Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 17, 1889, Page 2

/MEN ACTING LIKE CHILDREN. Mooting of the Oity Counoll Under Great Diffioulties. “JUDGE" HASCALL IS ARRESTED. Beveral Members Apparently Fly the City to Evade the Performance of Duty—The Mayor's Veto Sustained, Childish Truancy. At 7:30 o'clock last night there were four- feen members of the city council present in the council chamber. There was a rostless movement in a group composed of Lowry, Kaspar, Ford, Boyd and O'Connor, that was gathiered in one corner of the room. The members of the caucus, apparentiy by mu- tual consent, began edging toward the door. President Lee observed the movement and ealled the council to order at ten minutes before 8 o’clock, a little earlier than the usual time, intending, evidently, to catch the mombors before they could got away. Ho was too late, however, as the roll cail showed only nine members present, viz: Pailey, Burnham, Chaffee, Counsman, Behriver, Davis, Sanders, Wheeler and Leo. ¥his was one short of the number requisite for a quorum, and it was evidently for tho purpose of preventing a meeting that the roup had departed. While the roll was &mg called, the group held a consultation under the electric light, When it was an- nounced that there was not a quorum pres- t, on Mr. Wheeler’s motion, Sergeant-at- ms Butler was sent out to vorral the delinquent members. He yeturned in a few minutes with the informa- tion that he had caught a vision of four coat- tails disappearing around the corner and up Capito] avenue, but had been unable to find A0y of the missing members. Mr. Chaffee then introduced @ resolution —authorizing Captain Cormack to assist the sergeant-at- arms to arrest and bring before the council ny of the missing members. Street Com- issioner Kent and _Sidewalk Inspector ‘Allan were appointed deputies to guard the Hoors of the council chamber to prevent any of the members present from leaving the chamber, Captain Cormack sent Sergeant Mostyn and Officers Ellis and Cusick to as- Rist the sergeant-at-arms in his scarch for the truants, About this time “‘Judge’’ Has- call stuck his nose in at the door, got an ink- ling of the situation and started out to look up an addition to his hundred gasoline lamps thatare being burned during the day and @re out at night on the rabbit tracks in the puburbs, It began to look like an ati-night péasion and the members present commenced to make arrangements accordingly, Mr. Schriver telophoned to his wife that he avould not be home till morning, and Mr. Davis sent out for three euchre decks and a Yox of cigars. “This thingh might as well be stopped right here as ‘any other time," aid Mr. Burnham. “If these members com mence this sort of baby play they can keep it p all sumnier. We had better stay right Fibre until wo gev those members back. L he has perfect authority to lace them under arrest and I'm [:(lvor of haying it done.” Mayor Broatch s present and took matters very coolly. © council has authority, no doubt, to pun- Ish the absent members, who left for the pur- se, plainly, of breaking up the quorum. hey are only hurting themselves by this vay of acting. They ought to stand up and phow their colors. If they can’t carry their easure, they should not try to defeat other siness. There are matiers before the council of more importance than the mid- ight closing ordinanc am in favor of tting it out and settling the matter once for all.’ At this point a message was re- ®tved from Captain Woods, stating that Councilmen Kaspar, Ford, Lowry, O'Connor, der and Boyd had taken the motor for uncil Bluffs. ~The report was not credited any appreciable extent, Councilman Davis openad a fresh euchre deck, and President Tuee setit out for a pigs in clover puzzle. Mr. % ?hrivnr dropped into poetry, and had got as T as, &Ten little councilmen standing in a line, » Hascall cut a sneak and then there were nine,” £ xyhon hie was stopped by a movement on the of thoe spectators that made it wise for m to desist. 4" The causo of the lock up was the knowl- ®dgo that the mayor’s veto of the ordinance pealing the midnight closing order ould Pe brosonted, The ton men who votod for the repeul of the ordinance despaired of so- curing the twelve votes necessary to pass the ordinance over the mayor's’ veto and i this peculiar method of revenging omseives upon the other members of the council. The mayor's veto message was as follow J “To the Honorable, the City Council of the City of Omaha--Gentlemen: I have the honor to peturn herewith, without my ap- roval, an ordinance entitled ‘An ordinanco repeal section 21 of ordinanco 0. 453, Chase's compiled ordinanccs, ‘his ordinance not only repeals the provis- fons requiring the saloons to close at mid- n{%hl. but italso repeals the provisionsof the inance carrying into cffect the laws of £hia state with regard to closing on the Sab- Puth day. The passage of this ordinance would bo in my judgment a very unwise measure and dlametrically opposed to the true interests of the liquor aealers in this ©ity, It can benefit less than half a dozen saloon kecpers, several of whom have been well known in the community as violators of the law, and opposed to anything and every- - thing in tho direction of good government and good morals. With very few exceptions the hour of midnight should find men taking “ghat rest which is necessary to a proper per- *gormance of tueir labors during the day fol- +#lowing. Most men who prowl about the ~sptroets aftor midnight are proper subjects + For police surveillance, and are bent upon tho “sommission of crime. Respectfully, W. J. Broaren, Mayor." At0:80 o'clock the sergeant-at-arms ro- thrned and reported his mability to find any tho missing members, 'Did you go to all their housesi” asked “Presidout Loe, “We