Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 23, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DATLY BER: TUESDAY. APRIL 23. 18%9. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. —— TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Datly Morniag Tditton) including SUNDAY BEF, 0 Year. . oF 8ix Momths, ... - . T Three Montbs g‘v’m OMANA SUNDAY TRk, maiied fo nuy 5 address, One yenr., .. 00 One Year. ROOMS 14 AND 16 T ox Orriok, No. 613 FOURTEENTH STREE CORRBSPONDRNCE. All communications relsting to news and edt. Sorinl matter should be addressed to the EvITOR ¥ THE UEE. ¥ BUSINESS LETTER Al business letters and remit Lnnfrl should be wddressed to Tk Dre PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Draits, cliocks and postoftice orders to e made payable to the order of the company. e Bee Pablishing Company, Proprictors. SEWATER, Editor. Notice to Agents and Subscribers, We wiil consider it & favor if agents and suo- seribers will notify us ut once when Tie Ber fails to reach them promptly. In order to suc cessfully remedy any fault in the delivery of papers, 1t is absolutely necessary that we know the date on which papers were late or missing. 1t late, give the time and train on which Tug Bex reached your town. Also state from what Airection so that we can locate the {rouble and apply the proper remedy, Papers are fre- quently carriod by @ town through tho care- Jessness of the route agents, and when this oc. curs, wo can, with full information, place the blame where it belongs. THE DALLY BEE. Sworn Statement of Oirculation. Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, s, George 3. Tzschuck, secretary of the Bee Pub- Nahing company, does solemniy swear that the actual circulation o! Tk DALY Bee for t 589, was as follow: Sworn to hefore me and subscribed to ln my presence this 20th (ln\l of April. A, D, 1880 nl. . P. FEIL, Notary l'ubllo. State of hclmuku. Laa County of Douglas, | 5% Georgo nuck, being duly sworn, de- ses and that he is secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the actial average daily circulation of month of April, 185, 18,74 copies; for May, 1888, 18,183 copiess for June, 188% 10,243 copies; for Ty, 1505 T coploss for Augiist, 1N, 18,18 copice: for, Septembor, 1, It ples; ‘for October, 1888, 1 oples; nber, 188, 8,980 copres; for December, 1588, 18,223 copies | for January, 1859, IK57 bruar 160,718, 14 coples; tor Sworm to_ befors the_abd. sibs Ppresence this 16th day of April, A. D., N. FEIL, Notar: WiAT is the matter with Omaha’s clearance record? It's all right. MAYOR GRANT, ul va \ ork, keeps on chopping down the telegraph poles regardless of the way the chips fly. Now let us see which of the two street car rivals will be the first to carry outits promises of extensions and im- proved facilities. Bora branches of the Connecticut legislature voted down the dressed beef bill. The old nutmeg state has pre- . served its common sense up to the present day. A WAGON load of coffins was one of the first in line to cross into the prom- ised land of Oklahoma. There must have been a mistake somewhere, boom- ers will be planted with their boots o THE sale of Secretary Tracy’s expen- sive stud of trotting horses would indi- cate that the head of the navy has abandoned the trotting course and ceuntered his affections upon building ocean grey hound: Tne county commissioners have adopted a resolution requiring the county physician and the druggist em- ployed by the county to make staved re- ports of the business done at the county drug store. Small doses of reform are welcome to the taxpayers. A RAY of hope is brightening up the horizon of the Des Moines river lands settlers. Not alone the lowa state au- thorities, but members of the cabinet are moving in behalf of the evicted settlors, who will eventually be restored to full and undisputed possession of their lands, AND now some of our local contem- poraries profess to be alarined over the prospect that the construction of the city hall building will be delayed by The BEE. This borders on the com- ical, 1n view of the fact that the city hall would be completed to-duy had it not been for the malicious warfare of those papers. Wirn the superabundanceand cheap- ness of brick there is no longer any rea- son why our citizens should not build Lrick structures instead of frame fire traps. A city built of brick and stone creates an impression of stability and goes far toward inspiring the confi- dence of foreign investors, That fact has been demonstrated by the growth of Kansas City, PROPERTY owners who will soon be ealled upon to select paving material for swreots fronting their lots should not fail to inspect the cedar block pavement on upper Farnam sweet laid bare by the digging of trenches for water mains. They will be able to judge all the better alter the inspection whether it is economic to select wooden block on the score of cheapne. T business men and newspapers of both parties of the City of New York unite in commending the appointment of Mr. Marvelle W. Cooper for ap- praser of the port. The post is of great importance, not alone to that eity, but to the whole country. Mr, Cuoper isspoken