Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 22, 1889, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY MARCH 22, 1839 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. (o i TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION, Dally (Morning Edition) including SUNDAY, Brr, One Year . ¥ For Three Month p TiE OMAHA SURDA OMAWA OFFICR, Noa, 914 and 916 FARNAM STREET. CHICAGO OFFICE, 67 ROOXERY BUILDING. New York OFrice, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUNR BuiLoing, WASHIRGTON Orrice, No. 613 FOURTEENTH BTRERET. communications rein 3 torial n;mr should Nlfldru-‘ ed to the EDITOR KR, oF TR BERpyernigg LRTTRRS, 11 business letters and romittances should be Ttk BrE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAIA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to bo made payablé to the order of the company. 746 Beg Publishing Company, Proprietors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Oirculation. Btate of Nebraska, County of I)ouglu.}"' George 1. Tzschuck, secretary of the Bee Pub- Aishing company, does solomnly swear that the wctnal cireulation of TiE DALY BE for the Week ending March 16, 1880, was as follows: Eunday, March 10 880 Monday. March 11.. Friday. March 15 Saturday, March 16. vessaees RRII. GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before moe and subseribed to in my presence this 10th day of March, A. D. 1889, Seal, N. P. FEIL, Notary Publio. Average.... Btate of Nobraska, 1, County of Douglas, {>* Georgo B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- wes and says that ho 18 secretary ol the Bes ublishing company, that the actual average Qally eirculatio of Tik DALy BER for the month o March, 18, 10,65 coples; for April 188, 15744 coples; for May, 1885, 1415 i "for June, 1888, 10,24} coples; for 1888, 18,033 'copies; for August, 1 18,1K) coples; for September, 1838, 18 14 covles: for October, 188, IN0S coples: for Novem: Der, 1888, 16,08 coples: for December, 1888, 18,223 coples; for January, 1889, 18,674 coples; for Feb- ruary, 1889, 18,006 copies. : B0 OB ORaR B, MZ8CHUCK. Sworn to before mo and subscribed in my ‘presence this 2d day of Maroh, A. D, 1880, . P. FELL Notary Public. THERE is more interest taken in the laps than the miles in the bicycle race. THE Union Pacific company is open- ing three new coal mines in Wyoming, but prices will remain at the old noteh. THE senate scored the first knock- down in the battle with the plunderers. Tmbecile farms are not popular in Ne- braska. CANON DIABLO in Arizona is well named. Packages of money expressed in that direction raise Old Harry and his road agents. THE Lower California gold fields have developed a rich and varied as- sortment of salt. The dupes were thoroughly pickled. THE reduction of the justice mills in ©Omaha to six will paralyze a great in- dustry, and compel a lawless gang of shysters to walk or saw wood. — I¥ PROPER inducements were offered perhaps Major Balcombe would again assemble himself in the dark, hold a brief seance and issue a permit for the street sweepers to uncover the pave- ments. HASTINGS wants to add two wings to the asylum for incurables before the pody of the building has developed. This is the usual way of plucking the state to feather a nest of local contrac- tors. Clip the wings. E— THE Hungarians have touching ways peculiarly their own of emphasizing their contempt for public officials. Sticks, clubs and stilletos, when pressed bome, will convince the average official that life is a failure. THE crop of candidates for the capitol of South Dakota is enormous, and the price of votes in ‘‘blocks of five” has passed the hundred dollar notch, The ward worker will retire a millionaire after the campaign. THE organization of coal and paper syndicates in free trade Rngland srushes the popular democratic argu- ment that protection is the only legiti- mate pavent of trusts. Avarice laughs at all laws, human and divine. STATE AUDITOR BENTON is actively lobbying for increased salariesand help for his department. The legislature should reciprocate by reducing the force, and compel the auditor to give his attention to the business of the state. MR. HITCHCOCK'S anxiety to anchor the postoffice on the Plauter’s house block is due entirely to unselfish mo- tives. The factthat it would put money in his purse spurs his ambition to serve the public and prop that cream-colored elephant across the way. THE boomers of the Planters’ house site have determined to overwhelm Secretary Windom with a petition of one thousand names gathered up in the highways and byways of the north. These men are inspired by lofty patriot- ism—to serve themselves without re- gard to publie convenierdce. — THE saloon keepers will accomplish nothing and injure their cause by & re- vival of blue laws. Any attempt to de- vprive the public of necessary con- veniences will precipitate a storm of in- dignation which caunnot fail to result disustrously to the instigators. Modera~ tion s extremely necessary in the liquor business. E—— BAKER and Caldwell are the richest pair of public plunderers in the legisla- ture. The mouth-organs of every steal, no measure is too disreputable for their support. As advocates of Stout and “Kennard they surpass the kings of the 1lobby, and will reap their reward. Stout and Kennard are generous clients. There is nothing small about them but their modesty. E— Tug extension of the Cheyenne & Northorn branch of the Union Pacific 10 a junction with the Elkhorn Valley