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

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Eworn (0 beforo me and subscribad to in mr presence this b day ot December, A, D. e Btate of Nebraska, o ‘ounty of Douglas, uck, boing duly sworn, de- t hie'ls accretary of Tho Bes ishing Company, thnt the actual averago daily circulnation of Tie DALy BEk for the month of Docember, 188, 82% coples; January, 1469, 15574 cople 8006 coples: for March, Tor April, 189, 18R copl 8600 coplos; for June, 1860, KK copiés: R Auu\kL 188 for 1850, 880, 10310 coptes ' GEORGE B. : SWori o bifore me and subscribad i my Presence this 3)th day of November, A. D., 1880, |Keal.] N.'P. Fix a mild dose of blizzard would do nge. T Evi for a che PuUBLIC sentiment in relation to the barbers and the Sunday law seems to be, *“let them alone.” Conrvs of the hungry horde: “Santa Claus Cushing, please put fat little offices into our pol stockings.” NEW YORK members of congress will see to it, when the tariif question comes up, that the London fog is taken off the froe list. BroArcH confidently expects to be acting mayor under Cushing. We shall presently see whether the tail wags the dog, NEARLY all the scoolma’ams of De- troit carry toy pistols. This is doubt- “less for the purpose of teaching the _young idea how to shoot. Berore Mayor Broatch retires he ought to explain to the taxpayers of "Omaha why he played cats-paw for “Vandervoort in the Dodlin granite job. GENERAL E. BURD GRUDBB says it cost. him twenty-five thousand dollars to be defeated for governor of New York. He uld doubtless have had it done a good deal cheaper if he had known as much before the campaign as he does now. It 15 an ill wind that blows nobody good. While the coal dealers are shiv- ering for want of sustenance and the icemen arve praying for a blizzard the mechanics and men engaged in the building trades avo -singing on the seaffolding and on the roofs, blessing the Lord that the weather has been tempered to them. As CHRISTMAS i8 especially a child- “ren’s holiday, do not fail to make their hearts glad by a present, Itis not so much the value of what 1s given as the fact that « present has been receivea that gives pleasure. No one is too poor " to give sowething, and motiey can not be botter expendedthan in brightening the 1ife of the little ones. WHEN ‘a hungry littie street Arab appropriates & box of sardives with which to make merry on Christmas- “tide, bis full name is given and the _transaction is called stealing, When a “highly respectable lady,” dressed in sealskin, abstracts articles from a bar- _gain counter the name issupprossed _and o case of kleptomania has trans- " pired. A——— THE “'aoble” Davis presided at Lin- Anger’s Thanksgiving dinner, held up his right hand, and drinking to the Jhealth of his host, pledged his honor to “work and fight for him until the polls “closed. And when the trying hour came ho bewrayed Laninger for pelf. Now this despicable creature is seeking .an alliance with democratic councilmen to make himself president of the coun- “cil and acting mayor. This is in ac- cord with the eternal fitness of things. Eme——— Mi. R, 8. ERVIN wants to be slated for the position of assistant city attor- ney us o recognition of his sublime de- votion to law and order and his inval- uable service in organizing Broatch’s noble Twenty-Eight into a band of po- liticu! banditti. In Nebraska as in Ttaly hired assassins usunlly recejve «their pay incash., Mr. Ervin got his roward on election day in the shape of & roll of greenbacks handed over by an oil-room democrat, That reertainly has cancelled whatever obligation Mr. Cushing might be under to the moble: Ervin, Possibly the wayor-elect may be con- scious of the fact, also, that he will be held personally respousible for the ap- pointments he makes. If he is to pay . the debts which Broateh incurred in his desperate effort to keep himself in power common decency dictates that he should take clean men and not spoils- shuaters and go-betweens for boodle “eouncilmen, | improve and elevate humanity THE HOLIDAY SE. " ‘The return of Christmas inaugurates the season which throughout the Christian world is crowded with more gladness, more of the evidences of affec- tion, moro doeds of charity, and n larger | development of all those qualities which than mark any other period of the year, or perhaps all the rest of the year. There is a wonderful potency in this senson for unlocking the por- tals to the heart which eell- ishness keeps closed during all the rest of the twelve months, and bringing forth in some form an acknowledgement of its beneficent influence, The man or woman who is proof against the spell of this time, who can resist the appeal to kindly offices, who can regard without an omotion of pleasure the joy of childhood and the gladness of ma- ture yodrs, whose affections are not stirred, and who can feel mno sympathy with the efflusive cheer and tho hearty good will on every hand and in every condition is sincevely to be pitied, But the number of such is extromely small, Christmas is peculiarly the children’s holida; All of its suggestions and associations are consecrated to their happiness, and iw every home its lesson should becarefolly impressed upon their minds. Porhaps it is too generally tho rule to omit this, thus depriving the children of that knowledgo of the true meaning of this day, which will be most uscful in enabling them to correctly appreciate it, as well as to ex- ert a wholesome and elevating influence upon their character. There