Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 11, 1889, Page 4

RATE MANIPULATION: 1t is rather discouraging, after the B. ROSEWATER, Raitor. promise of reform given out at the time of the organization of the Inter-state PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING. Commerce railway association, and the TERMS OF 8U T DSCRIPTION, assuratices of better conduct following Dally and Sunday, One Year. . #1000 | yne explicit warnings of the inter-state "'n’\'..'fi"‘\'f.','.'.?m commerce commission, to find that rail- unday Be vond managers have been behaving i quite as badly as before, if mot worse, Such is the fact, how- ever, ns shown by the exposure of a general manipulation of rates by the roads west from Chicago, The statement regarding this latest development of the insincerity and chicanery of western railroad man- rors will be something of a surprise to thoze who had becoms confident that the united influence of the ‘‘gentlemen’s agreement” and the inter-state com- e = : merco commission would compel a The Bee Publisting Company, Proprietors | measure of integrity and fair-lealing B Bullding Farnani and Seventcenth Streets, | among the managers. It ows that | these influences have been absolutely et b inoperative, and that so far as the former of Circulation. is concerned it is a wholly worthle rangement, which were better doned at once, since it scrved no good purpose and appears utterly incapable of doing 0. In this matter of mampulating rates, the offending roads, none of which denied the charge, are members of the Tuter-State Commerce Railway association and are strong cnough to defont any attempt to punish them under the terms of the agreement, What possible reason can there ho for continuing an organization which is poweriess to sacure vespect for its regu- lations or to punish those of its members who violate them? It has, no standing in law, and consequently cannot proceed against an offending road under the inter-state commerce nct, and since it has been abundantiy 5{demonstrated that the foundation of **honor among gentle men” upon which it v a snare and adelusion, the sooner it is dissolved the better. It sevves only to mislead public — - — conlidence and blind the eyes of those D IN YOUR COMPLAIN IS who ought to keopa vigilant watch upon Irequent complaints reach TiE Br the operations of railroad managers. from passengers on trains and from res- There would seem to be in this idents of towns in this section, that it is | exposure of a distinct and flagrant impossible to get a copy of Tui B i of the inter-state com- from vesident news agents and train | merce law, a great and urgent oppor- newsboys. The cluim set up by the lat- [ tunity for the commission to show the ter is: ‘“‘All sold;” and then other | country that its assu a deter- Omaha papers are offered 1nstend. In | mination to enforce the penaities of some instances, when the would-be pur- | the law were sincere. It i id that the chaser ts on getting a copy of Tt very enormity of the offenses by these 5 itis forthcoming, but train news- [ pailvoads makes the offenders certain of deal them out sparingly.and when irnmunity. If this should vrove to be their supply is about exhausted it the case there would be an end of pub- their practice to force other Omaha |lic confidence in the power of passeugers who would not | the national government to pro- 3epifitcould | toct the public interests aguinst . lawless and unscrupulous T BEE urges upon everybody the ‘tices of the railroad cor- importance of making complaint to this If it should be demonstrated ofice upon failure to get Tie BEE of | that the inter-state commerce law can news dealers and newsboys. There is | be made effective only in requiring in- no reason why a full supply should not | dividual corporations to conform to its be kept for all demands. requirements and punishing such for ¢ Alllocal news agents handling THE | failure to do so, but must fail when con- Ber are expected to furnish subscribers | fronted with the common offenses of the daily, including the Sunday edition, | numerous corporations, then the time at twenty cents n week, and all refusals | will have come for seriously consider- 10 do 50 should be reported tothisoffice. | 1ng whether the law1s worth preserv- Friends of Tre [ who send com- [ jng. But there will be no suci demon- plaints of failure to purchase Tik B ion if those charged with admini on trgins will please be particular to ing the law will do their duty. Ttis give date 1road and number of train ently broad and comprehen- on which such purchase could not be | give in i scope and authority made. Give us yourname in order that | 1o deal th any