Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 17, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1889, THE _DAILY _BEE. B. ROSEWATER, Editor. UBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTTION, D gty Morning Rdition) including Sunday, 0 0 | 260 , One Year. Forsix Months.. ForThr o Months s3e0 HtsTe bnse The Omalia Sunday fee, mailed to any address, One YOar...... .. v 100 Weekly Hoe, One Year .. ... L 200 mana Office, Tee bullding, ‘N, W." Corner venteenth and Farnam Strests. Cnicago Ofee, 67 Rookery Buildin Kew York Office, Tooms 14 and 1 Tribune | Building. Whashington Office, No, 513 Fourteentn Street. CORRESPONDENCE. All communieations relating to nows and edi. torial matter should bo addressed to the Editor ot the lice, BUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and_remittances should be addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omahn Drafts, checks and postoftice orders to bemado payabls to the order of tho company. The Beo Publishing Company, Proprictors. Ber Building Farnam and Seventeenth Sts. D —— THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Ciroulation. Btate of Nobraska, Covnty of nouglu,f"" George B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pube 1shingComuany, does solomnfy swear that the actual circulation of THE DAILY KE for the week ending July 13th, 165 was as follow Eunaay. July T Monda: .. Tuesany. July 0.1 Weaneaday, July i0... Thursday. July 11. Friday, July 1% Baturday, July I Average... GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bworn to before me and subscribed to in my presence this 13th day of July, A. D. 1889, Seal. P. FRIL, Notary Publie. BState ot Nebraskn, County of bouglas. { % George B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- ron ind says that he is l!M:rnlllr{ of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual avera dally circolation of' The Dily e for the month of June, 188, 10,212 coples: for Jul JER8, 18,083 coplek; for August, 1885, 13,155 coples for Beptember, 1883, 18, 134 coplea: ' for October, 188, 1K(84 coples; for November, 1858, I8, coples: for Decomber, 188, 18223 copies; ‘for January, 1680, 14574 coples:' for February, 1859, IR0 copies; for Marcn, 1ha, 18, April, 1889, 18,660 coples: for May, 18,000 coplee. GEQ. B, TZSCHUCK. worn to before me and mibscribed in my (Seal.) " presence this id day of June, A. D N. P. FETL, Notary Publi Tue idea of u great carnival week in Omaha is growing in favor. e——— ACCORDING to an eminent Omaha divine, Nebraska has too many Chau- tauquas. THE drug men seem to have a fond- ness for the president’s chair of the school board. NExT to the school teacher the janitor cuts the rmost important figuro upon the balance sheet of the board of education. —— GOVERNOR LOWRY, of Mississippi, having allowed the big fish in the Sul- livan-Kilrain mill to escape is now cast- ing his drag-net for the small fry. PARNELL is organizing the “Tenant’s Defense League” through Ireland to offset the ‘“‘Landlord’s sy That looks like fighting the devil with fire, THE expenditure of three hundred and sixty-eight thousand dollars a year is something of a task. Yet the board of education met with no difllculty in doing 1t. DEMOCRATS in these parts can get along without an organ, but they must have o newspaper. This explains why THE BEg has hundreds of democratic readers. PARISIANS are already becoming more practical as a result of “Our Bill’s” influence. There has been another French duel, which termin- ated fatally. Tuw diplomaiic kiss interchanged by some of the old world potentates will doubtless be observed by Americans when woman’s suflrage has fully developed. WoMAN suffrage 18 knocking for ad- mission at the doors of the constitutional convention of Montana. But the legis- lators don’t appear to be in any great hurry to shoot back the bolts. BY actual count there are said to be in Kansas City five hundred and eighty vacant store and four thousand tenant- loss residences. In the name of Billy Patterson, what has struck Kansas City? PRESIDENT HARRISON is showing a manly example to narrow-minded relig- ious quacks by engaging in healthy ve- creation as a part of his Sunday observ- ance, The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. e OKLATOMA i{s once more coming to the foreground with a vecord of three United States deputy marshals killed in the exercise of thair duty, Oklahoma does not propose to adopt the frills of elvilization wituout a vigorous kick. SE—— Tue 1884 alderman ‘‘boodle” trial in New York City is again before the coucts and informer Fullgraff, who gave such valuable testimony for the state at former trials, is now showing a remarkable failure of memory and weakness of intellect upon vital points. This was to be expected and there is little question but that the farce of prosecution will fizzle out, and the guilty men escape merited punishmont. S THE intent and purport of the law governing the taxing of soeciety prop- erty in Nebraska is plain, It provides that such property us is used exclusively for school, religious, cemetery and charitable purposes shall not be taxed, and'distinctly states that property held by educational, religious and charitable bodies for specululive purposes or as a source of revenue is not exempt from the provisions of the statute. Under the opinion rendered by the county attor- ney the commissioners need hesitate no longer to ocorrect the gross abuses shrough which property of great value escapes its just share of taxation. Bocleties, religious bodies and ebaritable organizations in this city own property from which they derive revenues. All right minded men will agree that this is unjust to the taxpayers in general who are obliged to shoulder the cost of provid- ing police, fire and other nocessary pro- teation to this