Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 18, 1889, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1889, E_DAILY BEE. — Aitor, TH B, ROSEWATER, — - = PUBLISHED BEVERY MORNING, et TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. D ally (Morning Edition) including Sunday Ties, One Year..... sraverill Forfix Months, . ForThr ee Months. | The Omaha Sunday Tice, mailed to any address, One Year e . Weekly Iiso, One Year Y Omana Office, Ben hullding, N. W, Corne: Beventeenth and Farnam Streets. Cnicago Office, 547 Rookery Building. pion York Offics, Rooms 14 wnd 1 Tribune wlding, Wasnington Office, No, 513 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and edi. torinl matter should be addressed to the Editor of the liee. DUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters and_remittances should Do addressed to The Bes Publishing Company, Omahn__Drafts, ehecks and postoftice orders 1o bomade payable to the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors. Bee Building Farnam and Soventeenth Sts. _— THE DAILY BEE, Eworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, 1 .. County of Douglas. | George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, docs sulotanly swenr tixt the actual circulation of Tuk DAILY Bee for the week ending July 13th, 155, was as tollows Eunday, July 7. Monday, July . Tuesdny, July 0. W ldlyrluly 10... 1 Thurkiny. July L. Friday. iy 12, Baturday, July 15, Averago. . e eia Bworn to before mo and subscribed to in my presence this 1en day of July, A. D, 1889, [Seal.) N P. FEIL, Notary Puhlis. Btate of Nebraskn, Las, County of Douglas, { #8« George 11, T2 uck, being duly sworn, de- otes and says that ha 15 secrotary of Thé Boe ublishing company, that th tunl averape dally cirenlation of T Yy Bee for the month of Ju 10, plos; for July, 1888, 18,(31 coples: for August,1¥8, 18,183 coples; _for Nnrtnmh-'r. 1888, 18,154 copies; for October, 1888, {8084 copless for November, 1988, 14,05 copfes; ‘for Decenlor, 155, 18,223 copi January, 18850, 1, coples; for February, 18,006 coples; for Marc 56 April, 1550, 18669 coples: for May, 18, 18,000 coples, GEORG E B TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my (Seal.] " presence this ird day of June, A. . 1K), g L. Notary Public, ——— Y MERCHANTS' WEEK is moving fi;ht along on the road to success. TiE depot project has been let out of the bag and now the question is what will we do with it? NSIVE enlargement of the South Omaha packing plants cannot long be delayed. Itis in the air. THE paving season will soon be in full swing now that funds are available for the paving of some thirty streets. OHAUNCEY M. DEPEW is said to be dining and wining in London with all the swelldom of British aristocracy. The people of England must have heard of his fame as an after dinner speaker. IN order to maintain live stock rates through Towa, the western roads refuse to meet the Alton’s cut of eighteeen cents on hogs from Kansas City to Chicago. No wonder the Alton smiles as 1t monopolizes the live hog trafiic of the southwest. MINNEAPOLIS has a bitter cup to drain 1n the knowledge that the direct- ory man of the twin cities has increased St. Paul’s population four thousand, while he has absolutely decreased the Tlour city’s numbers eight thousand during the year. ALL the way from New York comes the intelligence that the Union Pacifie 1s looking for an eastern outlet by way of the “Soo” route, which is to be ex- tended from Wisconsin to Nebraska. Stranger things than that have hap- pened in the railroad world. AN Amorican syndicate is after the contract to complete the abanaoned Panama canal for the cool sum of two hundred millions. It may come to pass that the American engineer will after all wrest tho glory of finishing this stu- pendous enterprise from De Lesseps. THE Chicago board of trade has been compelled to obey the injunction of the court not to cut off market quotations from the bucket shops. This estab- lishes the principle that there can be no monopoly in, telegraphic quotations of products sold at pubiic exchunges. CiArGES of fraud and connivance with dishonest pre-empters have been filed at the interior department against certain officials in Nebraska land of- fices. If these charges are well founded and not trumped up by aspiring poli- ticians, the commissioner is in duty bound to dismiss every official impli- cated in public land frauds. THERE is & melancholy satisfaction in contemplating that there never was a trust or pool formed for the benefit of the consumer. The combination just formed by the leading publishers of school books, like the proposed salt trust or rallroad pool has but one object, namely, to maintain,if not to raise, prices and to divide the profits, The consumer can be benefitted only where trade is unrestricted aud competition is {ree. THE proposition of the Thompson- ‘Houston Electric Light company to fur- nish for a term of five yoars a twenty- four thousand eight hundred candle power light as a substitute for the pres- ent gas lamps, computed to sup- ply fifteen thousand three huundred and forty candle power at a cost equiv- alent to that charged by the gas com- pany, secms fair on its face. The pro- posal should, however, mot be acted upon bastily. Possibly the gas com- -pany will meet tlLe competition bya marked reductios [ —— THE government