Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 25, 1889, Page 4

AHA DAILY. BEE: SUNDAY, AUGUST o PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dafly (Morning Edition) including Sunday Toe, One Yeur..... wavaiivey 6 el o &x Montha 'or Three Months The Omuhia Sunday address, One Year . Weekly Hee, One Year....... OFFICES. Omana Office, Beo Building. N. W. Beventeenthand Farnam Streets, Chicago Office, 57 Rookery Bullding. New York Office, Rooms 14 and 15 Tribuno Builing. ‘Washington Office, No 3 Fourteenth Strect. Council Blufs Office, No. 13 Pourl Strect. Lincolin Office, 1020 P Su eet, CORRESPONDENCE. All communieations relating to news and edi. torial matter should be addressed to the Editor of the Boe. 0 00 500 2 60 2 00 200 ites, matled to any Corner DUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and remittances should be ndaressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafts, chocks and postoflice oraers to e made payablo to the order of the company, T Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors. s Bullding Farnam and Seyenteenth Stroe: THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. State of Nebraska, [P County of Douglas, George B, Tzschuck, secretary of Tho Bos Publishing Company, does solemnly swear thit the actual cirenlation of 'k DAtLy Brg for the week ending August 24, 183, was s tollows: Wednesday, August 21 Thursday, August 22 Friday, August 2 Baturday, August 24, g W ceeeenn 18,661 GEORGE B. TZSCHUUK. Sworn to before me and subscribed to in my presence this 24th duy of August, A. D, 1830, [Seal.) N. P. FEIL, Notary Publis. Btate of Nebraska, ! Sounty of Douglas, | 5% Georgo B, Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- otes and says that he 1s secretury of The' Bee Publishing company, that the actual average dally circulation of "Tug DAILY BE for the mornth of August, 188%, IR18) coples: for Sep- tember, 188, 18151 copies; for October 1884 18,084 coplos: for November, 183, 13,08 copies: for December, 1884, 18,223 coples: for January, 1889, 18,574, coples: for February, 155, 189w coples: for March, {89, 18854 copies; for April, IR, 18,59 coples: for May, 188, 18,69 coples: for Jurie. 160, 18,65, coplea: for 'July. 158, 18,798 copies. 3%0. B. TZSCHUCK, Sworn to before me and subscribed in my Presence this Jd day of August, 1850, [sEAL.] N. P. FriL, Notary Public. FLATTERING reports are sent out con- cerning the improvement in Russian financ The opinion has long pre- vailed in FEurope that Russia, though anxious to go to war could not do so through lack of funds. If the fact as stated be true Russia can now be better supplied with the sinews of war than any other country in Europe. OMANA’S bmlding record and Omaha’s bank cleavings are a fair index of her healthful growth and prosperity. The prospects for a live fall trade were never better. With good crops in the state, with good business in sight and with everything running along smoothly, the year will be rounded out satisfactorily to everybody. THE street railways are just now figuring out how much the city owes them for their tearing up the paved streets. We confidently expect that the city attorney will present an ordi- nance at the next session of the council to reimburse Dr. Mercer and the Con- solidated for the damages they have suffered at the hands of the city. « TaEe time limit of the monopoly of seal fishing in Alaska waters, at present enjoved by one corporation to the ex- clusion of all other American citizens, will s00n expire, and it is said the gov- ernment will renew the monopoly for another twonty years. Why should a monopoly of this privilege be given auy more than a monopoly of cod fishing, or bear hunting? 5 UNLESS Governor Thayer returns speedily from his summer vacation we may look for another proclamation from Acting Governor Miklejohn. Our lieu- tenant governor is heavy on proclama- tions. Whenever he occupios the exec- utive chair he is bound to proclaim something or somebody, and we should not be surprised if he issues n proclama- tion ealling an extra session of the leg- islature 1o provide means of repelling an wvasion of the Sioux reservation. IT is veported that a trust has been formed to raise the price of diamonds. It will hardly succeed. Diamonds have coased to be a luxury. Nearly every- body has diamonds alreudy and those who have not money enough to buy the real dinmonds can readily procure imi- tations which so closely resemble the genuine thatit is hard to tell the dif- ference. Tue future of Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado is closely bound together. The prosperity of one will be promoted by the prosperity of all. As the re- sources of the mountain states will be developed by the influx of capital and population, the necessavies of life will be drawn from agricaltural and com- mercinl Nebraska, while in turn the people of this state will be supplied with coal and petroleum from Wyoming and with lead and iron from Colorado. Tue National Rifle association mects at Creedmore shortly, when America’s orack marksmen will coutend for the cus- tomary prizes. 