and all cases we iy as essary additional par- | of its violation, whether ha ppen- ticulars. ing singly or in combinations, and THE highway of the czar from St. | there is the necessary power in the Potersburg to Berlin is lined with | €overument to enforce it. And the troops, doubtless to prevent unseemly | EvCater the enormity of the offense the explosions of popular enthusiasm. Sironkoiingesonyiherafiish topfiontorolny Pt e the penalties of the law without foar or Tux disappearance of the mule motor | favor. The idea that violations of from the streets of Omaha is a mile- | 1AW may attain proportions that will stone in the progressive march of the | K1ve immunity to the guilty cannot aity. Electric energy typifies the city’s | be tolerated under a government whose advancement. foundations rest upon a respect for law ——————— and whose preservation depends upon SIR EDWIN ARNOLD says the Bos- | the univecsal observance of the laws, tonese speak English as he hears it at Not very long ago Chairman Cooley, home r Edwin should respect the [ of the inter-state commission, smd to grief of a people who have just lost the | the railroad managers that the inter- base ball pennant state commerce law was made to be en- forced, and he assured them that 1t was the determination of the commission to enforce it to the full extent of its au- thovity, Thus far the commission has done littla more than advise, warn and suggest. The lust congress amended the law s0 as to provide adequate pen- alties for its violation. It has been fla- T Col ? announce | oty violated, there will that Mr. Coburn is not running for the | uont deal of inte arding the nc school board this fall. His term of | yion of the commi oftice for that position does not expire for some time yot. THE DAILY BEE. Omai, fles Bullding, Chicago Office, 57 Rookery Building New, York, Hooms 14 aund 15 Tribune Buila- teenth Strect Ing . Washington. No. 513 § rl Street. Council Blufts, N Lincoln, 1020 P Stioet, CORRESPONDENCE. All communfeations reiating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the Editor- o5 shonld ompany, Al Vnstness be adaressed to 'L h Omaha. Drafis, bi mide payable to the order of the company, Sworn Statement Etate of Nebraska, Los. County of Doliglas, George B, Tzsciuck, secretary ot Tho Ree Publishing Company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of Tirk DALY Ber for the week ending October b, 185, was as fol- lows: ar- aban- has EWOIT 10 hefors me A K0 this 6th day of Octol; Sk " FEIL, Nota ras) y of Douglas. fus George 1. Tzechuck, being duly sworn, de- JOiGy and seys that ho 1s sscratary of Tne fioe ublishing company, that, (ho actual averags dafly circulation of Tie DALY BEE for the montn of Octoler J5&, Was 18084 coples; November, 8% I copies: = for mber, 188 1820 coples; for Jan- 18,774, coples: for February, 1589, or March, 1¥59, 18854 cop! for IR0 copl \|n{ IH’ 18,600 <coplek: for June, 180, T8,E5K, coples: for July, K728 coples: for Augast, mw wmmph-q; for Seprember, 180, 18,710 coples. Gro. B, Trscruck., £fworn to before me and subscribed in my Presence this 4th dey of October, A. L), 1830, [E 1 . P PR, Notary Pul April, 19, ices of THE pendulum of the commissionership is Indiana. But nts from other sec- tions need not despair if the openings of the f are under proper control, acant pension swinging tow Wi PAUSE in the midst of the gen- eral political excitement to MONU L CHE The monumental cheek of our double- barreled contemporary has manifested itself so often that we are not in the least surprised at itslatest and most amazing exhibition. In a recentissue it reproduced the following from a Fre mont paper which has perpetrated a hoax at its expense: Tue Omaua Bee and the World-Herald are just now indulging in the expensive lux- uries of special trains on Sunday morning to carey their seething papers to the panting and impatient people of Nebraska, Last Sunday there were two trains chasing over the Union Pacifie and Burlington & Misdouri across the state like lightning. Young Hitch- cock hearing of Rosewater's train skipped around to Usion Pacific headquarters and chartered one of his own. He gave his fore- man orders to run the papers an hour earlier than cowemon and so the Hitchcock train sailed througn Fremont an hour ahead of the Rosewater train. The manager of the Hitch- cock train got off here and when the Rose- water train pulled 1 he said to the manager of the latter: “Have a morning hour old here.” “You are a blavkity Rosewater manager. The facts are simply these: Young Mr, Hitcheock had just made arrange- ments to run an express wagon with a bundle of papers from Valley to Ire- mont, when he learned that