Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 2, 1889, Page 4

‘. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY JANUARY 2, 1889 THE DAILY PUBLISHED EVERY MOF TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION. Pally (Morning Edition) including SUNDAY, BEE, One Year For £1x Months ¥or Three Months T OMANA SUNDAY ik, mailed to any Widress, One Year WrEKLY IEE, One Y ear OMAMA OFFICEN O, U14 ANT 110 FARNAM STREET CHICAGO OFFICE 67 ROOKERY BUILDING KW YORKOFFICh IS 14 AND 15 TRIRU NF BULDING, W ASHINGTON OFFICE, 3] YOUITEENTH STRERT. BEE., NG 410 00 5 00 1] No. CONRESPONDENCE Al communications relat ) and edl sorial matter should be addressed to the Ebtton oF THE TE b RUSINE ERS, e to Tie WEE PUBLISIING COMPANY Drafts, checks and postoffice orders @ order of the company. Al bt nil OMAIIAL bemade payable to 10 Bee Pablishing Company Proprictors. B. ROSEWATER litor, [ ——— ) THE DALY BEE Sworn Statement ot Circulation, Btateof Nebraska, i o County of Douglas, § St George 1. Tzechuek, secratary of The Bes Pub. tishing Company, dov's solemnly swear that the aetual cireulation of Tk DATLY Bk for the week ending December 20, 1588 was as follows: sunday, Dec. 23 15,270 jonday, Dec. 24 Visiie 14010 Tuesdiy, Ded 10,051 Wednesduy, De. 15,030 Thursday, De 1803 Friday. Dee. 2 18054 Baturday, %00 Average . s 1 GEORGE B TZSCHL CK. £worn to before me and subscribed in my yresence this 20th day of December A, D, 1885, Seal N. P, FEIL, Notary Public. State of Nebraska, | County of Dougins, | George I Tzschuck, Deir jotesand. eays thas he js hiblishing company, that the actiial TuE DALY Bick 847, 15,041 cop) for February 10,650 copla: fy, 18, 3 coples: fo L 1688, 18, for 88 duly sworn, de. stary of the Bee daily circulation of montl of December, April, 185% copi: IR 18, for Reptember, 15858, 15,154 copless 188, was IR0 coptes; for Nov 189 coples, Sworn to before me an Presence this ¥th day of 1 N It 18 significant that when two Ne- braska legislators step up to the tic! oftice and buy their railvoad tickets, the fuct is considered of sufficient moment to he telegraphed as news. ouncd n is 1 should make a cl sweep of the tax-eaters. Tur BER in favor of paying liberal salaries to every man in the public service, but there should be no soft jobs for super- numeraries and favorites. Tr 1s gratifying to learn that the strike of the Union Pacific switchmen at Denver has been amicably settled. There were fears afew days ago that the strike would spread, but the concessions of the company happily averted it. Tie last legislature appropriated two million seven hundred and twenty-two thousand cight hundred and ninety-six dodars and cighty-six cents. These staggering figures ought. to be kept in view of every member of the legisiature. THE new It took 124 ofticers and employes to run the state senate in 1887, at an ex- pense of twenty-four thousand, nine hundred and sixty-five dotlars and sixty cents, which dia not include perqui- gites, This is surprising, but true. TiE lower house of the last legisla- ture furnished positions for ninety-six officers and employes ni an outlay of twonly-two thousand four hundred and fifty-threo dollars. No vouchers for “yalue received” for this enormous outiay can be made that will satisfy the taxpayers. IN view of the legislative appropria- tion of two million, seven hundred and twenty-two thousand dollars two years ago, the people may well ask them- selves, will the legislature of 1889 feel bound to pile up the agony and tax the state into bankruptey durving the next two years? IN 1885 the grand total of legislative appropriations was one million six hun- dred and seventy-cight thousand soven hundred and ninety dollars and ninety ceunts. In 1887 the legis turo increased this already burdensome tax to two million seven hundred and twenty-two thousand eight hundred and ninety-six dollars and eighty-six cents—over a million dollars in two years for identically the same state government. Eranry-NINgthousand eight hundred and ninety-six dollurs and thirty cents were paid to officers and members of the senate and house of the last legislatu In round numbers, ninety thousand dollars of the people’s moncy were ndered for a legislative session last- ing just sixty days. With these ligure before them the prosent legislature can earn the gratitude of a tax ridden state, by taking a firm stand for retrenchment and opposition to claims and steals. Now that the ledger for '88 is closed and the inventory for the new year has been taken, there should be no time lost for mapping out enterprises that will secure a revival of the boom in the early spring. Omaha must push ahead ‘with all the steam that she can get up. She must not only keep abreast with other western cities, but endeavor to distance them. She can do itif her leading . business men join hands and take a long pull, a strong pu'l and a pull altogether, as they say at sea, DURING the year just closed one hun- dred and ninety-six miles of now rail- road were constructed in Nebraska. This isa very favorable showing., Of the six western states in which Ne- ‘braska is grouped, this state ranks sec- ond, standing next to Minnesota, which is credited with three hundred and three milos of new construction for the r, Dakota follows third with one fundred and forty-nine miles, Montana fourth with one hundred and twenty miles, Iowa fifth with one hundred iles, and Wyoming sixth with twenty- five miles, When it is taken into con- sideration that the railroads intimated early in the year that not a mile of new road would be Jaid =0 long as the state board of transportation fixed a maxi- mum rate, their threats appear to have boen mere wind, The truth of the mat- ter is