Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 29, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TRRME OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Morning Baition) including SUNDAY, BER, One Ye ¢ For Six Months ¥orThree Months Ty OMATA SUSHAY HiE, mailed to any address, One Y ear, ‘ FOURTERNTH STUERT. CORIY ONDENCE Alleommunications relating to news and edi- Sorinl matter should be addressed to the Epiton oF 111 e, Vi NFSS LETTERS, tters and remittances shonld be e Bee PUBLISHING COMPANY, Atoffice orders to of the company. Allbusiness nddressed 1o OMA1iA. Drafts, checks an bemade payable to the ord The Beg Pablishing Company Proorietors. 3., ROSEWATER, Editor. LK LALLM ) L - ) THE DALY BRE, Sworn Statement ot Circulation. of Nebraska, County of Douglas, George B, Tzaehuck, s Hishing Company, A0es & wetual circulation of Tn week ending Janary 2 Bunday, Jan. 2. Mon| a Tuesda, Jan Wednesduy Thursan lo.s atary of The e Pab- pmunly swear that the DALY Bre for tne 1980, was as follows: B L. I8903 3 TZ8CHUCK. bed in my iy, A. D, 1880, 1L, Notary Pablic, Eworn presenco this Senl Btate of Nebras County of Doug George 1, Tz oses And says that bublishin daily eirco month of | ruary, 188, 1 coples: for Apri 1% 183 copies: fo: KK, 18,083 coples For Beptomber, I6RR, was 180K copiest 18,98 coples; for Decem Bworn to before me Dresence this ird day { ck, Deing duly sworn. de- he iy secretar: Tioe hat the act Tk 1K, 160,243 coples for July, : for Angust, 1888, 1,183 coples; &8, 15,154 coples: £or October, for N 1838 r, 1885, 18,223 coples. and_snbscribea in my f January 1859 . Notary Public. THE garbage crematory project still slumbers peacefully in the arms of the city council Tue coupling pin cannot be found to join the western raiiroad presidents in their agreement. It will be noticed that Mr. Harri- son’s visitors of late are of that timber from whick a cabinet is made. Ir Bismarck will only open his arms to receive the American hog will say no more about the Samoan affair. wo NOW that the trusted insurance agents are going into cmbezzling, the faithful bank cashiers find their occupation gone. aid to have scused of cutting That i wall paper trust is s put up prices and is down the wages of its employos. looks like adding injury to insult. COLORADO has been quite successful in her experiment of raiwing tobacco. That is a field for which certain parts of Nebraska ought to be well adapted. TnE greedy Texans want the govern- ment to build a deep water harbor at every bay and inlet on the coast. Texas could evidently make short work of the surplus. Tiere is no danger fhat certain members of the Douglas county delega- tion will wear out the seats of their trousers in the lower house of the legis- lature. PuBLIC opinion among reputable busi- ness men and citizens is rapidly orystal- izing against the scheme to repudiate the city’s obligations in the location of the city hall. EVEN if Jay Gould should some day slump on Wall street, there is little danger that his children would go abegging. The will of the late Mus. Gould divides all her valuable property among them. BELIEF is gaining ground that many of the White Cap organizations in In- diana and Obio are composed of women. That may be the reason why the legis- lators ef those states are attending strictly to business. Wit the fiery Boulanger having everything his own way in France, it would not be a matter of surprise if America would have a powerful ally within twenty-four hours in case there should be a declaration of war against Germany. THE conscience fund has been aug- mented during the past year by fifty thousand dollars. If full returns come in within the next few years nobody can question that the contribution from conscience stricken city officials would be sufficient to run the government. THe Utes of Southern Colorado, who have given up their valuable oil and mineral lands in that state, have not made such a bud bargain afterall. They receive a reservation of good arable Pand in Utah of nearly three million @acres with a per capita payment of fifty thousand dollars in ten annual in- stallments, as well as twenty thousand dollars worth of sheep, new agency buildings and other perquisites. If these Indians are thrifty during the next ten years, there is no reason why the value of their holdings will not run into the millions. —— M. FURAY tendered Councilman Hascall a lot in North Omaha if he would only take up his residence in that part of town., “People 1n our part of town will receive Mr, Hascall with open arms,” said Mr. Furay, ‘They appreciate a man who is broad enough notto b sectional.,” Talk is cheap, 80ft soap plonty, but how much support did Hascall get from North Omaha and the Jefferson square boomers when he was running for senator last fall? Did not Bailey and Couns- man, who are the spocial champions of city hall premoval, wade Hascall off fora mess of pottage only