Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 13, 1889, Page 4

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Wiri the forged signature scandal before them, Omaha paving contractors should write a volume entitled, **Every contractor the people’s penman.” TaE contemplated additional capac- ity of the Omaha smelting works is o splendid indication that Omaha isabout to take the position of the leading silver refining country. Tie American navy is lucky, indeed. Not a single vessel was out in the great storm which swept the Atlantic coast. It would not do to have the Apia exper- jence repeated on our own shores. PHILADELPHIA and New York have not yet abandoned the bob-tail street car. It might be an instructive object lesson for representatives of either city to come out and look at our street car systems. THE government supervising archi- tect promises to visit Omaha early next month and put the new government building under way. The earlier he comes the heartier the welcome he will recelye. THg extreme kind-heartedness of the Omaha police commissioners in sending a portion of the city’s force to Lincoln to wateh Omaha crooks during fair week will doubtless be appreciated by the Capitol City, TIowa would feel pleased to haye ex- Congressman Kusson receive the Rus- sian mission. And it is quite hkely that the old campaigner, in spite of his years, would risk the rigors of a Rus- Bian winter in the service of his country. Tue New York papers continue to complain of the slow progress made by the millionaires of thav city in raising funds for the world’s fair. Meanwhile, the Chicago press is patting its people on the back and telling them to go in and win, ————— TuE title of the Omaha, Hutchinson & Gulf Railway company is very at- tractive, but the railroad has not yet done anything but establish a capital stock. “When the road tukes another step the public will be duly informed through these columns, SHERMAN, of grain shortage fame, who is wanted in New York on charges of forgery, is said to be weary of his exile in Canada and is likely to return and surrender to the authorities. Snug, warm guarters in Sing Sing do not con- trast so badly with the extreme cold of aCanadian winter. THe sonate dressed beef committee has discovered that in selling meats to the consumers after buying from the packers the Kansas City butchers make @ profit of about nine dollars a carcass. If the commission will now determine what profit accrues to the packer after buying from the stock shipper, the dressed beef question ought to be com- pressed in a nut shell, Fe——— Tux trial of Henry 8. Ives, the Napo- leon of finances who, out of a capital of afew hundred dollars was able to buy and control two railroads and fail for twenty millions all within eight years, will prove one of the most celebrated eriminal cases on record. He is ar- ralgned in New York city on the charge of obtaining six millions under false pretenses, and in the course of the trial the story of the wonderful career of this slock rascal will in all probabi out. THE PENSION COMMISSTONERSHTP. The dispatches of Wedneeday regard- ing the case of Commissioner Tanner were vague and somewhat contradie- tory. Later information shows his re- tirement to be final, he having tendered his resignation, which the president ac- cepted. The correspondence which brought about this interesting result is brief and pointed, The commissioner states as the reason for tendering his resignation the existence of differences be- twoen the sacretary of the interior and himsell as to the policy to be pursued 1n the administra- tion of the pension bureau, which had reached a stage that threatened to embarrass himto an extent he felt he should not be ealled upon to suffer. The completed investigation of the pension bureau having discovered nothing ro- flecting upon the integrity of the com- missionor, and o heing desirous of r lieving the administration of any further embarrassment in the matter, sent to the president his resignation. In accepting it, to take effect on the ap- pointment and qualification of a succes- sor, the president did not think it necessary to discuss the causes which ave led to the present attitude of affairs in the pen- sion office, and disposed of the matter by stating that so far as advised the lionesty of the commissioner has not at any time been called in question, con- cluding with an expression of personal good will. What differences there have been be- tween Secretary Noble and Commis- sioner Tanner s left Jargely to conjec- ture, but whatever their nature it issafe to assume -that the secretary has not been at fault. Both he and the president are old soldiers, and are as heartily and earnestly the friends of old soldie s Commis- sioner Tarner. It cannot be reason- ably supposed, therefore, that there was any desive on the part of either to em- bar) the commissioner in the judi- cious and proper performance of I duty, and if he was threatened with em- barrassment it was simply because his blunde and indiscretions had com- pelled the secretary, undoubtedly with the full concurrence of the president, to put a check upon him. Obviously the desire of the administration would be to sustain so important a public official as the commissioner of pensions as long as a reasonable excuse could be found for doing so, and from this point of view the result proves that Com- missioner Tanner had outworn the patienceand toleration of the ident. 