Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 13, 1888, Page 4

THE OMAHA DATLY BEE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 il b e e 1888 THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED ERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ally (M« ¢ Bdition) including SUNDAY e, One For Six Months For Threa Mon T OMATA SUNDAY BEE, wddress, One Y eat WEEKL One Year OMATAOFF1CENOS. DT AND T8 FARY CHICAGO OFFICE BT ROOKERY BUILDING, Krw FFICE, ROOMS 1§ AND 15 Tt IUXE BUiLDI WASHINGTON OFFICH, No. 0l FOURTEENTH STUEET. wailed 1o any CORRESPON DEN ANl communications relat Sorial matter should be add OF 11K BEE BUSINESS LE < jettors nnd remittances should ba 1%, Bk PUBLISHING COMPANY, . checks and postotlice orders 16 e Py able 10 the order of the Company. The Bee Pablishing Company, Proprictors ROSEWAT litor, onews and edle d to the BEDIToi RRS, Al busin DAILY B Sworn Statement ol € Eiateof Nohraska, sunty of Dougla corge 11 Tzschuc sutation. ¢ of Tha Ttes Pub- 1ishing Company, dc swoar that the actunl cireulation of Tue DALY BEE for the week ending December 8, 1858, was as follows: Eunday, Dec. 2 Monday, Dec. Tuesduy, Dec, 4 Wednes: e Thursday, e Fridny, Dic Saturday, Dec. 8, Average.. eesen GRORGE | Sworn 1o before me and subs presence this sth d ciiper A D, 1388, senl L, Notary Public, Btate of Nel i County of hou { George 13, 178 being duly sworn, de. oses AN siys that ho i secretary of the lee dally circulation of for montl of I Tar K. Tas, ek, 15,041 copie for Febt 5 copt 189, 15,041 cople i Apri f June, 1% “opie T 1868, was 1808 copto A 18,99 eompies. GEO. BT to befora me and subseribed in o thiks Sl dla “comir, 18 Presen Nofary Publi TIASCALL, as president of the city council, would amount to & municipal calumity. DENVER is happyover the completion of its cable rond system. And now the Denverites will bowl along just like the people do in Omaha. Cit1eAGo need not depend on the anarchists for blowing up buildings. The explosion of an oat meal factory would indicate that dynamite is in the Wrrnt Haseall president of the eity council and Southard the city clerk, the contractors will guin some advantage in forming the new combines now under way. TIE inter: threatens to ate railway commission alco an active hand in the railrond Lif the mani rs do not come to an agreement. Chairman Cooley hias blood 1n his eye. Tinz state printing has always been a ich pium for the politicians of Lin- coln. [t is safe to predict that the same old ring at the same old stand will teado it off al the same old terms. Ir Dr. Billings had inoculated him- self with the hog cholera, the virusthus obtained would have had sufficient strengih of sell-assurance to carry every hog in Nebraska safely through the disease. To THE man up o treo it looks very much as if the Union Pacific was in- different as to the result of the suit be- tween that company and the Western Union over the control of the telegraph lines to the Pacific. anxiety has passed and our war ship Galena has not sufferod the fate of the Talliposa in being sunk by a coal barge. Evidently the Galena has gone forth to do battle with Hayti in dead earnest. M. FIASCALL ought to be an author- ity on the subject of wine rooms, But his amendment to the proposed ord nance will make its provisions pract cally ineflective, which was doubtless his intention. Now it transpires that the election of MeGinnis and Smith, republicans, and of Penaleton and Wilson, democrats, in West Virginia, has exaetly divided the delegation to cong Could all the counting and recounting in that state (o no better than that ? CALIFORNTA estimute yield in that 1888, at teetotale ho the total wine ate, for the season of suteen million gallons, The will ot compromise himself, by taking a sip or two of the vintage he lowness in the color of the wines indicates a very small por- centage of alcohol, Tne Douglas county delegation to the legislature will do wisely to inform it- sell of the necessary charter amend- ments, Tho citizens and taxpayers, the merchants and mechanics, the mayor, the bourd of public works, the council, the city ofticials are in position to give most valuable information as to the needs and the proper safe guards to pro- tect Omaha's best interests. THERE »ssibility that Nebraska may secure the appointment of commis- sioner of agricultur [t is more than likely that the place® will he clovatoed to the position of a cabinet office, and there are now men in the state, of na- tional reputation, who are well qualified for the trast, It would cortainly be a well deserved recognition of Nebraska as a great agricultural state for General Harvison to appoint one of her sons to o L —— THERE are few more pathetie specta~ cles in these days of holiday anticipa- tions than that of the hungry-eyod childron of the poor, lingering about the windows of the toy and candy stor A little thing makes the Christmas of childhood the brightest in the calendar; the lack of shat little thing makes of it a day of miserable disappointment. Reslizing this, the Rev. Mr. Harsha and others hnve made arrangements to distribute the gifts of those who wish to contribute, A little effort wili enable him to reach the homes of all the poor of the city, and his appeal should meet with a cheerful response, A PRACTICE THAT MUST STOP. Every instance of a firm and declsiv stand on the partof the inter-state com- merce commission nagainst the per- niciovs practices of the railroads is to be heartily welcomed. The course of the commission