Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 29, 1890, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE " B. ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TEHMS OF 81 BSCRIPTION Daily and Sunday, One Year &ix montha Three Months Sunday He e Year, Weekly flee, Otio Yenr wit OFFICES, Omehla, Nee Building. Chicags Oifice, b7 16 okery Bullding. New rk, Rooms 14 and §5 Tribuns Building. Wakhington, No. 513 Fourteenth Street Council Blutts, No. NI South Omaha, Corner N and o 0 Pre All comminic s relating to news and edl- tortal matter khould be addressed to the Editor- 1al Departraent to The Hee s, checks b address &_Company, Omaha. D fMoa orders 10 be mAae ompany. ’Ehn Bee Pablishing Company, Proprietors, ding Farnam an ntesnth s Bee on the Train There {4 no excuse for a tallure to got Tik BEE on the trains. All newsdealers have been noti: fled to carry @ full supply, ‘Travelers who want TRy B nid can't get it on trains whero other Omala papers are carried are requested to notify Tiie Ik Please be particular to give In all cases full information as tu date, rallway and number of trali. ive 8 necce: our name, not for publication or un- ary us £ zood faith THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. ftate of Nebraska, I County of Douglas, %% George B, Tzschuck, P ublishing Company, d the actual cirenlation of TiE DALY BEE for the week endling January 2, 1), was as follows: Sunday, Jan. Average...... GEORGK B, TZSCHUCK. EWoItl 1o before me and subscribed to in my h day of January, A, D. 1500, of Nebraska, N.P. FRIL, Notary Publie. ity of Douglas, fos George 1. Tzechuck, being duly sworn, de- ones and says that he 18 sec "ublishing Company, that the daily circulation of ‘THE DAILY BEE for the month of January, 1883, was 18,574 coples: for February, 189, 14¥96 coples: for March, 158, 15,854 coples: for April, 1859, 18,5 coples; 18,000 coples; for June, 1580, 18,5 July, 1850, 18,733 coples: for August, 661 coples: for September, 1840, 18710 coples; for October 188, %M1 coples; for' November, 1680, 10010 coples: for December, 1859, 20,048 copics, GEORGE B. T78CRUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed in m presence thisdth day of January, A D, 1800, (Seal.] P. Feir, Notary Public. TaERe is room for several mosshack funerals in Omaha, taxation will be the great- ible encouragement to building during tho year. REDUC est po; enterpr PERIAPS the city druggist can pre- scribe for the threatened collapse of the strect cemmissioner’s grip. —— ying ueed of this city at this time is additional fire engine and hoso ‘ cart houses in the suburbs. Tuer aceident to the bridge motor emphasizes the necessity of putting brakes on reckless motormen. Tue South Dakota railroad commit- tees are teudered the use of THE BEE'S columns for & roport on tlie project. TiE way to economize and reduce “city taxes is to unload the tax-eaters and barnacles who are now on the city’s pay roll. Now that Jackson and Sullivan are in the country, congress can safely refer to them the settlement of the race * problem. TiE Dakota legislature can mitigato the present ana check future distress by clipping the grasping claws of the _chattel mortgage wolves. I¥ Mexico persists in restricting the freedom of the American hog, a series of loud and dangerous grunts will rever- berate across the Rio Grande. As long as Pennsylvania corporations rule the state, and evictions are pe mitted under the clonk of law, it will not do to deplore the cruelties and brutalities of the crowbar brigade in Treland. No leading paper in the country has honored the new naval scheme with hearty commendation. The proposod ‘outlay of three hundred and fifty mi ; lions smacks too much of a contractors’ _ combine. THE members of the Nebraska dele- gation in congress are not tumbling over each other in their haste to com- mend Attornoy General Leese’s letter “on Union ‘Pacific lawlessness. Why this masterly silence? ' Tur.comments of the Chinese minis- “ ter on the exclusion act passed by con- - gress are unanswerable. The act of which the minister complains and which was hastily made a luw, was an open bid for the electoral vote of the Pacific » states. The people so regarded it when they repudiated the bribe-givers and cast their ballots for the republican can- didate for president, I7 18 hardly worth while to discuss the hypocritical howl of railroad or- gans in Omaha and Denver about Sum- nerJohnson’s betrayal of trust, What did he betray? The methods and in- famous conduct of oil room mercenaries and logislative boodlers and their con- sorts, The railroad orgaus that are so ; indignant about Joknson, unblushingly- countenance thq, crimes of the con- . spirators who besiege legislatures, de- bauch ., members with free drink and drag them down into the depths of degradation. —— A PARTY by the name of Wolcott, whose chiel claim to notoriety ave the possession of money and kinship to the Colorado senator, bas had himself in- terviewed