovse and inadequate system remains. Governor Thayer suggested as a change iu the basis of assessmentth at all taxable property, real and personal be appraised and assessed at its full,fair actual value. Then make the levy on one-third or one-fourth of its appraised value. If there is rea- son to believe the owner is concealing any property to evade taxation, make it obligatory on the asscssor to put him under oath with the pains and penaltics of perjury attached. Punishment with imprisonment should be the penalty in the case of assessors who fail to require the oath, Under this plan the property of all would be treated alike. But re- form will need to go farther than this in order that the desired remedy of eox- isting evils shall be made complete. Among other necessary changes, all the larger cities should have one assessor, instcad of a number of precinct assessors, tHereby re- ducing the chances of fraud and deceptio A multitude of asses- sors necessarily complicates the work, offers greater opportunities for corrup- tion, and is no respect essential or de- sirable. Resvonsibility in this matter should be confined to as few officials as possible, in order to secure honcsty, fidelity and efficiency, Another im- portant change would be to abolish the hoard of equalization, made up of state ofticers, and substituto therefor a board constituted of ono commissioner from cach county. Sucha board could act intelligently and fairly in equalizing assessments from the various counti Tuie BeEE repeats what it said nearly . two years ago on this bject, that the essence of svenue reform lies in a fair and equita- ble appraisement of taxable property, whatever its value. Under our present tax laws a large proportion of property is entirely exempt, and an equally iarge amount escapes nearly scot free. The poor ave taxed disproportionately to the rich. Their little savings invested often in a small lot and house cannot be concenled from the assessor, while their financinl standing does not warrant them in purchasing a lenient appraisal of real estate. Unlike great corpora- tions they cannot influence legislation to make others shoulder the burdens which in justice they should bear, The men of the most moderate means are the most heavily taxed. The capitalists and corporations pay the lightest proportionate taxes of any olass of taxpayers. This state of affairs, which might have been remedied by the last legisla- ture had it not been so completely un- der the domination of the tax-shirking corporations, cannot be continued with- out injury to the welfare and progress of Nebraska, People will not be at- tracted to a state where taxation is un- oqual, unjust and oppressive, and where the capitalists and corporations escape their just obligations, with the result of throwing nearly the whole burden of sustaining the government upon the shoulders of the farmers and the people who own modest homes in the cities and towns: We are notat all confident that the next legislature will do its plain duty in this matter. It is to be apprehended that it will be quite as subservient to the tax shirkers as was the last legislature. But it will have no more important question to deal with than that of reforming our revenue laws, and the people should demand vigorously and persistently that the g state cnue present essment it cution present state of affalrs be not allowed to continue another two years. DITISION ENDORSED. The North Dakota convention held at amostown on Wednesday took the action it was expected to in favor of a division of the territory. As noted a fow days ago enstern congressmon, of both political parties, have been sin- gularly obtuse regarding the sentiment of the people of North Dakota on the division question. They seem not to have been able to free themselves of the iden that the action of two years ago was still approved by the peoplo of North Dakota, whereas all familiar with the situation know that for more than a year past the motives that prompted that action have been elim- It onse ly of the t importance that the Jamestown convention should take the action it has taken, which will set at vest, or assuredly ought to do so, all guestion vegarding the sentiment of the people of North Dakota. A few demoerats there may still assuve Mr. Springer that a division of the territory is not desived, but even the somewhat osstinate chair man of the house committee on terri- tories will hardly place much faith in such representation after the unmistak- able declaration of the convention. Other proceedings of the James- town convention were also im- portant, and may ho expected to exert a very considerable influence in advaneing the cause of statehood for North and South Dakota, and the other territories. It declared in favor of a special session of the Fifty-first con- gress in the event of the present con- gross failing