The BEE had chartered a special newspaper train to convey its Sunday edition to Hastings over the Union Pacific rail- road via Grand Island, which would also connect with the fast freight teain going west from Grand Island on the Union Pa N As an offset, young Mr. Hitcheock changed the heading of his Saturday afternoon edition, dated it Sunday morning, and ioserted a four- page supplement of ready - made syndicate pictorials. This was put on a widnight freight goiug west to Tui French courts have imposed a fine of nineteen million francs on the men who enginecred the copper corner in that country. If the same policy were pursued in the United States taxes would be merely nominal, No aATTER what the grand jury will find or what it will fail to find, the peo- ple of Omaha have found rottenness and crookedness onough iu the county building to warrant throwing out the Yoodlers without ceremony:. Tue quarterly report of the Omaha postoftice fortilies the bank clearings, and the boilding record is demonstrat- ing theunvarying progress of the city. Cronkers may whine and mossbacks lamént, but the growth of Omaha goes on forever. —— Ir MAKES reat difference whose ox is gorved. In the supreme court the Republicgn insists on “more judge and less politician,” but on the locul district bench, more politician and less judge is the o The consistency of the junk shop is s rich and varied as its career and ownership. — AND now new states are plunged into the depths of a senatorial campaign. The legislatures of all four states will meet this month, and the first business will be the election of United States senators. There are five candidates in the field in South Dakota, and several dark horses in the background ready to sacrifice themselves should a deadlock oceur, North Dakota is blessed with eight aspirants for the senatorial toga, and it is quite certain’that six of them will getleft. In Washington the woods are full of them, while in Montans every Missourian acquainted with the three Rs is anxious Lo il & long felt waat, l World-Herald? An blank liar,” said the THE OMAHA DAILY BER make believe that the Double-Header had also chartered o special train of its own. The bogus Sunday edition did reach Fremont before daylight—ahead of The Bee illyer, but freight train was passed by The Bee Flyer on a sde track this side of Schuy- ler. And this is all there wasof the race between THE Ber and its boastful contemporary. Thne SUNDAY Ber which was deliv- ered at Grand Island before 8 a. m., and at Hastings hy 9 o'clock, was a complete Sunday edition with full cablo and press reports. Send- ing a Saturday afternoon issue with a Sunday date-line on & midnight freight can hardly be considered a great stroke of enterprise. To boast of such an imposition only shows to what length monumental cheek can go with some people. A CIVIL SERVICE SCANDAL. The charges formulated by the W ington Post against the civil commission so serious and sospecific as to demand thorough investigation. Personal demials will not satisfy the public, and if the matter is permitted to rest with this the inevitable effect will be that the commission will lose in public respect and confidence. The member of the commission whom these charges mainly reflect upon is Mr. Lyman, but the commission must suffer as a whole if they are not cleured awny or the responsibility for the misconduct that gives them warranf visited where it belongs. Just at this time when there appears to be a growth of sentiment ninst civil service veform, and when its enemies ave eagerly seeking cvorything that can be used againstat, it is most important that such grave charges as those made by the Washington Journal, appavently well founded, shall be cave- fully and thoroughly investigated. The most serious of these charges a that the commission has practiced fa- voritism in certain cases, that one of the eclerks of the commis- sion, who is a Dbrother-in-law of Mr. Lyman, furmished fn advance for o pecuniary consideration the exam- ination questions, and that th the knowledge of this having been done yman promoted this clerk, and in gen- eral that theve have been mismanage- ment, inefficiency, and violations of the letter and spirit of the law. In support of these accusations the Post submits evidence worthy of consideration, among it a letter written by ex-Commi sioner Edgerton tothe president regard- ing th e of examination papers, in which it is stated that *‘there are mat- ters connected with the offica of chief examiner which would not bear a close examination.” 