Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 10, 1889, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. o —— TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. (Morning Fdition) inctuding SUNDAY ikk, One Year...... J for &ix Months ... . t Three Months ... % OMARA SUNDAY aadress, One Yoar ... ‘WemkLY Brx, One Year. 7108, Non, 014 and 018 FARNAM °%‘.‘.'.'«,‘.2¥.m‘nm 0k Roowrny Bt #w YOrk Orric®, ROOMS 14 AND 16 TRIBUNE oILnING, WASHINGTON Orwiom, No. 613 FounTrENTR BTRE NI o All communieations relating to A orial marter should be addressed to the KoITOR or Tk BUSINKSS LETTERS, All business lotters and remittancas should be addressed to Tue Bre PunLisning OOMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postofios oraers o e made piyabls to the order of the company. ke Beo Publisting Company, Proprietors. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nobraska, County of Iio\mlu\%“ Geoorge I3, Tzschuck, secretary of The ee Pubdb- shingComna ny, doss solemnly swer that the Wctual circulation of Tik DATLY 1ike for the week ending May 4. 1859, was as follows: v, April 2. April 20 Tuesdny, Avril 3) Wednesdny, May 1 k Thursday. May Friday, My Baturday, May i 18,601 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed to in my 5 presence this 4th day of May. A. I, 1539, Seul, N. P, FEIL, Notary Publle, Etate of Nebraska }M County of Douglas. (George B. Trschuck, being duly sworn, de- oses and says that he is secretary of the Bee &nhliuhlnu company, that the actual average ily circulation of TrE DAILY HEg for the month of April, 18%, 18,74 copies: for May, 1888, 18183 coples; for Juus, 1894 19343 coples; for Jtily, 188, 18,083 ceplos: for Augnst, 158, 18,183 coplés; for 'September, IK83, 18,154’ copies; ‘for Dctober, 1888, 18,034 copies: for November, 1883, 8050 coples; for December, 1883, 18,223 coples for January, 180, 18,574 copies: for February, 1680, 18,196 coples; Tor Maroh, 18, 1L&54 coples. GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my Presence this 16th day of April, & D. 1% N PRl Notary Pubiic. Average. .. JENERAL SCIOFIELD and Secretary of War Proctor will be in Omaha Satur- day. Mr. Henry T. Clarke is already in the city with & map of Bellevue. Ir YOU want to know the men who have the inside for the most important federal positions in this state, take up THe Brr's legislative blacklist for the last three sessions Dit. POWELL REEVES, the medical quack whom Tue Brg hooted out of Omahn last spring, has been driven out of Helena, Mont. Reeves is one of the most brazen charlatans in the profession. NEBRASKA Crry isneedlessly wrathy. Omuba is not responsible for the fabri- cators who jump at conclusions. There is ample territory to supply both stock markets, and room for both to grow and prosper. THE new superintenaent of construe- tion of the county hospital might well add to his recommendations to the county commissionors that a number of iron tie-rods be inserted down the back- Bone of cortain obstrepcrous and hot- headed membe Tk imported plumbers must have been favorably impressed with Omaha hospitality. It is a metropolitan weak- ness. The rivalry of the local frater- nity to entertain their eastern guests was a specimen of rare genervosity. They came, they saw, and were cou- quered, and after “viewing the land- scape o'er,” were sent on their way "rejoicing, with passage paid and a sur- plus in their pockets. Their bills were not questioned. STATISTICS of the past weel’s move- ment of hogs is commended to the seri- ous consideration of the managors of the South Omaha market. Omaha is the only city which records a reduction compared with the sume period last year. This condition is not creditable to the management, It shows that there is something radically wrong, and mensures should be adopted at once to place the market on a level with its i competitors east and gouth. ——e THE rains thut have prevailed during the past few days throughout the north- west removed the dangers that wero threatening growing crops from the prolongoed absence of rain, and from Minnesota and Dakota repre groat improvement in the conditions and prospect. Nebraska was also sufler- ing from want of moisture, but there is no further cause of complaint, the rain- fall of the past forty-eight hours having extonded throughout the state and been suflicient to supply all the moisture im- mediately required. PURSUANT to a resolution of the Illi- mois legislature, the penitentiary authorities of that state have submitted reports as to the foasibility of manuface turing twine in the prisons. They show that it can be done, and the cost of manufacture will not exceed one and one-half cent per pound, This is a novel expedient for attacking the twine trust, and while it is' not expected that anything will be done by the legisla- ture at the present session, peniten- tiary-made twine may become an Illi- P nois product in the vot fur future. The farmers of that state gonerally and heartily approve the plan. 3 AS WAS to be expected the report of 7 the intpector appointed to examine into the agricultural departments of the schools und colleges receiving govern- § ment aid is far from being encouraging, ‘With few exceptions the colleges of the various states to which the government has contributed valuable land grants for the purpose of teaching furmer's sons 3 far short of their duties. Thoy have drifted away from vheiroriginal design. They fail to educate for