Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 30, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY B TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1889, THE DAILY BEE. K. ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, D afly (Morning Bdition) including Sunday One Yea P, ForSix Month rThr ee Mont e Omahs Sun, " , N, W, cornd C;lmmm()fa M'Il(‘ .Bl Building ooker 3 I g S lding. 'l(lllrill'am Ofoce, No. 513 Fourteentn Street. CORRESPONDRNCE. All communications relating to news and edi. torial matter should be addressed to the Editor of the Bee. BUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters and_remittances should Dbe addrossed to The Reo Publishing Company. Omahn_Drafts, ehecks and postofiice orders ‘bemade payable 1o the order of the company. The B Be¢ Publishing Company, Propielrs. Building Farnam and Seventeenth Sf THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, }“‘ George B, Tzschuck, secrotary of The Bes Publishing Company, does solemnly swear that the actual eirculation of THE DAILY DEe for the week ending July 27th, 1%, was a8 follows: July 21 Mon iy 23 Tuesany, July 2 Weanesday, July 3i, Thursday, July 25.. Friday, Juily 2. Baturday, Average........ Bworn to before me and subscribed to in my vresence this #7un Ay of July, A. D1 [Seal.) N. P, FEIL, 550, Notary Publis. State of Nebraska, N County of Dougl oL George B, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- potes and says that 1 1s sectetary, of 'This ise biishing company, that the actuai average dally circulation of Tk DALy BER for_the month of June, 1883, 10342 coplos; for July, 1888, 18,031 coples; for August. 188, 18 183 coples for Beptember, 1888, 18,154 coples; for October, 1888, 18,084 coples; for November, 1383, 18 938 coples; for December, 1888, 18,223 coples; for January, 1869, 18,574 copies; 'for February, 186, 18,00 copes: for March, 1889, 18854 copies; for April, 1580, 18,569 cx()?ln; for May, 1559, 18,609 coples. EORGE B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my [Beal.] presence thin drd day of June, A. N.' P. FEIL, Notary Public. IN THE programme for the merchants’ carnival the ‘“‘drummer” boys must not be lorgotten. WeLL lighted streets and illumi- nated buildings should be a feature of Merchants’ week. OMAHA is looking northward with the Canadian Pacific and the Delaware and Lackawanna heading this way. THE mad dog is still allowed to ter- rorize women and children while the council wastes time over the selection of a dog catcher. UNLIKE other cities Omaha has not demanded a bonus from street railway companies for the valuable franchises which they now enjoy. They should ap- vreciate this fact. — A DELEGATION of Mississipp1 editors i8 vow on a trip through Towa, and the country editors are fearful lest the chivalrous southerners have brought thelr guns with them. — THE despair and wretchedness of the Illinois coal mining districts can be de- picted in no more appalling colors than in the fact that one hundred and fifty women led & mob of striking miners into deeds of violence. TowA does not propose to take a back seat for anybody with her magnificent crop showing. fowa never had finer prospects for a great harvest, and it is " not likely that she will let go her grip asone of the banner corn states of the union. ‘WITH the early advent of railroadsin the heart of the Wyoming oil fields there is & promise that the petroleum industry will be vigorously pushed for- ward. The Pennsylvania of the west will then demonstrate the value of its rich mineral resources. AND now it is contradicted that Kate Maxwell, the ‘cattle qucen,” was lynched in company with Postmaster Averill, and furthermore it is vouched for that Kate Maxwell is a myth. This rovelation certainly takes the edge off the Wyoming sensation. CHAIRMAN JONES, of the national greenback party, will have no prohi- bitionists, fomale suffragists or other political isms attached to the tail of his kite, Cut short of these appendages, it is hard to sce how Chairman Jones will be able to fly his bob-tail chestnut over the political race track. —— OMAHA takes the place next to New Orleans in the bank clearings record for the week ending July 27. She ranks thirteentn in the list of thirty-seven American and Cauadian cities and stands fourth as the most important financial center between the Mississippi river and the Pacific ocean. Omaha is fast claiming recognition as one of the great banking cities of the country. —e THE ocean grey hounds have found a powerful rival in the new Hamburg- American steamer Columbia, which has just beaten the famons records of all the fast steamships. And now there will be a straining and a striving to lower the record still more, even though & boiler bursts and sends one of these monster vessels to the bottom of the sea. — The eities west of Omaha, notably Denver, Saly Lake City and San Fran- cisco, are finding fault because the gov- ernment has not extended the excursion of the delegates to the three Americas convention as far as the Pacific coast. The argument advanced is that the rep- rosentatives from the western coast of Bouth America are quite as