Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 6, 1889, Page 4

it - and THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6. 1839, . THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. il TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, ally (Morning Bdition) including SUSDAY hm.’y,nm Yenr W #10 00 or 8% Monthis 5 00 or Three Months . 260 OMAIIA SUNDAY DR, mailed to any ress, One Vear vsrevsye i S0 Wy BEk, One Year . 20 OMANA OFFICE, Nos,01 and 910 FARNAM STREET, T RookeRY BUILDING BUNE 618 CHICAGO OFFICE, b NEw YORK OFFICE, ROOMS T4 AN BUILDING, WASHINGTON OFFiCE, N URTERNTH STIEY. CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and edi- forial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR ¥ THE DER. e BUSINKSS LETTERS, All bustness letters and remittances should ba addresssd to TE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, MAHA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to ‘made payablé to the order of the company. i Bee Pablishing Company, Proprieters, E. ROSEWATER, Fditor. e —————————————— g THE DAILY BE Sworn Statement of Circulation. ate of Nebraska, 1 L, ounty of Douglas, { 5% Georgs 1L, Tzschuck, secretary of the Hee Pub- Mshing compan solemnly swear that the wmetual circulation of Tie DAILY Iiue for the Week ending March 2, 1549, was a3 follows: hursday. F Aty Ml Baturday, March Averago GRORGE B. T 8worn to befora me_and subscribed to in my presence this 24 day of March, 1), 1880, . N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. of Nebraska, | o ounty of Douglas, (%% Guorge 1. Tzschuck, belng duly sworn, da- o8 And fays that ho {8 secretary ol tho B Riiblishini company, that the actual averao BEE for the daily circulation of' THE DALY month of March, 185, 19 I8, 8T coples; | fc coples; 'for June, July, 18, 15033 18,183 coples; for September, 1888, 18,154 covles; for October, 1888, 14034 coples; for Novem- Ter, 1888, 18,06 coples; for December, 1884, 18,225 coplru:| for .:lll\!,lfllll‘y 1880, 18,574 coples; for uary, 1889, 18,906 copres i 2 FORGE I TZSCHUCK. Sworn to befors me and subscribed inmy presence this 2d day of March, A. 1), 1880, . P. FEIL. Notary Public. Is Billings trying to innoculate the members of the legislature with soft Boap virus? ToO MANY stitches are be the rent between the master neymen tailors, A¥FTER a four years’ ride the solid south will now have plenty of time to mend its saddle. ing lost in and jour- THE sentiment of the senate is in favor of a short extra session of not more than two wecks. The public will subscribe to the sentiment. AN alarming silence envelops the Canadian press and publi The tran- sition from Bayard to Blaine has had a wholesome effect on the queen’s ter- riers. Now that the valued policy insurance bill has become a law, the local agents will exercise that care in writing poli- cies which thoy have shown in paying losses. ‘Wirrit Wannamaker at the head of the postoflice deportment, the misfits and hand-me-downs which now disgrace the mail service, will be cast off and their places filied with a trained corps of the latest pattern, THE mission of the state university is higher education. The industrial col- lege had fourteen students during the last biennial period and cost $45,000. The mission is getting there at a rate altogether too fast. VIRGINIA is not suffering. from a scarcity of governors. Only three of- ficials took thp oath of office Tuesday. The inclemency of the weather doubtless preventéd other aspirants from indulg- fng in a constitutional swear. THURSTON 15 not in the cabinet, but he has the supreme satisfaction of know- ng that the bar room in the Columbus tavern, which has been named after him, was opened to the public on the day on which Harrison was inaugurated president. PRESIDENT HARRISON declares that distinguished party services shall be duly considered in the distribution of offices, This will make the Omaha Plug Hut brigade available for a slice of the spoils after the mounted troops are served, THERE is no need of the city council sending out an expedition to discover the street commissioner As s00u as the appropriation ordinance 1s passed he can be found at the court house drawing his salary with the case and as- surance of a sinecure. TaE British press is not particularly enthusiastic over President Harrison’s dnaugural address. This is unfortunate. he organs and emissaries of John Bull E}r{ormu(\ such valiant service in levelaud’s behalf that Harrison should Bave recognized and applauded their eflorts. M. RousTAnour MORRISSEY, who next to William A, Paxton has done more to build up Omaha thun any other of our great capitalists, is very much alarmed over the prospect that the amended charter will prevent Jim Oreighton from obstructing and bossing the construction of the city hall, Hence, Mr. Morvissey’s howl ** '8'n’outrage.” ky emm———————— James C. FLoob, one of the bhig four of California, who dicd recently in Eu- rope, left an estate valued at four mil- lion dollars to be divided between his wife and two children, Thebulk of the fortune wus wrung from the poor who invested their moans in the wildeat mines operated by Flood and his parf mers. As promoters of poverty and suicide they had few equals -in modern history. Tue Burlipgton road comes to Omaha’s rescue with a grain tarift to Duluth equal to that churged for Chi- ‘eago shipments, The determination of the Chicago board of trade cliaue to grade down Nebraska corn and