11isto be regreted that the international feature, which a few years ago made the Creedmore autumn matches of great interest and contribu- ted Lo the success of the meeting, bave for the present been abandoned. Not even Canada will be vepresented this year, but it is expected that as soon as the Creedmore range is transferred to the state of New York the rifle teams of England and Canada willagein countest with American companies. ONE of the Gorman and the French Trans-Atlantic steamship lines have served notice on American railroads to the effect that shipments of freight from this conutry to Europe by their respective routes must conform to the laws of Germany or France during the ocean transit in questions arising under their bills of lading. As was to be ex- pected, the American roads refuse polut blank to conform to such rules. It ie a common law axiom that a con. tract is governed by the law of the ecountry in which it is made. It is therefore the height of impudence for foreign steamship lines to make an at- tempt to subvert this common luw doc- trine to suit their own pleasure. TRAINING FOR THE TRADES. The marked success of the Now York trade schools has proved the necessity that oxisted for institutions of this kind. The demonstrated good these schools have accomplished in recruiting the ranks of skilled labor and improving the character of American mochanics has amply justified their establishment. Thesb schools have been in operation cight years, and in that period they have given to the trades in which they furnish instruction—brick laying, plas- tering, plumbing, carpentry, house and sign painting, fresco panting, stone cut- ting, tailoring, and blacksmithing— hundreds of young men equipped with a thorough knowledge of how work should be done, and with the practical preparation which has enabled them to quickly master ail the regquirements necessary to render them skilled work- men. These scholls give both manual and scientific instruction. A trade is taught in all its branches, and the rea- son why one method is right and an- other, which seems to produce the same result, is wrong, is cavefully ex- plained, Of course for such in- struction the teachers must be skilled mechanics, whose duty it is to show how work should be done and 1o seo that each individual does it prop- erly ‘While the scope of these trade schools is more extended than those connected with the publ shools of various cities, the ground plan of both is necessarily similar., Manual training in connection with the public school system will ays be restricted to simple eclementary instruction. It is not un- derstood to be the design of the pro- moters of such training that it shall be carried any further than togive the pupil the mere rudiments of sny trade in which it may be practicablo to furnish instruction in such schools. In some of them, however, as in those of Boston, St. Louis, and other cities, progress has been made beyond the rudimentary stage, and with very notable results. In the exhibitions that have from time to time been given of the work of these schools there haye been somo remarka- ble examples of juvenileskill, and the advocates of manual training as a part of the public school system have found a forceful argument in these re- sults. Omaha sustains a manual train- ing school at a liberal annual outlay, .which the superintendent of the school has asked the board of education to in- crease. In view of the fact that the public has been given little opportunity to see what has been accomplished, the inference is that the results have not been such as to wavrrant inviting public attention to them. Itis therefore per- tinent to inquire whether the school is being conducted in a way to produce the satisfactory results attained by similar schools elsewhere, and if it is noty. what measurves uare necessary to raise it to the efficiency and usetul- ness of other schools. There ought to an annual exhibit of the work done in the Omaha manual training school, as there is of the work of simi schools in other cities, in order that the entire public may be enabled to sce what is being accomplished. ‘The impression is that this school, like some other of the special departments of instruction in connection with the public schools of Omaha, is not being carefully and effi- ciently conducted, and it 1s desirable that this impression shall be removed if an exhibit of results can do it. The policy of giving the youth of the country an insight into the mechanical trades, and by reason of trade and man- nal training schools developing mechan- ical talent and ingenuity among us, is very generally recognized by thought- ful men as wise and necessary. Reli- ance upon the old world for skilled artisans, while American boys are left to recruit the overcrowded ranks of the professions, or find precarious and ill- vewarded employment in other than mechanical pursuits, is not judicious or safe. In this practical age, skill in all practical ways is cortain of boing well rewarded, and there is need to culti- vate o public sentiment that wili induce a larger proportion of the young men of the country to enter mechanical pur- suits. Such trade schools as those of New York are aiding to do this, and properly conducted manual training schools as a branch of public instruction may even more largely contribute to the same desirabie resut A NATIONAL PARK MONOPOLY. Yellowstone park was sst apart by act of congress as a great pleasure ground that should be froe to the en- joyment of the American people for all time. It is the property of the nation, a partof the public domain in which every citizen has an equal shave and an equal right. 