that ina growing agricultural atate like Nebraska, there can be nosuch Shing asastandstill tn railvoad construe- tion. ORGANIZED. its . re- ready to The as out THE I The legislature spective officers and the governor's m of Hon. John C. speaker of the house was sot almost a for Mr. Watson w trasted e Wyck, his JGISLATURE has chosen is now receive ean W om the While of Van antag the radi- and choice son me conclusion. s two years ago on iors of andidacy was not the railroad interest. other hand Mr. Watson committed to refore secured the support of quite a of o On wins not th number members who opposed making submission is: hefore Mr. Wutson is thoro competen®to fill the speaker’s chaiv comprehends fully all-absorbing iture. which rests upon prosiding log nmit- wture and Howe as the senate, the re- thems- Church m of th nators have stultifiod es and placed the purty plight. Mv. I merely a vadrond politician, but an of- ficor of the branch of Jay Gould’s Missouri Pacific railvond. It is a lumentable exhibitior n the part of the vrepublican senate to tacitly confess by its action that Church Howe among all its able members is the only man who could command the sup- port of the majority of the Chureh Howe himself has made a blun- der in accepting the position which ad- vertises to the people of the state that the railronds have undisputed control of the senate. Mr. Howe had already been honored with the same position in a previous session and can gain no glory or honor by again b®coming president pro tem. It is mot prudent for railrond managers to overdo things in striving for honors which should not be conferred upon any man actively identi- fied with railrond corporations. This fact will be emphasized before the ses- sion closes to the disadvantage of the corporations to whom Muv. Howe expects to be of service. The refusal of Licutenant Governor Meiklejohn to arvogate to himself the responsibility of appointing the senate committess is highly commendable. It remuins to be scen whether the senate, rogative, will k s in an un- braska in exercising its pry in view the prime object of the erc of committees, which to digest all proposed reforms and measures and ex- pedite legislution that is conducive to the welfare of the people. OVERZEALOUS OFFICIALS. The police authorities of Chicago, under the influence of a public senti- ment that has become morbidly intoler- ant, have arrayed themselves against the constitutional right of the people to meet and discuss questions affecting their interests as citizens. The federal constitution dcclares that congress shall maie no law abridging the free- dom of specch, or the right of the peo- ple p bly to assemble, and what may not be done by the federal au- thority in this respect certainly cannot be done by the authority of the state, and still less by that of a munigipaity, Yet the police authorities of Chicago as- suming that certain partics proposed to meet for unlawful purposes, have re- fused to allow them to meet, proceeding in this extraordinary course solely upon their gwn impressions of what might happen. The partics thus interfered with ap- pealed to the courts for an injunction to prevent police interference, and the matter was referred to a master of chancer He did not deem it to be within his fusctions to recommend an injunction, but he was very explicit in expressing the opinion that the police interdiction was an in- terference with the constitutional rights of citizens without warrant or justification, There was no evidence that the purpose of the parties who pro- posed to meet was unlwwful or im- proper, aud the master in chancery Jjustly held that **if the meve belief of a pol officer thatt projected public meetings ave for unlawlul purpose shall operate to the prohibition of such mectings, such beliof—created perhaps by ervor, malice, bigotry or political partisanship—may be mesorted to for the effectual extinguishment of a funda- mental constitutional right.” He clared it to be hostile snd dangerous to the genius of our institutions to assume that a policeman without judicial responsibility shall exercise judicial power to grant or withhold the rights of ecitizens constitutionally to meet in public assemblics. 3 The nightmare that has worried Chi- cago for the past two y is responsi ble for this extreme and extraorvdinary assumption of power on the part of he police authorities, but1t would seem that her more intelligent and putriotic citi- zens must see that a policy of denying to any portion of her citizens their constit tional rights cannot be wisely or sufely continued, Inthe matter in contro it s clearly the po- lice and not the interdicted society that are violating the fundamen- tal law. The former have been veting wholly upon an assumption, which man- ifestly they have no right to do. They have arrogated to themsclyes a judicial power which they huve not the least authority to exercise, and huve pro- ceeded against citizens without the slightest evidence. Sucharbitrary con- do- duct it is the imperative duty of the courts to check in the interest of the common rights and liberties of the peo- ple. Chicago should uwalcen to the fact that not the suspected enemies of our institutions, but their professed friends, are dealing them the most serious und damuging blows. TRUS?T LEGISLATION. The failure of the houso committee on manufuctures to determine before the recess of congress whether any fur- ther testimony should be taken on the subject of trusts makes the question of what will be done regarding this ques- tion at tho present session of congress one of uncertainty. The work of the committee has not been much of a sue- cess. The investigation hus ylolded a good deal of valuable testimony with regard to the formution, organization and effect of trusts, but the .