does not propose to be bluffed by the Cherokee Cattle com- pany in its purpose to open the Cher- pkee strip for settlement. The cattle gompany’s proposition to lease theso lands for & period of fifteen years at a price almost oqual to that which the goverument proposes to pay for their purchuse is looked upon by the socre- tary of the interior as a scheme to em- barass the commission soon to treat with the Indians, Powerful as the Cherokee cattle syndicate may be, it must stand aside when the interests of the government demand the opening of the strip to homesteaders. DISCRIMINATION AGAINSTOMAHA We print elsewhere & protest ad: dressed by the Armour-Cudahy Pack- ing company to the railroads transport- ing packing house products to distri- buting points north and south, in which the discriminating rates against Omaha in favor of Kansas City are clearly set forth. Tt is shown that on all such pro- ducts shipped south the rates favor Kansas City to the extent of from six to seven and one-hall cents per one hundred pounds, while on north- bound business the rate from Omaha to St. Paul common points is only two cents .ower than from Kansas City, and to Montana and northwest Pacifio coast points the rate from Kansas City is no greater than from Omaha. It is also noted in the protest that the rate on packing houss products from St. Paul o southern points is only three-fourths of one per cent per hundred pounds higher than the Omaha rate to the same points, and in cotton-seed o1l the rate from Mem- phis to Kansas City is five cents lower per hundred pounds than the rate to Omaha. It thus appears that in all directions the packing interest of Omaha is being heavily disoriminated against by the railroads, and the in- justice of the favor shown to Kansas City is made obvious by the figures and statements of the protest. It is clear that if this unjustitiable dis- crimination is maintained the result, as the packing house company say, must’ be disastrous to the packing interest of Omaha. That interest is compelled to contend with natural disadvantuges in its compotition with other packing points. The greater cost of turning out the product here makos a material dif- ference in favor of Chicago and Kansas City that can not be overcome,and when to this is added the g diserimina- tion in freight rates against Omaha shown in the protest, it is easy to be- lieve the claim of the packing company that the consequence, if the discrimina- tion i8 not removed, must be ruinous. Another hardship unon the packers of Omaha is the fact that they must buy their hogs and cattlo in the highest market, Kansas City packers competing with Omaha in the southern section of Nebraska and Towa, while the packers of Sioux City und St. Paul draw their supply of hogs and cattle from adjacent territories, with little or no competition from other points. The protest submits that® Kansas City is in no other or different position than Omaha, and on no ground entitled to greater benefit at the hands of the railroads teansporting the pack- ing products of both cities. The pack- ing house company asks that the tariffs be so modified, by either advancing the Kansas City or lowering the Omaha rates, or both, that the rates shall be equalized and that neither of the two cities named shall be caused to suffer from unjust diserimination. The re- quest is reasonable and necessary, and should have the prompt considerati of the roads to which it is addre: This matter is one of very vital import- anco to Omaha, and the packing . house whose protest we publish should be sus- tained by the entire business commu- nity in its effort to remove an unw ranted discrimination against this ci which, if maintaiued, can hardly fail to prove fatal to the packing industry. POSSIBLE DEMOCRATIC PLANK. It is not doubted that the democratic managers are giving careful attention to the question of what kind of a cam- paign they shall conduct in the new states. The situation is not without difficulties for them. If they conduct their campaign on the lines of the last national contest it will recommit the party to a position which some of its leaders believe was fatal to it, and in the event that it made no impression on the agricultural population of the new states, the effect might be to put the party in a dilemma three years hence On the other haad, to ignore the posi- tion would be accopted as a confession on the part of the managers that they were afraid of the-tariff reform atti- tude of the party as developed by Cleveland, Carlisle and Mills, which might also put the party in a dilemma three years hence, and interfere ma terially in the meantime with 1ts get- ting together. The managers do not want for advice, and much of it is of the radical sort. For example, the Philadelphia Record counsels them to send the ‘‘ablest representatives of the democratic doctrine of tariff reform” into the new states to meet the republican rep- resentatives who arc expected to stump these states during the coming cam- paign, The Record names a number of prominent democratic gdvocates of tariff reform whom it thinks would cheerfully give their services to the cause in the new states, and it would have the party courageously proclaim reform of the tariff as the cardinal principle for which it still proposes to battle. 