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

* Sl i 4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1839 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERX MORNING. flrar/ kit TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, M (Momln‘ Edition) tncluding smmum ™ um.m- 3 V 5 00 ree Months 260 ] OIAHA svnmr ¥, maiied o any w-nu e 2 00 OMA 1A OFFICE, N08,014 And 016 FARNAM STREET. P g::mo OF¥ioR, 507 ROOKERY BUILDING. ¥ W Y ORK OFFECE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUNR UILDING, WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. b RTRENTH STRERT. CORRESPONDENCE, All communications relating to news and edi- Borial matter should be addressed to the EviToR e, OF THE Hp BUSINESS LETTER®, 11 business letters and remittances should b 0d to TrE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postoflice oraers to be made payable to the order of the company. e Bee Putlishing Company, Proprictors, E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE l)AIl‘Y llhlu. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Stateot Nebraskn, | '}y, u- nty of Doujlas, @ B, Tzschuck, secretary of the Bee Pub- ushin company, doos solemnly swear that the sctual eirculation of Te DALY DEe for the week ending March 30, 1530, Was as follows: Bunday. March 2. v onday. March % ehciny, Makoh 2. Wednesday, Marc Thllflfll" March 23 day. March 2 Averugo...... 20/ T8 Bworn to hefors mo_ and subsoriad o my ‘presence this Jth flny of March, A. D, 1889, Seal. . FEIL, Notary Publie. Biateot Nebraskn, {uy, County of Douglas, Georgs B, Tzecnuck, being duly sworn, d- es And fnys that he 18 socretary of the Bes Publishing company, tnat tho aetual average duily circulatio of THE DAILY BER for the month ot March, 1, 19,080 coples; for April, 188, 18744 coples; - for May, 1884, 1K1K} ek 11 coplo 1:"“ Angasty 1&?»' 3 'coplens for Augus TR coplas tor, Sepismber, T, 054 covlew; for October, coplos: for Novem: ber, 1888, 1H‘W (‘ol’llul for December, 1888, 18,223 coples; for Jannary, 1889, 18,574 coplés; for Feb- ruary, 1 096 cO} v, 1690, 18000 COBB G b, TZSCHUCK, Sworn to beforo me and subscribed in my presence this 2 day of March, A. D, 1580, . P. FEIL' Notary Public. [ T time to talk boulovards has come. EVEN the Watorworks company is moving toward Bighteenth and Farnam streets. Tre legislative deed has placed a quietus on the board of education’s call for bonds. TiE Ber has contracted for exclusive use of Bill Nye’s copyrighted weekly letters. THE building season in Omaha gives evidence of an early and promising opening. Tie senate Pacific railrond investi- gating committee may be looked for early this week. Mr. Thurston has gone fishing. RETRENCHMENT is the order of the day among railroads. Business is so glack that the officers are prepaving to lhu'. up shop and go fishing. 'THE state board of transportation in star chamber session elected its board of socretaries. The' choice is a disap- pointment to the people of tho state. THE navy department is determined to have a full stock of our ships at Samoa, even though they pave the bot- tom of the harbors with their hulks. Ir THE local members of the Okla- homa colony have a monkey and parrot time before their exodus, what may be expected when they reach the prom- ised land? OMATA may expect greater activity in street railway construction this year than ever before. The recent legisla- tive enanctment will cause ten years’ track laying to be crowded into two, CORPORAL TANNER’S first official act in tanning the jackets of the democratic chiefs of the pension service has heen altogether -too severe to suit either the wpresident or the secretary of the in- terior. BY the time South Dalkota is comfort- ably seftled in the union,the people will be thoroughly prepared for the blessings of home ruie. Seven elec- Tions will bo held in the LD\lllLk'y during the next twelve months Tue farmers of Nebraska fu\lowing the exawmple of the farmers in Iowa, propose to resist the twine trust. Tho movement to oppose this monopoly is destived to assume a powerful influence through the agricultural states. Tug measure passed by the legisla- ture to regulate the system for the drawing of juries it is to be hoped will check the abuses growing out of the impaneling of professional jurors which has too often brought discredit to our laws and our court: Ir the *Q” would lop off some of its high salaried officials who have too eoften been guilty of bad faith to both stockholders and the public, instqad of wpeducing its necessary working fovees, the key to the policy of retrenchment would be found. mm————— STEALING streots by rival street car compantes has not been definitely de- fined as highway robbery. Else some well known officials and directors who ‘have not yet given up the practice of Aearing up street pavements and laying “rails at night would find thewse!ves in _uncomfortable quarters. L _____] T law requiring the city comptrol- ler to make & wonthly examination and t on the books of the board of education will give the publican insight into ‘the peculiar business methods of that body. A monthly itemized account of expenditures will seriously affect the tone of the ring. mm———meT Tre lowa state board of healWd has ulgated a series of rules and regu- {nflonu tending to popularize the kero- gone routo to oiarnity. These will he supplementod with a blank form of con- dolence for the convenicnce of beranved familes and friend