did.” ns council don’v know." ““Thanks.” “Don’t mention it." 4 won't." At 10 o'clock the cheering repm% was re- peived that Juage Hascall had been cornered ot Bd Maurer's saloon while regaling a orowd of friends with an account of his es- e from the city hall and how he bad baf- 3 m.;mnun Ly the police. Sergeant Ormsby sud Oficor Eilis rudely interrupted his rhetorical effort, placed him under arrest snd called the putrol wagon. There was a delay of half an hour before the patrol e n returned, It didn’t contain Mr. Has- . call, who sent & message that he would I\ pathier not ride in Seavey's buggy, but would walk. He soon made his" appearance, “rws with Sergeant-at-Arms HButler. hen he eutered the council chamber B took & seat in the audience aud answercd #absent,” whea the clork called tho roll, “Councilman Hascall will come inside the railing,” said Presideut Lee, 1dut the invi- tation was not accepted. “Thy sergeant-at-arms will bring Coun Hascall before the council,” said Leo. »r. Hascall refused to come inside until rule of the council, requiring mewbers to inside the bar, was read. ain 48 much in the council now as 1 will o inside the railing. That railing is an in- ginary line, the same as the equator is." 'he P’resident—*''The sergeant-at-arms wvill bring the wember inside. " If he is cut- he has his mauner of redress.” 'he sergeant-at-arms aud Mr. Hascall Lad a blind-man’ ff matinee in the , the councilman climbing over the «at each approach of ofticer, and euiug to tho audicnce side of the rail Butler's turned his back. 3 lor—*Don't be a d— we Luside.” > 3 1i--"*You're & d—n fool yourown Shut up. r, Wheolor—'*The gentlemen is in con- uar of the counoil.” ; I ascall—'"Dou’t you talk about con- h{'fiw«r‘u veto message was read, and Hascull arose to speak. I fool Has- i we for. You might bave prought in an Indian sign it you wanted a dummy in my placo, The mayor has injected a lot of stuff into that message. When he was elected he pledged it at F'ritz Miller's or John Hoffman’s and he guzzled beer in many of the places that ho now attempts to rob. He has committed a fraud upon the saloon ple by whose votes he was elected to of- ce upon pledges that he has now violated. He has, by a violation of pledges and by false protenses, committed the most damna- ble outrage upon all principles of right.” The President—The gentleman will come to order. Wheeler—I arise to a point of order and want Mr. Haseall to take his seat. Mr. Hascall--Take your own seat. Mr. Hascall then called for a reading of the message, atter which he renewod his re- marks, “Did It ever occur to this peanut—" The Chai he gentleman will come to order. “Did it ever occur to any man,” modified Mr. Hascall, “that this council has no av thority to repeal a state law! The ma speaks of this ordinance repealing the state law. What bosh. Is the mayor and the council greater than the governor and legis- lature ' In the face of frequent calls to order and interruptions by the chair, Mr. Hascall con- tinued his remarks. He went into a philosophical consideration of the difference between the stickler for law enforcement and the temperate business man. He then told a story of Horace Greely and his cor- respondence with Tom Murray. Then fol- lowed a history of the Egyptian war and the prohibitory law in Towa. He abused the mayor personally and every body else con- nected with the city government. He kept up His tirade until 11 o'clock, when he was shutoff. Mr. Hascall then attempted to leave the room but was stopped by an officer at the door and the regular business was proceeded with, The veto of the Davis, Burnham, Baile; and Lee voung to sus Hascall voting against it, ‘The appointment of E. A. Blum as city weighmaster on Nicholas street was con- firmed. A numbor of estimates of amounts due contractors were presented by the board of public works aud approved. The city attorney reported certain amend- ments to the ordinance granting the right of * way across the Eleventh street viaduct, and the ordinance was referred to the committee on viaduets and railways. A petition from the Omaha Street Railway company asking for the privilege of constructing a double track ucross the Eloventh street viaduct for the operation of an electric rail yay south on Eleventh street was referred to the same committee. The report of the city gas inspector for the month of March, reporting a marked 1m- provement in the street lighting service, was received. The petition of Charles Ogden and others asking for the privilege of grading Twenty- fifth street from Pacific street to Leaven- worth street, was referred to the committee on grades and grading, At midnight the council adjourned until Friduy eveniug. IT REMAINS F1RM. yor was sustained, Shriver, Wheeler u the veto and Mr. The Union Pacific Pushing Its Claim for Paget Sound Traffic. In view of the 1ssue between the Union and Northern Pacific for passengor traffic to Puget sound points, the full details of which appeared in Tne Bee of Monday, the Union Pacific yesterday issued the following circular to connecting lines: “In divisions, we will require from our Missouri river ter- minals, as an_arbitrary, to rates in effect from St. Paul, viz: First-class unlimited, $10; limited, $60; second-class, §35 to all Puget sound points. In divisions, we will aceept from our Missouri river terminals the same proportions as we now accept on busi- ness to Portland proper. We pledge our- selves to fully protect both the tramsporta- tion of passengers and their baggage through to destination points on Puget sound. We do notask you for a ticket representation reading over the Northern Pacific from Port- Jand, therefore any objections that line may offer aganst our request is_entirely extran- eous, and we must respectfully urge