1t is by no means improbable that this course will be pursued by the democratic managers. It is obviously dictated by expedience, if it be not 1m- peratively necessary. And if judi- ciously pursued it may give the repub- licans some trouble. It will be wise for manngers not to permit over- confidence with respect to any of the new states to make them indif- ferent or apathet The Dakotas are doubtless secure, but effort there will not be thrown away. Already there is talk of a fusion there between the Farmers’ alliance and the democrats, and it is quite conceivable that the lat- ter will readily offer every inducement to bring this about. It is thought that if such an amalgamation could be con- svmmated and held together it would easily hold the balance of power and could elect the officers of both the new states. There may be & reasonable .doubt as to the probability of such an alliancé being effected, but it is ob- viously possible and therefore to be guarded against. Those who have had an opportunity to see the inside working of politicsin the Dakotas say that des- perate attempts are being made to bring about a fusion. The democrats are working cautiously, tempting the farmers with promises of offices, and they are being assisted by disgruntled the republican republicans. Tt is the latter olass who are perhaps the most dangerous. The aim of the democrats is to handle all who are not stalwart and loyal republi- eans, and if they should succeed in Jdoing this and putting a fusion ticket in the field there would be ground for apprehension. The republican mana- gors outside of the two states should understand this situation of affairs and take mensures to defeat the scheme. 1t is equally necossary that the repub- licans should be alert and active in the other new states, for while there ap- pears to be less danger from demo- cratic scheming in them of the kind threatened in the Dakotas, it 1s some- thing to be oxpected. At any rate there should be no delay on the part of the republican managers in making preparations in all the new states to meet whatever plans the democrats may develop. THE MIGRATION OF INDUSTRIES. The steady decline of the iron and steel industries of New England, which has been going on for a full decade, threatens within another ten years to leave that section without any indus- trial enterprises of this kind. In one or two states where a few yearsago there were extensive establishments there are now none of any consequence, and everywhere in New England the iron and steel industries are languish- ing and unprofitable. The assump- tion that this state of affairs is due to other than natural canse: and that the removal of artificial 1@striction, as it is proposed by some of the manufacturers to ask of congress, would produce a change for the better, may not be well founded. The truth is that the New England iron and steel industi are at a disadvan- tage which no changes or modifications of the tariff conld ovcrcome. The cost of raising iron ove to the surface and getting it to the furnaces is greater in New England than it is in New York or Pennsylvan Another fatal disadvan- tage is the lack of coal. It1s urged that the removal of the tariff on coal would remove this disadvantage, but granting that it would do so this would oot be sufficient to place the New England iron and steel industries on an equality with those elsewhere, because it is not the only disadvantage to be overcome, and the others appear insurmountablo. Production, other things being equal. follows the natural law, and as other things can never be rendered equal so far as iron and steel production is con- cerned in New England, the business will migrate elsewhere. Following the natural law of material progress, the production of iron and steel is moving south- ward and westward. The vast mineral deposits of the south and west and the juxtaposition of ore, coal and limestone in the south amply explain the growth of the iron industry there. Nowlkere in the world can iron of equal excel- lence be manufactured more .cheaply than in the south, and it would seem inevitable th & not very remote time this industry must beceme more largely developed in that section than in any other, with the effect of further cheapening the price of iron and steel throughout the country. As to the west, it 1is impossible that in portions of it where the iron industry is now extensive it will ex- perieuce a decline and the business will migrate to other portions, where tho advantages are greater. There are coal and iron deposits in the west awaiting development, which will certainly in- vite manufacturing on a large scale, and another generation may witness the products of new Pittsburgs and Birminghams contesting for supremacy in the markets of the country. Our re- sources in this respect are by no means fully ascertained, and whenever they shall be, and the enterprise of the country is fully enlisted in their devel- opment, there will be no demand any- where for a protective tariff, for we shall then manufacture iron and steel to undersell the world. WHERE THE RUB COMES. The plea of the county commissioners that because other cities in the state exempt all society property from taxa- tion is & very poor reason why this kind of property should not bear its just proportion of taxation in this city. The laws of Nebraska governing the taxing of society property