are many suggestions which the recurrence of this season brings, and they are so generally felt that it 1s unnecessary to dwell upon them. For the most part they are lib- erally responded to, and it is gratilying o believe that with cach succeeding Christmas the response becomes more gencrous. So with increased faith in mankind, let us welcome this day with serene cheer and sincere rood will, ex- tending to all the familiar yet never stale salutation of *Merry Christmas.” A DED REFORM. The desperate struggle of the banks for the control of the city’s funds has become a dangerous source of corrupt- ing our election machinery, and threatens, if continued, to make our city elections mere auctions for votes and voters. The proper remedy for these demoralizing contests is a radical reform in the control of the city's funds. There 1s no good reason why the treasurer of this should have eight hundred thousand to a million dollars at his disposal for the bevefit of preferred bankers. Our post- masters, the collector of internal reve- nue and the paymaster of this depart- ment who handle millions of dollars of public funds have no such discretion. Uncle Sum has designated certain banks as depositories of national funds, and disbursing oflicers are required to de- posit their funds in those banks and no- where else. The United Gtates depository system has been thoroughly tested and found safe. The same method should by all means by pursued with state, county and municipal funds. Depositories should be designated under stringent restrictions, and the treasurers should simply be disbursing officers. Under such a system our city would have the benefit of whatever interest the banks are willing to pay for the deposits, and the banks that ' make the best bid would be designated as de- positories conditioned upon their giving proper surety for the funds that may be in their hands. Such a change can only be effected, however, by legislation. When the time comes THE BEE will urge the en- actment of such laws and endeavor if possible to have the reform incorpor- ated in our charter. HOUSE ELECTION CONTESIS. The gossip from Washington as to the purpose of the two parties in the house regarding the election contests, if it has any substantial foundation, gives promise of some interesting and exciting incidents in congross after the boliday recess. The democrats profess to believe that it is the intention of the republicuns to dispose of the contested election cases in their fuvor as soon as possible so as to give them a surer working majority with which to revise the rules and cripple their op- ponents. If this shall appear to be the purpose of the majority the minority propose to fight it vigorously and per- sistently, A democratic authority states that the democrats of the house feel that it is their patriotic duty to resist by every constititional means the programme which they believe the republicans huve in view., What they will do in the way of rosistance is not known, but that there will be resist- ance is certain, Mr. Carlisle is reported to have suggested taking the matter to the supreme court, though what jurisdiction that tribunal can have is not clearly apparent, while younger and more hot-headed members of the minority are said to talk of physical foree or the setting up of a rival house. Making due allowance for a great deal of thoughtless bluster which will never take form in action, there is still indi- cated a feeling and temper which may produce a situation thatull conservative and patriotic citizens would deplore. A prolonged and bitter partisan conflict over these election countests would delay legislation of vital importance to the country, It would prove a source of more or less serious disquietude tothe public mind, and it would be an altogether unfortunate commentary upon our poli- tics. We do not believe it to be the in- tention of the republicans to invite this state of affairs. It is alleged that their design is to pool the contests and push them all through at ouce. It is not to be doubted that treatmeunt of this sort would be justified as to most of them, and the government would be the gainer there- by. The usual practice regarding con- tosted election cases has cost the people a vast sum of money for which there WS no excuse in justice or in expedi- ency. It rarely huppens that these con- tests are not capable of prompt settle- meunt, and it is the plain and unquestion- able duty of congress to settle them city™ promptly on their merts, fres from any partisan consideration. 1f the republi- cansof the present house shaltl institute a just departure in this respect they will accomplish a needed. reform, and the democrats could make no groater mis- take than to oppose it on purely par- tisan grounds. What is neoded is a policy, honored by both parties, that would keep pretenders away from con- gress, and perhaps a good rule wodld be, 1n cases where a contestant makes out a case sufficiently to justify the con- test, to declare the election off. As to the desire of the republicans to change the rules of the house, all who take a reasonable and unprejudiced view of the matter admit that reform in the methods of procedure are de- sirable and necessary. The democratic majority in the last congress made an attempt at impro ont, but with little success, and the inadequacy of the rules for furthering the business of legislation was clearly demonstrated. Business was delayed at the plensure of the minority and some of the most mer- itorious measures of