property. | PAVOR UNTRAMMELED COMMERCE The report submitted by the commit- tee of the Chieago board of trade to the senate inter-state commerce committeo must have been an even greater sur- prise to the senators than the opinions they elicited in Boston from represen- tatives of New Englund mercantile and manufacturing interests. In the latter cnse it i8 to be presumed they wore pre- | pared to find a very considerable opposi- | tion, though less general than was shown, to any levislation or regulation, having for its object a material restric- tion of Canadian railroad competition, but they could hardly have expected | to find a committee of the Chicago board of trade taking as radical a position as the business of New England in favor of untrammeled commorce, It has cer- tainly been supposed that the sympathy of Chicago’s business inte s with the railroads which claim to have suf- fered from Canadian competition, and it was a reasonable expectation that the voice of ,those interests would be heard against a policy which permits a diver- sion of trade from those roads, presum- ably to the loss of Chicago. The unqualified declaration of the board of trade committee that the com- mercial intérests of tho United states are favorably affected by Canadian lines of transportation, in so far as commerce is favorably affected by having open to it a8 many channels of trade as possi- ble, and the cogent reasons given for this view, will be likely to have greater influence upon public opinion than any- thing previously said in this direction on the subject. The report is also im- portant in the statement it makes re- garding the difference in business methods of the American and Can- adian lines, to the advantage of the tatter. It arraigns the former as hav- ing persistently violated the law and shown favoritism to one shipper over another, while the Canadian lines have been uniformly just and equitable in the treatment of patrons. No additional legislation, in the opinion of the board of trade committee, is v sary, and it recommended the enforcement of the inter-state commerce act and the con- tinuance of the policy of allowing bonded merchandise to pass over the commercial highways of Canada un- trammeled, Another feature of this report, which appears to have caused o scnsa- tion among the senators, avas the suggestion of additional legis- lation making it unlawful for railway corporations to combine for the formation of associations such as now exist under various titles, for the reasons that they destroy competition and evade the law. There is unques- tionably force in the first of these rea- sons, but so far as the inter-state com- merce railway association ‘is concerned, for example, its chief purpose is under stood to be to secure compliance with the law, and there is reason to believe that it has been successful in doing so. The importance of the view taken by the board of trade committee was, however, fully recognized by the sen- ate committee, and althongh antagoniz- g the sentiment bhefore found to pre- vail quite generally in railroad and mereantile circles, undoubtedly it will receive from the senate committee due consideration. The further investi tion of the commity will, it 1s safe to predict, materially increase the alveady large volume of opinion it has obtained unfavorable to any additional legisla- tion or regulations for restricting the competition of Canadian with Ameri- can lines of transportation, or in any way reducing or trammeling the e chaunels of trade. The northwest has already spoken in unmistakable terms to this ellect. ing CONGRESSION AL JUNKETS, Senatorial junketing tours are all the rage this year. A great hole will be made in the national treasury sur- plus by congressional junketeers, who somehow manage to find proper sub- jects of inquiry at the most famous summer resorts, all the way from the Thousand Islands to Alaska. These junkets are becoming a most expensive luxury to the nation. A senatorial tourist is not content with merely being dead-headed in palace cars and sumptuously dined and wined along the road, but he has incidentals to charge up, which include his washing bills, barber bills, stationery, ficld- glasses, saddle-bags, hunting outfits, fishing tacklo, and everything that can make life enjoyable by land and sea. The next thing we hear of, congress will sub-divide itself into groups of official tourists, with Uncle Sam’s navy at their disposal to take junkets around the world at the exponse of the tax- payers of the country. What a blessed privilege it will be to have a soat in congress. A SUFFICIENT DENIAL. The pro Searetary Blaine, and Mr. Walker Blaine have severally de- nied the last report that Mr, Blaine has resigned, or was about to resign, as sec- retary of state, In addition several members of the cabinet have statod that they tad no knowledge that Mr, Blaine intonded, or had ever intended, to re- sign. Certainly this ought to be testi- mony sufticient to silence those who periodically start the rumor that the socrotary of stale proposes to retire from the cabinet, either for the reason that he is dissatisfied or his health re- quires him to seak rest from arduous of- ficial duties. There is something more that may bo regarded as settled, One thing is that there is the most friendly feeling between the president and secretary of state. There has beon a persistent eof- fort to make it appear that their rela- tions were not pleasant, that the presi- dent did not show the secretary proper i consideration, and that the latter had frequently been compelled to feel keenly bis subordinate and powerless position. It is not vrobable that any of these statements possessed a grain of truth, but at any rate there is the most conclusive evidence that no pre dent and cabluet officer ever were on better torms