are brond-gauged and liberal, and they should not be sup- verted through a false sense of delicacy. In Omaha especially it is of the highest importance that all taxable property should bear its equitable share, due to the fact that in a rapidly growing com- munity like ours municipal wants press close nuyon the march of improvements. At this moment there is inadequate fire protection in the suburbs of this city. The proper authorities claim that they are unable to afford relief until they have sufficient funds on hand to equip = the localities with the needful fire applianc Now it stands to reason if the mllions of dollars of taxable property held by benevolent and purely social corpora- tions in this cily were subject to taxa- tion as provided by law, a sutlicient rev- enwe might be derived to afford fire and police protection where needed without heaping on the taxpayer addi- tional and inequitable burdens. Tho county commissioners have a plain duty to perform. In the question of taxation all citizens stand on an equality, and it is harmful to the city’s interest well a8 a gross injustice to discriminate against one for the benelit of the other. Tue last legislature made a sweeping change in the time-honored law of in- heritunce affecting a wife’s intercst in hoer husband’s estate. Heretofore a wife could claim on the death of her husband only the use during life of one- third of the real estate owned by him, Under the revised statute the widow is entitled in fee simple to a cert share of his estate. The portion which she shall take is thus provided for: If the husband leayes no issue. the widow takes one- half of his real proporty and his purents the remainder. If he leaves a child, the property is divided equally between mother and child. If he leaves two or more children the widow takes one- third. If the widow aloue survives, but no kindred, sho takes all her husband’s possessions. | Jhay effoct the new law will have remains to be soen, Ther e 18 no questions-however, that the widow in Nebrask: troated with a degree of consideration not found in many states of tho union and not st all in England. — THE victorits of the Massachusetts riflemen in Englaad, of which mention was made a fow days ago, have been cut down durinf 'the past week. The rea- son for this id Wbt far to find. In theiwr first match¥s' they met organiza- tions like thémselves, militia rifle- men, representing local districts, .atterly, however, they have been pitted against some of the crack shots in the British army in Individual matches. The result is that while the Yankee riflemen have put the Lnglish on their mettle, they have been unable to score a straight string of victories. Nevertheless, our marksmen abroad are doing themselves proud, and will come home with remarkably fine scores to their credit. THr magnitude of the scientific work undertaken for the benefit of the farm- ers of the United States surpasses the efforts made by any other nation in the cause of agriculture. It can not bo said, however, that the benefits derived have been proportionally as great. As long as fourteen years ago experimental sta- tions were established in different parts of the country for the purpose of agri- cultural and animal investigations. While many of these stations have been more or less satisfactory, it is yet to be proven that any one great discovery has been made by which the farmers have been benefited It is probable that North Dakota will have a clause incorporated in her con- stitution making the governor; the sec- retary of state and state auditor a board of railrond assessors. This scheme is doubtless inspired by the railroad emis- saries. Such a clause in a state consti- tution will practically place the rail- rond assessment in the hands of the railway managers, who will always seo to iv that the conventions nominate state officers friendly to the monopo- lies. Bested by Clarkson, Kearney Enterprise. 1t Sullivan keeps on his glorious career, he will bo able to tackle Ret Clarkson one of these days, At present Rot Clarkson's knock-out record 1s far superior, e ivan is No Politician. ; ieagn Triune, By his rude, uncultured, and boorish be- havior in this city, the Hon. John L. Sulli- van has hopelessly/ ruined his chances for becoming the mayor of Boston, and seriously imperiled even his chancos for congress. Mr. Sul Death Comes, When Lenast Expected. Kapsas City Times, The death of. one of the principals in a French duel is -perhaps one ot the most ro- markable eveots of the year, and brings to us a solemn warning that the grim reaper may strike us down where least expected. Kot = oo A Boom Pales Chicagp Tribune The Meduerranean, sea, once free from sharks, is now thickly infested by these monsters, Can it be possible they have heard of an approaching real estate boom in Palestine and intend to be on hand when it comes? ne. S They are Never Mentioned. Pittsburg Dispateh. Obituary notices of Simon Cameron are generally repeating s famous remark that he attributed his success in life to the fact that he started poor. This may have been well for Simon; but it wholly fails to ac- count for the millions of others who started in life poor und remained poor all their lives. SR RO i Canada Convenie Cuba Undesir- able. Troy Press. Annexation should be continental. The United States does not want outposts in