to do anything for the ad- mission of the territories, and invited the co-operation of Montanaand Wash- ington in the movement for admi It is not doubted that these ter rics will be very willing to co-op that there is overy probability of joint action which cannot fail of influence at Washington. It is well understood that the democrats are averse to a special session of the muext con- gress, whilo the republicans are found to be almost unanimous in favor of such session if the tariff and terri- torial questions are not settled by the present congress. It is likely that in this General Harrison will be found in conecurrence with his party, and if they can be assured of this it is reasonably expected that the votes of a sufficient number of democrats can be secured to dispose of these questions without a very great departure from the lines laid down by the republicans. At any rate, the plan of a united effort on the part of the territories, with an extra session as the alternative of failure in the present congress, is a good one and should bo promptly carried out. The convention adopted a resolution urging the territorial legislature to promptly provide after its meeting in January for a constitutional convention for North Dakota. South Dakota and the other territories will also need to bestir themselves in praparing for ad- mission. The counstitution of South Da- kota will require amendment, and tho terms of the state officers having ex- pired she must haye another election before becoming a state. Montana and Washington have staté coustitutions, but one being four and the other ten years old they would hardly serve the present purpose. There will have to be constitutional conventions and elections in both territories. It will thus be seen that all the territories have agreat deal to accomplish before they can hecome states, and there should be as little de- lay as possible in doing it. WHY RELOCATE? A taxpayer writes to the Republican for a candid reason why that paper in- sists that the city hall shall be removed to Jeflerson square. The sheet deliber- ately and unblushingly answers that “the question of location has not been passed upon by the people and it hasnot been voted upon dirvectly.” This is asamn- pleof pure gall. Aseverybody knows, an almost unanimous popular vote decided as *far back as 1885 for the location, the cost and the immediate tion of a city hall on its present sit Of course the expgnditure of nearly fifty thou- sand dollars of the taxpayers’ money for the foundation walls, grading plans and the like counts for nothing with the Republican. The true reason why the Republican urges o removal of the city hall is that it stands hand in glove with venal and vindictive mem- bers ot the city council, who desive to keep up the controversy to cover their own crookedness, just as the sleight-of- hand performer calls the attention of his audienco to one particular object while he manipulating another. If this question of location could be voted on by tax-payers only, then Tne Bre would cheerfully advocate that method of finally settling this sub- ject. But when hoodlums, vagrants and roustabouts who have no interest whatever in any proposition, are to be gathered from the dives and shoveled out of the gutters for s> much apiece, we consider it an outrage, It is noth- ing more or less than an effort to bleed property owners who have invested hun- dreds of thousands of dollays in improve- ments on the strength of the Farnam street location, and who have alveady been damaged by the infamous conduct of tho council in obstructing the con- struction of the city hall where it wus located by the wpeople, The whole scheme to abandon the Myers' plan, relieve Contractor Regan and change location has been inspired by small- souled editors, who have not the ability to build up their own papers,and only use their spitefulness to damage Tiue BEE because it happens to own a building next to the eity ball, A more contemptible exhibition of malignity never has been shown by newspapers in any city in Amervica, If this spirvit is encouraged by the citizens of Omaha, enterprising capitalists who would be willing to erect such buildings as the New York Life will steer clear of Omaha, Ee——eep— CmICAGO has solved the smoke nuis- ance problem without the use of patent smoke consumers. The rain of soot and cinders, the bane of our citics, can be stopped immediately, it secns, by sub- stituting petroleum for coal. In one of Chicago’s prominent hotels the experi- ment was tried sssfully during the month of Navember. There wasnotonly asaving in the gost, buta great saving in labor and in the wear upon the furnaces and boilers. & Th was practically no smoke, no afHes, no dust and no dirt of any kind, The odor of the oil was so slight as to he scarcely appreciable, The petroleum was found to bo clean. ensily handled and