‘.,m.h» mittee has reached no with reg: to restrictive and the result of have induced the 1 of congr conclusic its inquiry belief many a9 that they are pow islation, among to enact any legislation that will manufac I protected by the that the thoughn not al ure of products whi tarifr, the practicable re committee helieves only nody, ways a complete one, duty, but it does not yet clear to the framing of a law trict penalty for violation ¢ Vi is n reduction of its way that will inder properly res combinations the law's ons, ; Bills trusts 1 ful, and thebr prod avor from declaring 1laws subjecting ts to radical t iny tions, have not met with t if slation the commit tol that shall be be s report, wh submitted, all their di pointedout. The c mittee, Mr., Bac opinion that the vith t law Wy is a preventing the pooling of stocks, but at the same time he elaims that cong cannot pass such a law. it must left the rranted the charters the right upon transfer ir plense. In the opinion of the ¢ of the house committee on manufactur- the trust organi- zations perfected that no federal law n reach the active ngents in the com- bination, Two radical measures re ing to trusts ave before ress, one in the senate and one in the house, known respectively the Sherman and the Breekinvidge bills, but the impression is that neither will be acted upon at th ‘The purpose of the the same direction, but they difter materially in the methods provided for accomplishing a similar result, and therefore there is vary small probability that cither could puss. The very remote chance of anything being done by the present congress by way of repress the state legislatures the duty of dealing with these combinations against tho public interests and welfure. There ap- pears to be no question anywhere that the power and authority of the states in this matter is undeniable. Cor- porations deriving their franchises from the state can be prevente by the state from surrender- ing their privileges on penalty of their franchises. Generval state laws to this effect. it is believed, would speedily put an eud to trust com- binations, and theve is promise of an ef- fort in most of the states to secure such laws, Nebraska is interested in this question, by veason both of direet and indirect damage from trusts. Her peo- ple, in common with those of the entire country, ave paying tribute to every isting combination of this chavacter in the land, and in at least one direction the prosperity of the state has been dam- aged bya trust. The subject is thevéfore one which should command the prompt and serious attention of the legislature. What is requived is a clear and comprehensive law providing that no corporation xisting under the authority of this state shall be permit- ted to enter into any combination with corporations of a similar character out- side of the state, or surrender or part with any part of 1ts business or the con- trol thereof to forcign corporations, and that any corporation doing this shall forfeit its franchise. A uniform policy of this kind among the states would speedily dispose of tho trusts, and it is, perhaps, the most certain and practica- ble way of accomplishing this result, THE NEW COUNCIL. The new year has ushered into exist- oncea ver: 1 change in tho com- position of the city council. The retire- ment of Beehel, Manville and Cheney, breaks up the old combine that has icept this city in turmoil during the past year, about the police commission and about that are demanded by our hest citizens, The new council should profit by the 1&s0n taught iif the late campoign and endeavor to represent the wishes and interests of their constituents instead of lotting ‘and scheming to subvert Inw nnd order and pander to the vicious ments that have beset their prede- cessors, The new council should also rdeavor to steer clewr of the banoful influence exerted by publie works® con- tractors, who during the past two years have dominated in city affairs to the dotriment of tax-paye Omaha has been v pled and her growth graceful squabbles in her city govern- ment. [t would be a public calamity to inflict upon this community another yeur of discord and reckless defiance of the rights of the tax-payers. We believe that a majority of the new council mean to do what is right and proper. If they desive to strengthen that belief and aspire to be worthy of public confidence, they will frown down from the outsct every effort of disor- ganizers and ringstors to revive the squabbles and disreputable methods that have made the late council a re- proach to the name and fume of our city. cmedy Iie insists that be to statos which bestowir holders stock as s, 50 shrewd are ate ton present session. bills is in 1 trusts devolves upon losing materi reforms v seviously crip- tarded by the dis- Tie Beef Producers and Butel National associution, with headquarters at Dallas, Tex., has set on foot a move- ment to re-establish competition cattle markots through the country, and to secure by logislation local inspection of cattie on the hoof for all towns and ities, Ostensibly the purpose of the association is to place the business of cattle-vaising and slaughtering on a basls as to secure the consumer cheaper and wholesome beef. In re- ulity, however, the efforts of the asso- clation are to return to the old methods ¢ beel slaughter by local butchers which is uow supplanted by the large beel-packing industries of the country. The success of this movement, however, may he questioned. While it may be true that the price of beef to the con- sumer is higher than it ought to be, no doubt influenced by the beef-packing