1t is not necessary to consider what may be the motive of the Washington in making these charges. It frankly admits thatit has no admiration for the existing reform system, but as- serls that its action is not based upon any personal animosity, and that the charges are made in all sincerity, with an absolute confidence in their truth. However all this may be. the charges are direct and specific, and an investi- gation of them is imperative. It is not doubted that Ongress will order an inquiry. In any event it could only serve a good purpose, since it would certainly lead to changes which are believed to be greatly needed. The fact is that there is a great deal isfaction with the methods of the commission among those who are earnest advocates of civil service re- form. 1t is the opinion of many such that there is too much left to the dis- cretion of the commission. The three commissioners practically control all appointments to the classified service, and have managed to so extend their lines as to include all appointments to places that pay over fifty dollars a month. The rules of the commission should be revised by congress, and the large discretion now allowed the com- missioners should be ab ed. Itis urged by those who take this view, and nelude high government officials, there is no great reason why the mes and standing who have ssed the examinations should be locked up by the comm and all kuowledge withheld from heads of departments relating to applicants, except the - figures of merit of the four first on the 1i It is suggested that the list of those who pass the examination should be published and the heads of departments permitted to make the selections to fill vacancies from the entive list, instead of from the four first on the list, as under the present method, thus en- abling department heads to select those who exhibit fitness for the particular line of duty to be performed. The next congr will undoubtedly have this whole subject—the operation of the civil service lawand the methods of the commission—brought to its atter tion. and important changes and mod fications ure to be ex ser sion 11 is now certain that the controlling intevest will rescue the Atchison, To- peka & Sauta Fe road from the ruin brought about by costly and usele: Tha Chicago line was as un- usit was ruinous to the com- and together with (he Mexican 1 folly, precipitated the present deplorable wreck. The plan of reor- ganization proposes the issue of four per cent mortage bonds to the amount of one hundred and sixty million dollars and eighty millions of income bonds. This is expected to reduce the fixed chavges from eleven to eight million, and bring the property toa paying basis within three years. The plan has re- ceived the approval of a majority of se- curity holders and the reorganization will be eifected within sixty days, pro- vided the inflated bonds can be fouted. s ex tension necessar; SENATOR INGALLS of Kansas can not be accused of excessive modesty, He is as rigorous in commending himsell as he is in denouncing his enemies, and for this reason a vecent circular to the voters of Kansas possesses the charm of novelty and nerve in equal proportions. “It is due to me,” he says, *‘that the legislature should return me to the senate. 'Who has done more for Kansas than I? Where would Kansas stand in the couneils of the natiou if I had not the midnight | FRIDAY, represonted fior in the senate? brought hef lito prominence by my at- tacks on nitn'und measures. The sen- ate never had.a better presiding officer than I have been. "1 have given the state a standing at Washington and before the country which entitles me to re-election, and I propose to have it.” Such an app#l can not fail to have its effect. 1 have HENRY VILLARD possosses an ox- coedingly aetive imagination, and he is not backward #in giving the put his confidence. { His early training in jour- nalism enables him to startle newspaper readers with gigantic Munchausen tales whenever popular interost 1n liis w aboute begins to wane. Henry’s latest ‘fake" does not possess the eloments of originality, but it serves to tickle his ambition to vival the Goulds and the Vanderbilts. Ever the Dutch stockholders dumped him and his rail- roals into the guttersof Wall street, ho has strained his scheming brain to in vent new enterprises and float them on the public, His plans comprehend an “air line” from New York to Alaska with branches to Winnipeg, Mexico and Honolulu. No obstacles are too great for Villard's fertile pen when it comes to building railvoads on paver. since No selection has yet been made by the democrats of the Ninth distviet of New York of a successor to the late Sun- set Cox. The World of that city ve- marks that the present democratie dele- gation in the lower house of congress is not remarkable