road, near Douglas, will open a rich mineral section of Ceuiral Wyoming, The oil and coal flelds of that section will be pretty thoroughly developed this season, and will attract not only capital and settlers but railroads from the engt and south. THE BOODLERS BALKED. The lobby of the legislature is again infested with a hungry horde of mer- cenaries. The approaching close of the session renders them bold, defiant and desperate. They crowd on the floors, press into forbidden places and fAaunt their venal schemes in the face of every legislator. They harass and bull« doze honest members. They stoop to overy villainous method to block bene- ficial logislation, and press to the front fraudulent' bills and bogus claims. They are the political lazaroni of the state—human carrion who conspire to rob the state that they may feast on the plunder. Never was there such a disgraceful scramble for pell in Lincoln, The exorbitant demands of public institutions, the extravagant sums asked for additions and improve- ments, the vast increase of salaries rec- ommended, and the countless number of claims trumped up by briefless lawyers and impecunious agents, combine to make the lobby a rich, juicy pasture for the parasites. These hired tools of job- bers receive every aid and encourage- ment from the combine of boodlers on the floor, who shamelessly advocate every bogus claim presented and work and vote for every palpable steal. To add to the disgraceful spectacle, public officers, with their subordinates, descend to the gutter and join the iniquitous throng in lobbying for increased help and inflated salaries. Such a scandalous exhibition of official power was properly and effectively rebuked by the house in reducing the salary list to that of 1887, The decisive defeat of the bill appro- priating fifty-nine thousand dollars to build additions and purchase a farm for the feeble minded, is strong proof that thesenate fully realizes its duty to the taxpayers, It is a vigorous protest against the iniquitous combine in the lower house. It is a warning to the plunderers that their fraudulent schemes cannot escape rigid serutiny in the senate, and that the state treasury will be protected from the reckless raids of mercenaries. It isa signal of encouragement to the brave friends of economy in the house to persevere in the fight for the people and reduce to the lowest possible amount the extrava~ gant sums asked for state institutions, without improving their usefulness. With a strong fighting minority in the house and a majority of the senate battling for a common cause, the ma- chinations of the combine will fail, and those who deal the death blow'will have the satisfaction of having performed a duty to the state and people faithfully and well. — RAILROAD RETALIATION. The railroads of Iowa have entered upon the policy of retaliation that was threatenad when the rate schedule of the railroad commissioners was estab- lished. They have reduced the local service and. accommodations, arranged the running schedules with the obvious purpose of giving the traveling public the greatest possible inconyenience and annoyance, and otherwise are manifesting a disposition to punish the people of Towa, so far as possible, for the action of the railrond commission in reducing rates. We ave credibly in- formed that on the branch roads there has not only been a great decrease in facilities and an increase. in the run- ning time, but that time cards are ar- ranged so as to avoid connections be- tween trains on these branch roads with these on the main lines. This is especially annoying to the cciimercial travelers, who are put to e*.tra expense and whose business suffers from delay. This state of affairs also necessarily af- fects unfavorably the general distribu- tion of merchandise, and must prove damaging to business throughout the state. Meantime the railroads are steadily improving through trafic fa- cilities. Of course the managers will claim that their action is necessary in in order to enable the roads to pay expenses on Towa business at the reduced rates, but their method clearly shows that the spirit of retahation had more to do with prompting it than the necessity for economy. Granting the reduction of accommodation to be justifiable, that does not render necessary other ele- ments productive of the greatest possi- ble inconvenience and anuoyance to the public, It seems evident that the rail- roads have combined to carry out a pol- ioy designed to punish the people of Towa, and thus if possible create a feel- ing which may result in forcing the people to let the railroads have their own way. In effect the railway mana- gers say to the people of Towa: If you insist upon making rate schedules for us we wili give you the poorest service we dare to. and not only this but we will render it in such a way as to cause you the most serious trouble and dam- age. It cannot be doubted that the railroads are making a very grave mistake in pursuing a policy of this kind. It will not accomplish the only apparent object it can be intended to effect. The people of Iowa will not surrender their rights of railroad regula- tion, however great the sac- 1rifice they may have to make in order to maintain it. If the railroads persist in making war upon the public inter- ests and welfare, the people have not yet exhausted their power to deal with the corporations. The policy of the railroads should be not to create and in- tensify popular hostility, but by a fuir and straightforward