anxious to visit San Francisco as they are tosee New York, Philadelphia or Boston. Many of the South American republics bave larger commercial dealings with San Francisco than with any other American city, and a personal visit of the delegates would go far in cementing the friendship, There is apparently no Rood reason why the excursion should not include the cities and country west of Omaha. In all probability, if an ef- fort be made by the cities interested, the government would consent %0 ‘extend the trip clear across the continent, as it certainly should do. REACTION IN KANSAS. There are evidences of a widespread reaction in popular sentiment in Kan- sas regarding prohibition. Within a year there has been a steadily growing demand for the resubmission of the prohibitory law, and the agitation has | increased in volume and vigor since the | defeat of prohibition in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. At this time itis receiving more of the popular attention than any other question affecting the social and material interests and wel- tare of Kansas, and there is every rea- son to believe that the agitation will be maintamed until the people are again given an ‘opportunity to vote on the question. When prohibition was adopted, nine years ago, it was by a minority of all the votes cast at the election at which it was voted upon. Since that time thare has been an addi- tion to the voters of tho state of over one hundred and fifty thousand, and it is maintained that if these voters were allowed to give expression to their sen- timents prohibition would be revoked. The discussion of the subject has disclosed & condition of affairs in the state very similar in char- acter to that experienced in other states having prohibition laws. This {is, that while the law is enforced in the moral districts and the smaller communities, in the cities and larger towns efforts to enforce it have signally failed. In Kansus City, Kansas, Leavenworth, Atchison and Wichita there is a con- tinual conflict between the authorities and the liquor joints. In the first-men- tioned of these cities there was recently raided, in a single day, forty of these places, and the newspapers of the other cities frankly admit that in all of them the law is openly and flagrantly violated. Ex- Governor Robinson s quoted as saying that prohibition in Kansas is a mis- nomer—*‘there is no such thing except in the state constitution.” There are unlicensed drug stores where liquor, with some other ingredient added, can be freely purchased; there are cider joints whose revenue is by no means wholly derived from the sale of cider, and “bootleggers” are numerous. Itis said there were twenty-nine hundred permits to sell liquor in Kan- sas granted last year. With these incontestable facts before them, and the knowledge that taxation is much higher since prohibition than before, while the social and material welfare of the popu- lation as a whole hasnot been advanced, the practical people of Kansas are de- manding that this question shall be re- submittea to the popular vote, in order that it may be finally determined whether prohibition is in accord with the sentiment of a majority of the peo- ple. This domand is now being urged in a way that must sooner or later com- pel the supporters of prohibition to ac- cede to it. The prohibitionists, not alone of Kansas, but of the entire country, are likely to derive some present comfort from the views of prohibition and license contributed by Senator In- galls to the August Forum, but it would not be difficult to show that the distin- guished senator knows far less about this subject, even with respect to his own state, than he does about some others. It would seem obvious thatin preparing his article Mr. Ingalls was content to rely, so far as the situation in Kausas is concerned, upon such obser- vation as he has been enabled to give it during an average residence in the state of two or three .months a year, and that he was not at all care- ful about taking facts easy to be found which would completely over- throw his statoments and assumptions, He might have learned from the police commissioner of his own town, Atchi- son, that & majority of its inhabitants are against prohibition, and that conse- quently the enforcement of the law there is far from complete, and Gover- nor Humphrey might have told him, as he is reported to.have recently said, that a strict enforcement of prohibition can only be accomplished by the slow process of educating the people to it. In view of results since prohibition was enacted in Kansas, how many times nine years will be required for educat- ing the people to accept a strict enforce- ment of the law? The resubmission movement in Kansas is very earnest, and it will be watched with general interest. GRAIN RATES AND EXPORTS. The west is deeply interested in the 1ate decision of the inter-state commerce commission on the question of trans- portation rates to the seaboard and to foreign ports. About a year ago the New York produce exchange com- plained to the commission that various railroads travsporting traffic between Chicago and other