of as a business man of good standing and high personal char- acter. Tie California papers state that ad- wvices regarding the growing crops in that state indicate thut this is going to bea banner yeur. The prospect for wheat is most favorable, with a consid- erably incrensed acreage, and it is esti- mated that the crop may reacha million eight hundred thousand tons. It is yet 100 early to speak with contidence re- gording the fruit yield, but unless some aceident ocours it 18 expectod to be ex- ceptionally large. Altogother the out- look for the farmers and fruit-growors of California this year is J © very satisfuctory, A PHOHIBITION 'VATERLOO‘ The prohibitory amendment was overwhelmingly defeated in Massa- chusetts yesterday. It was expected that the effort to engraft prohibition upon the constitution of the state would fail, but the most sanguine opponent of the proposed amendment could haraly » hoped for a more signal defeat it received, The wvrohibition forces wore thoroughly organized,and fought their campaign with a vigor and earnestness seldom equalled in a simi- lar contest. Every influence they could bring to bear in behalf of their cause was utilized. The weather was favorable to their getting out every vote on their side. Yet they were beaten by a ma- jority of from forty to fifty thousand. It was a victory of sober reason. Tt was the triumph of facts and experience over mere sentiment. It was the recog- nition by & large majority of the people of the ruth that prohibition does not prohibit. This had been demonstrated in Massachu-~ setts as elsewhere, and most of her intelligent and thoughtful men long ngo decided against a poli which had been proven not only in- capable of accomplishing its intended purpose, but inevitably productive of ovils no less damaging to society than those it was designed to cure. With far more temperance of speech, and with more regard for the logic of facts and the lessons of experience, than the advocates of the amendment, its oppo- nents appealed to the reason and judg- ment of the people, and the re- sult is a victory, the ultimate effects of which will do more to advance the cause of temperance than could possibly have been accomplished with constitutional prohibition. The effect of this result will be far- reaching. It will have a decisive influ- ence in Pennsylvania, where the people are soon to vote on the same question, and its lesson will be heeded elsewhere m states where a like issue is re- ceiving public attention. The example of tho intelligent states of Mas- sachusetts and Rhode Island, wh have tried prohibition and demon- strated its failure, will not be lost upon the thoughtful and unprejudiced people of other states. It will strengthen pub- lic opinion everywhere in favor of high license and local option as the ounly practicable and certain policy for re- stricting and regulating the liquor traflic, and thereby promoting temper- ance. Within two years seven states have rejected constitutional prohibi- tion, and the indications are that Penn- sylvania will increase the list to eight. THE STRIKING TRENCHMEN. We print an appeal from a leading workingman of Omaha for the striking laborers of the waterworks company to stand firm in their demands for fair wages. On that score no fault can be found. Tue Beg has always encour- aged workingmen in every legitimate effort to better their condition andin any endeavor, by united action, to en- force fair pay for their labor. Work- ingmen have as much right to withhold their labor or fixa price upon their time as the capitalist has to withhold his money or fix a price upon his wares. But there is a sharp line between peace- ful and lawful means to enforce the de- mands of labor and an effort to compel compliance with these demands by force or violence. No matter how reas- onable the demands of labor may be, the employer is atliberty to reject them, and workingmen cannot resort to vio- lence or the destruction of property without subjecting themselves to se- vere penalties as law-breakers, besides losing popular sympathy, The breakage of water mains, the flooding of streets and the damage in- flicted upon property places the men engaged in the waterworks strike in a very bad light, and deprives them of sympathy which they would otherwise receive from all classes of our citizens, They may deny complicity with this piece of vandalism, and ninety-nine ont of their number may be innocent. The break of the water main was not an ac- cident, The question is, who did it? Does it stand to reason that the managers of the waterworks would conspire to have the company’s own property destroyed and lay the company linble to pay heav to property owners and the city? Is it reasonable to suppose that the malicious breaking of that pipe was committed by an out- sider who had no grievance? Other parties besides the striking working- men may have had grievances against the waterworks company, and it is pos- sible that such parties have committed this crime. Unfortunately, however, the suspicion rests upon the strikers, and they will be held responsible unless they can furnish positive proof to the contrary. TROUBLESOME COMPETITORS. The