thoroughly satisfac- tory, and as o fuel for raising steam second only v fatural gas. Ever since the completion of the pipe line from Lima, O., to Chicago the oil has been successfully used for manufacturing purposes. The experiments tried by the hotel company prove that petroloum is equally as desirable as fuel for general consumption. Tt is highly probable that oil will supplant coal in Chicago, where petroleum is laid down so cheaply. This is another argument to hasten the development of the petroleum beds of Colorado and Wyoming and bring the oil through pipe lines to our very doors. Sucy the coutrol of Mr. R. A, Craig, late of the Chicago Z¥nus. Under Mr, Craig’s management the Heeald is to remain what it has been—the leading organ of democracy in Nebraska. As such it has a very wide field of activity, and can in no way come fn conflict with The | 3 in the political arena. Mr. Craig, like his predecessor, will receive courteous and fair treat- ment at the hands of this paper, but we may as well remind him at the outsot that we expect him to reciprocate. The lous and uncalled-for assaults h the IHHerald has made recently under pretense of discussing cconomie questions ave beneath contempt, espe- cially in view of the more than cordial treatment which Mr, MeShane had re- ceived from Tue B both before and since his late defeat. For this Mr. Me- Shane may not be responsible, excepting for hiving an Alabama bushwhacker by the name of Calhoun to edit his paper, who stabbed from behind that ambush men with whom he had sought friendly relations as a journalist. Sunshi New York World. The democratic varty has cvery reason to be encouraged by the result of the recent election, 2 fme What Confronts. Chicago Tribune, Politically speaking, it is a perdition and nota theory that confronts the democratic party now. et Y Looked At in a New Light. Washington Post, What a cause for thankfuluess it is in these times of storms ut sea and tempests along the shore that our navy is no bigger thau it is. e Made of Cast Steel. Minneavolts Tribune. Omala must be made of cast steol. They held another elaction in that city. If there is news this morning of a cyclone or a bliz- zard over on the Missouri it will probably re- suit from a unanimous attack of jimjams in Omaha. “A Rose by Any Other Name." Chicago Tribune, There will be fourteen liquor dealers in the new common council of Detroit, Mich., and the Tribune of that. city sugeests this as the form for the president to use in opening the meetings: “The Saloonkeepers' associ. ation will please como to order. Clerk, call the roll.” SRR What a Weather Prophet Must Be, Chicago Herald, General Greely says that “‘a weather pro- dicter must have a phlegmatic and coufident temperament to enable him to maintain un- impaired his confidence in his own ability and judgment when he has made a serics of unsuccessful predictions,” The unshaken confidence of his signal service, in spito of the wide variations between the weather and its signals, shows that it is composod of the most phlegmatic and confident temperaments in the world. — The President's Message. Cleveland Leader, a President Grover Cleveland furnishes ad- ditional proofs in his last message thet he belongs to that class of democrats who never forget and never learn. He has derived no knowledge whatever from the lesson that so many members of his party have ned from the recent election. He is not inclined to accept the decision of the people. He dif- fers from Abralam Lincoln, who thought that the majority of the people always know what is right. Mr. Cleveland thinks the majority go wrong unless they support him i s | The Single Impressive Commercial Bulletin, The single impressive feature of -the mes- sage is its earnest protest against the abuse of the powers of government by the subor- dination of those general interests which federal laws are bound to protect, to the narrow and selfish claims of classes, locali- tics or individuals with which the national government has no right to deal. T'he presi- dent reviews in a striking manner the extent to which federal legislation has departed from the true purposes of popular govern- ment and private and selfisn_interosts have been allowed to interfere with the perform- ance of sacred obligation STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. There is talk of starting another bank at Broken Bow. The York school is overcrowded and more room Is being provided. Miss Minnie Freeman, the blizzard heroine, will spend the winter at St. Paul. The athletes of Ulysses are hardening their muscles in a private gy mnasium, ‘Work has been commenced on the founda- tion of the new Catholic church at Hastings. ‘The mayor of Hastings is confined to his bed with a dangerous abscess, but will proba- bly recover. The establishment of a canning factory at Ulysses is now a certainty and