that you comply with our rate circular. Please advise the action you will take in the matter.” An official of the Union Pacific stated yes- terday thatithe fight made by the Northern Pacific was unwarranted and that _its pro- tests would not be countenanced. The fact that tho Northern Pacitic has resolved to compel the Union Bacific to withdraw and with the Union Pacific equally firm in its de- termination to remain leads to the belief that a rate-war may result, the obligations of the presidents’ agreement notwithstanding. Pioncer Foreman Dischargea. Foreman Frank Johuson, who has had rge of the section men iu the yards of ihe Union Pacufic at this place for the past nine- teen years, was quietly retired to private life at 6 o'clock Monday evening. Atthe time specified, Assistant Roadmaster Ryan stepped up to him and handed him his time check, informmng him that his services were no longer required. Johnson asked the road- master why he had been dismissed. _The latter declized to advance any reason. John- son is_spoken of asasteady and reliable man. It is intimated that when the Union Paciflc, about four months ago, reduced the wages of section men at many points, John- son interceded for his men, and secured $1.40 per day instead of $1.25. Johnson will ap- pealto the management, and it is intimated that he will e backed up by the Knights of Labor, Leeds Kept Busy. The action of the Rock Island in reducing the rate on ore and bullion from $3 to $6 por ton between Colorado and Missouri river points, dicectly effects the Union Pacific, Burlington, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Missouri Pacific. It is for this pue- | pose that the coterie of officials left Omaha for Denver Suuday. Chairman Leods of the Transcontinentul association, has been called upon to arbitrate, THE GOLDEN COAST. It is Dull Compared With'the Section ‘Where Omaha Thrives. Fred E. Pickens, chief clerk in the post- office, hus returned from a sojourn of eighteen days in California. Mr. Pickens went directly from Omaha to Portland, the trip consuming five days. At Portland he took a steamer for San Francisco, Mr. Pickens has made the trip three or four times, but says he fluds new objects of in- terest every time he repeats the journey. San Francisco, he said, is & place that doesn’t change much, He finds it the same every time he goes there. The most notable im- provement being made therc at this time is the erection of the new Chronicle building, which, when completed, will be the finest pioco of architecture on tho coast. It is oloven storics high, but narrow, greatly rosembling a tower. From San Fran- cisco he went to Los Angeles, where he found many former Omahans. The Omaha colony, as it is called there, he says, is most delightfully situated, the families all being located in a radius of a few blocks. He visited the fawilies of Robert Harris, E. V. Smith, John L Redick, M. G. McCoon and Judge John R. Porter. These all have beautiful homes, the grounds being bowers of palm trees and flowers, Thoy are all very much pleased with the climate and the country, and are i every way satisfied with their lot. They spend their time in driving about the country, vis- iting the sea coust and social diversions, There is rur»uu:ul RFYL"H there, and the Lfo they lead is a lackudaisical, listless, dreamy one, from which they do not seem to care to be awakened. All California 1s a flower garden now, he said, sud more especially is this true of the San Joaquin valley, which resembles a Brussols carpet, 80 varied is the color of the tlowers. ‘The crop prospects he considered excellent for an abundant harvest. The winter wheat is already iu tue head, and spring wheat has grown seven or eight inches high. Tho cities out there, and especially Los Auiwlet. are suffering from the reaction of roal estate booms, and are very liulllt differ- ing widely, ho 8aid, from the bustling Omuh whose prospeets for the future Mr. Picken considers betler than those of woy city w tao westward, Founa Guiley. Hattie Duke, who was tried yesterday in the district court on the charge of graud larceny, was found guilly by the jury, SOUIH OMAHA NEWS. Patrick T. Orow's Statement. “You did me a great wrong in Tus Brg," sald Patrick T. Crow to Tnr Bee represen- tive, “'when you mentioned my name in €o%- nection with the Third ward Sunday row, and also in stating that I languished in the {ail. Tswas not confined fn tho iail, having heen released by Judge King.' Sunday morn- ing when passing Michnel Murphy's house, Mr, Murphy came out, and without saying a word, struck me, and & man by the namn of Riley struck me on top of the hoad with a brick, cutting it 80 bad that a surgeon had to dress’ it. 1 defended myself. I did not throw the brick in the house as stated. I came to the police headquarters and swore outu warrant for Riley, and afterwards pointed Mr. Riley out to ' Officer Spoettier, who had the warrant for Riley's arrest and the officer refused to go in the house and ar- rest Riley. Riley has not been arrested, al- though tho ofticers have a warrant for 'him and know him, Why he is not arrested, I cannot tell. Marshal Maloney's Version. “Ofcer Spoettier did his duty in the mat- tor of arresting John Riley. - The facts are simply thesé: Officer Spoettler started after Riley as soon as ho was pointed out by Mr. Crow, and_Riley ran_into and_through Andrew Kilker’s house, and when the officer went in Mr. Kilker, the proprietor, ordered the officer out and_rofused to allow him to enter the room, While being _deterred by Mr. Kilker, Riley got out the back door and to 1d' Couley’s house and got away. co that Officer Looney and _myself spent half a night in the Third ward after Rile and as soon as he is found will be arrested.” Arm Broken in a Runaway. Patrick Holpin