competition of the Canadian rail- roads with American lines is a trouble- some and perploxing factor of the rail- way problem which is receiving serious consideration, The subject has recently been presented to the 1nter @ com- merce commission, and both sides have been heard. Ever since the passage of the inter-state law there has been more or less complaint of the disadvantages suffered by American roads from the unrestrained competition of the Cana- dian roads, and since the inauguration by the commission of a more vigorous policy in enforcing the law, followed, it would seem, by a more aggressive com- petition on the part of the foreign cor- porations, the matter has become one of grave importance. The issue discussed before the commission arose between the Michigan Central, which controls the Canaaa Southern, and the Graund Trunk, and related mainly to the trans- portation of anthracite coal, large quan- tities of which are carried into Caunada by both roads, The Grand Trunk, being free from the restraints imposed by the law wupon the Michigan Central made special rates to the prin- cipal points for large shipments and the latter road appealed to the com- mission for protection against this dis- advantageous competition, claiming that inusmuch as the coal is taken for shipment by the Canadian line on the American side thay road is subject to the restraints of the law. The answer of the Grand Trunk was that the coal could be delivered to it on the Canadian side, und its transportation of it being thus wholly within its own territory no restraint could be placed upon it in the making of rates. Itis thought to be more than likely that the inter-state commission will decline to interfere in the matter in which case the ques- tion will arise what regulations, if any, can be adopted to relieve the American road from its disadvantage? I[n the consideration of that question the in- terest of the conl companies would have to be taken into account, the special rates operating to encourage large shipments of our coal into Canada. But the competition of Canadian roads has a much broader scope than this, and the decision touching the particular issue presented to the commission will have a far-reaching effect. The Canadian roads are carrying large and steadily increasing shipmentsof Ameri- can commodities from the west east- ward at rates lower than those of our transcontinental lines, and are showing a disposition to take the largest possi- ble advantage of the freedom they enjoy from the restraints imposed by law upon American roads competing for the same trade. Notwithstanding the denial by the president of the Canadian Pacific of the charge that his road is an aggressive competitor of the other Pacific roads, Mr. Joseph Nimmo, jr., very conclusively shows that it is so. He cites the fact that when the American trans-continental lines, two years ago, made a seventy-five cent rate on sugar from San Francisco to the Missouri river, the Oanadian Pacific made a sixty cent rate, and he notes, also, that about eighty per cent of the exports of cotton goods from the New England states to China and Japan are going by the way of the Canadian Pacific railway and its subsidized steamer line from Van- couver, evidently due to lower rates than are offered by American roads. Obviously this Canadiun competition presents a very serious question as af- fecting American railroad interests, and how it shall be treated is a matter of no small difficulty. Our government can exert no control over the Canadian roads, and any regulations designed to exclude them from competition would likely encounter vigorous opposition from a large body of American shippers. It is an important and perplexing phase of the railroad problem. the THE SIOUX COMMISSION. The president has appointed the members of the commission who are to negotiate with the Sioux Indians for the opening of their reservation. They are General Crook, ex-Governor Foster, of Ohio, and Hon. William Warner, of Kansas. The selections have been wisely made, and the commission may safely be ex- pected to conduct, judiciously, the deli- cate duty it will have to perform. No man in the countryis more familiar with the Indian character than General Crook, and none would more fully com- mand the respect and confidence of the Indians. His long and successful service among them gives him a thorough ac- quaintance with their mental charac- teristics and the best method of dealing with them, while it taught them to know him as a man worthy of their en- tire confidence. Ex-Governor Foster is a man of practical affairs, shrewd, cave- ful and intelligent, and Mr. Warner is equally well fitted for this duty. The commission will receive instructions early next month, and proceed at once with its important task, the general aracter of which the public is famil- iar with. Z The, most trustworthy advices are favorfible to the success of the negotia- tions. The better terms offered the In- dians by the new legislation are under- stood to be satisfactory to a very large number who opposed the first proposals, among these being some of the most in~ fluential chiefs. Certain strong