western points and New York billed freight from the west to European ports at less proportionate rates than was charged on shipmeuts to New York, This was regarded asan unjust discrimination, and in viola- tion of the inter-state commerce law, since the cutting of rates was made on the inland and not the ocean trafiic. For example: On shipments made from Chicago through New York to Liver- pool the ocean rate would not be affected, any reduction of rates being taken from the inland traffic. The issue involved was whother the railroads should be al- lowed to charge a greater inland rate on grain or merchandise when destined for New York than when destined for a foreign port, passing over the same line and to the same export point. After a year in collecting evidence and considering this issue, the inter-state commerce commission decided that the rate from & sgiven western point to the seaboard must be the same on traffic billed to foreign ports as on that billed to seaboard ports. In other words, that there must be no discrim- ination against inland transportation, and that the shipper to the seaboard must have the same advantage as the shipper to a foreign port. The justice of this decision under the law will doubtless not be seriously questioned. A policy of allowing the railroads to discriminate in favor of a foreign as against the home markets would obviously be unfair and unwise. Its effect could not fail to be very dam- aging to the seaboard cities doing an exporting busiuess, and it would also be unjust to home consumers supplied from eastern markets. It would clearly be an imposition to tax the Atlantic const consumer of wheat in order to give the foreigner cheaper bread. But a very important question 1s, what effect is | ion likely to have upon our | this dec export trade and upon the prosperity of the west, which lurnishes by far the larger part of our exports? The char- acter of the answer to this will depend a great deal upon whether the ocean rates shall be maintained or reduced, If the former, the disadvantage our products now have to contend with in the markets of the world will be increased and the very small margin of profit to the producers will becoma smaller. It is perhaps rea- sonable to oxpect, howover, thai the ocean carriers, in order to prevent any serious decline in their transportation business, will lower their charges at least to the extent of sharing a portion of the loss of profit to producers, result- ing from the advance of inland rates. An inevitable effect of the decision must be to materially reduce the export business from western points. GAS AND ELECTRICITY. Omaha wants cheaper gas and a bet- ter quality of gas. On that score thero can be no dispute. But all the talk about anybody supplying electric lights cheaper than gas comes from people who do not know what they are talking about. The thing has been tried in the east, where fuel and labor are much cheaper than in Omaha. But nowhere have electric lights yet crowded gas out of business houses or even private residences, by reason of being cheaper. In New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, and in every com- mercial centre, gas still is used because it is the cheapest illuminator, not be- cause it is tho best. In all these cities, electric lights are used less to-day than in Omaha, comparatively speaking. There is scarcely a store 1lluminated by electricity in New York. The street lighting is all gas, and electric lights are confined to theatres, public squares, and resorts where a special display of light is desirable. We say this much, not to disparage the effort to introduce electric lighting for public use in Omaha, but to warn the authorities against the delusion and snare that Omaha can be lighted cheaper by electricity than by gas, pro- viding that the gas company will make fair rates and improve the quality of its light. THE United States senate committee on Indian affairs, consisting of Senators Dawes, Manderson, Jones, Stockbriage, with their ladies, secretaries and at- tendants, have just visited Sitka and Juneau, Alaska, in order to investigate the babits, the customs and morals of the aborigines in our far-away north- west possessions. It was from all ac- counts a most friendly and most informal visit, and the investigation was con- ducted on a highly novel and interest- ing plan. On the very night of the ar- rival of the senate committee at Sitka at a late hour, the members, or at least the older members, witnessed with all its freedom and dash the giddy waltz of the dance houses. They saw the Indian belles of ‘Sitka tripping the light fantastic toe on the arm of their white partners. They saw them step- ping up to the refreshment bar, where the honest miner dashed off his glass of whisky as though it were water, while his dusky partner regaled herself with nothing stronger than a succulent orange peel. Such Arcadian simplicity touched the breasts of these guile- less senators as they viewed this scene from behind convenient pil- lars some distance away from the nnocent soiree. They saw no rowdy- 1sm, no six-shooters and no drunk- enness. At Juneau, where public