the secssion were shut out from consideration under the operation of the rules. It would be dis- reditable to congress to continue such tem, and the purpose of the vepub- ans to refuse it is to be commended, oven though the veform would curtail the power of the minority. As between a tyranny of the majority or the minority none who under- stand the theory of popuiar government will hesitace which should be preferred, The duty and responsibility of legisia- tion is with the republicans, and they are warrauted in omploying every fair and honorable method to meet their ob- ligation to the country. It is safe to predict that they will attempt to do nothing else. AN IMPORTANT AGREEMENT. The action of the lowa railway com- panies in proposing an arcangement with the state railway commissioners under which both sides abandon all pending suits arising from the compul- sory rate schedules of the commission- ers, is vegarded as an event of very con- siderablo significance. The New York Commercial Advertiser vefers to it as in all probability marking *‘the conclusion of one of the most startling episodes in railway history.” Thisis presenting the matter in a somewhat stronger aspect than it hus appeared to posses in this section, although the importance of the contest between the authority of the state of Towa and the railvoads has been very fully appreciated hera, and the re- sult is regarded as of more than ordi- nary significance, The action of the railroads is a very complete victory for the state. Tt isan all-sufficient acknowledgement that vhe rate schedules arvanged by ihe railway commissioners were fairand reasonable, and that there were no conditions, as claimed by the corporations, to justily their refusal to accept them, and “their subsequent course in reducing the sery- ice to the people of Iowa and carrying the matter into the courts. The rail- roads were informed when the sched- ules were promulgated that if after a fair trial it was found they could not operate with profit under them the com- mission would amend them. They were distinctly told that there was no desire to do the corporations any injustice or to depri them of a fair return for the service performed. The wneo- ple of Iowa were mnot so foolish as to wish to crush out the rail- roads. But afier careful deliberation the commissioners believed the rates they had arranged were fair and rea- sonable and they insisted that they should have a triul. The result proves that the position of the commissioners was right. The railroads of Towa have not lost money, and they would be much better off than they ure if they had made no coutest. The result is in all respects fortunate. Tt will have the effect to. pro- duce a more favorable public senti- ment toward the corporations than has existed for a number of years, and with mutual confidence re-established the railroads can go forward with such improvements us may be needed to in- crease the ®cfficiency of their service, and such extensions as shall promise profitable returns. The benefits will be mutual, and as these are realized by the people and the corporations it is safe to assume that there will be a mutual desire to avoid future conflicts, Mean- while the authority of the state has been vindicated, and it would be well for the corporations generally to give this fact the consideration which its obvious significance morits. GOOD THINGS GALOKE. The people of Omaha have good cause to lay aside dull care today and join in celebrating the great holiday of Christ- endom. Avound the city’s board are crowded material things which insure a future of good cheer. The waning year has made an indelible mark in the growth of the community. Every de- partment of trade has had its full share of the fruits of the earth. Abundant crops rewarded the labors of the hus- bandman. The factories and work- shops found a widening field for their products, and profitable peace maurked the relations of capital and labor. ' The milestones of the year nre visible in every direction. Look around you and note the evidences of thrift on overy side—the costly and ornate homes that dot the rolling hills; the modest yet comfortable cottages of ihe toilers; the massive blocks of brick and stone in the business sections; the warehouses ana factories that fringe the railroads, and the miles of electric motor §lines forming the most com- piete system of rapid transit in the we All of these form a panorama of pros- perity unsurpassed by any eity of equal vopulation on the continents But Omaha’s stocking could not hold the many good things that are now spread out before her, Scattered around but secure are commercial andindustrial jewels to be placed in grunite and steel settings during the coming year. There stands the Nebraska Central bridge, the keystone of the city's commercial arch, inviting the eastern rallroads to cross the Rubicon. Here is the union devof and the Tenth street vianduet, rising on the ruins of the cow shed, The new postoftice and the city hall form etfective = center ploces, 9'mkull by the Omaha and South Dakota railroad, a knitting factory, a boot and shoe fac- tory, South ©maha annexed to the parent city, wish the state fair an- chored in the suburbs. All theso and more surround the municipal table. Ave they not suffi: ciont to give zas¥ to tho day’s festivitios, to make the aged feel the elixir of youth and hear(ily join in the general rejoicing? As a vehicle 61 good will to all, Trar Brr tenders its readers the compli- ments and wéll wishes of the happy season. THe