pmesssemgym——e—— THERE {8 not much to cheer the pa- tient, weary hearts of democratio office- holders in the report thut the senate is disposed to let them serve out their commissions. The senste will soon ad- ro angd then will follow a period of 'k, depressiug uucertainty. JEFFERSON'S BIRTHDAY. To-day is the anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson. The great leader of the party opposed to the federalists, to which he gave the name republican, was born April 2, (0ld style) 1748. Re- cently there was issued by the prosi- dent of the national association of demo- cratie clubs a request to subordinate as- sociations to celebrate this anniversary *‘in some manuer suitable to the great occasion,” and a quite general observ- ance of the day by such associations is probable. Tn the circular of the president of the national association it is said; ‘At a time when the administration of the executive power of the federal government, and the con - trol of the two houses of congress, have but recently passed, or aro passing, un- checked, into the hands of a party avowedly federalish, in corrupt alliance with a mighty aggregation of powerful private monopolies, and practically ac- knowledging none of the restraints or limitations imposed by the constitution, it is especially important vhat the teach- inge of the great apostle of American democracy should be again most sol- emnly invoked.” What cluim has mod- ern democracy—the democratic party of to-day—to be regarded as the exponent of the teachings of Thomas Jefferson? The whole people hold in highest honor the memory of the author of the Declaration of Independence. His is one of the imperishable names of our history that will continue to grow in lustre and in the homage of a free peo- ple with the advancing years. He was not without faults and human weak- nesses. His uncompromising partisian- ship, and to some extent, also, his per- sonal ambition, made him a trouble- some member of Washington’s adminis- tration. ‘It was he who, when presi- dent, set the precedent of removals from office for political reasons, a policy which later democratic presi- dents enlarged to the fullest extent. He was the author of the Kentucky resolu- tions of 1798, which have been regarded as the first promulgation of the doctrine of nullification or secession, and he was not always above political intrigue. Yet he was undeniably one of the greatest men of his era, and few did so much to secure national independence and firmly establish the foundations of the republic. He believed in the union to the end of hislife, and the record of his public career furnishes no in- stance of his having eyer encour- ngul or countenanced sectional- ism. Had the democratic party followed the patriotic example and teachings of Jefferson the country would not have been torn by rebellion, for it would have surrendered slavery rather than have imperilled the union. Butit wandered away from Jeffersonian patriotism and became the purty of a section, dominated by the element which was incurably infected with the dangerous and destructive teachings and principles of Calhoun. Although beaten in the long and bloody struggle to carry out those principles, as a party the democracy has not yet renounced them. The men who dominate the the party may confess the hopelessness of ever car- rying them into effect, but they do not therefore the less firmly believe that they are right. All democratic talk about the ascendancy of federalism in the government, about the limitations of the constitution, and about the rights of the states, is simply the echo of Cal- hounism, and it isalibel on Jefferson to connect his name with it. . There can be no objection to an ob- servance of the birthday of Thomas Jef- ferson. Itisan occasion upon which all Americans, and the friends of liberty elsewhere, could most properly unite.in honoring the memory of one of the wisest and bravest leaders in the cause of human liberty. But the as- sumption of the democratic party that it represents Jeffersonian principles, or that the party has done so at any time during the past fifty yeavs, is tod preposterous to go unchallenged. The return of that ty to the princibles of Jefferson, as they should be justly and fairly interpreted, would be a welcome fact, but this is not to be hoped for so long s the party is dominated by the element which learned its political principles in another and a far different school. I'HE DENVER ROBBERY. In the modern history of crime there appears no incident more interesting than that of the Denver robbery. In- deed, an incident mere intensely dramatic could hardly be imagined. No wonder that at first the story was doubted. In the broad light of day, at the busiest hour, and atthe most prominent corner of the city, almost in the pres- ence of a score of clerks, with the foot- falls of the passing multitude within plain hearing, the president of a bank was forced at the point of a pistol to yield up twenty-one thousand dollars, To obtain this sum he was obliged to puss out wwmong the clerks and to communicate with the teller. Yet he had no opportunity to make a sign. The robber took the funds, gracefully reticad and in leaving did not forgot to tip his hat. “Billy the Kid” was an artist in his way, Bnt he was crude and offensive. He hked to shed blood, and first and last managed to gratily this liking to a notable extent, The Denver robbgr was not of this 1oold, He did not