Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 1, 1889, Page 4

I'HE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHE) RY MORNING. R i) Wty BO¥} Dafly (Morning Edition) including SUNDAY, TER, One Year . L]l For Six Months For Three Months Ty OMAHA RUNDAY BEF, address One Y ear v o WkEKLY 11RE, One Vear . OMAN A OFFICENOS. 91 AN DTS FARNAM STRERT. CHICAGO OFFICE 07 ROOKERY I NEW YORK OFFICE, ROOMS 14 AN BUALDING. W ASHINGTON OFFICR, FOUNTEENTH STILERT, mailed to any CORRESPONDENCR All communications relating to news Sorin] matter should be addressed to the IRk OF THE BRE. 11N RSS LETTERS, All business lotters and remittances should be addressed to Tik BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAIIA. Drafts, checks and postofice orders to e mads pagablé to the order of the company. Company Proorietors . Fditor, THIE DALY 1] Sworn Statement of Circulation. Rtateof Nobraska, | County of Douglas, { %8¢ George I8, Tzachuck, secrotary of The fies Pub- Iishing Company, does solemnnly swear that the actnal circul 'y DALY BER for the weeh ending | 1880, was as follows Bunday, Jan 18, Mondn IRy Tuesdn 18,81 Wednesday, J ARTRE Thursday, | 18867 ¥naday. ,,l‘-,u’r Baturad 18,5816 AVOLAZO. . ivn viie wiiis ... J808 GEORSGE B. TZ8CHUCK. Eworn o before me and subscribed in my presence this2ith day of January, A. D . 1880, seal N. P. FEIL, Nowary Public. Btate of Nebras ‘a, | County of Douglas, (it o . Tzschuck, Veing duly sworn, de- lic | secrotary of the Bee that the actual averags Tug DALy BeEr for the 1888, 15,200 copies: for Feb- TuAry, 1888, Wi coples: for March, 1888, 10.650 coples: for April, 185, J8744 copies; for May, 1848, 15 18] copies: for June, 1885, i3 coples: for July, K88, 18,033 coples: for Angust, 1888, 18,1K) copies; Stember, 148, 15,154 coplass or October, was 1808 cople: for November, 1888, 808 coptes; Tor December, 1855, 18,2%) coples. Bworn to befors me ani subscribea in my Presence this jrd day of January 1880, N. . FEIL Notary Public, I ooy bl Ti house has mixed its water with whisky and then sends the diluted bev- erage buck 1 the senate, with *What will you have, boys ?” ays that mpan; daily circulution of month of Januar Tie barb wire manufacturers who receutly met in St. Louis for the pur- pose of forming a trust could not among themselves. Itis quite evident that some of them remembered the fate of the jute bagging trust, ree THe chief engineer of the Missouri river improvement commission,Fletcher N. Tower, is authority for saying that sixty thousand dollars will be spent in improving the Missouri river at Omaha next season. This looks as if Uncie Sum proposes to stop, in a measure, the transfer of reu] estate from Iowa to Ne- braska, in which business the Missouri has been an active agent. FULLY two-thirds of the time of every state legislature is necessary to investi- gate tho evils of mismanagement in state institutions and to undo the ervors committed by previous legislation. Not alone in Nebraska, but in Missou Kansas, Colorado and other states, the wise lawmakers are overhauling old abuses, and with the same breath creat- ing new ones. BosTON has determined to shut down on granting any more public franchises for the mero asking, and isendeavoring to find a way whereby tho city can se- cure some return for the use of its streets by private corporations. There is a hint here which should not escape the attontion of other cities, especially those in the west which have been alto- gether too lavish with their favors. WuAT is Nebraska doing to attract in- vestment and thrifty immigration dur- ing tho coming soring? Eastern capi- $al necessarily will look to the west for profitable investment and will naturally tend toward that state and thatindustry which offer the greatest inducement. There is every reason to believe that capitalists will look to the development of western resources. The condition of the money markets are favorable to such a move. The increase in the sur- plus of the eastern banks indicates that the field for investment is restricted at home. The opportunity should not be lost by Nebraska to prescut her claims, Other states are making a strong bid to attract both capital and labor, and it behooves our best interests not to be left in the race. Trere is less talk in Washington than a month ago regarding an extra session of the Fifty-first congress, But this would scem to be due to a pretty general conviction that it is inevitable, Republican senators and representa- tives, who a short time ago thought an extra session might be obviated, are now said to concede that the logic of events points to it as a necessity. Thero is still a minority unfavorable, but it is small The attitude of General Harri- 80n is uncertain, but it is thought that as a matter of personal preference ho is not favorable toan extra session. All the arguments that have been presented in favor of calling the next congress to- gothor before the regular date gain force as time goes by. Toe latest expressions from Prince Bismarck, which were eommunicated to congress Wednesday, profess a desire to abide by the'agreements with America and England with respect to Samoa, and pay due regard under all circum- stances to the rights of those powers as established by treavy, If this could be accepted as sincere the way to o settle- ment of the complications would be easy, but there is reason to doubt its sincerity from the fact that similar ex- pressions have been made before fol- ‘lowed by the high-handed outrages which are the cause of present contro- versy, while up to this time there is