meet- ings were called, both Indian and white man testified that they lived on the most cordial terms and the few com- plaints—there are kickers in every com- munity—were trivial and of littie mo- ment. Sunday morning the senators, their wives, their secretaries and their attendants went to church, and in the afternoon the senators higgled and haggled over the bargain counters of Juneau’s leading emporiums in the pur- chase of seal skin furs. In thisway the investigation proceeded. The weather was cool aud invigorating; the trip was charming; the sights were peculiarly Alasgkan, and the bargains were tempt- ing. If Alaska does not recerve aclean bill of health under these circumstances from this senate committee charged with the investigation of Indian affairs in that territory we have simply missed our guess. —— THE proposal of the commissioner of Indian affairs to gradually substitute schools managed directly by the Indian office for those now conducted by re- ligious organizations, under contract with the government, will be approved by all who believe that the government can not properly be a party in sustain- ing sectarian scheols. It is not under- stood to be the purpose o in any way interfere with the mission schools, ex- cept so far as that must necessarily re- sult from the withdrawal of govern- ment assistance, but simply to establish educational institutions which shall be fully coutrolled by the government and observe in practice the principle upon which the public school system of the country is based. The sectarian schools will still have a perfect right to continue their work, only they must do so independent of the government. The proposed change cannot be effected at once, and since a considerable appro- priation would be required to dispense with the contract schools, and a great deal of opposition to dispensing with thom will have to be overcome, it is likely to be a long time before the change can be consummated. —— Now we are waiting to hear from Mr. Ben Folsom and Mrs, Grover Cleveland before we can get even the right to pur- chase the Planters’ house square for a postoffice. This is just what was pre- dicted. Had the location been made on upper Furnam or the Lowe-Hoagland block the deed could have been pro- cured in ten days, and the square would now be graded ready for the founda- tions, The bhue and cry which was made by parties who were in the pool with™ the Folsom heirs about the damaging dolay and the stoppage of groat blocks of buildings projected and ready to bo begun, is now proven to have been the clatter of demngogues and arrant humbugs. But the whirligigBf time has at last opened the eyes of th people of Omaha to the fact that thaf have been imposed on and the city hs been cripplod by the very parties #ho were yelling “‘traitor” and “stop thiel” at the top of their voices. T1 will be mdfger for genoral regret it the effort duce Judge Cooley, chairman of the inter-state commerce commission, w become chairman of the Trunk-line association shall succeed. The position pays twenty-tive thousand dollars a year, while that held by the judge pays only saventy-five hundred. and is doubtless more arduous, so that the inducement is a tempting one. But itisto be hoped Judge Cooley will value the public confidence he enjoys in his present station above the emolu- ments of a position that could not bring him such confidence in an equal degree. Itis said that the president has re- cently been seriously considering the judge in connection with the appoint- ment to the vacancy on the supreme bench, and if he has decided to go out- side of the list of the federal judiciary to select an associate justice of the su- preme court, he could choose no one whose appointment would be received with more general satisfaction than that of Judge Coole, PrORTA has just dispatched a train load of thirteen cars of starch bound for San Francisco. This is the first shipment of the kind made from that city to the Pacific coast, and illustrates what a great field for investment the starch industry offers to capital. And yet Omahn with the corn of all Ne- braska at its back has failed to take ad- vantage of. the opportunity to build starch factories which should equal its packing house industries. SAN FRANCISCO looks with alarm upon the growth of Victoria, British Columbia, and fears that this city, backed by English capital, is likely to cut into her trade. There is little to fear, however, that the supremacy of the Pacific will be wrested [rom San Francisco without a atruggle. Victoria may become a competitor to Portland or Seattle, but not to San Francisco. ‘WhaY can’t thecounty commissioners join with thé”city in opening Eigh- teenth street between the court house and Dodge street! Hasn’t the blockade lasted long edoggh? The county has expended thousands of dollars in grad- ing Leavenworth and other streets, why not improve thg.approaches of the court house, which sgpuld be made accessible from every direction. ARTICLES of Incorporation of the Omaha, Lincoln & Gulf railroad have been filed to build a road one thousand miles long from Omaha through Ne- braska, Kansas, Indian