three weeks ago when the council was reorganized? Furay and his followers remind us of the professional beggar, who always cries, “Give, give, eive,” but refers you to the Lowd for your pay with his blessiag. NUARY 20, 1830 INSTRUCTIVE TO LAWMAKER We present to the legislature a care- fully compiled statement which embod- fes a histor the state university from its foundation to this day, a de- tailed exhibit of the appropriations made for its maintenance, and an analysisof the practical results achioved by the institution. This exhibit will be instructive to our lawmakors, Few, if any, of them are familiar with the history of the university and the enormous levy that the taxpayers of this state have heen subjected to for an institution of learning that was designod to be self-sustaining by its founders. Fully three-fifths of this large fund is paid in direct taxes by the farmers and other laboring classes of the state. The vast amount of $137,250 for the current two years, is taken dire from the pockets of the farmers and laboring men of Nebraska, What is done with this great sum of money? [t is used to endow chairs of Groek and Sanskrit, of logic and philosophy, of biology and zoolog of music and the fine arts s part of it is used to keep the Latin school going. The Latin school isa mere high school in the university. Its sole object is to propare students to enter the college. This school, together with the schools and avt, gives instruction to than one half of the students in the university. What business has the university to provide this institution? There are now about thirty union schools in the state that are do- ing this s It is their business 50 doit. It isthe business of the uni- versity not to do it. It is clear thatif these high school departments were abolished, along with a half dozen of the professorships which teach subjects not within its proper here, the university of Nebraska could to-day do its own proper and legitimate work, and do it thoronghly and well. Tt could do this worle without enlling on the people of the state to raise a dollar by taxation for the support of the un 3 It will require som» courage, and the exercise of moral purpose for the mem- bers of the legislature to meet this question. But with those qualities in- spiring tham they can settle it right, and settle it now. NOT HARMONIOUS. Washington advices report a serious division in the cabinet regarding the course the government should pursue in the Samoan controversy. Itisunder- stood that Secre Whitney and Post- master Genoral Dickinson are in favor of serving an immadiate warning upon Germany that further interference in the internal affairs of Samoa would be regarded as a violation of our rights and the agreement with Germany, and would be resented by the United States. Secretary Bayard does not agree with this view, and the other members of the cabinet are said to concur with him. The president is believed to incline to the side of Whitney and Dickinson. There is probably nothing in tha rumor that either the secretary of state or eecretary of the navy will retive from the cabinet by reason of a difference of opinion on this matter. The president has submitted the subject to congress, saying in doing so that executive au- thority had boen exerted to the extent of its constitutional limitation, and fur- ther proccedings will doubtless await the instructions of congress. What is now wanting is accurate knowl- edge regarding the character of the agreement betwoen this country and Germany, So that our rights may be clearly understood, and resolutions have been introduced in the house-ask- ing for this information. Until con- gress obtains the desired information, if it shall be deemed 1n the public in- terest to give it, it does not appear that anything more can be done than has been done. Tue government has dis- patched ships of war to Samoa to pro- tect American citizens there, and this is as far ns executive power can go. The request made by the secretary of the navy of the secrotary of state for a definite statement of policy that would enable him to give clear instructions to the mnaval eommander sent to Samnoa appears en- tirely proper, yot the roference of the whole matter to cong 5 by the pre dent mmy fairly be held to have re- lieved the state department of any obli- gation to define a poliey for the govern- ment, further than what was alveady ndicated in the communication to con- gress by the president. The most rious fault of Secretary Bayard appears to be in not having given congress as full information as thore is reason to be- lieve he might have done, but it was quite as much the duty of the president as of the secret of state to see that congress was placed in possession of all the information neec- essary to intelligent action. It is not probable that the differences of opinion in the cabinet in this matter will cause any member of the