the farms, and their tendency is to discourage young men from the pursuit of ugriculture, by their meagre facilities and lack of in- terest in the study of agriculture. The attention of Secretary Rusk has been 3 attracted to this abuse of the bounty of 4 the government. It is move than likely that the now secretary of agvieulture will ¥ force these institutions to comply more : & strictly with thein obligations to the government, and make the agricultural colleges something bettor than a soft § 3 berth for superanuated politicians, B T O R ol et e A AL B3 SNG4 the principles of agricuitore, have fallen | AN EASTERN PROTEST. The business men of the enst are manifesting an even stronger interast than those of the west in the question of curtailing, or shutting off altogether, the competition of Canadian with American railronds. This subject is now being investigated by a senate com- mittee, of which Senator Cullom is chairman, and the expressions of opin- fon by the mercantile communities are therefore timely, Oneof these has re- cently come from the board of trade of Portland, Maine, which passed a reso- lution protesting against tha enactment of any legislation “which will deprive our citizens of the facilities for trans- portation of breud-stuffs and manufac- tures now offered by our great com- mereial highways theough Canada and between the Atlantic scaboard and the west.,” It also protests against any amendment of existing laws for the purpose of throwing obstacles in the way of such transportation, and against the withdrawal of the privilege of carrying merchandise of the United States in bond through Canada, as now practiced, and against any action which will tend to obstruct or destroy compe- tition in the transportation of such merchandise, thereby build- ing up monopolies to the detriment of the cities and commercial interests now receiving the benefits of free and unobstructed transportation to and from the west over Canadian rail- roads. . 1t is not at all questionable that this view will be very generally acquiesced in by the producers and shippors of the wost, and that they will join hands with the mercantile and manufacturing in- terests of the east in resisting any at- tempt by legislation or governmental action to do away with Canadian rail- rond competition. There is no patriot- ism in the question. It is a purely practical matter, and as such 1involves an annual saving in the cost of trans- portation to tho people of the cast and west, amounting to a vast sum which they are not willing to sacrifice in the interest of a few American roads that are largely owned by forcign capital. As to requiring the foreign corpora- tions which do business in the United States to conform to our laws, and sub- mit to the same regulations that arc imposed upon our own roads, such a policy appears to be very generally re- garded as being just and neces- sary. It would obviously be o great mstake to permit alien corporations to enter our territory and carry on their business free from any of the restrictive regulations to which American railroads must submit, but it does not appear that the enforcement of this policy need involve any serious in- terference with the competition which is claimed to be so beneficial to the pro- ducers and consumers of the country. So far as the senate committee has proceeded with its investigation, it has obtained little encouragement for the plan of cutting off the Canadign compe- tition, while the opinions given to the secretary of the treasury regarding the dutiable character of Canadian-buile cars used in the transportation of mer- chandise between points in Canada and the United States were uniformly in pposition to tige proposed duty. It was said by the representatives of American roads who expressed their views to the secretary that cars built in Canada have been admitted free of duty for twenty years, and that any change in practice would rvesult in great damage to domestic interests. It is quite prob- able that the secretary of the treasury will obtain other and different opinions, but it is hardly to be supposed that he will adopt the policy of subjecting Cana- dian-built cars to a duty. The whole question is of immediate and far-reach- ing importance, and the conclusions of the senate committoe will be awaited with great and general interest. A DISCOURAGING RESULIL. The advocates of commercial union with Canada were not given any en- couragement by the parliament which adjourned last week., Early in the se sion the leader of the opposition to the protective, system made & vigorous as- sault upon the policy, but all efforts to socure uny modification of it ended in o complete failure. The fact was clearly disclosed that the Canadinn manufac- turers fear even a mild form of reciproc ity, and that they are always ready to ohey a note of alarm sounded by Pre- mier Macdonald. The opposition to the | government is strong. and its lenders are able and aggressive. The minis- terinl party losi some of its strength, itsmajority in parhiament having been veduced. But it was still ample to carry through every mensure it desired and to keep intact the policy thav stands as & barrier against comme: union or any form of trade reciprocity with the United States. How long tho now dominani party can retain power may de- pend somewhat upon the lifecimo of John A, Macdpnald, who ppears to be a strong and capable leader. Mr. Erastus \Wiman, who is one