has not been uni- formly of this character as could have been desired. Tt has doubtless been governed by the hest intentions and heen entively conscientious, but it has in many casos laid itself open to the objection of leaning too much in the direction of a conservative leniency, a8 if dispoged to cajolo the railrond cop- porationsinto a performance of their obvions duty under the law rather than to enforce to the plain v quirements of the statute. Consider: tion of this sortis not usuaily appr ciated by the corporations, and it is hardly to be doubted that there could be fewer evil and unlawful practices to be remedied if the inter-state com- meree law had been enforced more rigidly, with a closer rd for its letter and spivit, than it has boen. Certainly the experiment would have received a fairer test. The inter-state commerce commission, session at Chieago, has been the methods pursucd by the ralroads in unsnct- ing their passenger trafhi and the information obtained an amount of crookeaness, involving nearly cvery road centering in that eit; reflects diseredit on the entive vailrond system of the country. It is deplorable to find that men holding the reputable and rcsponsible positions of railrond managers and g ve recourse to the most pernicious practices, in unde- ninble violation of Ju inorder to de- coive the public and take advantage of cach other in the competition for traf- fic. Yet this the commissioner has ascertained to be the ca It is found that neavly all the through passenger tra of the roads has been done through sealpe for the cxpress purpose of avoiding an open reduction and to keep up the v between local points. Of the large number of vail- road ofticials examined, not one was able to give a plau <om for sell- ing tickets to s t a much lower ‘vate than they sell them their own oftices, nor to tis! explain why they have persisted in pa ing enormous commissions for the sale of tickets to scalpers and others who could command business. The sole ex- cuse was that they had to do it beeause their competitors did it. Upon the information obtained Judge Cooley, chairman of the inter-state com= merce commission, on Tuesday notified the mana, and goneral passenger agents of the various railvoads that the pernicious practico of dealing with scalpers and paying commissions must stop. The chairman is stated to have unmercifully scored the rouds which have been guilty of *discrimination in » rates by secret dealings, but without naming the culprits, a far too generous consideration that should not have been accorded. Corporations that thus persistently and scandalously vio- iate the law should be publicly exposed and condemned, and it is an ami- able weakness unot beeoming in o public oficial that per- mits railond managers who by false pretences deceive the public and seeretly ignore the requivements of a national statute to escaps the per- sonal reprobation they deserve. Noris it entively satisfactory that these guilty maragers are allowed to escape all present vesponsibility for their viola- tion of the law. Having been found amenable to prosecution, the injunc- tion of the commission to these manag- ers to go and sin no more appears a piece of magnanimity hardly within the discretion of that body, and cor tainly not just to the pub- lic which has suffered from the unlawful practices of the corporations, Still the action of the commission is a welcome sign of a more decisive policy in enforeing the luw. These disclosures, and others likely to be made as the investigation of the commission is extended to other ficlds, must serve to strengthen public opinion in favor of maintaining the imter-stute commerce law, which has ondy heen ailed in congress, They supply elear evidence of the necessity for the’ regu- lation and control provided for by the act and point out some of the dangers to the publie interests that would - tainly follow its abandonment. €0 obedience in investiating ows tes passeng MONTANA MUTTON. There is a prefevence for beef among Awmerican consumers of meat which has its effect upon the ranges, for wherey cattlo can be grazed the cattle men will crowd out the shoep hordevs. And this is equally true, whether the sheep are raised for their wool or for their flesh, In past yenrs Nebraska has nourished numerous flocks, but the in- creasing demand for* beef from the stock yards of South Omaha has begun todrive them elsowhere. At the sume time there isan undoubted gain in the price of mutton in the eastern states, where it has become a popular article of consumption, and the slaughtering of sheep in South Omaha for the refrig- eratorjears has assumed importance. But this mutton comes for the most part from Montana, and will in time be derived altogether from that source., In that important territory there has been for the past five years an intelligont invest- ment of considerablo capital in English rams, and wethers for the purpose of breeding sheep for the market, not for their wool. Instead of Merinos and Cotswolds the sheep owners of Montann have been paying good round sums for Southdowns, both Shropshires and Welch, and the im- provement in the flesh of the slice psent to market has been remarkable. There is no doubt that for cities along the sea coast mutton is more wholesome than pork, and though it is not more nut tious it is move easily digested. In fact doctors assert that it is us digestible as venison, and order it for invalids. Montana, a8 its name implies, is a wountainous eountry, and the experi- ence