course convince the public of any injustice that may exist and seek the remedy by appeal to the intelligence and fairness of the people. The claim of the railroads that they cannot do business profitably at the rates provided for them cannot be established by the course they are pursuing, and until it is established by adequate experiment they cannot s aus- factorily defend a demand for an in- crease of the rates. Iun vhe last judicial decision sustaining the authority of the Towa railrond eommission to make rates, Judge Brewer said the question as to whether the rates establishad by the commission are too low to allow the roads to do business profitably under them could be determined only by ac- tual experiment. It was a matter be- yond the ability of any tribunal to de- cide. The necessary trial the corpora- tions vefuse to make, and instead om- bark upon a policy of reduced service accompanied by methods so evidently designed to annoy and damage the pub- lic as to inevitably create popular hostility. The lowa railroad managers are committing a blunder which they are likely to find far more unprofitable than would be a straightforward com- pliance with the law and regulations made in pursuance of it. OFFENE 'ARTISANS. The administration has been giving some consideration to the question whether a charge of offensive partisan- ship against an official of democratic politics shall be deemed a sufficient reason for his removal. An_ Illinois re- publican congressman was the first to present a test case. He asked the re- moval of the postmaster in his town solely on the ground that he had been offensively active as a politician in the last campaign. The postmaster general was veported to have assured the con- gressman that the charge was sufficient, that the removal would bp promptly made, and the position filled by whom- soever the congressman should recom- mend. The matter is understood to have been discussed in the cabinet, but it has not transpired that any definite policy was agreed upon. Since this in- cident there have been several other similar demands upon the postmaster general, and according to the report of his treatment of them the intention appears to be to regard offensive par- tizanship as a sufficient cause of re- moval, but that there will be more tes- mony required than the simple accusa- tion of a congressman. Fur- thermore, according to the quoted statement of the first assistant postmaster general appoint- ments will not be made on the mere recommendation of congressmen, but the department will require that a member of congress shall show by poti- tion and letters of recommendation that his candidate is approved by the people. Thus it appears that congressmen are not to be permitted to so completely dictate appointments, at least so far as the postoffices are concerned, as was at first supposed. ‘Their recommendations will of course have prior consideration, but in order to be successful they must have an adequate popular support. The wisdom of this policy will not be ser- jously questioned, as a return to con- gressional bossism would assuredly be condemned by a great majority of the people. Regarding the policy of removals for offensive partisanship it cannot be fairly objected to by any class of politicians. It was made a cardinal principle by the last administration, and though it came at the last to be tolerated so far as dem- ocrats were concerned, it is not recorded that any republican who was found act- ively working for his party was per- mitted to remain in office. Dem- ocrats, therefore, are estopped by the course of their own administration from finding any fault with the policy. Civil service re- formers have always insisted that of- fensive partisanship on the part of pub- lic officials should be held a sufficient reason for their removal, so that no ob- jeotion can properly come from this source. The result of a general appli- ‘tation of this policy will leave very few democrats in the federal offices, for despite the instructions and injunctions of the late administration the demo- cratic officials nearly everywhere were as active and zealous and *‘offensive” in party work as in the daysbefore the re- form innovation. They made them- selves prominent in caucuses, conven- tions, public meetings, and wherever else theur influence and money could be of party service, and they continued this with increasing freedom and vigor to the close of the last election. These officials cannot reasonably expect any leniency from the party they thus fought in open and bold violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of the civil ser- vice law, and in disregard of an execu- tive order emanating from the hoad of their own party. However meritorious otherwise as officials, the offensive par- tisians forfeited all just claim to the consideration of the victorious party by their conduet in politics, and they must expect to receive the penalty to which they willingly rendered . themselves amenable, THE suggestion of Mr. J. L. Miles that the Irish citizens of Omaha should find an early opportunity to publicly and substantially express their sympa- thy with Parnell and the Irish cause, ought to receive the prompt considera- tion of these citizens. Unquestionably the Irishmen of Omaha are as patriotic as any in the country, and as willing to contribute vo the cause that is most dear to the hearts of all true Irishmen. We are confident it will be only necessary to call them together to demonstrate