drove one of 8. D. Rynear- son’s livery rigs to Papillion Tuesday to moeet o man, and when at Papillion the team was scared and ran away, throwing Mr. Holpin aut of the buggy and_badly fracturing the right arm at the elbow. The harness and buggy were damaged to the amount of £25, Mr. Holpin had the fracture reduced and was sent home on_the evening train and is lying at his boarding house on the alley be- tween L and M and Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh streets. St. Agnes Building Committee. The building committee of St. Agnes Roman Catholic church consists of Daniel Rafferty, president; Dr. M. J. O'Rourke, secretary, the Rev. Father D. W. Moriarty, treasurer, and Peter J. Corrigan, John J. Breen and Richard Swift. The time to file bids on the contract has been extended till Thursday, the 25th, at noon. The committee will meet on the evening of the 25th at 8 o'clock at the parochial residence. Locked Horns With a Steer. Tuesday afternoon David Condron, an employe of the commission firm of Savage & Gireen, while in the driveway at the stock yards, and 1n attempting to head off a wild Texan stecr, was altacked by the animul, struck on thio face and head by the enraged beast, and had it not boen for the timely arrivil of assistance, the beast would have gored him to death. ' A surgeon dressed his wounds. Notes About the City. A new boy makes D. D. Murphey glad. Charles Millspaugh was taken suddenly sick last evening. Christ Durr is hayving the Depot Exchange ronovated and repaired. Roll W. Curtin has accepted the position of night clerk at the Exchange, Larry Noonan, of Chicago, is visiting his friend Goorge J. Seltzer, foreman of Swift & Co.’s. Charles Schautzenbach has quit work at. Swift & Co.’s, and wili start for Oklahoma this week. Charles F. Ferrall has accepted a position as shipping clerk at the Armour-Cudahy packing houses. The Armour-Cudahy packing company has increased its monthly order for stamped en- velopes from 20,000 to 30,000. After a week’s 1llness with malarial fever George J, Seltzer, ir., is back at work at Swift & Co.’s packing houses, John Johnson, foreman atSwift & Co.’s packing houses, has been ill with malaria Tever, and laid off for a few days. Mrs. Charles Millspaugh, of Planewell, Mich., arrived Tuesday evening, and is the uest 'of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Masson. Thomas Grifin, fireman of Union Pacific switch engine No. 1165, who has been visit- ing his home in Sedalia, Mo,, has retucned. Lewis Wilson has been off a week up at Guttenberg to look at some real estate. He returned Tuesday, and will go back to work av Swift's to-day. Miss Hettie Moore, teacher at the Albright schools, who has been ill in Omaha during the last fortnight, is better and will resume teaching to-morrow. In the jury trial in the case in which Charles Swartout was charged with stealing lumber, the jury promptiy returned a verdict of not guilty and put the costs on the prose- cutor. The children training for the Presbyterian Easter chorus will meet in the church at 5 o'clock this afternoon. At the full chorus practice, held Tuesday evening, 1t was de- cided to have another practice Friday even- ing. A. M. Kitchen, president of the Stockman company, was in the city, yesterday, and was pleased With his newspaper business, and was delighted to find his old friends, Mayor Sloane and Alfred A. Gary, both vrosperous South Omaha ciuzens. Cornelius Fitzgerald, of the Third Ward, was run in Tuesday night for some sharp practice und will_answer Wednesday morn- 1ng before Judge King. Going into a store 10 get a bill changed, Morrell Gump asked the proprietor to change a $5 bill, Fitzgerald said he couid change it, and being handed the bill stuck it down in his pocket and said, “You just owe me this.” The bill belonged to Fred Moore and Mr, Gump was getting it changed for its owner, i T. GRANGER CWART, M. D, F. R. S. E., ordinary physician to H. M., the Queen in Scotland: Professor of Prac- tice of Physic in the University of Edinburgh, writes of Bright'’s Disease as follows: ‘‘Catarrh of the intestine also occasionally occurs, sometimes pro- ducing an exhausting diarrhoea.” War- ner’s Safe Cure cures the Diarrhcea by first removing the cause. Street Railways Tear Up Pavement and Make Good the Loss. Within the past fow weeks the street rail- ways have paid, under protest, into the city treasury the sum of $33,060, in accordance with an ordinance recently passed by the council. The number of the wmeasure is 2,000. 1t provides for the payment by street railways into the treasury a certain amount per square yard for paving streets wherever such railway has displaced the paving by constructing tracks thereon. The ordinance is somewhat indefinite and unspecified as to what fund the money thus paid into the . treasu shall 'go. A portion of it is ntended to go into the intersection fund, and a part of it to be refunded to tax- payers who have heretofore been assessod for the paving of such street that has been paved. But just what proportion 1s to go to the taxpayers is @& conundrum. Conse- quently there is confusion in the ofices of the treasurer and city comptroller. As the street railway companies have paid the money for displaciug the paved streets under protest, City Treasurer Rush stated yesterday that tha council will be obliged to adopt some other method, as the ralway corporations had taken the matter to the courts for adjustment, and it was his belief that they would be victorious in the fight. —_— Underground Wires in England. In reply to a correspondent complain- ing of delay in telegrams because of overhead wires breaking in a recent snowstorm, the British postmaster-gen- eral says: *“The advantages of laying wires under gmund are fully appre- ciated by the department, and a consid- erable mileage of underground wires alreudy exists, but the system is so much more costly than that of carrying wires overhead as to preclude its indefi- nite extension.” Canon cn‘ AT coal, 87 per ton. Nebraska Fuel Co., 214 gulh 13th St. How Sir HeuwI ofited by a Penn- sylvanian's Invention. smi DOMESTICA’_‘:!NG THE BUFFALO. How the Expéfiment Bucceeds in Kansas—Galvanizing Wronght fron—Tgnning by Eleoc- tricity~Scientific. 