1n implying that the responsibility, or blame, for the differences between him- self and the secretary of the interior rests upon the latter, it is not to be doubted that Commissioner Tanner does an injustice to Secretary Noble. Corporal Tanner, like many other well-meaning and honest men, fell a victim to his inordinate passion for talk- ing. Early in his short incumbency of the pension office President Harrison felt obliged to warn him ‘*‘not to talk too much.” The friendly warning, un- fortunately. only seemed to grease the hinges of his jaws that speech might follow interviewing. In his anxiety to accomplish reforms which might in- crease his own popularity and redeem pledges made, he felt it incumbent to wount the housetop of publicity and shout his Hosannah of wide open liberality so that the world might hear. The recoil of his mouth may not have been more damaging to himself than his shots were to his friends, but it has kicked him out of office. The obvious moral in the case may be commended to all executive officers ot the govern- ment. It is reported that Major William Warner, of Missouri, ex-commander-in- chief of the Grand Army of the Re- public, has been tendered the office of commissiouer of pensions, and that he has gone to Washington in response to a telegram from Secretary Noble., Major ‘Warner has the full confidence of the old soldier man of ability and ex- perience in affairs, and hisappointment would undoubtedly be regarded with very geneval approval. THE APPEAL 10 GREED., At notime since New York begun its campaign to secure the world’s fair, which is to celebrate the discovery of America has there been a serlous ap- peal to any other instinct of the people of the metropolis than that of greed. What New Yorkers could probably malke out of the millious of people who would visit the fair is the prime consid- eration that is continually put forward 1a0st prominently as an incentive to all classes of the business com- munity to subscribe to the proposed fund. There is no sugges- tion of patriotic sentiment in connection with the project. Tho idea that the people of the greatest city of the west- ern world should be generous for the honor and glory of the country has never been presented in any of tho urgent calls upon those pecple to come forward with their subscriptions. Only mercenary and sordid considerations have been addressed to them. The pos- sibility of immeunse profits for overy line of trade, the grand opportunity for more fully adver- tising to the world the commer- cial greatness of New York, and the magaificent aggrogate of the *‘pick- ings and stealings” to be expected from having the world as its patron for six months—these alone are the moving and inspiring considerations which are kept before the people of New York as inducements to zeal and liberality. The statistics of the material benefits to Paris of its great exposition are freely drawn upon to stimulate the greed of New Yorkers. For example, the New York Sun finds that there has been & great increase in the con- sumption of meats and other articles of food 1o Paris, and quoting from the correspondent of a London journal that business done in hotels, boarding houses and shops oxceeds the most sanguine hopes, en- thusiastically says: **What prosperity awaits the butchers, bakers and candle- stick makers, as representatives of all trades and occupations, of Gotham! Great 8s the times be now, neither the present nor the past provides an ade- quate measure for the fulluess of the future. Everybody in town must pre- pare and be ready to expand his field of operations, from the majestio manager of the linea of traffic down to the honest bootblack, the polite vender of soda water, and the industrious merchant of oranges and apples.” How entirely characteristic this of New York. A]ways mercenary, grasping, insatiable—strong in prom- ises and weak in performance—great in all material things and infinitely small in every other respept—wholly selfish und wholly provincial. If New York fails to secure the world’s fair the fail- ure will be in no small degree due to a widespread unwillingness to encourage