no evidence that Gerwany is not still maintaioing her hostile policy in Samoa. Unfortunately for Prince Bis- marck, he is not renowned for straight- forward diplomacy, aud even in a mat- ter of this character, which Senator Sherman characterized as a ‘‘small con- troversy,” he appears to have proved himself capable of tergiversation. It will not be wise for the United States to confide too generously in the professions @na protestations of Bismarck, - | simple. “We DUAL SUBMISSIO!N Adtor a tornpestuous contest the house has passad a proposed constitutional amendment by the necessary three- fifths vote which embodies in d form high license and prohibition. In this form the bill now goes back to the senate, and the quoestion is, shall the senate concur in the radical change made by the house in amending the original senate submission bill. We do not believe that th level-headed sense of the senate will to carry its members away over the line which the republican platform has mapped out for the party. While we have arded the insertion of the submi ank into the republi- can platform v departure from the cardinal principals of true republican - ism not conceive how publican. can tent the duplex amendment constitution which has been through the house without flection, No member of either house of the leg- can truthfully say that he rep- resents the prohibition faction of his party in submitting high lic amendmont. No republican ean truth- fully say that he is carrying out his party’s pledge in voting for the double-ender amendment. The plank in the republican ate platform cannot “ be so construed, and tho resolutions passed by county conventions were certainly the opposite from favoring such a prop- osition, The have consent we any re- support w the rushed mature ns submission who up to republican senators conscientiously lived their party pledges by voling for the senate submission bill, are under no obligations to concur in the high-license amendment tacked on by the house. They on vecord for submission pure and They can not vote for the duplex amendment without stultifying themselves. Dual would meot with most decided opposition from their constituents who favor prohibi- tion, and would meet with equal disfav- or from the rank andfile of republicans who are opposed to prohibiti on. submission IT AM A FAC. A letter has been rececived at this office from Mujor Balcombo, chairman of the board of public works, in which he denics point blank that the boavd, or rather a majority of the board, con- sisting of himself and Mrv. Furay, are exerting prossure upon city emplo and contractors in favor of the reloca- tion of the city hall. Mr. Bal- combe’s letter has been mislaid among other contributions, but this is the substance of his disclaimer. Mr. Balcombe may or may not be aware of the fact that contractors on public works and inspectors who are laying off have been given to understand that it will not do for them to risk the dis- pleasure of the board, but we have no doubt whatever that such is the fact. make bold to assert that sev- eral contractors and inspectors who are mnow and always have been opposed to the scheme of relocating the city hall, have asked to be appointed as clerks and judges of election so as to escape the displeasure of Balcombe and Furay. This may be a surprise to Mr. Baleombe, whose name is being used by parties near and dear to him,but in the language of a certain Third ward poli- tician, ‘It am a THE immigration is not likely to be settled in the present ngress. and it wilk be just as well if it is not, unless the lines laid down by the Ford - committee are changed in several important respects. The more care- fully the measure reported from that committee is studied, the more fixed must be the conclusion that some of its provisions are impracticable and others unnecessary. It is toa considerable extent a concession to the outery that has been made during the past year or two against immigratiou, and therefore ignores in some respects the generous principle that has provailed in this matter since the organization of the government In order to show that the sentiment in the house is not all one way regarding this question, a minority report has been presented by Representative Guen ther which proposcssevergl material changes in the Ford bill that we think all judic- ious men will approve. In the opiuion of Mr. Guenther no law should be passed to lessen the immigration of industrious, law-abiding people, who come here in good faith with the intention of making this country their permanent home, who bring their families with them, and who in due course of time become useful and valuable citizens of the republic, es- peciully where a number of states stand ready to receive them with open arms, The country should be in no hurry to eroct new barriers against desirable immigration, and we are likely to get a more judicious treatment of this ques- tion from the next than from the pres- ent congress. Meanwhile ample pro- vision should be made for enforcing ex- isting laws, so that the abuses which have given ground and excuse for the agitation agoinst immigration may be corrected. Ir is quite evident that the upper house of the legislature does not pro- pose to encourage the glandered horse industry by maintaining the live stock commission under its present form, The bill to repeal the act which created the commission has received the support of the senate. It will in all probability pass the house. There can be no ques- tion but that gross abuses and fraud have been perpetrated upon the