shoot. He merely threat- ened to shoot, and probably had an empty revolver to back the threat. The bottle, with which be indicated a wil- lugnass to blow up the institution, con- tained castor oil. Altogether, the affair, with the subse- quent disappearande of the principal, is extremely mysterious. Had any less official that Moffatt hinsell been the viotim there would have becn Immedi- ate suspicion of collusion, Hismillions, i1 nothing elso, auve hin: from tiis, A liberal veward is offered for the ap- prehension of the castor vily individual but there is reason te doubt that the reward will ever be earned. The rob- ber is in a position to buy a job lot of detoetives himsell —————— EXECUTIVE SESSION Senator Teller, of Colorado, yester- day declared his bellef in the useless- ness of the executive session {n connec- tion with confirmations. For once, at least, the senator was right. If he can stand an open session every one of his colleagues ought to submit to it willingly. Toa marked degree the exocutive session is a farce. It merely excludes the public tempo- rarily from knowledge it has a perfect right to possess, gnd thus is wrong in principle. If anything of importance transpires behind its closed doors, it is quickly bruited about. The senators themselves betray it, and the press pro- coods to scatter it to the four quarters of the globe. Thus, while wrong in principle, the executive session is barren of result. The advantage of an open session for the consideration of nominations is obvious. The people have an inter- estin knowing, and a right to know, who is to represent them in office at home and abroad. They do not want unworthy servants, nor do they want good material rejected through the vique of Senator Teller and his fellows. Doubtless the presence of an audience in the galleries would temper the utter- ances and stimulate the judgments of the orators. In the recent discussion concerning the nomination of Murat Halstead, Mr. Teller himself was one of the most violent in his opposition and childish in hisdenunciation of Mr. Hal- stead because the lavter had chosen at times to criticize the wealthy and dis- tinguished gentleman from Colorado. Mr. Teller’s action in itself constitutes a strong argument in favor of Mr. Tel- ler’s proposition to open the doors. A BRIEF period of sober reflection convinces those who fought and bled for the honor, that legislative life is a waste of energy and a strain on one’s character. Honest men retire from the strife with pleasure, while the disrepu- tables cling to it while there is a dollar in sight. The former will not stoop to low trickery and scandalous schemes to secure support for measures of public good, but cannot escape the annoyances which surround legisla- tures. The latter are at home in the tide of dissipation and dishonesty and flourish on booty and bestiality. This condition is chargeable to the indiffer- ence of the better class of citizens. They refuse to take an active part in the primaries and conventions and per- mit thesé foundations of official life to be controlled and managed by schemers and place hunters. M. AUSTIN, of Grinnell, Ta., has been looked upon for sometime as a promi- nent candidate for representative of this country to the Argentine Republic. The selection of this gentieman would be fortunate. He is a lawyer of more than ordinary ability, a successful busi- ness man, and a partner in one of the most important manufacturing concerns in Iowa. It isseldom that a man of his mental acumen, uprightness of char- acter and business experience can be found for such a position as he is ready to accept. Mr. Austin is supported not simply by the party in his state, but manufacturing 1ntorests in general would be glad to see him appointed, be- lieving that he would be an active factor in promoting the commercial re- lations of the two Americas. THERE is no scarcity of tickets or candidates for office in South Omaha. Iivery class and trade is represented, and the variety affords the voters an opportunity to select good men for the different positions. The condition of municipal affairs demands the best class of citizens at the helm. The debts cre- ated by necessary public improvements, the construction of viaducts inaugurated and the countless expenses which must be incurred in paving, sewers, side- walks, ete., require ability and in- tegrity in every department of the city government. By placing the reins, in strong, clean hands, the growth and prosperity of the city is secure. de——— THE observation of ‘‘An Omahan Abroad,” printed in THE BEE fortifies the claim that Omaha real estate is the cheapest and best investment in this western country. Throughout the re- gion traversed there were melancholy evidences of collapsed *‘booms,” with business property ranging from twenty- five hundred to five thousand dollars per front foot. In all the various stages of Omaha’s growth these figures have not been approached. In’comparison with cities of less population and infe- rior advantages, Omaha real estate has no equal as u money making inyest- ment, — Toe selection of Gurber, Gilchrist and Gillseson for secretaries cf the state board of transportation isa rich com- pliment to Wahoo, Red Cloud and Alli- ance. These great centers of business and population have struggled for years for representation on the board, and have finally achieved that greatness which their importance commanded. Tnsignificent villages like