administration to resign. ' of more THE MANAGERS AT FF AULT. A lotter of President Perkins, of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road, written to a stockholder who had evi- dently presented at length his views of railvond management, is interesting for its frank avowal that if railroad managers are to blame for the existing situation, it is the head men and not the subordinates. While confessing that he has not given orders about the details of the road of which he is the head, and does not even know in detail what has been done, Mr. Perkins nev- ertheless assumes the euntire responsi- bility for the management of the road for the reason that he has not taken it out of the field of com- petition, In other words, he has al- lowed the road to go on doing business under methods and practices devised by his subordinates, such as were de- nounced by the inter-state commerce commission, without troubling himself to ascertain the churacter of these con- trivances, whether they were lawful ov in contravention of law. Having de- termined to remain in the field of cow- petition, the president of the Burling- ton appears to have left pretty much everything else to the determination of his subordinates, evidently with full con- fidence in their ability to 2o as far as the subordipates of any competing railroad in the numorous and questionable de- vices employed to secure business. And this, it would appear, has been the habit of most raflroad presidents. But is such limited responsibility as Mr. Perkins confesses to , all that the stockholders in a railroad have a reasonable right to expost of the man whom they place in control of their in- terosts? Is it sufficient that the head of a groat corporation, having in his charge the investmonts of a largoe num- ber of poople, shall simply docide the question of carrying on business and leave wholly to irrespon- sible subordinates the matter of determining the methods? The railroad presidents who ars endeavor- ing toeffectan arrangement to pre- vent rate wars, and professedly to se- cure tho enforcament of the inter-state law, ovidently do not think so. It isa vital part of the proposed agreoment that railroad presidents shall concern themselves with the class of details which they have horetofore neglected, and the neglect of which has admittedly been in no small degree the c of many of the difficulties in the railvoad situation. The discovery was made that irresponsible subordinatos are apt to be faithless and untrustworthy, end that thoy huve no regard for logal ob- ligations and restrictions. Investiga- tion has shown that they have been quite generally guilty of the most per: nicious practices. In ordor to remody this, railroad presidents propose to very mater uthority of sub- ordinates, and in future to take tho di- rection of cortain matters entively out of their hands. Although it is to be inferred from his lotter that Mr. Perkins doos not have very great faith in the efficacy and perma- nence of the proposed arvangoment, being one of those who believe that railroads should beleft to work out their own salvation subject only to the nat- ural laws of trade, we bhalieve he has be- come n party to it. In this he has at least shown a commendable willingness to enlarge the scone of his responsibili- ties. The greater interest which railroad stockholders are taking in their proper- ties is ronssuring. Itis a good thing for investors to occasionally demand an accounting from those who are em- ployed to protect their property. More of this on the part of 1road stockhold- holders might help materially toward the solution of the railroad problem. 180 JIM CREIGHTON'S CARAVAN. The tactics pursued by the supporters of Jefferson square in their effort to cro- ate public sentiment in favor of their schemo are simply disgraceful. A cara- van consisting of some forty old strik- ers, heelers and bummers are marched under the lead of Jim Creighton and John B. Furay from ward to ward. and meetings called by the citizens to dis- cuss the city hall question are over- awed and bulldozed by this gang of lung- testers into voting ready-made resolu- tions in favor of Jefferson square. The same gaung that ‘‘carriea” the vesolutions on Friday in North Omaha monopolized the meeting in the Second ward Saturday, and after freez- ing out the citizens of that ward, ‘‘car- ried” the hand-me-down resolutions unanimously for Jefferson square. The most disgraceful partof these performances is the fact that Jim Creighton’s caravan also drags along to each of these meetings from fifteen to twenty employes of the postoffice, with poor Mr. Overall as the head of the pos- tal contingent. We are credibly in- formed that these postal carriers and clerks have been dragooned into this service by threats of dismissal, and are made to tramp around the city after a hard day’s labor out of fear of losing their positions. - On Sunday several