for its intellectuality, nor is it potent. With Sam Randall in his last illness, the house of reprosenta- tives has no democrats worthy of the name of statesman, and being in the minority, the party will indeed be in a bad way. Tine docisions of the New York courts affirming the constitutionality of the clectric execution law settles the fate of Kemrler, the fivst murdever sentenced to death since the passage of the law. The efforts to nuilify the law and perpetuate the horrible bry of the gallows were made solely to en- able a criminal to escape just punish- ment for his crime. Fortunately the courts have not been imposed upon by the buncombe of scientists and elec- tricians. ities dit is due the people of tsmouth for the success of the electrical cxposition. The undertaking wasa difficult'und arduousone for a city of its size, but theenergy and liberality of the people overcame all obstacles and carried to a essful close one of the most instructive and entertaining exhi- bitions ever held in this state, BEE FLATS. The democratic \‘nunt_\ convention will be a Donnybrook affair, There is something very striking about the harmony among the democrats in the Second ward. The seven sons of the Seventh ward dem- b all the offices in signt without straining their appetite, The democrats will save themuoives much subsequent pain and weariness < the grand jury before nominating a ticket, The muttitude of candidates for county offices now in the fleld insures a wholesale business for political undertakers this fall. P. Ford, esq., of the Niagara hotel and Lo- comotive saloon, has just commenced his an- nual fishing excursion for Third ward gud- geons. Samuel Ayers, a Massachusetts crank, says that the world wiil come to an end next Monday. Samuel will have to arise and Light the fire just the same as cver. Omaha’s only Wiggins has been comforta- bly housed in the revenue department. His prediction of a cold, stormy winter will undergo a radical change for the better. Whether or not the Episcopalians decide to renovate the Dakotans with churches on wheels, it is bractically sottled that tho sa- loons will move—from the ground floor to the basemeat. : A Texas editor refers to a brother in the profession as ‘“an idiotic fool, a har, a whin- ing, whelpish coward, a sneak, a cur, a menal spanicl, a buzzard’s friend who feeds on the woodpeckers.,” It is to this sort of fraternal badinage that Texas politics owes much of its sprightliness und vivacit B iddy Old Sr. i St. Louis Globe-Demoer In St. Louis just now everything is boom- ing and everybody is a daisy —~— A Common Complamt. St. Louts Post-Dispdtch, The volice system of St. Louis is theoret- icaily the finest in the world, but iv is to be regretted that whenever its efiiciency is tested by anytbing like the Slattery case tho system works very badly, Very Defective Railroading. New York Tritnne. Master Mechanic Twombley cannot legally be accounted on accessory to the criminal carclessness of Engineer Twowmbley, but he cloarly needs to be taught that his method of railroading is not the right one. B JUDGE NORVALL A Sketch of the Kepublican Nomine Kor the kidpreme Bench. Hon. T. L. Notwi, judge of the Sixth ju digial district, was born in 1Pulton county, Illinois, on August 1347, He attende the publie schools, and worlked on his fathor's farm until he was seveateen years old, when I menced a course of study at Hedding college, Abingdom, At twenty be com menced teaching : speading all leisurs mo- ments studying Blaskstone and Kent. He visited Nebraska in 1869, and being so well pleased with the country aetermined to make it his future home. In the fall of 1869 he entered the law depyriment of the university of Michigan, Ana. . Arbor, where he g uated with hozors in March, 1871, rece the degree of Baclielor of Liws, and was mitted to practice iif the supreme court of Michigan a few days afterward. He re- turned to his old home usud teught a year to earn money to get & library, and in the spring of 1872 located at Seward and engaged in the practice of his profession with his younger brother, Richard 8. Norval. Feb- ruary 5, 1515, he married Ella God- frey. They ' have two little girls. Judge Norval has always been a republi- can iu politics and hus beéen honored with many offices, viz: cily clerk, councilman, mayor, was state scuator in | He was avpointed in the spring of 1883 by Governor Duwes to succeed Judge Post as juage of tho Sixth judieial district of Nebraska. In the following fall ne was nominated by acciama- tion by the republican convention at Auroru for the same ofice, and was elected by a largo mujority over Hon. M. A: Mills, having in Seward county alone over one