Omaha, Lin- coln, Hastings, Fremont, Beatrice and Grand Island, must patiently plod along in the old rut until they demonstrate their commercial fitness for recognition by the board. ——— NeprAskA soil is in splendid snape for spring planting. A remarkably early season has enabled the farmers to place the ground in prime condition. The lack of moisture is only felt to a limited extent along the river coun- ties, In all others the winter frosts were more effective than snow in moist- ening the uplands, while the valleys are ravely lacking in this important es- gential. All things eonsidered, the farmars of the state have never had such favorable conditions for spring work, or such flne prospects for a bountiful harvest. THE investment of foreign capital by alien residents in Omaha will be much more encouraged now that the legislature has wisely removed the barviers. Roglish, Scotch and Dutch capital is finding its way towards the west, and effprts should be wade by our citizens to atiract much of the foreign funds looking for investment in Ameri- can cities, eme——— THE bill repealing the law under which the live stock commission ope- rated, as it renched the governor, pro- vided that the state be fully quaran- tined against the entry of diseased stock, and that a state veterinarian be appointed aty an annual salary of two thousand doliars, In other words the mor llnrmuflxllurufl of the old law have been preserfed, and there can be no question of the importance to the state of the protection which a quarantine law vouchsafes, —— THE rejection!of Halstead by the sen- ate is likely to lead to unexpected re- sults. Ohio republicans are determined to yindicate Him by making him the successor of Senator Pagne. His elec- tion would be a fitting rebuke of the senate and the Standard oil statesmen. Making New P. M's. Minneavolis Journal, Put a nickol in the slot and sec Clarkson make now postmaster “while you wait,” ————— Bayard Beats tho Record. Siowr City Journal. It is seldom that a man plunges so expedi- tiously into inocuous desuctude as T. K\ Bayard, late socrotary of state in Mr. Cleve- land’s administration, has done. ity s S adin ey Little Contennials. Philadelphia Record. Everybody cannot go to the centennial cel- obration of Washington's inauguration in New York next month; therefore it might be well for each city and town throughout the country to get up a little celebration of its own for the benefit of the stay-at-nomes. posiaint- el Cleveland's Generosity. Globe-Democrat. It is asserted by Moncure D. Conway that Grover Cleveland onco declined a position worth $15,000 because he was not willing to disappoint another man who wanved it. He also sucrificed $10,000, it will be remembered, in an effort to retain a position which was desired by a party of the name of Harrison. pela e e A Side Attraction. ® Philadelphia Ledger. The New York legislature has passod through one branch an appropriation o erect a grand stand for the use of the mem- bers during the forthcoming centenniul pa- rade in New York city. Ii they are thus gathered in one lot, they will divert a con- siderable share of public curlosity from the regular show. S e A Chance for a Royal Romanco. Chicago Mail, Along with the information that ex-Queen Natalie, who has been in exile, will return to Servia, comes_the statement that ex-King Milan, who divorced and exiled her, has postponed his departure for Constantinople. Wouldn't it make a story of the real “Bank- er's Daughter” kind if these two, whose early 1bve was 80 purely romantic and whoae later differonces were talked of the world over, shouid be brought together und recon- ciled through their son, the present reigning prince? The present status of affairs has just a tinge of this'color. THE l'lhhh OF 1IN I)UflTRY. In Savaunah, Gi., colored laborers refuse to work with Italians. San Francisco 'clerks are supporting a movement to have, stores closed on Sundays. One thousand ship builders are on a strike at Belfast, Ireland, aguinst a reduction in wages. The tin mines of Dakota are to give em- ployment to 1,600 men during the coming season. The 10,000 washerwomen of Paris have formed a union. They will demand 75 conts per day. Delaware river ship-builders have con tracts enough on hand to keep them busy for two years. The female cottonworkers of Madison, Wis.,, want their day's work reduced from twelve to ten bours. Colored laborets are being brought from Virgimia to the new granite quarrics at Falls of Freuch Creek, Pa. A Michigan bill proposes to cmpower build- ing inspectors with the enforcement of the 1aw prohibiting child labor. The New Orleans bricklayers have made a demand for 45 cents per hour, nine hours a day and eight on Saturday. Laborers and mechanics are warned to stay away from Peoria, 11, as work is dull and huadreds of men are out of empioyment there, Castleton, Vt., has tho only slate-pencil mill in the United states. The daily produc- tlon is 80,000, One man can sharpen 8,000 pencils daily on his emery wheel. Testimony in a recent suit brought by Har- is Gold, of Philadelphia, Pa., to obtain wages due him, revealed the fact that he had been employed to make trousers for 90 cents a dozen, or 75 cents a pair. Workingmen are warned to stay away from Bay City, Mich,, and give no heed to misleading newspaper adyertisements. The labor market there is overstocked and many are unable to find employment, A bill recently brought into the states gen- eral of the Notherlands by the minister of justice makes provisions for the prevention of excessive labor of youthful persons and women. 