firms, nevertheless a return to inde- pendent slaughtering by loeal butchers 50 | their meats from the' wost stroke of entel of M formerly of the improbable. vmly s for price than red the, batchers 11 over t ¢ The 1 is unif lowep which itios yantry to buy rn packing- It is impraaticable to institute a rigid houses moreover, local Wh t the y the ingpectic hoof, ssuch inspec butchers, cattle me rais e th consumer 3 from e if the abbatoirs packing-house product s the at that i nisn m . the loc country cannot vholeso dressing e, and slaught tablishments of western by AFTER 1 in cuttir the give ch of comp. must way to the wholesale ring e r upon radical ref. lown the number of ios, th ided only thirty-three clerks for pers, clerks and rnumerne 10 its senate de employ thirty- and At © committee The other twenty-three will beat large with ust about enough work to p them busy two hours o week. At four dollars n day this will take over ninety dollars a day out of the pockets of the taxpayers, with the further pros- hundred and fifty Ly session., seven committees, This is reform retrenchment with a vengeunce. the ide ten of the clerks will have something very out to do. committee ko peet of making one days out of n sixty Tuk great guostion of the day is: What will the new excise board do about it? BLOWING 731 WHISTLY, e Wi Fremont Tribune: Tur Brr announces that commencing with January 1 it will begin running a spocial train to deliver its papers to subseribers along the 1. & M. road With a special train Tux BEg ought to “get there.! st Stroke. mmencing January 1st, the Owama Day Bee will run a special daiiy t dlivering its papers to all sub ribers in the South Platte county. Tur Bee will reach Lincoln by 7 o'clock. Itis uscless for the Call to speak of Tie BEE us a newspaper, Lverybody knows that it is the best 1 wostern country, and this last prise wili be appreciated, This L Lincoln Call: C i, ¢ Charters nsively. Nebraska City N (Dec. 81.): Com- i to-morrow the OMana Ber will run aspecial train duily over the B. & M. to Plattsmonth, making connections there with the flyer for Denver. ‘The train is chartered exelusively for the distribution of the morn- ing cditon of Tie Ber, and that paper claims to be the first west of Chicago that has ventured in this enterpr Iis Usn Beatrice Democ terprise. iz Bee has char- tered a train to leave Omaha every morning av 4:3) to conncet with the “Burlington Flyer,” that will land the morning edition of that paper i Lincoln bafore 7 o'clock, and at all points in the South Platte country several hours m advance of other Omaha papers. Tite Bee displays its usual enterprise in this matter. Excelling Itzelf. Hastings Nebraskan ' (Dec. 381): Tue Odxaua Brx gives notice that beginning to- morow will run a spgeialtrain to make con- nection with the B. & M. flyer at Plafts- mouth, to distribute its paper to patrons along the line to Denver. It is a stroke of enterprise that involves an_expense of over $1,000 per month. Tue BEE is 8o much to be commended as a newspaper that it wins ad- miration and respect, and gets the snpport of those who do not always endorse its sen- timents, It is excelling itself as a great paper, RN The Big One. Ohio State Journal It is “the big four” in New York, “‘the big five in Ohio and “the big six™" in Maine, but Indiana has the big one e llantry. Alta California. We wish to be understood as supporting Mrs, John A, Logan ag postmaster of Chi- cago, and Mrs, Pinlip Sheridan as pension commissioner. S T Chicazo For Instance. Pionesr-Press. St. Paul has her 1co palace, Sioux City her corn palace and New Orleans her cotton pal- ace. It's about time some city came to the front with a gin palace. iR With Bare Feel Times. Christmas was a beautiful day throughout a large portion of the great northwest, and it is whispored that Miss Dakota, whose stor ings were both rall o overflowing, danced about gleefully m her bare feet., - - A Form-Close Chicago Tribun Assistant editor—\We need five lines to out a column on the editorial pa Able democratic editor—EHave any paragraphs about Blaine Yes sirs five or six of them,” Said any thing about Harrison's cabinet 1 “Yes sir.! “Got in ar “Yes sir, hand.” ““T'hen say something mean about Russel Harrison and close the forms." Harrison a Rest, Globe-Demoorat. Several hundred statesmen are doubtless either on the way to call on the president- elect or intend calling upon hum some time between now and the closing days of Febru- ary, and several hundred other statesmen have alrcady called. All this, of course, was o be expected, and is no more of a surprise t the object of their visits than it is to the average person who reads/about them. All our chief magistiates«at least all since Jack- son—have been oblized 10 undergo a similar experience in the two of three months imme- diately preceeding their inauguration. Nev- crtheless, in the extent to which it has boen practiced since Lincolu's first clection the custom has grown into an abuse, which, in tbe interest of the party to which the presi- dent-clect belongs, demands abatement, An Example of Stock Wate Chicago Ty Mine, A stockholder in thé Deaver, Texss & Fort Worth railrond has begun injunction proceed ings to stop the officers of the road from issu- ing $1,000,000 worth of bonds. The ostonsi ble object of the issue is to lay a third rail on the narrow gauge Denver & Rio Grando road. The objecting stockholder says tnat to do this will cost but £460,000, and that therefore there is no need of the extra £500,000 of securitics. Had stockholders been more solicitous in the past and invoked the aid of the courts to stop unjustifiable issucs of stock and bonds, there would not zow bo as much water in the