in Washington (or the edifi- . cation’of democrats. Wolcott assumes to spenk for the republicans of the west in deuouncing the administration of Presideot Harrison for alleged neglect of the trans-Missouri country, If the truth was known it would be found that ' Walcott simply voices the sentiment of Colorado soreheads who have not been favored with office, or laments his fail- uve us un office broker. Seratch a kicker and you will find a cisappointea place hunter. AN ECONOMICAL BEGINNING. South Dakota came into the union burdened with a large debt. It is to no purpose to consider why this was so, The condition and not the cause is alone of pertinence. The people of the new state are bound to meet the obligations they have assumed, and they are hon- cstly disposed to do so. In his message to the legislature Governor Mellette, in reference to this matter, urged ,the ne- cessity of the utmost economy in public expenditures, and he has since evinced a determination to insist upon this pol- fey. Both parties in the legislature appear to be equally impressed with its necessity, o that every suggestion of sconomy maots with genoral approval. All realize that the people arein no condition to provide for public officials who can for the present be dispensed with, to pay extravagant salaries to their public servants, and to provide for improvements which may wait a year or two without very mate det- viment to the interests of the state. There ave of course disadvantages in a state of affairs which necessitates such rigid economy. A new state that is able to go forward with a liberal system of public improvements will realize », more rapid progress than one that is not in a condition to doso. Any state is unfortunate when its financ condi- tion is such that it is compelled to pur- sue a policy unfavorable to the highest efficioney of its established and ne sary public institutions. Then there are some things absolutely necessary to the development of a new state which ave expensive, but which must be ex- cluded from consideration when rigid cconomy is demanded. These disad- vantages South Dakota must experience, but they may not be wholly without compensating results, Her people are getting a lesson in care and prudenco which cannot be without some profit to them in the future, when under more favorable conditions than at present they can enlarge the expenditures which growing demands will render will have learned nomy is p able, in what tious it enn bo wisely applied with- out impairing the effciency and use- fulness of the public service, and what really essential and what not to the welfare and the development of the state. Adversity has its uses, and they will doubtless not be lost on the people of Dakotn. At any rato, they are to be commended for the honest purpose which their economy implies to mecot the obligations they have assumed. The incentives to extravagance in new state are strong, and the disposition to discount the possibilities of the future hard to resist. Optimistic anticipations ave very likely to get the better of ealm judgment among a people newly ciothed with the functions of self-government. It is very greatly to the credit of the people of South Dakota that they are not yielding to any of these misleading influences. DANGERS TO THE B, 2 The variety of expedients offered to perpetuate the national.banking system evidences the conflicting interests which influence the opinions of men on this subject. The tendency rather strength- ens the popular opposition to the banis, aund renders tho outlook for any wise and practical legislation far from reas- suring. To a very considerable extent national bankers themselves are ve- sponsible for this. Recently a president of a New York bank, widely regavded in financial circles, objected 1o the plaa of ex-Comptroiler Knox for providing a bank nagte security on the ground that the government should let the subject alone and leave the banks to their own devices in this matter. But public con- fidence in the national bunks is due wholly to the fact that they are subject to government regulation and that the government gives a certain guaranty of their responsibility, The bank whose president thinks these insti- tutions ought to be left to their own de vices might continue on under such cir cumstances and retain the confidence of those who do business with it, but there are hundreds of others which could not. Withdraw from the banks any of the nditions which make them national in character, and the system would in- evitably lose its public confidence, and purticularly would this be the case were the banks allowed to issuc notes based upon some device of their own. It seems astomshing that any man en- gaged in national banking cannot see that any divorcement of the banks from the government must eventually prove fatal to the system. It is not to be expected.that any method can be desived for porpetuating the national banks that will be wholly froe