1t will probably become a law. _ A curious method of obtaining work was tiat recently employed by & Philadelphia man. He hung a board over his baclk in- scribod “Work wanted,” and took a stand in @ busiuess street. He gota job within two hours. At the master tailors’ convention reccutly beld in New York it came out that the Gothamite tailors keep lists of their cus- tomers, after wkose names are such signs us SN, G." “D. B, “Black Sheep,” “Fair," “Delinguent,” “Undesirable,” and the like, ‘Cradesmen of all kiuds are requested to stay away from Superior, Wis., and Duluth, Minn., at prosent, s the number of luborors tar exceed the demund, and wages for first class carpenters are only §2 per day and oth- ersin proportion, .Board, $1.50 to % per week. The workingniat's blacklist law which passed the Indiana legislature provides that such employers as may blacklist any work- ingman shall be fined §00. Another Indiana law demands better accommodation in mines, and another is praposed which forbids the use of railroad cas which require employes t0 go botween tham to couple. —aik - STATE AFX ERRITORY. Nahruhn Jottings. Al Goodrich, fay, y & resident of Ver- don, died recently i mmuu The Holdrege wnwrwork have been tested thoroughly and will be accopted by the olty counei The citizens of Kimball have held a meet- ing and organized a company to develop the town's water power. Burglars successfully cracked the safe of E Hairchild at Marquotte, and secured about $100 in cash. A base ball association has been organized at Madison and suficient money bas been raised to start a club in good shape. Four North Bend men are in the clutches of the law charged with selling liquor with- gut license and will be given & trial on the 25th. The Oakdale Pen and Plow gives this ad- vice to Mr. Coleman that ‘‘no legislator should monkey with a dining room girl whes she is loaded. Three children of Jens Jensen, living near Oaklaud, ate some wild parsnips the other . nd before a doctor could be summonad t, aged five years, died from tho the poison. The other two re- day, the youn, effocts o covel The farmors of northern Giage and south- orn Lancaster counties will have a meeting in the German hall at Cortland, April 6, to consider the binders’ wine trust. They will plodge themselves not to buy any twine of the trust, but to bind without twine, as they hmu done before. They do nov Dropose to y an exorbitant price for the product, but Will Father do without tho twine: Two prhmm-n oscaped from the Filmore county jait at Geneva last weok by cu tting a hole through the roof with s jackknife and have not been seon since. John Miller, alias Thomas Craizer, and John Gabriel, wore their names, the former a jewolry thiot and the latter a horse thief. A seventeen-year-old young man living near Hampton, -Hamilton county, has been bound over to appear at next term of district court, charged with throwing shot or bullets from a rubber attached to a forked stick, one of which struck a German woman in the tem- plo. It was supposed for o time tuat she would not rccover, but is some better, al- though out of her head. Inwn. At last Boone is to have a croamery. Muscatine sends out a half carload of fish every day. A flouriug mill will be built at Carnavon this season. Mason City will decide the postmaster con- tost by ballot. Thirty mon have beon indicted for selling liquor in Webster county. Towa City is without a marshal because tho city council annot agree on @ man. Twenty-seven families have moved Ida Grove in the past fortnight. Tho Aurclia waterworks aro a_failure and they will not be accepted from the contrac- tors. An Towa pastor rccently marriod threo couples and conducted two funerals in ono day, and to do it drovs fifty miles. Total re- into ‘William May was arrested at Newell for violating the postal laws by using thirteon cancelled stamps on thirteen letters, all of which were mailed at the same time. The Fairfield Ledeer says: “A girl baby was born to Mr. and Mns. William Despain, of this city Wednesday morning. It is tho cighteenth” child for the mother and the twonty-third for the father, and their ages are forty-eight and fifty-five rospectively.” Some boys playing about the coal mins north of the yearly meeting house, in Osl 10osa, took the block away from a loaded car standing on the dump and started it down the bank. It was soon gong at lightning speod, toaring away tho props in his' down- d course, cau: the bank to cave in, mlluu. amule and d loing m her dumngu Wyoming and Golorado. ‘The Box Eider minesof the Fetterman company huve been closed down for the sura- mer. Rev. A. S. Bright, pastor of the Methodist church at Cheyenne was formerly a locomo- tive engincer. Sundance wants to be the hoadquarters for the Buffalo land district as it claims to fur- nish tho bulk of the business. Construction material for the Cheyenne & Northern is being shipped daily from Chey- cnne up Wendover, the terminal station. J. C, Osgood, of Denver, has purchased 220,000 acres of coal lands in_Carbon county, Wyoming, of Coo & Carter, for §2 an acre. The Denver News claims that the popula tion of that city has increased 21,000 during x;:;s and its taxable proporty about 15,000, Oscar Palmerston, formerly a tin-horn gambler of Laramie, has been arrested at Butte for participaling in a burglary at Beemer last August, A water ditch nine miles long, three feet deep and twelve feet wide at the bottom, having a grade of two and one-half feet to the mile, is to be done by the Glenrock Irri- gating company, with a capital of £25,000 paid up. The Rock Island company has been pros- pecting for coal for some "time at Colban, Colo., a new station on its road thirty miles northeast of Colorado Spriugs. It 18 now announced that the prospectors have found a fine vein of coal at a depth of 800 feet. g MYERS I8 STILL COMING. The County Co sioners Give Him Another Chance. A brief but very animated and lively littlo spat ensued yesterday, between Commis sjoners O'Keeffo and Mount. 