of the most ardent and hopeful ad- vocates of commereial union, said be- fore the sonate committee in New York that Canada cannot stay as she is, that she must either become an independ- ent republic or join with the United States. **The hoves of o greut purty,” snid Mr. Winan, ‘“‘rest entirvely one old man, After the death of John Macdonald will come dei n this view muy be too optimistie, Doubt- less the loss of this great leader would very materially weaken the party in power, but it must be granted that that pirty rests upon principles and senti- ments which appeal powerfully to the majority of the Canadian people, and which would continue in force without the championship of Sir John Mac- donald. Thero is a feeling of nationhl pride and iodependence among the Canadian peovle which was notinspired wholly by thav veteran statesman, though he has perhaps dons more thun any other to stimulate und strengtl it. The idea of commercial unica with the United States is repugnant to most of the people of Canada because it would necessitute a survender, in some de- gree, of the commercial independence of the Nominion, nud because it is it thought to involve the pussibilivy, how- over remote, of political uuion and the complete domination of the weaker by the stronger power. Thess and other objectiona to any such radical change in the relations of Canada with the United States, as has been proposed, have boen repeatedly and vigorously urged by Canadin statesmen, and it is not to be doubted that they are so firm- ly rooted in the popular mind as not to ‘be easily or speedily removed. A fair and equitable arrangoment for trade reciprocity betweon the two ocountries would, 1n all probability, be to the ad- vantage of both, but the outlook for ef- fecting such an arrangement can not at present be regarded as flattoring. AS TO THE CITY HALL. ‘We do not propose to take part in the controversy over the city hall plans, which is mainly carvied on by parties who made the fight on the Myers plans and delayed the construction of the oity hall three years. The Myers plans were good enough, and if the building had been erected with reasonable dili- gence in compliance therewith, Omaha would now have all her city officials located in a substantial and fire proof building. Now that the Myers plans have been abandoned, we want to see the new plans adopted with the loast possible jangle, and we hope to sce work on the building begun within the next sixty days. The short- est cut with this end in view will com- wead itself to all citizons not directly interested in the competition botween architects ana builders. There is nothing to be gained by a perpetual wrangle over plans. What the mayor and council should do is to adopt a plan which a majority of the council deem the most excellent. This choice should be made impartially with the sole purpose of giving Omaha a public building in harmony with the sur- roundings, commodious and thoroughly fireproof. No time should be lost by the council in ratifying its choice and inviting bids from competent and re- sponsible bidders. The location of the city hall has been settled, the people have given the council authorty to construct an clogant building, and have voted them authority to issue the bonds necessary for its erection., The man- date of the people should be carried out without needless delay. There has heen time enough wasted already, and our citizens have a right to expect that all further filibustering shall cease. A COMMITTEE representing the American forestry congress has just laid before President Huarrison a me- morial urging him to exert his ef- forts in-the enactment of laws to pre- serve the timber on the public lands. The spoliation of our forests by timber thieves has become a scandal in the land office. Millions of acresof timber lands on the public domain have been despoiled by corporations, great and small, without even the payment to the government of the small amount nec- essary to obtain the fee simple of the land. Other valuable timber lands have been sold at prices that would no cover the cost of surveying them, and which were abandoned us worthless the moment the purchasers stripped them of their wealth. The indifference of the govermeni to stop this wholesale robbory was taken advantage of time and again. TIn the timber regions the public conscience has been greatly de- moralized thercby and when prosecu- tion of the offenders was finally at- tempted by the land office it was almost impossible to secure conviction. The commissioners of the public land office ‘have repeatedly exposed these frauds and called loudly upon congress to change the system of land laws and mapagement which permitted this un- blushing theft. Their appeals, how- ever, have failed to bring relief, and it behooves President Harrison to add his voice to theirs in calling upon congress to reform this great abuse. THE board of health has taken a rad- ical new departure. An order has been issued to the board of public works directing that body to compel all own- ers of houscs on lots adjacent to the drainage sewers Lo connect their prem- ises therewith. The object the board of health has in view is to improve the sanitary condition of the city by doing away with surface drainage. If this change can be brought about, 1t will doubtless materially reduce the death- rate, cut down the doctors’ bills, and prove a bonanza to the plumbers. But there may be several