thousand of the Jeflerson square pamphlets were handed out by clerks of the postoffice to patrons who called for their mail. These pamphlets were not directed to any particular person, and were not stamped. On the face of it thisisa high-handed violation of the postal laws. ButJim Creighton is now post- master of Omaha, witlt his son-in-law holding the commission. They expect within two months to vacate that oflice, and they are using its power and patronage rogurdless of law or common decency. To cap the climax the influence of the board of public works is being used to reinforce Jim Creighton and his mer- cenary cohorts. The board of public works is made up of three members, but Furay and Balcombe, who prac- ically constitute the board, are openly engaged in engineering the repudia- tion campaign. Contractors and in- spectors are given to understand in plain language that they will n- cur the displeasure of the board of public works if they dare to actively favor the retention of the city hall on Farnam street. Instead of attending to their official duties, for which all classes of citizens are taxed, Balcombe and Furay are devoting their energies and time to concocting plots and coun- ter-plots by which the election shall be carried in favor of the Jefferson square site. Owmaha has witnessed many cam- paigns, but never has official position been prostituted in sucha flagrant man- ner. THE political situation in France as- sumes fresh interest from the unex- pected and overwhelming victory of Boulanger in Sunday’s election, in con- sequence of which aminsterial crisis is threatened, This renewed and aston- ishing attestation of the popularity of the successful candidate is ouly to be accounted for as an expression of the popular hostility to Germany, of which Boulanger is the most conspicuous rep- rescntative. Except this he has noth- ing to commend him to the confidence and support of the people. Asa mili- tary man his record presents not one nowsble achievement, and he has made no mark in the chamber of deputies except as an obstructionist and disturber. But he is believed to be a thorough hater of Ger- muny, and in full sympathy with the patriotio desire that France will some day get even for the disastrous couflict of eighteen years ago, and this com- mends him to the popular favor, A stronger man than Boulanger has shown himself to be in the ability to grasp and ua great opportunities might under presentcircumstances become a dangerous enemy of the republlic, but a firm opposition to any programme he may plan may probably defeat it. Pres- ident Carnot scems to be the only man with the courage to keep his hand firm- ly upon the lielm of state and con- front the responsibilities of the situa- tion. While ministers are proposing to abandon their posts he announces that he will continue in the perform- ance of his duty. The events of the near future in France will be regarded with universal interost. I¥ it is true that carriers of United States mail were yesterday distributing unstamped and unaddressed pamphlets along their routes in this v there should be summary punishment forsuch defiance of law. The ors 1 hardly bo held culpable. The post- master, who is londing his influence to the gang now bent on defrauding Omaha, is the culprit. Tiere are rumors of large discover- ies of coal in Dakota. Even if the ruraors be true they will have no par- ticular effect upon the price of fuel. The cost of conl scems not to be rogu- lated by the law of supply and demand, but by the arbitrary will of monopoly. 1t Will Eventually Get There. Buffalo Erpress, Of the ultimate triumphs of high license in_ this stato there can bo no doubt. Not the Man for It Denver Republiean. Mr. John M. Thurston of Nebraska 18 not it to be se of the wterior. prifset el The Way He Looks at Tt, Louisville Commercial, Secretary Bayard has construcd it: man who tears down the American { be placed upon the pension rolls.” STEE The Way to Presery Chicago Herald, If Uncle Sam might take a few social schooners of beer with Bismarck it would do far more to preserve peace than all our war ships. “The will Peace. — An Object Lesson in Detroit Tribune, If thove is a young mananywhere in front of this paragraph whois politically ambitious and is sorry for it, who has a tecrrible itch- ing for public office and wants to be cured, tet him go and hold communion with Secre- tary Bayard, and we reckon he will o away with a specific that will allay tho irri- tation. Politics. -~ Disgraceful and Contemptible, Cleveland Leader. It was bad enough to be humbvgged and intimidated by Germany on our own account, but to covenant with a weak, dependent and friendly people like the Samoans to protect them against foreign domination or assault and then abandon them to their fate at the first show of armed force was disgraceful and contemptible. e - Senator Washburn. Springfield Republican. The number