than are President Harrison and Secretary Blaine at this time. Another fact is that the henlth of the secretary of state is not so se- riously impaired as to require his aban- donment of ofiicisl duties. He is him- sell authority for the statement that his health was never better than now. This information will be extremely unpleasant to the large number of Mr, Blaine's democratic and mugwump fellow-citizens who would welcome nothing 6 hoartily as his rotirement from the cabinet and withdrawal from public life. It is a sora disappointment to these persons that no rupture has taken place botween the president and socretary of state, as they freely predicted and fondly hoped would be the case within thirty days after the administration was organized. Their forecast of trouble has come to naught, their hope is dashed, and they see the administration harmonious and per- vaded with a spirit of mutual confi- dence and respoct. In another respect they have been disappointed. Mr. Blaine has done nothing to endanger the peace of the country or to invite the displeasure of other nations. On the contrary, one international ques- tion that appeared to threaten trouble has been disposed of, so far as the executive department of the government is concerned, with honor to the country, and with regard to othots pending a clear and dignified policy has been announced of which no American citizen can be ashamed. By no act of Secratary Blaine has the dig- nity of the nation been compromised, and yet no just ground of offense has been given any other government. Evory candid man will concede that the United States stands better and higher in the respect of the world now than six months ago, and justice re- quires that Mr. Blaine receive his full share of credit for the improvement. The president and his cabinet are working together without jar or fric- tion, and there is every reason to ex- pect that they will continue to do so to the end of the term of the administra tion. Meantime if rumors that Mr. Blaine intends to retire from the cabi- net do not entirely cease, there will probably be longer intervals between them. A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE. As contemplated by the charter the strcet. commissioner is an important personage. Ho is appointed by the mayor with the consent of the couneil; he furnishes a bond of ten thousand dollars for the faithful discharge of his duties; ho has general charge of the un-: paved street repairs and maintenance work of the city, and does such other work as may be prescribed by ordinance or by the rules of the board of public works. Such’an official certainly should be given some discretionary powers, and in case of emergency should be alloved to repair breaks and damage in streets immediately within certain bounds. He is however under the present rules of the council a mere flunky to that body. He cannot turn over his hand without first receiving its sanction, and cannot ex- pend a single dollar for any purpose no matter how pressing, without its vote. While it is perfectly proper that the street commissioner shall be governed 1n his expenditures by the will of the council, it is hardly contemplated in the charter that he should so be bound hand and foot by red tape as to be prac- ticaily useless. Tha recent heavy rain storms which caused considerable damage to the city clearly illustrate the position of the street commissioner. Deep gullies were washed out in strects and alleys, imper- illing life and property, demanding the immediate attention of that officer, and yet he is unabie to repair the damage until the council shall have met and ordered the work to be done. ‘This is certainly a reprehensible sys- tem, Inacase of emergency such as occurred the other night, and which is likely to take place in this latitude at any time, delays are dan- gerous. The city can be made liable for thousands of dollars of damages for the destruction of prop- erty or the loss of life or limb which could be prevented by the expenditare of a few dollars in the nick of time. The street commissioner under ten thousand dollars bonds should have at his command from two to five hundred do’lars to use at his discrotion upon oe- ; This equally ap- wd of public works whose jurisdiction extends over the puved streets of this city. The council should provide by resolu- tion or otherwise emergency funds for the street commissioner as well as the board of public worlks. A DECISION which attract: tention in Utah and the territories has just been rendered by the courts of Idaho. The decision 1nvolves the right of suffrage of those who at one time have been members of the Mor- mon church, but afterwards severed their connection with it. Under the Edmunds law the right of citizenship is denicd to polygamists. The Mormons have, however, evaded this provision Dby seomingly repouncing their allegi- ance to their faith. The case in ques- tiou turned upon the clection of a sher- iff in one of the counties of Idaho chosen by the votes of ex-Mormons. The court decided that such an elestion was illogal, on the ground seemingly that once a Mormon always a Mormon, and consequently such votes were not to be counted. Should the case be car- ried to a higher tribunal and there the decision be re-afiirmed, it would strike a blow at Mormonism which that sect could hardly survive. ———— SPECULATION a8 to the ultimate re- sultof the influx of British capital into this country may be idle, but the mat- ter is one that may well engage the sorious attention of the American peo- ple. Asto how long it will continue, or how extensive its invasion of the chanuels of commerce and manufactures may become, must bofmatters of mere conjecture. Itis said that New York brokers are constantly on the lookout to secure options on valuable property, whatever