obstacles to over- come, In the first place, we doubt whether the board of health nas any authority under existing ordi- nances and charter provisions to issue orders to the board of public works, .In the next place, it is doubt- ful whether the board of public works could compel property owners to build sewer connections, Itis possible. that such an order might be sustained as a police and health regulation, but the chances are that it would be resisted through the courts REGARDING the statement that the chicf obstacle in the way of manufac- turing tin plate in this country is the difliculty of separating the tin from the mica, which has not yet heen ove come, the Rapid City Journal says it is erroneous. It states that the school of mines av that place has practically and successfully demonstrated that the sep- aration may not only be made, but that it may be made by a comparatively sim- plo and comparatively inexpensive pro- cess. It is partly to determine the practicability of separating the tin and micd that the Chicago capitalists who contemplate establishing the tin plate manufacture are gong to the Black THills, and if they find this dificulty al- rendy solved it may be only a very short time until the manufacture of tin plate in this country is started on a large scale. ——— I is still fresh in mind how certain prominent business men of Buffalo, conneeted with the Standard oil trust, were conviected of conspirviug to ruin a local oi! company which held against that combination. The elimax, after two years of litigation, in the case has now beon reached. The men convicted wore let off with a simple fine of two hundred and fifty doliars each, while the persecuted company out’ THE OMAHA DAILY K BEE: FRIDAY, MAY 10 1889, was forced (nlz brankruptey through the machinations of the Standard oil trast. The evidence in the case showed that these men were guilty of an at- tompt to set firg to the local company’s works, and the dight fine imposed reads lik a travesty oh justice. The grip of the Standard ofl octopus paralyzes even the arm of the law. e TROSE enthusiasts wha imagine that anavyoan be built in a day, are res- pectfully direttbd to the difficulties at- tending the econstruction of armored ships by our government. An appro- vriation was made three years agofor the building of the Texas, and at this date the hull of the great iron vessel has hardly been begun. The con- struction, howover, has not been un- necessarily delayed. The selection of a plan by competition among naval designers, the preparation of the dry docks for her reception, the awarding of the contract for her machinery, and lustly, the provisions made for her armament, have consumed time. It is highly probable that several years more must elapse before the Texas is ready to go into active service. Epe—— I will be a matter of gratification to residents in the southwest part of the city to know that rapid street car factli- ties are to be provided to and from the business district. For a number of years a large population in that'section has had to put up with the slow-going horse car. A mint of money awaits the company first to provide quick means of transit to and from Hanscom park. HERMAN ORLRICHS, the wealthy New Yorker, is spoken of in certain quarters as the probabie successor of the late William H. Barnum at the head of the democratic national com- mittee. This arrangement, however, would leave Rainbow Chaser Brice out in the woods. No Flies on Brother Jonathan. New York Sun. Our country need not fear that its lack of costly and crushing military establishment of the old werld pattern denotes lack of real dofensive strength. Ceremouies condicted and controlled by an organization of citizons, with national and state co-operation, brought together a fino body of drilled and equipped troops, and also cnough other marching organizations to swell that force to a great army. And these wore only types of millions in reserve, on whose prompt services in an emergenoy the government can rely if it only has a good supply of weapons and cquip- ments ready. SHOR s An Easy Solution of the Problem. Philddelphia Inquirer, The south is full of men who talk by the hour of solving the negro problem. It is also full of men who discourse by the week of the glorious constitution. But we notice that none of these eloquent gentlomen have yet hit upon the constitutional solution of the problem in which they are so deeply in- terosted. This solution is merely to enforce the principle underiying all our laws, which teaches that all men are free and equal. A A Prohibition Paradox. Chicago Times. One of the most contradictory things in politics is prolibition. In Kansas, for in- stance, in 1830, prior to the passage of tho prohibitory amendment, the number of \ax. stamps issued to that state by the govern- ment was 1,800, Last year the number was 8,100, S AT Only in ction Times. Chicago Times, A Missouri paper says it is no uncommon sight in Kansas for boys to bo taken home drunk in wagons. Kansas prohibition doesn’t work very well except in election times. ‘THE INDUSTRIAL FIEL D. Firemen on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad will not bo allowed to run engines, and will be examined at the endof six months for promotion to engincers. 