discrim- fnate against the products of the trans- Missouri region, should be promptly vigorously resisted. With St. JLouls on the south and Duluth on the morth the producers of the west aro fairly independent of - the greedy Huwhinsons ol Chicago. y PRESIDENT HARRISON'S CABINET. Until within the last twenty years it was rarely that a president selected for a cabinet position a man who had not a national reputation in politics. Down to the administeation of General Grant it was the unwritten law to constitute the cabinet of represantative party leaders, distinguished for their political services, and well known to the country. But since that time a number of men have obtained their first political intro- ductions to the nution through ap point- ment to the eabinet, gaining at one bound a prominence which to their pre- decessors was the reward of years of political activity and party service. The cabinet of President Harrison is a conspicuous example of the departure from the old rule, containing as it does five members who have been almost un- beyond state or local politics. , however, prove to be an ad- that the cabinet is not com- posed entively of political leaders with an army of followers to reward. The country may reasonably expect a more caveful and move honest administration of public affairs from men who have few political debts to pay, and who will be content with honors in possossion, than from politicians burdened with obliga- tions and aspiring to higher honors. The selection of Mr. Blainc tary of state was ver. recog- nized as an inevits sult of republi- \ success. It was universally con- ceded that he had contributed more largely than any other man to that v sult, and it would have been extraordi- known s secre- v ingratitude not to have tendered him the frst place in the cabinet. There is every reason to believe that President Harrison not only fully appre- ciated his obligation in this respect. but that he most heartily desived to con- nect Mr. Blaine with hisadministration. The apprehension that existed eight years ago of possible dan- gers and complications from the ions under conduct of our foreign Mr. Blaine do not prevail now to any extent. The country has reached the conviction that a firmer and more dig- nified foreign policy is needed. and it looks for this from the new administra- tion without any fear of serious conse- quences. A calm, just and considerate insistence upon our international rights should not imperil our peace, but even at the hazard of doing so we cannot af- ford to abandon our rights. Mur. Blaine can be trusted to conserve these under all eircumstances, and he will have op- portunities to round out his public ca- reer with honor to his country and to himself. Mr. Windom was not the first choice of President Harrison for secretary of the treasury, but after Senator Allison declined the position he was urged as the most available man to represent the west in the flnancial department of the government. His capacity and fitness had been recognized by Garficld, him- self one of the best informed men in the country on financial affairs, and during the brief time that Mr. Windom was at the head of the treasury he justified the confidence that had been reposed in him. He will undoubtedly administar the finances of the government, fully, conserva- tively, and with reference to the best intevests of the country, pursuing us nearly as circumstances will allow the lines of his republican prede: s, There is no department of the gov- ernment more important than the in- terior, and the selection of General Noble, of Missouri, for that position is likely to prove eminently judicious. He is smid to bea very thorough lawyer, and an honest, resolute, courageous man. All of these qualifications are needed in the head of this department. From what is said of the new secre- tary of the interior the country may reasonably, hope for a great improvement in the administration of that department. Ex-Governor Proctor, of Vermont, brings as much intelligence of military affairs to the administration of the war department as was possessed by his pre- decessor, and may be expected to give more careful aftention to its duties, while avoiding innovations which only serve to create contentions without ads vancing the good of the servic: The nayy department has grown in im- portance and will continue to grow. The new adminstration is committed to the policy already entered upon of building up a navy that can berelied upon for n tional defense, and the next congr will undoubtedly provide ganer this purpose. The new secretary navy, General Tracy, of New York, undoubtedly in full sympathy with this policy and may be expected to apply himself actively and intelligently in carrying it out. The selection of Gen- eral Tracy is understood to hive been a compromise of the factional controvers, in that state which made the choic either Miller or Platt inexpedient, it will doubtless prove to have be fortunate selection, The postoifice department requiros a man of practical expericuce, used to business details and Mr. John Waunnamaker is such a man, Tle should be able to put this department on a thorough businéss basis and greatly improve the service, The appointment of W. H. H. Mil- ler, for ten years the law part- ner of President Harvison, as attor- noy general, attests the confidence of the president in his legul ability, and no better endorsement to commend him to the public