the form of islands to wrangle about. Canada is convenient: Cuba undesirable. We have territory enough already, aud it would be wretched policy to annex islands which would be troublesome in themselves and likely to lead to foreign complications of an annoying and costly if not dangerous nature. The downfall of many governments in the past can be traced to the aggressive spirit of annexatlon and conquest, —————— Easier Said Than Done. Boston Globe. The thing to be doune to solve the labor problem is 80 to increase the opportumitios for employment or self-employment that the margin of unemployed will disappear. Then there will be no aificulty in raising wages; in fact, all the king’s horses and the king's men couldn’t keep wages from rising under those circumstances. There is no natural reason why the general rate of wages should not be much higher than it is now, because never in the history of the world was the productiveness of labor 8o great in propor- tion to the number of laborers, i THE AFTERNOON TEA. Clarisso—Did you attend Miss Smooth- bore's pink teat Mathilde—No; but I went t0 & blue dinner there once, A man in Cleveland makes aMdavit that he suffered 122 consccutive days with the tooth- ache and yet nevor whipped one of his chil- dren or suid a cfoss word to his wi No human being will believe him. Mrs. Tonay (after passing a newly pamnted house)—Good gracibus! And I have been brushing close up to it all the way. Do please look, Mrs, fsharpe, and sce if I've got any paint on me. Mrs. Sharpe—I don't think there is mhy ‘on your clothing, Mrs, Tona) Outside of those in public ofiice there are four persons in the' United States who are entitled to send atid receive meil matter free of postage, They aye the widows of Presi- dents Polk, Tyl jarfield and Grant. The privilege 18 grawted by special act of con- gress. . The longest day, is,in June, they say— The shortest ip December, They did not come to me that way: “The shortest I remember You came a day with me to stay, And filled my heart with laughter; The longest day—you were away— The very next day after. Archduchess Stephanie of been released frow the quasi-imprisonment in which she has lived sinceshe hecame a widow. The family statutes of the house of Hapsburg require that the widow of any prince who is in the line of succession shall be attended day @nd night by a couple of sworn duennas (who take the duty turn about) for at least four mounths after her husband's death, and during that period she is not allowed to leave the country. Last week the Emperor Francis Joseph recel & formal notification, backed by the certifi cates of' the court @ccoucheurs and mid- Austria bas wives, that “no posthumous cohild of the Crown Prince Rudolph will bo born." The National Association of Journalists in England has been holding a convention in London, and devoted one of its sessions to women journalists. The latter were repro- sented by Mrs. Fenwick Miller. American women newspaper workers have not had the practical retoguition which their English sistors have received, and there are not nearly as many women in the profession here as in England, The latest addition to Women's clubs is the Jamaica Women's club of which Mrs, Mabel Miller Smith 18 prosident and Mrs. Cogswell vice-president. The olub gave & recention on Friday evening at tho residonce of Mrs. Screne Spader on Fulton stroot. The president, who is the daughter of Mrs, Olive Thorne Miller, the writer on birds,pro- sided, and Mrs Laura Holloway delivered an informal address. Miss Mary Wanamaker, the postmaster general's daughter, will make ner debut in Washington society next fall. She is not yet out of her teens, but is an accomplishod girlof considerable beauty. She has had the trainiug of an excellent education, and is skilled in music and lanzuagos. The following advertisement recontly ap- peared in a western paper: A miadle-aged woman, who is capable, honest, and indus- trious, but as homely as astone fence, wants work.” SUMMER SOINTILLATIONS, Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph: “India is a very warm country, I believe,” remarked Squildig, *“Yes," replied McSwilligen. “That accounts for tho tives are so Hindoo-lent.” Lowell Citizen: First swell—You seem to bo down on George. What 1s the trouble between yout Second swell—Well, you see, we were always friends; but now he has gone and ®ot a pair of trousers at loast two inches wider than mine! Texas Siftings: Servant onters and an- nounces that the Marquis de Montmorency de Booze Frappe desires to pay his respocts. Buffulo Bill (disgusted): “Bah! Only a marquis, [ don't give shucks for mar- quises and after awhile I'm going to shut down on dukes. Tell him I haven’t got any- thing for him to-day.” Lawrence American: Miss Charity—Is your husband addicted to the use of alcoholic stimulants? Recipient of alms— hej; hisonly fallin’ is drinkin’. rre Haute Express: Did you ever no- tice that the ‘‘ice is only three-fifths the size of the “‘price?” Atchison Globe: Next %o marrying a girl who is a beauty, the man thinks himself most fortunate who marries a girl who thinks he is one. Atchison Globe: This is the season of the year when a man expects his wife to cook him great big hot dinners without get- ting the stove hot. Philadelphia Record: After all the objec- tions made to exceuting criminals by ele it1s