1f the fireman shall succeed in his cxaminations he will receive a certificate, and if he does not ho must fire eighteen months more bofore he can take another examination, Twenty-seven iron furnaces in the Mahon- ing valley have reduced the wages of their employes 10 per cent. Reductions in wages, discharging of employes and shut-downs are common throughout Pennsylvania. The boss masous and journcymen bric layers of New York city, at a recent con- ference, fixed the scale of wages for the on- suing year at $.05 a day. The limits of work are nine hours for five days of tho week and eight on Saturday. Carpenters employed by the cityjgovern- ment of Chicago, now get the union rate of wages, 85 cents per hour for a working day of eigt hours, The London Tronmonger reports a prefor- ence for American tools in the English, Aus tralian and New Zealund markets. Thousands of laborersat Panama are idle on account of the suspension of work on the canal, and business 18 paralyzed. The employes of the New York Staats Zeitung have received a dividend of 10 per cent on their eurnings tor the year 1888, Some women in England make good salaries by manufacturing the dainty silk and )ace lamp shades now so popular. A dealer in London who glories in the royal patronage, pays ono woman §200 a month for the shades sho makes A labor movement 18 spreading rapidly throughout Gernuny. In Great Britain there are 208 tin plate mills, employing 100,000, England’s 7,000 lour mills can make 51, 000,000 barreis per year. The country con- sumes 80 per cent of this amount, a great deal of which comes from America and Hun- gary. A (G B STATE AND TE&RITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Rushville is giviug prohibition a trial. The village blaakkmith of Wilber mourns the loss of £100 worth of tools. Hastings sixhs for 8 union dopot to match the complexion of Lhe new court house. Wednosday's rain was worth thousands of dotlars to farmers hereabouts. Every drop washed away @ 4eown from agricultural brows. During the wind storm a fow days ago & Juniata lady became 80 frightened that she died in & fit, It was a sad blow to the family. The engineer’s aunual report of public im- provements in Nebraska City shows a total of $100,000 expended in fostering ‘& solid Rrowth last year. ‘The April report of postofiice business 1n Nebraska City shows an_increase of 28 per cent in the number of pieces handled the previous month. Kearney is beginning to howl for a new depot. Every day the town discovers some- thing lacking to complote her happiness, and she is not at all backward about asiiug for it. Six windmills were blown down in the vi- cinity of Harvard, Monday. Ths samo gale trifiod with the Lincoin city council for a moment, aud passed away, screaming and mutilated. The Ulysses Dispatch says that Dr. Hall, — one of the Philadelphia coaching party run down by a freight train, last Friday, isa brother of Arthur Hale, of Ulysses. Dr. Halo was not injured. g Pote Bridgeman, a Koarney thug, carossod Bill Robens with a poker, ontting a man of the local canal on his soalp. Pete's inten- tions were considered suficiently artistic to warrant a trial in the district court, Kearney papers boast that the proposed road to the Black Hills is practioally as- sured, Omaha and eastorn capitalists bhave agreed to put $400,000 into the enterprise on condition that Kearnay puts up a bonus of $75,000, and tho offor was promptly acoepted. Such enterprise and grit takes the medal. York utters a wail of woo against inade- quate train service in that vicinity. The spirit of reform and retrenchment which per- vades the Burlington strikes York in a ten- dn-rslmh and poace and contonvment have taken flight, This change convinces the rosidonts "‘that thero is someshing radically wrong with the operating department.” Agang of six migratory toughs leaped from the brake beams of a tram at Exeter, and proceeded to do the town without invi tation. After replenishing with beer, bologna and bread, they entered a clothing store and secured tho latest stylo spring suits in_ex change for a stout bluff, Such unblemished nerve could not pass without pubiic recog- nition. The authoritios waited uvon them and tendered thom quarters in the city jail. The Columbus Telegram has dropped into the starry realms of romance, of thrilling local interest in twelve chapto Tho heroine is a widow of forty, neither fair nor fat, but formerly forlorn and possessed of blooming acres She advertised for u partner, and an [llinois sucker jumped at the chance. Result, a brief vourtship at long range, an affectionate moeting, MArringe, and a matured row over the property, The widow’s daughter claimed a sharoe of the homestead. iere is where the Illinoisan displayed diplomatic “fine work.” For a tritling cash consideration he induced mother and daughter to confide the deed in him, and he is now lord and master of the lands “‘and all the hereditaments thereunto bolonging.” It was in the suburbs of a Nebraska town. Mondments of the “dear departed’ ro above the mounds of frosh and grass-lopped human clay, A funeral procession had just deposited the inanimate form of a local sport in a two by six. The melancholy sex- ton plied his shovel vigorously, and the cold clods rattled a wierd rcauiem on the box beneath. The scene and sound overcame the tender feelings of the chief mourner. With a wild, piercing cry of anguish he dropped on Old Mould’s shoulders and wept tremulously. The sexton, generons man, uttered words of consolation and good cheer, vointed out the futility of tears, and finally induced the mourner to depart_from