frota objection, but it being granted that it iswvise and desirable to main- tain the systom a fair and equitable plan, assuring security to the peo- ple and a reasonable chance of profit to the banks, is not impossible if the conflicting interests will make some concessions. It is be- ing more generally admitted vhat the plan proposed by Mr. Knox is the best of any yet suggested, and with one or two modifications it onght to prove aceeptable to the bauks of every sec- tion. In operation it would work ad- mirably with the plan of Secretary Windom for issuing treasury notes against cortificates of silver bullion, and the adoption of these two measures would remove the silver and bank ¢ culation questions from discussion for many years, while assuring to the coun- try an ample supply of currency regu- lated to the demands of business. —— ANOTHER TRUST GOING OUT. Among all the great combinations for controlling the productions of the coun- try, perhaps noue has less reason to change its character, because of public hostility, than the whisky trust.. That ovganization has not, like the sugar and most others, laid any tribute upon the consumers of whisky. It is understood to have been largely profitable to those who are in it, but its gains have been takeun from the dealers and not from the drinkers, So far as we know there hus nowhere been any advance in the retail price of whisky since the trust was organized. The retailers 1n order to save themselves may uow adulterate or dilute their beverages more frecly than belore the trust, but the consumer pays no more than formerly, Hence there is no such popular antagonism to tho whisky combine as cxists toward nearly all other trusts. But the whisky trust has de- cided to change its charaster, not be- cause the organization has not heen satisfactorily successful or for the reason that its managers have lost faith in this method of doing business, but for the that they sco the necessity of surrendering to the gen- eral pulic sentiment against this form of combination before they may be compolled to do so. Thoy acknowledge that the organization has no existence under the law, and to this extent con- foss the justico of the puolic demand for the suppression of iltegal combinations, They therefore propose to place themselves on a legal footing by incorporating under the laws of Tilinois, thus creating ponsible corporation, which, under present ¢ cumstances, they are not. The methods of the corporation may not be very greatly changed, but it will at least bo amenable to law, its vesponsibility will be known, and it can be reached by direct and easy process The tendency of the trusts to seek o corporate form under legal restraints and obligations is growing, and it is more and wore probable that within a year most or all of them will have made a change of this Kkind. whether forced to do 8o by legis- ation ornot. It will then become a question whether trade combinations in any form can safely be tolerated. In that ease combination may find more numerous defenders than at present. The trast is nearly universally con- demned, not alone for the business principle upon which it is founded, but because it is outside the pale of the law. But while it must be confessed that no combination in trade is made with reference to the publie good, when con- summated in legal form and amenable to law it will be far less vepugnant to public sentiment than is the trust, and far more difficult to prevent or sup- pr The subject is very sure to pos- sess an interest beyond the life of the existing objectionable and illegul com- binations. reason these A BIG RAT HOLE. Among the big rat holes into which the taxpayers’' money is being poured to feed supernume 25 is the city clerk’s Five 0. the entive busi- ness ity clerk’s oflice was done for about hundred dol- lars a yeuw At that time the city clerk was auditor, member of the li- censing board and custolian of city warrants. He had to keep up the jour- nals of the couucil, keep o record of all the Dbilts payable and receivabl make out vouchers for all city employes and sign all ety war rants, beside issuing every liconse that was given.to liquor dealers. ped- dlers, auctioneers, circuses and shows generally. Tuday the city clark deaws two thou- sand dollars o yewre himself, and his deputy, clevks and stenographer cost y forty-eight hundred dollars a year, making the total salary list in the clerk’s oftice sixty-eight hun- dred dollars . In other words the clerl costs five thousand dollars @ year more than it did during Jewett's time. And yet the cleri’s force does less work now than was done by Jewett alone. the city’s vouchers and re kept by the comptroller, who also makes outand signsall city warrants. The city clerk has nothing more to do with the 1ssuing of liquor licenses, and ity is employing a special clerk for that business in the oftice of the police commission, All that the city clerk is required to dois to keep a proper record