the unconcealed greed which is the in- spiration to her offorts. OUR HUMILTATION. The humiliating inadequacy of the American exhibit at the Paris exposi- tion has frequently been spoken of by our own citizens who have seen it, but no one had quite done the subject jus- tice until Mr. Chauncey M. Depew talkod about it. Mr. -Depew has just returned from Europe, and his very apt and impressive description of the effect the American portion of the great show had upon him isthe statement that when he went into it he wrapped himself in an American flag about one hundred feet square and when he had walked through the exhibits of the United States he found he could put that flag into his pocket. This 1s a very neat and telling way of illustrating the shrinkage which American pride suf- fers from a comparison of the exhibits of this country with those of other coun- tries, and it gives the best idea fur- nished by any one of the relative mean- ness of the American portion of the Paris exposition. What the United States has there is good, but it is wholly inadequate to the purpose of showing the varviety and greatness of the coun- try’s productions und resouvces. Mr. Depew suggests that the Am ican people have got to rise in their might and create a world’s fair which shall be such an exhibition of the manu- factures, arte and sciences as will as- tonish the world, and thus atone for our humiliation at Paris. There will be a universal concurrence in this view. There is not a single good rea- son why the United States can not have a world’s fair in 1892 that will 1ch oxposition, magnifi- cent as that unquestionably is. On the contrary, encountering none of the hostility from European governments that France did, we should be able to y excel her fair, if the proper spirit and effort are shown. We have only the one disadvantage of not pos sessing a Paris. DBut we have a city that comes nearer the French metrop- olis than any other in the world in the extent and variety of its attractions, and if congress shall wisely locate the world’s fair of 1892 at Chicago, the exhibition will not only surpd that at Paris, but the financial results will be yery much greater, Mr. Depew can greatly aid the promotion of sucha world’s fair as he thinks this country ought to have, and at the same time gain something personally, by throwing his very consid- erable influence in favor of the western metropol PROMOTIONS ON MERIT. The employes of the Union Pacific will be most interested in that part of the interview with Mr. Charles Francis Adums, published in another column of THE BEE, which relates to his determi- nation to enforce in the future civil ser- vice promotions within the ranks of the railroads, There has been a strong suspicion that Mr. Adams was not at all treating the old employes fairly in rec- ognizing worth, and in encouraging their faithfuluess by promotions. From the day of his election until within a few months at least, vacancies as a rule have not been filled by promotions. Too often green and inexperienced hands have been put into positions of trust over the heads of men grown gray 1n the te. The result,apparently has not been thoroughly satisfactory, or else Mr. Adams has experienced a change of heart, From his recent declarations, the old employes are at lust to receive their just dues. Promotions are to be made from within the ranks, and only in ex- ceptional cases will officinls be taken from the world outside the twenty thousand employes of the road. If these professions are sincere, the efficiency of the Union Pacific in all departments will be raised. The policy should long ago have been adopted as the standing rule. Other roads have recognized the force of this stimulus in encouraging their employes to put forth their best offorts, and on the groat trunk lines of the country it stands as an unwritten law, not to be broken. ORDERS have just been issued by the secretary of war for the abandonment of several forts and the assignment of their garrisons to other posts. The forts are all well known and were at one time of consequence as outposts of civilization. They are, however, now but little needed as defensive stations, and have for that reason become use- less to the government. Among the number to be abandoned are Fort Lyon in Colorado, Fort Laramie in Wyoming, Fort Hays in Kansas, and Fort Sisseton in Dakota, It is evidently the inten- tion of Secretary Proctor to make many more such changes and to concentrate tha troops thus relieved in the newer and larger forts at Omaha, Chicago, Denver, Fort Robinson, Fort Riley and Fort Niobrara, which, when completed and furnished for their maximum ac- commodation of troops, will be able to sustain large garrisons. The con- templated changes are of considerable importance, as it will involve