0 | e It Was Kolley's Invention. The following interesting history of the Bessemer invention is from the Blacksmith and Wheelwright, and shows that the process that immortal- ized the name of Henry Bessemer and gained him his knighthood was an Amorican invention. The fact that Sir Henry Bessemer was obliged to divide his interest with Mr. Kelly is the strongest kind of evidence in support of his claim. The late Wm. Kelly, of Louisville, Ky., was one of the pioneer furnacemen of Kentucky. He and his brother oper- ated for many years the Germine fur- naces near Kddyville, and Sewanece near Kuttawa. While experimenting he conceived that the refining of the metal —that is, the converting of castiron into malleable iron—could be accom- plished with the oxygen of the air. With groat faith in this iden, at heavy expense, he constructed as well as he could with the means at hand an appar- atus for blowing blasts of heated air into the molten metal while it remained in the hearth or oven in which it had been melted from the crude ore. At first & number«of experiments resulted in disappointments, owing entirely to the imperfection of the blow- ing or blast apparatus, but his great confidence in his theory impelled him to try again. ‘*About ths time,” says a Paducah, Ky., editor, “two Englishmen, who were experts in smelting and refining iron, arrived at his works and were given employment ‘With the assistance of these men Mr. Kelly made # more perfect blast or blowing cylinder, and after making a dozen or more experiments he ex- claimed ‘Burek and immediately sent invitations to a number of his friends to come to his works and wit- ness the wonder of making horseshoes out of iron taken from the hearth or oven of a common blast or smelting furnace. Many went at the appointed time, more out of respect to Mr. Kelly’s invitation than from a faith in seeing him demonstrate that he had discovered what Judge Kelly, of Pennsylvania, has since termed the ‘greatest invention of the age.’” 3 “The writer of ‘this, then a small lad, went on that odeagion with lis father, and remembers wéll to have seen a brawny blacksmith t\kc from the seeth- ing oven of the Sewaneo furnace uantity of molten er liquid iron to his shop, and after perpitting it to some- what cool, he placed it on his anvil, and with the merry ring of his hammer produced and threw down at the feet of the amazed speéctatorsin twenty min- utes a perfect horseshoe. Then he got more of the liqmd iron, made some nails, and with those he fastened the shoe he had just before made to the foot of a horse belonging to one of the in- vited witnesses. ] “Mr. Kelly had expended vast sums of money in his‘égperiments, which em- barrassed his firm, and in three months after his grand discovcri' it made an as- signment and all work was stopped. The two Englishmen who had assisted him returned at -once to Eng- land, and soon found employ- ment at a furnace at which Mr. Bes- semer was then, and had been for some time, trying to work out the same problem which Mr. Kelly had a fow months before solved. Of course these workmen imparted to Mr, Bessemer the secrets of Mr, Kelly’s discovery. Mr. Bessemer without delay adopted Mr. l\'ullf('s methods and obtained the same results. Bessemer was then rich, Kelly was poor. Bessemer at once ap- plied fora patent in England, at the same time filed a caveat for oneat Washington. Kelly also applied at ‘Washington for a patent about the same time. A lawsuit ensued between the two claimants and resulted in a com- promise by which Mr. Kelly got only a emall per cent of the royalty on the putent in this country. Had it not been for Mr. Bessemer’s wealthy backers Mr. Keliy would have won the suiv and enijoyad the full benefits and blessings of his grand discovery, to which he was justly entitled.” Domesticating the Buffalo. Chief among the ranches where the domestication of the buffalo is taking place and its crosses are being bred is that of Mr. C. J. Jones, at Garden City, Kan., says a writer in the Popular Sci- ence Monthly. The nucleus of his herd, seven calves and fifteen adult buffaloes, were run down by him on the Texas plains, two or three hundred miles from Garden City. He has crossed Texan cows with buffalo bulls, and obtained excellent results. In November last he acquireda herd of eighty-three animals from Mr. Samuel L. Bedson, of Stony Mountain, sixteen miles south from Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba. The crosses in this herd were from Galloway or polled Angus cattle; thoy are much superior t those from Texan strains, Mr. Bedson’s herd dated from 1877, when he first corraled a buffalo bull and four heifers. These five animals were part of the small rem- nant grazing in the vast region between the Saskatchewan river and the inter- national boundary, the region now traversed by the Canadian Pacific rail- way. In that ’immense plain the slaughter of buffaloes, due to the traffic of the Hudson’s Bay company, had been for two centuries mueh more active than that on American soil. In eleven years Mr. Bedson’s herd iucreased from five to ninety-seven, fourteen of the number having been disposed of before.the sale of Mr, Jones. Of the eighty-three which he bought there are eight adult crosses, or gradds as thoy are called, and seventeen calves of 1888, pure and grade. It is