Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 31, 1889, Page 4

i | MAHA DAILY BEF; WEDNESDAY, JULY 81, 1889, : p 2 e e WD IR THE DAILY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, Kditor. e PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. ———— TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, b 'Ily (Morning Edition) including Sunday es, One Year. L ix . FThr ee Mon The Omaha Sunday fice, mailed to any address, Ono Yer ... Weekly feo, Ono Year i os na ! iiding, . W, , Dee ntoenth and Farnam Streats, jongo Offce, 87 Hookery Building. New York Office, Rooms 14 and 15 Tribune Butldimg. ‘Wasnington Office, No. 613 Fourteentn Street. CORRESPONDRENCE. oy All communications relating to nows an torinl matter should be nddressed to the Editor of the Bee. BUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and remittances should benddressed to The Ilee Publishing Company. Omalin_Drafts, checks and postofiice orders i bemade payable to the order of the compang. The Bee Publishing Cempany, Proprietors. Beg Building Farnam and Seventecath Sts. L ———————— THE DAILY BEE. Eworn Statement of Cirovlation. Btate of Nebraska, Las. County of Douglas, orge 1, Tzschuck, secrotary of The Bee ishing Company, does sulemnly swear that the actual circulation of Itk DAILY DEE for the week ending July ith, 1850, was as tollows: Friday, July 2i. Baturday, July Average....... Sworn to before me and subseribed to in my presenco thiatn day of Tuly, A D, 185, (Feal.] N. P. FELL, Notary Publis Btate of Nebraska, i County of Douglas, { ** George B. Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- 0t0s and says that heis secretary of The' Bee ublisling company, that the sctual avera dally circulation of Tug DAILY BEk for the ponthof July, 1868 was 1A coples: for August 1885 1818 coples: for September. 1 150 coples: for Octobsr 158, 18,084 coples; for No- yember, IS, 18986 copies: for December, 1888, 18,22) coples; for January, 1889, 18,774, coples: for February, 1889, 18,06 copies: for March, 1869, 18364 coples; for April, 189, 18650 coples; for May, 189, 1809 coples; for June, 1859, 14,868, m;\u. GRrO. B, T28CRUCK, worn to before me and subscribed in my precencs this Bh day of July, 1850, (SEAL) . P. Frii. Notary Public. Now that the plumbers strike is over, everything is serene in the industrial sky. It MAY well be inquired if every- thing is ruaning smoothly at the county hospital building. FICKLE France, sh: }I‘a:;:lflmrud her idol Boulanger and pins her affections on our own Buffalo Bill. Tit people of Walnut Hill should not be asked twice for a lot on which to build a fire engine house. THE state bank inspectors have very properly concluded that branch banks must have a capitalization of their own. Tire Wabash has once more been con- solidated into a powerlul railroad sys- tem. which puts it into position to cope with its old rivals. THE Union Pacific has made a vigor- ous demand for its proportionate share of Puget Sound business, which is 10w divided between the Northern and Ca- nadian Pacific, and if refused should make a bold fight for it. PHILADELPHIA capitalists have in- vested, it is said, a half a miilion in lands in the neighborhood of Dallas, Texas, and the question bothering the people of morthern Toxas is, What does the syndicate propose to do with this property? THE cloud bursts which have broken and caused great disaster by flood in various parts of the country during the past few weeks would indicate that the cyclone of recent years has been sup- planted by an element of destruction equally as disastrous. E— Tur British have just learned that soaling in the Behring sea can not be carried on with impunity. The seizure of an English sealer by an American reévenue cutter will bring the question prominently before the immediate at- tention of both countries. ‘WHAT De Lesseps did for the Pan- ama canal, King Leopold, of Belgium, 18 doing for the building up of the Congo state. It i3 to be hoped that in +the proposed railway to be undertaken by the Belgians through Africa, the project will not end as disastrously as the canal through Panama, —_— Tie last of local beef inspection has probably been heard from. A Minne- sota judge has just ruled that the beef inspection law of that state is unconsti- tutional on the ground that it 1nterferes with the freedom of trade between the states. Stats legislatures should know by this time that 1t 1s fatal to intringe upon the vested rights of congress. EEmseww——— ONE hundred and thirty millions were collected as internal revenue for the fiseal year ending June 80, an in- orease of six and one-half millions over last year. If these revenues go on in- oreasing at this rate, within a few years the government will have sufficient in- come from this source for its support to doaway almost wholly with a tariff duty for revenue on imports. —_— THE effort to drive away the settlors near Cut Off lake is nothing more nor less than a scheme to mouopolize the entire river front and prevent any rail- road that wants to bridge the river above Omaba from procuring a foot hold on this side. The Union Pacific has no right of way near Cut Off lake and has no business there, and does not need any trackage near Florence,or north of its shops except for blocking other roads. E—————— THE solution of the trust problem is lkely to bring about a great change of opinion’ in the ranks of protection. Bigns are not wanting to show that a de. mand for tariff vevision will be general. Leading republican newspapers like the Chicago Z¥ibune, the St. Louls Globe- Democrat, she Boston Adverliser and others have already sounded the alarm that our doors must be opened to free sugar, free salt and other necessaries in order to check the growth of monopoly. Buch a policy on the part of congress would be the entering wedge for an early and radical revision of the present tanfl, WANAMAKER AND GREEN. The controveray between Postmaster Genoral Wanamaker and Norvin Green, president of tha Western Union Tele- graph company, is very naturally at- tracting & great deal of public atten- tion. The bone of contention is the or- der of Mr.