Territory and Texas to a point on the Gulf of Mexico. It is quite evident that the day for am- bitious projects is not yet over. ‘What Pronibitionists Hate. Baltimore American, Prohibitionists hate to bave cold water thrown on their efforts for the suppression of the liquor trafilc. e s ey A Gum Chewer Himself. Cineinnati Commercial-Gazette. The report going about among our contem- poraries that the mayor of Cincinnati is about to issue an order forbidding the chew- ing of gum in this city on Sunday is not true. Mayor Mosby is a gum chewer bimself. e 1ssues Squarely Joined. St, Louis Republic. The saloonkeepers of Cincinnatl are in open rebellion and declare their purposo of overthrowing a law of the state in spite of the state. This makes a square issue on the question of who is running this country. TR S A Protege of Oleveland. Kansas City Journal. Referring to the acquittal of Boodle Alder- man McQuade, the New York Herald re- marks that nothing under heaven helps a prisoner so much as & strong lawyer to de- fond his case and a wishy-washy, flap-doodie district attorney s prosecuting officer. And Grover Cleveland and Abram S. Hewitt, who heartly indorsed John R. Fellows, will note that “the bearings of the observation lays in the application on it.” s o But It Won't. Cineinnati Enquirer. A consumer’s trust. A trust for the laboring man, A trust for the hard working women. A trust for those who do not show on the tax duplicete, but who, none the less, pay all the taxes, A trust for tho people of these United States who are growing tired of raying two prices for salt, sugar, flour, provisions, but ter, medicine, clothing & - shoes, Tho democratic party ought to furnish a trust like this. — The Troublesome Problem of the Time, New York World, The tendency is to ‘reduce society to two classes—the employer class, consisting of a few enormously righ tnen, and the employed class, including all the rest of the people, In such a condition of ‘things the employing class will necessarfly’ rule. Their number will be 50 small that.united action will be easy, and they will'hold every man’s fate in the hollow of ubeir hands. Democratio formsof government will serve their pur- pose as well as any other, for the control of those forms in siich sircumstances will be easy. Thusthe tandgncy of the time is to the institution of am arbitrary, despotic, plutocratic class mile, governing by the ma- chinery of a republican system. The prob- lem of the time s %o discover means of checking this tendency and keeping demo- cratic liberty alive. e r— CLEVER WOMEN, Paris has a female wrestler, Her name is Seanne du Rosay. Mrs. Alexandor Sullivan is homeward bound on the City of Berlin. Mrs. Bonanza Mackay 1s soon coming over from Loundon to place her two boys in Yale college. Lady Colin Campbell is writing & novel, which is to appear shortly, entitled, “*Darell Blake.” Dr. Mary Walker is not only willing but anxious to secept the consulate at Valparalso 80 haughtily spurned by Roswell G. Horr. Mss Lottie Fister, & Philadelphia girl who has been employed ib au insurauce ofiice in London for the last year as @ stenographer and type-writer, has roceived an offer from somo of the noble English families, headed by Lord and Lady Churchill, to instructa class of young girls in hor “‘spocialties.’ Twenty thousand copies of Francos . Willard’s “Glimpses of Fifty Yoars" were sold during the first four weeks after publi- eation, Mrs. Mary Huntloy Russei died Saturday at Waterbury, Mass. She was a daughter of Lydia H. Sigournay, the noted post and au- thor, sometimes cailed “the American Ho- mans." Mrs. Oliver, of Athens, Ga, ls oighty- soven voars of age and sho does not remem- ber to have ever taken a drink of water. Sho was probably born and rawsed in Ken- tucky. Speaking of the late Laura Bridgman, a writer in tho Epoch says: *‘She was fond of reading the bible and also the dictionary. The latter she would peruse by the hour. With orthography she had no dificulty and would correct any one who misspelied a word. Fairy storles she did not caro for— sho said that they were not true. Sho was fond of fun and never outgrew her love of nocent frolic.” Tho roll of years is beginning to teli on Mrs. mma D. E. N. Southworth, the famous story writor. She is now seventy- two years of nge and although still bright and active requires constant attention, owing to aefactive eyesight. The authoress lives at Yonkers, at the home of her son, who hns & lucrative medical practice. Her regular yearly income is $10,000 and with this and the royalties on hor many books she is able to live comfortably. Mrs. Hage, wife of Captian Hervert Hago, is regarded by the eleven survivors of her husband’s lost bark Cupico as a heroine, and the preserver of their lives. Her courage, thoy say, never flagged; ‘and thoy were on the wreck twenty days before thoy were rescued by the bark Belt. Mrs. Hago kept the courage of the men up by her example, working at the pumps with them to keep the vessel afloat. Besides she prepared and brought their food to them at the pumps, which they dared not leave. These sur- vivors are now in New York. —_— STATE