'The money necessary to main- tain it comes out of the public treasury, to which all the paople contribute. This Dbeing the case, there should be nothing connected with the management of the purk, and no privileges granted there that would impose any undue re- straint or inflict any exuction upon those who visit it. The liberality of the government in rasevving this wond- erful vegion for the useand enjoyment of the whole people should not be disered- ited by allowing to exist there any mo- nopoly of privileges for which the peo- plo who go theve are compelied to un- duly p: Yet it appears that this is the case. A trustworthy correspondout states that the most serious obstacle to visiting the park is the notorious fact that the keep- erof the park isin collusion with the hotel syndicate, and campers who do not putronize the hotel are arrested and fined for trivial offenses, “In fact,” this correspondent, “they eannot build a fire to cook and warin up without running the risk of arrvest, & faveical trial, and a heavy fine, Under its prosent management the na- tional park is simply a monoy-making scheme, o private snap for the cligue which controls the hotol and convey- ances under a lense from the secretary of the interior.” If this correctly rep- resents the state of affaivs, and we do not question it, then it is simply a pub- lic wrong and scandal which de- mands & prompt remedy. A strict enforcement of the regulations necessary to keep out maurauders is of course to be desired, but this should be doae with such care aud discretion as to work no hardship to proper persons, while the granfing of exciusive hotel priviloges isan encouragement to ox- tortion which the government should not be a party to. We can conceive of no good renson why such & monopoly should exist by favor of the govern- ment, but if there be any there cer- tainly is no venson why the keeper of the park should be allowed to aid the monopoly in enforcing its exactions. The secretary of the interior might find here a matter worthy of investiga- tion. DOMESTICATED LIGHTNING. A contemporary remarks that it is not rash to predict that before many years there will be more mouey invest- ed in electricity in the United States than in railroads. It is estimated that over six hundred million dollars are already invested in electrical con- trivances in this country, ana of this amount over eighty millions have been invested within a year. The most marked progress is in tho construction of electrical railways, of which there dre some oighty-five now 1n successful operation and about one hundred being constructed. It seemsevident thatin the course of a few years most of tho means of transit in the cities will be electrical railways. Nor will the use of this mo- tive power for transportation neces- sarily stop here. If the experiment of the Baltimore inventor shall prove to be as successful on a large scale asit has been 1n a small way, we may reasonably expect that within a few vears the country will be traversed by trains with electricity as the motive power, traveling at o rate of speed three or four times greater than the highest at- tainable with steam. When one re- flects upon what has already been ac- complished with electricity he can- not feel warranted in regarding as in- credible the idea that in time traius may be run between Omaha and Chi- cago, for example, in five hours, moved by electricity. No man can pretond to divine the limit to which this power may be car- ried. The wisest among those engaged in its application believe that what has been accomplished is only a beginning. Vast projects are in contemplation which, if suceessful, will revolutionize the motive power of the world and pro- duce an effoct upon economic problems now incalculable. At all events this is the clectric age, and if it cannot be said that we are already moving it with lightning sreed, it would seem certain chat the time is not far off when wo shall do so. ATTENTION is called to the announce- ment of the annual entrance examina- tions of the Nuational Conservatory of Music, New York. The first of these, for singing classes, will be held Septem- ber 24 and 25, tade followed by exami- nation for violimand cello classes Sep- tember 27, and Plano_classes October 1 and 2. The objéct of this excellent in- stitution is the advancement of musical culture in the United States and the de- velopment of American musical tal- ent. In this most laudable work it has thus far been very successful, a number of its pupils having won a notable place in public regard as singers and instru- mentalists. The conservatory employs the best teachers to be had, and tuition is given practically gratis, a nominal fee of one hundred dollars being asked. The projectors of this institution, chief among whom is Mrs. Jeunnette M. Thurber, the president, undertake a most worthy work that has thus far re- ceived, and under the present manage- ment will continue to deserve, a glor ous patronage. GENERAL MORGAN, commissioner of Indian affairs, is receiving merited commendation for his efforts to reform and improve the service in his hureau, In every branch of the service he is secking to securo a better class of men, and such changesas have been made are said to have already resulted to the bene- fit of the service. Inimproving the char- acter of Indian agents, post traders and teachers, Commissioner Morgan is dem- onstrating histamiliarity with some of the needs of the service. His most ve- cent deperture is in regard to emw- ploying furmers at@ho various Indian agencies, whose duty itwill be to act as instructors in agriculture to the Indians. From the way in which com- missioner Morgan has begun his work, there is every reason to expect that under his administration the Indian service will pe carried to a higher con- dition of efficiency and usefulness than ever before, and that the country will cease hearing the complaints regarding this service, which have been common and numerous for many years. A CrrizeN of Omaha recently re- cently returned from a visit in the east pressed his great gratification at find- ing the climate heve so much superior to any he had found on his trip. He very rarely goes far away from Om aha, and like most of our citizens who remain much of the time at home, did not fully appreciate, as it is not easy to do without an opportunity for comp: son, the great superiority of whe climate of Omaha over that df most other localities, and particularly of the ontire luke region. Not only are the springs here unsurpassed and the autumns unequalied, but during