this, and all that is required is that some one having their confidence shall start the movement for a mass meeting, with the understanding that the expres- sion of sympathy shall take a substan- tial form. The Irish cause is making progress, and Irishmen everywhere should give it hearty and generous en- couragement, THERE are four reasons why the bill creating the office of public printer and giving that functionary a monopoly of the work, should be killed, It places the purchase of material in the haunds of the public printer, without any check to prevent it being used for other than public purposes, It gives him the profit- able privilege of measuring and ap- proving the bills for work doue in his own shop. It deprives the state of the benefit of competition, and robs every printing office in the state of the right to bid for and secure & share of public work. In the light of these facts, no honest man can support the bill without wilfully aiding a treasury raid and in- juring the printing industry in the state. E—— Tug decision of Secretary Windom to withhold approval of Special Agent Linton’s report in favor of the Plauters’ house site for the next postoffice, is a wise and properone. Noinjury can re- sult to the eity bya careful examination of the sites offered, especially those which were ignored by the special agent. *The convenience of the banks, the wholesale houses and other large patrons of the government will be care- fillly considered and weighed before the finat decision is made. THE troubles of the county commis- sioners increase and multiply with every passing hour. Mismanagement crops out in every department of county affajrs. The Pauly vault steal, the dis- graceful treatment of poor-house in- mates, and the wretched construction of the new hospital, demonstrate that the members of the board arve totally in- competent or criminally negligent in the management of county affairs, R WA—— Ti¥' law empowering district court judgt¥ to grant injunctions on Sun- days is one of the most important laws passod by the legislature. It will pro- tect the people from grasping corpora- tions, which connive with municipal officials to rob the people of their rights. It will checkmate midnight conspiracies and Sunday raids and give property owners a lawful club to protect themselves. The Man With a Petition. Chicago Tribune. And if asked what state he hails from, Our sole repl, shall be: He hails from thirty-scven states, And he hails persistentlee. s i New York's Generosity. Globe-Demoerat. New York Is going to eract a monument to the memory of the late John Erickson—if the rest of the country will furnish the money. —_—— They Think William Naughty. Chicaao News. The methodist ministers of this city soem to think thav the best friends of Shakspeare are thoso who try to prove that his plays were written by Bacon, b Devilish Sly is Jay. Baltimore American, Jay Gould takes a gloomy view of the financial outlook. Those who follow Gould's published advice will also get a gloomy view of the situation. There is generally a broad siguificant smile underlying Jay's gloomy views. We use the word underlying ad- visedly. R AT P What St. Louis Needs. Kuansas City Journal. WALl the foreiszn capital which may be in- vested in rapid transit enterprises in St. Louis is worth ten times the actual value to the city,” says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Just how anything can be worth ten times its actual value is a bit mystifying, but we presume the Post-Dispatch means that any- thing which moves, and moves rapidly, will be of incalculable value as atonicto St. Lows, e Immortal Osculation. Chicago Times. Mrs. Anastasia Parsells, of Bayonne, N. J.,15 103 yearsold. When she was twelve years old George Washington (Gen. G. W. of the chertytrec and hatchet incident) “kissed her twiee on her full, rosy red, pout- ing lips.” One hundred years from now there will be lots of girls, if they live so long, who can and will be proud to give Gen- eral Shermad dway in the same manner. The kissing that,men do lives after them. THAT TOILL, Minneapolis, Minn., has 2,000 men who are 1ooking for worle. A strike has occurred among the weavers at Armetieres, France. 3 A Nashua (N, H.) tool factory has cut wages from 5 tb 85 per cent. The Wheeling: Hinge company of West Virginia has cut wages 10 per cent. ‘Wheeling (W. Va.) painters have struck for $3 per day of nine hours, a chunge from $2.75 and ten hours. The strilce among the employes at the blast furnace of Andrew Brothers & Co. at Hazle- ton, O., has been declared off. The upper rolling-mill of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal company at Scranton, Pa., em- ploying 700 hands, has resumed. The “shaft lashing” weavers at Stead & Miller’s upholstery mill, Philadelphia, Pa., are on strike against a reduction in wages. The Canadian Pacific railroad shops at Vancouver, B. C., employ about one hundred men, eight and one-half hours being a day’s work. The Scott Foundry Rolling-mill of the Reading Iron Works at Reading, Pa., has closed down. The worksemployed 1,80) men and boys. A strike is threatened among the bricklay- ers of Cleveland, O. They wunt 45 cents an hour, while the contractors refuse to pay more than 40. Terra cotta workers are warned to stay away from Brightwood, Ind., where there 1s trouble among the men at the Inianapolis Terra Cotta Works. At New York city the boss masons and the journeymen bricklayers settled the scale of wages for the ensuing year at $4.05 per day, nine hours five days of the week and eight on Saturday. The puddlers of the Maiden Creek iron company at Blandon, Pa., have accepted a reduction in wages from $3.50 to $.25 per ton, and all other employes have been re- duced in proportion. Kansas City now has a labor exchange, Employment will be secured for ‘idle labor- ers und families of the poor be looked after. Itis the intention also to establisn night schools and furnish educational facilities to the impoverished. Kent (England) farm laborers make from $3 to $3.50 per week, Dorsetshire hands average nearly $1 less, and at Torshire oper- atives make $4.50 per week. The Boston Commercial says a four room cottage with a garden costs 60 cents per week; a fair cot- tage brings 85 vents. Some Denmark railj¢ay companies em- ploy » man and his wife together, The women signal the trainsand the men do the track-walking. In case of the death of either husband or wife the other half of the family must marry in six months or get out the company's employ. , « . Spokane Assembly, Nbé. 7652, K. of L, warns all workingmen fo stay away from Spokane, Washington Territory. There‘is less prospect now than there was ever before, Thetown is full of idle’ men, and every branch of labor is overcroyded. In spite of its boasted natural gas, Toledo is going to lose a large mamufactory, as the cost of fuel is greater thafl in Cleveland and other cities. The price 0f gas is based on 25 per cent less than of coal, hut the latter fuel for manufacturing purposes costs only half as much in Cleveland as in Toledo, The Wheeling, Lake Erie & Pittsburg Coal company has recently gained control of upward of 6,000 acres of coal lands near Smithfield, Jefferson county, O,, in what is considered the richest coal field in eastern Ohio. The company expects to give employ- ment to 8,000 men, and which will turn out annually from 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 tons of coal, General Master Workman Powderly now keeps the followiug notice standiug at the head of the editorial columns in the Journal of United Labor: Invitations to picnics, balls, entertain- ments and anniversaries will receive no at- tention from the undersigned. Requests to locture, no matter from whom they come, will not be answered, 1shall make all my own arrangements in future, and the above rule will be rigidly adhered to. My repeated notices and letters in the Journal have not had any effect in stopping the flow of Invita- tions, hence this standing notice which must answer for all. a—tin STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. The Broken Bow Athletic club has perma- nently organized and elected officers, Measles are prevailing to an alarmiag ex- tent among the Indian children at Pine Ridge agency. The farmers of York county have sown their oats and are preparing to put in their flax seefl. There are 206 civil and twenty-five criminal cases on the docket of the Custer county dis- trict court. The three Custer county murders who have been confined in the York county jnil \\'er:l last week taken to Broken Bow for trial. A Plattsmouth saloon keeper named Grave patronized his own bar tosuch an extent that he was laid in his grave the other day after a fatal attack of jim jams, Thieves broke into the hardware storo of J. P, Thressins at Johuson the other night, cracked the safe and secured a condsiderable sum of money without being detocted. , For disturbing a Salvation army meeting a Beatrico young man was finod §3 and costs, and as he could not pay he now languishes in jail while the Saivationists are praying for is redemption. The depositors of the Farmers' and Mer- chants’ bank of Carleton, which went iato voluntary liquidation recently. have held a meeting and resolved to take steps to reor- ganizo the bank. “Woman's D1 ' a noted, dirty, indolent scout, who figured prominently during the troubles with the Cheyennes at Fort Robin- son, 18 back at his old post as government scout at Fort Robinson, says the Crawford Clipper. Alma has bad another rotten-cgging caso and a hanging in eMgy. Attorney T. J. For- £USOn was accused of consorting with objec- tionable women by the Beacon and was am- bushed and egged by regulators, later being hung in effigy to his ofice sign and warned to leave town within sixty days. The law- yer, however, proposes to stay in Alma and fight his enemies, having already filed papers in the district court against the editor of the Beacon for criminal libe! “The young peopie of Niobrara are on_ the warpath at present and are after the scalp of C. Stein. The “Home Dramatic company” gave a show and dance in Stein’s hall the other night, during the progress of which a pane of glass was broken. When the young Deople were ready to go home they discov- ered that the owner of the hall had locked up their wraps and refused to release them until the broken glass was paid for. This made the boys mad and they proceeded to se- cure other garments for the young ladies and escorted them home, leaving the goods in possession of Stein. In the morning re- plevin papers were issued and Stein was compelled to give up the clothes. A boycott has now been declared against the hall. Towa. Mary Grincell of Decorah and Lizzie Cos- tello of De Witt have taken the white veil at Cedar Rapids. J. 9. Murray of Rock Rapids has been held for trial in #2,000 bonds on the charge of se- duction preferred by Mary Egan. The Sioux City survivors of the battle of Shiloh are arranging to fittingly celebrate the