urged by the advocates of that system that after a person has tried the new method once he will never use any other after. Atchison Globe: This is the weather when every friend a man bus is a warm ono. The dead letter ofiea is a great place for uncalled for remarks. Puck: The ‘‘dinner” hour- Clerke—*Good gracious, Rich, why do you eat 80 fast! You'll choke yourself!” Rich- mond Stratecott—*Why.can’t you see therc's only twenty-five minutes left us to smoke cigarettes in?" New York Mercury: dow before they come, New York Mercury: Hush wages of the baby's nurse. Texas Siftings: A dog will bark up a tree, So will a horse, if hitched to one too long. icago Tribune: **Willie,” said his father sternly, reaching for the trunk strap mother sent you up here an hour ago to be punished, and because I was busy at the mo- ment you sneaked down stairs again, What did you do that for#” “I went down, sir, replied the boy, looking his father fearlessly in the face, “to avoid punishment.” e NORTH PLATTE LAND OFFICH. t that the na- No, indade, mum, not Shippen Frosts are generally money-—the Is Manderson Responsible For the Delay in Appointments ? Nouru Prarre, Neb., July 17.—To the Editor of Tne Bee: Is thore a deadlock in the Nebraska congressional delegation as re- gards the places to be filled in the North Platte land oftico? Will thore be any places to fill? These are questions which agitate the tired and hungry place-scekers, and, in a less degree, tho genoral public. It is hinted that there is a hitch in the matter of these appointments, and that the present in- cumbents are likely to remain until the dele- gation agrees on the candidates, The mfor- ence, is that the responsibility for the dead- lock that exists, if deadlock there is, rests with_Senator Manderson. However that may be, it is unfortunate for the republican party in this county that the matter should not have been promptly’ settled in tho ono way that would have given gencral satisfac- ) “5b s onty been an o ithin three years that there has nized republican party in Lin- coln county Previous to 1586 it was divided 1nto factions: now one side uppermost, now another, and ulways a double delegation to stat rressional and Judicial conventions, After years of contention, wise counsels atJast prevailed, and in 1888 for the first timo the party presented a united 1ront; and in 1580, a8 in 1838, through an_organized effort, they carried overything before tho Now they " presont to the vepresentatives in congress the names of two of North Platlo’s prominent citizens for the placos in the land office to be_flled by republicans after the appointees of Cleveland shall have seryed the four years which custom and civil service prescribes. he indorsoment is hearty and ciphatic, and will doubtloss re- ceive due consideration. X ————— ) VERY LOW BIDS, ank Murphy's Cenwure 3 1s Committe The announcement that tho council com- mittee on gas and c lights had re- ported in favor of adopting the bid of the ‘Thompson-Houston Electric compauy for lighting tho city, as appears in Tuk Bee's ro- port of that meeting,and especially the adop- tion of that report by the council was @ surprisc to ~ the members of the Omaha Gas Manufacturing company, he committeo,” sald Mr,” F'rank Mur- phy, “ignored our bid on gas. chair- wan reported and left the pe under the impression that we were ch ng the old , #0 per lamp per year. Such is not We putin o bid for 22-candle gas per lamp, which the committee ig- rate there would have been e city per year of $4,600." going to do about it?" “We will have to bring the matter to the attention of the council. There is no use of going to the committee. We can’t get any: thing from it."’ ““What about your electric light bid " “Wo put one in_under the name of tho Omaba Gas Manufacturing company, which was u great deal lower thun the Thompson Houston company. ‘That company’s bid was 16-candle incandescent light at $22 per lawmp r year. Our bid was for descent electric light per y “On the basis of our figures the Thompso: Houston bid ought to be $12.85 por lamp p year. We give nearly double the light fc an increase of only $4 more per lawp cach year. We did not bid on arc Jights." of the a saving to SWhat ur #0-candle power incan- for only 826 por lamp THEY HAVE FILED A PROTEST The Armour-Cudahy Packing Com- A VERY MARKED DISCRIMINATION Comparison of the Omaha and Kan- sas City Rates on Paocking- House Products—Omaha Wronged. Discrimination. The great packing house of the Armour- Cudahy company has addrossed a protest to tho principal railroads of the country, setting forth the tariff on thelr product from Omaha ns against that from Kansas City to destina- tions to which regular shipments are made, A marked discrimination 18 shown, prevailing rates from Kausus City boing 6 to 74 conts per hundrod lower than from Omaha, In some cases. They ask that the Kansas City rates bo advanced, or the Omaha rates lowered, or both;that the rates shall be equatized,and that neither of the two citios shall havo cause to suffer from unjust discrimination, The protest i3 as follows: Wa bog to call your attention to the rela- tivo ratos imposed by your road and its con- nections on packing house products, north and south bound, from Missouri river points to points of distribution in Green Line, Mis- souri Valley, Arkansas and Texas territories, in the one direction, and to St. Paul, Mon: tana common and northwest Pacific const pojuts, in the othor. We submit bolow a statement, for illustra. tlon, showing the rates south-bound in force from three originating noints on the Missouri river, from which it will appear that tho rate on packing house and dressed beef products from Kansas City to the torritories named is from 6 to 73¢ conts per 100 pounds lower than from Omaha; whileon north-bound business tha rato from Kansas City to Montana come mon aud northwest Pacific coast points is no greater than the rato from Omahn, and_to St. Paul common points only 2 cents per 100 highor. 