*Wanamaker fxing the rate at which all telegraph companies shall transmit dispatches to and from United States officials. The authority for fix- ing these telegraph tolls is embodied in the national telegraph act of 1866, wherein it is made .the duty of the postmaster general to establish the rates chargeable for govern- ment telograms from year to year. Mr. Wanamaker has flxed this rate for the ourrent year at one mill per word, or ten words for one cent, taking as his bnsis the lowest rate charged by the telograph companies to their most favored patrous, the press associations. In fixing this rate on the basis of press dispatches, General Wanamaker has ignored a most important factor. He does not take into account the dif- ference in the service performed.which necessarily must make a very marked difference in fits value. The butk of all press dispatches are transmit- ted in blocks of from five hundred to two thousand words at a stretch, with drop copies to from five to twenty papors in one circuit. - In other words, one operator usually send the same dis- patches to ten or more papers located in as many cities, and for each of those drop copies the Western Union receives one mill per word. The service for ten vapers is equal to one cent for every word sent by that operator. Press dis- patches are, for the most part, trans- mitted during the night, when the wires are least encumbered with com- mercial messages, and therefore their use is least productive to the telegraph companies. On the other hand, governmant dis- patches are ordinary moessages, aggre- gating perhaps not over twenty to thirty words each. More than one govern- ment message is very seldom directed to the same destination, and few of them ever arg duplicated. Now the essence and spirit of the law is that the charges fixed by the postmaster general for this service shall be reusonable. Grant that the government is enti- tled to as low a rate as the most favored of patrons of the Western Union, the postmaster general should take into con- sidoration the character of the service and its cost to the telegraph company. With a guaranteed press service of from twenty to thirty thousand words per night, duplicated to thirty or forty points in one cigpeuit. the telegraph company can make a fair profit for the use of its wires by charging only one mill per word for each paper to which these dispatches are delivered. The cost of handling and delivery of press Qispatehesis comparatively trivial. The same rate for carrying government disptaches would compel an abso- lute loss. A thirty word mes- sage would . yield just three cents for handling by the two operators sending and receiving the same, for the mes- sage blank and envelope and the mes- sage boy for delivering the dispatch. The postoffice department charges ten cents for registering a letter or for the immediate delivery of an unregistered letter. Asa business man, Postmaster General Wanamaker will not contend that three cents for transmitting and delivering a telegram going from Wash- ington to Omaha, or even from the genoral postoffice to the white house, would be reasonable. If it is, how- ever, an exercise of arbitrary power, to limit the charge to one mill per word, then the postmaster gen- eral may with equal and better propri- ety order the entire service free of charge. ‘When the Pacific telegraph was char- tered in 1861 congress granted a subsidy of forty thousand dollars per annum for ten years to the telegraph company, conditioned that all government dis- patches should have priority of trans- mission free of charge between the Mis- souri river and Pacific ocean. This was carried out by the company and lasted until 1872, ‘When the nationul telegraph act of 1866 was passed by congress, all telegraph companies accepting its conditions were given the right of way over all public highways, across all navigable streams, and over all the public domain. The only condi- tion congress exacted was the right of the government to acquire the tele- graph lives by purchase at fair ap- praisement, and the right to fix the rates through the postmaster general on all government dispatches. The proper thing for congress to have done was to require the transmission of all the business of the government free of charge. That would have been a fair and equitable exchange for the valua- ble franchises given to the telegraph companies. But congress has simply given the postmaster goneral the right to establish a reasonable rate for government dispatches. We do not believe even Mr. Wanamaker will contend that the rate he has or- dered 18 reasonable for the service to be performed. If the postmaster gen- eral will recommend to congress that the act of 1866 be amended and tele- graph companies shall do the service of the government free of charge, we will cheerfully endorse his recommenda- tion. But we do not concur with him in his effort to reduce telegraphic tolls of the government below the cost of service. We have no sympathy to waste on any monopoly, least of all the ‘Western Union monopoly, but we would not do rank injustice to & monopoly merely because it has imposed upon the country and grown fat from extortion. E—— A ORITICAL SITUATION. The apparent restorution of order and harmony im railroad circles, after the threatening conditions of a month ago, eannot be relied upon to last. The ex- pressions and action of the Inter-state Railroad association at its last session were certalnly reassuring. They dem- onstrated, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the coutrolling influence of the as- sociation is in favor of cemplying with the law and of avoiding these contro- versies and warfares which 1n the past have been 5o disastrous to the interosts of rallronds, and so demoralizing 1o the business interests of the country. But there is reason to believe, or rather 10 apprehend, that this influence will not be powerful enough to perpeluate the present favorable conditions, and thero are indications that the situation is even now critical. 