in- fluences, also, that were operative at the time of the negotiations last year have been removed, or, at any rate, checked, while in the meantime the Indians have become aware of the fact that the public sentiment of the coun- try demands the opening of the reserva- tion, and that a further perverse re- sistance would be more likely 1o work them harm than good. These circum- stances warrant confidence in the suc- cess of the new negotiations. and this feeling will be increased by & know- ledge of the character and qualifications of the commissioners. The opening of the reservation will give eleven million acres to white settlement, most of it superior land, and undoubtedly the de- mand would be such as to enable the government to dispose of it as rapidly as practicable, adding largely to the population and material welfare of South Dakota. It is quite possible that this result may be attained coincident with the admission of South Dakota to statehood. THE refine! blished at Watson- ville, Cal., for the extraction of sugar from beets has proved a much greater success than was expected at the out- set. Four thousand tons of sugar were produced last year, which was nearly double the amount of the previous year, and a new company, with a capital of five million dollars, has been formed to prosecute this industry on a more ex- tensive scale. There is a growing in- terest being manifested in sugar beet culture, the farmers of Florida and somo other southern states having be- come imbuea with it, and a few years may find this industry developed to large proportious in the United Suates. WE ARE reminded again by one of the disinterested patriots who wants to dispose of a quarter block to Uncie Sam for two prices, that Mr. Linton made his report on the postoffice location five weeks ago, and that report has not yet been acted on. It is now four years since the citizens of Omaha located the city hall on Eighteenth and Farnam streets, and voted two hundred thou- sand dollars in bonds to erect it. But now we are still waiting for the archi- toets to present their plans. It would secem as if public buildings are neither built in aday, nor a year for that matter, ———— ‘I'ne inter-state commissioners have called upon certain railroads to report the number of free passes issued by them. It had come to their ears tha roads diseriminate by issuing passes to favored shippers. The probing, how- ever, is not likely to go very deep. The giving of passes is so openly carried on by all the railroads of the country that the law proliibiting it is practically a dead letter, and one which the com- missioners are well aware will never be strictly enforced. — THE news of the safe arrival at the Azores of the passengers and crew of tho abandoned steamar, Danmark, re- lieves no little anxiety. For nearly two weeks the fate of the four hundred souls on board that vessel was wrapped in mystery. Happily the fears enter- tained that one and all had found & watery grave turn out to be false, and anxiety has given way to joy in thou- sauds of households. SouTH DAKOTA has been appor- tioned into twenty districts, and tho election to choose delegates to the con- stitutional convention takes place within three weeks. The polling of a strong vote may be expocted. It is the opportunity of a life-time to be able to have a voice and a vote in the business of state making. HITS AND MISSES. The Deadwood papers insinuate that stages and horses are & superfluous part of the equipment of the Omaha board of trade excursion, and that transporta- tion facilities are ample 1 that section. This is a cruel thrust Modoc Jim’s royal ‘‘Tally-hos.”” They are as far above the old stage coach as a Pullman is above a second rate smoking car, and will give the Deadwood peoplo a sample of metro- politan luxury on legs and wheels. In the language of Prof. Test, “Hurrah for Omaha.” Tt is an ill wind that blows nobody good.” The upper Farnam street flood laid bare the rottenness of cedar block pavement, When Superintendent Chase turned his Indian band loose on President Cleveland with ‘‘Hail, the Couquering Hero Comes,” the people of Omaha rejoiced that civiliza- tion was a success in teaching poor Lo how to blow his own bazoo. Few people sus. vected that it was a private investment, or that the Indian base ball club which gath- ered shekels throughout the stato was play- ing a profitable engagement for the superin- tendent. The inside bistory of Chase's man- agement of the Genoa school proves that he was a patriot for revenue only. The youthful aborigines are to be congratulated on preserv- ing their hide and their scalps. They are the ouly trophies left of the Chase. The clearings of Omaha banks continue piling up proof,of the remarkable progress of the city. Last week’s records shows that the total is safely anchored above the four million point, an increase of thirty-five per cent compared with the corresponding week of last year. The per cent of increase is greater than'that of any city in the west or northwest, except Denver, whose total is half a miilion less than that of Omaha. No city in the east approaches it. And what is still more gratifying is the fact that