thous: d majority, Was elected again in 1857 by croased” maforities, getting every 'voto in Seward county, and ull but three in Polk county. Me, Norval bas proved a success wheraver tried, us a teacher, lawyer, senator or judge, and l:u)u)l in & warked degree the coufinence and esteem of the people. OCTOBER 11, 1889, THE CAPITAL CITY GRIST. A Special Meeting of the State Board of Transportation. REDUCED GRAIN RATES URGED, The New Republican State Oentral Committee -Fhe Home for the Eriendy Association— The City in Brief. Lixcory B 1020 P St Lixcory, Neb.,Oct. 10. of transportation met in this morning. Presont, Benton, and Secrotaries and Gilchrist, Sevoral important matters were cohsidered. The question of reduced rates on grain to Chi- cago from all points in the state was taken up and considered. In taking the sense of the board in this matter, it was found to bo unit as o the necessity of reduction, and the following resolution, introducea by Auditor Bonton, was passed : Whereas, Thers is a lurge amount of grain raked this year in this state, and the prices are low, therefore be it Resolved, That this board urges the rail roads to make a reduction in raies thercon to castern markets; that the railrona com- panies establish a reduced scale of rates throughont the state wherein the rate from any pomt in the state to Chi 0 shall not exceed 20 cents ou wheat, and rates on other grains to be reduced in proportion. As an earnest that the board means busi ness in sccuring the reductions recom- mended, the following resolution was also introduced and passed : Whereas, There has been adopted a res lution calling upon the railroads for u re- duction of the inter-state grain rates from Nebraska points, therefore b it Resolved, That the sceretarios be - structed to the action_taken by the railroad companies in accordance with suid resolution, aud shouid they refuse or neg. lect to promu cheduies, granting the reductions within fiftcen days from date, th sceretaries ave instrucied 1o take immedia steps before the inter-state commission to reliove the grain producers of the state from the discriminations now imposed by traus- portation companics. he request of Senator Sutherland, Tekamab, divected to the attorney-genc of which Tie: Ber gave exclusive inforn tion, asking that proceedings in fmand be commenced before the suprewo court to the order reducing rates on coal, was to Attorney Gener: Leese and 1t appears that there laint against any of the operating in the state except Chicago, ~ St. Paul, Mmueapolis iroad company, for extortionate s on coal shipments, and doubt was en- ned by the board of tue legality of a sweeping order in defauly of formal compiaints. It seems the board did L desire to discriminate against the road authority of la ul Gene Sceretary Gilkison wi > as to this and report uesday, October 16, To be ¢ there is no question about the ability board 10 mundamus the Chicago, St. Minneapo othe others would t AU o Tar Omana "l‘R,} The state board spocial_scssion Laws, Hill, Leese, Garber, Gilkison roads the The New Committee. The following is a list of the new repub- lican s utral committee: Hon. L. D. Richards, Fremont, chaivman; Hon, M. Seely, Bennet, tary; Hon, W. Bechel, Omaha, treasurer. | Yirst District—H, C. Wortham, Pawneo ireh Howe, Auburn, MeMiilin, Nobraalea Fourth District—O Eifth District ndo Tefft, Avoca. ¢, Astland, Bechel, M. 8. Lind- M. Stenbe guth Distr glith District—Sol Draper, Niobrara. inth District—Louis Clark, Alblon. th District—A. C. Jones, Blair, Eleventh District—D. A." Holme: folk. “I'welfth District lumuus, “Thirteenth O'Neill. .« Fourteenth District—A. Barton, Chadron. Fifteenth District—H. H. Andrews, Call way, or J. H. Ager, Ord. Sikteenth District—R, A. Julian, Kearney. Seveu'eenth District—Walter R. Bacon, Grand Island. Eighteenth District—C. E. Brady, Fuller- ton. Nineteenth Hartman, Staplehurst. Twentieth District—C. J. Daubach, John ‘Watson, Lincoln. _Twenuy-first District—B. P. Zuver, Beat- rice. Twenty-second Cret Twenty-third Di coft. Pwenty-fourth District—T, York. * Twenty-fifth District tield. Twenty sixth District—Jlobn S, Hoos Blue Hill, or J. P. A. Biack, Bloomingion Twenty-seventl District—W. A. Dilworth, Hastings. Twenty-eighth Holar Twenty-ninth District—John J, Lamborn, Tndianola, Thirtieth District—C. F. Robertson, ball, h, Wisner, ~George G. Bowman, Co- District—Thomas Carlon, District—W. C. District—H. M. Miils, t—H.C. Dawson, Endi- Sedgwick, M. Farley, Fair- District-W. E, Hymer, Kim- The Supreme Court. Pha supreme court met this morning when the following business was transacted: In Weston vs Brown the submission set aside and a new hearing granted, The following cases were argued and sub- mitted Stute ex rel Cooper vs Hamilton, on de- murrer, The case grew out of the council manic muddle in the Fourth ward of this civy Jast spring. Cooper’s term_of office expired with the municipal year. When R. B. Gra- hum was nominated for mayor he tendered his resignation as a member of the council from the ourth ward, and W. J Cooper was nominated and elected to fill the vacancy at the general election. However, Graham's resiguation was not ucted upon and a_ques- tion arose as to whether the vac legally filled. 