anniversary of the battle, on April 6. Hon. Orson Rice, of Spirit Lake, who has practiced law for twenty-five years in north- westorn Towa, has decided to permanently retire from practice. It took seven men to nhandle a Keokuk youth who became insane about religion. Keokuk people don’t often get religion, but when they do they get it hard. For the first time in many years the pres- ent term of the district court in Oskaloosa will adjourn without having a single criminal indictment for trial on the docket. A Des Moines youth wrote out a s mall-pox sign for a joke the other day und placed iton a neighbor’s house. The latter individual didn’t see the point and now the jolker is de- fendant in a libel suit. George W. Craigg, a prominent druggist at Eagie Grove, recently indicted by the Wright county grand jury for selling intoxi- cating liquors, has mysteriously disappeared and his bondsmen are on the anxious seat. J. K. Graves, of Dubuque, has received a letter from Governor Larrabee in which the latter suggested that it would be extremely fitting to have an oil portrait of General George W. Jones, the first senator from Iowa, to be hung in the capitol at Des Moines. ‘The governor suggests that a movement be started with this end in view. Beyond the Rockies. George D. Carleton, a Seattle bookkeoper, has departed, leaving' his omployers $10,0 short. There is a belief at Tacoma that the navy yard provided for by congress will be estab- lished at that point. Representatives of eight Indian tribes met at Spokane Falls, Wash., recently and formed a confederation, There were 300 tous .of hay raised on the Boise poor farm last season, and about half of it is still on hand. It brings $S a ton on the premises. The amount of siiver bullion shipped through the express office at Austin, Ne from 1863 to 1888 inclusive, was 24,029,600 04 pounds. Elizabeth Smith died at Salem, Ore., ged 102 years, nine months and five She was born at Alsted, N. H., in 1786, her maiden name being Johnson, The N. & C. railroad company will resume construction work soon north of Keno, Nev. The company expended $300,000 last year, and when it starts in again will disburse nearly $1,000,000. A beef-packing association, with a capital of $100,000, has been formed at North Yakima, W. T., to butcher and ship in re- frigerator cars the 500 head of beeves, mut- ton and pork marketed damly from the Yakima range. The Idaho Avalanche reports that J. W. Stoddard bought a mare fourteen years ago, from which he uow has a band of horses and colts numbering seventy-five head. If he had commenced with ten head, and all had in- creased in the same ratio, he would now have about nire hundred head of horses. e State Printing Bill Again, OmanA, March 20.—To the Editor of Tre Bee: Mr. H. B, Hathaway, of the State Journal, has taken considerable trouble to make a compilation of a great many figures and numerous statements, neither of which are correct, and lay them before the logisla- ture. He has also taken pains to speak of an “anonymous circular,” which was issued; and goos on o say, “Tho man who made the figures knew them to be false.”” Mr, Hatha- .way knew the man who made the figures, and knew the statement with regard to them to be true, as he practically admitted the same thing in the State Journal, over his own signature. The point I was making was that the cost of work would be considerablu more under the state printer law than under contract. 1 am wiliing to go before the printing com- mittee, or any competent set of printers, and demonstrate the correctness, in the main, of the statements made in my circular headed “State Printing Exuibit.” Ican also prove that the comparisons in_figures in Mr. Hath- away’s circulaa, entitl “State Printer Question,’" are mainly wrong. I would like to call Mr, Hathaway's attention to the fol- lowing points : He quotes price of senate journals under roposed law, for 1885, at $4,510.17, where ey nontained 1,662 pages, and he quotes the senate journals of 1887 at 83,87L85, where they contained 1,600 pags being a differ- ence of sixty-two pages and a difference of abeut $1,200 in price. Also for the house journals for 1585, he quotes the price at $1,464.10 where they con- tain 1,602 pages, and the house journals for 1887 at #3,000.48 where they contain 2,000 pages. There is a radical dllcrevum‘)’ here some- where, more betwoen the house than senate jouraals, and I would like to see Mr. Hatha- iway explain the matter, With regard to Mr. Hathaway's statement that four velumes of supreme court reports ©cost $0,000 and would cost $3.072 under the rropo-ed Iaw, would say this is a job Mr, Hathaway has always had, and furthermore, the $9,000 includes the cost of 'l‘hw.' otc., as well as the cost of printing, and there isnoth- ing figured excopt the cost of printing under thsvpmposod law. ith regard to the two volumes of statutes which he r‘ux.nmx at §24,000 (though there was only $20,750, including compilation, etc., sl!d‘ this being another of Mr. Hathaway's iscropancios) as paid for by the state, and which under the proposed law wounld cost $18,560; would say this was a private matter and the state had nothing whatever to do with it, as the state paid Mr. Guy A. Browa for the work, and the amount paid him in- cluded the costof compilation, indexing, etc., ‘which 18 not, of course, included under the proposed law, and the cost of making plates, eto., would be extra also. Ican demonstrate to the satisfaction of any ono that there is not a single item, which I have so far been able to discovor, that would not cost more under the proposcd law than under the contract systom, except in cases whore contract has not been lot, as is tho cano with the suprome_ court roports and other work done by Mr, Hathaway. With m?nrd to the printing of bills at £1.05, 1 will admit it is too low; but, at the same time, Mr. Hathaway bid on them at $1.20 per pige last Decomber, Notwithstanding, as I understand it, that the Erlcl.