a great saving to the government and add to the better discipline of the army. E— IN this as well as in. other cities the overhead wire system is assuming a serious phase, A Cincinnati telephone company has brought suit for heavy damages against an electrical street road because the induction from the wires of the one company interfered with the workings of the other’s busi- ness. With electric light, telegraph, fire alarm, district telegraph service and the electrio car wires overhead o multiplicity of currents are produced, and any proximity of different wires produces an‘fmmediate trouble with the currents. Thefe is only one way to overcome the difficulty, and that is by placing the wires underground. The quicker this method is adopted in Omaha the betser for all concerned. — THE six honths of the summer pork packing season have just closed and show an encouraging condition of the pack- ing interests, despite the unfavorablo outlook duping the spring months. There has been an inorease 1in the season’s total from March 1 of over one million as com- pared with the corresponding time last year. All of the ten princi- pal packing centers report large gains and ready markets, and the present year bids fair to touch high-water mark. The pork packers of Omaha cannot complain of their season’s work. They have rounded out the record with afull halt million to their credit, an incronse of twenty-five thousand over the favorable showing last year. 1t re- mains for them, however, to advance Omaha as a pork-packing center from third to second place. Tie Ber calls attention to the special trade reports and reviews which are sent exclusively to this paper from the trade centers of the east. The com- mercial interests of this section have learned to appreciate THe Beg's efforts in this direction. Its reports touching the pork packing statistics of the coun- try and copper industries of the world are found to be useful guides to the in- terests involved, The review of the wool trade, prepared from reliable sources, a feature just added, is, more- over, likely to prove of value to the wool growersand trade generally of this state, Wyoming and Colorado. Tne total amount of currency circu- lating in this country on September 1 was one billion, three hundred and ninety million, three hundred and six thousand and ten dollars, being an in- crease over August 1 of ten million, six hundred and nineteen thouvsand and seventy-three dollars. With such a fa- vorable showing as this- no heed need be taken of the wild cries of the demo- cratic organs gbout the shrinkage in the currency. Ka s CITY is paying her respects to the chiefsof fire departments, who are holding- their seventeenth annual convention in that city this week. The compliment is well deserved. No class of men is so well respected in the com- munity as the brave fire laddies, whose lives aro risked in the saving of life and property. M. JonN L, SULLIVAN is as yet un- determined whether to satisfy his unre- quited ambition by running for congress or by accepting an humbler seat in the common council of his own Boston. Another prize fight would swell his head to the size where there couldn’t ny doubt of his aspirations to the Tre B. & M. railroad has established an air brake school at Plattsmouth for the purpose of instructing trainmen in the proper use of brak Judging from the: numerous collisions which have occurred lately an air brake academy would do well hore. ling Innovation. Chicago Inter-Oczan. The court and the attorneys for the de- fense in the Cronin case scem to be wide apart in the kind of jurors desired. The court goes so far as to favor men of intelli- gence, ———— Kansas City's Dirty Streets, Kangas ity Journal, The streets are now in fine condition—to be cleaned. Qhe dirt on the pavements is of such consistency that it will yield readily to the hoe. Let the good work procecd. e Papa Might Give Him Points. Chicago Herald, Prinee Albert Victor is gomng to India to hunt the tiger. The young man can get some valuable pointers as to the habits of this fe- rocious beast from his jolly, bald-headed vapa, who in days gone by has often “bucked” the royal animal with varying success, Can Talk as Well as Fight, St, Louis Globe-Democrat, Joseph B. Foraker's speech at Xenia, marks the formal opening of the Ohio can- vass. The governor is as good in tailking when talking is i order as he was in fight- ing in 1861-65, when fighting was the busi- ness of all patriots, or as ho has been for the past four years in administering the affairs of nis state, SR e Armour and the Senate. Philadelphia Times. Unless Mr. Armour has good reasons for belioving that he and his dressed beof syndi- cate are more powerful than tho United States sanate and house of ropresentatives he has made a mistake. The