of the journals of the council and take care of the resolutions and ordinances pending in the couneil. It is true the charter requires the city clerk to pre- pare and fill out the tax list, but the councii has let this work o outsiders and only a few weeks ago voted oy seven hundred dollars to pay for this tax list copy:. It is self e evident, therefore, that the ty clerk with oue deputy two ¢ ks and one stenographe is maintaining a staff that i out of all proportion to the work per- formed in his office. It isa big rat hole that should be plugged at once. The clerk and one deputy can do all the work that devolves upon the oflice. They are certainly puid well enough to put in their full time. If they wanta lay-off they should hire substitutes at their own expense. NO JOB FOR FLANNERY. The great financiers of the city coun- cil ave respectfully reminded that the charter ns amended by the last legisla- ture has made no provision for a street eommissioner. There being no such office under the charter and.no ordi- nance creating such an office that we are aware of, the natural inference will be that the mayor had no authority to appointa street commissioner, and the council has no right to vote pay to any such officer, much less to his clerk, As o matter of fact, Omuha does not need a street commissioner. The board of public works should be made to take care of the streets, and if repairs are needed competent men can be hired to do the work. All the grading done by our street commissioners for the past few s has cost the city ten ‘times as much as it could be done for by contract, PROJECTING vast systems of railrouds on paper does not require much labor or capital, Actual construction and op- ervation involves wiilions. The various roads nnd routes proposed to open Asia to the commerce of the world, if par- tially carried out, will require enor- mous expenditures. A country com- prising one-third of the land surface of the globe is practically without rail- roads, for the lines in Asiatic Russia and in India were bwilt for military purposes. The former has completed a road to the northern borders of Afghan- istan,but the vast Siberian country has none of the modern means of travsit or communication. In a contest for rail- road supremacy in southern Asia the virile and energetic Saxon would not have a competitor worthy of the name. TheRussian treasury is practically bank- rupt and private enterprise is strangied by officialism, On the other hand, the British possews;the menns, the ability and that pep§iisiva force to overcome the objectious of petty potentates. To the British, thercfore, the world must look for the “dommercial regencration of Asia and,rail connection with Fu- rope. The ohstacles to be overcome are great, but thy vesults would in less than a generation igo far toward placing southern Asfa in a line with the civili- zation of thewaorld. e Tie total cost of the police depart ment for 1880 amounted to eighty-six thousand fous Hundred and ffty-seven dollars, To this must be added the salaries of the police commission ag gregating twenty-four hundred dollars, The levy for police purposes is limited to five mills on the dollar. On a valua- tion of twenty millions this would pro- hundred thousand dollars, The request of the policemen for an advance of sa if granted, means an increase of fourteen thousand four hun- dred dollars 1n the expenses of the de- partment, which would deficiency in the police enormous incroase in departments during the pust three years has been out of wll proproprotion to the growth in population. duce one create A fund. The all expenses in THE court vecords of Toy startling evidence of the adopted by the railroads to e only state but national laws. The pro- fessions of ohedience to law and the schiedules adopted uppear to huve been a mask to cover diserimination. Grain shipoers of the state are not in a mood to tolerate robbery, and the fivst install- ment of ety suits for the vre- covery of eighty thousand dol- lars has been entered in in the United States cirenit court. This sum represents overchurges alleged to have been collegted by the Chicago & Northwestern. Action is based on the long and short haul clanse of the inter- ct. These suits will others ing all operat in the stats. The questions to bo determined are of great public interest, and vitally concern the commerce of the country. If the piain- tiffs recover the amounts claimed it is to vredict that the railroads will extremely careful in obeying the and letter of the jaw. furnish methods ade not state commerce be followed by ronds invol 16 spir Tie St. Lou the opinion when it says b for dount as lob - Demoeral v ed by Tne it there is “good room tothe constitutionatity of the election [United States senator before a per pization of the latui The republi- re should pro- 3 tion of temn- is the first step toward wlinmentary usage as aires that perimane effected s soon as the embersare pussed upoit. roor-elect