two- thirds of the year there are fow places ou the continent where the elimato is more enjoyable or health-producing. To appreciate Omaha us a place of resi- dence, so far at least as its climate is concerned, we must live awhile away frow it. DURING the past few years Yale col- lege has sustained groater losses through the death of her eminent pro- fessors than any other university in the country. The last of her great instruc- tors to ena a long and honorvable life was Prof. Elias Loomis, who died at New Haven last week at the ripe age of soventy-eight. Prof. Loomis was es- sentially one of the groat masters of in- struction and a scholar of the old senool, For nearly halfa century his series of text books, embrecing the whole scope of mathematical subjects, have been standard refevence books in the schools and colleges of this country. He was also the author of popular treatises on natural philosophy, astronomy snd meteorology and in all of them he dis- played the deop learning and thorough knowledge for which he was famous. * Tre Adventists are holding a camp meeting near Springfield, Mass., and are indulging in their usual habit of predicting the end of the world. The effect of their prophecies is somewhat wonkened by the ffes that they do not agree upon dates, A few seors give the world a leowny of twelve years, whilo Sister White, of Battle Creek, Mich., who is the chief vision-maker and prophet of the sect, only allows the wicked sphiers about eighteen months longer. Samuel Ayres, of Worcester, Mass,, insists that Gabriel wiil serenade this country on the 6th or 7th of Octo- tober. At the worst this will give sum- mer hotel proprietors a fow weeks in which to enjoy their their newly ac- quired wealth. The Haytian 8o -saw. Pittshurg Chroniele-Telegraph. Latest reports from Hayti indicate Hippolyte thar | plprole }muconquemd. A Emulated the Mugwump. Philadstphia Press. The New Hampshire legislaturo has done that which the mugwumps did only a fow months ago so creditably to themselves. That is to say, 1t has shut up. e it s Hadji Has Tambled. Phitadelphia Record, Mr. Hadji Hassein Ghooly Khan Now sees the joke like another manj If sooner he'd drunk from the jovial can. He would never have lett for Ispahan, e Distancing the Rat Poison. Chicago Times, One hundred persons have been poisoned in St. Paul, Minn,, by eating ice cream. Between soda water and ice cream, rat Poison appears to bo getting @ rest this season, —_— Why the Slaughter Ceascd. Chicage News. And now comes tho report from Washington that the temporary suspension of Mr. Clark- n's beheading of democratic postmasters is due to the failure of Public Printer Palmer to supply the necessary blanks fast enough. g What the President Will Do. New York Journal, He will talk about the weather or He'll sing the song of “*Baby Mine," But he won't disc: appointments, for At politics ho draws tho line, The Elixir Route. Chicago Herald, Another death has occurred from the use of the elixir of life, The woman who wants to get rid of hor husband without exposing herself to the fate of Mrs. Maybrick should call in a “scientific”” doctor. Sty LEgE St. John and the Prohibs. Philadelphia Record. In his hostility to the republican party ex- Governor St. John, of Kansas, proposes to organize a prohivition party in Iowa. Since the republican party of Towa isa party of prohibition, the movement of St. John is evidently inspirgd by porsonal rather than poiitical or philahthrpic motives. The dem- ocrats of Iowa may |succeed as it isin re- pealing the prohibitéry liquor law, but they could do 1t the moref easily should St. John divide its friends, o S A Result of Eastern. Culture, Kansas Oity Journal. Mr, Nathaniel Wilkins, a decorous Phila- delphia gentlemin who undertook to lecture the young lady - bathers at Asbury Park on the immodesty of ticir bathing suits, was promptly ducked in the surt. Mr. Wilkins may have been unfortunate in his reforma- tory endeavors, but the fact remains that no modest western gixl ever put on a New Jer- sey coast bathing suit for the first time with- out a perceptible addition to the height of her complexion. It takes o highly civilized young lady to o in bathing clad in fashion- ablo undergarments without blushing. AL A Plague on Both Your Homes. Philadeiphia Public Ledger. How can professional Irishmen reasonably object to the criticisms that are made of them as a class in face of the rival excursions in Chicago—the one to raise funds for the vrosecution of the murderers of Dr. Cronin, the other just as clearly arranged to reduce that fund by diverting a part of the receipts? The anti-Cronin faction did not dare to obenly raise a fund for the defense of the Cronin murderers. Its money, it is said, is to be sent to Mr. Parnell, but the evident purpose was to lessen the receipts of the friends of Dr. Cronin. *A plague o’ both your kouses'” is the exclamation of the American when he reaas of the quarrels of these two factions of Irishmen, Manderson’s Rerated Fension. Kansas City Times, Corvoral Tanner announces that he alone is responsible for rerating Senator Mander- son’s pension. He said that he had heard that the senator was dissatisfied with his pension, and upon inquiring into the merits of the case he became convinced that it should be increased, aud acted accordingly. This exoneration of Senator Manderson will oxonerate him when he refuses to accept the $4,000 0f arrearages. She Should Have Shaken Them. Chicago Times. A Nebraska eloping couple have just been captured in o Michigan town by a forsaken wife. As the ague is raging in the place the poor woman nover feit thoroughly shaken until she arrived th Modest Men at the Fort.