of millionaire senators, esti- mated now at from thirty to thirty-two, or nearly one-half the entire senate, has been increased by the choice of General W. D. Washburn to succeed Sabin, from Minne- sota. Washburn is a railroad president, is worth 5,000,000, and lives in a million-dollar house at Minncapolis. He was born at Liv- ermore, Me., iu 1831, and is a graduate of Bowdoin college. He made his money in lumber. e The Anti-German Fuss. Chicago Tribune. It is an open question whother all the anti- German fuss now being made over Somoa, 80 far as it concerns any rupture of the rela- tions vetween tne United States and Ger- many, is not an effort to build a mountain out of a molehill. So far as any treaty obli- gations between this country and Sumoa are concerned, even accepting the most radical view of them, they amount to nothing more than the benevolent expression of a friendly interest in the future wetfarc of these un- breeched islanders, sufficient to keep & coal- ing station there for the advantago of a trade with those little specks of islands in the midst of the Pacific which we do not yet possess. Seppanl Tha Bounty Craze. Senator Vest, of Missouri, presented the following unique petition in the senate re- cently from one of his constituents : Tothe Senate of the United States: T, Henry S. Chase, a resident of St. Louls, Mo, in behalf of myself and other deutists of the United States who may think as I do, respectfully ask you to give a bounty of §1 on each tooth filled by dentists for the pres- ervation of those teeth, in order to encour- age an honest industry and thereby encour- age competition among dentists, which will lower prices to patients and more- over encourage immigration of den- tists from all parts of the world to this country, thereby making @ bet- ter market for all the agricultural and other products of home industry, th cash for this purpose to be taken out of the gencral treas ury of the United States for the purposo aforesaid. e STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. A move is being made to organ U. W. lodge at Wisner. The great need of Valentine just mnow is said to be a first-class flouring mitl. Eight ladies of Stratton have organized a brass band. Three of the ladies urc married and tive are single. (George Briggs, of Cody, has been held for trial at Valeutine under §300 bouds for selling liquor without a license. Th oung men of Union have formed a fire company and christened it the *‘Union Fire, Hook and Ladder company.” The Fairbury city couneil has appomnted a ohief of the fire dopartment, and appointed a committee to solicit members for a fire com- pany. A. W. Crites, regeiver of the Chadron land office, has brought suit against the editor of the Hemingsford ide for $10,000 damages on account of an alleged libelous article pub- lished in that paper The board of directors of the Gage County Agricultural society'has selected October 1, 2, 8 and 4 next as the,aute for the county fair, New buildings will be erected and other im- provements of the grounds made, A large mountain lion has been terrifying the inhabitants on the BBordeaux. in She dan county. The other day a farmer, as- sisted by his dog, eutertained the animal while a neighbor started out to procure a rifle, but the messenger’s courage failed and he didn't return. The lon still lives, Among the messengers employed by the Sidney ‘lelegraph to bring in rewurns from tho receut county elections was Daniel Ad- ams, of Bushnell. He was not a giddy youth, w bo sure, belug in his eightieth year., He had heard his grandfather preach when the latter was 106 years old, and his grandmother knit him @ pair of socks when she was over 100. This industrious, ancient lady was a niece of William Penn, The many rumlm und rambles he and the people of George Wush. ington’s day had together the gentleman falled to mention. ze au A, O, lowa. The Panora chess sud checker club chal- lenges the world. ‘Pho business men of LeMars are moving for a board of trade. A wmovewent is oo foet a4 Oltumwa to or- ganize a stock company for the purpose of building an opera house. The Hardin county teachers will meet at Ackley February 8. The Des Moinos cotton mill shipment of sheoting Last week Misfortunes never come singly. A West Side man lost his pocketbook con taining $105 and his cow died the same night. The Clinton News wants that city to pur chaso the cloctric light plant from the present owners, and claims $10,000 per year profit can be realized on the investment. There 18 & movement on foot between the opera house manacers of Osage, Austin, Charles City, Nashua and Waverly to or- ganize a society and provide a_better class of entertainments than have been given at these plac Alexander Clark of Muscatine, who is one of the first among representative colore d men of the west, is an applicant for the position of re of decds of the District of Columbia, a place