of the world has been that such re- gions are especially adapted for the grazing of sheep, There are number- less valleys where the sheep can look after themselves during the winter, for the winds have no such power as they have on the plains, baing eontinually checked by cross ranges, which prevent them from gathering the fearful force from which the blizzard darts forth up: his errand of destruction. With intel- ligent shephords and sheep dogs the flocks can be maintained fairly well in the open all the year round. Thers is every probability, therefore, that the great cities of this country will in time derive their muatton wholly from Mon- tana, and as one indust ways givos birth to another, it is likely that the sheep farms willalso be dairvy farms, for that is what has happened in O It has been found that far better cheose can be made by mingling the milk of the cow with ewe’s milk than by using either singly, and Ovogon is to- day the only stats in the union whe cheoses are made that will compare with the famous cheeses of the continent of Ilurope, whose price is so much higher than glish or American. In fact, foreigners who come to San Franciseo ent with great delight the cheess of Oregon and aceopt it as some new vavi- ety of Roquefort, or Gorgonzola. The famous Swiss cheese of Grayere is mad of the same mingli It is clear t Montana is steiking out in the right di- rection, and insanother decade will be hailed as the true pastural land, the Areadin of Amevica OFFICIAL ANXIETY, There is said to be a great deal of un- easiness among our consuls road, many of whom expect to lose their ofli- ial heads very soon after the next ad- ministeation comes in. There will loubtiess be a very eaveful investiga- tion of the consular service, and in that event numerous chunges are to ho ex peeted. The prosent Tministration has not been entively fortunate in lecting men for this servi aind if it s to be improved a considerable number of individuals who ave now represent- ing this country in foreign lands will asked to come home, But it is to be hop»d the next .admi tion will be enabled to intro- duce such wy reforms in the consular scrvico as will give it a higher standard of uscfulness and effi- cieney than it has thus far attained, nd in order to do this something more will have to bo done than the placing of incompetent men in the ser vice. There were some excellent sug gestions on this‘subject in the pres dent’s Me. C nd ferred to the reorganization of the con- sular ser tter of serious im- to our natio: interests, and 20 unquestionnbly it is. A great com- meretal ion must have such a s vice, and this country has vast and growing interests which demand that 1ts consular service shall be equal to the best in the world, which is ad- i vy not now the case. Fewer s of this kind, better salari an »d tenure for capable and efficient L and the appointment only of men of approved worth and capacity are some of the reforms required for an improvement of the consular service, and they are to be expected of the next administration. gon. be istra- neces mere re message. re- ceasa assu sery AN APPOINTIVE LICENSE BG “Iv will be a ious mistake, 3 the Republican, *if the friends of law and ovder in this city undertake to place the liquor license system under control of the board of fire and police commis- ion.” No one can deny that the license system, as now existing in our city, has beem a source of cor- ruptionand irregulavity. It has had a demoralizing effect upon members of the city council and the city clerk. Tt has exacted political support from the low dives and bummers; it has com- pelled the orderly liquor dealers to support with money and influence the very worst element of the eity, and h used the liquor men to do the dirty work at primaries and elections. The venson for this is easy to find. The license board is made up of the mayor, president of the city council and city clerk. cach holding an elective office. The temptations to abuse the position as a member of the license board are manifold. There arc opportunitics to make corrupt bargains. In return for pecuninry or political support a member of the board can grant license to d reputable individuals or wink at viola- tions of the license law. The aver memb of the license board plays for political power, for re-elect and he keeps his eye to the main chance to gain the solid support of the liquor men. To vest the powers of the license board in the police commission removes this source of danger for the reason that the police commission is an ap- pointed body composed of citizens wholly divorced from the council ana independent of local clections. Such a license board would protect the interests of the city and the inter- ests of the better element of the liquor dealers, since it has no political bargains to make and no polit- ical debts to p tions would be purified and the sources of tion in the council would he mater lessened. The city of New York has found the appointed exciso bourd the Dbest solution for the difficulty, and it behooves our citizens to foster the city's iuterests by placing the granting of licenses in the hands of tho police com- mission, ARD. THE virtuous Mr. Holman, of [ndiana, wants the judiciary committee of the house of representatives to investigate the alleged voluntary contributions of money expended in the late elections, and to report what legislation is necos- sary to suppres’ such contributions and expenditures. Of course, any such in- vestigation, if ever