state. Unserupulous persons have taken ad- vantage of the lenient laws intended to protect innocent possessors of diseased cattle, Not only has glandered stock been brought into Nebraska for the sake of the bounty, but herds have been in- fected to reap the reward. The very fact that the live stock commis- sion spent nearly thirty thousand dollors "to indemnify owners of diseased stock, and that the glanders has spread to an alurming extent ever since the creation of the committee two yoars ago s evidence that the law has been abused. It is high time, therf- fore, that the legislature check this evil before it grows to mammoth pro- portions. Radical reform demands the repeal of the law. Tt may cause hard- ship to persons whose stock has boen taintod with the scourge so that it be- comes necessary for the protection of the community to kill 1t off. But such cases are excoptional, and where great loss is sustained, it should be relieved rather by the county than by the state. TiE supreme court of the state has just handed down & decision that the prohibition inst clerk hire in the office of the attorney general does not ambrace the employment of a steno- grapher, Thisis a sad blow to the small bore detractors of Attorney Gen- eral Leose, who attempted to make o heinous offense out of the fact that he nployed a stenographer in his office. Thoy about to call upon the ithorities to impeach him for high wors in violating aska. The opin- however, wore crimes and misdome the constitution of Ne ion of the court has, pletely dampened the ardor of thess self-styled patriots. Thero is nothing Left for them to do but to nurse their spite in silence against the attorney weral and to meditate what fools they have made of themselves. co ing centers show a gain in the nu of hogs awked for the ending January 80 as compared with last ye This is attributed not so much to the enlarged marketing of hogs as to the falling off in the move- ment to the castern packing mav Such a coudition would indi western markets ave paying higher prices and that the shipment of hogs is gravitating toward these center: It i atifying that Omaha is making a ditable showing in her pork pack in for the week just ended was comp: ¢ greater than cither of these cities, and her place as the third packing center of the country re- mains undisputed CALIFORNIA is now fecling the full reaction of the town lot speculation and boom which swept over that state some monthsago. Her industries arve lag- ging and her people ave living in de- lusive hopes that the fickle goddess of fortune will sweep down upon them and make them all rich without exertion or toil. WILL the tie-up between the Union Pacific and Northwestern on passenger traffic open the eyes of the Chicago roads to the necessity of making Omaha their termini? Moving the City Hall, From the Omaha Herald, Tuesdny, March 20, 1888, “The city hall will be erected upon the present site. No one knows this better than the members of the council who are busily spreading the idea that there is a possibility of.abandoning the corner chosen for some other which is demanded by the interests of the gang. Inthus engaging in false pretenses, they are neglecting their duties as pub- lic officials, and stamping themselvos as unfit to manage the affaivs of the city, “There is no denial of the fact that the people have a right to abandon the basement, if they want to do so. They have a right to cart the stone to the ver, dump it in, and flood the hole for a fish-pond. They will not do this, how- ever. Neither will they waste their money by tearing out what work has already been done and beginning over again. There would be no object in the extravagant foolish- ness. It would simply gratify pri- marily a lot of sharks who would rather fleece the city than not, and a respectable minority who live ata dis- tance towards the suburbs, and would like to have the center of affairs moved out to them. “There is no good reason why an election should be called to settle a matter already ‘settled once. Why would a second settlement be more ef- fective than the first? The people have no assurance that their action would be final. Some of their officious servants might not be satisfied and, waiting till about $40,000 had been expended, de- mand another election, and try a third site. If an election shall be ordered there will be no limit. There will be the same excuse for other elections. The city hall was not designed to be on wheels, The only proper course to pursue is to erect the hall as soon as possible. An election would, of course, bave no ef- foct on the site. If the corner of Far- nam and Seventeenth streets was ever suitable for the purpose there are rea- sons why it 15 more suitable now. Relative conditions have notchanged, and the money already spent should not be deliberately thrown away. Neither do the taxpayers feel like en- trusting to the council a larger task than the rearing of the hall as at pres- ent planned. The sooner the prate about changing the site shall cease the better. There is nothing in 1t. It is & job, which the good sense of the community detects, and one which the patience of the com- munity will not tolerate.” ~— Not a Compliment. Chicago News. Dr, McCosh says the best novels are writ- ten by women, The doctor does not mean to pay a compliment. He detests novels, - Curious Diplomacy. Atlanta Constitution. One of the funniest things is a democratic administration making a socret treaty with & foreigh power. This sort of bnsiness ought to be left, to the republican statesmen, e — Our Serious Situation, Washington