ofiicers have been elected. Three runaway teams gave the streots of ‘Wymore a more than usual bustling appear- ance the other eveuing. stuffiug wade several Ulyssos la- 'y sick recently, They stuffed too much of the birds into their stomachs. An_ anti-swearing society has been formed by the boys attending the Broken Bow school, and seven-eighths of the students have joined it. p Two sneak thieves worked the stores of Tecumseh for @ variety of articles, from a suit of clothes to a music box, but were cap- t\l:,rad with the stolen goods in their posses- sion. Burglars carted away about 3500 worth of goods from John Carry's store at Schuyler Wednesday without being detected oy the police. The door of the store nad been left unlocked by mistake. A big crowd witnessed a wrestling mawch at Scotia the other eveniug, betwoen two local athletes, which resulted in a foul and a rained leg for one of the partictpants. The stakes were immediately doubled and sn- othor mateh will occur just as soon as the damages are repaired. About one year ago the business men of Sterling thought that lwnber 1w their city was 100 high, They formed a compauy and opeved a yard, whioh Las proven beneficial ‘eature. to the town. Having heen so succossful in the lumber trade a new company has been formed to by gram, some contending that better and more reasonable prices are being paid at neighboring markets, Towa. There aro prospects of a foundry bolng started at Lo Mars, Over 805,000 has been paid out cggs and poultry at Manson uar. Two hundroed dollars have been pledged by llu\‘ ladies of Muscatine to wid in establishing Ve The largoest Irish potato ever seen in Clin- ton is now on exhibition t It came from Salt Lake and weighs six pounds. Joseph Sesterhen and wife, of Oxford, arve serving out a sentence in the Jolinson county Jail for violating the prohibitory law. The telephone company has commencs placing the immense bles which will sup- plant the hundreds of wires which lino the business portion of Des Moinos, While a party of drillors we well a few days ago on th of Waverly, they tapped The well spouts a stream «twelve and eight inches in diameter, Tho lowa Soldiors' Monument commis- sion, appointed by the Twenty second gen- eral asseumbly, will meot in Des Moines in a fe days to take the initintory ste for the ercction of the monument on the capital grounds, rthwest, butter, since Jan: m of | veritable goysel foet high The Great Wolves and other wild animals are getting worse and worse in tho northern part of Montana, Deer are so thick nes that locomotive engince the cab windows. The man who robbed Muelier & Co.'s store at Laramio, Wyo., last August, has boen ar- ted at Denver, His name is William Sin- cluir, The Jay Gould mine in Montana has pro- duced 34,4 ‘e Junuary 1, The com- pan, another dividend of $10,000. A late strike in the Park-Regent mine at Aspen, Colo., is declared to be “the richest ever discovered in the world, with the possi- Dle exception of the Comstock.” Attorney Hills, of Larami embraced by a silver-tip be: nunting trip, but managed to e turned home with his form guiny sack. The sheriff of Choteau county, Montana, followed two horse thieves and was just about to capture them when they covered him with a rifle and told hun he bad better g0 back home. He wedt. Dick Barnes, a well known horseman, sui- cided near Walla Walla a fow days ago by shooting himself through the heart with a Winchester rifle. He had been despondent for quite a while and took this means of get- ting rid of his trouble, There is se v enough pork left in the Bitter Root vailey, Montana, for home con- sumption. Buyers from Helena, Batte, Ana- aconda and Philipsburg have cléaned up the fattencd pens of the vailey and have paid as high as 8 cents delivered at the railroad. Nearly three months ago Deputy Sheriff Lockwood, of Grant county, Oregon, was killed by Pat McGinnis, a prisoner in the Grant county jul. MecGinnis was tried a few ago, found gnilty of murder in the first ». and will 10 doubt gret his just deserts —hanging. This is the way the Mining Journal, of Butte, has of *‘calling uttention” to an ' ad- vertisement: “Dr. W. W. Knox, late of Cincinnati, has hig advertisement in the Mining Journal. u\\'v do not pretend to iknow anything concerning the ‘doctor,’ but we believe him to be a gigantic fraud.’ The people of Binham county, Idaho, wera startled at the report made public that the Idaho Trading company had gone to the wall. This company was doiug a large mercantile business at Camas and Nicholia, and was be- lieved to be in a prosperous condition. Its liabilitics ave estimated $53,000 and its assets at $105,000. A stockman named Bailey was fined £0 and imprisoned five o by the United States court at Carson, Nev,, for fencing government land and running off an intend- ing sottler named Cavanagh. 