southern people who advocate the colonization of the American negroes in Africa, and who in that manner advocate the solution of the race difficuity, do not really mean what thoy say. This is evident from the alarm which invariably spreads among the southern planters when any con- siderable exodus among the colored peo- vle takes place. A case in point is the consternation which now prevals among the furmers in apd about Cedavtown, Ga. Last- Monday hun- dreds of colored poople gathered at the depot of that town to take the cars for Arkansas ana the exodus con- tinued throughout the week. Planta- tions aro said to be left without a singlo laborer and every effort has been mado by the whites to stem the curvent. No, the ex-masters of the south do not wish the negro to go. All talk to the con- trary, they want him for a hewer of wood, a drawer of water and an object upon whom to vent their spleen whon in a bad humor. BECK'S estimate of the life and labors of W. B. Allison is broad, generous and truthful. Sena- tor Allison has given Towa u command- ing position in uational affawrs. Few men in the upper house secure greater attention from the country at large, and none has been more nctive in shap- ing important legislation. ““If the Iowa legislature,” says Senator Beck, ‘‘has not completely lost its sense it will send Allison back to the senate as often as he can bo persuaded to come.” And Towa will do it COMMISSIO! Rauvm is rapidly bringing order out of chaos in the pension officc. tem is supplanting confusion. The reforms already intro- duced have been the means of vastly increusing the number of claims ad- justed. In view of the fact that the business of the office is thiriy months behind, and the filings almost equal to the number Adisposed of, prompt and systematic work is necessary, with the present limited; force, to dispose of claims faster thin they are received. Tae Union league club of New York recently banquétted the Pan-American delegates, The exercises were inter- esting. Six hundred deviled crabs, four hundred lcrmpms and seven thou- sand oysterswere washed down with fifteen hundred bottles of champagne. The interneciné strife which marked the later proccedings of the three Americas congress is sufliciently ex- plained. THE proposed packing house combine in New York to boycott western dressed beef is acomed to failure. The pack- eries of the west are so firmly en- trenched at the source of beef supply that no possivle combination of men and means can disturb their supremacy. The New York concern will be useful, however, as a slaughter house for local leather. OKLAHOMA and Alaska urgently appeal for some effective form of gov- crnment to protect the rights of the settlers, The trouble now is that all progress is in the direction of the ceme- teries. Tue only effective elixir for the Holyoke white cap problem is hemp yoke and black cap. Externuily applied rehef 1s certain. Mr. Culver's Touisville Courfer-) With his jury fees, and what e aatons of his newspaper libel suits, Juror Culver is likely to become a highly prosperous citizen. ——— Another One on Donnelly, Cnicago Tribune, The “grip"” is said to be as bad as the ague while it lasts. This makes it a shakes' ¥ s it were, and Ignatins Donnelly will simply turn up his nose at it A The Crue heft of Africa. Philadelphia Times, Portugal was fortunate i getting a first hold upon African territory, but the deter- mination of the great European powers to parcel the continent among thomselves leaves a stato so feoblo atthe mercy of her stronger neighbors, It is not surprising, therefore, that the English press takes the lead in orylng out against Portugal as a faithfess friend and bad neighbor in Africa. Tbe powers are determined apparently to repeat In Africa tho schemes of aggrandize- meunt tried in America two centuries before poor Africa. AL L AT Guod Place fijf(Some of the Surplas. Hartford Courant. Another thing ‘congress should do this winter is to incréase the pay of those noble fellows, the life-savers, Since tho life- saviog service wis organizea they have rescued 7,000 persons and over 50,000,000 worth of property, They have lost s gooa and permanent friend in the death of Sunsot Cox, but every member of congress should appoint nimself & committee of one wo see that they do not suffer in pocket by that be- reavement, ——— st Bo Stamped Oat. 4 Globe-Democrat, The Waster) ublican view s that duties on com ues coutrolied by trusts should be either largely reduced or removed altogetber, The object is to stamp out the trusts, and if a mere reduction of the impost does that it is ali which should be attempted, but if the total abolition of the :npost 1s necessary to accomplish this end, abolition wmust be had. Tois is the trus republican doctrine, and cannot be igocred or departed from by the party without an abandonment of principle aud a shumeless disregard of the denands and asvirations of the people, e S An Alarming Rumor, Lincoln. Call, ‘The rumor which vervaded political circles @ few days ago Lo the effeot that Judge Max- well was about to resign as judge of the su~ preme bench to accept the sttormeyship of @an Omuna corporation, at a large salary, has been traced down. The Call hus reasonable The Trusts St grounds for the statement that the rumo was woll founded, and that the ostensible eslectrio light company which wished to re- tain Judge Maxwell was in fact the Burling- ton railwuy. It is said that the scheme is to got Maxwell off the bench at any cost or under any protext. The supreme