Critic. . We are engaged in two great national struggles, w wit, one with a Samoan proto- col, and one with a Uanadian inodus vivendi. Lord help usif “the britchin’ breaks!” e — Our Vigorous Foreign Policy. New York World, ‘Who says that our foreign policy is not ag- gressivel Was not Lord Sackville dis- missed! DId not Admiral Luce pop cham pague corks in the harbor of Port-au-Prince! Did not President Cleveland ask for power to retaliate on Canadai Is not the state depart- ment trying to find out where Samoa 1s and what the trouble there is about! What more can be expected? B — 1s Fisk a Traitor, Cleveland Leader, There is treason in the prohibition ranks, and the traitor is no less a person than Gen- eral OClinton B. Fisk, late prohibition candidate for governor. He has just signed & remonstrance against the proposed repeal of the New Jersey local option law. The prohibition organs during the late campaign FEBRUARY 1. 1899 declared that all high tax and local option 1aws are ‘‘corhpacts with hell.” o O'Donoyan Rossa's Charactar, Boston Globe, O'Donovan Tosso claims that the Catholio News has damaged his character $100,000 wortt and is sning the paper for that amount. O'Donovan wonld never do for an appraiser; his ideas of the values of things are too hig! . bk Massachuseits Prohibitionists, Roston Globe, Tho annual attempt to got a prohivitory amendment before the people is now under way. The convincing arguments against prohibition have been ably presented, and the old arguments in favor have boen re It 1. It is somotimes argued that apart from the merits of prohibition or liccnse the people have a right to pass upon the question, and therefore a constitutional amendment establishing prohibition should be submitted to them. In the abstract there is much trath in this view., Itisin w danco with Democratic principles to leave as many questions as possible to ba decided directly by the peo ple. But in this caso there are special rea sons why it is not desirable Before the people are appealed to to fix a matter of practical legislation irrevocably in their constitution it should have demonstrated 1ts value when it has had a chance to do 8o in practice. Has prohibition done this? Its best friends know that it has not. Wherover, in the larger places at least, prohibition hu been resorted to, it has almost invariably been discarded the following year. That is sufficient reason why prohibition should not be made constitutional. Tho truth is that no liquor law s perfe and none is wholly satisfactor) Thorefor eve fo years, there ¢)mes a tempor: reaction from the liconse systom, and the people are more or less disposed to try pro- hibition. They are generally glad to change back again at the first opportunity. ow 1t certainly would not be fair to take advantage of one of these petiods to foist prohibition permanently on the pesple, so that they ot get rid of it whethier they wish to do 80 or not, The gl s STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. There is a surplus of several thousand dol- lars in the Dixon eounty treasury. A mild form of the measles is prevalent among the children of North Platte. The enrollment of the city schools of Kear. noy for the month of January is 1,153, aiirond forces at North Platto have been reduced temporarily about twenty men. A farmer living south of Tecumseh has lost his hogs by cholera for four years in succession. Delegates from a_number of Nebraska towns met at West Point and organized a state band association. Wymore people expect that the B. & M. will make extensive improvements at that place in the next few months. The city council and board of trade of Plattsmouth are _considering a proposition for the ction of a §25,000 hotel. A proposition is to be submitted to the peo- ple of Fillmore county on town mecting day to issue £50,000 in bonds for the construction of a court house. There is a growing belief at Hastings that natural gas exists in that locality and a com pauy will probubly be formed for the pur pose of sinking a well. A gang of eheap John grocery peddiers have been working the farmers of Johnson county with great success and the regular dealers are raisiug a rumpus. The Hastings Nebraskan, the bright little paper which sprung into existence upon the suspension of the Gazette-Journal, will be- gin to print Associated press dispatches Feb- ruary 4. A David City carpenter named Russ found astrauge infant on his doorstep the other doy with o tag Attached, stating that tho ‘child was born December 8, last. The infant was taken in and has been adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Russ. T, B. Parker, the Tecumseh man who was 80 mysteriously shot while in bed a fe nights ago, has caused the arrest of Annis Thurman, a_foolish young man who was sleeping with him at the time, and he will be tried for the shooting. lowa. The Metnodists of Grinnell are raising funds to build a church. The estimated cost of assessing the proper- ty of the state is $150,000. It costs $1 a week to keep each inmate of the Lann“county poor farm. Over 28,000 tons of coal are used annually on the Burlington's Iowa lines. The number oM)upils enrolled this term at Cornell college, Mt. Vernon, is 453, One thousand tons of ice wili be hauled to Ottumwa from the lakesof Palo Alto county, The oatmeal mill at Muscatine is runnin, day and night and grinding 2,000 bushels o outs daily. In one of the primary schools at Daven- port there are four pairs of twins ranging in age from five W seven years of age. The Santa Fe company has made the wid- ow of “Dad"” Myers, the