1t was generally o it was not, und when Graham' was installed a8 mayor & new election wa 1o fill" the vacancy. W. J. Cooper W. §. Hamilton w andidates for th nomination. The caucus closed and Coope was declured the nominee by five votes, though fifteen of Hamilton’s” men were ou the stairway coming up to vots for him Hamilton arose in the caucus and pledgzed his support to Cooper. Election day came and there seeried no opposition. Hamilton came down e ed for Coopor and wer off about his b . However, Hamilton's friends wero oot idle and were quictly work ing up a scoop. About 5 o'clock, when they were completely organized, they swooped down on the polls and voted in solid col umns, taking the opposition by surpe se The result was that Hamilton large majority, An injunction wa on Hawilton to pre i and on the mayor, clerkand members 10 pre’ vent their recognizing him, But befor was done, Hamilton had secured his cate of election and had been sworn in. some time this injunclion wus dissc Then Cooper began quo warranto proceed- ings in the supreme court to iuquire by what anthority Hamilton assumed to represeut the Fourth ward in the city council, pleading the first clection as valid. Dunham vs Courtney, on motion vs Meyer; Potvin vs Bire: Parker vs Court- Lincain vs Smith; Chicago, Burlington & Quincey Hailway company vs Hogan; Champion Machine compuny vs Gordon; Koenig vs Chicago, Burlington & Quiney ailway company, in part. Court adjourned until Friday was After morning at New Notaries Pabl The governor to-day made the following notarial appointments: J. H. Yates, Neligh, Antelope couuty; George A. Mouroe, Stan- loy, Buftalo county; A, O. Packard, Fre- mont, - Dodge county; Charles M, Warren, Barnoston, Gage county; Emil Lange, Fair: bury, Jefferson county; Thomas Fenlon, Paxton, Keith count; s Evans, Silver Croek, Merrick county; Sanford S, 'Soarle, Oak, Nuekolls county; Con W, Lioyd, Elsie Perkins county: Adon O. Smith, Newport, Rock county ; R. A, Walker, Grant, | county: Aibert 1. Hinde, Hay Sheridan count. W. M. Gue, Wayne connty; H. H. Watkins, York, York county. 3 Homo For the Friondiess. The state association of the Home for the Friendioss met in adjourned session at the Presbyterian church this morning. The principal business of the meeting wis the election of officers for the ensuing This resulted in the election of Mrs. R. Manly, of Lincoln, as president 3 L AL Yocum, of Hastings, seer Phocbe Eluott, of Lincol secrotary; Mrs, Thomas Darn financial secretary, and M Lincoln, treasurer. 1o foliowing board of managers was. also clected: Mrs, H. A. Bal ] Latta, Mrs. S. P, Weeks, Mrs, Ch 0. C. Bell, City News and Notes. Will Owen Jones and bride returned yes- terday afternoon from a threo weeks' trip in the wost, Miss Jennie E. Tho is visiting Mrs. J. S, teenth street. Hat Creels station, on the oxtension of the Grand lsland & \yoming 1silroad, was opened for busimess o day. he city council will meet Monday and Tuesday asa board of equalization on the specinl tax to_ b assessed for the paving of the alleys in alley vavin d 9. Colonel A. B. Hays has jusy issued a crod- itabie history of the eity of Lifcomn, He com- pliments Tiie BEe burcau with a copy, for which he has 1ts thanks. The work s well written and handsomely bound. 13. 1), Enisel, of Holdrego, is in the city. is said that ke Teports the Phelps county def egation divided on McPhecly for congress. Colonel Webster has friends in that quarter. barles Weatherby appeared before Juage Stewart this morning, pleaded not guilty, ana was held till_ the lsth in $300 bonds, when he will have his preliminary hearing. Weather- by is the man who stole a §17 overcoat from the Globe clothing stor A. L. Pound will attend the third annual meoting of the, Ameriean Officors and De- tective union, which occurs in Omahy Octo- ber 16, 17 and 18 I'he'plats of two new additions to the city of Lincoln were filed in the oftice of ths register of deeds to-day, ‘They are called Mills' sub-division and Mills’ second addi- tion to University Place. _ Eugene Opelt stole a march _on the _‘‘old folk yesterday, went to Wilver, Saline county, and