3 A prominent railroad man is quotod as eaying that the only solution of the present embarrassing difficulties of railroad carriers is to be found either in the combination of the railroads or Ly the government taking control of all trafo, and another prom- inent in railroad management is re- ported to have said that if relief is not had from present evils there must soon come a crash. Such expressions plainly indicate the lack of confidence in rail- road circles in the existing state of things being maintained. They con- clusively show that there is an undoer- current of doubt and distrust which demonstrates that the situation is not healthy and harmonious. They indicate that however fair the surface indica- tions may be, there 1s beneath a turbu- lence and discontent which are re- strained with very great diffi- culty, and which are lable to break outat any moment. One ele- ment in railroad management appears to rogard government eontrol of trafiic as/the only safe alternative. Another is inclined to seek combination as the true means of remedyiug existing evils ane bringing about permanently har- monious relations. The proposal of a great railroad trust with hundreds of millions of money and enormous interests placed in the con- trol of a few men, we haye hereto- fore referred to as something which the people of the country would not tolerate. However indifferent the masses may be to the ordinary forms of monopoly, they would array themselves in vigorous hositlity to any attempt to organize the railroad interests of the country into one great combination to be controlled and manipulated by a few men. Such a tremendous power with all its possibilities of evil and abuse, with its vast influence exerted upon na- tional and state politics, and with its opportunities and means of defeating the popular will, the people of the United States would not permit to exist. Whether or not com- plete government control of the rail- roads is the only alternative is a ques- tion to be very seriously considered. It has been suggested that if the transportation problem had no stock- jobbing side it would be a comparatively easy one. But unfortunately there are stock-jobbing managers who are ever seeking to advance their personal interests, and who will not hesitate to make rate wars when that shall seem to promise them the greatest ad- vautage, or on the other hand to make peace, or a pretended peace, just when the best fruit of competition might be realized for stoc holders by continued competi- tion. The speculative manager is the worst of all enemiesto the stockholders, and he is really at the bottom of most of the difficuities of the railroad situa- tion. But how is he to be gotten rid of? A closer attention on the part of rail- road stockholders to the affairs and the management of the properties in which they are interested 1s unquestionably desirable, and could hardly fail to have the effect of weeding out many of the stock-jobbing » managers, but it is questionable whether even this would wholly cure the evil. Better results wduld perhaps be secured if those managers who are not stock-jobbers would turn their attention to the spec- ulative managers. But it 1s too much to hope that thoy will do this. The improved appearance of the rail- road situation over that of a month ago is certainly somewhat reassuring, but there is reason to fear that the present seemingly harmonious condition of af- fairs will not last. There are mani- festly undercurrents of reaction and re- volt which may develop new 1ssues at any time. A strong influence is vigor- ously at work to prevent this, but how long it will be effective is very uncer- tain, REVOKE THE COAL LICENS, It was eminently proper for the coun- cil to protect the consumers of coal against shortage in fuel weight by a stringent ordinance requiring the weighing of coal, There is no valid reason, however, for imposing a license upon coal dealers. If coal dealers must take out a-license and pay one hundred dollars into the school fund, why not also compel dealers in stoves, furniture, ice, meats, lumber, brick, or any class of necessaries, to pay a license? The charter expressly provides that the mayor and council shall have power to regulate the weighing of coal sold and detivered within the city. It also names the classes of business which the city may license, as follows: Pawn brokers, auctioneers, employment agen- cies, commission merchaats, brokers, insurance officers and agents, solicit- ors, . real estate agents, surveyors, engineers, architects, house movers, runners, hawkers, peddlers, telegraph, telephone and express business. . The oply authority upon which the council can, under any pretense, re- quire a license from coal dealers is tho power conferred upon the mayor and council to license any business not uvamed in the charter which in their judgment the public good may re- quire to be licensed. Inasmuch us many of the vocations named in the charter as subject to license are still on the free list, the ex- ception made 1n the coal trade strikes us as very arbitrary. Tt is class legisla- tion in the interest of the heavy deal- ers against the smaller dealers, and not in the interest of the publie, See—— A DANGEROUS PRECEDENT. The