the sad scene. He went, taking with him a ten: dollar bill, the corner of whici stuck out of the grave- diggers vest pocket. Dakota Points. Aberdeen figures a directory population of 7,000, Work has commenced on the foundation of Deadwood’s city hall. The Tontine trust has $1,000,000 tribute for good collateral in’ Watertown. Dakota has §3,000,000 in b treasury and uncounted millions in her hills and vaileys. An agent of an Omahajsyndicate 18 looking around Yankton for a location to invest §75,- 000 in a hotel. One huudred Towa capitalists are booked for an excursion Lo ‘Watertown to sample the real estate in that vicinity. Monday's storm was something of a hurri- cane at Buffalo. Considerable damage was done in town and country. An agent of the Chicago, Burlingtor & Quincy system is in the Hills for tho purpose of examining into and reporting upon the min- eral resources of the Hiils to his company. His report will determina how much the company will invest in giving the Hills rail- road facilities. The proposed development of the tin in- dustry of the Black Hills by a Chicago syn- dicate excites cousiderable enthusiasm’ in that region. The value and quantity of the mineral has been thoroughly demonstrated, and capital is the one essential Iacking to place the Black Hills in the front rank of tin producing countries. to dis ‘The opening of the Sionx reservation will witness a remarkable railroad race across the territo The Northwestern and Mil- waulkee will build westward as soon as pe mission is given. Both roads are concen- tratng material at their Missouri river te mini—Pierre and Chamberlain—and i making every preparation for arush through the luud of Sitting Bull, Roundabout the Mountains. Salt Lake is enjoying a building boom large dimensions. Large quantities of asbestos has been dis- covered in the mines near Diampud City, Mont. Butte, Mont., is practically out of debt. Her underground wealth yiclds an averago of $200,000 & w . Lonsdale, the scoured the far ence, has retur coma. Utah has decided to build_a cost is not to exceed 83,000,000, A premium of §500 is offered to the best plan, compe- tition to close November 1, 1559, The owners of the Lost California Mine, cight miles from Shasta, are taking out §1,000 8 day< Some of the best payiug ore looks like' stone conl aud has to be worked ry. The authorities of Denver have decided to clean out the burnt district of the town. Tho job is a mighty one. No city in the country oquals Denver in flaunting vice_and open wickedness. Chicago or New York have nothing to compara with Holliday street. The Mal only Indiau tribe on the ¢ 1 their land and ac- amulated moncy. - Neah Bay, the secoud best harbor on the coast, is on their reserva- of adventurous orth in the int ed to civilizati lord, who erest of sci- and Ta- capital. The ion. They own three séaling schooners and un’ the only store in the whole country. During the sealing season most of the bucks g0 as hunters, getting from 3 10 85 for each skin. San Francisco is confronted with the problem of checking the bloody work 0s the cable juggernant. The number of people killed by tho cars, recently, forcos the au- thorities to protect the lives of the people. Anorder has been issued instructing the compenies to pla ire guards around the wheels, and prohibiting the use of detached cars after sixty days. The influx of settlors into Washington tor- ritory is immense, and overy town 8 _eujoy- ing o boom. A real cstate craze, similar to that whichi swamped southern California w0 years ago, is on, and tho groatost specu- lative activity prevails. it is an epidemic which will 500 collapse and crush thousands of tenderfect. The man who unloads promptly will come out ahead. -— Neb: s $4,740, WASHINGTC Tho war dopart- ment has compleged snd published the allot- ments of $100,000 appropriated by congress for the equipment of the militia. The allot- ments are based on the number of represen- tatives in congress, and will give linois 820,553, Towa 812,340, Minnesota 36,044, No- brasku $1,746, and Wisconsin #10,441." The regulations provide that requistion’ for wili- tia supplies must be made by the governors of the states and territories direct to the sce- retary of war. LB S allpox on the Westernland. New Yok, May 9. ~The steamship West- ernland, which arrived from Antwerp yes- terday, bad a caseof smallpox among the stecrage passengers. The patient s a girl six years old, She was isolated from the rest of the passengers and was transferrod on her arrival to the hosvital on North Brother's island. The stecrage passeugors will be vaccinated and the ship fumigated and cloansed to-day. She will then be al- fowed 10 go to her dock. - A Youthful Criminal Confe Gavrexa, 1L, May 9.—[Special Telegram to Tur Bee |—Supervisor William Skene has obtained a confession from his sixteen- year-old son Jonathan, the ‘murderer of Prof. H. T. Machett, of Hanover. The con fession was made in the_jail in the prosence of several witnesses. Excitement over the dreadful crime is still high, but it is believed that the prisoner’s extréme youth will save biw from wob law T Succ Absconder Tate, LoutsviLLe, May 9.