its charactor may be. It is & comparatively easy matter to find a buyer for aunything that gives prowige or assursnce of profita- ble investment, whether it is an iron and steel mill, a brewery, flour mill, coul mine, strect rvailroad, block of resl estate, or o successful patent investmont, ofy British capital in this country wilk da that the profits from it will very lafgely go abrond. In this way many ndijlions of dollars will be annually taken out of the country to be added to the wealth and increase the financial power of British syndicates. The objection to alien landlordism will become mero forcible and wide- spread, and ' very likely lead to the enactment of laws regulating the alien ownership of lands and possi- bly prohibiting it. There are political considerations connected with the mat- ter, also, which can not be ignored. The concentration among us of a vast amount of capital controlled by foreign- ers might oxert an influence in our political affairs not to the advahtage of the country. In more than one aspect the matter is one that merits serious at- tention. 1t may become a troublesome problem. TrE decree just rendered in the now famous Leslie Carter divorce case of Chicago marks an important procedent in the annals of the divorce calender. The plaintiff, it will be remembered, was Mrs, Leslie Carter, who sued her husband for an absolute divorce on the grounds of extreme cruelty. The jury, however, returned a verdict finding Leslie Curter not guilty of the indict- ment, but on the contrary that Mrs. Carter conducted herself in a manner unbecoming a wife and a mother. It was therefore decreed by the court that Mrs. Carter shall forfeit nov alone her right and titles ot dower in her hus- band’s property, but shall also relin- quish all claims of a parent in the cus- tody of her child. This isa lesson which will not fail to have its effect in correcting the common belief that any pretty woman ean with impunity sub- vert the laws of morality and justice, and receive absolution for her sins be- fore a Chicago judge and jury. ON SUNDAY, in a Council Bluffs beer garden, a merry old German, amongst other prohibitionists, was indulging bis bibulous propensities. A constablo appeared on the scene and staliced up to the giddy Teuton, bidding him to “como along.” The latter expatiated, whereupon the limb of the law dealt him a terrific blow on the head with his truncheon, leaving a frightful gash. The victim of this brutality is now lying in a critical condition at his home. The gentle countroller of the peace continues on his *“ beat.” THE railroads leading into Milwaukee are certainly not making friends with the Grand Army by refusing to makeZa rate of a cent a mile to the national en- campment. Why the railroads should take this discourteous stand when they gave the cent fare last year, not alone to the G. A. R., but to numerous other organizations, is something beyoud the comprehension of ordinary people. TEXAS, Michigan, Kansas and Mis- souri have enacted laws declaring frusts illegal. New York has shown its tem- per in the decision afirmed by Judge Barrett against the legality of the sugar trust. The country is showing its teeth to these monopoiies and they had better take the warning before it is too late to esc KANsAs Crry's delegation have found much to marvel at in this city. Many of the members have been so wrapped up with the city on the Kaw that they have failed to notice the great growth of Omaha, and to some of them it will be arevelation. ‘WirH a proposed capital of twenty millions, the international salt trust is liable to prove an evil of formidable proportious if it should follow the tac- tics of the sugar monopolists by raising the price of that prime necessity. A sTArcH and glucose works will shortly be in operation at Sioux City. The only thing our neighbor now needs to place her among the promising cities is a decent base ball club, THERE no flies on Russell Harri- son’s coat collar. As long ns he is able to dine with the queen he is all right. GEORGIA’S legislature is still in ses- sion. It is the middle of the water- melon season. A Reformed Fourth of July. Springfictd Republican. After having experienced the quietest Fourth of Jily in our history nobody in Springtleld will desire to go back to the ola order of things, The compromise gave the boys an opportunity to make a noise and burn powder from sunrise until 9 a. m., ana then again in the evening from 7:30 to 10:30, This offered vent onough, and for the rest of the day and night comparative quiet reigned. The relief was prodigious aud most gratetul to grown-up foiks, B The Richmonds in the Field. Chicago News. The Arthur Richimond controversy has led Colonel Donn Piatt to admit thav ke and five other people wroke the anonymous letters bearing the name of ' that literary Franken- stewm. Colovel Pisttmight havo said, in the words of Shakespeara's crooked-backed king: “I think there be six Richmonds in the field; five have I slain to-day,” For certainly the othor five have madé greatefforts to conceal thelr identity, and they will not thank Col- onel Piatt for aswisting in unmasking thew. No Mood Politios. Denver Republican, In the new states there is too much of the old-fashioned American love of individual liberty to pive Endouragement to extreme legislation in derogation of private right. iere is little congepial soil for prohibition in the Rocky Mounlains. The questions here are those which pertdin to the development of great commonwealths an broad, cosmo- politan foundations. The people are in uo mood for experimental politica. They seek the development of the country and not the restriction of individual liberty beyond that degree which the experience of the nation has taught is for the welfare of the whole. e The Governor's Discomfiture. Chicago