'The sentence was wade light, as this was the first case, but the court intimated that if any more such wln(rk was dome it would put on severe pon- alties. Shoshone, Tdaho, shoot them from Wyo., was whilo on a . He re- encased in a ST AMUSEMENTS. An audience of moderate size witnessed the production at Boyd's opera house last night of the melodrama entitled “The World Against Her,” ¢1t Is not an altogether [pleas- ing production. The theme is somewhat musty in the main, and its treatment is turgid, sombre, and, on the whole, dreary. It may be said in excuse that it is hardly pos- sible to treat such a theme otherwise, and yet it is conceivable that the author might have extended it less, even if he could not have thrown in a little more light. A wife who has committed no wrong, but who is discovered by her husband in a compromis- ing position, is divorced, the decree giving their httle child to tho husband. The mother determines to defy the law and goes away with her child. There is a pathetic scene between husband and wife, and the subse- quent distress of the motber, who goes out into the world to seek employment and care for her child, makes an appeal to the sympa- thies, The villawm of the drama isa rich iron founder, @ prominent character is that of adepraved woman whom the iron founder had ensnared, while the humor is supplied by three wandering Punch and Judy por- formers, and it is by no means a very amus- ing sort of humor. Miss Phoebe Davis as Madge Carlion, the wile, exhibited some merit In_the emotional requirements of the part, while Mr. Griswer as James Carleton, the husbaud,n nents of the char- acter very ac Smily us Gilbert Blair showed a ception of the smooth villain Jenny Clegg needs more spirit. Despite the objectionable nature of the part, which is by 1o meaus in dispensable, it could be made u strong char- 10f Miss Bowman wasa very cieditable impersonation, The drama will stand some pruning and might undergo se eral chunges with advantage to its popular- ity. It will remain during the week, BOILLER INSPECTION. ‘What the National Association In- tends to Accomplish. @ Mvr. Joseph Standeven, the city _boiler in- spector, has returned from a furlough of three weeks, during which time he visited Chicago, Pittsburg and New York. While in Pittsburg he attended the national con- vention of boiler inspectors of the United States and Canada, which was in session three day Mr. Standeven was one of the vice-presidents and was re-clected for an- other year. He says that the association is young but is bound to be one of the most im- portant factors towards securing the passage of laws in the several states, protecting i aud property by requiring competent licenscd 5, and a rigid enforcement of the law ening the inspection of Loilers, “A good suys Mr. Standeven, ‘‘means more trustworthy engineers, aud fower accidents from explosions, The time has passed when men, re- gardless of character and expe jence and utterly incompetent can be safely entrusted to handle a great motiy power, where hundrods of lives and thou sunds of dollars dependent upon his judg- ment. “No one should be permitted to act as an engineer who is not the possessor of a per- fect knowledge of machinery under his charge. In the convention statistics wero presented, showing tho falling off in boiler explosions 1n all places where a license law existed. It is now thirty-five U) States government began to 1 marine cogineers, and 1o one doubts the ne cossity of such a lww in relation to this class of steam engincers, Many of the pavements in our large cities are over steam plants, and Omaha is falling in line in this respect. Now, suppose an explosion should take Place, what would b the result in loss of lifo and propertyt Simply frightful! In cit where there Is no inspection, rlmn\' of these plants are in the charge of enginoors of questionable ability, You can hardly peruse a paper carefully without reading su account of & boiler explosion in sowme portion of the country, *'We also took action on the question that all condemned boilers should be destroyed and mutilated so as o be irreparable. Worn-out boflers are often sold 1o junk shops and shipped to iven foundries in large cities, where @ class of men make it a busi- ness to buy these boilers, repair and sell e T e YO g B v them. When such a bofler is run by an m- compotent man what can you expect. but an explosjon? An effort will be made to got all states to pass a licenseand inspoctor law. 1t would be time profitably spent if ropresenta- tives from Douglas county would devoto an evening to the discussion of this important question and posting themselves «0 as to pre- sont the matte rue light to the legis lature when it convenes, @ “Say wha liko, Omaha 18 a city that ¥ with eastern rivals. She v, frosh and crisp, is full of anima- nd vigor, and {t makes one feel glad to get back home again, ptive, Suc Overdose