—At tue democratic state convention, yusterday, to nominate can- didates for stato treasurer, Stephen G. Sharp, who was appointed to succeed the {ugitive Tate, was somioated. e e TR S 5 b A I 0S5 R 10 S0 M ST v 06 S e . % that Hattle and Francis wili be sent to the industrial school. Death of Grandma Wallingford. Ola “Grandma" Wallingford, ono of the oldest sottiors id Lincoln and Lanocaster countios, diod at her rosidence, at the corner of Soventeenth and Cherry stroots, at 9 o'clock this morning. She was strickon with paralysis a fow days ago, but knew no suf- foring during the last of hor days of oarth, R. J. Wallingford looated seven miles south of Lincoln long before there was any thought of a city here, and with his good wife, the deceasod, oarved out & boautiful home and SECRETARY GARBER AT WORK. The Sutheriand « Manning Oase Under Oonsideration. REDUGTION IN RATES EXPECTED. The Deolston Will Affoot Coal and Live Stook Tariffs—Capture of the Gypiys' Daviings —Geandma Iaid up compotonay for tneic old wage. Mr. Wallingford's Death. and Mrs. Wallingford used to do their shop. ping at Nebraska City, making their trips to that place twice a _yoar with an ot team, LANCOLN BURRAU OF Tag Omans Bew, when thev made all thelr needed purchases v 1020 P Staeer, } for six long months. The funeral services Lixcony, May 0. will be held at the family residence at 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. sixty-five years of ago and widely ki d rospected. Indeed, Grandma. Wallingford was known altmost_all over Laocaster sounty, Seorotary Garber, of the stato board of transportation, fs at work on an opinion on the Sutherland-Manning complaints, heard at Tekama, several days ngo, and it will be ready for the action of the board within a fortnight. The secrotary wisely koeps his own counsel as to what his findings will be. 1t was agreod botwaon the socrotaries that this duty should fall to Mr, Garbor, and it gocs without saying that the publio will await his action with solicitons interest. It will be kept in mind that the findings in these complaints affect the freight rates on coal and live stock on ov railrond doing business in the state. Reductious are confi- dently expocted. Mr. Garber is proparing s opinion with great care, and he evincos a detormination to get to tho'bottom of all the facts. The prognostication 1s freely mado that & modest little order of reduction is at hand. w New Notaries Publio. “The governor, to-day, appointed tho follow} ing notarios publio: D, T, Haydon, Nebraska Otoe county; T. F\ Wanzor, Stamford, Harlan count L. D, ham, Purdrem, Blaine county; Fred B. Tuttle, Kearney, Buffalo county; Richard R. Ryerson, Broken Bow. Custer county; Omar W. Greone, Koarney, Buffalo county; Oscar W, Fowler, Redington, Cheyenne county; Josiah L. Par- rotte, Kearnoy, Buffaio coun Charles Brice, Omaha, Douglas count, Jawes Ledikis, Graud Island, Hall couty. Lod City News and Notes. Bmsley Kearns and Mrs, Sarah Edgar The District Court. wore married at St. Paul's church at 3 The jury found Joseph and Michael Bren. | 0'clock this afternoon. The groom is fifty non guilty of assault and battery, and Judge | one yoars of age, and the bride forty-four. Mrs, Kearns had the honor of being matron at the hospital for the insano, but resigned 10 bocome wifa No. 4 Commissionor Stoon wont to Hastings o day or two ngo to 1ok over the hospital for the inouravlo insano. He returned homo to- day and says he is quite well pleased with vhat ho suw. he following case tho sapromo court to-da The County of Dixon; county., Field this morning sontenced them to five days each in the county jail, and further or- dered commitment until a fine of $100 and cost of prosecution had been paid. These gentlomen were put on trial on the charge of assault with intent to kill. In passing tho sentence, the court said he thought the ver- dict under the testimony a proper one, but that the assault was particlarly aggravating. Tue Brennons are wiser if not better men. This morning a rathor peculiar case of grand larceny was on trivl, which resulted in a verdict against the defendant, one Poter Cline, $he valuo of the proporty being fixed by them at £70. In March, 1888, two young 1 named Qualman came from Leloit, ,t0 grow up with Lincoln, Thoy onch had & valise containing _their clothing, et ceteras, to the value of $00; they hud a room at the Washington hotel, and from this room the valises wers taken by persons unknown. On information Delective Pound went to the vas flled for trial in J. W, Radford vs or from Dixon Tons of Celestial Dried Hay Unloaded on the United States, New Yorg, May 0.—[Special Telegram to Tne Be! The Herald says: The note of warning to American tea drinkers sounded by Unitea States Consul Crowell, who is sta- tioned at Amoy, China, has caused consider- house of Mr. Houston, ‘m_q man recontly | ahle oxcltement among the trade fn this city found dewd on e eurlingion tracks | Yesterday o number ot dealers and import- with some clothing iy them, This de- ors said that the very poorest tea raised in fendant was suspected, but Oficer | China is foisted upon the Amcrican public. Pound was mnot able to locate him | Tons of tea leaves are consumed injthis coun- until a short time ago, when he | try that are no better than hay, and fre- took him into custody in Omaha. The de ently not as good, and an immense quan- fense was that Cline knew nothing of the stealing of the property. Ho had met a man nawed Brannan and a stranger, each with a valise in his hand, and at the request of Braonan he had gone to the Houston house, where Braunan said Le wanted to leave thoir valises. In the cvening again ho went with them, and saw them take tho val{ses out of | respondents, confirm fully