court, which has been the only barrior betweon the people and aggressions of corporate mouop- oly, would be handed over to tte Burlington road. Judge Maxwoll and Judge Maxwell's friends romember and can never forget the bitter fight wade against him by the Burling- ton road, and The Call knows that it Judge Maxwell knew that the Burlington railway or any other railway corporation was in conspiracy to remove him from the suprome bench in order to capture a court of justice, ho would spurn all such offers for his serv. icos with scora. STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, A lodgo of Odafellows with twenty-five members has been instituted at Arcadia. ‘The old flax mill at Ashland is boing trans- formed into a warchouse for the storage of grain, Tho Exchange bank will begin business at Westervilie with a capital stock of 50,000 January 1, It is said that the Pacific and Wells-Fargo express offices at Hastings will consolidate January 1 Rev. H. R. Williams has resigned the pas- torate of the Baptist church at St. Paul and removed to Kansas, Beatrice is short on boarding bouses and many familics are obliced to sleep in one viuco and take their meals in another, The Banner county commissioners will bmit a proposition to tho eloctors of bond- ¢ the county in the sum ot £10,000, to be voted on January 21. District court in Kimball county lasted only a few hours, but during the short torm eloven lawyers were admitted to the bar, The new mombers tondered the court and bar a banquet the same evening. J. W. Heath, sheriff of Pierce county, died at his home in Piarco after anilluess of three woeks with uloeration of the bowels. Tho funeral services were under the auspices of the Masona, of which order he was a mem- ber, Rov. J. A. High, pastor of the Mothodist church at Beemer, in tho past two w has driven 175 miles, preached sevente sermons and attended twelve pray ings and as & resnit of the work fitteon per- sons have foined the churoh on probation. The North Nebraska Vetoran is tho name of a new publication which has made its ap- pearance at Norfolk with C. E. Fiolds as ed- itor and proprietor. In its salutatory it say *It is enough to sav that we are here in the interest of old soldiers and bid for favor by an earnest advocacy of their cause.” 1t will be 1ssued bi-weekl A special from Fullerton s greatest oxcitement, that Fuile perienced for some time took place this even- ing. Tha editor of the Post wrate up a few old seed: ‘bachelors it you will"—and mado a holiday vuwber of the issuc. As lo intended taking the evening teaiu for Kausas on a visit thoy corralled him at the depot and rode him through the town on a rail. He took his medicine eracefully and promises a dose for the perpetrators next.week, They are all well known young business men and the affair, while a groat joke on the editor, will_prove n boomerang on the prime movers, The Post gives prom- 1se of great ricliness in the quick future. “The Wyoming and Coforado. Plans have been made for a new cable at Pueblo, Col. The Cheyenne Sun is to be enlarged to an eight-page paper January 1, Over £,000 has been subscribed by Ster- ling, Col., citizons to build a flouring mill. The football craze has struck Cheyenne school boys and sore shins and lame backs are numerous. Tho First Presbyterian church of Tead- ville, Col.. was dedicated Sunday with im- posing ceremonies. Mrs. ‘Willam T. Barrow of Green River, Wyo., zave birth fiftcen years ago o thres girls. two of whon living. A fow days ago sho presented her husband with threo boys, two of whom have since died. The prosecuting attorney of Johnson county, Wyoming, says 1t is entirely uscless in the present stawe of public sentiment to try to convict a cattle thief. In all the cases of that kind tried at the last term of court the accused parties were acquitted. Judge H., H. Hale of Embar, Wyo., was accidently shot 1n the foot lst week by tho reckless handling of o revolver by a drunken man named Clark. - The ball entered at tho instep and emerged under tho little tos. The judge is now in the hospital nursing s wound, Tho Laramie Sentinel is of opinion that tho sessions of the legislature have degenerated into a grab game, und says that it would cre- ate universal surprise if a member from any county would arise in his seat and say his county necded 80 and s0, but as it would im- pose an unnecessary burden upon the people if a bill of such a character were introduced he would oppose it. A prominent potato dealorof Greeley, Col., has made a canviss of the potato crop and reports the following situation: Seven hundred cars of potatoes have been shippod 250 or 275 cars remain. The de- and for Greeley potatoes in Montanu and Salt Lake City bas caused an advauce in price, and tho balance of the crop will bring apood figure, The Greeley potato crop is about one thousand cers short of wiat was anticipated before harvest. B A GARDEN OF EDEN. Alleged Discovery of an Ancient Tem- ple of Unique Architecture. Don Mariano, who is a native of Sonora, was years ago a miner in the Real del Castilio, Zaragoza, Yuma and other points north of here, making and selling many machines to the Yuma In- dians. About five years ago he made a trip down the peninsula on the ocean side, returning by the gulf, and his ad- ventures, if he would reduce them !.o writing, which he is capable of doin, Spanish, would muke an interesti ng volume. A day or two since he told a wonderful story to an Almo Nugget re- porter about finding the ruins of an an- cient temple on the California