cannot be in- il permanent officers are clected, it is clearly evident that the clection of a U'nited States senutor would not te legal,” ! rizations as law rur tion b credentials of When the gov tor- The attempl of the Helfensteins to cloud the title of a lavge strip of prov- crty in North Omaha now covered with hundreds of homes smacks of an effort to levy on the finances of the owners, They well know that a vast majority of the people dislike the delays and an- noyances of litization, cven though there is n certainty of sues The St. Louis adventurers practically con- fess that their alleged title is worthiess when they sell quit-cluims for from ten to twenty-five doll ach. . Those who s the demand are encouraging ras- ity. Tur Union Pacific is directly con- corned 1 the ‘growth and prosperity of the Omaha stock market. It has been the means of adding thousands of dollars to the revenue of the rond. ‘T'he all ance with the Novthwestern gives it di- vect comnection with Chicago, and places it in a position to protect its own interests and the interests of the tribu- country, Inyvy of these facts it hing that the company toler- goous system of discrimina- tion against the murket and refuses to enforce equal rights and rat BuILD no more tinder boxes. Brick is cheap enough now and a ety built of brick ereates an impression of solidity and stability. This accounts largely for the hes investment of foreign capital in Kansas City and Denver. Prore owners who resist the grading of streets in the heurt of the city are standing in thewr own light. The grade of St. M avenue isa sumple of the folly of compromise grades, Ingatls and the south, Liochester Democrat, The south will bo wise if it leeds his warning, uttered in no malignant spirit of sectionalism, but with patriotic purpose in the wisdom of statesmanship. —— 10 Be Removed. (iiteago Lribune. New York's jgisiaturo thinks of spending $66,000 in improving Niogara falls, That sum paid out.for funcral expenses of Niagara hackmen would make the great natural pheuomenon doubly attractive, B Only Ooh Way to Seteln it, Philagelphia aph, It was a great statesman who said that no question was ovér settied that was not set- tled right, andthis race issue cau bo settled in no other whiy'than on the basis of justice and the equality of citizenship, England's Lordly Lion, Chicago Inter-Ocean. The very colisdrvative position of Great Britain during hgr dispute with Russia is in striking contrast to the present bellicoss at - titude toward littie Portugal. The lion can, upon occasion, “‘roar you us gently as any sucking dove.” ‘Tweuty-nine amendments to the coustitu- tion have been submitted to congress this session. It is extremely fortunate that the method of securing au smendment w the constitution is so roundabout, If it were not $0 the schoolboy of & century hence would bave to put In a year's time in readiog 1t tkrough once. I Passed the World's Fair Bill, Aruaxy, N. Y, Jan. 25.—n the assembly today the world's fair bill passed wivhout debate or amendwent. Quly one unegative vote was cast, STATE JOTTINGS, Nebraska. Hartington hias a toboggan oxtensively patronizod, A county alliance hsa beon rmers of Harlan county. _ Thero is & hackmen's war raging at Hast ings, but as yet no blood has been spilled Spontaneous combustion 18 given as the cause of & $100 fire in the grange store at In dianola. There was a poker_game in Ponder the other night whoro $1,700 was on the table av one time, 1t is expected that the new foundry at Hoover will be comploted and occupied by March 1, While showi curved ball . \ tured his aru, Twelve houses havo baen oracted the past year in Ashland throngh the ouilding and loan association. Yollow ochre has boen discovered dianola and a compy clop tho bed. The taculty of the Fairfield colloge has do cided to discontinue hool un Saturday and havo it on Mondays, as of ol E. Gray of Du Bois accidentally mixed €7 In paper money with some Kindling od and built a fire in his stove, Ihe machinery for tho new gas well at Hastings 8 all in_place and the work of drilling the hole will be begun shortly. Otis H. Hoimes hias retired from the ed- 1torship of the Clay Center Gazette-Demo- crat and is succeeded by S, R Baraett. Anexcellont programme has been prepared for the meeting of the farmers’ institute to be held at Jobnson, Nemahu county, Febru- ary 4, 5, 6 and Isiand bridgo, which is the hat spans the Platte river, measur- ing 4,302 feot, was comnleted last week and turned over to the commissioners of Lincoln county., B. Ferroe of Vallay, editor of the erprise, also advertises himsolf as agent for reul estate, Creston nursery stock and pro- priotor of the Valley dray. B. Hiltou, pastor of the York M. , has been ‘appointed superintend- ent of the Tnternational Sunday School in- stitute for the state of Towa, South Dak and Nebraska, with headquarters at O slide which is formed by the the boys how to throw a Williams of Milligan fracs at_Io- v will be