JOTTINGS. Nebraska. Union now supports two hardware stores, Wayne boasts of ten passenger trains daily. Sheridan county will send a fine exhibit to the state fair. Kearnoy hopes to have free mail delivery wilhin sixty days. A bank has been established at Loage Pole by R. O. Heaton. A lodge of Knights of Pythias has been or- ganized at Lexington. Kenesaw is to have a “baled-hay palace,"” straw and graiu to be used to give variety. There are 7.660 members of the Grand Army in the state, & gain of 500 in three months, An anti-horse thief ussociation has been organized at Pender with twenty-six charter members. Farmers say that the grain laid flat by the recent rains is very slightly damaged and will come out all right. Clint Pennington, a former resident of Chadron, has bean sentenced to hang in Ore- gon August 2 for murder. Friends of Charley Patterson, who was killed at Nehawka recently, have raised a purse and presented it to the widow. The Steele county bank has discontinued business, as the new banking law was not considered favorably by the directors. A 2ood many cows and horses are lariated across the public highways at Wymore and the people demand that the law be en- forced. Bellwood hoped to have a new school house this year, but the project has been abandoned, much to the disgust of the enter- prising residents of that town. While chasing a calf the other day,a farmer named Shultz, hving near Stockville, was pitched headlong from his horse and died of concussion of the brain, Kid Hawkins, the gambler who killed Fansler at Hastings, dropped into Wymore the other day, but the marshal immediately called on him and gave him twenty minutes in which to leave town. He left. A change of postmaster ar Claremont, Cedar county, caused a little difiiculty be- tween James Roach and Peter O'Hara, the former shooting at the latter and inflicting o slight scalp wound. A warrant has been is- sued for Roach, George Petersor, a Plattsmouth boy who ran away from home five years ago, has re- turned to his father’s house. He was only eleven years old at the time of his flight and in the intervening years has traveled over the country from New York to Mexico. lowa Items, Keokuk is trying to secure a plow factory. The Tows Glucose works are paying 27 cents for corn. A baund tournament is to be held at Belle Plaine August 8. Some Cass county farmers have pooled and bought a fine English shire stallion. Carroll’s big flouring mill, which has been closed for three years, is to be reopened. A number of Muscatine saloonkeepers have been fined $50 and costs for whisky selling. The State Veterinary association willl hold its second annual meeting at Des Moines September 3 and 4. Oficers at Des Moines are constantly searching the saloons and' taking in the in- woxicants discovered. ‘The Odd Fellows of Iowa, Kansas, Ne- braska and Missouri will hold their second annual reunion at Malvern August 13, John Shorter, a seventy-five-year-old col- ored resident of Flint Hill, was recently married to @ buxom young white woman. During a regent storm a stone welghing eleven pounds dropped from the clouds nto the dooryard of a farmer living near KEssex. Jacob Becky, a Muscatine saloonkeeper, is serving out a $500 fine in jail for contempi of court 1n violating an injunction obtained against him. Stormy Jordan, the famous keeper of the “Road to Hell” saloon at Ottumwa, is in trouble at Kans: ity, bis license baving been taken away becsuse he violated the Sunday law, A man was found on the streets of Du- buque so drunk that he had mistaken the curb stone for & bed, had removed his shoes and vest and was trying to disrobe, when the officer gathered himw in. Hon. John Y. Stone furnished half the raspberries sold in the Red Oak market this year. They averaged him 12} cents a Quart. Mr. Stone has a very fine fruit farm, and he is also a fine and capable law- yer. ‘The board of supervisors of Lucas county have appointed young Ramsay sheriff of that county. It will be remembered that his father was killed by an insane man while at- tempting to arrest him. Young Ramsay is only twenty-two years old, and is the young- est sheriff in Iowa. A man 10 the western part of the state ad- vertised for a wife the other day and in about tweaty-four hours Le began to receive innumerable lotters from married men, say- ing he coula have theirs, The fellow has ad his advertisement taken out and has also changed his mind, baving come to the conclusion that marriage is a fuilure, Removing th On August 5 the board of public works will open bids for removing the stono and other materiul ou lots five and six, block 116, the new city hall site, according to the order of the council, approved by the mayor on Friday. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. When Iiaby was sick, we gave her Castorta. When she was a Child, sho cried for Castoria, Whien shie became Mies, sbe clung Lo Castorls, Wb 2n slis lad Chlldren, sho gavo thum Castoris THE BEER KEGS OF KANSAS. Bx-Governor Robinson's Views on the Prohibitory Law. VIOLATIONS ARE WINKED AT. More Liquor Sold Than Ever and No Rovenue Obtained—Thousands of Dollars Assessed as Fines Bat Never Pald. Prohibition in Kansas. Ex-Governor Charles Robinson, of Law- rence, being asked his opinion of prohibition in Kansas and the agitation for resubmission of that question to the voters, said to a cor- respondent of the Kansas City Times: My opinion of general prohibition is the same as it has been for forty years. I witnessed its attemptea enforcement in Massachusetts _and assisted what I could, but the failure was most disastrous. Since then I have come to believe that any attempt to deprive the citizens of sound mind and mature age of free agency in matters purely personal will fail and ought to fail, as it is an attempt to change God’s method of dealing with man- kind. “‘Prohibition in Kansas is a misnomer. There is no such thing except in the state constitution. Our present law prohibits the collection of a tax, but not the sale. Every man in the state can got all the liquor he de- sires according to law, We have two kinds of drug stores, one licensed and the other not. In the licensed a statement must be made that the liquor is wanted for some kind of sickness of somebody, either man, woman, child, horse, cow, hog -or some other animal, and it 1s sufficient. In the unlicensed no statement is required, but some other ingredient must be added, no mattor what, Wwhether simple syrup, simple tonic or any other simple that will make of ita ‘compound.’ Thisis the most fashion- able method as well as the most convenient. Then we have the cider jomnts and bootleg saloons everywhere. The cider joints in Lawrence are authorized by acity ordinance, although without legal sanction, and there are some eightecnor twenty of them. A Jjointist informed me that there is not a drink- ing man or boy in the country who does not know where to find a ‘bootlegger’ at once if he don’'t want to deal directly with the druggst. THE LAW MERELY A FARCE. “‘When the liquor is obtained it can be taken to the various billiard rooms, cider Jolnts or lunch counters and used in connec- tion with soda pop or other temperance drinks, But some men use neither the drug store, joint or bottle, but deal with express companies, By telephoning to Kansas City at 9 o'clock a keg of whisky or case of Wal- ruft's best will be delivered at your house or oftice before noon, From indications every- where visible I have no doubt that three times as many people are engaged in the liquor traftic as there were before so-called prohibition. “‘As is Lawrence, 80 is the state. Before the adoption of the amendment the chiel clerk of the collector’s office informed me that about 1,100 permits had been grented to soll intoxicating liquors in Kansas, including druggists. Now the Chicago Tribune is au- thority for saying there are 2,600 And these do novinclude cider joints, as they get no permits, although one of our ieading attor- neys told me two glasses of their cidor made him so drunk he had to go to bed. ‘‘While such is the situation it is not at- tributable altogether to real prohibitionists. The truth is the republican party have jumped astride the prohibition nag and have full sway. They have passed laws that are entirely satisfactory to the liquor dealers and consumers and this 1s no fiction. It is true that for the sake of appoarances they have fits of foam and bluster against liquor sellers, but it is well understood. As a rule if a dealer is loyal to the g. o. p. and con- tributes to its campaign funds he Is safe from serious harm. Rarely is a fine paid if as- sessed, and but few if any days ure spent in jail. Some years since I asked the clerk of the court how mattors stood and he said some $10,000 or $11,000 in fines had been charged up and but $000 paid in, and no con- victed dealer in jail. FIGURES FOR TAXPAYERS, “In short, the whole thingisa farce and 80 intonded to_ be by the officials, The only interest the citizens have in the play is foot- ing the bills, As the sale of lgquor is unre- stricted and untaxed, it is immaterial whether it is furnished by Sam Jones or John Smith—by a licensed or unlicensed druggist, bootleg saloon or express office. But some day they will find their intercst as taxpayers. *‘In looking over the assessment ratein the city of Lawrence, before and after pre- tended prohibition, I find the rate for general revenue purposes, 1876 and 1877, to be 4 mills. From that time till "prohibition, 1881, it was. 5 mills, but from 1882 till the present time, under prohibition, it has 10 mills on the dollar, or 1 per cent. ‘The tax in Lawrenco 1s twice as much for general purposes under prohibition as before, and no possiblo reason can be found for it but prohibition. *'Also the county rate for general funds for 1876 and 1877 was 5 mills, while 1n 1884 and 1585 it was 10 mills, but this difference is as uniform us in the city. Thelevy in the county for all purposes is usuaily about 3 por cent, and 5 mills would be ous-sixth which has been added in some years by this roaring farce, “Ail taxpayers in Douglas county by divid- 1ng the amounts paid by six can tell what prohibition costs them or did cost thom when any serious effort was made to enforoe it. ““You ask about resubmission, Thore will bo