the job- bing business, the real estate transactions and building permits issued show a substan- tial gain over last year. Omaha is all right. The following note has been received at this oftice: “To-day’s World says, under the head, ‘Tne Bee Crawfishes,’ that ‘Tng BEE can’t show ‘where the World throws its paper in a yard ‘where they did not subscribe for it,’ or words to that effect. They left it at my place, 3304 Mereditn avenue, for a whole weck, until I told them I had not asked them to leave it and would not pay for it. I also found a dozen or more of their papers thrown in the weeds,” ‘This is no surprise. We have received the names of other parties who never subscribed, never paid anything for it, and cannot induce it to stop its free delivery. e s S Missouri's Consolation, Globe-Democrat. Missouri isn'v getting much from the ad- ministration just now, but, thank God, Ohio isn’t getting anything. e Harrison’s Southern Policy. Denver News. Harrison's southern policy will destroy the color line, This in itself will be a great favor to all classes of people in the states of the south, The toviff line is many steps in advance of the color line, with abundant room for argument on either side of it, and no violation of southern traditions, Henry Clay was the exponent of the American system, i On the Quiet, Philadelphia Ledger. ‘The Governor of North Carolina and the Governor of South Carolina are to room in the same hotel in New York during the Cen- tennial celebration, but what the one says to the other after the manner of their historic predecessors in oftice is not to be a public part of the ceremonies, Rk Codfish Boats. New York World. There will be 400 vessels in the Centennial naval parade. The number suggests that the vessels will be codfish boats, — .- They Get The iled, St. Paul Globe. Some of the lowa courts have in hand the question whether a tax on sleeping cars can be collected in that state. The question whether beer or wine bottles can be openca in pussing through the state nas been settled in the affirmative by numerous experiments, Bu A, Neb., April 22.—To the Editor of Tue Beg: A Blair special in Tur Suxpay BeE says: *It is reported on the streets to-day that the applicants for the Blair postoMce, George 5. Cook and Denna Allberg, are to determine who vlyllull be the suecessful vne by an elec- “T"rnnuumhlv this refers to Joe S, Cook and the undersigne Torough T Bew columns I desire to say that such “report” is wholly without founda- tion in fact. The intelligence of Elair has already indicated its preferences. Person- ally, I have neither the time, means nor pur- posc to enter upon & **boodle” campaign to determine & question that may be better de- termined otherwise. DENNA ALLBERY, R Suspicious Work., Tno watehman at the Jones street dump reports that Sunday night about 10 o'clock a man and woman approached the river bank at that place and suddenly he heard a splash as if a bundle had been thrown into the river. He states that he could hear the woman's sobs quite distinctly as the couple retreated. Just what the package contaived that was dis- posed of is & mystery. e Celebrating With Morton. Among the Omaha people who left yes- terday to attend the Arbor day exerciscs at Nebraska City were Dr. George Miller, Hon, J. M. Woolworth, John Heath, Stockton Heath, J. C. Calboun, jr., and a number of young ladies from Brownell hall. The most important feature of the exorcises is the preseutation of the park to Nebraska City Hon, J. Steriing Morton. — Dr, Hou. James M. Woolworth will both make speecl.es, s Ll Dr. Gluck eye and ear, Bar Too. TERRORIZED BY VIGILANTES. Lifo Made Burdensome For Sheridan County Citizons. THEY APPEAL FOR PROTECTION. Many Innocent Persons Said to Have Suffered Gross Injustice On the Strength of Mere Suspicion, LINCOLX BUREAU OF TR OMAMA Brn, 1020 P Strest, Laxcory, Apri A citizon of Shoridan county writes Gov- ernor Thayer, under date of April 2, that vigilance committees in that part of the state ore going clearly boyond deconcy in takiog the law into their own hands for the punishment of horso and cattle thieves. No- tico is given suspected settlers that thoy must leave the country within a certain specified time or suffer the consequences. Frequently, the writer states, these notices are served upon peaceablo and law-abiding citizens, and that they are thus kept in con- stant fear for their lives, “To be under suspicion,” he further states, ‘‘is sufficient to provoke violence and a species of intimi- dation that makes life almost unendurablo." The complaint led the governor to address the fotlowing letter to the sheriff of Sheri- dan county to-day: My Dear Sir: Complaints have reached me “of the doings of vigilanco com- mittees in your counties. I know nothing of the truth of them, and have no means of in- vestigating; but 1 write to say that I look to you for the enforcement of the laws, and the protection of the life and proverty of every peaceably-disposed citizen, Acts of violence and outrages must not be permitted. If parties commit offenses, they must be ar- rested and tried by due process of law. If the people of “your county are robbed by horse or