Times. Oh, Rickburg's bracs are bonny, Where early falls the dew, And 'twas thore that Gov'nor Lowry Received the grand razoo, e — Bt Tu, Boston? Buston Adverldser, If John L, Sullivan is tried, convicted, and seatenced 1o a terw of lwprisonment at hard 1n medicine Bidfhess. Ono rosult of the | Iabor that will ba the best thing for the pub. 1o good that has happened In many a day, Nor would the intercsts of athjotios suffer on that account, The wonderful mvscles that wo hoar 80 much about could be dis- played to first-class advantage in the useful toil of the penitentiary chain gang. ——— The Fall of Mr. ¥ Chicago Herald. The New York papers now refer to him as “Stuyvie" Fish, and one of thew prints an acoount of hus departure for Europe directly underneath & recipe for tapioca pudding. e st GOING INTO CAMP, h, How the Platte Soldiers Will March to Fort Robinson. On August 8, a camp for one month's fleld instruction of the troops in the depart- ment of the Platte, will be established in the military reservation at Fort Robinson, It will be suyled camp George Crook, and be under the command of the department com- mander. At this camp will be assembled, armed and equipbed and outfitted, all the troops of the dopartment which may be spared from thoir respective posts, The ofl- cers to be left at the soveral posts are in ad- dition to those to be left on account of dis- ability, unless the latter are able to perform full post duty. A proportionate number of non-commissioned officers will ba loft at the posts with the men. From Fort Douglas, Utah, all of the field offlcers, the regimental staff and band of the Sixteenth intantry, with nearly ail of the garrison, will attend, ‘rhe command will proceed by rail to Bordeaux, Wyo., and march from that place to the camp via Fort Laramio, From Camp Pilot Butte, Wyo., one com- any of infantry will go by rail to Bordeaux Wyo., and from there join the command from Fort Laramie. Transportation for the company from Bordeaux to Fort Laramio will be sent from that, nost to Bordeaux. From Fort Bridger, Wyo., Major Andrews, Twonty-first nfantry, with all of the gar- rison, with the customary exceptions, will proceed by rail to Bordcaux, Wyo., where it will join the troops from Fort Douglas. From Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., all of tho fleld officers, the regimental staff and band of the Seventeenth infantry, with all of the gz\rri on, excepting those excused, will march ¥ the best practicable route. The troops from Fort Laramie will con- tinue the march after they have been joined by the compuny of the Seventh infantry from Camp Pilot Butte, The troops from Fort Sidney aro ordered to go to camp along the most direct route. The garrison at Fort Omaha, with certain exceptions, will go by rail from this city to Fort Sidney aund thence march to Camp Crook. The exceptions comprises the nec- essary medical and non-commissioned o s, four companies of the ond in- fautry designated for duty at the camps of the National guard, stute of lowa. From Fort Niobrara, Neb., all the field of- ficers present with the regimental stafl and band of the Eighth infantry and garrison will march. The representation from Fort Robinson will consist of the Ninth cavalry and the Eighth nfantry with band, Tho excoptions will be held In readiness to move at & moment's notice. Tho troops from Fort Washakie will be un- der the direction of Licutenant Colonel Burt. They will march to Casper, where they will leave thair transportation with the quartermaster and proceed thence by rail to the camp. The troops from Fort McKinney under Major Kundlett, of the Ninth cavalry, will proceed to Casper under the same_orders as i later movements as th troops from Wash: aki ch cavalryman will be supplied with twonty pounds of ammunition for carbine and twenty for the pistol All marching and camping under this or- der is to be conducted as if in the presence of an enemy. General Brooke loft to-day to join Con- gressman Dors and a number of distin- guished gentlewen from the east on a urip west. The party was met at Fremont, Judge Carcy passed west on the same train. Captain and Assistant Surgeon Brechmin, of Fort Laramie, has been ordered to attend the annual encampment of the Illinois Na- tional Guards, for the purpose of instructing Cor| This is the first * of the regular army has been detailed for this purpose. SOCIETY HALLS. A Breeze Raised by the Opinion They Should be Taxed. Monday County Attorney Mahoney de- livered an opinion that under the law the property of religious, benevolent and educa- tional institutions from which a revenue is derived should be assessed. The county commissioners seem to be very much undecided as to the course they should pursue in this matter. Under the law,” says Chirman Mount, “it is our duty to takein every society which receives rents from buildings or real estate, but all other towns in the state exempt them, and, for that reason, we might as well and can afford to ve as liberal as anybody else. I know that the Masons derive a revenue from stores and ofices in their building, at the corner of Capitol avenue and Sixteenth strects, but every dollar of it is expended for charitable purposes, What othes organizations have I don’t know much about.” O’Keefte thinks that the Masonic, Odd Fellows, Washington ana Gormania halls and varions other buildings, whether they belong to religious,edicational or benevolent nizations, should be taxed. He thinks County Attorney Mahoney's opinion is clear cuough and leaves no doubt as to what the board’s duty is. audge Gustave Anderson, one of the lead- ing Masons in town, was asked for an ex vression on the matter. Said he: “We are perfectly willing to pay taxcs on that portion of our building from which we reoeive a rev- enue, but don’t want other institutions ~ex- empt. For instance, if we ara taxed i don't sce how you are going toexclude the con- vent schools, the hospituis and parsonages in which many of the priests and preachors live. The reason I mention tuat is because Bishop Worthington pays taxes on his rosi- Qence, while others in thus city whom could name don't pay one ceni. All should be treated alike. If it is right to assess one, it 18 wrong to oxclude another in the samne boat." WILL BE PAVED, The Streets on Which lmprovements arve to Be Mado This Year. The board of public works and the city comptroller have found fuunds available for paving the following streets Cedar blocks on concrete: Lake, ecnth to ‘Twenty-fourth; Harney, Twenty- sixth to Twenty-eighth; Spaulding, Twenty- fourth o Belt line, and Twenty-fourth and Spaulding to Spencer. Cedar blocks on plank and sand: Clark, Sixtoonth 10 'wenty-fourth; Vinton, tieth to Twenty-fourth; Farnam, from Sel- den to Lowe avenue, and Chicago, Twenticth to Twenty-second. Cypress block on concrete: Nineteenth, Cuming w0 Davenport; Capitol avenue, Twenty-fourth to Twenty-sixth. Asphaltum ; Izard, Sixteenth to Fifteenth; Webster, Sixteenth to T'wenty-second; Sev entoenth, Cuming to Grace l‘ur]nlumn ave nue, Twentieth to Twenty-second and Twon- ty-fifth to Twenty-eighth; Wovlworth ave- nue, Thirty-first to Thirty-second: Thirty- second avenue and Woolworth avenue to Park street. Colorado sandstone: Worthington, Fighth to Tenth; trom alley north of Worthington to Pine; Burt, Thirty-sixth to Fleasant; Thirty sixth, Cuming to California; Popple- ton dvenue, Twenty-second to Twonty-Afth aud Tweuty-eighth 1o Twenty-ninth, Woodruff, Kau., stonat Webster, Thir- teenth to Union Pacific yards; Burt, Six- teeuth to Twer -second. Nearly $70,000. Mr. N. O. Brown is one of Omaha's men of money who has abundant faith in the future of this city, H has secured permits for the erection of & $20,000 four-story brick ware- house at Twelfth and Nicholas, a five-story brick warehouse on Tenth and Harney, to cost $20,000, and eleven dwelling houses on Twenly-sixth between cach o cost B2000, & builaings of $07,50, wial Hickory and Center, | investment lu | WIDE-AWAKE NON-PARTISANS Anti-Saloon Republicans Laying for the State Convention. VICTORY FOR FARRAGUT POST. Clay County Distriot Court in Sce- sion in Lincoln —Whitewashed Councilmen — Capital City News Itoms. 1020 P Streer, LixcoLy, July 18, 1t is rumorod hero that Chairman Rich- ards does not intend to call the republican state contral committee togother until some time in October. Ropublicans gonerally favor a short campaign, but the idea of so late & oall for the meeting of the central oommittee does not meet with popular favor. It is argued that the delegate apportionment by counties nocossitates an earlier moeting, and for this reason the chairman of the stato central committeo will be urged to call tho oys togethor at an ocarlier date. A promi- nent republican said to-day that the com- mit! ought to moot and settle the prelimi- narics for tho state convention bofore the middle of September, and many othors voice tho mamo sentiment. Although this is the off yoar in state politics, the state convention promises some exciting features. The talk is strong that the non- partisan prohibitory league will try to run the machine to its liking. 1t is loarned that a fight bas been made for the adoption of resolutions indovsing tho action of the late legislature in passing the prohibition amend- ment act, committing the party to father it, No ono questions tho _renomination of Reese at this time, unloss Groff or some other new und stronger man is sprung, The regency candidates are fow. It is said, however, that O. A. Corbin, of Johnson county, would not refuso a seat'on the board of university re- gents, LINCOLN BUREAU OF Trie OMAMA 3un, } Farragut Post's Victory. Farragut post, G. A. R., acored a victory in the appointment of Dr. J, C. Dawson as & member of the pension board of this city, Iv is understood that tho friends of Dr. Lowery, who aspired to the same vosition, made an aggressive fight. The morning paper here was in line apainst Dawson's appointment, and local Grand Army boys are jubilant over their success. lu this case, at least, loyalty to the party won, for it 'was shown that Lowery, during late years, had twice per- mitted the use of his name as an ofice secker on the democratic ticket, while Daw- gon lias proved to be an unflinching repub: ican. That Horrid Investigation. All Lincoln, and the state for that matter, knows that the affairs of the Lincoln city government have been investigated. Few had any idea that much would como of it, except in a general way. The investigation is over, Hare, in substance, is thg result: 1. It exonerates Councilman Dean in the Burns-Dean 10 per cent affair, 2. It exonerates Councilman Dean in the McMurtry addition affair. 3. It exonerates Councilman Dean and ex- Councilman Cooper in the sales of goods to the city. 4. It exonerates ox-Councilman Billings- ley from any wrong intention or wrong doing in accepting foes as an attorney for drawing up contracts between contractors and the city. 5. It exonerates the city treasurer in the matter of the missing pages, and claims for him hono r, honesty and virtue. It not only exonerates Messrs. John R. Clark and Lewis & Lewis in the mautter, of the sale of the paving bonds, but commeuds them for the very faithful manner in which they served the oity. “The report was adopted by a vote of 7 to 8, and thus the horrid investigation, with all its demoralizing tendencics, has been brought to aclose. After the adoption of the report Counciiman Bochmer clinched matters by offering a_resolution, which was adopted, declaring that no b claim or account con- teacted for ou or after this dato shall be allowed by the council or paid by