made, would be the merest farce, and the Indiana con- grossman, who is so fond of clap-trap, knows it would be. Doubtless an honest inquiry would show that there was more money raised by the democrats in the late campaign, from voluntary ard so-called voluntary contributions, than by the republicans, and for exactly the same purpose. What- ever evil there 18 1n this matter both parties are equally guilty of, and it is notdoubted that the judiciary commit- tee would fail to find anything seriously reflecting on either party more tangible than the nowspaper statements on both of Mr. Hotard, of Thdlana, to punish orime against: the elective franchise, which provides that the currupt use of money in any election for representa- tives in congross shall be punished by disfranchisement for from six to ten years, and disqualify the persons for that period from holding any office of honor, trust or profit, under the United States. AMEETING is called to arrange for the proper celebration of * « " The descendants of the pilgrims are numerous in Omaha, and any efforts which stimulates them to emulate the virtues of their ancestors s commend- able, These annual reunions productive of good results in cementing the natural friondliness of natives of thesame states or countries, The west deal to v Bnglana, and tion of this anniver- nowledgement, too are owes o good the proper celebr vy is afitting utable members ot the counci be depended upon to ar of entangling alliances with the old combine which has controlled that body for two years. Somo of the best men in the eity will soon take their seats in the couneil for the fivst time, and the people endorsed them bes they believed that the corrupt ringsters would be repulsed in their raids npon the city treasury. On this proposition Tue | tood with the people. and is confident that the new members will not be long in making their presence felt. THE new stoer D Mircen foels very confident that he can fly in the face of punlic opinion and erect his eleetric motor poles where he will. But he will find the current of public opinion more powerful to con- tend with than any electrie current he may wish tosend on an overhead wire. Hints to the Hungry. Chicaan Nv Tickets to the inaugural ton next Muar will cost Economical officescekel quested not to take their suppers wit That would be too painfully Jeffos i oty Would He Care I Bostan Hevabi, Up to date forty-four babies, s wells, & mountain and a new vaviety of ap- vles have been named for Har At tis rate there is likely to pe considerable con fusion before Harrison mai w for his successor. Wiy not give Lovi Morton a share of the honor: pall in Wast supper ext are carnestly re, thea, two son. o Canada Will Got Thers . Montreal Post. We mean that Canada shail become a na- lom and inviolability with the demoeratic inaustrial system of Auwerica. Wealso mean to get rid of > busi- uess, old ifags, old r bbish of ull sorts, aud o go right ahead, a free people in & frec country. in Time, Patriots. Lincoln Call. Petitions arc circulating in a dozen or nore n Nebraska asking the forth- ming president to appoint the petitioning applicant to the oftice of postmaster. A man of good busiuess ability can earn more money with less labor i almost any other avocation than that of zovernment postmas- ter, but this certain fact doss not reduce the number of clamoring p cast. — - His First Financial Lesson. Phitadelphia Record, 3aby Gould—CGirandpa, I want to buy some candy, but I have no money. indpa Gould—Go to the candy store, my chila, and offcr the man a liberal sum for his candy, give him bonds for the amount on the value of the candy, then double the issue of stock, sell one-half to other par- ties, pay the man i and yow will have one-half the store. Bl The Speakership, Springficld Republican, Wire-pulling for the speakership of the Fifty-first congress grows more _interestin At first Reed and MeKinley were mentioned for the place, but Caunon of 1ili- nois soon started i an active personal can- vass. Now Michigan puts in a claim for Bur- rows, and with the understanding that Alger does not go into the cabinat, It would be a pity if all this deal and dicker should brin an inferior man to the front. The countr. does not want another Keifer in the speaker’s chair, Thy s in the Scep Gl With the almission of the territories which will unaoubte the union between this ti political conditions will W Yorlk will no longer be the piv The par- tisan eautre of power willbe on the west side of the Allezhenies fou rs hence, In 1502 the Mississippi valley will furnish the presi dential candidate for the democral v unleas David B, Hill ve selected, The south alvely secs the march of partisan empiro westward, and announces t the tine has come to throw off the yoke of New York, - The Premature Skater, Burlington Free Press, Now the skater premature, Whon the frost-bound pouds - allure, Dous we steel again. e how swift he glides and slick! What!