railway system of the United States, and the roads might be able to pay dividends without making exorb- itunt charges for their services, il i, A Few Dakota Facts Vermillion 1 the religious center of the territory. A ten-minute prayer weeting is held there every day at noou. Thirteen Hurounians received gold watches fill you run in slaps at Foraker?” and two or three at Quay's mailed Give ing. t | for Christmas pr onts, and the Times clainfs thero is not & Waterbury agency or a -cent | counter in the town, The weather is evidently 1 to last at Sioux Fails, for the 1p A subscription to pur r the signal service, Falls » and prosent balmy 0 now flags f ary the inst rs to the Sioux 1an admiss penitent A number of lnnkets iss At Ch open winter faith in their ts. The ofcials of Cust pleasant p nd hate to hur of the After delinquet n the county & M Christmas and New Year, uror delivers the following soothin SLwill not mar the happy surron Aokt t d t tho govern mberlain recently They predict an and_their action shows their I county are v the f t taxpaye Vi and but full ngs wliday week, Hmes my pa luty to issue a complote | delinguent taxpa A to 7, s will be wted through y on the 2nd of Janu XCUSes can bo 1 for non-payment - Nebraska Newspaper Notes. The Fillmore ( Tudependent of & bright t I has just sprung It is undor Lemmon The Armada Watchman has suee Armada ‘Pimes, purchused the paper in editorial control The e Tribune issued a twelve:pa excellent illust roview of the thriving s the Lemmon & nu of \to existen the fostering care 1the Reid company and placed R A handsomo filled with yrehiensive v in that 1ont s paper on Junuary ations and a cou; bappenings of th city. SMILES, are, the triumph SEVEN SHO ictorious in maval Amcrican navy returns home from Hayti.—Toledo Hee. o people are reech, Zey sell gronnd and Kill 7 pecis,” is Mme. Jane Hading's con cise analysis of Kansas City. A tramp is sometimes eallod a nomad: and when a farmer's dog grabs him th no madder man in the neighborhood. —Norris- town Herald Abox of sardines was recently the stomach of a bear killed in~ Michigan, The box was nearly digested, but tho sar dines were all right.—Burlington Free Press. "Chere comes a rumor that Phineas T. Bar- num wants to supersedo Wallor as consol general at London, But Barnum does not seer have the least show on earth, —-New York World. The man who took “have his tinger nails Ive m found in an oath that he wouldn't cut until another Demo eratic president was elected has the bulge on the rest of v He will be happy after cach succeeding pancalke season for vears to come.—Drake's Magazine, Philadelphia editor—I understand haye bought a newspaper in the west. well equipped oftice ! Old friend (from the west)—I should smile. There are seventeet Winchesters iu the com posing room and two gatling guns at the head of the staivs.—Philadelphia’ Record. - you Is it LABOR. A List of the Laws Which It Desires vamed, The following resolutions wera adopted at the last meeting of the Omaha Central Labor union, and have been furnished for publice tion by George J. Kleffner, the secrotur; Whercas, 1t is an undeniable fact that the progress of our city depends largcly upon the welfare of the working portion of ‘its inhubi- tants; Whercas, Tt is an absolute fact that labor interests have, in the past, recewed but slight _attention from former legislatures, while railroad corporations and simiiar in” terests have received unlimited attention from every former session of the Nebraska logislature; Whereas, We know of no method that be used that is consistent with American principles exeept the passage of laws by the aking power of our state to right the s complained of by lubor: therefore an ates composing the Omaha, in behalf the differeht unions Resolved, by the dele Centcal Labor union of of and in the interestof and Jocal assemblies of Knights of Labor hercin represented, that we ask for the passage of laws by our present legislature bearing upon the following questions of in- terest to labor: First—A bill form which will gua and a strict recist unscrupulous politicians from votes or intimidating voters, Second—A bill to make lobbying a erime punishable by imprisonment in the state pen- itentiary for not less than one year. Third —A bill requiring the products of the Lincolu penitentiary to be branded *“prison- made goods,” and making it a criminal of- fence for non-compliance with the same, ourth—A bill making eight hours a legal work day on all state, county and municipal works, Fifth in the interest of ballot re- ntee a secret ballot ation in order 1o check purchasing bill creating a state board of bitration, making arbitration compulso; W giving said board power to enforce its decisions and giving said board all the power of u coyrt of law in dealing with disputes between employers and employes ixth—A bill making all combinations, monopolies, trusts, or other bodies under whatsoever name, whose objects are to ere ate a corner in the necossaries of life, a iminal offense punishable by imprisonment in the state penitentis Seventh—A bill forbidding the importa- tion by any company, corporation or individ- ual of private armed mercenarics to do police duty within the state; furthermore, that no private institution within the state be al- lowed to maintain or furnish to auy compan, corporation or individual armed men for pi lice duty. Eighth —A bill requiring a residence of six months in the county in which application is made orappointment is received for the posi- tion of deputy or special depity she Ninth—A compulsory school bill requiving all children under fifteen years of age to at- tend school for the full school scason and holding parents aud