confidence could be ‘asked. Ex-Governor Rusk of Wiscon- sin will be entirely *acceptable to the farmers of the country as secretary of the new department of agriculture, he being a practical furmer and thoroughly familiav with the wants and require- ments of the agricuitural intercst, EXTRAVAGANT APPROPRI ATIONS The appropriation bills for the cur- rent expenses of state government, which ave now being diseussed by the house, embody more extravagance and more jobbery than anything that has been presonted in appropriation bills within the past ten years. Nobody wants the logislature to be meau and atingy iu dealing with state olcers and the various benevolent institutions, but the tux payers of Nobraska have a right taexpect thut the legislature will nob countenance barefuced imposition and grabs that are no better than dow nright fraud. J Take for instance houze roll No. 483, and -~ we find that the insane hospital at Lincoln expects to consume twenty thousana dollars’ worth of coal during the next two years, and twely thousand dollars are asked to pay for heating and lighting the capitol. This is fully double what it should ‘cost for supplying the hospital and state ho with fucel and light. Every state officer wants from three hundred to five hundred dollars appro- priated for telegraph and telephone expenses, What excuse is there for squandering several thousand dollars for telephones in the state house when one telephone in each story 1sample for all purposes? Why should the state superintendent of public instruction re ceive one thousand dollars forattending institutes and travelling expenses, in view of the fact that he has passes over all railroads, and in nine cases out of tou is the guest of private parties when attending institutes? Why should the legislature be asked to vote eigrht hundred dollars for fu nishing and rvepaiving the governor's office, when his office has just been fur nished and there is nothing to repair anew building? 1f this furniture fov which appropriations are asked nearly every state office has alre been bought, by what authority have the oficers made the purchase in ad- vance of an appropriation? If it is bought on eredit, it stands reason that the state will have to three p to, pay What is truc of the extravagance in appropriation bills for the state house, is doubly so forother institutions. Here- tofore legislatures have appropriated from five hundred to fifteen hundred dollars at every session for musical in- struments at the insane hospital, and these instruments have been cither used for kindling or carted away by the different superintendents. Now they ask for sixteen hundred dollavs for “amusements,” instead of pianos and organs. What kind of amusements do the insane get for the sixteen hundred doltav Then we note that the super- intendent of thie afylum wants fourteen hundred dollavs for farm improvements and fmplements. Also five thousand doltars for a green house. And a cool thirty-five thousant dollars for sundry improvements in the building! We venture to say that the asylum will not raise five thousand dollars worth of gar- den truck and fourteen hundred dollars worth of farm produce in the next ten ArS. The state had better sell all the land around tne asylum than to squander this money upon it ever ar. The state reform school tentiary come in for their bery and jobbery. The Ki tution modestly asks only dred dollars for out-house: lavs will build all they need. and peni- share of rob- arney insti- fifteen hun- Fifty dol- he con- tractor of the penitentiary wants the state to spend fifteen thousand dollars on the sewer and several thousand dol- The peni- The lars in other improvements. tentiavy contract is a bonanza. state pays about sixty thousand dollars a year for the board of the convicts, gives the contractor the use of their labor and the unrestricted use of the costly buildings and work shops con- nected with the penitentiary. The state 1s under no obligation whatever to build sewers or aaueducts, or to malk: any other improvements for the benefit of the contractor. These are only a few points. The legislature should thoroughly sift these bills three or four times before they finally pass. A FALSE ALARM. The concerted ding-dong which has been sounded in double-leaded columns by the Jeflerson square gang through the Omal combine is a false alarm, The pretended discovery of a *nigger in the wood-pile” of the amended charter is a distortion and deception, There has been no clause inserted in the new charter to curtmil the legiti- mate functions of the hoard of public works. But there isa provision that will prevent Jim Creighton, through his catspaws, John B. Furay and St. A. D. Balcombe, from ob- structing and delaying the erec- tion of the city hall building. These men have done everything they could up to this time to thwart the ex- pressed will of the people. The fact that they had provisions in- serted in the charter before it left Omaha that would have given them ab- solute and unchecked control of nearly all appointments and contracts shows thew anxiety to grasp and monopolize the city government and establish a close corporation in Omaha in which they would play the dictator The provisions in the charter, inserted by the house, which place the city hall Dbuilding and the jail under the control andsupervision of the mayor, council and avchitect, ave emi- nently prope Prudence and common sense dictates that the city