| Kansas City Jowrnal, An Omaha paper explains the large num- ber of aesertions from the regular army on the ground that army scandals involving their official superiors are too much for the modest and sensitive privates, 1f there is truth in this explanation the list of recent desertions from Fort Omaha should bea long one. It Stird Up the Muddy. Chicago Times, Polities in Nebrasla is beginning to boom. ‘The Missouri river water has been unfitwo drink of lute. The Very Air is Warlike. Bealitee Democrat, A Sonth Omaha baby was born with veeth, and the circumstance creates considerable comment in the town. Keep cool, fellow citizens, nothing is 1mpossible with Nebraska people.—Omaua Bee, After readiug the procoodings of the city council and police commission, one would not be surprised if Omaha children in the future would be bora with hair on their broasts, aud bowlie knives in their teeth, Newspapers as Fublic Pro K ey Enterprise, ‘Pwo Omaha newspavers have recently at- tacked the administration of the police de- partment in that city in & manner that has directed public attention 1o the ineficiency and brtality of some of the oficers. The ceply of the police board is o summous to the oditors of the papers to appear bofore them aud substantiate their charges. ‘Thus is an extraordinary procesding. ecutors, Itis 25, 1880~-SIXTEEN PAGES. common thing for newspapers to uncover public abuses. It is one of their most im- portant functions to do so. But it is not wonerally deemed proper to ask them to pre pare tho cases for trial and argue them boforo a hostile board and against lawyers paid to oppose them. If the his of mewsvaper warfare on unworthy public servants was a ustory of false accus- ations there would bo some justice in the po sition the Omaha ofticials have taken, but that is not the case. The Now York World has done more to hunt down public rascals i that city than all thecourts. The Chicago and Philadelphia papers have rocently ex- posed a condition ot things in the insano asylums that almost justified the use of the gallows on certain officials, There has sel- dom been & newspaper mistaken in such a case, The chances are that the newspaper is right when 1t makes a public warfare of this kind. When the charges are made it rests with the accused to clear themsolves by & public investigation. It does not rest with the newspaper to assumo the functions of lawyer and prosecutor. The Omaha proceeding is a bluff, = - A BED-TIME SONG. Phitadelphia Times, Sway to and fro in the twilight gray, This is tho ferry for Shadowtown ; 1t always sails at tho end of tho day Just as the darkness is closing down. Rest, littlo head, on my shoulder—so, A sleepy kiss is the only fare; Drifting away from the world we go, Babyand I in the rovking chair, See whero the firo logs glow and spark, Glitter the lights of the shadowland, The pelting rains on the window—hark! Are ripples lapping upon its strand. There where the mirror is glancing dim, A luke with its glimmering cool and still; Blossoms are waving above its brim, Those over there on the window sill. Rock slow, more slow, in the dusky light, Silently lowering the anchor down Dear little passengor, say good night, We've reached the harbor of Shadowtown. el BUZZINGS. ““This detective business,” said a Farnam street rctail merchant, whose business re- quires the employment of a detective occa- sionally, “'is not what it ought to be in a city the size of Omaha. “‘Isec the last council has appointed a chiefof detectives; what is he chief of? How many detectives are there employed in the city! I understand there are four. Just what the city can do with four detectives regularly I cannot see. “Let the detectives serve as patrolmen, and when their scrvices as detectives are needed they can be reiieved. The govern- ment never has more than one detective em- ploved in the stato to look after its matters. “John B. Furay was at one time a detec- tive in the postoftice department, and his ter- ritory extended all the way from Omaha to Helena, Mont., and he was expected to- ex- amine every postofiice in five states and three or four territories, *‘In my own opinion no man should act as city detective longer than three months un- less he be working on some very difficult case extending over a greater length of time. Detectives are ? always bomb proof against bribes, anf{ it 1s_policy sometimes to havo one detective shadow the other, he trouble is,” said the merchant em- phacically, “we are flooding our town with a terrible burden of taxes. In some depart- ments the work could be doune with half the number of clerks now empioyed. The de- tective work could be done with half the force employed, and there are supernumer- aries in a number of the offices who showld be weeded outrat once. “We are putting on the airs of a great city with the income of a small town, compara- tively speaking. Chicago has a revenue of five millions a year, and still her assessment, is kept below 2 per cent. Here we are tax- ing people 5 per cent outside of paving, grad- ing and curbing taxes, and our city officials donot realize how they are piling it up, mountain high. They keep on raising sularies all the tite, never lower one, and never dispense with the services of anyone once employed. -~ “Just look av the city clerk’s office, for in- stance, where three years ago one man did all the work. Now there are three or four men in that office, and three in the comp- troller's office, aud several hangers on generally. Further, when the tax list is to be made out, notwithstanding the charter vs that the city clerk must do 1t himself, he hires extra help which costs the city thousands of dollg The city clerk has been relieved of work almost entirely, The liquor license business has been taken out of his hands, but yet the council would not think of such a thing as cutting down the number of clerks in his oftice, “Any