cuardians for the non-attendauce at sciool of dren under fiftecn years of age unde charge ‘enth—A bill making the first “Monday in September of each year a legal holiday to be kuown as “Labor Day.” Eleventh—A bill making it e the part of employers Lo pa; wages due their cmploye Twelfth—A bill holdin for all injurics receiyec while engaged in the dis lar duties as employes, “Phirtcenth—A bill muling all state clection days legal holiduys. Fourteenth—A bill for the abolition of the contract system on all stat and municinal works. olved, That the secr. foregoing printed i for distribution at the state caj For Twenty-Six Yes Business firms that have existed and oceu- picd one stand for a period of twenty-six years in Omaha are rave, In faet, the only one known at this time is the furniture houso of Dewey & Stoue, who opened a smnall store on Farngm strect, when Omaha was but a village, and their sales bave gradually in ereased, th 1858 amounting to over £500,000. The firm has just made a new departure which will inferest the ~business public. Wishing to releive themselyes, to a certain extent, of the caros of an immense trade, Messrs, Dewey & Stone have put their bus ness intoa stock company, with a capital of half & million J‘r“dl'h Another ob ject was to intorest such of their _employes as were deserving of an opportumity - to share in the profits of the house. The forming of w'ktock com pany is the ncarest approach to sharing that could be readily dovised. The stock company will be con the following Charles H. Dewe, dent; Emerson L. Stone, vice pres William Guyger,” secretary; Geor Crosby, treasurer, and William 1. Kiers superintendent avd general mannge In taking 1to the firm their two trusted omployes, Messrs, Guyger aud IKierstoad, it is said the profrictors have substautially and bandsomely rewarded them for past services. A uisory on on demand all employers liable by their employes of their regu fonal and v of this union circalar form ital. rofit Al i P, J, Creedon is on_his way bome freui ll\'uw York where he attended the buript of Jis son. THE SOLAR ECLIPIE, Tt Was Not Muach of a Wonder in Omaha aftornoon there was a solar eclipse which began at 3 hours 11 minutes and 8'¢ seconds after high noon, or in the langnage of ordinary po a trifle botter than 11 minutes aftor 8 o'clock in the after noon. The e not total, nor was it noticed by the b he stroots, Dogs did | Yosterday pso was sint did they bay the eclipsing its aid not sneak in from illicit inter. back yard, and comoe with | wgitated far t s in not bark, neitt 1o mo: views m the swelled tails and 1 not go constors sk the parlors At abnormal * any alal vhat wn North law and was there od to all by tw 0 roost Ning d stroet contrary to knoss people to cons th atory Omaha Jut the n t may have beo 108 to do its o y sun, wots i frontof t the rays of the latt heat. The sun js v off, the moon is v close to the earth, av can 4o a ood deal of ¢ happen to be m that pa reetly affected. Astronomers line of totalivy and it coveregy yesterday a belt of 1061, 10 through hern Cali fornia, north n Nevada, southern Idaho, the Yellowstone park, southeastern Montaua, | northwestern Dakota and Manitoba. The | jreat observatory on Mount Hamilton is well within this line, and much is ex ted from that noint of observation by onomers, not only because ) 1 there are S0 fuvorable, but couse PProf. Holden isa distinguished heliologist who Knows a or two about solar ectipses. Here in Omaha about four-fifths of the sun was covered by the dark body of the moon about 4 o'clock, at which time the light was sickly and wan, That was all Ihe sun looked like a erescent through smoked glass, but in spite of the moon’s bad behavior, whyt was left of his sunship was too powerful {o | be regarded by the naked oye. In Califor- | nia during the time of totality, when the | sun’s body was completely obscurad, astron omers had an opportunity, of observing the composed of stroains of light which 0 0ff into space for many millions of miles and whose nature is not yot known. They also could study the protuberances on the + of the sun, which oxtend for an incred- ible distance also, but not anything like so as thecorona. ather Sechi, of Rome, many interesting observations on these, which he called the si of tndir seriated general appearance. were also observed by 1Prof. Young, of Dart mouth college, who saw one of these objects dash into the air like a reyser and then fall like a fountain. Although none of these mavvels were served in Omuba the tricks aund manners of the moon were not unstudied. “There is An observatory attached to Creighton univer sity, which is managzed by Father It of the Jesuit priests in Chicago, of tution, a quiet patient sold of scicn isfied "with doing what falls within his prov- ince and not unbappy because the line of totality heartlessly” went uorth of Omalia, Por days before the event he used his transit instrument for the purpose of corre clocks by sidereal observation. Tl docs the same thing daily, only he 80 , but 'om_tume to time eve mariner takes a sidereal with his ‘sextant, for which purpose the nautical almanac is furmshed with lists of stars that will be transit stars or on the meridian line, and gives their time. Father Rigee, having cor- rected his sideral cloel, his solar clock and his torrestrial time piece wound up his chro nogeaph to take observation on the time when tha first edntact would take place. If the woon had failed to appear at the caleu- lated time thousands of astrononi have telegraphed the dreadful to the naval observatory at But the lady moon v punetual at the rendezvous, though she must have known that Venus was in the ascendant, and would witnoss the mecting, and