cattle thieves, use the whole power of the county to hunt them down and bring them to justice. Lot the law be enforced. Justice must be administered by the execu- tion of the law. Neither cattlo and horse thieves on one side, nor mob violence on the other, must be tolerated. JonN M. TuAYER. Lincoln's Government Square. Three or four hundred trees will be planted in the government square ina day or two. Ix-Governor Furnas has agreed to furnish the trees and take his chuances of getting a government appropriation to pay for them. The agreement, however, was made upon the condition that Postmaster Watkins would sce that they were properly planted and cared for. It 1s said that this can not be done for less than $100, which Mr. Watkins has consented w0 pay and take chances of reimbursement from the govern- ment. Mr, Furnas will arrive here to- morrow to look the ground over and decide upon the #nd of trees it will be best to plant. It is learncd that trees as large us it will be safe to “'set out” wiill be used, and the kind best calculated to make the square a bower of beauty 1 future years, This is considered a commendable move hore, and it is possible that the gentlemen who have taken the scheme in hand may feel them- selves amply repaid in time to come for the monument they may build unto themselves. But the chances are favorable that they may be paid 1n both ways. Some Slick Fakering. Wirick & Hopper is the name of a firm that does a trunk business in this city. This firm, however, does not-conduct a manufac- turing business, as has been supposed by many, but hires its work done in the state pen: or, it might be said, deals in convict labor in'a small way. It is learned to-day that Messrs. Wirick & Hopper have been victimized by one of the guards at the pen for some time past. It has been a difficult matter, however, to locate the party. But assurances were made sure,this morning, by the arrest of David Stevens, and a warant was sworn out for nim. Since its_service a convict confesses that he helped David get away with the trunks, which have been sold to dealers in the city, but the mystery still is, how? But, however, David and his pal gov away with the trunks, and it is generally considered here a pretty slick piece of fa- kering. 29, City News and Notes, J. B. Haynes, managing editor of Tne was n Lincoln ' to-day nearly two years. “The state house was as quiet to-dgy as the still hours of night. The governor and retary of state, only, were _u their posts du ing the afternoon. The voard of secretaries of the state board of transportation svent Sunday with their families. They were at their homes n aif- ferent parts of the state. ‘The enjoymeuts of Arbor day were also enjoyed by them at home. Governor Thayer goes to Omaha to-mor- row to participate in the specch-making ex- ercises at the fireman’s tournament. Workmen are tearing down the Metro- politan skating rink. That old eye-sore will soon be replaced by a stately builaing. It will be one of the creditable structures of the city. The Al bm 00ls W 3ee, for the first time in aay very ercises av the public ditable. It is safe to 8, that the little folks enjoyed their outdoor sports inor thing else. Thousands of sprigs, S01e- time become trecs, were phnm..l i parts of the cit; Mr. Waters and Mr. St. Clair, of L)nmlm found their run-av children at Cre S terday. The little follows were glad enot ,m to return home. They frankly state that they have had all of the “dime nov they want. 2l glory t Bohanan’s hall, last ery large. Somo fifty or athered o hear what he astor Minehart and his While somewhat rabid in his ut- auditors have no fear of taking Mr. Klock is certainly a spir- ple, N WILL PROBABLY OLOSE, itualistic d April 30 May be Observed by Banks as a Holiday. The national bankers of Omaha, as well as elsewhere, seem to be in very much of a quandry just now as to whether they will be compelied, under the proclamations of the president, to close up and observe the 30uh instant as a legal holiday. C. W. Hamil- ton, William Wallace, Ben B.," Wood, Hopkins and other officials who could be found were interviewed on the sub- but werc not prepared to oifor y'decided opinious, The law designates certain days, and also provides that sny other named by the president for thanksgiv- ing and prayer coulo under the sawe head. “Phat bewg the case,” said Mr. Walluco, “there is no doupt that the 0th will be o logal holiaay and we will have to close. It will not interfere much with our businoss. We can close on any day except i and Monda it mich incon The others ¢ ssod themsolye lar manner. They have been dis matter rather extensively, and will decide within the next day or two what to do. - —-— Death of a Travel A traveling man by the name of this city, died at Nashville, Tenn,, afternoon. He was in the employ of the Carter White Lead company, and was & son of H, 8. Moody, 1563 North Lighteenth streer, H lmént was pnenmonin. His remains have b t from Nashville and are expected to Tueslay morning. o~ Killed he Storm. Wuire Praixs, N, Y., April 22.