resubmission just s 8oon s the people ot thoir eyes open to the imposition that is practiced upon them and it will succeed, but it will have the republican machine, nearly all the liquor dealers and & few probibition: ists to fight. At first the Times will have all the preachers against it, but as nearly all these men have vanes on their stoeples they will discovor the diroction of the wind as soon as they find the taxpayers refuse to pay for preaching which adds one-sixth to tueir burdens. The Times has undertaken a greal work and deserves great credit for its bol and feurless advocacy of the best interests of Kansas against bitter opposition, which it will necessarily encounter,’ THAT ALLEGED ROTTEN CEDAR. Frod Gray Says It Originated In Bal- combe’'s Mind. “If I had my way about this kind of pave. ment, not a yard of it would be laid in Omaha."” “The reason you are opposed to this kind of pavement is because thero is not §1.25 of a margin to divide. This pavement is put down nearly at cost, and thero is no margin to divide," The first spoaker was Chairman Bal- come, of the board of public works. The sccond was Fred Gray, the lumber man, who is furnishing the cedar blocks rejected by the former for the paving of Clark street. Both met Sunday by appointment at the scene of the paving. Mr. Gray wanted to seo the 98 per cent of rotten blocks which Balcombe claimed had been furnished and the latter promised to show them to him, “Here is a pile,” said Mr. Gray, *let us go through this.” Accordingly ho dropved on his knoes, a devotional attitude for the day, and while a crowd gathered round drew to- gether from all directions perhaps 150 blocks, ““You say,” he remaried addrossing Bal: combe, “‘that there is 98 per cent. of theso blocks rotten, prove it in this pile." Mr. Balcombe declined to acoept the chal- lenge and ran along the le of blocks, in his baste stumbling and falling over an ob- stacle, which aroused the msibility of the spectators. “I'll show you what I want,” ha sald as he arose and again bustled after some hid- den piece of cedar. At length ho found & block whioh suited him and rushing up to Gray and the crowd asked: Do you consider that a sound block?" “No, I do not," said Mr, Gray. “But that block doesn't show that 08 per cont of these blocks are rotten. here, will you?" “Why don’t you accept Mr. Gray's propo- sition?" asked a heavy sot man who had wit- nessed the affar, Bevause,” said Mr.-Balcombe, “he’s boen out here ahead of mo and has had time enough to fix up aud select blocks to suit himself."” “It's a — lie," replied Mr. Gray, aud turn- ing to the crowd and the fat man, said: **You know how long I've been here. How long was it before Mr. Balcombe arrived 1" *Oh, it couldn’t have ‘been more than a couple'of minutes,” This answer seemed to disconcert Mr. Bal- combe, but did not deter him from rummag- ing through the piles picking out defective blocks, and running with them to Mr. Gray and showing them to the citizens, “Theae blocks are rotton, and they will hl&o t0 be removed, every one of them,” he said, “No, they will not,” said Mr. Gray, *‘and you can’t compel them to be moved, 'either, It ain't the chairman who runs thiags now, it's the board, and these blocks will not be removed before the board says that they are all rotten.’” “If [ had my way they would be re- moved."” “Yos, over since the chairman was knock- ed outand the board was substituted. You're a nice man to boat the head of the bonrd with a prejudice against a pavement which the people ask for. Your prejudica won't cause these blocks to be removed, especially When thoro are nat 3 per cant of " them rot A A running five of convarsation followed and fivally both parties separated. Mr. Gray swd that Balcombe had been doing his best to injure him in various ways for somo time past. Betore Balcombe had gone on the board he had been an agent for the Barber Asphalt company and after he become a member ho aonounced his opposition to cedar block. But he had become, it seems, violently opposed to it when Mr, ' Gray succoeded 1 knocking out the clause which gave control of the ercction of the city hall to the board of pub- lic works, and taking the same out of the hands of the chairman. “The fact of the matter is,” smd Mr. Gray, “I have given iron-clad orders at the mill notto allow a bad block to leave the yard. But you can’t prevent it. _i3ut there i not two per centage of the blocks bad. We can’t offord to send bad blocks away and car$ them back again. It is to our interest to le§ them remain in the vard,” Pick out 98 per cent along B No Banks Without Oapital. ‘The state bank mspectors, who have jus§ concluded their examination of the local state banks, have decided that tho branch of the Bank of Commerce, on North Sixteenth street, must either capitalize under the state law at $50,000 or discontinue business, The vauk was found in a first-class condition, being backed by the larger institution at Far- nam and Fifteenth streets. The state law insists thav every bauk must have a capital and cannot be a branch of another with one capital for both. 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