hall build- ing should not be placed under the con= trol of men who are inimical to the con=- struction of the building where 1t has been located. And nobody will contend that either Balcombe or Furay are inany way quals ified to control a public building. Neither of them has bad any exper- ience in construction and all they would likely do if they had control of the city hall building is to interpose all sorts of obstructions to the erection of a creditable and substantial building which the citizens of Omaha have de- creed shall be expedited as rapidly as possible. THEY WANT THE EARTH. If the provisions embodied in the charter with regard to the puving be- tween street car teacks had been offered to the cuble and norse car companies as a condition precedent to the passage of the consolidation bill, they would have been only too glad to jump at the chance and not a word would have been said about the hardship imposed by the paving elawise. But now that the bill is o law, they insist not ouly upon getting valuable franchises without cost, but want to have greater privileges than street car 1'ues in otherlarge cities that pay part of their earnings into the mu- picipal treasuries for their right of way and franchise. In the city of Cleveland, mora than ten yhatshgo Scoville avenue curb with was paved from curb to granite by a strect car company as pay- ment for the rightef way. Omaba has more libupal=toward her street lines, but cannot comprehend why they should be given the eart been car we Wit the prospects of nearly a mil- lion dollars comling into the hands of the state treasurér Within a short time from payments alvéwdy due for the sale of school lands, and with the uninyested balance in his hands, the tegislature cannot fail to heed the necessity of pass- ing the law to inyest the permanent school fund 1n the registered bonds of the school districts. The treasurer of Nebraska enjoys a sinecure. His in- come from loaning money to various banks in the state isnot short of twenty- five thousand dollars. What it will be if he is to have at his disposal an upin- vested balance of a million or moro can only be imagined. He will be a better paid public sevvant than the president of the United States, or of any railroad company, and the state of Neb will be a loser by so much. Such a con- dition is not alone an anomaly, it isa menace to the best interests of the state. The underhand power of the banks in politics will be redoubled. The state treasurer will bocome the great bone of contention, and that officer will be a mere tool in the hands of the syndicate which will elect him, There can be no excuse for the legislature to shirk its duty in warding off the evil. The ino- nopoly over the people’s money enjoyed by the treasuver and his “pet” hanks of the state must be broken. sk a PRESID HAT reference to the great corporations states the situation in a nutshell. He says: “If our great corporations would mo scrupulously observe their legal limitations and duties they would have less cause to complain of ‘unlawful limitation’ of their, rights or violent interference with their oper- ation uer words were never ut- tered by a public official. The corpor: tions of the country are alone to blame for the widespread determination of the people to curb their power and restrain therr avarice. Instead of acting as com- mon carriers and dealing justly with producer and consumer, they sought to become the guardians of the public, to malke and unmalke their laws, to build up or ruin communities as the whims of the managers dictated, and coerce the ballots of freemen. Ft was natural that the people vebelled against such mon- avchial power. Sell-preservation de- manded it. The railroads must deal fairly with the people, then the people will cheerfully reciprocate. Until that happy mean is reachéd, agitation and regulation will go on with ceaseless vigor. I THE meeting ab St. Louis of the re- cent convention composed of leading business men of ‘the -country, for the purpose of agitating 4 national bank- ruptey law, was not very encouraging. The fecling predominated that such o law was not desived, owing to the difti- cultics of framing a measure satisfac- toay to debtor and creditor alike. The trouble appears to be that the ereditor class is altogether too suspicious that in the event of the passage of a national bankruptey act the law will go too far in protecting the debtor. This was the prime objection to the Loweil biil brought up for discussion at the con- vention, which provided among its terms that the burden of proof in case of fraud be thrown on the creditor. Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that a national bankruptey lawis ar sity. The very fact that leading merchants have taken up the subject goes to prove that they are not altogether satistied with the present condition of conflicting bankruptey laws T veport that the Union Pacific has perfected avrangements to build from It Lake to southern Califorma indi- tes that the company is notin such an alarming condition Of poverty as the officers would have the public believe. The proposed road has been under con- sideration for y [t has been sur- voyed several times and found to be one of the casiest and cheapest routes throwgh the mountains, It penetrates the richest agricultural section in Utah, fringed with mountains rich in gold, silver, copper, iron and coal, The mineral wealth of the region is im- mense. It has