would | ¢ quizz them both dreadfully. The ehrono- raph W onected telezvaphically with the equatorial instrument, that was trained upon the sun, and the good fatner sat in his chair that hoists up and down and had the key ready to his hand as soon us the first black point should become visible. About this time a_reporter of Tur who had been mvited to see the meetin, tween fiery Sol and sweet Luna, mad appearance and was provided with' a ¢ glass lense and the information that thero | ¢ was nothing yet. At five minutes pasti [ Father Rigge announced that the penumtra | of the moon was making the sun look sick, or in other words that the coming satellite was casting its shadow before. Upou his promise that he would ascend and descend | ¢ with lightaing speed, the reporter waus per- mitted to serpentine himself up the peculine | ladder-frame of the ch nd gaze through tho finder, a small telescope by the side of the big one, which is a five-inch rofractor. There was not_a doubt about it. The sun s pallid with emotion. Having veritied fact he desceuded and cavefully sc the sun throngh his lens. The clocks ticked with a variation of time that was interesting, but they did not get_excited and the even teror of their way. *“There it " eried the Roverend Father Rigge with much enthusiasm, and the time by the sidereal clock was 3:11:35. But alas, the cuilty solar clock was two minutes fast, and the terres 1 clock was just as bad. When a quarter of an hou reporter was invited to ascend and to look through the finder, and the sight was pecu- liar. The outer edge of the moon's disk | « was obviously rugged and wave like, und this was, the father said, caused by the mountains of the moon, for it appears th the moon, haviug no atmosp raise anything but ntain: ever, are prodigious, and w prize ut any Alpine exhibition t th t is examincd and the spectator looks over it sarae ruggedness was still more observabl but a very annoying featwre was that the celestial lives as if made tired by obseryi- tion, kept skipping out of the ficld of scru tiny, and it was n to keep fotlowing them up by manipulating a serew. This may be very casy for a protessor, but was quite a job for a grecn hand like the porter, who industriously screwed tho te scope | the wrong ¥ for 9) seconds, und was quite surprised he could not tind the | un or moon. T There was sunsct at 1 minute past five, | r and the sun wont down bohind the hills with the moon clinging 1o his leit shoulder, cvi dently unwilling to leave her Romeo, Life 1o up of meetings nd partings, wnd it is ipathetic soul to Jnow that there must be two solar cclipses cvery year, wnd there may be five, If, however, the moon ated exactly’ on the sume plane the earth, there uld have been a solar h at every ne moon il a lunar lipse at every Tull moon. T'he report mocs that & youtaful astronomer when he learned this saddening fuct lost his appetite out of pure vexation, and declared that things nover did go right no how, and that f Eve had not eaten the apple, the moon would have been upon the same plane s the carth, and young astronomers would have had a living show to study oclipses. t call the st the insti sat ¢ Washin Brg, be- his lored | ¢ had elapsed the A NEW Y HINE, Fivst Day of 1880 was Ob- werved in Omaha. Twenty years ago yusterday toll, there hung a warm sun in e | ‘Phiero was dust upon the streets, The 1 Year's dinner was eaten in houses the doors and windows of which were opened to admit of cooling brewz Yesterday the v houscs were R OF SUN How th 50 0l( \dows and doors of many almost for a similar pur pose, and while a slizhit crust of suow usurps the place of the dust of tw years ago, the day has becu pleasant as could huye beer desived “Phio streats were thronged from fo'clock in | 2 tho morning. The saloons were liborally | & putronized, as have nlso the contents of 8 i Jpenc I t nty | | from the mind | we 1 of vie pan drain has collected Field, man name, says that the only effect have upon it will be to increase its business, bed western order: to St. Loui from outside the Paxton hotel animal ran south to Harney stroet where ho was stopped here. was broken to splinters, and setter, warning to the with tenderness and respect. uned | wei political attacks upon other day, he remi rescrved | ) Ang block Chro ialty Stat pag S Se——— Untilth ® wevks wis entirely cured know of o i on thelr he words tha thank REyEo! erod with scales,ane shie Dy the cure of agonizing Wood, withloss of huir. ever of calling was {n dulged in Is to b( credited to graver and less buoyant mortals, by whom the custom is revered as a happy means of renewing and maintaining Ao uaintances which have long survived the coidents of time, Husinoss, of course, Was suspended, and in homes whers come fort and ‘happincss rule thore have beon fauily dinners and family reunions which, in many ins; never be obliterated In parlors here aud_there and beauty of Omaha onds with the kindly and sting, though the call wore invariably within the circle of acquaint- ance, The theatros bhad large matince audiences, the cars, horse, cable and motor were filled, and in fact the preval disposition ' of evorybody was to entirely different from that as if impelled to it by of tho day and 10 with which it has beon ances, the o seasonable gre ing do f of apirit tlorious su blessed by heaven The Y. Presidegt Tay od by his entlomor cap sh M “eption. v, of the Y. M. C. A, ife and Afty young ladies na wnd 1at the Y. M. C. A roon 3 S0 poom. yost Nearly s rday, > wore i attend ance, man, 1+ had never the in f the building before, and they wers Lwith wee and pleased with 1 to them by tho wore served 1t dial ition exton members. in the diniy From 53010 9 p. given of the