—a crash! A plank there quick! Saved—but stiff as any stick. Trot him up the lane, - PROMIN PilltSONS, Mrs. Hancock, widow of the goneral, is now comfortably setticd in her new home on Sixteenth street, Washington, D, C. ladstone will start for Rome in ten The Irish residents pre- to give hiMm an enthusiastic recep- thres or four Ly come into the tion. p Gene Harnison recontly sent $2 to aia in the erection of a'‘church near Now Haven, Conn. Two_bricks are to be marked with his name and put in the corner of the build- ing. Secretary Whiksey is said to have had every newspapeg reference to him since he became secretary, of the navy clivped out and pasted into o scrap-book. The scrap- book now comprises forty large volumes. Ewmperor Frangis Joseph, of Austria, has received from Wope, in recognition of the fortieth annivers@ry of his accession to the throne, an sutogreph letter and a beautiful portrait of tho \'mhu Mary w1 mosaics, made in the work shops of the vatican, Warden Osborue, of the Tombs in New York, has inaugurated a sensible reform, and one which should be adopted in ¢ prison in the country. Ho absolutely fuses to permit presents of flowers to ¢ mals Ly the soft-headed women who have been addicted to that sentimental idiocy. General Boulanger, it is known, receives large subscriptions of woney froum many dif- ferent quarters, but most persons will be surprised to learn, a8 is declared in the Lon- don journals, that' he has received #50,000 from_ admirers, compatriots, of course, in tho Uunited States. WEwpress Victoria of Gormany and her notler, Quoen Vietoria, are at Windsor together, und spend a great deal of time laying chess. Queen Vietoria, who was a cele- rated player in the old days, aud used easily to beat her busband, the priuce consort, is sides. More to the purpose is the bmlug watch for her daughter, the Germau . em) @, who has mada the game study, and finds it the only consolation for her lone: liness, Re married the daughter Hugh G. Peuntecost, tho socialist f Dr, Gatling, the in- itor of the gun which bears his aname. Tho doctor is much opposed to his son-in- w's rovolutionary theories, wud the old rentloman has one argument which, in the st extromity, can bo relied upon to knock out the soclalist Colonel 1. M. Drye, of Kentucky, is a can didate for a federal offico under the new ad- ministration. 1f all the dry colonels in Ken tucky must bo provided for, there will be little show for other people. But the pathetic appeal embodied in- this particular colonel's name will probably secure public sympathy for him, at least in Kentucky. - - STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Corn in Butte county will average forty-five bushels to the acre, During the fall four residencos and threo s have been erceted at Dodgo. The Dodge Congrogati funds for the building of A singing school has been started at Nor- foll by the Christian Endeavor sock A steam roller mill, with a canacity barrels a day, has commenced ope Dodge. The motto of the ! 1o buta rustler descrves the about sto f fifty jons at abraska City Press s post- Plattsmonth schools will probably ro mam closed until aftee the holidays, ou’ ac count of diphtheria The taxpayers of Nebraska City arve Kick- ing because of foo little tar and too much sand beine used in paving The Nebraska City saloonkgepors have heen interviewed, and nearly allof thew are fgaon st vaising the license to $1,000. “The new county of Rock has organized a fair association, clected officers and held the first wnnual exhibit at Bassett last week. Two rosidents of Gordon have an Indian mummy which they discovered in_the W. oming oil ficlds, for which they have refused an offer of 2600 Nebraska City boys cannot congregate in the opera house hatlany more, without being arrested, a8 the proprictor is mad and has issued his ukasc, A Boone county farmer nawed Joseph Me- Culken ended his last drunk with a bir dose phine, and now he 18 weeping and snashing his' teeth Chimney Rock Transcript s the name wer just started at Bayard, ¢ ne 1iis named after the once noted T of the plains, eme conrt will be appealed to councii of Fremout to compel t itor to rezister the water wo bonds. £ orts that Do~ Middle- ton has be uodeling his saloon. Tacre is plenty to remodel in D oon if it is anything like the others he has run. A very slick young man conducted a wholesale cattle and horse ing business in Antelope county in the last few days, ana has entertained scveral of his victims on the Profits of the transactions, He is now a fu- witive from justice, with s in hot pur- suit. The “upper ten” of Clordon’s social circles have formed adancing club to be known as the “Early tHour.” and have adopted a half column of by ating the ru govern i member baceo in it 13 strict pear unde by the o st inte: A Gord: ity form is tabooed in the hall, inderstond that no one shail the influcnce of liquor, A T hias been appointed to see that ios ave enfo duty of all m ich nssistan 1hov ins that * not to b these » as may be ne . The el the *‘purpose of these by rany one, bur for the purpose er and meeting the aproval o do not wishi to o where the gatners ar public dances.” srent Northwest, o at Portland, Ore., and deal- ers are asking 317 a ton ‘The sugar refinery at Watsonville, gives £ aton for blets. A statehood conven Spolcane Falls, W, Coloradocattlemen expect to ship 130,00 o head of beef next season. Two saloonkecpers have failed in business at Helena, Mot., recent L3 The strike on the Montana Union is off, the master mechanic having resigned. 1t is proposed to build a seawall 200 feet wide around the waver front of San I Cal. Chinese gamblers have been hiring substi tutes to appear for them i the Los Angeles courts, and have thus escaped. 