fact that he has refused to appear before a properly con- stituted investigating committee of the sen- ate will be accepted by commitice, senate and people as a confession that he is engaged in & business inimical to the public interests and that he fears to have it investigated by a committen that will mvestigate. Perhaps, however, Mr. Armour, has been assured in advance that liberal contributions to campaign funds entitle him to tell a senate investigating committee to go to Hades, and that after doing s0 he can with safoty twirl his thumbs at the committee and ask Tweed's fumous question. The public will watch with some degree of interest to see what the senate will do about ft. I THIS AND THAT. It would not be surprising if Von der Ahe should now take up foot-bull. He certainly displays remarkable ability as a kicker, If Justice will only brace up and oil her scales, as Judge Horton wants her to, Chi- cago may become & very decent sortof & place, after all, A train load of Boston capitalists will visit the Sioux City paluce. The social meeting of the bean-eaters with the corn-raisers will uo doubt be homouy-ous. Three white horses were concerned in the Cronin murder case. If wowmen could serve as jurors, those with bright auburn hair would be lu great demand. Again has St. Louis been forced to yield in ber unequal race with the city by the lake. Her only amarchist newspaper is in the hands of its creditors, Another counterfeit English lord has met with disaster, this time at Fargo, Dakota. He proved to be a clever forger who had come 1o this country to wear ao wssumad Litle and squander stolon woalth. Tt fs & dificuly matter for Amoricans to tell when a foreign titlo is the real article or only an imitation. It might be well to always bo certain that the name is blown in the bottle. Tho paying solicitors who saved peopje the trouble of signing their potitions may have meant well, but accommodations of this kind are not usually appreciated. A live tarantula was found in & New York station house the other day. Thero 18 rea- s to foar that Chicago papers will jump on the fact as an argument against holding the World's fair in the metropolis. Hard times have overtaken the Aurora Watch company and the management has temporarily wound up its business, but hope to have its idle hands at work again soon, even if tho business has 1o be run on tiok 1t is not improbable that Jack will finally give up the ripping business from sheor wearinoss and try some other form of amusement. The blockheaded London blue- coats don't ev en make it interesting for him, A Chicago girl has varied the monotony of the ordinary elopoment which occurs with such commonplace frequency in that city, by running away with a Japauese and marry- ing him in Milwaukee. Chicago is strikingly cosmopolitan if it is anything. A scientifically nclined person claims to have discovered that night mares aro on the decline in this country. The fault to be found with the gentleman's investigations is that he conducted them during the wrong time of the year. If he will take a few data along in December when the mince pie and the roast turkey season is at its height, we believe the nightmare problem will assume a differont phase, i i e, PERSONAL AND POLITIOAL. The workinzmen’s 5-cont fare over the motor bridge line to Council Bluffs still re- mains at a dime. There is o possibility that tho parties who Propose to exhibit the corpse of the green- back party at a convention ere long will be arrested for grave-robbing. The Bohring sea troubles seem to havo caused Cauada to bocome a chronic growler. Probably that is why the United States con- tinues to Rush it, Jay Gould's health is said to be better now than it hus been for some time. It is likely that ne will now go to work in real earnest to lay up something for old age. The grave-digger in Hamlet remarked: ‘A tanner will last you nine years.” Either a Danish tauner is made of better goods than the American article or else President Har- rison’s Tanuer was not up to the mark for he only lasted about six months, Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, has again been heard from fighting his way from the Upper Nile to the east coast. Stanley dif- fers greatly from all other modern explorers. He devotes more time to exploriog than ho does to lecturing about his exploits. It is very unjust to speak of the Prince of Wales as a useless appendage to the British court. He has just set- tled an important question of dress by decding that three studs, instead of two should be worn with an evening cos- tume and gives as a reason for his opinion tbat the increased number makes a shirt set better. The prince has a great head that ‘would, were he a resident of this country, entitle him to a seat 1n the oity council. S THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD. An antisewing machine guild has been formed by the Chinese tailors of Hong Kong. Lord Rundolph Churchill has become one of the foremost champions of the eight-hour movement in England. The ewployes of the Morden frog and crossing works, in South Chicago, are on a strike for an advance in wagesof 10 per cent. Work is being resumed in the Blackburn mills in England, which shut down, and 1,000 looms which were stobped have again been put n motion, A Frenchmarn who was born in 1750 is reg- ularly at work in a mill at Ottawa, Canada. Heis haleand bearty, and seems good for several niore summers, Trade is reported to be very good in tho iron and steel inaustry at Youngstown, Pa. All the mills are running in full blast and no one is idle who is willing to work. The Louisville & Nashville raised the wages of passenger conductors on Septem- ber 1 from $100. A considerable number of the old conductors wero discharged & fow weeks ago. Au increase of wages of from 23 to 10 per cent has been promised to the employes of the Pennsylvania Steel company a’ Harris- burg, Pa. The ivcrease is to set off a reduc- tion when the trade is bad. ‘The percentage of wages pald for food by American workingmen as shown by a re- cent return from various countries is much less than is paid by the workmon of cither Germany, Spain, Great Britain, France, Italy or Belguim, It is said that hundreds of colored men liv- ing in North Caroliua, owing to the low wages they receive, are thinking of emigrat- ing t0 western, northwestern and south- western states, Sinco last fall,it is reported, at least 15,000 colored men have emigrated froin that state, The roport of the Saxon factory inspectors in Germany states that during the past year no less than 10,652 children, from twelve to fourteen years of age, an increase of 1,000 in round numbers over the previous year, are employed 1n the various industrial establish- ments, “Men who set _type for this paper,” says the Madison (Wis.) State Journal, “have sinco fllled the offices of United States treas- urer, members of congress, supreme court judges, and many lower offices 1 the govern- ment; several eminent editors, ministers, lawyers and physicians have aiso sprung from their ranks, and a still larger npumber have occupied the higher positious of trust in the business circles of life,” Eehisn, STATE AND TERRITOKY, Nebraska dottings. A thief at Franklin walked off with a 1,500 pound pile driver hammer. ‘Tho Cherry county court house at Valen- tine has boan declared uusafe, The Saliue county republican convention will be held at Crete, October 5 and the democrats will nomiuate on the 12th, A demented youog woman named Zaugg disappeared from her howe eleven miles east of Rushville last week and has not been heard from since, A roward is offerad for information regarding her whereabouts, ‘The coroner’s jury which has boen inyestis ating the case of Albert Pohl, who was illed near Fremont by falling from & train, has brought in & verdict censuring the Union Pagific and Pullman companies for neglect. ‘The Chambers Eagle reports the death of a twelve-year-old girl at Scottville, Holt county,” the daughter of a Mr. Sargent, caused by @ load of hay overturniog upon her. A pitchfork passed entirely through her body. Four North Bend young men named Al Bartlett, Willlam French, Albert McCreath and George Stanforth, are in jail at F're- mont charged with robblug the store of the latter's father in March last. They have acknowledgel committing the crime and their prospects are good for terms in the penitentiar; . Five toughs tried to run the town of Mef(ool Junction the other day during the vrogross of @ campmeeting. They tried to steal two horses, insulted 4 woman and threateued to chop a mun's head off with an axe. Hut thore were men 6t the cawpueet= ing Who had seen something of western life, and proceeded at once to overhaul tho offend- ors, arresting all of them and placing them safoly bohind the bars. Towa Items, Ottumwa will commonce laying rails for ita electrio streat railway next weok. No more cemeteries can b located within tho city limits of Dubuquo_by edict of tho counell. Fifty orphans from the New York Catho- lic orphan_asylums bave boen given homes in Towa this woek. Oscar Wilde, who drives a hack in Des Moines, has beon fined § for trespassing on forbidaen grouna at the depot. Ottumwa colored citizens will cclebrate Emancipation day with an old-fashioned bar- becue at Mineral Springs on the 23d. A reward of 850 is offered for tho capture of Hiram J. Lawhead, the horscthief who recently escaped from the Knoxville jail. Minnie Ender, of Princoton, has become msane owing to the persistent orueity of her husband and has been sent to tho Mt. Pleas- ant asylum, Prospectors have found two veins of coal within three miles of Davenport which will aggregate eight feot in thickne: The qual- ity is excellont and citizens aro jubilant. Tt is tho only coal in that region west of the rivor. A band of Sac and Fox Indians performed tho “peace dance” in_the rotunda of the ate capitol, at Des Moines, the other day, for the benefit of the governor and several visitors, Tho governor was much pleased with the porformance and the good will ex- prossod by tho Indians. Mayor Ames, of Marshalltown, has re- ceived a letter from H. McChesney, member of the Chicago board of health, in reforence to a shipment of cattle received at that city, the animals boing_aflictedwith tho discase Known as “lump-jaw.’ The letter requests thoname of the owner of the cattle, and says the cattle were probably fed at the glu- cose factory in Marshalltown. A Storm’ Lako young lady, while splitting kindling woou, mado n miss-lick with the hatchet and cut off a piece of hor left ear, says the Pocahontas Record. Her mother did not take any stock in doctors, 8o she sent up town and sccured a bottle of mucilage and pasted the picce back on with that ad- hesivo article and, stravge to suy, the piece took root und is now entirely well. Wyoming. The people of Douglas have unanimously voted in favor of waterworks. The Bessemer Journal claims that at a depth of 225 feet a flow of twonty-five bar- rels daily is the result of the Moffat well near that place, 1t cost Wyoming $1.52 for eu the Evanston iusane asylum month of August. Reports from the Savery range in Carbon county state that sheep men are trying to drive cattlo from the country and hive fired into several herds. A real estato boom has struck the new town of Newcastle, five miles south of the B. & M. coal camp in Crook county, and seven miles northwest of Field City. EdT. Moran advertises in the Buffalo Sentinel that he 1s about to “‘skip" town and requests his croditors to present their bills at once or “keep their mouths shut” there- aftel The town of Almy claims to have coul mines, seven stores, cight saloons, two tomperance places, two barber shops, four churches, one opera house ana three ico cream parlors, and says she only wants a good newspaper and the electric light to be perfectly happy. The wlins wool warchouse handled this year 1,600,000 pounds of wool, an excess over the handling of last year of 622,000 pounds, says the Tribune. This wool was aot only handled in the matter of storage, but the great bulk of it was sold at Rawlins, Myny Wyoming points outside of Carbon county marketed their wool this season at Rawlins, The Rock Springs Independent says there are now at work on the Carbon cut-off be- n three and four hundred men. The > itself, though only eighteen or nincteen miles long, will really ageregate a length of twenty fiv ix miles, as for every mile of m rack there 18 half a mile of switch track leading to one or another of the numerous coal deposits with which the line is bordered on either sic WHO IS THE FORGER. h pationt in during the Two More Instances of Bogus Paving Signatures. “I think,” said a pale faced young man with a tawny beard, who represents Mr, Hugh Murphy, the coutractor, in the capac- ity of chief clerk, “that Trr Bee should have given Mr. Murphy an opportumty to say something before coming out with a charge that he had forged signatures to peti- tions for brick paving.” It was yesterday morning, and a reporter had called at Mr, Murphy’s office on Farnam street to interview that gentleman in regard w the charges made against his solicitors in Tue Beg Wednesday. *‘But, sir, you have but just now told me that Mr. Murphy is out of the city, and how could the matter be laid before him?” asked the reporter iu reply to the chief clerk. “Well, you might have waited. There are a good many false allegations made against Mr. Murphy in that article which appeared in Tne Bre, and it can be proven.” “As [ understand it,” returned the oth “there were no direct charges mado againsy Mr. Murphy, but it was stated that his solic- itors had done these things. 1y saying that charges were made against Mr. Murphy, you mean to refer that ho was cognizant of what his solicitors did and was therefore sible for—" “I don't s thing, nor do I care to talk about this matter. Mr. Murphy wiil be home the last of the week and you had bet- ter see him.” ““What is the namo of the solicitor? He should be given an opportunity to make an explanation,” No, you had better wait until Mr. Mur- phy comes home, Us fellows here inthe oftice don’t caro to say anything about the matter.” Notwithstanding Mr. Chief Clerk’s state- ment regarding the falsity of Tue Bex's al- respon- legations, now casos parallel to thoso pube lished are forthcoming. Mr. Andrew Mayewskl, a clerk 1 the army headquartors, whoso ‘case was briefly mentioned \Wednesday, was seen yostorday. “Yes," said be, ‘my namo appears upon that petition, bat T never placed it there, The attempt at forgery isa very uwkward one, and is readily dotocted. No one, ropresen t ing the brick contractors, ' ever mps prosched me upon this subjoct, nor was I aver asked to sign a petition for brick, and you can imagine my surprise when I was informed a day or two ago that my name was attached to such & document. 