—1t is re- ported that two men were killed and several others injured during the storm of Saturday mgm at some distance from Bedford Sta- venien inusimi- Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. When Baby wes sizk, we gave her Castorta, When sho was & Child, she ericd for Castoria, When shie becaine Miss, she clung; to Castorla, »u sho ha¢ Children, she save thee ("asforia WHAT PEOPLE TALK ABOUI. fews and Interviows Caught in Hotel Corridors and Elsewhere. ColonelJ. Wood Smith, the duke of Calla- way, brings vory encouraging reports from Caster county of prospects for big crops this season. Tho colonel said last evening that there had been an abundance of rain, and the plant of small grain is growing most satisfuctory. I have oats and wheat on my place that aro threo inches high now,” said he, It was learned in a short conversation with him that a stretch of country between Albion and North Platte, is greatly worked up just now over the probability of securing anew raiiroad named the Missouri River, North Platte & Deaver. The towus along the line, such as Ord and Callaway, have raised money to pay for having it surveyed, A strong company has be organized, and and work will be commenced at once. He thinks that it 18 a schome of the Illinois Cen tral, and will undoubtedly be built this yoar as far as North Platte, Tho interview with Judgo Popvleton, orinted in these columns three or four days ago, scems to have caused quite a flutter among the exposition people. Tho declar: tion made by him that, if his lots wore vi cantand froo from loase incumbrauces, he would ercct upon them a_hotel g ' not less than §300,000, induced some of the associat directors to express themselves, rather vigorously, aud in fayor of giviog_the Judgo a call on his_proposition. Mr. W, Wallace said yesterday: “If he was quoted correctly, and means Tam satisfiod there will be 1o difficulty in cloaring tho lots. Furthermore, if Mr. Popploton agrees to erect a §300,000 hotel there, I will uot only wurn over all my stock in the exposition building and grand opera house, but in addi- tion give him my chock for $1,000. 1 am sat- isfied toc he continued, "lImL there are other stockholders, who will gladly do the same,” Senator Church Howe, of Auburn, said, last evening, that if this quality of wi dathor continues six woeks or two months longer, Nebraska will produce the greatest crops of evory kind ever heard of. ‘‘The farmers down my way,” said he, “are fully threo ‘weeks ahead of all former seasons with their work, and catlle are going to grass fifteen days carlier thuu usual.” Arthur Moreland, the famous interlocutor of Dockstader’s minstrel company is a regular crank on base ball, but the game he witnessed yesterday between Omaha and Minnoeapolis, very nearly cured him. Said he, “'I never knew before why it was that some men couldn’t appreciato the sport of the diamond. Al 1 have got to say is there's not a single man in the Minne- apolis team who can play ball.” *'Oh, yes, the third baseman 1s a pretty good player,” interjected a bystander. Moreland' looked at him™ and replied: “Well, Tsuppose if mufing an easy one and ll‘llmuln five ruus is good ball, be's all right,” and walked away, April 80 is perplexing the bankers. To closo or not to close—that's the question and they can’t decide it. A. U. Wyman it is a very important matter, They are at a great 10ss to know wiut to do with notes and checks that should go to protest on that day. “Isuppose, however,” considercd Mr. Wyman, “we will be governed by the de- cision of the solicitor of the treasury.’ STAND BY THE STRIKERS. A Workingman States the Case of the Waterworks Employes. OnAmmA, April 21.—To the Editor of Tur Bre: Knowing you to sympathize with any just and honorable movement in the cause of labor, T wish to say a few words through your paper in behalf of the striking em- ployes of the wuaterworks company. We have the example before us of a corporation that a few days ago boasted through the public press of this city that during the last year it nad cleared, over und above all ex- a half a million of dollars, red ages of its laborers 25 cents a day. malking open boasts also that the next would show its net profitsto be overa million of dollars. I want to know what reasonable excuse this corporation has to offer for re- ducing the waes of its common laborers. [ attended a meeting of these men at Green's Eall on Farnam strest on Saturday evening last, and found them to be honest, honorable, and intelligent, most of thém men of ies, and nearly all of them citizens of v'; men chiefly of German und § dinavian nationality, and dotermined to carry their point ble means. The writer of th ed in their cause, and with the assistance of other will endeavor, by Lou ble means, to ssist thom in carrying their point. Now, Mr. Editor, wo soli¢it your assistance in this movement in behalf of these men. Al of them ave peace- able, law-abiding citizens, Those that know man and Seandinavian citizons can- y otherwise, and we solicit the moral minded men for those, our feilow-laborers, in thulr or their shts with They deny with one voice the malicious charge of inter- fering with or injuring the company's prop- erty, and they claim that it is to their inter- est to protect and defond it, and will do so