gulf side. somewhere in the vicinity of San Borja, 800 or 400 miles down the penin- sula. Ho says he was placer mining at Calmilli during the first excitement here, and in company with two French- men undertook to pass over a high range of mountains which was supposed 1o be impassable. Owing to a suarcity of water at Calmalli they trav- eled all day and the next night by moonlight, and when nearly exhuusted they encountered what appeared to be two small lakes of clear water, and they plunged in it to quench their thirst. The water was salt, but they were so thirsty that they drank until they vom~ ited and were prostrated by the ex- haustion, Afterward they recovered sufficiently to make their way back to the mines, and the Frenchmen did not care to muke any further explorations in that direction. Don Mariano afterward returned to San Borja, and from a ranch called 1l Rey, started out to cross the Gulf range at another point. Thistime, he says h was succoessful beyond bis expectations, and after pass| the divide came into a wnuhlc (;ur en of Eden on a small scale. Ina valley a mile orso wideand three or four miles long he found grow- ing wild in the greatest profusion oranges, grapes, poars, guaves, dates and fruits the like of which he had vever found in Sonora. Near the center of the valloy were the ruinsof an an- cient temple, one side of which was standing, with arches and u style of architecture different from anything ever found about any of the old mi sions. In the courtyard above a stone platform were suspended three large copper bells and a great deal of metal, some made into vessels and some in a crude state, was scaitered about; Sal- azar thinks the metal was a bronze. He says ho spent several days in this strange valley oating the best of fruit to his heart's content, and looking in vain for human hmnlnmnls or traces of dead ones. nally he made his way to the gulf and resumed his prospecting journey northward UPr wite 2 MONEY. The Colisoum Has Boon Tendered for the Methodist Conferenco. “'The people of Chioago are terribly fran- tie,” says Bishop Newman, “to get the Methodist goneral conference for 1502 away from Omaha. At their preachors’ meeting over thore tho othor day they passed a reso- lution stating tiat tho conference might possibly come to Omaha, but would probably g0 to Chicago. They are laboring very industriously” to get it, thorefore Omaha must wake up and do somothing. “‘However, we are notasleep. You sco some of our people _who attended tho con vention in New York last May, pled Omaba to furnish a hall and ive tree ent tainment for one month 1o 600 delcgate sequently it will be necessary to raise about £30,000 with which to defray oxpens sum 18 a mere bagatel the bonefit Omaha will roce‘ve f gathering. T am cortain thers would B0 hot less than 50,000 strangers visit the city dur- ing the time the conference 18 iu session, YWo have arranged for a committee of 100, composed of leading bnsiness men, editors, baukers and lawyers to take this matter in hand and push it. If they can guar- antee our pledge, thon Omaha is sure of the conference, ' If they fail tho commis- sion will have to select oune of the other places, of which Chicago stands as first choice “General Lowe has tendered us the Coli- seum, and, on the whole, I think the outlook 18 very bright.” ‘The bishop received a telegram yosterday invitiag bim to lay tho corner stone of n big Methodlst college of Portland, Ore., within the next two or threo woeks, ———— THE RAILROAD PORTFOLIO, The Out in Live Stock Rates—Tho Milwaukee's Palace Train. The Alton's receat cut in live stock rates from Kansas City to Chicago 1# giving more trouble to gencral freight agouts of other roads than they at first anticipated. Nearly all of last week was devoted by the latter at Chicago in vain efforts to harmonize matters, Not having been able to accomplish anything there, operations wore transferred to Kan- 8as City whero the association is now in ses- sion. The Alton has taken a stand that it does not, according to reports, propose to retreat from. Consequently, its con- temporaries are compelled either to follow suit or jnaugurate a war. The first reduction made was $ a car on hve stock and since then threats have been made to the_ effect that arate of $12 may be put into effect. The tariff, before this cut, was the same us exists at Omaha, §35 a car These meetings are simply keeping the Omuha rato up and giving Kansas City ship- pers a great benefit. FHow long can they succeed in continuing that state of affairs? is now the question. The shippers are getting noisy about it and declare they will not submit to being thus discriminated against. The rusiunnlion of Pat Touhe vision of the Unlon Pac vacaney that three or four employees in the line of promotion would ho very wlad to fll, No indications have becu shown, however, 10 give any one very strong encoaragement to hope. I’r though, and it is believed thattho choice lies be- tween two men. either one of whom is thor- oughly compotent to fill the position. W. k. Burnes, ticket agent ut tho transfor has long wanted to be superitendent,but J. H. Foley, tranmaster, outranks him a degree, and it may be, will reccive the first offer to g0 to North Platte. Touhey proposes, it is said, to abandon railroading entirely. Strong’ hints_are thrown out by parties who ought to know what they are talking about that the Milwaukee will inaugurate 1ts 1800 boom by putting on the proposed fast palace train vetwean Omaha and Chicago, It 1s reported that the officers