1t was precip- itated by the recept of another telegram from E. E. Myers, saying: ‘“Have mailed my re- port; do you want me fo come?” It seems that the board sent him a messago on Sun- day to be here not later than the 4th instant. O'Keeffe looked up from & letter he was reading and made some reference to the matter and indicated his spirit of annoyance over it by supplementing the remark with a mild cuss word, Mount said somothing about swearing, to which the valiant Richard re- plied: *We're not in session, and 1 guess I can swear if 1 want to.”’ “Hadn’t we better tell him to come,” in- quired Mount. “Don't give a —— whether he does,” re- torted O'Keeffe, *‘The only thing we want 1s an explanation from him as to how this work shall be doue.” “He evidently wants to Mount. *“Pro would have to | O'Keefe said, £60.” Mount_rotorted, cut any figure.’ Anderson chipped In, “Probably he don’t like to come here and 10se his job." O'Keefe replied, “1t would” be better for Douglas county if he had lost it two years ugo.” Harrigan joined In and said, Dick, “I am with you."" Mount sang out, **Well, had_we not hired him the peopie would be complaining on the cone,” said bly he s after the $0 wo y him.’ Y don't give o cuss for the “Nor do L It doesn't ““And on that, ground that he did us one Lonest job" After these sallios all agreed that Bir. Myers should be asked to come, and a dis. patch to that effect was sent marked “rush," Alitde BILL AND Wfil‘l‘l)().\lu. They Combine their Efforts in Pro- ducing Hearty Laughter, Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Riley enter- tained a large audience with their fun at the New Grand opera house last nigt, Bill Nye is well known and 18 a favorite in ‘Omaha as he is elsewhere, He is essentially funny. One fecls the desire to laugh the in- stant he makes his appearance, even before he has utterced a syllable. Last night when he sidled into the center of the stage and made his bow, he was most heartily received, He told, in his own inimitable way, bis ex- perience with a pugilist whom he had en- gaged to teach him the manly art, Heo tell his anecdotes in a ludicrous monotone an: without gestures save for expressive tiwitoh. ings of the hands, Riley is a sowewhat bandsomer man than William, but not noticeably beautiful. His abilities to amuse are of a different order, His power of muwicry is superb, and was exhibited at its best last night in several character sketches from his own writings. A dissertation by him upon the tree toad as @ weather prophiet was very good, as were in fact, all of bis numbers. His first seloo- tion was @ study in Hoosier dialect, one humorous, the other inclined to rude pathos, and 10 both be was exceodingly cnlwumm His impersonation of a swall boy and eccentricities was very woll roceived, as was his last number, 8 salire upon 8 youug ad vocate of the education of the young by ob- jeet lesso Bill Nye's legend or bis dey “Eiymolo- gist,” with the pm.heu tory of his death, and his story of a puinery experience with a member of cougress, were awong bis best selections, but all his wnecdotes were ver heartily nprlauuod. Frow the manifestations of delight wmade by the audience, 1t was very evideot that the buworists had succeeded in making the evou- ing & most pleasaut one for those who ab tended the entertainment, e A North End Mesting. A speciai meeting of the BSixth ward re- publican club was held last vight at Twanty- sixthand Lake., It was devoted to advocacy of the Planters House site and ahuse of Messrs Conpell and Rosewater, 80me reso- lutions were adopted and the ki Loghsh vuthlessly murderad GDr, Gluck eye snd ear, Barker blk, AIMING AT ALLITERATION. board of transportation steppod down and out this morning. Messrs. Gilkeson, Gil- christ and Garber took up the reins as though thoy were old hands at the business, and the work in the office of the state board of trans- portations runs as smoothly as clook ma- chinery, There is possibly a good omen in the fact that the names of the new board all commence with the letter G, and if so days of sunshinoe have dawned for the yeomanry and shippers of the state. Albeit, speaking for limself, as to the fu- ture policy of the board, Mr. Gilkeson tersely remarked, “'I propose to bo as cold blooded us o lizatd and do what I beliove to be o far as I am concernea,” said Mr. Gil- christ, “I propose to act for the people as in my judgment shall be for the best," “As_for me,” said Mr. Garber, "I will be found kickmg nlonu in the harness with my confreres. Thesentiment of one will prac- tically stand as the sentiment for all." The personnel of the new board is summed up in a word, Mr. Gilchrist is fifty-six years of age and has devoted most of his life to farming and stock raising. While not