veteran engineer who was killed near Lawrence last summer, a present of §5,000 in cash. The tramp who has stuck so faithfully to the solitary and a bread and water diet in preference to the stone pile at Marshalltown 10w turnsout to be an artistic wood engraver, Rev. U. B. Smith, of West Liberty, has snatched a little time from his religious du- ties to do some secular work. He has just received a pateut for a dish washer and drainer. The board of supervisors of Cerro Gordo county exnect to call in the remaining 2,000 of county bonds at the April session, and thus wipe out the entire §10,000 bonded debt in less than three years from the time it was incurred. The state voard of examiners will hold ex- aminations as follows: State normal school, May 20 and 80; at Cornell, May 31 and_June 1; at_thestate university, June 4 and 5; and at Grinnell, June 6 and 7, all of these being for certificates only; and at the state super- intondent’s ofice, Dés Moines, June 2 and 8, for both diplomas and certificates, Beyond the Rockies. The winter wheat in northern Montana is reported in fine condition, James Corrigan, lately from Kansas, while drunk, was killed by tho cars at F'resno, E, H. Swarthout, a member of the *Old Guard of 15806, died at San Jose recently. A Mrs. Gubleman is charged with the {:rulllm of murdering her infant child at Wood- and, John C, Snyder, a San Diego commission man, has been arrested on the charge of try- ing to burn his store, The United States side of the Second ju- dicial district court has been transferred from Butte w Deer Lodge, The cantilever bridge over the Umpqu river at Winchester, Ore., has been a cepted. It s said 1o be a magnificent struc- ture. An effort is being made to hatch 5,000,000 whitefish eggs at Portland, which were sent there by the goveynment. If the effort is successful the youvg fish will be distributed throughout the Orégon lakes, Gold has be dl‘\;}vured on City creek, ten miles from Sau Bernardino, the ore of which assays from $40 to $2,000 per ton, One- eighth of one claim was sold for #5000, There is great excitement, and crowds ' are going to the new mines. William Johnson, son of A . Johnson, a wholesale butcher of Portland, while trying to discharge a loaded gun that refused t0 go off, suddenly received the whole charge in the side of his head, killing him instantly. He lived near Reeuville, @ loaves » wife and several children. Charles Townley, & broken-down actor who had quit the profession several years g0 because of his habits of inebriety com- witted suicide at Livingston, Mont., with morphine. He had evidently prepared for the event, as & cap was pulled down over his ears and his coat was buttoned, Angostura Bitters, endorsed by physi cians and chemists for purity and whole someness. Dr. J. G. B, Siegert & Sons, sole manufacturers. Ask your druggist. NUM What February 1 Brings About in Railway Circles in Omaha. To-morrow, February 1, will make an im portant era in railway circles in Omaha. The circular issued by Vice President Hol- colmbe abolishing the office and department of general superintendent of the Union Pa cifi, takes offect on this day, and after to. day, the duties devolving upon the depart ment of general superintendent will revert to the department of general manager. Ed. Dickinson, the genial oficial who is directly affected by this trausaction, and upon whom good authority states, the title of assistant general manager will be conferred, was hard at work at his dosk s usual, this morning, Just ns though nothing unusual had transpired When questioned concerning the mattoer, he stated that whnile the department had been abol ished, it would require about ten days to bring to a close his duties as general super- dent T'he affairs of the office, how- would be conducted under the author ity of the general manager’s department When questioned concerning the announce ment in Tue Bee of Wednesday to the effect that he was to be appointed assistant general manager, he stated that he was not aware any such action having_been taken, and th Vice President Holcomb was at the heaa of the operating department and was vested with the authority to make such Howaover, it is stated that the vi has centered upon Assistant C ager Mollen for general trafic manager and Dickinson for his successor, will be made in the staff of clerks mn the general superintendent’s department at the present time. Another circular, by virtue of et ato-d It is that which ap Geo Cushing superintendent of and machinery of the Union acific systom, vice Cloem Hackuney, re si, But a good man has but a few hours of idlencss in any business, and no soone had the announ pent of Clem Hackney having resigned roactied the public than th gentleman was tendered soveral imvortant positions by other roads, and in consequence he took time by the forclock and stepped down and out t Tuesday, turning over his Keys to his successor. Mr. Hacknoy has not as yet associated himself with any other road, but 1t is stuted that in the near future he will be occupying o position in the line of a promotion to whathe held on the Union Pacifie. J. M. Barr Cuming as suy division of the Union vard student” will recline in the w general manuger’ with headqu ut Salt Lake, in Mormondom, Whil ral traffic department may not be revived so as to be conn rd with the changoes of to-day, it is safe to include it as among the chanes in the near future and chronicle C. & lellen gen al traftic man- ager. Just w! other changes will be made in the personnel of the Union Pacific under the new regime remains to be developed. The