of this road felt somewhat grieved because 1ue B made public this bit of enterprise beforo they got an opportunity to announce the fact to the country -and their contemporaries. Orders were given at the company’s shops six months or more ago for the construction of this train and large forces of men have been at work on it ever sinco, but the secret gotout und as a consequence everybody 13 watching for the evs A peep at the revised union depot plans, coupled with verbal descriptions of what the structure, when comploted, will look like are convincing proofs enough to satisfy any one that the improvemoat will be a great feature of Omaha. Ihose plaus ure so nearly completed that the depot company expect to o ready early in January to o before the counci! with them and sccure thoe quick pas- sage of auch ordinances as are nocessary be- fore work can be commenced either on tha viaduct or depot structure. General Purchasing Agent McKibben of tho Union Pacific is luving o great time with the representatives of railway supply deal- ers. Fred Jonos, who looks after the inter- ests of the Adams-Westlake company of Chicago, has succeeded 1u-renewing his con- tract for amother year to furnish lamps, globes and car trimuings. Miss Blair and Miss Phelps of Car Accou- tant Buckingham's ofice have gone to spend ll.lu-ir Christmas with friends at Fairtield, a. Tho general and city offioes of all roads will bo closed toduy in order to give everybody an opportunity to enjoy the groat- est noliday of the ycar, A P BARBER VS THE BOARD, Ho Wants ‘$1,400 More than Latter Wants to Pay. The board of public works is in doubt as to whether it should pay $1,400 on a bill pre- sented by the Barber asphalt paving company for repairs on the pavements and has re- ferred tho matter to the mayor and oity council, requesting them 1o secure the opin- ion of the city attorney ccucerning the matter. ‘The pavements when put down were guar- anteed to last five years, and the Barber asphalt company agreed to keep them in re- vair gratis daring that time. The dates on which thres of these obligations expired were August 7, 1988; December 8, 1883, nud Junuary 5, 1880, F On March 12, 1859, the city made another contract with the company agree- ing to pay the latter 8 cents per square yard anuually for ten years for every square yard of asphalt payement kept in good repair during that period. I'he company claims that this contract goes back to the dates when the three contracts ex- pired and claims pay for keeping the pave- ment in repair up 1o the date of the contract of March 12, ‘The pay for this unguaranteed period would amount to $1,400, although 1t 18 not known that the company put in a single square yard of pavement during that time. The wembers of the board of puvlic works insist that the pay should commence with the date of the contract, March 12, 1850, and believe that $1,400 should be deducted from the bill of the company. The contract, how- ever, stipulatea that the work of repairs are 1o commence on the bavements immediately at the terminuation of the five rs guaran- tee period, aud the company insists that this applies not only to the pavements whose guarantes period bas not yet expired but @lso to those already expired. e -— After Coristn as. Vice President M. A, Upton, presided at today’s meeting of the Real Estate exchaugo. He announced that the committees appointed to secure subscriptions to the stock of the proposed manufacturing industries would uot begin work until after Christmas. "The following property was listed for sale: Kountze's fourth supplementary, lot 6, block 6, 13 room house, §3,200. Fifty acres ou Fremont, Elkhorn & Mis: souri Valiey railway, $110'per acre, “Ten acres in Upton place, #1.° A 7per cent mortgage of #25000, secured iuiproved property, was offered for sale. bl the For delicacy, lor purity, and for lmprove- went of the complexion numluu equals Poz- zoni's Powder, *| committed Goorge Bullock to the TABLES SUDDENLY TURNED. Another Sonsational Featurs in the Maxwell Divorce Case. ELECTRIC MOTORS FOR LINCOLN A Chicago Firm After the Lincoln Sirect Rallway Franchise— Moiklejohn in the Kx- ecutive Charr, Lixcous Bunesv o Tt Oxun Bas, } 108 \ Nch., Deo. 24, Another sensational feature developed the Maxwell-Maxwell divorce caso last night. Not Jong since tho telograph columns of Tur Ber contained an elaborate account of a liason betwoeen G. ldson Maxwell and Miss Lou Vernall, both formerly of this city, and at one time prominently connected in social circlos, Prior to that Maxwell had filed his petition in the dist court, praying for divorce, and among other grounds alleged mfidelity on the part of his wife, The Don- ver denouemont was caught up by Mrs, Maxwell as greedily as new milk by o hungry cat, and hor lawyer was soon in possession of all the points. Yesterday sho filed her answer and cross-petition i the dis- trict court, denying each and every alloga- tion of the complainant, and setting up that sho has cver been a chaste, loving ‘and obedient wife and never guilty of anact upon which he could justly censure her.v In this coanection she recites a pitiful story. She alloges that Maxwell 1s a man of violent aua dangerous tomper; that ho so far forgot himself us to choke, slap and other- troat her on divers occasions; that time knocked her down with his fist, causig her continued agony and suffering and she further alleges that she was compelled to support herself by her own labor, This drama in anotber turn, real life, however, takes Last night, accompanied