wealthy, he 18 well-to-do, and is recognized a8 a practical and intelligent man. Ha' is a resident of Alliance, 110)( Butto county. Judge Gilkeson is forty-ono years of o e For the past fifteen years he has been in tl practice of law at Wahoo, Sauaders munl\ and on the whole has been successful, The state board cxpress the opinion that he will prove a safe logal adviser, although a demo- crat. Mr. Garber is much the youngest member of the board, He is not twenty- eight years of age, but those who know him best regard him as a man of good judgment and thoroughly comy®tent to per- form the duties of the office to which he has been called, Professionally, he is a banker, MNir. Waring’s successor, C. H. Holmes, of Beatrice, is a young man’ of steady habits and pleasing address, and is said to be free from alliances or tie-ups, calculated to an- tagonize any member of the board of s superiors. The new board thus organizes under favorable circumstances, and the pub- lic here confidently expect smooth future work, and such action as will tend to hax- monize and sustain general good feeling. Secretary Laws Says No. In o moment of generosity during the olos- ing day of the Nebraska legislature, tho house of representatives voted away several of the chairs and desks which had been used by members of that boay and the reporters, and which were said to be a part of the state's property. The chair occupied by the speaker during the session was voted to him, and the chair and desk occupied by ltu)!rc!enmnve Hays were voted to_his widow. When the matter came to the knowledge of the socre- tary of the state he declared that he would not recognize the right of the house to vote away any of the property belonging to tho state, and that he would interfere if any at- tompt was mado to remove any of it from the capitol. The chair voted to the speaker, however, was taken out and away without Iis knowledgo, and it 1s slyly whispered that it wili be sent for. The secretary says that had he known the chair was being taken from the building he would have stobped it, and had the question settled by the courts as to whether or not the legislaturc had a right to give away the state’s property. He says that ho is satisfied that neither house can donate a cent’s worth of the property of the state legally, any more than they can give away the state housa itself. He further states that he had guards posted who were instructea to prevent the removal of any of the desks or chairs, or any other property, and that if even the speaker was allowed to et away with avything 1t was a breach of trust on the part of the guards. The re- porters are out their chairs, but the impres- sion is strong that nothing will be done to retain the chair taken by the speaker and that the chair and desk voted Hays' widow will go to her. It is said that a remonstrance ought not to be made to this in any event. The District Court. The case of Bel in Schaeffe ov al, vs George Traver, which took up the time of Jucge Field and a jury nearly all of last wWeelt, was decided to-day and judgment en- terea for the pMintiffs for 2,500, The sum involved in the case was §13,500, but the status of the issue were fully stated in Tir Bee last Wednesde/ morning. It was among the most stubbornly contested trials ever entered upon in the district court of Lancas- ter county. The case, indeed, was fought inch by inch, one witness having boen kept on the stand oyer fonrteen hours, and others until the patience of judge and jury was sorely tried. But, like Shakespeard's ghost, even now the cause will not down, and goes to the supréme court on appeal, This case cnded tho trials in the district court, fm this term. Motions wore the order .awyers made them much after the «ymn of legislators in passing upon bills on the closing day of the Nebraska legisla- ture, They acted much as though they were awfully tired and longed for rest. That sick Cow Harry Boyer was on_trial fore Polico Judge Housion on the charge killing a cow without a certificate of inspec- tion and_also for wclimg discased meat, Manger Bros, ged with the same offonse, but they trink. The cow that 13 killed was refused on the stock market at Omaha and sent back to Lincoln during the early part of last week. The testimony up to 8:30 o'clock this afterncon is rather dnm-j yesterday hn{ A Poouliarity of the Nobraska Board of Transportation. —_— de b r € C. A H LAWS FILES A REMONSTRANCE, : J. B, e Vetoes the Action of the Legisla- ! ture in Donating the State's Property to Members E. and the Press, H, F. Lixcorx Bureau or Tre Omama tzm, 1020 P Strert, of Douglas, Otoo county, Laxcous, April 1. day by Judge Stewart at 2 Tha The old;board of secrotaries to the state | ¢ouple expoct to take their Otoo county aging to the u‘uunod and it 1s thought that conviction stares him in tho face, Th parties to these charges wore all arresto last week, arraigned and asked continuanca until to dln’ and the trial is now on. New Notaries Publio. Notarlal appointments s follows wers made by the governor to-day: D. H. Tripp, Hay Springs, Sheridan count A an- mond, Bazile Mills, Knox count, B, Keoklony, Omaha, Douglas county; John Herge, Kearney, Buffalo county; Frank K. Wheeler, Crawford, Dawes (‘uunt\' Jam(-n J llrlnkfl‘n (A)urllllml Gago (o\mlfi § Bullock, Omaha, “n\lwla! county; obert Kloke. West Point, Cnming countyy Gh Becker, Burchard, Pawnoe county; ) Moseman, Emmerson, Dixon county. ity News and Notes. John