business house,” he concluded, “managed the way tho city is, would go nto bankruptey in six months.” +a A man whose business occasionally takes him to the offico of the board of publie works told the Iuzzer that it made him tired to see Bub Balcombe eternally hanging around that office. It hus grown to be scandalous,” he continued, “that young Balcombe should hover around the office for vwo years, or more, making himself generally ofiicious in the presence of contractors. “]¢ has been intimated time and again that he is not there for the best ot motives, and that the services which he is able to render have & real money value to certain city contractors, At any rate if he has no business there he ought to beput out. If he has business there he ought to be on the city pay roll. It may be that injustice has been done him by casting aspersions upon Lis character with refer- ence to his dealings with contractors. There can be nosuch thing as & mau living on wind. “The board has a seerctary who transacts all its ofiicial business, and I suppose Bub Baicombe is kept there to do unofiicial work, He muy be of a benevolent turn of mind, and iy there to assist the contractors aud to help pull kinks out of specifica- tions. But in my opinion he does not suffer to any extent with a mania for unpad labor. ey The following has been clipped from & *steamed coutemporary : “Judge Taeger, of Chadron, met with an aceldent last week while on duty atthe wat- erworks dam. He was thrown 1o the ground and a load ) passed over huis body, tearing the jud foot completely off at the avkle, He resumed work, however, and af- terwards procured another wooden limb." “Billy Taeger, better known in the west as “Bully the Bear,” is one of the most unique characters in western,Nebraska.jHe ofilciates as police judge in Chadron, to which oftice he was electod about three years ago, aftor & successful career as o faro dealer, Mauy years ago Billy was a cowboy, and like others of his class loved to look upon the liquor when it wus red enough to furnish the accessary nerve to ride into town and shoot the door knobs off the houses, as he went, behind the flecing inhabitants. Billy got lost up in the Snake river coun- try one winter morning in a terrible blizzard. With the energy of dispair he stuck to his horse, wandering around all day tryiug to fiud the ranche house. The storm remained unabated for two days, and when the party organized to search for him found him both feet und all his fingers were frozen off. After this opisode Billy came to Oumaha and presided over the ‘old army gamo" at the old Palace gambling house over tho saloon at Tweltth and Farnam stroots. When the gambling houses were olosed down Billy went to Chadren, then in her reckioss youth, and dealt faro in a gambling house kept by a picturesque half gambler, half cowboy known as Sloggy. On account of his infirmities this proved a rather onerous duty for Billy, so the boye around town “chipped in" and bought him a typowriter, which, after much effort, ho learned to manipulate with the stumps of fingers which adornod his hands. He printed documents for tho lawyers, constructed nand bills for barbers and saloons, and soon had a flourishing business established. How- evor, the boys conceived the idea of creating another means of livlinood for Billy, who, by the way, was a prime favorite. so at tho next city election ho was nominated for and elected police Judgo. When he hobbled down town after his election, supported on either sido by ® stout cane, he always prossaged his courtaous “g00d morning” by a hoarse cough of author- ity, and the dignity of his carriage, so far as waspossible, was overwhelming. The year after his eloction a couple of gamblors in town gov into difcuity over a woman, The woman’s favorite, a good look- ing young follow went to Crawford one day, and during his absence his rival pursuaded the woman to run away with him, promising to take her oast and marry her. A friend of Frank's, howover, heard of the scheme and telegraphed him at Crawford in time for him to boara the train for Chadron. The rival had secured a team and driver, and started with the woman for Hay Springs, where they intended to board the night ex- press for Omaba, When Frank arrived in town he hired a swift saddiec horse, and learning the direction they had taken started in pursuit. He came in sight of them near Bordeaunx creek and was discoverod at the samo time. The driver of the carriage, en- couraged by tho promise of oxtra reward, lashed lus horses into a run and the raco be- gan. “The carriago horses wore tired, however, and Frank slowly but surely gained on his rival and the false inamorata. When within range he drew his revolvers, and galloping at break-neck speed he emptied all their chambers. His rival, bidding the woman crawl under the seats, merrily returned the firg, standing up and holding on to the sway- ing carriage, while his accomplice reloaded the weapon. Frank gained on them foot by foot, and having Lastily reloaded his “‘gun” on the dead run, drew up abreast of the carriage. Raising bimself in his stirrups he fired one shot at the woman cowering beneath the seat, but before he had an opportunity to re- peat 1t his rival leaved on the seat and with deliberation and the assurance that if he missed his shot his last deal was over pulled the trizger aud Frank fell from his horse a corpse. ' The carriage was atopped, and the now re- pentant woman threw herseif on tho lifeless body of her lover, The couple watched be- siae the body while the driver returned to town to break the news. A party of Frank's frienas came out and returned to town with theobody, accompanied by the murderer and the woman. That evening tho body lay in"staté m the rear of “Billy the Bear's” oftice, The news