8 ON PACKING TOUSE P From Kunsas Omaba. | City. [0} B 1 b3 02 b5 Tenn ... 43 Ala b 48 weane “ ) Charlesto Columbus, Knoxvill: ey, , Ala Natchios, 3 Mobtle, Vicksbu 3 New Ovleans, Helena. Ark Lattle Hock, Pine Blutrs, Houston. Dal % Fort Wortn, Tex ‘The rate on drossed beef is 8 8-10 cents higher than the above rates on packing house products—the differential being the sanio. RATES ON PACKING HOUSE PRODUC Ark k.. 8, I'rom |Kansas Omaha. To Clty. St. Paul, Minn..... Minueapolis, Mint Stillwater, Minn Dul EEEEEEIH attention is called to the fact packing-house products Line, Mississippi Valiey, Arkansas and Texas pofnts, is only threo-fourths of 1 per cent per lundred pounds higher than the Omaha rate to the we territories, and on cotton-secd oil the te from Memphis to 5 given, that th your rate on Paul to Green Kansas _City is 25 conts per hundred pounds, while the rate to Omaha is 30 cents, Your attention is further called to the fol- lowing facts: 1. That on all busincss east or west bound, Missouri river is made a basis of re- sification of r and ail the points of the Missouri river arc named as common, and are given the same rate on any given 2. That the Green Line and Mississippi ritories are situated geographically with relation to Omaha the sate as Mon- na and northwestern Pacific coast points o to KKansas and St. Paul common points are situated with relation to Kansas City the same as Arkansas and Texas points to Omaha. and to reach these scveral desti- natious, whether north or south bound, your road and its connections are cmployed in tho transportation of the packing-house proa- ucts of both citics, 8. That the Omaha packers are competi- tors with Chicago aud other packing points, including Kansas City, for the provision trado of the territories named and that the cost of manufacturing the product is greater at Omaha than at Chicago or Kansas City by reason of the greater cost of coal, salt,boxes, cooperage, lumber, machinery and other materials; and that the difference in freight of seven and one-half cents, six cents, or even three cents, per hundréd pounds’ on packing house products in favor of the pack- ors of onocity and aguinst the packers of another—competiiors for the same trade—is highly discriminative and ruinous and must, result disastrously to the latter. It will also appear that the hardship imposed upon Omaha packers is greatly increased when it is considered that by rcason of the exten- sive facilities afforded by your own and associated roads the Kansas City packers are direct competitors with Omaha for the hogs and cattle in the southern section of Nebraska aud Towa, while Sioux City and St. Paul packers draw supply of hogs and cattle from cent terri- tories with little or no com: petition from _other points. In other words, Omaha must buy its supply of hogs and cattlo in the highest market and sell the product in southern territory at u loss of from to 7 cents per hundred pounds, while Kansas City and St. Paul—extreme and fts connections than Omaha, and that the protection that you and your conneotions now afford and have for a long time afforded Kansas City packers, is unjust, unreasona- blg and ruitous to our interoests. We therefore ask that your road and its connections carefully considor the situation a8 herein outlimed and 80 modify tho tariffs on packing honsa products to tho destina- tions named by either advancing tho Kansas City or lowering the Omana ratos, or both; that the rates shall bo equalized and that neither of the two cities named shall bo caused to suffor from unjust disdrimination at your hands. We await your roply. Very respectiully yours, Tiw Anmovn-Cunany PAckiNg Co. st~ STATE AND TERRITO &Y. Nebraska Jottings. Craig is to have a large furniture store. A Baptist church has been organized a\ Arnold, Custer county. The plans for Kearnoy's now cotton mills will arrive in about ten days. Cattle In some portions of Logan county are reported dying with the black le; The Platte county tenchers institute will begin August 12 and hold for two weeks, Mrs. John E. Gordon, of Grant township, Cuming county, has 10,000 silk cocoons ready for shipment, The suporvisors of Madison county hay allowed $125 bounty for the scalps of sixty four prairio woives. Dr. Robert McConaugh, of York, has ro. oceived the apyointment ‘of grand medical examiner for the A. O. U. W. in Nebras! A gentlemen’s driving park assoolation has been formed at Hastings, and it is the intention to have a trot every week or two, Harrod, an old settlor, died at’ Wilbor Tuesday. aged sixtysix. He was a veteran of the war and had resided in Saline county twenty years, The ereditors ofthe defunct Farmers’ and Merchants' bank of Humbolat will hold a