ordinance now before the council to grant the privilege to the owners of the Paxton house to inclose the porches on Farnam and Fourteenth streets and convert these porches intoshotel rooms ought not to pass, Such an ordinance would establish a precedent that would sooner or later prove detrimental to the publie. The porches 1n front of the hotel already extend beyond the four-foot limit allowed for areaways. They have been tolerated because the community has been disposed to en.ourage such an unlerprfm s the Paxton hotel. So long ns thesporches remain as such no objection willprobably be raised. But when iV is attempted to enlarge the hotel "by annexing part of the street, the couneil isin duty bound to call & halw,. I( it will allow the proprie- tors of the Paxton hotel to encroach eight feot upon the strect fronts, it can with equal propriety permit others to arcade thé:antire sidewalk and build over it to itwfull width. 1If a hotel may be extendéd ‘out into the street, any other busiféss house must have the same privilege. If these privileges are to be exclusively for hotels their grant would be a rank in- justice to adjacent property. ‘We have no desire to obstruct the owners of the Paxton in any effort on their part to improve their building, but we object to this new depirture be- cause it will lead to endless favoritism and consequent injustice. Tur present investment of foreign capital in the mercantile and industrial enterprises of this country is not all drawn from England. It comes from the continent as well, but largely through London banks, and has corse- quently earned the name of ‘‘British gold.” However, there is nothing sur- prising about this fact. Large amounts of money have been invested for a num- ber of years in American securities, but, heretofore the transactions have taken place largely through international banking institutions and have excited but little general interest. Foreigners at first invested millions of dollars in government bonds. More re- cently they put their money iuto our railroads, steamboats and cattle ranches, These enterprises. subjected to speculative influences, have not, as a rule, been wholly satisfactory to the foreign investor. He has there- fore changed the direction of his energy and turns his investmeunts into channels less fluctuating than rail- road stock with its accompanying risks. There consequently need be no fears that the British are buying us up body and soul. While they are bringing large amounts of new capital into this country, & corresponding release of American capital takes place, which of necessity will seek profitable invest- menta. The industries of this country will go on as before under the direction of American overseers and American labor. No matter'whether foreign cap- ital is investéd in our mercantile and manufacturing . establishments or in railroads, it ¢an never control the in- dustries of this country and can never escape the responsibilities and restric- tions which i€ law of the land can im- pose at the will,of the people. S—— TaEe lighttrg of this city has been for years a source ¢f revenue for boodlers in the council and the recent effort on behalf'of the taxpayer is only in the same direction, If the people will get better street lighting for less money well and good, ' If it 1s simply a ques- tion of the highest hid to boodlers, the public will gain - very little by the frantic effort to lighten its burdens. THE suggestion that a freight depot be built at the east end of the wagon bridge, is a very good one, providing, always, it is not a scheme to compel the Union Pacific to buy up all the land on the river front opposite the city at prices to suit the speculative owners. STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Red Cloud has a progressive checker club. It is said that Juniata has more hogs than voters. A bank is to be started at Cordova by W. H. Wallace. Osceola hopes to have an opera house in the near future, The Ewing creamery manufactured 9,000 pounds of butter in one month. The Clay county swine breeders will hold a meeting at Clay Center August 10. A young eagle was shot at Grant last week measuring over four feet from tip to tip. Fairbury has declared a quarantine ngainst Hollenberg, Kan., on account ot small pox. Falls City stands a chance of securing an oat meal mill with a capacity of 500 bushels a ay. Cheyenne county contains 1,750,000 acres of land, as muchr as the territory of Okla- homa. The new Lutheran church at Battle Crcek was dedicated Sunday, 700 people attending the exercises. The McCook creamery has leased a cold storage room in Denver, and will hold its product for better prices. The Long murder case was called up in courtat_ North Platte Monday, but on appli- cation of the state the trial was continued until October 21. A nine-year-old son of Thomas Churchill, living near smrunfn was instantly killed by o beam from anold barn falling and strik- ing him on the head. The Greeley county teachers’ association meeting advertised for last week was indef- initely postpored on account of the absence from the county of nearly all tho members. During a recent game Hart, of the Grand Island ball club, swas hit in the face and had four teeth knocked out, while a Greeley Cen- ter man was 80 exhausted by making a home run that he fainted at the plate. Peter Grubb, aged soventy-one, and Ella Jane Bare, sixty-one, of White Cloud, Kan., were lately joined in matrimony at Falls City, Peter has just received a pension and back pay amountiog to $2,500. Charles Barke! Ravenna dog fancier, has five caninesdntraining to compete for the $5,000 prizes to'be awarded at the Lex ington, N. C., fleldtrials in December next. @ animals bel to J. I. Case and C. H. Kilpatrick, of Chucago. lowa Itews. Chariton is ' put in a 1,000-lamp incan- descent light pliint, ‘Waverly horsemign have just imported 103 borses from Montreal. Minuie Higden, of Ottumwa, has boen held under $300 bomds on the charge of horse stealing. 