by W young man who subsequently registered at the station under the name of Metcall, sno sought rooms at the Hutchina block on South Ninth stroot for purposcs that the reader may conjecturo, Marshal Cacder’s gang swooped down upon them and gathered thom into the fold. Mrs. Maxwell registered us Laura instead of Imma, and the youne man also assumed an alias for the season, it is stated that ho is under engagement of marriage to one of the most estimablo young ladics of the city, and it is suggested that somo fond parents will do well to make an investigation. Electric Motors for Lincoln. Mr. Kemp of Chicago was in the city to- day looking the fleld over with a view to purchasing the Lincoln street railway fran- chise. - If the deal is consummated Mr. Kemp's company proposes to put on electric motor cars and give Lincolnites a five minute service. He returned home this afternoon, but expressed the opinion_before gown that Lincoln is the town for the business long anticipated. This is good news, Interstato Garnishment. The case of Benjamin 1. Bordmer against W, D. Gulick was on trial before County Judge Stewart and a jury today. In this case, mention of which was made by Tne BeE at the time the case was instituted, the plaintiff, who is an employe of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad company, suffered garnishment at_the hands of the defendant at Council Bluffs, Ia., for small amounts he owed him two or th different st gsummer, Gulick mstituted gar- 1 “ proceodings against Bordmor, vantage Of tho cxemption laws of this state. Atthe time, let it be remembered, Bordmer was at work in Iowa, and was only absent temporarily from his home in this y. Onb's return he wdvised with atto regarding his treatment, and upon their advice entered suit aguinst Gulick to recover the amount of the claims, costs of suits and attorney fees, Aftera briel sitting the jury gave him a judgment for the claims and tho costs of tho'suits, Taus terstate garnish- meat, as alleged, suffers a black eye, Gu- lick takes the case 1o the district court, State House Jottings. J. B. Billings, sherift of Harian county, peniten- tiary to serve a sentence of five yoars for burglary. The prisoner is & bold, bad man, accotding to the papers ou file in the oftica of the auditor of public accounts. He pleaded guilty to tho charge for which he was sen- tenced, The Royal league, au_insurance order of some sociely, Chicago, sceks pormission to transuct & life insurance business in this state. Application was made for blanks of Deputy lusurance Auditor Allen today, aud they were forthwith trausmitted to the pary Who sought them. Licutenant Governor Meiklejohn gracos > executive chair, He has not decided you whom he will appoint on his staff, but Troas urer Hill is sagyested as the man for adju- tant general, with the rank of brigadier, and Secrotary of State C y a8 chiof of stafl. Deputy stato offic o suggostod us aids, with the rank of The boys are all ready to don their epaulets and shoutder Kknots. Oity News and Notes. Dr. MeNeil Smith of Waellflset, one of the principal stockholders in theloan and invest- ment company of that place, 18 in tho oily. He stutes that his city will have a sugar ro- finery in the near future, Judge Appleget of Tecumseh and of the beneh of the First judicial district is in the city on legal business, I'hon W. Lowery asks the district court for a judgment against Norton & Worthington, commission merchunts of Chi cago, for §3,027+19 for bnlunv.o due him above commissions 01l grain sold. The sparring e ot ot Bohananis hall last eveoiog was wvot overly well attended, The bout of the evening was be- tween Ryan and Davis, known to the publio without " location. . The aggregation was assisted by local sports. Mary Freese, E. B, Appleget, John Kramp, and Charles Peterson have joined in an action against the Missouri Pacitic railroad company, the suit buing filed in the name of the first named, The action is for damages caused to the property of the pluintifs on Ninth and X streots by a switch built by the company. ‘The case is brought in the dis. teict court and the amount sued for is §10,000, Miss May, daughter of W, Tray entertained a party of twenty-five juvenile playmates at her home, No. 140 South ‘Twonty-sixth stroet, lust evening in honor of ner nh(mh birthday. e Obidary. Mr. Alexander K. Gray, a machinist in the employment of the Union Pacific rail way, died at his residence No. 1511 Cuming swreot, the 18th iustant, nged thirty-five years. He was found dead in lis bed, hay- ing died of apoptexy. On the evening before his death, he was obeerful and banpy, wlk- ing of the coming anuiversary of the natal day of Burns w be held on January 24, next, Mr. Gray was bora in the ssme county with the poet and, when quite a young man moved to Treynhoim, Kirkendbrightshire with his parents who still reside there, In Scotland, be served his aporenticeship then came 10 Awerica and was for two years in Portlana, Me. He then removed to Omaha where be has resided for the last lmlllblau i the Order of Scottish clans and was electea one of its first ofcers. Ho was the life of every Scotch gfllherlnu n the city, "~ was & kind, warm hearied man and delighted in holdiug out a friendly band 10 every Scotohwan who required aid. He was & wember of the First Presbyterian church, was highly respected by all his frieads and acquaintances, over two hun- dred and fifty of whom atteuded his remains 1o their last resting place on Suunday last. Scotch papers are requested to copy this notice.