meeting next Monday 10 choose an assigneo to succeed the sheriff, Because the Wells-F to give Bdgar free expros ness men of that town ha cott the company freight only. The Beatrico Demoerat announces that tho suspension of the Omaha Horald leaves tho Democrat as the leading democratic daily in the state. The Democrat, while realizing the importance of the position it occupies, modestly accepts the trust, and will steor the democratic party to success, Now is the time to subscribe, An old grave has been discovered at St, Helena, Cedar county, which contains the remains of fifteen people, one of whom was a man whose skull was crushed, and the others being women and children, ' There is much speculation in regard to the matter, some thinking that the remains are those of a party which was massacred by Indians. %0 company refused delivery, the busi- o resolved to boy and ship thelr goods by Towa Items, lias been incorporated. A stubborn tramp lived nine days on bread and water at Cherokeo rather than work. ne repairs on Callahan college, lately burned at Des Moines, are being rapidly completed. A phonograph reported_an entire opera from the gatlery of tho Sioux City opera house, greatly to the delight of its owners, Central Cit, points—under your partial and discriminat- ing tarifTs, pass our doors in either direction at Omana ratos and compete for the samo trade with a cheaper product, We thercfore respectfully suomit that Kansas City 18 in 1o other or different posi- tion than Omaha, and on no ground entitled to greater benefit at tho hands of your road Sixty-nine children have found home: since November through the Iowa wuxillary of the American [Sducational Aid” associa- tloa. A §5,000 dollar package of banic notes has lain in'a Davenport bank for sixteen years untouched except to be counted four times a year, Many Towa people have sent 50 cents to an castern sharp or fora “'suro inscct oxtermi. nator,” and have received in reply a slip of paper reading, “‘Get your insects to smoke cigarettos.” A, M. Davis, of Remscn, binding twine ' that is slough grass, He has aiso invented a spin- ning machine by which any farmer cau man- ufacture his own twine. How perfectly it ‘will work bas yet to be determined. Miss Jenn nck, the sixtcen-year-old daughter of William Slack, who lives south- cast from Villisea, 18 a young lady that does crodit to the blue ‘grass country. Thus far this scason sho has tended thirty-five ucres of corn, milked six cows mght and morning, and helped in other ways about the farm du- ties. Some time ago two men named Cole Grant and A. W. Mc forged a patent fence swindle upon the farmers of Webster county. Tho two fellows were captured, tried and convicted. Now the notes which the far- mers gave the swindlers have turned up in the possession of the First National bank of Grand Haven, Mich., and the makors of these notes have been informed that their collection will be enforced by law. Two suloons at Wellsburg were raided by the sheriff, and the stuff that was se was stored in the Grundy county jafi. of the young bloods, with the aid” of a long augur and a picce of common gas pipe, bored a hote through the wall of the jail intoa beer keg, and for a time were undisturbed until the sheriff or his deputics were aroused astothe loss of the ‘“budge,” and com- menced an examination. aud found the direct cause. No arrests wore made, has invented a made out of common Life in Wyoming. The Uuion Pacific assessment at Ruwlins was raised $27,000. About 500,000 pounds of wool purchased at Casper at prices ri 14 to 16 cents. J. 5. Rogers, a_sheep herder living near Green river, was roasted to death in u shed the other night. His relatives reside in Michigan. Charles Thomet, a well known hunter and trapper of the Sweetwater country, has dis- appeured, leaving behind several hundred dollars of unpaid debts. Julien Beg ican cowboy employed y a Buf unty outfit, shotaway tha lower part of his face with but hved x hours after the oc ce. , up in central Wyoming, is be- coming to be a lively town. It has twelve or fifteen business houses. There is also a printing office outfit on the road and will be ocated there soon, *J. 8. Harper has on exhibition at Sun- dance,” says the Farmer, “four bars of tin, oue of which was mude’ from stream tin from Sand creek, the other threo being of stream tin from Malloy guleh. Both gulches are in Crook county. They are fine samples, He also has on exhibition a fine lot of ore taken from Lhe same stroams which are 90 per cent tin, havo been \ging from A Century °f Talking Is not worth a Minute’s Proof It don't take many min- utes to prove that Pyle’s Pearline will wash clothes, will clean house—will do it well—will save you time; labor; wear and tear ; will reduce drudg- ery; will not hurt your hands; your clothes or paint, and be- sides will cost you no more than common bar soap, One honest trial will proveall that. //;\ Why not accept the testimony of the millions who use it a s proof of its virtue, Among your friends you'll find those who haven x| Pearline for years—ask them—they will tell you ““can’t do without it.” Bewar dled, butsold by all grocers, i Pearline is the oiiginal Washing Compound—used by millions, but imitated by thousands who peddie theig stuff or give worthless prizes, Mauufactured only by JAMES PYLE, New Yotk Pearline is never ped-