1 H. Myerholz# férmer living near Wapello, had an ankle'broken by being caught in & mower wheel. +/1 F\. N. Warner has been elected mayor of Angus to flll the vicanoy caused by the re- moval of Robert A, Lowry to Okiahoma, Lewis Man, who recently died at Parkers- burg, aged seventy-three, was for a .quarter of a century draft clerk in the United States treasurer's office, and was a close friend of ex-Senator Spinner. According to the report of the commis- sioner of Indian affairs for 1850, lowa has 1,258 acres in reservation and an Indian population of 880. The births of the preced- g year numbered 12 aud the deaths 8, show- iug s net increase of 4. Miss Jennie Slack, aged sixteen yoars, re- siding in the blue grass region of lowa, near Villisca, has this season planted and culti- vated thirty-tive acres of corn besides milk- ing six cows night and morning aud helping in other work about the farm and househoid. Q. 8. Tolliver, & brominent attorney at Jeflorson, Saturasy bvresented s drait for collection on f the leading mekchants of the town. The latter became onraged and struck Mr, Tolliver near the temple. Heis now in A very H’smrluu- condivion and his life is despafred of. The first legislative action towards the building of the now capitol was taken in 1868; the Indevendence hospital in 1868; Clarinda hospital in 18843 industrial schools at Eldora and_Mitohellville n 1872 and 1870; Counoil Bluffs deaf and dumb institution in 1969; Anamosa ponitentiary in 1883; Marshalltown soldiers’ home in 1836; Cedar Falls normal school in 1876, Wyoming. The mayor of Laramie has ordored that no more gambling bo allowed in saloons and oigar stores. Mrs, William Hale, widow of the late Gov- ernor Hale. has been appointed a clerk in the Oheyenne postoftice. It is said that the search for the robber who held up the Rawiins-Lander conches has been abandonod. The totol receipts of the Buffalo land office for the quarter ending June 30 was §16,807.25, Fifty-soven cash entries were mado, twenty- six final homesteads and eleven final desert land entries. The agricultural districts of Northern Wy- oming are fast gaining a foothold in castern Montana in the way of suplying flour, pork and other articles in the line of the products of that region. Two now postoffices have been established in Wyoming, at Farrington, Laramie county, with Willian G, Curtis as postmaster, and at Willowglen, Carbon county, with Harri- son W. Hoines as postmaster. Governor Warren expects to malke quite an extended trip through the tervitory during the months of August and September. He will visit Sundance, Buffalo, Sheridan and Lander during the early part of August and iater take a trip to the Yellowstone park. The Cheyenne Tribune reports that oattle- men in the Big Horn basin are driving their herds to the mountains, where they will hold them till late in the season, in order to save the foothills and valley xrasses for the win- ter, Cattle shipments will be large this fall, and the beoves will be in superior condition. The Caspar Mail says that the number of sheep shoared at that point foots up a little over 40,000, The avernge weight per floece is about twelve })oumlb, muking o total of 450,000 pounds of wool clipped there. This has been all sold in Caspar at an average of 15 centa per pound, thus leaving for wool alone $72,000 in the county. Lieutenant-Colonel Burt, commanding at Fort Washal had a narrow escape from drowning lust week, While attempting to cross Big Wind river, his horse gotinto deop water, the colonel was swept form his back, and caught in the limbs of a submerged tree, Here he wonld have drowned in a few minutes but for the assistance of soldiers, who beld his head above. water until help arrived. SRR TR FIGURES WHICH LIE. An Alleged Froating Indebtedness of the Board of Education. Major Wheeler, chairman of the finance committee, speaking of the discoverics made in examiniug the books of the board ot edu- cation, safd: “The funniest thing of the whole business was tne discovery of the comptroller of an item of $19,000 which had been earried on the books of the board of education for two years under the heading of ‘Floating In- debtedness,” when as a matter of fact, the board does not owe anyone a cent. This amount was reported by the secretury in his annual statement, and reduced the assets of the board that amount, nearly one mill on the levy. The comptroller examined the matter and found that it was simply an error and that the board does not, owe any such amount or any sum for the pay- ment of which provision has not been made by bonds or otherwise, 1t must be a pleas- ing sensation for the board—it certainly would be for an individual—to discover that @ presumed indebtedness of $19,000 does not. exist in fact. “There is no cause for complaint n, the sec of the school board,” said the councilman, in speaking of the now rules adopted regulating the drawing of warrants, but the system employed by him, as author- ized by the board, is certainly a very careless one. It bas been the custom to draw one warrant on the county trensurer each month for the payment of the teachers and janitors saluries, and then pay them separately by the secretary’s individual check. “This monthly pay roll amounts to about §25,000 and it is ‘certanly poor policy to place this in the hands of any oficial who is only required to give a bond of £10,000. Not only that, but in examining the accounts, the compiroller finds that a large number of these checks, or the claims for whicn the checks were drawn, have not been receipted, 50 that as a matter of fact the city has not