‘l first named in tho state printing bill have been reduced in some particulars, I would be willing to allow the state $20,000 (letting $5,000 a year be taken out of my printing bills for four years) for the position of state printer, and give bond for the faith- ful performance of my duties, The great objection to the bill in its pres- ent form is that the state printer pract buys his own material and accounts for i such a way that it is impossiblo for the print- ing board to tell whether it is used for state printing or for private purposes. To show: the rehability of Mr. Hathaw: figures, ho says that 70,000 would cover nearly all that has been paid out for printing during the last four years. I would like to call the attention of the legislathre and Mr. Hathaway to the fact that an appropriation of £161,000, besides miscellaneous printing done for various institutions, has been made for this purpose during the last four ye: 1t looks very suspicious that M way should be so interested in_ getting this state printer bill through when he has readily had mne-tenths of all the work done for the state by contract or otherwise, mostly otherwise, for the last ten or fifteen years, HexNnY GinsoN. L The Liargest Navies. Lixcory, Neb, March 10.—To the Editor of Trie Bee: Wiil you be kind enough to inform a constant reader which three nations posse ss the largest navies e READER, Aus.—England, Franc: S Exception Taken. Nortt Bexp, Neb, March 21.—To the Editor of Tur Bee: In your issue of last Saturday was a base attack on Mrs, Clark, of North Bend. Permit me to say through your columns that the article was prompted by revenge, and was as false as uncalled for. Mus, L. M. Means, S Assessors' Work., In their meeting Wednesday the ward and township assessors decided to list real estate property at one-third of its full value, aud for personal belongings County Clerk Roche will make up a schedule corresponding as nearly as possible to the values in other counties. Heretofore, property has been assessed at abouv one-fourth its full value, consequently the rate of taxes in this county has been higher according to the amount of valuation, $25,000,000, than any place else. A bill was intreduced in the logislature in this session providing that houses and lands be assessed at their full value, but it failed to pass. The assessors all over Nebraska have taken the respensibility of raising the basis to one- third. This is the year also for taking the old sol- dier census, and Mr. Roache is having blanks, adapted to that purpose, printed. e Selling School Property. Secretary Piper says that the object of of- fering for sale partof the Sixteenth street frontage of the lots on which the Hartman school is situated, is for the purpose of buy- ing lots north and south of the Fifteenth street frontage. It is always desivable to fiave a school house extend north and south, instead of east and west, because in the for- mer case the rooms get the sunlight eithor in the morning or afternoon, while in the latter case the north rooms never get it The Paul school lots ave to be sold because that structure, which was intended as an overflow school for the Izard, is too far away from the lattor. It is desired to move it about three blocks east of its present loca- tion, or to Twenty-second and Paul streets. s i S South Dakota Oapital Candidates. CrAMBbERLAIY, So. Dak, March 2L— {Special to Tine Ber.]—The question as to where the temporary capital of South Dakota will b located is absorbing all the attention of the press at present, There are now nine candidaes in the field—Chamberlain, Sioux Falls, Mitchell, Madison, Watertown, Red- field, Huron, Pierre and Aberdeen. The vote'of the Black Hills will probably decido the location, and there is no_doubt but that they will vote tor a town on the Missouri viver. The Hills people do not feel very friendly toward Pierre on account of its t ing to get_the soldiers’ home from the Hot Springs. Chamberlain will in_all probability get a maiority of the Hills vote, Zypt. SMmyRNA, March 21.—-A heavy shock of earthquake has occurred here. ORUELTY TO WOME! Charges Made Against tho Superine tendent and Matron Mahoney. Notice was served on Tur Ber last Tuose day that the board of county commissionery would yesterday receive such complaints as might be made against the managemoent of the poor farm, In answer tothis, Tne Ber yesterday filed with the clerk of the court the follow Ing charges against Mr. and Mrs. John J4 Mahoney : Befor the honorable board of county come missioners of Douglas county, Nebraska, mes B. Haynes V8. < John J. Mahonoy mm}u““"“‘"L Mrs. John J. Mahoney. The complaint and information of James B. Haynes, an_ocloctor of the county of Douglas, made before the honorable board of county commissioners of Douglas county, Nebraska, who boing first duly sworn on his oath says that ho has reason to believe and doos boliove that_John J. Mahoney, superin tendent of the Dougias county poor farm, and Mrs. John J, Mahonoy, matron of the county poor hogse and