proverbial freight trafiic department also comes in for its share of the eruptions in _ railway circles on the advent of Fobruar To-day a new schedule of rates takes effect between Missouri river points and the Pacific coast, or that territory governod by the Colorado rate sheet in the west. It will take effect on the following roa Atchison, Topel & Santa e, Burlington & Misscari, Denver & Rio Grande, Denver & Rio Grande Western, Denver, Texas & Fort Worth, Kansas City, . Joseph & Council Bluffs, Missouri Pacitic, ud Istand, Union Pacific_and Central. The rates are advanced about 15 per cent on ail products and commoditics. Class 1 is ad: ed from £2.05 per hundred ass 2 from §1.50 to $2.15; class 3 to $1. class 4 from £1.50 to §1 from £1. and class A [rom to $1.10. No change 18 made in the rates on cluss B, C, D and E freights. The old rate was inaugurated last September when the Maniwba and the Northern Pacific was making a fight for transcontinental wraflic, in which the rates wore severely slashed. The new sehedule applying here to- morrow will also apply ou the northern lines. its date, will to vy succeed ntendent of the Wyor Pacific, and the *Har class $1.0: A Probably Fatal Shooting. Commereial Agent Pridham, western agent of the Milwaukee road with headquarters in Denver, passed through Omaha yesterday en route to Chicago where he was summoned to tho bedside of his grandson, Walter Owens, ‘who was shot accidentally while handling a revolver seve ys ago, and from the effects of which it is thought he will die. The victim _of the shooting is the eldest son of Henry Owens, of the Pitisburg & Fort Wayne systemn, Appointed Suporintondent. As was announced in Tte Beg, of Monday last, & circular was issued announcing the appointment of C. B. Rodgers to succeed John McConniff (deceased) as superintendent of the southern division of the Burlington road with headquarters at Wymore, Neb. The appointment will take effcct to-day. Railroad Notes. G. M. Cuming, recently apnointed ascistant genoral manager of the Union Pacific with headquarters at Salt Lake, started for his field of labor to-day in a special car., The Union Pacific receivod another new engino from the Pittsburg shops yesterday. Assistant General Manager Mellen of the Union Pacific, has gone to St. Joseph and from thence hie will go to Chicago. THE COUNTY'S NEW VAULT. A Difference of Opinion asto What 1t Shonid Cost. The usually quiet, staid board of county commissioners has finally fallen into an en tanglement that promises to create consider- able disturbance, Commissioner O'Keoffe has, he thinks, discovered a small-sized are’s nest, and is procecding slowly to put his associates through a course of sprouts, me time during the month of March it was proposed by resolution, regularly introduced and adopted, to fit up the vault in the clerk’s ofice of the district court with racks, pigeon-holes and drawers for keeping the books and papers that have always been banged around and laid promis- cuously about the place. This matter was reforred to the commitiee on jails with nstructions to go ahead and have the work done. That committee received estimates and entered ioto a contract, through C. L. Wundt, with the Pauly Jail Building and Manufacturing company, of St. Louis, to do the job, Wundt is the representative of tnis concern, & pleasant, smooth-talking young man, and appears to be unusually well gifted with powers to influence and control beople who lack determination and purpose. The contract says that the work shall be performed at the rate of §1.90 a_space, which means each book shelf aud file-box. Last week Mr. Wunduv made known to the board that his concern had completea its undertak- ing and was ready to receive its pay and can- cel obligations, The committee made an inspection of the work, reported their satisfaction with it and recommended that the account, amounting to something like $5,120 be allowed. All the other members of the board, except Richard O'Keeffe, who happened at the time to ben Lincoln, concurred and Mr. Wundt was given & warrant on the county treasurcr, which he presented there,received the money called Jor, and went about his busines: 1t 18 reported, however, that before going away, Wundt showed himself to be a very liberal man, one who knows how to appre- ciate good things when they come his wa, In due course of time the stalwart Rich returned and uvpon accomplished during his wbsen grew impatient, it is said, and notouly ca for a, horse, but gave out a few plain, cold ~and = severe ntimations that an investigation was needed and would be had, At this announcement, other members of the board seemed Lo be somewhat sur- prised and very uncommunicative. O'Keofe said that the bill was an excessive one, and he would not have allowed it to go by without kuowing the whys and where- fores, He als) claimed that snap judgment had been taken and the matter rushed through in his absence, whereas, had he been there, objections would have been raised When Mr. O'Keeffe was asked for in mation he said : The matter is being inves tigated now, and we will kuow more about it in a day or two.” ““What are the grounds on which you base your objections to and complaint agaiust the board's actions?” ‘‘There is the contract. spaces yourself, and then vouchers,'" The reporter found that the substance of the contract, so fur as the mouied considera- Go and count the look at the tion is cencerned, is stated above. No one complains of the work. It is certainly & peat and, to all appoarances, an ole gant job. According to the count made, “there