married Miss Alice Haley, one of the former diuing room girls of the” Opelt house. The couple went from there to Kan- sas City on a wedding trip, R P STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottines. The town of Burwell has been ated. There ney scho The old settlers of Cuming county formed & vermanent organization and hold a reunion yeariy An nfant son of Henry Snook, of Wy- more, died recently from the effect of drinic- ing concentrated lye over a year ago. William Shields, a farmer living near Hil- dreth, has disappearcd with his team, ana it is believed he has been foully dealt with. Mr. Tuttle, of Wellflcet, Lincoln county, was thrown {rom a_wagon and so scverely injured tnat it is feared he will not recove 8 A man at Broken Bow remarked the other vas very dull, and the ch on him, as he is be- s, of Columbus, Net *h at 510 Norta Fou incorpor- © 1,202 pupils uttending the Kear- have will cluzeos have sct a lieved to be insane. United u visit to o tendered Nieman, at 1y former residents of Maing wi which pres- Willie Lee, of Reatrice, tickled the hind legs of his father's yearline colt with a broom and was found weltering in blood at the horse’s feet by his mother He will re- cover, but will never be pretry again. A field of oats belonging to A. J. Hodge, a Dawson county farmer, was completoly de- stroyed by a hail storm last July. “The en- tire field was cut ciose to the grouad, and rom the old roots there sprang up a second rop which was harvested last week and ielded over fifty bushels to the acro, Jesse Morgan, fireman on engine No. 17, is the noro of the hour, saya the Fairfield Call, While coming toward Fairfietd about one. half mile ti 1o of Clay Center, two chil. dren were discovered playing on the track. It was too late to stop the train when they waore first seon, but Mr. Morgan was out on the piiot and caught one of the children from bofore the approaching train, thus saving it from certain death. ‘The other child saw 1ts danger and got off in vime, Town A beer garden flourishes at Cresco A vicious bull fatally gored Jame: Manus, near DeWitt. The Amber creamery ships over two thou- sand pounds of buttér to Boston weekiy. Burglars stole the prayor books and bibles from a Fort Dedge church tho other night Rev. R. J. Rowlay, late pastor of tho Bap- tist chiurch at Sioux City, has accepted a call 10 # Chicago suburban charch, The miscreant who started the recent fire at Sholdon first tied no the ropes of the fira bell and all the church bells, 8o that it w.s almost impossiblo to arouso either the firs department or the citizens, Wilson, living mear Mechanics. nidren by diphtheria in weaks. Wilson home is situated on low ground and is dawp, and the authori- ties have ordered it burned. Frank Belding, a Des Moines tough, while being con Maaison to Serve u twelve-year ¢ for highway robbery, jumped from the train av Danville, buv was recaptured by the Burlington police aud safely landed in the pen. The artesian well in Cordale is a wonder. After going down into the earth for about 450 feet the contractors struck what was seemingly a strata rock of quicksand. Lo ing the pipes ajl in the well over night th found the next morning that all the pipiug was heavily charged with magnetism. A small nail laid on the side of the pipe will not fall off. §Tho neadle on & surveyor's com- Dass i3 attracted by the current at least ten feot from the mouth of the well. The mug netic current 18 80 strong that the power of the engine, together with all the pries they have been able to put ou the piping will noy draw it from the well. The Great Northwest. A 815,000 hotel is to be erected at Wyo. A pure white rat was captured ina well at Bozeman, Mont., the other day Pucblo, Col., is waking building & miveval pal eral plan as the corn palace ay A Portland, Ore., the Salvation ar singing in the constitutional. John Scanlan, a ranchman sixty miles north of Cheyenne, Wyo., has a cow which gave birth to triplets last week. The calves are alive and he 8 Buffalo Bill has an agent scouring Wyo- ly, bucking bronchos, to exhibit at his Wild West show in Paris. ' A nuwoor of the toughest horses in the tecritory have aiready been sceured, The discovory of gold i a school section ining the y limits of Tacoma citement. Iorty filings nade Weanes srapher v Dl & strange group the The body of John Johuson, a suic ying in a cofin in an_undertaking cstablish ment, his widow and litte chiid composed the groap. “Red Pete,” an Tudian who assisted an- oth e in the murder of a ranchman nan; Untah county, Wyomin five months ago, has been arrested in [daho nd will ve arraigned for the crime. 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