never been thoroughly prospeeted, and but little effort has been made, owing to Mormon supremacy, to op it. The construction of the road will bring it into immediate prom- inence and settlers will follow rapidly, The southern terminus of the road will be San Diego. Los Angeles will be a way station. o ars, Tne mercenaries who mutilated the Omaha charter bill two years ago aro again at th nefarious work in Line coln. Every time the people attempt to enlarge and improve the law to meot the growing demands of the city, they are harrassed and biukked by contractors and strikers, whose sole aim and objeot i £to rob the taxpuyers. There is groat danger that the present charter bill, which has passed the house, will be mu- tilated beyond recogrition in the sen- ate, If any amendinents are permitted, especially in the interest of contractors and corporations, the fate of the meas- ure cunuot be forgshadowed, Tho Douglus county senstors should unito and force the bill to passuge without ma wange. - The danger lies in returning it to tha hoyse for agreement. SINCE the decision of the supreme court thut a stenographer is not a clerk, in the legal meuning of that term, 2 menia for employiug short-haud girls aud long-hand boys, has set in among our public officiuls, The city clerk bas alrendy been voted a stenographer by the council, and now the board of edu- cation proposes to employ a steno- grapher for special teache and secretury. The next thin expect to see is that each councilman and every member of the bourd of education Tii state univel gents have be- come excoodingly penitont ds appropria- tion day approaches. Heretofore they met with little opposition to their rads on the state treasury, but the disposition of the legislature to overthrow Billings and his hogwash has brought them to their knoesaud they are now willing to acrifice the pig professor for an appro- ation. The legislature put the axe to the root when it attacked the salary list., —————e Wiy did not the managers of the st car lines accept the reasonable ng privilege concessions offered when the charter was before the house? Why do they now want the charter eut up and imperil its passage? look altogether too s dating franchise that is worth to at least a quarter of a million. hoggis! tate constitution are pending in the legislature, and one has passed. Se L of them are aimed at existing evils, and would prove beneficial if they could be made a part of the organic law. But it is a waste sider them or submit them They would be entirely lost sight of in the overshadowing contest prohibition and high license. Don’t Be So Chicago Il ugnacious. Decan, A lot of republican leaders in Ohio should stop posing before the public with chips on cach shouider, Clear Case of Self Destruction, Phitadelphia Press. The fact that the democratic legislature of favor of com- pulsory education may be accepted as a token Indin has passed a bill in of premeditated political suicide, - A Just Punishment, Chicago Tribune. “Clugston, what do you think of the Lon- don Times now "' “I have cut it off my exchange list,” re- plied the cditor of the Doodleville Yelper, as a hard, relentless look settled on his face. 's Museum, New York Sun, There is talk of a Bismarck muscum to be founded at Berlin. The United States could smarck' contribute some interesting relics, such as a plaster cast of the chancellor's ancient cnemy, the American hog, and a sketch of Mr. Cleveland’s expired Samoan policy. p oo i A Delicate Question, Chicago Herald At the white house dinner given to the Cleveland conform to iews regarding the bustle or did Mrs. Harrison conform to Mrs. Cleve- It is a great question upon which Harrisons did Mrs. Mvs. Harrison's land's? the correspondents are unfortunately silent. S e Ris Wife's Suggestion. Boston Couri “If you don't want meto know where you've Been, Harry, when you come home this way,” saida_wife to her late and some- what demoralized husband, “you. had better run upstairs when you are coming to bed." “Why sho, m’ dear?” “Because by running upstairs 5o will lose your breath.” R iy Justified. Lineoln Journal, * There somewhat justificd by the facts. after a very long Miss Royce that the Jour ceipt. -~ Two Short Poems. The Fort Worth (Texas) Mail received a poem several yards long. beginning thus: On a dark and stormy night, In the cold Decemberr month, Our little dog lay dieing And froth come out her mouth. There has been- considerable discussion in the newapapers as to the best short poem ever written in English. The New York Sun offers the following: “Ihis bliz’ Knocks biz.” It was written on a shingle, which was stuck in the snow before a store that had been closed during the celebrated blizzard, e AN ASSOCIATION OF CRANKS. Mr. Yates' Opinion of an Alleged Farm:rs' Alliance. OvAliA, Feb. 4—To the Kaitor of Tur Ber: The following I clip from a Sioux ity paper: “Representative Dorsey, of obr presented a memorial in the house to-day from the farmers' alliance of his state, 8 ing that ‘the present economic condition of the stute of Nebraska and the country generally is anomolous: inasmuch as, while the production of wealth i the condition of the producer: not_improyicg, but, on the contrary, retro- grading. While no period has withessed a rcater nggregate increase of wealth than the last twenty years, at the same time the farmers of our state are sinking deeper and per into debt. It is becoming hard to find a farm which is not