forme beld by Fred Douglass Within a few days two injunctions have been granted against the saloons of Charter Oak. Three indictments have been found and a verdict rendered by a judge for $300 for making Jonn Reelz drunk, whereby he was caused to 1ose a team of horses and sustain other damages to himself and prop erty, made its first The Groat Northwest. A gold stampede is on at Lander, Wi and it is_reported that claims have b suaked off within five miles of the city. The Nevada board of pardon heard thirty applications for pardon tnis torm at Carson, and but six of the lot were acted on favor cossary funds have been raised at Pueblo, Colo., to secure the completion of her fificonth raitroad, the Pueblo, Gunnison & Pacitl A movement is on foot at Carson to char- tor a train and take the State militia ot Washington to attend the inauguration core- mony in March, Some street gamins at Modesto, Cal,, drove a street fakir from the town by firing a big bomb under a dry goods box which he was using as a platform. A number of young mon in Cheyenne have organized an anti-profanity club. The club, it is said, 15 intended for the salvation of those who engage in real estate speculations. Charles Lunsdaller, a Scandinavian who arrived at Dort Townsond a few weoks ago with his wife and soven children, has been arrested for the murder of his first wife in Fergus Falls, Minn., last March. The Salem City, Idaho, Record ays the weather for the past twelve days has been the coldest ever known for the same length of time, the mercury ranging every night from 25 to deg: es below zero. Frank Burt, who threw the contents of a bottle of nitric acid into the face of Frank Tooley, at Rawlins, Wyo., has been arrested. Upon being arraigned he wai examination and was beld to the grand jury in bonds of $1,000. Chim Foo, a wealthy Chinese storekeeper in Denver, got a divorce the other day from lis wife, Wang Toy, who had taken up with a younger Celestial and runaway from Chim F0o. The husbaud was vory anxious to have it “in the bill"" that he wns not to pay any alimony, and the court agreed. William Kennedy, alias Red Shirt Bill, has been arrested in~ Clarendon, Tex., charged with the murder of Henry Long, of York, and Harry Duan, of Plnladélphi: Rockport, near Rawlins. Wyo., whicl curred the last of June, 1588, A i from the east has reached Ta- coma, W. T,, with 300 lobsters, half of which were planted successfully at Cape Disap- pointment, at tho mouth of the Columbia river, and the other half were sent on to Port’ Townsend, to be planted there under the direction of Judge James G. Swain. Sixty of the female lobstors had from 50,000 000 eggs cach. preriE ST DICKINSON GOFS HIGHER. There is No Doubt thut He is Appreci- ated by the Union Facific. General Superintendent EQ Dickinson, of the Union Pacific, has returned, and it is stated that an understanding has been reached between him ana Mr. Holcombe which is satisfactory, and also that Mr. Dick- inson will be retained in an important posi- tion with the Union Pacific management. A ilway official stated thys morning that it not stand to reason that Holeombe would dispense with the services of a man that has grown up in the business, and knows its weak powts us well us its strong. He stated that 1o person valued a good man more than did Mr. Holcombe, aud that the latter had no idea of ever letting the popular general superintendent out of the service provided the latter so desired. The Eikhorn's T rain Schedule. A new time card for the train service of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valiey is being prepared by the superintendents of the road. The Chicago train leaving Missouri Valley at 7:15 a. m., will under the new time card leave at 0 a. m. The train on the Black Hills division arriving here at 6:20 in the af- ternoon will arrive at 5 o'ciock. The train leaving here at 7:15a. m. for Superior, con- ting with the Black Hills train at Fre- mont will leave at 8:14 in the morning. The change which wiil be inaugurated February 3, is necessitated 80 as to correspond with changes of time on the Chicago & North- western, taking effect on the same day. Wreck at the An open switch at the transfe sulted in the wrecking and derailment of switch cngine 1160 yesterday. The eu- gineer did not obse the opening until it was too late, and though the brakes were ap- plied it left the track and toppled over in the ditch, The engineer and fireman, whose naues could 1 tained, jumped and avoided injur; king crew was dis- atched from Omaba and the wreck was cleared up about noon. The engine was budly damay cight Agents Mect, The local freizht agents met at the Mil- lard yesterday us per adjournment, but owing to Pride, gencral eastern agentof the Chicago & Northwestern, having failed to forward a copy of the by-laws and regulations of a simi- lar organization in New York, an adjourn- ment was taken to next Monday. The