Dixon and Miss Harriet H. Dance, wero m:rrled t0- 2 o'clock. friends by surprise. James H. Houston, the brickl killed av tho Burllogton yards night, was buried to-day. No held.' Tho funeral ser ot tho Bricklayer's Union. The clans are proparing for hard fight at municipal election on the morrow. Gra- ham's eloction to the mayoralty, however, is a foregono conclusion, 1t is snid_that thore will bo something of a fight made on Bushnell {n the Fifth ward undor the leader- ship of Captain Payne, but_Bushuell's frionds say that this iusurcs his election, which is probably truo. Roprosentativo Towle, ot Niobrara, Knox county, still lingers in Lincoin, He joou: larly remarks that it wont do for the boys to forsake tho city 1 a bulk, But siy ones opino that the wily statesman 1s aflor ‘one of the plums under Uncle Sum, and is pulling the strings with some assurance of captur- ing something, but wo one seems willing to venture what. The Call's now press will be tested to- morrow. The machinist is getting it to- gether rapidly and, barring broaks, it will doubtloss stand it to o T. The boys' expect to got futo their new quarters within o week. It is understood that they will change the Call to a six column, eight pago paper, and will boom it under the whip. ey 1T IS A BEAUTY, or who was Saturday inquest was s wero in oharge One of the New Trains to Run Be- tween Denvor and Chicago. A train is nowhere nowadays unless it is vestibule. The vestibule is all the rage, and in order to bo in styie the Union Pacific is adding more trains of that description. A uew one, just from the shops, mado its initial trip yesterday and carried a party of railroad officials and newspaper men to F'romont and return. The train was simply on trial, and, as it proved perfectly satisfactory. to-day it will begin its regular duties carrying p gors between Chicago and_Denver, rango tweon the Union Pacific and Chicago & Northwestern calls for four solid vostibilo trains betwoon Chicago nd Done ver, two of which aro furnished by the Union Pacific and two by the Northwestern. The train which made the trial trip yester- day was the first one turned out by the Union Pacific and it's a beauty in every way. sen- The ar- Ttis composed of a baggage car, smoker, day couch, reclining chair car and a_Pullman slceper, all fitted up in the latest style, Tho cars have been in the shops at Omaha for three weoks being * fitted up for servico and _ the cost for eaoh was about $1,850. The next train howover, will be turtied out in shortor order and will o ready for the road l about two weoks. The short trip yosterday showed the ad- yantage of the vestibule over tho old train in the absenco of jarring and the freodom from dust. ‘The train arrived in Fremont shortly before noon, and aftor_a walk about the city and_dinner at the Eno house, the party returned, reaching Omaha about 3 o'clock. The gentlomen composing tho party \ors Assistant Genoral Managor 24 Diok. Demurrage Commissioner A, C. this fnson, Jones, Robert A. M. Collett, partment, and ' Charles ‘Tripp, reprosenting the Aaron French spring company of Pitts- burg. The traln was drawn by cngine 839, Vaaroy, engineer, and was in chargo of Con- ductor Keen, Tho Golden Gate spocial, due here to-day, has cighty-six passongers on board, tho largest number ever carried since that train was put in service. An extra coach was at- tached to the train to acoommodato the crowd. axter, I Death of a Railroad Man. Charles W. Burgdorf, for a number of years superintendent. of the Union Pacific bridge and the past cight years roadmastor at Benvor, was accidentally killed March 25 while at work. He had many warm Inenl.lu in Omana. He left considerable property to his widow and children. His brother, Henry, of Gilmore, Neb., returned yesterday from Denver. An Important Denl. A rumor is afloat to tho effect that tho Union Pacific Is making arrangoments for the purchase of the Oregon Railway & Navigation lines, What gives tangibility to the rumor is the fact that to-dayC. A. Dolph, general attorney of the above company, ar- rived in Omaha_ from Portlana and was all day closeted with Vaco President Holcomb of the Union Pacifie. Inquiry was made, but no further developments could be obtained. Pears’ soap secures a beautiful com- plexion. Northwestern Changes. Trains No. $ and 4 on the Chicago & North- western between hore and Chicago have been discontinucd on Saturday and Sunday. The former leaves Chicago™ every day excopt Sunday av 12:01, and the latter Council Bluffs overy day except Saturday at 6:40 p. m, Board of Education, * hie regular meeting of the board of edu- cation occurred last night. eleven members being present. The business transacted was £ a routine nature. OU have no doubt found it difficult to find a satisfactory seap for office use where the consumption i3 considergble and ex- pensive soaps cannot be afforded, “Cheap” soaps are used, but from their greasy, acrid and irritating character, are very unsatis- factory. No such expencnce can is 9oy % pure, and no one is so occur with the Ivory Soap, for it poor but can afford ‘‘the Ivory, Send your office-boy for a cake and try it. A WORD OF WARNING, There are many white soaps, each represented to be " just as good as the ‘Ivory'y"* they ARE NOT, Lut like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and r kably qualities of the genuine, Ask fur “Ivory" Soap and Insist upon getting it Copyright 1856, by Procter & Gamble.