what the consul the room where they were loft. They went | says. Tho total production of this grade of down into the cellar, as they said, to change | tea this year was something like three mil their clothing, and he followed them there, | lion pounds, every ounce of which finds its and saw them tearing a coat out of one of | way into the teapots of the people of the the valises. That was all he knew about the ( United States and a large quantity of tho wmatter. He got none of the property, and | crop spoken of by Consul Crowell was dis- Qid not kuow it was stolen, The jury, how- | posed of by auetion yestorday at from 1315 over, thonght otherwise, and was found [ to 15 cents a pounds. Representativesof the guilty, but sentence was reservod. largest importing house 1n the trade which Judfe Chapman was busy trying equity | handles fuily one-soventh of the entire tea cases 1n the second court, but they were un- | that comes to the country said that a lot of important. Aoy Oolong bouglit. 1o Auoy, for their ac - count was declared by experts to be too poor Was It Buried Alive? o Sxpaiia to beeo i i to pass custom house inspection, and was The workmen engaged in oxcavating for | sold. The purchasers took chances, shipped y of the stuff that is usod for tea is posi- tively injurious on account of the polsonous matorials used in coloring it. Russell & Co., who are perhaps the largest purchasers of tea in Chiua, and who have an oftico iu Wall street, in a circular recently sent out from their Amoy house to their cor paving in the alley botween Ninth and [ tothie United Statos, and it was adwmitted Tenth, on O and N strocts, this afternoon | and eoion Jthe market, and is worthless uncarthed the dead body of an infant, about | 45 a foot from the wulk of the bagnio kept by The Electric Sugar Company. Lydia Stuart, on Soutu Ninth street. It was badly decomposed, ana the stench was so bad that it was dumped into a wagon and carted | general pormission to bring suit in the namo away as 001 as POssib Two of the work- : [Lwo of the worle| of the people of the state of New York men, who examined the body, arp of the [ ,gqinst the Electric Sugar Rofining company opinion that it was buried alive. ‘The burial | £ g gigsolution of the cornoration, the an of the body so near a disroputablo dive leads [ 10 B F890E0R SE U Cormamtion, the o6 to the opinion that its mothor is un imate of | horution “from acting furthor and tho ap the house. The discovery creates a greaf Lt . doal of talk on the siroots, and it is alto- | POabment of a receiver of its proverty. geuer probable the matter will be iuvesti- Tl odRaGTVoTerann. gated. WASHINGTON, May 9.—An association of veteraus of 1340, composed of seventy mom- bers of the Tippecanoe club, who ussisted in the eleotion of President William Honry Harrison, to-day called at the white house in a body for the purpose of paylug their respocts 1o tho president. Susi i Pittsburg Strikers Beaten. Prrrsaung, May 9.—Peace reigned about the Allegheny stoel works at Duquesne to- day. The great plant was in operation in nearly overy departmont and whilo tho strikors do not concede uhecir defeat, tho striko is regarded as a failur e Killed by the Cars. Axoka, Minn,, May 9.—Peter Hanson, aged fourteen, was stantly killed yoster: day by a_Northern Pacific passouger train, Whicli cut off the top of Mis hoad and ous leg. New Yonk, May 8. —Judge Barrett intho * suprente court to-day, granted the attorney- Those Way rd Girls, One of Sheriff Melick’s deputies succeeded in overtaking the band of gypsies and the two run-away girls, Hattie Clark and Francis Pennington, last evening, six wiles cast of Hickinan. The girls kicked vigor- ously against returning to the city, asserting that they knew what thoy were doing, and were rosponsible for their owa acts. Having exhausted reason and paticnce, however, the officer proceeded to take them into custody, and, during the melee that followed, the gspsies mounted pontos they had hitched near their campig place and made a run for it. The girls, finding protests and strugeles useless, got. Into tho deputy's ‘‘carryall,” and were i d in the county jail at a late hour, last night, and they were still there at 2 o'clock to-day. The wagon, team and camping outfitof the gypsies, desorted when they mounted their ponies, can be had at the sueriff’s headquarters, after they have answered to. the courts for kidnaping the two wayward eirls, a ocharge, it is under- stood, the parents have made against thom. The gypsies have not as yet showed up, but it is thought they will, for their outfit is said to be quite valuable. It 18 quite probablo e Congressman Laird Recovering. WasniNetoN, May 9.—Representative Laird, of Nebraska, who bas beeu ill -for several wonths, and was part of the time in a aritical condition, is recovering. 2 7 RT needle-work and valuable embroideries are frequently ruined, A or their beauty much impaired by washing them with ordinary soap, which is too rank for such delicate articles, A simple, and the proper method is to make suds of hot water and Ivory Soar, and allow to cool till lukewarm, This solution, while very effec is perfectly harmless, A WORD OF WARNING, There are many W|Iill“l0lp$. each represented to be " just as good as the * Ivory' they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkal;}: qualities of 4 the genuine, Ask for “lvory " Soap and insist upon getting it 2 Copyright 188, by Procter & Gawbie.