of Morphin a Gorman living on Four o strects for several years, died suddenly Wednesd night from an overdose of morphine, He lhas always bheen considered & man of somewhat dolicate constitution and been credited as suffering from consumption He was formerly employed as a watchman by the Union Pacific railroad, but of late has been in the servieaof the 3. & M. n & similar capacity, On ‘Tuesday night ho went to a drug store on Thirtecath strcet, kent by W. K. Hufizky, and purchased six teen grains of morphmo. It appears that this was not unusual, as the druggist has been in the habit of sclling him mor phine in similar quantitios, He apparently went home and nothing was heard of him until last night, when the doctors and cor oner e summoned simultaneonsly. ‘The doctors examined tho patient and found he was sufferiug from an overdose of some stronir opiate. Itestoratives were administered, but with- out avail. Tho patient died shortly after the doctors' arrival. The deccased was forty-two vears of age and was a prominent member of the A, O. U. W, society. His death will bring the widow 2,000, The cor- oner took the remaius to the morgue, whence they will bo buried. The fune will take place under the auspices of the A, O. U, W. the time not being set at present. The cor- oner thinks an inquest uunceessary. cumbs t Charles 1.0 teenth and Pac A Fecless Lodger, Lu Shugart, of the water works company at Florence, was in the city to get his pay Wed nesday evening, and going to Tom Callan’s, his former boarding place, he askod the per mission of Mrs. Callan to sleepon a pile of bed clothes in the cellar, as it was too late to return to Florene At least, 0 he claims, when Mr, Callan ¢ home and 8 lodger dowr lie summoned the police and had Shu- staken to th station. Yesterduy Callan ar against and claimed that his wife did not grant Shugart permission to although he admitted that he was away when Shugart asked per. mission, Shugart was sentenced to five days in the county jail He fears that he will lose his job with the water works compauy. Chattel Mortgages Filed. The following chattel mortgages have boen filed: G. R. Davies m r of Simon J. Fisher, upon personal property in use mn various rooms on the socond and third floors of Gruenig block, consideration $2,115, This amount is made payable April 3, ge R. Reed in favor of C. 11 Walworth, upou horses, carriages, etc., consideration $725; J. H. Zimmerman in favor of David H. Walker, upon stock of tobaceo, cigars, sta- tionery, now in premises 313 South Tenth street: consideration 8634 City Clerk Bills of Sale, The following bills of sale were placed on E Johnson, upon certain carriages. Consideration, £500, Frank Kuborec in favor of John Soudek, upon a horse, harness and wagon. Consider- ation, £200. ——— No Christmas Table should be without a bottle of Angostura Bitters, the world renowned appetizer uisite flavor, Beware of counter- peteh RS e S Killed 1n a Kitchen. Old [saae Sublett, an innocent, hard- and saddler of Denton, a short distance east of here ¢ a Fort Davis (Tex.) letter to the New York Times, had a most r markable fight with a cowardly blacy bear some time ago. Tt appears that he was looking for anything on earth but a bear fight, when suddenly, without warning, the honor of vanquishingalone and unaided a two year old bruin wag thrust upon him, Isaac tells the story himself in the following words: “On a dark, gioomy day, when there had come a sudden rise in the clear fork of the river, I closed my shop early and started -for home, threc- quarters of a mile away. I took a lone some rond, and when about half a mile upon my journey, I saw a big black bear eyeing me from a fence corner. began hallooing, thinking some one would come with a gun or pistol to help me, and wo would get bruin’s meat and hide, as they would be useful in the family at that time, but no one camo but two dogs, one a pointer of good size and very active, belonging to me, and the othér, a very large bulldog be- longing to Captain M. Daggett. The dogs ran on the bear as common dogs would have done to a pig, it being the first bear they had ever seen, I reckon. That bear took onc of the dogs in his wi The henras quick s thought, so they took turns about in being hngged by bruin. We were on a branch of the crock that waslined with rocke, and theso [ used to great advane tage in _pommoling the bear, Oocons- fonally 1 would knock a dog off, bnt the | plucky cur would go buck at the big | beast, utterly unmindful of my soft tans, |11 arded him until we got toa small ficld that wae fenced 1n with rails and poles, The hear here took advantage of the fence to protect his back, and standing up like a prize-fighcer ho pro- | ceaded to box vigorously, knocking out | first one dog and then the other dog in every round without much [trouble. | Meanwhile 1 drew my good pockotknife, and, advancing