per- manent rules and by-laws will then be adopted. ards re- New Time Card, The division superintendentsand the heads of the gencral passenger and ticket depart- ments of the Union Pacific met in the gen eral superintendent’s department yesterday ing 1 complete the new time card, which is to go into offcet on all lines Ichruar The chanzes that will result in the time of arrival and aeparture of trains was fully chroniclod in Tie Bee of Wednesday Will Not Be Ohanged. Owing 1o the non-settlement of the difor- ential between the ain shipped from Omaha and praska points to St Louis and Chicago, the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valloy will not put in the new r on grain shipments west of North Platte for the present as was anticipated, 1t will be governed, however, in this action largely by the action of the Union Pacitic. Railroad Notes. The genial countenanc suporintendent of Missouri Valley, was ¢ da Assistant General manazer Mellen, of the Union Pacific, has returnod from the east, whither he has been on business in conneo tion with his road. ont Dickinson, of the urned From Chicago. Shippers desirous of Rook Island cars are vet unable to obtain them, and the oficials of that road in Omaha can give no definite explanation of the circumstances, Continued Again. The city and electric motor case was set down for argument ot 10 o'clock yesterduy but by mutual consent of all parties another continuance of two weeks was takon. This will bring the matier to the opening day of the February term of the district court. 0. W. Gibson, of Allendale, Ind., fatally shot Thomas Gibson, of Vine @ street of the latter place. Both partics aro highly connected, and will uot give the cause of the trouble. IAN OPINION OF AN OPINION. A Member or the Bar Criticises Judge Lake's Opinion. JEFFERSON SQUARE WON'T DO. The Real Valne of a Legal Opinfon —~8ome Fatal Defects—A Littlo Municipal History Not Quite Forgotten. Will It Be Logal? OMAIIA, Jan, 28,—To the Editor of Tue Beg: The tos for the loca- tion of the city hall on Jeil have raised a point, in opinion from Judge Lake upon the question whether can ever be for the purpose of erocting thercon a city hall or other public buildings, which scemsto me to be fatal to their schome. The judge puts forth, for a foa his legal opinion that the city hall cannot be located on that squarc if thero has boeen a dedication of it to the public for the purposes of a park or an open, unencumbered square. This undoubtedly the law, and the courts will vent any infringe- ment or of the dedica- tion and will sustain it in its letter and spirit. Authorities are innumerable upou this point. Having laid down the laws the judge procecds to argue the square out from under his law by deny- ing the existence of the facts, which are v to make a dedication. Of course after having climinated the acts adverse to the conelusion he would veach, in order to gratify Mr. Swift and others, the highway to the end of his legal journey is made smooth and he drives over it at a two-thirty gate, leav- ing a cloud of dust behind. The conclusiveness, the re any legal opinion, not emanating a court, consists in a full consideration of every fact, which can enter into and make of it. To assume and considor a few facts and reach a legal deduction therefrom upon any given question, settles nothing except their bearing upon the question into which they enter ngthe real point, if affected by other and independent facts, still undecided. No one questions the correctness of the adjudicated cases cited by Judge Lake in his opinio Their logieal and legal force is derived from a deliberation upon evi fact es- tablished in the case. The omission or the introduction of any one other fact in these eases might have changed the current of thought of the courts render- ing the decisions and produced a differ- ent adjudication of th Courts do not throw a nor create facts in cases they detérmino. They consider just whit each case discloses in its record; while an attor giving his opinion of the law upon eny point of dispute is bound to rush out and take 1n ery fact which can possibly brought into the dispute. I presume certain facts were laid he- fore Judge Lake and upon these he Tormulated his opinion. Without as- senting to his final conclusion on the relevancy of facts, he considers, in his written opinion and how they support it, I do insist that no lawyer can give au aceurate opinion—one ~which w stand the test of a judicial examination unless he has embraced in his work every fact which might enter into the Therefore clause. Judge Lake has not enumerated, and I conciude, did not consider, in making up his opinion, all the facts relating to the dedieation of Jefferson square to 1 public as a **public square,” and as “a park,” if I am correct in my remem- brance of that which took place long ago, and when, if I am not at fault, the judge himself was city