1 couldn’t bo- lieve that anyons would be 8o bold until [ went over to the city elerk’s office and satis= fled myself that some ono had really signod my name to the petition. 1 am not in favor of brick paving, but on the contrary signed a potition for codar blocks, My proporty on Thirtioth street is improved and 1 live upon it." Anothor case is that of John Riley, who sorves Captain John Rustin in the capacity of conchman, “My name is on the petition, but T nover put it thore," said Riloy yesterday morning, Yand Tnever knew anything about it until other residents of tho district told mo that my nawmo was on the paper. 1 never signed but one petition and that was for codar block, and it was cedar block that I wanted. Brick would cost me a great deal more, and blocks will do us just as well. No one even asked me to si a potition for brick, and I considor it & cloar case of for- gery. I should think something would bo dono with these fellows who do such dirty work." T'ho cases givon o far, and there ara othors atill to come, apply oniy'to the petition clreus lated by Hugh Murphy’s solicitors among the residents along Thirtioth street, from Spaulding north, but it is believed that be- foro this investigation is endeda it can be shown that other contractors havo verpe- trated similar frauds “The board of public works has no juris- alotion in this matter, us” v rosts solely with : A rticle of W able interest whoso stre a e m dnesdayereated con- among property ownera ts havo been paved this year, and eral overhauling of petitions is being council?'? was asied, “I don’t kuow," said the party addressed; I suppose it must o to the committee on paving. Bailey is chairman of it. Sanders is another member, and Chafle way, 1f that committee malkes a very great investiga- tion I'Il be considerably surprised. *“The committee will throw out both bricl and wood and put in usphaltum, now soo if 1t don't.”! CHARITY A Bank Desires to Bill. ity association ‘has boen sued for a bill of 210 by the United States Nationai bank. Some time ago John H. Sul. livan sunplied the association building with furnace, pipes, radiators aod_fixtures, for heuting purposes at a cost of $195. He was paid about one-half amount and subse quently sold hi: punt for tie balance, so- curod by n mechanio’s lien, to the United States National bauk. The Connell-Gas com case, triod be- fore Justice Anderson, whero plaintift ab- tained Judgment for $200 and costs, amount- ing in all to §22265, has finally reacned tho district court on_ an apj The transcript and other p led with Clerk Make 1t Pay a The Omaha Cha mma A. Lins west, Harn vua two lots on ormack’s aidi- tion, has brought suit ag, st the city, Ed- ward Phelan and Peter Justison, to provent ange in the grado cstablished in 188 that ordinances No. 74 and 135 ba void and unreasonabie und inopora~ ais0 that the defoudants bo perpetually from carrying out the provisions of o ordinances, Judge Donne made to the effect that a hearing for a temporary injunction be had next Saturday at 10 o'clock. County Court. Suit has been commenced 10 court by the Nebraska Mortgage pany against on, jr. dore Gallagner, to recover on a note for $241.53. The Soper Lumber company, of Chioago, ustituted suit against Joun W. Taylor, n u judgment ob- mpany had o pendeiit sehool vof Little Rock, Lyon county, Iowa, and gave the account to Taylor, who was then practicing law in Canton, Dak., for col- lection. He sued the school board and got judwment, together with .45 costs. in May, and kept it Tk following judgments were entered : Le-204—Pat MeQuillan vs Kilpatrick Bros, eval.; for plaintiff, L-341-—Shone v: plamtiff, 271 —Aultman plaintff, § ‘reyham vs Casey; judsment for do- the county Loan com- and Theo- promisory gainst the Mary Svacina et al.; for Miller & Co. vs Rice: for j John L., fendant. The call for to-day is as follow: 7—Van Alstyne vs Petcr Mitza, ‘orbes vs Hrown et al. el Cushman’s Mentho inhaler cores catarrh, neuralgia, asthma, hay fever. at your druggist. Price 50 cents, V CAREER He Wil Befor Stand For Oity Runni ouncilman For Congre BosToN, Mass,, Sept. 12.—[Special Telo- gram to Tuk Bee]—The latest regarding Sullivan’s political aspirations is that he will be a candidate for the common council this fall—this as a political starter. 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