da lents m. an exhibition v oxercises of the sium classes, which brousht out both ter and commendation from the who thronged the visitors' gailery This was followed by w cony modious andience hall that was promptu in character, but none celleat, was Ry mia. laugh spectators in the cor Mmost im the loss ex- PRITCHETT AND TENNEY. Settle Their Dispute in Loyal L. Smith Case, The Loyal L. Smith case again made its appearance before Judge Dundy yesterday morning. The amount in dispute is $78,000, Recently D. K. Tenney, a Chicago attorn was appointed They tNe Yy rastee, and the amount above quoted ordered placed to s eredit. Mr. George L. Pritehett, as well as being Tonny's representative, was the legal adviser of the Merchants' National and United States N tional banks of Omaha. These banks claim 22,000 out of the estate, which Mr_Pritehictt delivered over to them out of the #3000 ho bad rocoived. The balance he handed to My, I Chicago as trustee. This made veryangey, and ho began suit agzainst PRitchett personally in the district 10t to recover the money obtained by him, M. Pritchett, in the meantime, bogan suit in'the Unitea States court, asking that the suit be reopened awd that Tenny repay iuto court the whole amount received as trustea for the est This did not please Tenny, and lie compromised with Pritehett. The r sult was that the case nas be withdrawn from court. A Yenr's Transaction. he superintendent of plumbing in his an- nual report just issued shows that 963 inspe tions were mades 419 excavations were mado in the strects and 833 depressions in alleys raised! 536 stop-boxes were lowered to level lowalk. ‘Phe following permits to exca were 1"or waterworks com- 112 eas company, 650 plumbers,1, Layers, total, 8,082, Tho inspector and tu in during the year rty-four arrests for the year for violating the or@inauces have been made. ‘Fhe Richardson Fire. Tn another column of Tk Bee is published a report of the destruction of the Richardson Irug company’s building in St. Louis. Amos er of the local house of that the fire will use it will be compelled to handle all the whichi otherwise would go A Runnway. Oue of Armour-Cudahy's horses attached 0 a covered wagon ran away last evening The frenzied loraph post. He ¢ the wazou same into collision with a te but not befc Bench Show Beauties Fight. Two of the dogs at the dog show, a mastift ot loose last night and a territic “There were several ladios in he exhibition who got ve much armed at the sees The dogs were parted by the ceepers without much damage being done. it ensned If Herr Hartenstein, the late presi- lontof the swiss confederation, really s reportgd, from the efleets of timent” of & corn, 1t s a solemn living to treat corus neral Longstreet begins to feel the ight of his yoars, his re the d pathetically, “I n to feel like a v old rebel in- teed.’” e No buffet should be without o bottle of stura Bitters, the South American ppetizer. Manufactured by De. J. G. B. Siegert & Sous. - Dr. Ramitton Warren, magi - and voom i, Crounss (85} Capitol venuo, aisenses a spec- tic phy- i surg 16th " and nd nervous “Telephone 914 A Mexicai sor has hat Mexico will conquer s in 1800, and somae of th s sy she is infallible, predicted tho United Mexican EVERY RIGHT | SCRATCHED Skin was raw. Body covered with soales like spots of tar. Cured by the Cuticura ftemedios, o T am going to toll you of the extraordinary Nange your CrrioricA iLes IS perforimed on me, About the 1t of April last noticed some ol pimples 1ike coming « | over my body, 1 thought nothing of it untli some time later awpgan Lo los Iike #pots of mortare n came off 1 layers, uo 1would sorateh very L 1hen the next night tho Hean Futehed i atd 1 eor L all the doctors bt without uid, After giving rorovery, | ppened to aoe a {n the newspaper ahout your NeriCr A IEMEDTES, and paretinsed them from sty wnd obtained almost nmediato an to notice that the se Iy \(an 1 ol and dis e and Lave beoi fully cured. I had (ho aso thirteen m hs before | began taking he Concrns Re and in four or flve My disense wus ovinsts, 1 reconiended th 1vw 10 il {inany wio have taker lank me for the kuowiedge of ten mothers who hive bi with seale 18 and bodies, [ eanunof ress in {0 yon for whitt the OUTICU EA Inve hon to me, My body Was cov- I'was an awful speotucis to 'Now my skin 1% s nice wnd clear as s COTEY, Morrill, Wis, 1wt zoma and | WA I ano clially FUpLio s ald, GRO, “oaver of tha wa itselt COTEY. esteem in whic ure, whd CoTicui autifier, prepo I'eb )t A trace Wi lwsaso (ron which | sullered my eure. — We cannot (o fustice to t suricuien, Al v skin AP, D eaxquisite Skin from'it, and COTICUIA RESOLYENT, the now are held by se Lives lav hu; of th Sold averywhere, Price, CUTIOURA, 00; BOAR, st KEAOLVENT, . Prepared by the Porrei DG AND CHESHCA L Cou, Toston, Mass, A for “low ta Cure skin Disoases,’ 50 dilistrations, and 100 testamodals. he thousands upon Lean made happy Mating, itehing. kiu, bealp and Rood Purifr Lonsunds wh diseas aly and phap i pag capacious punch bowls, with which enter prising dealers love, on thesn fuslive ocos Blons, to grace their bourds. There was but little attention paid to devotional exer clses, and still less to the formwl phservance of the muchiubused cus tom of calling. I ineiplent youny It as not in bis glory of a new suit, a boutonui and wildly extravagant | 1 card Somebody or sowething sup | prossed” i As @ conseauekce, what PEERLESS A5, red.rough,chupped and nted by CUTICORA HOAR @ | CAN'T BHEATHE. @ Chest Pains, Sorencss, Woakness, Haoking Congh, Astlima, Plourisy hand Toilonmict 150 KELIEYED IN OKB MINUTE LY the COTICHIA ANTIPAIN othing ifke it for weak Lungs DYES ARE..THE.S5ET 8 Boiib Uy Diveaiss PLES, black-h A PARTEIL