been relievea of iws liability for these amounts, “The payment to ateacher of a sum on the secretary’s individual check can not be held as a receipt against such teacher for wages due from the city, “Then suppose the secretary should die just aftor drawing $25,000 out of the city treas- ury, the city would not be relieved of its lisbilitles to the parties to whom the money was due. “The new plan of issuing warrants on vouchers is the only proper one and gives the city # proper receipt for all funds paid out.” 1t s said that tho plan was adopted solely for the convenience of the lady teachers. s ag WHY HE HUOLDS THEM, Senator Saunders Tells What Lots the Union Pacific Wants. Senator Saunders was seen yesterday and asked why he had not deeded to the Union Pacific all the lots deeded to him as trustee by the city to be, in turn, deeded to the road. “Those lots,” said he, “I have forgotten the description of, but they lie somewhere down in that direction. [indicating the terri tory south east of the depot and mnear the river.] Thecompany had s long track on it for a time which It afterwards took up, because I believe it aidu’t care to maintain it there auy longor, It used to run_empty cars on it. 1 think the B. & M. came in afterwards in the same vicinity and gotsome of the prop- erty in question. The reason 1 didn’t dead the prom ty was simply becanse tho com- paoy didht soom to want it. 16 moved off n auother direction. ““When the treasurer notificd me of the taxes—well, 1 diveoted him to the road. 'our or five years ago the city council raised @ cry to know why these lots held in trust by me had not been deeded to tho Union Pacific or returned to the city. 1 im- mediately consulted Mr. Poppleton and asked him to which he thought the lots belonged %o the company or to city, and what I should do in the premises. “He stated that the lots had been deeded tome with the intention of presonting them to the Union Pacitie railroad company, and, although the Union Pacitic did not mike a demand for them ut the time they wore ready for turring over he thought they were stiil the property of that corporation, and that I should not return them to the city. “1It was thought at the time by some sus- picious people that I was holding the lots for my own benefit, but I thought I was able to makoe a hving without using any of the city property, and only held the lots in pursuance of Mr. Poppieton’s ovinion. *Thio case has now got into the courts and 1 presume will sooner or later, be decided. hichever way it is decided will be satisfac- tory to me. 1f it 18 determined that the city owns lots I will be glad to turn them over to the city.” e IRON MINKS IN CUBA. They Are Being Opened By an Amer- ican Syndicate. Cmioago, July 30.—|Special Telegr am to Tue Bee.]—Extensive iron mines in Cuba are peing opened by 8 Minnesota syndicate. Captain Elisha M. Arcoms, of Tower City, passed through the city yesterday journey- ing from Cuba to his home. *Our company will begin extensive operations In a few weeks,” said the expert. *‘On account of cneap labor in that country a good profit can be realized. The trouble in Cuba for for- eigners who wish to inaugurate enterprises is the great expense they have in entertain- ing officials. Vhen we began work and the overnor general came down to see us, we fiml to spend $100 in feasting and wining bim. I was surprised to find such gencral discontent among the Cubans. The govern- ment seems little lcss that & powerful press, always at work grinding out of tho masses the utmost in the way of taxes. We will work between 1,000 and 1,500 men and send 11 the ore to this country. The ore is 04 per cent, to 68 per cent, metallic iron.” LEESE ON A LEGAL PROBLEM. Thurston Oounty Belongs to the Seventh Judlolal District, FULL TEXT OF THE OPINION. Judge Powers, Rowever. Thinks to the Contrary—Doings at the State House—Suprome OCourt Unses— The Library Rooms. LINCOLN BURRAU oF Titm OMA®A Ben, 1020 P Staeer, LINCOLY, July 80, A day or two ago Tnn Brr oalled atton- tion to the peculiar situation of Thurston county as to its judicial jurisdiotion, citing tho fact that the late legislature had failed to give it a place in the judicial districts of the state and that the attornoy general had beon called upon for an opinion as to whethor or not the failure of the legislature, to give it judicial place, left the county out in the cold 8o far as it concerned the jurisdiction of district courts. It seoms that a recent mur- der had been committed in the county in question, and that Judge Powers has de- clined to try the case, or hold court thore, for the reason, he alloges, that he has no Jurisdiction over the county. In view of these faots the opinion of Attorney General Leose, which is as follows, will be of pecu- liar interest to the public: LixcoLy, Neb,, July 80, 1889.—Mr. J. E. Arthur—Dear Sir: I wrote you yester- day rewarding the holding “of district court in the new county of Thurston, and I want to say, now, that & consider that the district, which has the larger part of the territory composing the county, retans jurisdiction for all judicial Jurposes in the new county Such seems to the intention of the law governing new counties, formed out of one or more existing counties, when the county is formed by peti- tion or out of unorganized territory, and the same rule should prevail when the county is fomed by legislative enactment, as provis- ions are made in such cases for the oath of county officers and the complete organization of the couunty, whether the new county is organized under the existing statutes or by a legislativo act; and I canuot see why the court that formerly held jurisdiction over tho greater portion of the territory composing the new county should not hold jurisdiction over it. Sectioh 14, article 1 of "chapter 