to the best of their ability. Thoy hereby ro- quest all laboring men to stand by them in llu~x, their strugglo for their rights, us Awmer- ican' labor at the prescnt day is ground down we whose chief prlnc!xl‘( Is oharity for our fellow-man. you to givo to these men your mo al sur mn. Their onuse 18 our cause. It is an unjust reduction in theso men's wagos. Lend to them the aid and nssistanco that is necesary to o their point by eiving thom your moral sup- vort. Let this corporation know that it cannot with impunity impose on the worlk ingmen of this ¢ity. ‘Wo will not have Bos ton prices or fouper vates for labor in thiy city. Wo speak with no uncertain voice, and we moan to be heard. To the pross of this oity T would say a fow words. Gentlemen of the press, treat tho cause of these men with modoration and dis- crotion. Thoy ask of you to hoar their side of the story, Tho majority of thom cannot spoak to yon for themselves, as they speak nothing but their mother tongue, and _we, a8 laborers and brothers addross you for thom, promising you that tley are law abid- ing citizens, and that thoy deny tho crimo Jaid to their charge and condemn it. 1f such were not the case 1 would have nothing to do with their cause, neither would I tako the troublo to present it to you, I put tho question fal 1 squarcly to thom, and by those corporations, and would request all men to keep away from this work until this question is settlod Brothers of the Knights of Labor of this city, I uddress you in behalf of those mon— with ono v aenied andcondomnoed any interference with tho property of this corporation. Hoping that this explanation will bo satisfuctory to our citizens at large, [ remain, yours very truly, A WORKINGMAN, CELEBRA l‘l\(l THE HOLIDAY, Some of the Omahans Who bered Arbor Day. The hinges of the bank doors wore granted a quiet day for the contemplation of Arbor , and the employes of Omaha's financial s played ball and other pranks in pretty much the same sp In furtherance the proclamation of George B. Lane, state superintondent of in- struction, the schools of the city exerted themselves, The rooms of Park school acted inde- pendently in the observation of the day, and there was no general programme, The treo planted by the pupils last year, in one corner of the yard, was flourishing and all tho rooms gathered around this bay tree and spontancously emphasized arboriculture. The head of ench room of Central school, containing pupils old enovgn to understand the subject, showed Low great was the bene fit conferred by tree culture upon chimate and humanity, having particular reference to the object lessons of the ornamental foli age of Omuha and their civilizing influenco with the community. The evolution of arbor day in the west was also treated. At Lake schoot the non-appearance of trees tnat were to have been set out, and at Long school tho near removal to larger grounds, precluded public exercises, but methods similar to those followed in Central school obtained. At Leavenworth school Fred Knicker- bocker, of the class of 'S, in the presence of the whole school and many of the parents of the children, bricfly outhned the programmo to be followed and connected it with a skotch of the tree planting movement. As each scholar threw a shovelful of dirt on tho class tree ‘“‘Stan " an honor to the ex- plorer, he relicved his muscies of strain by reciting a vers *“The Battle Cry of Freedom” was dressed as follows and sung: We have planted here our little treo, And hope it strong may grow. Shouting the battle-cry of frecdom! May its braaches flourish, ‘When away from school we Shouting the battle er Id I venworth forev Hur ! b hurrah! Long may her spirit be onr guiding star, “'l“;;l'l‘lvuy the class of '89,will move upon the il Where stands the goal of our ambition, Edith Schwartz and Emma Levi ess: and recited t dvantages of timber, “‘America’ was the vehicle of these stanzas God bles: firm ma; y ‘Through storm and night, When the wild tempests rave, Ruler of wind and wave, Do Thou our tree then save By Thy great might. Remoms g0, of freedom For it our prayer shall rise, To God above the skios, We wait on The Thou who art cver nigh, Guarding with watehful cye, To 'Thee aloud we cry, God save our tre Farnam school, grade seventh B, had this arrapement: Paper—Object of Arbor Day Prank Thoms Reading--Woodman, Spar toss Tow Reading—The Pine T'rees’ Dre 'he Chartor arl Aoltort adie Gibson Jharles Detwiler Alico Andreesen Tarie Valentine Staunch, the Will Hancy William Penn’s Trec The Hickory, Tougn uml fll"ll‘n \Irnvmsn Mannic Briggs ions About Hurrah for the O; OU may have observed how in tiine the .,ings seems to fade, and the colors fose their brilliancy and tone, It is’mainly the gradual accumulation of dust, £o it is a very simple matter to restore them, with Ivoky Soav clear water, j from the faucet, and a soft brush ; scrub carefully, fectiveness of painte it as it runs rub off first with a wet flannel and then with a diy one, and the colors will show up in all their original beauty, on a painting of value; Never experiment with ordinary soap you may de roy it. 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