had spread that Frank had ‘“‘got the worst of it,” and the office was thronged with gam- blers, courtesans and tenderfeet, all anxious 10 get a glimpse of the dead gambler's face. Billy was acting coroner, and a jury was soon chosen from among the surrounding crowd. Tne murderer had not been arrested, and mingled with the crowd, who swarmed into the “Gold Dust,” a neighboring saloon and dance house, and refreshed themselves when dry from discussing the details of the tragody. The evidence was talken, the driver whose hat and clothes were pierced by buliets told his story, the wom#® was summoned, but owing to her grief and agitation could tell but little. Finally the jury retired, ana after taking a few drinks and deliberating on the case, came to the conclusion that the deceased come to his death v.ln'u’\'xgh suicide, o Billy gained his soubriquet when traveling with Buffalo Bill's company in the seventies. The play was of the blood curdling variety, with scouts, Indians, bad men, & beautiful maiden in hard tuck, and a bear. Billy played the bear. He was attired in a bear skin, and mightly attacked the beautiful maiden in the woods, to be shot by the long haired scout just in the uick of time. This was Billy's only histrionic venture, but it gained him a name which will probably never leave him. When Buffalo Bill was showiug at Erastina, near New York, Billy thought he would like to see his old patron,s0 he packed his grip and away he went, leaving his office ta, take care of itself. He went to New York and renewed 0ld acquaiatances among the cowboys, and his history created a good deal of intercst among the swells, whose par- ticular ‘‘fad” it was to make the acquaint ance of tho ‘*wild nd wooly” men fro the plains. When he was away the commis- sioners passed u resolution deposing him, but when he returned his populurity resulted in his reinstatement. Billy has been all over the world, so he says, and tells the most marvelous tales of his adventures in Borneo, Afghanistan, Bul- garia and other out of the way places, “But,” suid an old cattle man, who was with him on the plains in carly days, “Billy is such an artistio liar that he could make you believe ho had discoverad the source of the Nile or that it was he who struck Billy Pat- terson,'! S B Nebraska and lowa Pensions, Wasminaroy, D, C.,, August 24, Telegram to T ke, |--Pensions grante Nebraskans: wm. H. Buck, Ma- noah Graham, Geo. G, Stone, John W. Arm- stron, Avery A. Perry, Wwm. A Will oughby. : 18 ullowed lowans: Original in- John C, James, Thos. J. Allison, Geo, vid Restoration, ressuc and i Albert Little. Increase—Jas, G. put nzie, Geo. . Conlee, John P2, Mulle- nix, Jas. Nollan, Frank Wyatt, Matthew M. Dickson, John G. Morgan, Geo, Tale, Allen MeCoy. Reissue—Creighton Thompson, Thos, Gaffney. Couldn't Live Without Offico, Saur Lake, Utah, August 24.—[Special Telegram to Tie Beg. | —J. R. W form- erly clerk of the court of the second judicial district, committed suicide at Beaver yester- day. The deceased was clerk for soventeen years aud was only lately superseded. In 1857 Lo was appointed probate judge by Pres- ident Cloveland, but failed to qualify. M Watiins was favorably known in this city e was anative of ‘Tennesseo and abou forty-eight years of age. The cause is sup- posed to be the Loss of his oftice and financial ©cmbarrassment, Sl bl tephenson's Conching Party. SaLr Lake, Utah, August 24.—| Special Tol- egram to Tue BEE. | —Jim Stophensou’s six- horse Concord stages arc in the city and yes- terday made a tour of che town, The party ave on their return from the Yellowstone park, and will remain here until next Mo Uay, A carricr pigeon from Omaha was dis: patched from here to-day by the Stephenson Party. Jin e, Kentucky Democratic Convention, LoutsviLLe, Ky., August 24.—October 2 has been fixed as the date aud Worcester as the place of nolding the democratic state convention. SALARIES CAN BE INCREASED Supervisora Now in Office Can Col- leot 83 Per Diem. GENERAL LEESE THUS DEGIDES. 014 Soldiers of Lincoln Off For the National Encampmsnt—Suprome Court Records—Oharch Dodis ocation—~News Items. LINCOLN BUREAU oF TR OMAMA Han, 1020 P Streer, LINCOLN, August 24, Tho logislature of 1880 passed act to amend section 61, article 04 of chapter 18, increase ing the pay of supervisors in counties work- ing under township organization, from §2 to £3 por day whon actually omployed. A great mauy communications have been sont to the attorney goneral asking his opin- fon in relation to the right of the logislature to increase their vay during the term of of- fice for which they were elocted, and ho submits the following opinion thereupon: ‘“I'ne question presented 1s, does section 16 of article 8 of the constitution prohibit the legislature from inoreasing tho pay of su- pervisor during his torm of office. Section 0 reads as follows: ‘' ‘The legislature shall never grant any extra compensation to any public officer, agent, servant, or contractor, after the sors vices shall have been rendered or the con- tract entered into, Nor shall the compensa-~ tion of any public oflicer be increased or di- minished during his term of oftlce “While the foregoing language would im- ply the counuy treasurer, shoriff, suporvisor yet in the light of the decisions of the courts of other stutes, with a_constituti- tional provision like our own, it is construed o apply only to such public officers and agents as are paid by tho stste.” Judge Cooley, in his work on constitu- tional limitation, uses this language in sec- tion , note 2.~ “When an oftice is croated by statute it is wh within the control of the logislature. 'The term, the mode of ap- pointment, und the componsation may be al- tered at pleasure.” 