r.; Jones' intention thoroughly to test various strains, with o view to ascertain which are best adapted for graziug herds on the plaing of the northwest, In producing a robe he has already attained what he calls a “seal-skin buffalo,” grum crossing with black cattle. At Silver Hailghu, five miles from Winnipeg, Sir Dovald Smith has a small herd of buffulo-crosses '!)reseuunx unigue points in_ beauty and docility. Elsewhere in Manitoba, in Alberta territory, and in Minnesota, it is pro- ed to parallel Mr. Jones’ enterprise of Garden City, Scientific Notes. A door that opens automatically by putting a coin in the slit has recently been brought out. The door is made double, each half being L-shaped and hinged at the angle. - They are closed and held fast by a lock which unlocks when the coin actuates it and the door opens. It closes again alter the person enters. A freshly executed painting may have its colors presented in the mallow tones of the old masters by first covering the buck with a coating of fuller’s earth, which absorbs all remaining oil, and then, on removing. covering the back with a coatof linseed oil, which the col- ors presently imbibe. This is the al- lm.'o(l discovery of a celebrated French painter. “Ardenbrite” is anew invisible lac- quer recently introduced into London. It is so strong as to withstand weather, steam, smoke, sea-air or sea-water; and old, silver, copper, steel, brass or iron does not tarnish when coated with 1t. As itis so fine asto be unseen on the most delicate instruments, the new lac- quer has an extensive field of applica- tion. The average wateh is composed of 175 differont pieces, comprising upward of 2,400 separate and distinet operations in its manufacture. The balance has 18,000 beats or vibrations per hour, 12,060,080 in thirty days, 350,000 in one year. It travels 1 43-100 inches with each vibration, which is equal to 94 miles in ‘our hours, 294 miles in thirty ys, or 3,558F miles in one year. a paper read before the Royal ¢, England, Henry Hennessy, B\ ys the maximum discharge of water through a pipe of eircular section, when the head is dueonly to the in- clination of the pipe, is not when the pipe is full of water, but whon filled to about nineteen-twentieths of its diam- eter. The bulk of the water of the ocean has a low temperature. It is ice cold at the bottom, even under the equator, but on the surface within the tropics there 18 relatively a thin film of warm water with a temperature of from 70 degress to 84 degrees fahrenheit. - 1OWA NEWS. Suing the County Treasurers. Forr Donar, Ta., April 16.—|Special Tele- gram to Tne Bee ]-—The Palace Car com- pany of Illinois has instituted suits arainst a number of county treasurers in Iowa to pro- vent the collection of taxes on Pullman roll- ing stock on the Iilinois Central road. Treasurer Ryan, of Webster county, was to- day served with a notice demanding his ap- pearance before Judge Love, of the supreme court, at Towa City, April 9, to show reason why he should not be punished for contempt of court. The contempt alleged was in- volved in Treasurer Ryan's refusal to obey an injunction secured from Judge Brewer b the Pullman car cowmpany, preventing ‘A'reasurer Ityan from collecting a portion of the Illinois Central railroad tax claimed by the company to be on Pullman stock and not owned by the road. The facts whicn led up to this legal transaction are that shortly be- fore the I1st of April the Central company notified the treasurer that it would not pay taxes on its property at the valuation given the treasurer by the state executive council. This valuation was €5,550 per mile. The Central compa med that $50 per mile of this assessment was on stock belonging to the Pullinan compauy, and that he should look to it for the taxes. Treasurer mildiy but firmly insisted that he would col- lect the taxe: shown on his books. An injunction against this was granted by Judge Brewer until the case could come to court, and the Central company tendered payment of its taxes, minus this amount. Treasurer Ryan, after consulting local attorneys and getting the ad of the secretary of the state executive council, refused to accept it. This has been construed into contempt of court, and the ubove action resulted. This case, which will be made a test one, is most important, involving over $15,000 annual taxes along the Iilinois Central line alone. Similar actions have been brought against other county treasurers. A Bootlegging Scheme. WarTERLCO, Ta., April 16.—|Special Tele- gram to T BEE. |—Oficers here report the aiscovery of the headquarters of a gang of bootleggers n this state, who have been carrying on an extensive trade in contra- band liquors, among che small towns in this vicinity. There are three men engaged in it. One makes trips to surrounding towns, sell- ing liquors, another remains here, and the third, who is a brakeman on the Illinois Cen- tral railroad, smuggles the liquor from Du- buque. They sell the stuff in bottles to who- ever wants it, and have been driving a thriv- ing trade in the country. ersd LNEE The Des Moines Ball Team. Dgs Morxgs, Ia., April 16.—[Special Tele- gram to Tir Bee.]