attorney, suy from 1863 to 1865, At the time the city council, acting in its high acity as a legislative body, did, h the approval of the mayor, by ordinance, dedicate this square to the public for ‘‘a public square and park” forever. From that advoer on sq securing A squar used necoesst I value of from cases. day to this the public have poss and enjoyed 1t as such, the citizens of Omaha, a remarkable pertinacity the rights thus given them, hav far resisted every attempted encroac ment upon the privileges and benefits arising out of such grant or dedication. I do not believe the masses of our peo- ple will ever rehinquish their intercsts in this park. Its enjoyment is open to overy eldss alike, vich or poor, million- aires or paupers. AN OLp TLER, [The writer of the above is one of the ablest members of the Omaha bar and thoroughly conversant with all chartor and municipal legislation in this city during the last twenty-five years.—kp.] AN'S Op e Oujects to the Dictators and toal Bos<os, Jan, 28.—To the Tditor ot Your correspondent is an outsider, having no property in Omaha, in fact, in no way intorested where the city hall may be located. But I think 1t's about time the workingmen and tho honest taxpayers of Omaha should pull the mask off this would-be dictator of the put iivs of the city. Is not he the same person who is sometimes found oftic hoard to help out any enterprise for the good of the eon ilted or in some way By his bulldozing the possibility road to the north because he was { not in the deal. What | this John Kelly cver done for Omaha that the people of this city will do his biddiv The man, who in hisown { words culls the workingmen ~who in Jefferson square a lot of lonfers and bummers. | wonder what he will call tho same men on election day when ho will want them to vote for his pet schewm s first argument in the World is without one commendablo foa- tur for instance, he o or erect a beautiful public building behind private business houses for the benefit of the latter to the detriment of the public.” Where, oh, where, are the business houses near the location on Farnam? But the following passage caps the climax: **Great eare that poli- ticians and speculative interests do not prejudice your location against public interest!” This pnssage alone is enough to make a brass monke shed tears of shame. Has this great advocate of Jof- ferson square evor traveled much in his time or is ho posted as to where vublie buildings ought to be crected. I think not. How many visitors coming to Omaha would ever think of going north to Jefferson square for the purpose of looking at a city hall? Tt might as well be in Council Blufls, so far as visitors are concerned, as on Jefferson square. v ity of note east and in urope has its prineipal streot, and it is their object to have that street as at- tractive as possible, with their public buildings e d on the same. For instance, remove four or five of the bost buildings from Farnam strect and scat- ter them north, south, east and west and then what would tho street look like Why don’t the Jefferson squaro dictator hold that beautiful place for the new postoflico if it is so centrally located he would hs us believe I do not 1t to use any argument why all pub- lic buildings should be convenient to cuch other, as overy intelligont man in Omaba knows they ought to be. Nor do I want to say that'a few political dicta- tors for mercenary motives are dete mined to remove y “hall from Farnam street, but I do want to say to the honest workingman, do not allow yourselves to be classed with the disre- putables who will be hired to dothe will of their masters, but vote like intelli- gent men, and refuse to b dictated to by the would-be political bosse: A WORKINGMAN. Doubts its Legality To the Editor of Tue Bee: Through your valuable columns, permit me, as a taxpayer, to have a few thougnts published. Is it legal and according to the law, after an election when it ws decided then and there to build a eivy hull on nam and Eighteenth streets (which location is altogether most'desirable), for a fow interested parties to call another elec tion to try and have it planted on Je ferson square? Tt seems to me liko hild’s p\u We want places in tho city for breathing. We ave a long way behind other cities in this respect. It would be more to the credit of the eity fathers to beautify and make Jefferson square a thing of beauty aud a joy for- ever. [ will use my influence to have a city hall erectod on Farnman stroct. A TAXPAYE A WORKING NI1ON, Polit aha, in the commissionor menity unless he is con- interested him- weties he do of a rail self? feated has N — Gone to Yesterday Max Meyer, Peter Boyer and Euclid Martin left for Cincinnati, whero they will represent the Omaha board of trade at the ceremonies attending the oven ing of the new chamber of commerce Janu- '/N)/\ Messrs. 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