are 1938 spaces, which, At the rate of $1.00° a space, would cost of $3,883.20, Tt will be seen that the differ ence botwoen this sum and the amount of the voucher given to Wundt is §1,444.05. On this alleged excess hangs the difficulty. The reporter had a talk with Commissionor Mount. In answor to auestions put to him, the latter entered into an olaborate aud swoeping denial of all charges, and allegations tending to involve the board in any schomes or crooked businoss. Ho had heard that O'Koeffe was floating a sensation of somo kind, but did not appear to know much about T'o further draw the commissioner out ho was given a fow pointers, which had the ef fect of warming him up a little. Said he ““The bill allowed for that work is not in oxcoss, What is claimod a8 an over-charge was paid for tho building of a gallery in the vault, which had not been provided for in the contract.” “Itis stated that the contract apicce was undorstood to cover v “That is not 80, At first the concluded that they would s racks, ex tending only half tho height of the vault, but after examining the bulk of matter kept there, changed their minds and fitted the room from floor to ceiling on all sides. To g top shelves and boxes therefor Ssary to pit 1 defy any apartment for of yth committee body to find a better supplie the use to which it is put.” Continuing his _rema ther, M. Mount refel ! he county clerk’s vault fitted by the s irm at §1.05 a space, and requested that comparison be made of the t This, however, cuts no fizure in the matter atissue. Any one who will take the trouble though to inspoct both vaults, will not hesi tate to pronounce the first effort a Jim Crow affair as compared with the last, When O'Keoffe returned from Lincoln and made his discoveries, Wundt hud left the city. He was immediately callod back and takon into consultation. Whethor any defin ite conclusions have been reached as yot is kept u scerot. Wundt left again Wednesday nigt for Denver. Althoueh the act for this work was Tet last March the vault remained untouched until after the first day of the present month Commissioner Mount says that the company wiks v and wanted to put - an a) ance in October, but on account of ~the fact that court was in session then Clerk Moores objected, and the job had to bo postpoued ‘T'he nowss of hammers and handling of ma terial ho claimed would disturb thoe serenity and dignity of the judges too much. S' DISPONDE Hopelessness of Their Cause Oceasions Heavy Hearts. is falling from grace. The work he has been doing during those s has affectea him sadly. He has bee irvitable, and, it is said, has ev lost his appetite. He was in an exceptionally bad humor when accosted by a reporter yesterday and returned the latter's hearty nand stake with such o cold, clammy touch that the newsgatherer let out another reef in his coat collar and looked around to see where the cold draught was coming from. “Why the deuce don’t you fellows spend a little time around Rosewater's headquar. ters!” said he. I carry Tuz Bes home with me every night to read, but I never find in 1t anything about what Rosewater 18 doing. IVs all Jim Croi Creigh ton—nothing_but Jim ( 1. Go aver { bother Rosewater awhile and givo us a THE BOOM NCY, Tim Creigiton sighton was busy counting out a lot of culars containing an effusion from the pen of St. A.13. Balcombe, which he had evolved between gawmes of high five. This is made upof just about such matter as was printed in the yollow-backed mongrei p which ctused the sachems of the wigwam such mental agony in being obliged to prepure explanations of “‘why the prints were sent through the postofice without stamps or ad dresses.” Creighton does not intend to be caught in that way again aud so has en gaged two small boys to distribute Bal- combe's circulars about the city. Pat Fort hasn’t been around the m for two or thi 0 J. B. Fuaray, and n s elsewhere. Joe, the noble Redman, the firs! of a very big race, wasn't in his customs seat in tho council chamber yesterdu and the most potent secretary, McArdle, couldn’t or wouldn’t give any information to his whercabouts. A half dozen ot Jun’s followe were discussing the probabiliti of Tuesday’s election in the main reception room, but stopped when the reporter entercd. MecArdle had turned loose his dcadly wink again.” In the hallway J. B. Furay was whittling down the edges of the mistit drawer of his $1.50 table. He was softly meditating and didn’t look up for a long time, and when he did the light of recognition and welcome, which of yore sent a thrill of g through the reportorial heart, were not there. After a cold silent stare he resumed his whittling. With a heavy heart the visitor again sought McArdle. “What's the matter with you fellows up here this morning,” he asked of the lord scc retary. *Humph! You fellows down to Tur Bee think you are smart, don’t you? ending strange reporters down here every day or two to try and ring themselves in on us and pump us. 13ut that young fellow over there,” pointing 1o a dark-skinned young man who was arguing with a Germau in the corner, s‘won't gevanything. He's too fresh. We're on to him all right.”” “If tonat young man s with Tos Br don’t know it. I never saw him before i life.” Oh, of course not. You're awfully inu cent. I think tne lot of you had better cle out. 2 The young man in quéstion later proved to be a reporter from another paper than Tuz | Brp, but tho sachems wouldn't beliove | and branded the wholo thing a8 ‘one o Rosowater's d—=1 schemes." An the reporter left the unfriendly place. SENATOR PFAXTON PROTESTS, Roasons