—The Des Moines team played its first game in uniform to-day, bemg an exhibition game between two nines from the team with a few amateurs to fill vacan- cies. Tha batteries were Hart and Trafiley and Brynan and Cody. The boys showed un in good style, Hart pitching a very fine game, Ius side winning by a score of 6 to 0. The boys start on Thursday for Denver, where they open the season. ————— BEARD'S CLEVER PICTURES, They Delight an Audience at the Y. M. C. Rooms. Frank Beard, a caricaturist, who was at one time engaged as an artist on the New York “Judge,” amused a large audicnce last night in_the auditorium of the Young Men's Christian Association building, Mr. Beard is a man on the afternoon side of life, but he has a facetious way ubout his descriptive drawings and explanations that amuses an audience. Last night his subject was “‘Chalk Talks,” Everybody present was well pleased. Mr. Heard showed the processes cmployed by artists and caricaturists to develop a de- sign with chalk, and by talk. He ex- plained the mental process as well as the mechanical for a design. He first went ou a suggestion, then on a sit- uation, then a combination and then an appli- cation to develop an idea, Then he pictured the creation of power to carry out the idea. Upon large sheets of ordinary paper he produced eighteen or twenty dif- ferent humorous and ludicrous pic- tures during the ecvening's entertainmenta One was the face of Ben Batler, a chalk sketch that all artists have a hankering to vut before the public. He also had a c scene and an anple of pictures explaini i that a caricaturist was superior to un oll painter on account of ngenuity of originality. ‘The Salvation army woman was also por- trayed and the mischiovous small boy, One of the happicst pieces of work was what tho caricaturist called imagination of a woman sitting on o pano stool, performing a picce on an instrument supposed to be iuvisible, but by @ few strokes it was very plain that the woman was seated on the staol playing on the scat of the pants of a bad boy. The entertainment was con¢luded by a double sketeh of @ man and woman, each gru\gn at the same time by the right and left and, Beecham Pills cures nervous and billious ii. Visitors From the Pen. Warden Hopkins, of the penitentiary, ar- rived in the city yesterday with *‘Big Frank’ Jones, Terry and Crawford, who are to be witnesses in the £25,000 libel suit of Jailor Joe Milleragainst the World. The case did not come up yesterday in the district court as expected, but will go on trial to-day. it will be remembered that these witnesses were crimnals in the county jail when the World came out with its sensational allega- tions concerning the management, of the jail. i Omaha's Library. Miss Allan, the iibrarian i charge of the Omaha public library, has prepared a port- folio containing in brief all points of interest in connection with that institution, and it will be sent to the Paris exposition together with hundreds of similar statements of pub- Lic libraries in the United States. e Dido't Want no Grammar. A teacher in a westeen town, who asked one of her oupils to procure a rammar, received tne following note rom the girl’s mother, “1do not de- sire that Mattie shal lingage in gram- maras I prefer her to engage in more yousful studies and can learn her to Bpeak and write proper myself. I have went through two grammars and can’t say as they did me no good—I1 prefer Mattie to ingage in German and draw- ing and vokal music on the piano,” Spring Medicine fa a necossity with nearly evorybody, The run down, tired condition at this season is due to impuri- tios 1n the blood which have acoumulated auring the winter, And_which must be expelled if you wish to foel woll. Food's Sarsaparilia thoroughly purifes and vitalizos the blood, createn a good Apvetite, cures biliousness and hoadache, henlthy action to the kidneys and Hiver,and impa the whole body feeling of health and strenath. Try it this spring. “1tako Ho0d's SATSAPATIIIA 6vOry YOAT A% & spring tonie, with most satisfactory results.”” C. PARMELRE, 340 Bridge street, Brooklyn, Purifies the Blood “Hood's Sarsaparilia purified my blood, gave mo strongth, and o me the hoadacho and dizzine: #0 that [ Am ablo to work again. 1 recommend Hood Sarsaparilla to othors whose blood I8 thin of {mpure, and who foel worn out or run down. NASON, Lowoll, Mass. “We havo u: recommend It as the best spring medicine or blood puritior. Our boy I8 nine years old and has enjoyod #0040 heaith ever sinco we boean gl It to him. We are soldom without it.” " GROVER, Roche tor, N, I LuTHER | Hood's 8arsaparilla for yoars, and | The chief roason for the marvellons suscess of ' Hood's Sarsaparilla s found in_the Artiole ltself, [P 18 MERIT THAT WINS, and the faot that Hood's Sarsaparilin ac what 1a claimed for it, 1 what b diolne first (n the confidence of our Sarsaparilla n povularity and salo greater than thad of any other bloo “Enrly Inst spriog | vory much run down, had norvous hiaadache, folt misorablo And all th vory much benefitted by HMood's Sarsap: and fecommond it to my friends.” MRS.J. M. TAYIOB, 1119 Rucild Avenuo, Clevelan Crentos an Appotite “1wish 0 enroll my namo as one of thase whe | havo dorived heaith from tho use of Hood's Sarsapw 1A, For many yoars I have taken it, especially in the early spring, when I am troubled with dizsiness, Auliness unpleasant tasto in my moath in the morn« fng. 1t romoves this bad taste, railoves my hoadache and makos mo fool grontly refreshod. Tha two bot tos Lhavo used this apring have boen worth many dollars €0 me. 1 Adviso ail my friends to ¢ JONN BINNS, 001 43 Street, town of Lake, Bo sure to got Hood's Sarsaparilla, Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. 81; six for §. Prepared only by C.1 HOOD & €., Lowoll, Mass. 100 Doscs One Dollar ANY ONE ¢ CAN DYE A Dress, or a Coat, Ribbons, Feathers, JYarns, Rags, etc. ) TENCENTS and in many other ways SAVE Money, and make things look like NEW, by using DIAMOND DYES, ‘The work is etsy. simple, quick ; the colors the BEST and FASTEST known. Ask for DIAMOND DYES and take no other. For Gilding or Bronzing Fancy Articles USE DIAMOND PAINTS. Gold, Sliver, Bronze, Copper, Only 10 Cents, Baby Portraits. Any Color FOR 'A Portfolio of beautiful baby pie- tures from lifo, printed on fing late paper’ by patent pho Procosk, sont frve tn Mother of Any Baby born within a year, Every Mother wants the fotures ; send atonce. Give Baby's tsume and ago. 'WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO., BURLINGTON, VT, Steam and Hot Water by C. L HOOD & CO., Lowaoll, Mass. Sold by Wl druggista. 813 six for§. Propared only ‘ 100 Doses One Doliar medicine— Patne's Celery Compound. 1t purifies the IT Dlood, cures Constipation, and regulates the liver and MNOW | ine thesvatom of an waste and dead matters, H 4] Paine’s Celery Compound quallties, reviving the energles and spiri “1 have been tronbled for soin ars with a ation of difMcultics, I D o With that riost reltable Kkldneys,effectually cleans- combines true’ nerve tonic aud strengthing Cel MpLoms be: o 1now, that I and I have gained ten pounds in woelg have commenced taking the Compounid HONEST s, Felehvilie, Ve, $1.00. SIx for $5.00, At Drugglsts. WELLS, RICHARDSON & C0., Burllugton, Ve, . STRANG & CLARK STEAM HEATING CD, Heating and Ventilating Apparatus and Supplies. Engines, Boilers, Steam Pumps, Etc. ETCHINGS, ENGRANINGS, ARTIST SUPPLIES, MOULDINGS, FRAMES, WHOLESALB. OMAHA, HOSPE 1513 Dougla ~ HIMEBAUGH & TAYLOR, EMERSON, HAMLET & DAVIS, KIMBALL, PIANOS AND ORGANS, I SHEET MUSIC. - NEB. RETAIL. Hardware and Cutlery, Mechanics’ 1ools, Fine Bronze Buildsrs® Goods and Bufale Socales. 1405 Douglas St., Omaha. Doctor Johnson Deth roned. London Pick Me-Up, a very bright weekly which has recently entered the lists with Punch as a contestant for hon- ors in the humorous line, as understood in England, prints the following clever satire: LONDON, March 23.—To the Editor of Pick Me-Up:—Sir,—Knowing what a thorough fraud—I should y, how thoroughly you are interested in lite- rary frauds, T wish to point out a very extraordinary cipher I have found out, in the very last place you could have ex- pected to find it. But, of course, that’s exactly what you would have expected. If you will turn to page 321 of the original edition of the great texi grapher’s immortal work, and count from the top of the first column, you wiil find the pronoun *‘I” standing en- tirely by itself. If you take half 422 you got the remarkable product, 211. {If you doubt me, work 1t out yourself, y city man who is used to fig- ures to do it for you.) B On page 211 in the second column, 212th word from the top (of course, it should have been 211, but this must be due to a printer’s crror) you will find the word “did.” These, by themselves, mean little; but my patient search,and by ad- ding 422 to 211, you get 633 (this may be verified as in the first case, or you can take my word for it). From these fig- ures substract 3, onc of the three fig- ures in question, and you have 630. 1 take vhree because we get the third word here, on page 630. This, you will find is *‘not,” a word of thr A a significant sevies of, shall I say—to conciliate scoffers—coin, Multiply 630 by thr rvesult? Why, 1890! one to disprove it! Counting from now it is one year only to that date. Another coincidenc: Yes, u signifi- cant fact within itself; but how much more so when we deduct four times 8 from it—12, leaving a baulance of 1878, and on page 1878, in the second column, and-—again, mysterious coincidence(?)— the fourth word is *‘write.’ Multiplying the aforesnid 12 by itself, and substracting the 144 from 1578 wo get 1784, and on that very page, the twelfth line of the first column, we get that remarkabie word **this.” Cutting off the last two figures of 1734 we get 17, Substract 1 and we have 16, and on page 16 also, in the first column, is the little wo *‘book.”” Now let us see what sentence these little words form: 1 did not write this book."” There you have it under his own hand, Now, sir, 1 say this is a discovery that will put all similar discoveries ~to everlasting shame. I donot wish to rob the illus- trious philosopher of Iieet street of one laurel leaf in his chaplet of fame, but if ever n chap let a cipher (aye, and & cun- ningly concealed cipher) into a book be- fore (or behind for the matter of that( it is clenr that he has done so in this case. I ilatter myself that one more heurtless deception iuu now been exposed by Yours truly, 1GNORATIUS DONKELLY. Feminine Finesso. Detroit Free Press: A little girl hearing her mother read a minister’s experience as to how [resh roasted poa- nuts had cured him of insomnia, asked: “Ma, what is 1usomnia?”’ “Her mother explained that it was when a person could not sleep sound. During the day, having some peanuts, she was approached by her little brother, who asked her for some. To keep from sharing them with him and still’ show a generous disposition, she said: ‘Brother, I am suffering awfully from insomnia, and much if you take any there will not be enough left to cure we. o, and what is the 1 challenge any uenic GOMPAN Y’S EXTRACT of MEAT. and Choapest Meat Klnvouring Stock for Soups iahes wid Sauces. As Boef Pea, “an invalus il salo 5,600,000 Jurs, o of Justus von Liebig oopors, Girocers and Druguista. RACT OF MEAT CO., L'W, London dson Drug Co.. aud Blake,Bruce & DOCTOR q. WM. Jordan Late of the Universit; of Now York City an HowardUniveraity,\Vash ington, D, C. HAS OFFICES No. 310 811 Ramge Building, Corner Fittoenth and Har noy sts. Omaba, Neb, Ywlere all curable case “fare treated with sug coss, ASTAMA, DYSPEPSIA, DEAP Arisy, ALL NZiVOUS AND BKIN o Ao Conyn, LATION at offico or by matl, 81, hours—0 to 11 &, m., 2t04 p.m., 70 8p, m Kunday office hours from 9 a. m., 18 1 p. o Many disenses ure treated successtally by Dr. Jordon througn the matls,sud it is thus possible mivble ta s u journay to obial SUCCESSFUL HOSPITAL TREATMENT A’ THEIR Hi Rend for hook on Disenses of Nose, Throat L LT — M. M. Hamlin, Phoenix Ins, Co. 8,'A. Orchurd, Carpet Dealer. John £nelby, Gre John Teush, City ‘e rer, DEMARZABLE OASR. 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