5 in the Flathead lake region of Montana claiin to have found anthracite coal Dbeds twenty feet in thickness. W. H. Herrington s in jait at Eugene Cit Ore., for shooting Frank Roilins. It is thought the wound will prove fatal. There 18 great indignation in Wyoming over the suggestion made to divide the terri- tory, half going to Montana and half to Colo rado. lilinois capitalists will corrals at Miles City, Mon of native horses preparator in the Or has been as fol low ¢ for sxpenses, 3 7-10 mills: militia tax, 1-5th of amill; university, 1-10th of a mill. "Potal, 4 mill W. 13. Read, in boring an artesiun well on James MeMuckin's place, about ta iles sonth of Sonoma, Cal., struck petroleun depth of > furthe developed. The No down_their and 1 About thre have been disc cd and paid off, them have returned to St Paal. A freight train of twenty cavs has left the rie depot, Jorsey City, bound for Ta W. T, and w 1 in unbrokol to that point. teain contuins th stock of a wholesule dry goods stor started at Tacoma, The Butte Inter-Mcd cal, on is to be held at ailroad erect barns and for the handiing o selting them fic been cutting between H huudred me Most of 10 be tain says there isa rumer in the air that 1 rthe Anaconua company will bezin wtions for doubling tho capacity of the smelting plaut, This would 1nean that the company proposes to treat 6,000 tons of ore per da The Winnemucea (Nev. that County Suryeyor Bow turned from a tripto the northern part of county, says he saw thousands of cattle on his trip, some of which were in good condi- tion, while others are quite thin, Some ranches are faivly well supplied with hay, while others have light crops. Water is the country. There is no in Quin river, and many of pzen over. Cattlo wen are feurful of a hard winter, but think that, un- less we have plenty of rain and suow, the country will dry up next year, and throo scasous in succession will ruin the rauge, L The Republican State Committee, Fremont Tribune, Treasurer Bechel, of the republican state central committee, has rushed into print with a grand flourish and a flare of trumpets, and endenvors 1o ex- onerate himself from certain mild a cusations which have been made nguinst him by €he publication of a littie histor of the inside workings of the state com- mittee. Mr. Bechel also attempts to throw diseredit upon i Ifrom what the can learn concerning the matter, Mr, Bechel has become unduly exeited and alarmed. 1t does not believe, however, that he will carey out his threats thav if there is not an “‘explicit and authorized denial” of insinuations against him he will go into details and expose anybody, If there is anything to be exposed. My, Bechel is not probably in the best posi- tion in the world to begin that sort of thing. Mpr. Richards, in & published interview in Tie Bk, properly summed the matter up when he said that until Mr. Bechel has submitted a statement of the financial transactions of the camn- paign to the auditing committee of the state committee, silence on his part would seeg to be the prudent thing. There is really nothing serious in the business, at all, but the morc the news- papers say about it the wore its 1mpor- ilver State say: m, who has the pools ar iards, taneco is magnified. Nobody believes or undertakes to say that there has been any boodling, There was simply a little counflict in the working of the commit- tee. When Mr. Richards was made chairman he urally supposed that he had a right to know what was going on. Ho introduced somo strictly business principles in the management of the eampaign, which apparently conflictod with the way things have ususlly be run, e runs his own business on busi ness principles, and he wantod the cam paign condueted that way. e was th head of the committee, in fact as w as name, and the result of his manage ment of the campaign suggests no apol ogy on his behalf, - . 1IQUOR LICENSES, How They Are Peocured and Who Get Saloon keepers have commenced to take out their licenses for 1880, but are doing it slowly as to 1 to the belief that the num ber now in bt will be somewhat decrensed. Tho reason for this 18 the fact that they are now eompelled to pay 81,000 in advance before they will be given pormission to do business, This is the first year that tho 1aw hios been enforced, though the first at tempt at its enforcement was made in March of the presont r. At that time all the saloon-keepers had paid for thoir first iartor The balunce, $150, was then demanded and paid, and ' this demand re dneed the number of liquor-dealers in the city, Al these liconses expiro on the 31st of this month, To rencw or o take out a new one the saloon man will make formal ap plication to take out a licenso to the city or the same time depositing with the city treasurer 21,000, The fact of this ap- plivation is then advertised for two woeks, Tne application 18 then considered by the license board, — consisting of the wayor, the chaivman of the city council and the city elerk. 11 the application be rejected the £1,000 deposited is refunded. 