18, provides how the officers shall qualify on the formation of a now county. It also provides that for judicial purposes it shall be aeemed and taken as belonging to the dis- trict in which said new couuty or the larger part thereof is embraced and terms of the district shall bo held at such place, in said new county, as the county bourd thereof shall designate until the county seat thereof shall be permanently located, and the times of holding such court, shall be appointed by the judge thereof until otherwise provided by law. Thus it will bo seen that the legislature did not intend to have any new county organ- ized without holdng distriot court therein. The situation of this new county is in no_dif- ferent condition as to its judicial district than one would be, though formed from unorgan- ized territory, or bad boen created from some other existing county or counties. In either case the now county wouid belong to its former judicial _district under the exigencies described. Section 14 provides that the judi- cial district having held the greater part of the territory from which the new county is created shall hold jurisdiction over the whole of the now county, and as 1 understand the situation, all that portion of the Winnebago and Omaha reservation notattached toother counties was a part of tho Seventh judicial district, and as this same territor is the greater part of the county of ‘Thurston it is in my opinion, a part of the Seventh judicial district. Yours very truly, WiLLiay Legse, Attorney General. The state Library. The finely polished furnishings of the state library room areall in place. A practical in- terwor furnisher did the work, and so far as arrangement is concerned 1t is certainly all that can bo desired. The book cases are each fourtcen feet in length, with seven shelves on either side, and they sit from north to soufh in the north part of the room, which is twenty eight feet and eight inches in width by eighty-two feet in length. A sub-gallery, eighty-two feet in length, séyen feet above the floor, and just above the doors and cases, contains six rows of shelves the entire length of the room. his is reached by means ot & ladder with silver mounted banisters at the grand entrance. Beneath the sub gallery there are seven other rows of shelves and, barring the cuts for three doors, also extend the ontire length of the room, Midway in the south part of the room, di- rectly fronting the grand entrance, the state librarian's desk. On either side of the desk sits three tables, 3 feet 6 inches by eight feet, surrounded by six cbairs each of the most comfortable de- signs obtainable. The furniture is all of an- tique oak, and so highly polished that it gives back'a reflection almost as perfect as a Tooking glass. Lt cost the state §6,600, and it is learned that the shelf room provided will store 40,000 books. The upholsterers and carpenters completed the work to-day, and the ubrary room of the state house really resents a very creditable appearance. Mr, heeler, deputy librarian, states that the library will be removed as rapidly as possi- ble. Active work will probably commence to-worrow. It is intended that this work shall be performed 80 88 to not interfere with the regular duties of the libraran or those immediately connected with the su- preme court. An Informal Complaint. An informal complaint was filed before tho state board of transportation to-day by J. W. Babbitt, of Verdon, Richardson county. The complaingut alleges overcharges against him on the part of the Missouri Pacific folks, Ho states that on October 20, 1888, ho shipped a It has $200,000 cash capital and }{M oash surplus, ‘The Massachusetta benofit association, a life assurance company, of Boston, has been Authorized to transact business in the stato, Total inyostment assots of tho compuny, $207,013.95. Tt s & mutual concorn. City News and Notes. Brad P. Cook ana J. P. Gavchell go to Chi« 0ago to-morrow in answor to a telogram from Commander Davis to confer as to the re- unions at Milwaukee and Kearney, Attend ance at the reunions is the chief question to be considered. General Superintondent Colvert and As- sistant Superintondent Bignell, of the B, & M., mado a recent tour of inspoction over Bignell's division and found the damage to the rond by the recent hoavy rains, north of Falmer, was not as bad as has poon reported, W. E. Wilson, president of the Denver in- surance company, of Denver, was a Lincoln visitor w-day, Mrs, . T. Wiison diod at her residence in this city 1as night. Her remains will bo shipped to South Bend, Ind., for interment, Miss Anna Howard, of Seward, is tho guost of Miss Eftle Leese, the attorney gon- eral's daughter. Work has commenced on the Y. M. C. A, building. Tt will be a credit to the city. e vty A HYDRANT LEAK. How It is Sald to Affeot the Finances of the City, “I have discovered something that [ think will account for the low condition of the fire-hyarant fund,” said Commissioner ‘Wheeler to a Ben reportor yestorduy. “There is in the oity & large number of hydrants that are located on stroots betweon cross strects which are already supplied with hydrants. These are called intermedi- ate hydrants, and the waterworks company has agreed to furnish these to the city at $10 per annum. 