the city to any firm or partnership, or to any member theccof, when any member of the city coun- cil orany officer of the city 1s directly or indirectly interested in such firm or partner- ship, nor when such claim has been pur- chased by any officer of the city before such claim or account has been properly audited and allowed, Nebraska National Guard Orders, Adjutant General Cole, of the Nebraska National Guard, has issued special order No. 5, which rocites that Edward B. Lytle, socond licutenaut of company B, of the Second regimeut, has tendered his resigna- tion, that it has beon approved and accepted and ‘therefore honorably discharged. The commanding ofticer of the company 18 or- dered to call a special election for the pur- vose of filling the vacancy. Order No. 0 is also issued, It cites that aptain Honry Jeffrey, of company A, First regiment, has been relieved from his com- mand; tliat First Lieutenant Henry Boar, of the samo company and regiment, nas 're signed and been honorably discharged, The order authorizes Second Licutenant M. A, to take command of the company and an election for the purpose of filling any vacancies cansed by thoe relief of tho captain and the resignation of the first licutenant, State Hou The case of the Omaha Horse Railway company ct al vs. the Omaha Motor Railway company, on error from tho district court of Douglas county, was filed for triul to-day. cretary Gilehrist denies the rumor that he is to put in a minority report in the Suth- erland-Manning case, réported by Secretary Garber o fow days ago. In fact he states that he signed Garber's report. and this ought to end the contioversy, Tom Cook, first assistant clerk of tho late house of representatives, was in his oftice to- day sending out manuals of the scssion of 1880 to all members of the assembly, He stated that he expocted to be able to send out the senate journals within a wonth. ‘The surveyor of Dundy county is taking fleld notes in the ofiice of the commissioner of public lands and buildings. Ho informed your corrospondent that it seemed to him thut the originnl hud been taken by guess. Most of the sections seem to be without corner stones in Dundy county. Olay County Ristrict Court, The Clay county district court, with Judge Morris presiding, convened to-day in one of the library rooms at the state house, Lo re view & case in which the judgment creditors of J. W, Small had sucd Messrs, Suall & Mosher. John M. Ragan, C, O. Whedon, J. L. Epperson, RRobert lyan and Hon. 5, W. Christy werd the attorneys who ropresonted the partics to the case. The case is an drawn out to groat lengih, in o s over 1,000 pages of testimony and 500 puges of ploadings. It is probable that the case will bang Lire for two or three days., City News and Notes. Attorney Geueral Leose attended the aedication of the Musonio templo last even- g, returning bome to-day at 11 Goyernor Thayer roturuad to-day from his visit to the Hastings insane asylum and the Grand Island soldiors’ and saliors’ home. N. V. Harlan, of York, J. C. Hrown, of sreonwood, A. C, White' of Dowitt, W. P. Hall of Hold and C. C. Clark, Fred Nye, W. F. Gurloy, A. V. Gallaghér and red Johnson, of Omahd, were at the capital to-day. Lincola lodge No. 877, 1 O. B, B., has in- stalled tho following offlcers: Momitor, L. Ksensky;. prosident, Charles Maher; vico- resicgit, Willlo Meyor; recordiug socre- Yary, Toao Friond; fumnolal secrtary, L, Libérman; treasurer, Charles Parka; ward- on, 8. Seligsohn, Congregationalists contemplate erecting & tabernacle at the corner of N aud Twenty-second streets. It will bo 24%4s feotand will cost $400. The O street umis- sion will use the structure, A reception will _bo tendered to Miss Fverott, of Beirut, Syria, at tho residenco of Mrs, 'W. If. McCrury at 1141 H street, to morrow evening, by the ladies of the First MUST HAVR flONDS, How Tt 1s Proposed to Desour Bonds For Better Fire Proteotion, The fire and police commissioner will ask the city council to submit to a vote of the people, a proposition for tho issuance of bonds for tho purpose of building and equipping o number of engine houses in the residence wstricts and also for the erece tion of @& _oity Jail and polica headquarters, The plan, and the reasons for it are stated by ono of the commissioners as follows: ““The commissionors have had this matter under considoration for the past two years. We fully realizo tho nocoessity of extending the fire service, and we are also aware of tho Iarge oxpense which it will bo necessary to to incur in ordor to furnish proper fire pro~ toction to the houscowners of the city, The department has not been increased during the past five yoars, but the oity has, There is boing built hero' on an average of 8,000 houscs & your, or 15,000 for the five years, and the majority of them are outside of the limits in which the depart- ment, as it is now equipped, I8 ablo to offer protection mgainst fire. Still, theso house-owners pay taxes and are entitled to fire protection. We really need Presbytorian ohurel, flve new engine houses—one at Walnnt Hill, one in Kountzo Place, one in West Ouaha, ono near tho high school, and one in the southern part of the city near Vinton streot. “Tho cost, of courso, will bo big. After the houses are built it will tako at least furnish each of them with the n team, truck, hose and fire appliances, from 'threo to five men will be required for each house. Wo have no money to provide such protection, The prosent levy for fire purposes, 4'g mills, is only barely” sufficiont to maintain the department as it now exists. Next year wo will have an lncreaso in the levy to b mills, giving us about 815,000 addi- tional funds, but this can not bo used for erecting new houses 1t will all bo needeq for making improvements that are demanded in the present service. The