1f it be confirmed, the license is issued. _In order to do business under a licenso on’ New Year's , provided his application be aceepted, aloon man must make that application * than the 16th of this month, boe- the two weeks' advertisement will he licenss to a termination. Up to yes. ning the following had deposited 0 with the treasu ', the fi ) to Henry Mies, of the Sixteenth the not lat cause bri ter their 81,0 do being Quinn, %24 North Sixteenth Cuming, North Sherman avenue; F D 2 1014 Chicago stroet; William iladist, 105 South Twelfth stroet; Charles Stors, 1515 Sherman avenues, Richard Bur 1002 Davenport; S. G, dohnson & Co., 247 North Nmeteenth; J. A, Wood & Co South conths Tler & Co., 1112 Har Charles Storz, 1401 Novth Twenty sustave Rudiofi, 2334 Cuming; Isaie o, 1013 Farnam; Chrst - Wueltrich, 24 St Mary's avenie; A, F. Wolft, & Cuming; 51 Parnam; G & Day, 1924 North Tiventy-fourth 1 & Co','S08 South Tenths Henr, North Sixteenth; dohn’ Rudist & Co South Sixteenths John Hoffman, 415 North ixteonth; Henry Mies, 1264 South Six eenth. The bre Thomas cnezer ers have been relied upon to some of these as they will also many wh to make application. One brewer told sporter that of all his customers there we but sixteen whoin he was not compelled to INCREASE IN VOTES, What Has Beon Daveloped the Legislavive Contest. The clection investigations now in progress in the city ball ave bringini out a surprising increase in the votes cast in the legislative eloctions and the two immediately preceding. The difl enee in the votes cast in 1886 and By 1 elildr 1587 s very slignt, although it is a well known fact that the increase m the popula- tion from 186 to 1857 was much greater than from 1887 1o 1888, In the year 155, in the clection for ernorand other state officers, S e cast 1n Douglas county. in 1557, in the clection of judges for the supreme bench, 1 votes wer an increnso of . In the votes were « votes over th than doubling the gov- votes ceding year and more number of votes cast, In the First, Sccond and the eity thero is a rewarkal in the nunber st in 1836, 1,011 v there were 10 the late were cast ballots, making an astomshing increaseof 1,325 votes in one year, being 310 more than double the vote of the previous In the Se ard there were 1,450 votes i 3 1887, and 2,190 in the cing an inerease of I ing the record of ward. Only in 187 and 1588 have the geo graptical bounds of the Third ward been the same, and consequently only a comparison of these tw bo made. In 1587 there were | s cast in this ward, and in 1535 the vote shot up 1o 2,191, This is considercd remarkable when i nsidered that there has been a decrense in tual inhabitants of tins ward through the ercction of business houses and removal of residences, Third wards of ud suspicious of voles cast. In = were polled; in votes, and u election Board of lo 1 tors. lir of the board of trade whose term expires the end of this month Wakefield and . G have been n ofiica for anumber of years and have always been among the sie members of the ! v, stood Lo be not desi ous of re-election, at least to such a degree asto for raelection. Neither is it kuown that there are any members who wish to suceced them. There secms to be a gen apathy in connection with the board which is regretted by o nuin THE COURTS, United States Conrt. Judge Dundy was on the boreh for the perod of an hour and but owing to the able to some five or 8 they did not show noon their The case u, on & postmaster t for the §1s1 Judge Dundy g in the case of 13liz worthy, - Dis aclosure of a mochani: orge ¥'s of G. H. 1T up. It is & suit o of contract to convey r for the sum of & inyolved in tho ¢ The action of ( 3onson and John something like §1 hias been pract the swit consen property in contr R we Doane is ber of the leading members, These cluim that their associates as whole are too me reless in their aspiration for office and men entirely untitted for the place There isno wrong, they assert king oftice when the desire 15 to thr ne life into the association, while th 10 be lended in the carelessness allow. cted simply because he is willing o accept i nomination ardless of the motives of those who in spire him 1o aceopt “1 would like to have o hearty all our board ¢ contest in snid a member to- day. Tt wonld give life to the association, and prepare it for an actiyity which we ought 10 be expericncing now, und which we would experience if we had more of the youthful blood and enthusiusm of some of our rival citics.”! Tho election of directors will on the first Monday in Junuary. A Childeen’s Christmas, Rov. W. J. Harsha rcuews his request, made some weeks ago with a view to afford ing poor children & memorable and happy Christmas, 1t is as follows: Will you kindly call the attention of your readers to the approach of the holiday scason and the worls | have undertaken of ~supply- children with gifts! check amount endy boen re Patterson, 1 trust good example he has oncy for the of toys, will any onc send me toys boen cast asiae, or clothing for i, or hats, shoes, hoods, wittens, ete. ! Iwill gharantee that ' everyihing sent me will o well distributed on Curistmas duy. Surely we ought to give the poor children ght day out of tho year, Very sin- yours. W. J. Hanspa Mr. Harshi's address s 203 South I'wen ty-Hith uvenue, take place The Kookery's Leaky Roof. The roof in the city hall bui fective that during the th yosterday streams of water from melted snow ran ih the ceilin ty offices below Great inconycnion o tho of Is and slight d 10 the ofiice fixtures, A Meeting of ¢ The creditors of Louis Rosenmund beld a meeting yesterday in Judge Shield's court. ‘The Habilities are £1,700, and upwards of $300 were represented, Sherift Coburn was chosen assignes editors. the suit of J. . Hart, on a y money loaned, tho note wa that an agree YOAP Was e the amount claim that this al fra ated by them; that all wieseod in b, were the ag defondant b he wished the ex: theso points is by ing, and the case will the day. Co Martha Trowh with the consent McMichacl. The Vote No The arguments in Cooley tion were conclud the case and decy on which Cooley quently he wa Likes Omah The | roomns Noblesand I company y admitted t of tais city. Tl ks held comprised a majority of and around Omal of business and Hulett occupied Southard and . taining the prover