mortgaged, tenant farmers arc rapidly increasing and ilures of country morchants are becoming more numerous day by day. A conservative estimate places the amount of farm mortgages in this state at 150,000,000, which, at 7 per cont interest, takes $10,500, 000 annually out of the state. = In addition to is private indebtedness, there js u corpo- vate and municipul_indebtedness which is of appalling magnitude, and which causes a further exhaustive drain upon the encrgies of our peopl While the farme of tho country are becoming invotved in debt the ar tisans and laborers ure finding the condition of life harder. Meanwhile there a classes of men who seem above the r adverse financiai misfortune, money lender and railroad own Of these the former are reapimg a harvest of wealth unprecos dented in the history of the country.” Ought not our papers to resent (such an in famous libel upon the farmers of Nebraskat Purporting to come from a “farmers alll- ance” and presented in congress as such by a representative of this state, it is liable to do infinite anmage, Personally I have been of a number clauming that the condition of the 1armers of this stute to be so_prosperous as to deserve loans upon the most liberal terms accorded by investors, and the [quit- aole Trust company, with which I am con- nected, are now muking louns throughout the well-settled portion of the state on - proved farms at the rate of 6 per cent per au- num and i commission raising it to about 7 per cent interest net to the borrower, and no loans are made ut a higher rate than 5 per cent. If this statement is uot a falsehood then we are misrepresenting the situation and must either stop loaning or make tho rate correspond to the desperate situation of the borrowers. 1 canuob but believe that this “farmer alliance’ is some assoclution of cranks, if such an uffair exists at all. It cannot possibly represent #he true interests of the furmers, and | am mystified, as every- one else must be the existence of such a docume cognition it has received at the hands of Mr, Dorsoy. If it is true, or has 1 uny solid foundation 1 fact, 1 must say | should like to know v but | hope to be anle to “stick to the faith that is i me," t ng better farming coun ry existe nor any more prosperous farmers e than those W ve in Nebraska. If 1am ong then they are, as a cluss, the grestest perjurers the world nas ever seen, as_multi- tudes of afidavits on the files of our com pany will show. 1 thank the subject must strik ser of s0mic edizorial notice, H. W. Yares. you as de Does it not Ifish on their part, after having been naccorded a consoli- them Tsn't there such a thing as being too Oma- ¢ propositions for amendments of time to con- to a vote. between is little doubt that Mr. Roscwater's account of the difficulty he has had in decid- ing to whom to pay over the Royee fund is 1t was only hunt after the location of al found her, paid over the fund to ner on her formally ex- vressed readiness to accept and give a ro- The Proposed Amendment, Omana, March 5. ~To the Ber: Inotice in this morning's editorial on The information on question is based was furnished Herald recent election, who desire to see tho city hall council architect upon. The to select an taking make to tion of the building. man possessing special nese 1 do not think member of ny would fit him for the sup: plated. is held responsible its supervision. 1 desire to say sense responsible for the amendment, al though thevewith evel council to whom it was shown member of the Douglas delogation, that the amendment was wise and desirable. In conclusion lot me building contractor as stated, good muny fricnds among the con! and mechanics of the city who desire t this building go ahead. Fren W, Grav, — PLE TALK ABOUT. WHAT P Corridors and Elsewhere. extensive land sale. stated that the transaction Kountze Brothers' Ters owned 480 acres of land brought ,000. The deal, he con- ed a great excitement in Den- body is crazy there anyway over it boom through which they are ssing. This is the “second »n made by Kountze Brothers out to the same concern. Mr. Herman Kountze says they own an acre of ground, in side property, purchased two £30,000, that is now worth $100,000, company for that amount. The board of trad that Le thimks would be of great benefit to this government, if they could be and put into practice. tion manifested by Cleveland pelled to retire, induced Colonel Nus make one or two declarations. thinks that the y man. ‘This would s and increase to the oftice for an, Biv are constantly passing laws against boodle, yet encourage its use every four years in the most lavish and reckle lanner., “It occurs to me,” said Al Green yester- stretching politeness when he uncovers his head in an elevator day, “that a man just because ladies happen to be present. T consider an elevator as much of a public con- veyance as a horse car.” Van M. Mackey, deputy clerk of the dis- trict court, took in a transerint yesterday from Justice Smith, of Chicago precinct which' ho says is the greatest curiosity in construction and_orthogr ever filed amoug legal papers. The stor period, comma or dash. ~All words except the right ones are capitalized and the docu- ment is closed with “yours truly.” Harry Mann, the business agent of “Par- lor Match,” said yesterday that he had leased the California theater, in San Frar cisco, and will take charge of it as manager the 15t of May. *“Itis to be the finest opx house in the world and next to New York. I would rather live out there than any place else. s, O'Connor is the owner and she 18 building the mstitution more as a monu- ment to her memory than us business cater- vrise.” o — Affairs in France. Pants, March 5.