close, punctured his hide whenevor 1 could find an opening. | “The big tellow would make a pass at e now and then, but the faithful dogs stood by me and’ worried him all _the more for this pleasant diversion, Ina fow minutes wo all had a rough-and- tumble fight, Over and over wo went cound, bears, dog and myself, 1, until o I managed to { froe. T got hold of stout rai M that fellow so unmerei- fully that he turned tail and led like the wind. Protty soon tho dogs wore nipping his hoels again,and so hehad to stop, face about, and tight them off, In this way we walked all the way to Mr. Daggett’s Kitchen, where o lot of ne- grocs were standing in the doovway watching the fight, their tongues hang- ing out and their eyes rolling as if ofd Nick himself had” suddenly dropped down before them. S0 yelled to the negroes to come out and help mo, but when they hoard my voice and knew 1 wasonly a mortal, they furned Wbout and fled for their lives, leaving the kitchen door wide open. All at once the bear wenkened, and, facing to the rear, ho ran straight the houso and plump into tho Kitchen. Here was my chance. Like ashot [ banged the door (the others were all closed and locked), fastened it on the outside, left the boys on guard, and hurried off to find a gun. f'uot o Winchester, came back to the kitchen, and through windows and peepholos 1 sent such o shower of bullots flying ahout that the bear was glad enough 1o die without any more prot:st. He was a big brute, weighing something liko six hundred pounds when dressed, and he cost me just one hour and fifty min- utesof hard, tough fighting before [ conguered him.” =g The Haunted Hole of Stratford. New York Tribune: One night about fifty yeavs ago a brutal murder was done, at a lonely place on the high road between Warwick and Streatford-upon- Avon. The next morning the murd 1 man_was found lying by the roadside, his head much v \ugled. resting in a small hole in the bank. The assassins, two in number, were shortly afterward discovered, and they were Warwick for their crime. day to this the hole whe min’s head reposed remains unchanged. No matter how often it may bo filled up, whether by the wash of heavy rains, or by stones and leaves that boys may han- pen to cast into it asthey pass, it is soon found to be again empty. No one takes care of it. Noone know or by whom, it is guarded. nightfall, and you will find it empty in the morning. That yeal belief and affirmation. The place is haunted. The spot is about two miles out of Sirat- ford, and not distant from the gates of Charlotte park. I looked at thls hole, one bright day in June, and saw that it was empty. Nature, it is thought by the poets, abhors complicity with tho concealments of erime, and brands with her curse the places that are linked with the shedding of blood. You will recall that strong line in Tom Hood’s poem of SBugene Aram:” “For a mighty wind had swept the place, and still the corso was bare.” e Notes About the Motor. Tt is slow work malking the motor crossing over the cable tracks at Tenth and Douglas streets. Four days nave been occupied al- ready by a targe foree of men and a couple of more will be required to finish the job. The copper ground wire is being laid under one of tho sides of the Omaba motor track, the granite block beside the rail, as far as Twelfth strecet, having been taken up for tho purpose. The motor campany has raised four poles on the west side of Fourteenth street be- tween Davenport and Cass, two of which aro adjacent to the lot on which the motor's boil- ors have been lying for more thau a year. The poles are painted red and ure about twenty-five feet high. The permit to erect them was granted by Chief Galligan, who consultea the mayor on the subject. The mayor decided that the permit should no granted to the motor compauy as well as to any other company using electricity. It is now announced that the bridge motors will run on Monday next. - ‘Wants a House, Sophironia Mitchell has entered suit in Justice Holmes' court against. Dave White- hill for the rec v of a 12x16 foot building on Sixteenth street, and also for the furnit- ure it contains, Sophronia claims the house and 8o does Dave, but the lattor managed o rent it while Sophronin was looking after other business. His tenant is Michael Ames, who is thus made a party tothe suit, and it is his furnituro is corralle Whitehill dire v nee against ¢ him bound Auc s uia that she applied to ha over Lo keep the peace, I1E advantage of using an article that is pure and always uni- form, is, you are certain of having the same satisfactory results, . Eight prominent Professors of Chemistry, of national reputation, have analyzed the Ivory Soar, and the variation in each is so trifling that the quality of the ‘‘Ivorv"’ may be considered reliably uniform, perior laundry soap. 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