1If the language in the constitution refors to county officers, then the legislature would not have the power to remove, or shorten the term, or aiter the compensation. Iu will be seen by an examination of the constitution, neither the compensation to by paid the supervisors, or the term of ofce are fixed by that instrument, and the su- 1o court of Wisconsin, in passing upon ame question, says: “It 18 well set- tled that in the absence of any constitutional prohibition of aMrmative pro fixing the term of any officer, or his compensation, the legislature may change such term, or compensation, and such change will apply to ofticers then in oflice as to those to bo there- after elocted. See 50 Wisconsin report, p. 183, citing county commissioners vs Jones; 18 Minno- vy P. 1263 sota, . 199, Toft v 27 California, p. ), People vs Barvard; 20 Wisconsin, p. 428, State vs Douglas, aad 21 Wisconsin, p. 613, Supervisors vs Hackott, In tho case last cited the court says in pass- ing upon the same language used in the con- stitution of that state us is used in section sixteen of our own: The word compensation signifies a roturn for the services of such services of such officers as received a fixed salary, payable out of the public treasury of tho state. “I'he case of the state ex rel Martin, county udge, vs. Kalb county treasury, in the fifty Wisconsin, 18 where the salary of the county judge was reduced from $3,500 por annum to )0, and as the very identical question has passed upon by the able court, and the re used in our constitution has been held not to apply to a county judge who_ re- ceived a salary. That thelogislature had the right to reduce his salary during his term of oftice. Then I éan suy from purity of reason- ing that the compensation can be raised by the legislature during the term of the super- visors, WiLLiay LEeEsE, Attorney Geueral, Going to Milwaukee, Grand Army badges formed a prominent feature on the streets of Lincolu to-day. The old veterans could bo seen moving hither and thither with more than their wonted elasticity. They were all rigged up in their blue clothes with brass buttous, and many of them wore the jaunty little fatigue caps that had done duty years and years ago, when the old flag was in dan Banners were flying and the drum corps was parading the street. The boys were simply going to Mil- waukee, that was all. Going to attend the Twenty-third sunual reunion and national encampment; going to listen to the ‘“drum beat” and feel the ‘“‘heart beat” as of yore, Many an old cauteen was brought out and swung over the shoulder, and even on this trip the g aired old veterans will sing with enthusiasm that soul-stirring ballad, “‘We've Drank irom the Same Canteon.” The Union Pucific sent a special tram, made up at Beatrice, which at Omaba was put into the headquarters train and run through without change. e following parties from Lincoln joined the party to-day: Captain Paing and wife, Colonel Gatchell, William Gillespie, Joseph Teeter, John Bowen, Major H. C. MeArthur, D. Gor- man, George Westlake and wife, J. M. Pomeroy, T, Coffman, Mrs. Norris Hum- phrey, G, W. Sesson, Dr, Queca and wife Grandpa Masterman and othors. The other roads also seut out a number of people for Milwaukee. House Jottings, The state librarian and clerk of the su- preme court huye moved into their new quarters, "Tho precinct of Ogallala, Keith county, sent in $35,000 worth of canal bonds for reg- istration to-day. In addition to these the stato nuditor rovoived eight sots of school district bonds. ‘The smokestack at completed within a w capitol grounds have been greatly improved during the past few days. — Contractor Lan- ham has got in his work at the ninth hour, The work of removing the boilers and ongines from the basement of the state house to the new boiler and engine house will be commenced shortty. It is said that this work will be completed within the noxt sixty days. It is suggested that this will be necessary for Jack I'rost may commence to nip by thut time. the state house will be In genoral, the Supre Court Cases. The following cases were filod for trial 1 the supreme court today : Fabian . Potyin v error from district court of county. Charles B. Rico vs. John £ from the district court of Jeflorson county. Fabian S, Potvin ve. John K. Barr; error from the district court of Lancister county, v Hall vs, First National bauk ot error from the district court of hraim B. Meyers Lancaster axon; error Cl All cases that come up for trial at the next sitting of the supreme court must be filed on or before Tuesday, August 27, City News and Notes. Walt Mason, of the Call staff, was called to Atchison, Kan,, yesterday to attend the bedside of his her, who is very sick. The Call denies the report that he has left that st temple of worship Lo-morrow, Black, of Chicago, and other eminent divines will be in attendance. It is claimed that this body of christian peovle have the finest church edifico in ho state. 7 The Knights of Pythias orders of Li © making exteusive preparations royal anniversary celevration on next ' day. Ratuburn, of Washington, will address the boys, The ovent Commemoratos the second anniversary of the Uniform rank and the first anniversiry of the First regimgat. ‘This body wiil escort the speaker of the w the opors house. The drill exercises in the evening will be a prominent feature. Farry 0, Dobbins, of the Evening Nows, loft for Chicago to-day, via the Clicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul” railway, He went with the Grand Army excursioists. John Ice was arrested to-day on compiaiod of H. J. Pouter for obtaining goods under false pretenses. "The police court was called out to Twenty- seventh and I¢ streots o-day by & telephone messago stating tuat s family row was io rogress. When Lhe boys reachoed the scous Dotk Busband und wife ad disappeared.