1 have beon busy for two days copying a list of the hydrants of the city and their location. I have already found twonty-five of these that are located Provurly to be called intermediate hydrants, or which the city is paying a rental of 60 each, and in some cases §84. It may be that there is some explanation of this, but I don't sco what it can be. If it is true that the city is payiog $50 too much for each of these hydrants, there 18 certainly $1,200 due from the waterworks company and that amount too for each year that this excessive churge has been made. If this is true, and I huve every reason to think it is, the council will be able to give the citizens of Druid Hill and several other localities the hydranta that carload of apples from Verdon to North Platte, on which he paid the Missouri Pacific $42.42 and $117.81 to-the Union Pacific folks, making o total of $158.28. He furthor states that on the 13th of Novembor a friend of his, J. H. Latteral, shippod o carload of apples from Howe, the second station above Ver- don to North Platte, and was charged a total of $58.15. On the 21st of Novomber Babbitt says he shipped another carload of apples to the same point aud was charged the me Yate paid by Littoral, and_thorofore asks & rebate on the first shipment to correspond with that paid on the last. Supreme Uonrt News, I'he following cases were filed for trial in the supreme court to-day: Louis Bradford vs. Grace E. Higgins et al.; appeal from Douglas county. Jacob Fisher vs, Citizens' Street railway company; appeal from Adams county. Omaha and Florence Land and Trust com- any vs. James M. Barker; error from ouglas county. Bush Elliott vs, State of Nebraska; error trom Cheycno cqunty. Louis Bradford vs. Emily C. Patterson et al.; appeal from Douglas county. John B. Kcedle vs. Susan R. Flack; error from Hamilton county. Omaha and Florence Land and Trust com- ny vs. Thomas Barrett; error from Douge county, . Doings at the Capital. The following commissions were issued to-day from the adjutant general's ofos: N. P. Lundeen, of York, eaptain of com- pany A, First regiment of the Nebraska Na- tional guard, W. G, Fisher, of York, first lleutenant Company A, First regiment of the Nebraska national guard. Arthur G. Scott, of Geneva, first lleuten- ant of Company G, First regiment of the Nebraska National guard. Fred A. Bailey, of Shelton, second liou- tenant. Company A, Second regiment of the Nebraska Nationa! funr«l, George J. Paul, of Omaba, first lieuten- ant of the Edward Creighton guard, Kdward J. MeVann, of Omaba, second licutenant of the Edward Creighton guard. The Denver insurance company, of Den- ver, has filed a statement and applied for the privilege of doing business in the state. ‘T'his is & new company, organized Decem ber B, 1856, and commanced business May 1, 1839, they need 8o badly for fire protection,” A gt 2 PUBLIOC WORKS, % Action of the Boarc in the Mattor of Rotten Paving Materinl. At a called meeting of the bdard of publio worke yesterday afternoon the following ro- serve payments wero allowed : Hugh Murphy, alley, paving distriot No. $108.00; Hugh Murphy, street, paving di: trict No. 80, $050.08; Hugh Murphy, street, paving district No. 99, $2,725.47; Hugh Mur- phy, streot, paving district No. 130, §40.77. R. H. Walker was appointed inspector on public works. Mr. Furay moved that the cedar blooks on Twenty-fourth and Clark streets, whero the contractors ure at work ut present, were not such blocks as are required by the specifica- tions, and the action of the chairman of the board and the city enginear in condemning said blocks and stopping work be sustained, and that hereafter all blocks known as “summer cut’ and ‘‘worm eaten” codar Dlocks are not to be delivered on the warlk, but only such class of cedar blocks as con- form to the samples before this mecting. And inspectors are instructed to allow no “summer cut” and ‘‘worm eaten” blocks on the work, and only such material as in thoir judgment complies with the specifications; and that J, B. Smith & Co. and J. E. Riley be allowed to commenco work as soon a8 all objectionable blocks are culled under the di- rection of the city inspecto: This motion was adopted. ————— STRANGER IMBECILES. Official Hearts Warm to Them For tho Sake of a Junket. It is not unlikely that when Commissioner Turner returns and presents his bill of ex- penses for taking Sadie Gildersleeve to New York, he will find himself the cause of a merry war. Commissioners Mount, O'Keeflo and Corrigan are grumbling. ‘Fhey don't think the county ought to be taxed $200 for something that was unnecessary. When the question of sending this woman efst firat came up, her former husband and aunt living here informed Chairman Mount that if tho board would pay for sending her to Chicago they would see that her transportation from that point was provided for. Subsequently, Turner, itis said, concluded he would like to take a trip and entered into an agreement with Anderson whereby ho should go through to New Jersoy, take in New York, return by way of St. Louis, and have the county pay for it. Then Jailor Miller conceived the idea that he might as well avail himself of an opportu- nity, and, by some clever manipulations se- cured consent to take an old imbecile,dubbed “Jack the Ripper” and leave him in New York. Without anybody apparantly knowing very much about it, these two worthies packed their grips, purchased tickets and lett. i Approved by Wool Growers. Covrunnus, O., July 80.—The called mect- ing of the Navional Wool Growers' associn: tion has passed resolutions approving the re- cent decisions of the treasury dephrtment in relation to broken topsand garnetted wasto, and asking like decisions to. be applied to ring wasto and soiled laps, which are being imported in large quantities, as they allego, in violation of the tariff laws, They also ask the president to call a special meeting of congross to revise the tarifl laws, SORE FROM KNEE TO ANKLE. Skin entirely gone. Flesh a mass of disease, Leg diminished one-third in size. Condition hopeless. Cured the Outicura Reuedies In two Not a s1gn of diseasa now to bo ar For three years I was almost crippled with an awtul sore log from my knee down to my anklo; the skin was eptirely gone, and the tiesh was ous masw of dissase. 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