--It is rcported that the chamber of deputies will discuss the ques- tion of the workings of the French syndicate which has sccured control of *the copper market. : ‘A deputation from Houlogne has visited neral Boulanger and presonted him with a sword of honor, The government has for- bidden any similar demonstration iv the fu- ture. It would seem, from the howl this amend- ment has created, that, without intending it I have stepped on the corns of anothar “job," I am one of a number of citizens of Omaha built, now that the location has been finaliy determined steps plans and to interpretand supervise the construc- The plans requiro & knowledgo and fit- The proposed amendment puts it in the power of thecouncil to select such a man. the board of works will claim that he possesses the spe- cial knowledge or has had any training which ision of a first- class firo-proof structure such as is contem- 1 think, too, that the architect that for the success of the building hie plans should have some voice in big sale ago'for opted The sulking disposi- on being com- n to He thinks residential term ought to be fixed at six or eight years, and no re-clection our more stability to busin standing as a nation. *“Then, too, the money element in elections is to be deplored. We is told without iditor of Tan an “AJdob in the Chartor Bl which the article in by the par- ties who have been putting up “jobs™ n con- nection with the city hall for two years past, and who wore sat down on 80 soverely at the in regard to Messrs, Broatch and Wheeler that they are in no other member of the and every agreed v that I am not a but I have a stors sce Views and Interviews Caught in Hotel Mr. Lyman Richardson said last evening that the flying trip recently made by Her- man Kountze and brother, from New York to Denver, was for the purpose of closing an Another gentleman into They djoining Denver and sold the tract to the Stayer Tuvestment seerctary, Colone] Nason, has a fow reform notions in his hiead SOUTH OMAHA. * Notes Abont the City. . E. Hart was married Tacsday at Va. lisca, ., to Miss Mary E. Kay aud retucned yostdrday with his bride. At the Bohomian masquorads ball fa Shelany & Podolok's hall Saturday night, Miss Josephine Sedlacak took the first prizs to ladies, and John Eggert, drosssd asa ailor lassio, took the second prizo. Tho t prize to gontlemen was awarded to Frank Lactner, and the socond to Miss Jo- sophine Kubot, dressed as a knight. Mossrs, Rudolph Hortz and John Frye, v spectively ex- treu and trou moistor of Treu Bund lodge, No. 54, were in Omaha Sunday and arrangod with other dologates to organiza a grand lodge, U. O. T. B. of the distrlot of Vebraska. The delegates will meot again in rmania hall next Suaday fevouoon at 10 lock, A brother of Mrs. Charles M. Wood ar- rived here and yesterday the body of her husband was taken to Dunlap, Ia., for intar ment, Mrs. Wood and her children will go home with her brother and remain there, A collection of $14 was takon up in the Presbyterian church for Mrs. Charles M. Wood. Roy, aged ono and ono-half years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard McCowins, died Sun- day evening and was buried in Laurol ) Hill cometery yesterday aftornoon. Fell Fourteen Foet. The scaffolding on which J. G. Collar was working in the Armour-Cudahy ongine room, slipped Tuesday afternoon, throwing Mr. Collar to the floor, a distance of fourteen feot. Mr. Collor alighted square on his head, recoiving a deep cut and severe bruisos on the top of his head and was otherwise jarred. The company physician was summonod who dressed the wound. The injurics, strange to ay, are not serious, Notes About the City. An effort is being made to organizo a camp of Sous of Veterans, Thomas Grinner, of Stuart, and Miss Julia Spillane, of this city, were married in St. Bridget's church, Me. and Mrs, Grio- ner left for Stuart, Magic City post, No. 262, G. A. R., attended acamp fire in Omiha last evening. An independent volitical meeting was held in the Clifton house, Twenty-seventh and l{ street, @hird ward, last night, To-day services will be held in St. Budg- church at 9 o'clock in the morning and 30 10 the evening. P Hart, of South Omaha, was married Sunday at Stuart, la.. to Miss May K. Me- Kay. Mr, and Mrs, Hart arrived home yos- terday afternoon. The Dody of Charles M. Wood was for- warded to Dunlap, Ia., yesterday for inter- ment. Manager Boyd generously offered to bear all expenses of the funcral and furnish transportation to and from Dunlap for all who wantedto attend the funcral, James ( Martin and Mr, and Mrs. A gone to Chicaga to attend the funcral of the late L. - - The most eflicacious stimulant to ex- cite the appetije is Angostura Bitters, the genuine of Dr.J. G. B. Siegert & Sons. At all druggists. Gerontmo and His Band. SANTA '8, N. M., March 5.