commissioners have given tho matter ry thorough consideration and have do- cidéd that the only way to secure the funds for tho needed extonsion of the service is by voting bonds, and we will ask the council % submit the matter at the next eleotion, We have not docided upon the amount to be asked but it will be at least §100,000. We have prepared a lengthy, and 1 consider a very thorough, statement of tho pres- ent condition ~aud future require: ments of the firo servico and will present 1t 1o the council for their consid- eration at an early meoting. We think that every property owner who will consider tho ‘acts which we have embodied in our state mont, can not but be convinced of tho neo sity of taking the action which wo propose. f'And the city jail scnome?” “A ety Jail 1S an absolute necessity, and, with the concurrenoe of the council, wo shall ask that the construction of a new city fail and polico headquarters bo provided for in the bond proposition. It is s shame and disgrace for this city to maintain its jail and police department in its present shape, I wonder that the horses over there don’t die.to t say nothing of the vrisoners and the oficers who aro compeliod to stay in that building. Of course, it is a financial im- possibility to provide a growing city hke this all at once with the public improvements needed, but bofore anything else 1s done a decent jail and police headquarters should be provided.” Tho decision of the commissioners and their report upon the condition of the depart- ments under their charge will probably bo presented to the council at its meeting next weel, OLERGYMEN IN MEDITATION. Annual Retreat of Catholic Olergy in Crefghton College. A spiritual retreat for priests of the Cath- olio diocese of Omaha and Liucolu com- menced last ovening ut Croighton college, It is conducted by Rev. K. Hill, 8.J., a renowned philosopber of tho Josuit order, tho author of several valuablo toxt-books which are now in use in many of the col- leges and universities of this country. The exercises of this rotreat consist of Lectures on moral subjects, spiritual medita- tion and prayer. They will continue until F'riday might, when the clorgymen will re- turn to their respective homes in time to conduct religions services on Sunda; 'he priests of the dioceso of Omaha who have arrived are as follows: Very Rev. M. F. Cassidy, Very Wolf,” Ve P. A Baumgurtoer, Rev. T. L Rov. J. 13, Wit L J. I Hayes, I Rucsing, Rev. I, B Sehuidt, Rev. <h, Rov. J. J. Barrett, Rev. S. 17 Ca ov. I, Hoheisel, Rev. M. O'Donaghue, ioyle, Rev. W. Choka, Rev. W. , Rev. P. 1. Haley, Rev. O. Kolin, v. H. Shoof, Rev. J. V. Wallace, Rev. C. koof, Rev. M. F. Binzig, Rev. H. Lo- eker, Rev. M. St. Lawrence, Bishop Honacum, who is attending the funeral of Bishop Macheboeuf, of Denver, is not expected to arrive till toward tho close of the exercises. THE STOOK YARDS. Armour of Chicago, McShane and Paxton Confer Privately. P. D. Armour, the well-known milllonaire railway magnate and pork packer, arrived in Omaha yesterday. He is also interested to a large extent in the pork aud beef packing business at South Omaha. It is reported that tho Armour-Cudahy firm has decided to enlarge its plant at South Omaha and increase its capacity about 50 per cent, which, if carricd out, will_make the plant here the largest of tho kind op by the firm, even surpassiog that at Chig Yestorday @ conference was hel the Paxton hotol between Mr. Armour and Mr. John A. MeShane and Mr, W, A. Pux- ton, the latter two boing ofticials of the stock yards company. Enlargement of the plaut, railroad rates, and a paved betwoon South Omuha aud Omaha were discussed. e ITCHING AGONIES, Every Night | Scratched Until the Skin was Raw, Body Covered with Scales like spote of mortar. An Awlul Spectacle. Doctors Useless, Cure Hopeless, Entirely Cured by the Cuticura item- edies in Fivo Weeks. 1am going to tell you of the oxtraordinary chunuo your CUricUne REMEDISS performed on me, About tho lst of April last, ‘T noticed some red pimples 1ike coming out all over my body, but thought nothiag of 1t until 80126 tine Jator'on, when it begati to look like spots of mortar spoitod on, and wlich came off 1 Liyord, accompanied with itelivg. | would scratell every night until L was raw, then the Bext night the - scales, boing formed meanwhile, wero seratohed off again, T vain did I consult all doctors {n country, ithout i opes of recovery, | ha rtispment in ho Luwspaper 1t your CUTICUA [EMEDIGS, and purchassd m from my druggds obtalned almost uf. | begin to noties the ealy ily dr)pped off und clsappearad | e Doan fully cured, | had bofore | bugan N M. J. O'Poole, o by o tio dhson taking the O a3 entlroly My diseaso was oozemn and psoriis 1 recommend the Curt- ouite WEMEDIES to all fumy vidnlty, and I know of & great mauy who Bavo tuken them, wnd thunk me for the knowlodge of them, esps Iaily 100thors who hive bubes with 8cely e s on tholr lewds and bodies. 1 cuilbot ex. s in words the thanks to you for what tho DUTiCUIA [REMED1ES liave been to me. bly body was covored with scales, ahd 1 wis an awiil sjucetucle to voiold. cloar us a baly's, Spet, 21, Feb, No trice of the disease from A has shown itself since my cure a o Cuti Cure every spc ftohing, hurnin tho skin, soalp, ura Remedies S of agonlzing, humiliating, sealy, aid pimply disoases of ‘wnd Blood, ‘'with loss of hatr, and all' humois, blotches. erupiions, aoales, and crusts, whether simpls, ous, Or contugloud, whon physiclans snd alll atlier romeics full Bold #hc; I DiiG CUTICUIA, B06i BOA arod by the Bo iy OUPOHATION, oston, “ure Bkin_ Disewses,'” 04 W tostimoniale, PlMl 8, black-heads, red, rough, oily skin proventea by C happed, and UIA BOA K. I CAN'T BREATHE. Chest Tulns, Sorencas, W, Hacking Cougl A aud Intammat MINUTE by Puastin, NOWuLOg 1Ko 1t fOF 1Ak LA o,