hospital, aro now, and for several months past, beon guilty of hubitual and willful neglect’ of duty and of gross partiality in the sdischarge of the dutios assignod to them under the law and under their appointment as such superton- dent and matron by the board of county coms missioners in tho following partioulars: “That said John J. Mahoney and Mrs. John J. Mahoney have been guilty of cruelty to women 1 delicate condition committed to their charge and to infant babes and other inmates; that sajd Mrs. John J. Mahoney has used and habitually uses obscono and in- sulting opithets to destituto fomales and in- mates and has exhibited - violent _tomper to- wards them; that the said John J. Mahoney and Mrs, John J. Malonoy have permitte the said poor house and count, hospital to become _overrun witl vermin and filth; have _ neglected tho wants of tho siok committed to thoir caro; have permitted tho son of the said John J. Mahoney and Mrs, Johu J. Mahone; to crully treat and ill use imboolles confines in said poor house and hospital, have utilized the time and labor of women retained by the county, as nurses for tho use of the said Mrs. John J. Mahoney; th# the said John J. Mahoney has inhumanly treated and allowed his assistants to inhumaniy treat and dissect bodies of deccased inmates of said county poor house and hospital; that the said John J. Mahoney and Mrs, John J. Mahoney are wholly uniit for the places thoy now occupy as superintendent and_matron under the ap- pointment of the board of county commis- sioners, Jas. B3, HAYN Subscribed 1 my presence and sworn to before me this 21st day of March, 1839, [Seal.] P, FEiL, Notary Public. Unfortunately, Mr. Edward Rosowater, editor of Tue 13kE, 18 out of tho city and could not sign the complaint, and as the time allowed in which to malke the same was lim- ited, it was deemed expedient to do so to-day, the document being signed by another gentle: man connected with Tnr Bre. This document was read in the presonce of Mahoney and the commissioners, Upon mo- tion of Mr. Turner, the clerk was ordered to have a copy served on Mahoney, together | with summons to appear and make answer. It was proposed to set Saturday as the time for hearing evidence, but Mahoney said_he would insist on the three days allowed him by Inw, 80 it was ordered that the summons bo made returnable at 9 o'clock Monda morning, and that the hearing of eviden should bogin at that time. pemioiit=t ROTTEN ALLEYS. The Pavements in Them Are Now Bes ginnming to Appear. There is an excollent movement on foot which has been delayed these many years. It is the scraping and cleaning of the paved alleys in the heartof the city. There are five of these, running from Sixteenth to Ninth street. They are paved with granite and the work cost thousands of dollars, Since the laying of the pavement thoy have not been scraped—not even swept. As @& consequence, upon them has rested the ace cumulation of filth and rottenness of years. While the stroets have been cleaned regu- larly, these alleys have festered in corrup- tion,” They were a disgrace to the city. The reform was undertaken at the in stance of Tue Bee, But it is only an impor- fect reformation. These alleys ave now being cleaned by inmates of the city jail under the direction of Officer Rowden. The alley north of Douglas has been robbed of 1ts corruption and the latter is being carted away by teams under the supervision of Street Commis- sioner Kent. The chloride-of-lime committee is now working the ailey between Douglas and Farnam streets, and the result of its labors is the marvel of the beholders. The alleys south of Farnam, Harney Howard and Jackson will be cleaned in turn which may require till the end of next weel. Thenceforward, Oficer Rowden says he has boen instructed'to keep these thoroughfares perfectly clean. He will make useof jail birds in the work. This system, however, it seems does not give satisfaction. It is claimed that wh!lu‘; 18 inexpensive to the city, it deprives deser®s ing poople of work to which they are enti- tlod, and besides doos not. guarantce the rog- ularity of work which would be the case under a regular contractor. The cleaned slleys, however, will be appreciated. Now tho merchants along tho alleys aro waiting for a councilman who will introduce an ordinance which will make their sweeping a weckly occurrence to be paid for by the city. . New Corporation. Articles of incorporation for the Nowman Methodist Episcopal church were filed with the county clerk. The trustecs and incor- porators are: L. O, Jongs,' M, G, Rohr. baugh, Erank B. Bryant, C. I Harrison and Phomas Baker, A GOOD SUGGESTION. ECONOMY, as wise folks say, What course should people then pursue? Is wealth pronounced another way, In short, the only thing to do, So while *hard times " the people cry, Though rich in bonds, or worldly poor, ‘The Toilet Soaps they should not buy. The “Ivory Soar" they should procure, Let all who buy such Soaps take care Which may be bought from coast tocoast, To weigh the cake exact and fair, And find they pay in figures round A dollar, more or less per pound. At sixteen cents per pound at most, And does more satisfaction grant Than all the Toilet Soaps extant, A WORD OF WARNING, There are many white soaps, each represented to be A Just but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar they ARE NOT, " 00d as the ' Ivorf'q remarkable qualities of the genuine, Ask for ‘Ivory" Soap and insist upon getting it, Copyright 1885, by Procter & Gamble. \