Whay He City Hall Rolocation. Senator Paxton took occasion in the course of a conversotion yesterday to expross Nimsolf on the proposition to change the site of the city hall at Omaha, 1 am most emphatically opposed to relo- cating the city hall,” he said. “I do not want to see money thrown away. The school Strong Opposes | board contributed $25,000, and it was put inte tho present foundation. To abandon it w be a shameful wasto of money. Tho nam street site is amplo for all purposes, and od reason for making a chango. voted on the location and coam streat si On the strongth of that men of capital have bought adjoining property and put_hundreds of thousands of dollars in big buildings, which moans that mueh of an addition to the woalth of Omaha and 1o its taxable prope Now, 10 chango the location would bo a broach of faith on the part ot tho city, bocause thosa investors would not have put their money in there if they had not thought the matter sottiod. It's " the bottor location of the two proposed—by all odds. 1t will secommodate the people gonoraily and_business mon par ticularly the best. To move the oity hall down to that flat—Jefferson o—why, it wouldw't incroase the con T fourth of the peovle of Omatia It ain't right, it ain’t good public policy ain't good businoss poiicy to change the oca tion, and I'm dead opposed to t. The senator 18 not a man of many words, but he spoke with intonse earncstuess, people the Hascall Doceiving tho Oity. “Tie B3ee did not tell half the truth about Hascall last night,” said a Second ward tax payer. *‘Hascall no more influonces our peo- ple than Pat Ford does, and Pat's following down our way is nothing. Hascall is not only sclling us out, but he is selling out tho city. The city’s money has been put into tho present sito aud basement, and all that moncy will be lost if the ferson square boomors be successful, B sides, he wants to put the building where it will be conveniont to people in ono section of tho city only. This is doue against our wishes and ‘to satisfy a personal grudgo which Hascall has long cntertained against some wen who have thus far thwarted his scoundrelly schemes. L3ut we are not to ba deceived by him. We uow tell him that his object has beon discovered, and thut ho speaks only for himself and a fow follows who generally dance at his command.’ WHERE CAUSES AR HEARD, ts That are Being Filed in the Dis- trict Court. In Octobor, 188 William Latey and Will- iam V. Benson were engaged as partners in the real estate business, Against them John Arnold has brought suit in the district court to recover judgment on three promissory notes for $200 cach, made to him on the sixth day of the above month, As security, thoy executed mortgages on certain pieces of property. ‘The next day after these transac- tions, this vroperty was sold to John R. Rey- nolds, who asswmed, says the petition, all obligations to clear these incumbrances, but it seemns that neither the notes nor the intor- est on them has ever been paid off, A petition in equity was filed by the Clen tral Loan & Trust compuny of Town against William Gibson and others to recover judg ment on two promissory notes for $300 mado and delivered on the 13th day of August, 1857, Some weeks ago Zillia Ashby went befora Justice RReed and filed afidavits for a writ of replevin agamnst Lee & Nichol and C. E Mayne, their agent, and levied on tw sleighs. When the case was tried, Justice Reed decided that right of possession to this property was vested in defendants, and ho asscssed damages sustained by them from tiff's action in the uffair at 5 cents. The case was appealed and filed in the district court yesterda; One Emerson, who was arrested, tried the police court and fined $15 for obstructing the sidewalk, hus appealed his case to tho district court. About, tho 15th day of this month Edward S. Stout was ecjected from a Union Pacific passenger train ut Waterloo, and as a result of that” act the corporation was yesterday made dofendant in a suit for 1,000 damagos. Stout fails to make known in his petition the reasons why he was cjected, County Court. The zase of the Omaha Coal, Coke & Lima company vs, H. M. Hubbeil held Judga Snields' attention. Hubbell appeared and confessed judgment for the sum of §232.25 The pociet is minus cases for trial to. morrow. James Casey, landlord of the Arcade hotel, commenced suit yesterday in the county court against James P. O’ Hanlow to recover $327, alleged to be due for board. In the case of the Omaha Coal, Coke and Lime compan) inst [arry M. Hubbell, the defend ufessed judgment for tha sum of §232.75 The plaintiff in_the case of Thomas Tuf. field inst FI. R Kearnes was given o judgment for $111.50. Out With a Cane, dwards, who located at Fif- teenth and Douglas and is reputed to loan money at very high rates of interest, got inta trouble with one of his debtors named Payno yesterday. The latter gentleman wanted W orief_extousion of unote ho had given when ds refuse ing remar ra:smg his ¢ buld head, leaving an ugly arrested. ; John E. S a rule, all colored or highly perfumed soaps should he avoided as dangerous, They rely upon their appearance and odor (which disguises rank materials) for their sale. The whiteness and the odor of the Ivory Soap are natural to it, and are duc to the excellence of the material used. A WORD OF WARNING, There are many white soaps, each represented to he they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar = ahie q genwine, Ask for "'Ivory" Soap and insist upon ge it of th just as mood as the 'lvory Copyright 1886, by Prover & Gambus,