—[Special Tole- gram to Tue Ber.] —The strong protest re- cently adopted here by the legislative as- sembly denouncing the Indian authorities and the Indian Rights association of the e: for their attempts to send the Apache chief Geronimo and his murderous gang back to Arizona, has served to elicit from Dr. Lyman Abbott, editor of the Christian Union, New York, a statement denying the iutention to send back these [ndians to the southeast. In a letter published here to-day Mr. Abbott sa ‘‘What the philanthropists of the cast, as represented by Herbert Welsh and Gen eral Armstrong, desire, is that Geronino's band should be furnished measurably perma- nent quarters in the east. General Arm- strong has proposed the vicinity of Hampton, where they can be educated aud civilized. st e The Duke Marries Mrs. Blair, Doexeniy, Fla., March 5.—{Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.]—The duke of Suather- land, George Willtam Granville Gower, married yosterday to Mrs. Mary C r, by Bishop Weed of the Episcopal i of Dunedin, Mrs. Blair entered the chureh first, leaning on the arm of Mr, ., Knight. Miss Irene Blair followed with tho duke, and other immediate relatives and friends brought up therear. The ceremony s according to the rites of the Bpiscopal church. After the ceremony the party par- took of a wedaing breakfast at the residence of George L. Jone: et at T Money Foolishly Spent. DenLis, March 5.—The Freeman's Journal says that among Pigott's documents wero found letters from Lord Salisbury, Baron Stallvidge, the dule of Argyle and carl of Derby. The lotter of the earl of Derby, the Journal says, shows that he had given money w help Pigot! < the Parnellites. -~ npion of the World. N K, March 5—Mike Cushing, pugilist, this mornmg defeated Harry Bart- lett, of London, in o four: a-round fight for the 127-pound apionship of the world and a purse of & 000, From Pimples Psoriasis 5 years, covered face, head, and entire body with white scabs, Skin red, itchy, and bleeaing. Hair all gone. Spent hundrods of doilars, Pronounced incurabl Cured by Cuticura Bemedies. My Qlsease (psoriasts) first broke out on my eft check, wding =5 my nose, und al- most covering my face, It ran into 1 and the physician was afraid I would lo eyesight altogother. 1t spread all over head, and my bair all fell out, until | wa tirely bald-headed; it then broke out on b arms and shoulders, until my ome sore, It covered my o nd shoulde tell constantly from my head, shou'de; and arms: the skin would thicken and be red and very Iteby, and weuld crack and biced if seratehod. After spending many hundreds of dollars, 1 was provonnced incurable, [ he of the OUTICURA HENEDE nd after using two bottles CoTICURA RESOLYENT, | cotld & u change; and after 1 had taken four bottl was almost cured; six Dotties of CUTICURA REsoLvene and one hox of CurCrits, ard one cake of Crri- cupA SoAr, T was cured of the dreadful discase from which I had suffered for five vears, | thought the disesss would leave a very deep sear, put the COTICUGA Resepies cured it without any 1 cannot expross with a pen spr ny my wms were just head, 1 4 when I had used what | suffuied before uslug the CCTICUIA RespoIvs, They saved my life, and I feel ity Auty to recommend them. My hair is restored a8 020 as ever, und 80 15 my eyesight, | know of number of different persons who have used the CUTICURA KEsEDIES, and ait hiave od great beneflt from thelr use, Mus. 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It produces the whitest, clearest skin Pm ES, hlack-hesds, red,rouch, chapped and olly skin prevent -4 by UUTICUKA S0AR, to Scrofula bie Blood Poison. Sufferedall a v could «uffer and live. Faco and body covered with awfal sores. Used the Outicura Reme- dies ten weeks and {8 practically cured. A remarkable case. T contracted a terrible hlood-voisoning a year ago. ) aoctorad with two good physicians, ny nelther of whom did o 1. 1 suffered allauman can suffer and live. Hearing of your « v RipEDes | concluded to try them, knowlng if they dld me 1o good they could muke me no worse, 1 lave boen using thom about ten weeks, and um nost happy to say that Lam almost rid of the awiul sores that covered my face anl body, My face was as bad, 1f not worse, thun that of Miss Boynton, snof i your ook, and L would say to any I the same condition, to uge CUTICURA, i they winl ¥ e cured, Yon may uss I in the of suffering e 1l m 2, W. REYNOLDS, Ashland, Qhio, 1 have been troubled with scrofula seven yeavs, which et started on the top of my head, giving mo infinite trouble,with constant itehing, casting oft of dvy seales, and o watery lguid nded from under the sealss, 1 ireated it for seven yeais unsuccossfully, and was unablo to check ftuntil T found your CUTICUiiA esEs DLES, OBe hox COTICUIA, oe cake CUTICUNA Foar, and one hottls CUTICURY RESOLYENT lotely cured me, my g per- v clear and smooth, Kin be 5.0, DAVIS, Artesia, Los Angoles Co, Cal, or. 1 years I go My, bennis Downing ten years be Lnve dug and seratehed for thirty-e 1 had what is termod prur nd have suffersd everything, and tried a num! doctors but ody could huve got $0) had The COTICUIA REMEDI®S cured the man who lnvented Cutie CHENEY GItE o1 Trowbridge Street, Cambridge, Remedies and softest hands, froe from pimple, spot os lemish, CUTICUia RESOLVENT, the Bew Liood puriic angas the blood of all impurities sud polkonous elements, and thus Cavsk, Mence the Curicuia Rex every shecies of agonizing, humiiatiy buriing, scaly, and plmply d.s scalp, and blood, wih loss of nples to acrotula, 0l everywhere, Pelce, CUTICURA, e.; SOAR, tROLYENT, 81, Prepared by the Poriki DIEG AND CHENICAL CORPOIATION, oAt §#7send for “How to Cure Skin Diseases," 64 pages, 50 ilustrations, and 10 testinonials, HANDS Fediol iy i 0 , Mass, Fene s ure tehing, of the skin, b, from from chaps sad UMA BOAR,