decoruim, in the most appre made against the amusemeoent On Nobles 1 honor conferred behalf —of h gentlomen theater from the W magniticent bog the Omaha lod:ce as lon; be his privilege t hostess. The or house furmshed t during the even priate Brigham, I nished the voc the latter bein accompanied Scot A Florent A case of absorbi; concluded in I one of the s ised of was ac boy named Milfc from Omaha sap) oung Lantry w 'he testimony s had broken a let ¢ family and firm had gone culprit. The resu hurt, though the Lantry, in his di ) transact any bus would ainst (eorg ks against " sally sottl the Bank of has beon d neve uesday night in ank Weston, a Both of these gentlemen we who had he might b a half yestorday morning, absence of lawyors was uns oss, o sont word x logal gontlemen that it v up prompily in the afters istissod 1. Walker, a sait ‘s bond, terminated in & United States in the sum of ave a decree of foreclosurd a MeKeevs W, A, Lange trict Court. Bum, was ordered m this the case eoran came or the specifie porformance Al ostato, Hicks asks orest, the amount court, Al 1) amd i 1se. harles P. Simmonds vs, H, B, ( linel, involving 5,000 worth of real ostatey the partios to ting to “irade back' the oversy still engraged in Comme promissory note e dofensoes are audulently altered xtend th rd, that $1 vaid. Tho plaintiffs payment was repudi Itorations in the note the defendant, and bud wis void becnuse notified plaintiffs that tension. ‘The testimony on th voluminous and conilict continue throughout loged unty Conrt, ridge, 4 minor, s adopted, of tho court, by Mr. James ot Klegally Procurod. the case of Julius S, charged with using undue influence in inducing Dubois to vole the last elec- Judee Boerka reviewed Pwas o evidence convicted. Conse- fed ded th uld by discha Lodge Most, their eclub of Milton member of his re- o membership in the lodigo lo large company present the Klks living in a, witha L professional men. the chair, and N i Pl ssisted in main- They il this oved fashion; the charges s prisoncrs causing_much 1 being called_on Milton his brother Elks for the U upon him, and on is wife thanked the attended the lodge and had sent her sueh uet. He said he preferred 1o r, und hoped Ccoming he ot tho same a reception in honor 0 Chest he instrumentol music, and ing gave selections appro- lon. el France, Nat tt and Paul Lombard cntertainment, artienlarly successful in an ch ball ne Scosation. intorest has just been lorence in which Sperry ons of the muyor of tho saalt upon another 1 Depris. An attorncy cared for the latter, whilo s defended by his father, lowed that young Depris ter hox belonging to the 1 that a couple of members out searching for the; It was that somebody got testimony_was conflicting, ofense of his bo, a mountam of reproach upon Dep is s entertainment sue never expericneed, prophesied an omi family and painted in bla ample of their fatl avail. The jury fo and stigmatized th on the part of the been whinped. Condeml Messrs. Hickste d afforded the crowded 1 as the oldes The Omaha attorne, nows tuture for the Lantr; colors the ex e But it was without ound the accuscd ot guilty c prosecution as_ malicious lud who claimed to bave red Rottennes ein and Iarr, meat and fruit inspectors, make the following report for the past quart dificrent articles c Sixty-two thous: meat, fruit and po 1,200 pounds ; 60 b and 60 bunclics ba boxes berrics, E n agon los ) box app dozen quails, The inspeetors cows, eight of wh and were kitled. buge, 1 toes, or, the table showing the ondemned by them: ind and sixty-one pounds of ultry, 1 limp jaw stecr, unchics bananus, 1 ci i nanas, hoxos peachies, Voxes beans, 6 boxes W potatoos, 30 crate ud cabbage, b boxes i tormelons, 8 zen pig also ich xauined were found discased Lice The following 1 pses 1o Wed, wrringe licenses wer: Judge Shields yesterd s Dunn, ( rie Snyder, € dericie Chiris 1 Minnie Rasmuss §Jolm 1 1 Stella Thickles, st And St. Andrew's mi purel tho M A Word 118 the mucus semd-tid envelog sues of the air and moke into the vory vitals, driewn breath of mi se of hearing, i, h.an Insidiously cold in 1, It iy svelops the conts onfh by n, hins diiven out BAN OIS KADIC e o1 10 KADICAT, ( Sorvest and an | wrapped inone price, 31, Porren Diva & sod two lots of A *braska National buted 800 to tie price. it sfronghold, Killinge the re ) o i tddn en, Oma Saunders, Oma Omahn row's Missi ssion of Walnut Hill has . Joseph Weeks, of bank, who contri- About catarm‘ membrane, that wonderful urronnding the duticate g food passages, thist Catarch onee Dlished, it eats , and renders life but w long. and disease, dulling tho inelling the power of of smell, taintin ined pledsures of Ly ereeping on trom a simple sxailts the memk s the bones, eativg th and tri tal tormination, Tuhalation and by Internal nev iled: even when the p Inronds « uto 18, suiell und taste have il “the disease thoroughly AL CURE consists of one ot SCILE, 000 HOX OF CATAKIIAL UROVED INHALEN, ligge, WitL tull dir CHEMICAL (0., BOS10N, WEAK, PAINFUL BACKS. oy and A, el = Curioiia i only o stantaneons, infa(l dote 1o Pain’ Tntlan compoutded. Vast . Al all drugg ree of Vot WEA MEMAOE 7 1 Utosine Pains and Weak. oved I ONE MISUTH by the ANTI-PAIN PLANTEULBO (1K afn-killing plister, ‘New, ine ble. The most pevfoct antle pmation wnd Weakness ever 1 8u perior 10 all other pliss %, %) conty: five for SL); oF, 0 DUUG ARD CUENIOAL e ADYIOR PHEK, ll?W TO AOT, i Marioon CANGER and Tumors cured, 25 yoarw crtence. No K Froe. LU MoMIt 102 Wabush A v, Chicugo,