organized to Ite; A $30,000 Catiiolie church is being built at Gilvertsville, _ Grinnellis to lave a merchant’s carnival in the near future, 2 There is a surplus of §34,000 in the Mont~ gomery county treasury. There & students in the state univer- sity at lowa city, an increase of 10) over all previous records, ur hundred and sixty-two rabbits ware led during a hunt in Union township, Ma- ka county, one day ‘The oatmeal mill at Cedar Rapids will be wnforced wi s milling plant with a rrels per duy. Jucob Perrine, who recently assumed the duties of the sheriff’s oftics at Mt. Pleasant, 18 the first democrat who ever held a county oftice in Henry county. The executive ofiicors of the Knights of Labor and Farmers’ alliance have concluded tu hold open sessions at their convention at Marshalltown on February 1 When the miners in the fo in mine at Albin went to worning they found the b avthe foot of the shuft, and cold and badly mangled by the fall. When taken to the surface the body was identitied as that of James Cullom, a resident of Melrose, in tho western part of the county, He had ot been working m the mine and how he came to fall down the shaft is a mystery and Wiscon- ork the other dy of u man lying The body was Stiff THIE MWCOOK LAND ONFIOR. iver Stemmetz Says Ac s Al % cCook, Neb., Jaa. the [ditor of Tue Bee: In your issuevf January 23 you published a letter from Washiogion, D. C., signed by Perry S. Heath, wherein is stated that it is lewined from the secretary of the interior that I am short 1 my account with the government as receiver of the United States land ofice at McCook, Neb., in the sum of £2300, cte. 1 beg leave to inform the readers of Tue Bre that the charge 1 abso- lutely untrue in every particular, and I hope that you will do me the justice of giving my brief reply the greatest possible publicity through your pajer, in order that at least some degree of reparation may be done me for the great injury and injustice - that the publication of such a report must have worked upon me wherever the charge has been or may be read. ‘The facl briefly as follows, I was opointed receiver of this office on August 30, 1886, ut which time I was notitled of the amount of the bond that I would be required totile. I gave the bond, which was ap- proved, in the sum of §0,000—as Lremember it My appojutuwient was confirmed by the United Stutes senate o February 8, 1887, at which time [ was notified of the fact und squested Lo give nnew bond in the same sumn as the foriner one. 1 did 8o, and the bond was avproved Aprit 11, 1857, 1 was then uotified to close my open count with the governument under first bond, in order that same might be discharged, upon being uotified that the due to that date was I deposited sl sum wi the That His tieht, ac- my the and sum of a letter from the States treasur; 1800, will show. TREASURY DEparts 3 -‘ll:fl CoMPTROL- Orrice, WasuiNaroy, D. C., Jan, 14, Jacob Steinwetz, EBsq., receiver of public moneys, McCoo<, Neb.—isir: Your account for’ sales of public lands tor the quarter ended June 50, 1850, has been na- justed per report No. 47.044, "T'he following statement will explain the difference between your account und the official judgment : Admitted balance due United States per account. . o 181,822 47 Adjusted balance due receiver. « L134.26 Difference to your credi \ 2,450, ‘The same as reported ter ended March 31, 1889, Lespectfully, 0. R. GARRISON, Actg, Comptroller, The seemivg deficiency in my sccount soems to be in the fact that my account under the old bond was not credited with the remittance of 56.78 which the above ceport from the comptroller shows Lo be now to my credit in the treasury department, which, it done, would show my account bal- anced, Whose fault it is'that this transfer was not made 1 will not say. The above is a true statement of the facts in this case and any fair minded man, rogard- loss of political bias, must admit that a gross \njustice hos been done me aud my good name in the publishing of such a totally fulse statement to the world. Having repeatealy informed the treasury department of the fact that I had deposited the amount aford™ A in sottlementunder my old bond with the surer of the United: States, 1 can nou but feel that such information could have been obtained there by your correspondent had nhe taken the paius to make proper inquiry, Yours truly omptroiler of the United bearing date January 14, JACON STEINMETZ, Receiver United States land office at MeCook, Neb. . - 'o Leave the Missouri Pacfic, Arcmisox, Kan, Jan, 28.—|Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.|—Ttis reported that E. K. Calvin, superintendent of the central branch divisions of the Missour: Pacifie, will resign to go to the St. Louls, Arkansas & Texas with W, B, Doddrige. Mr. Calvin cawme to the Missouri Pacific with Mr. Dod- drige, and when Mr, Doddrige was made geueral maunager of the Cotton Belt it was wenerally understood that be would provide for Mr, Calvio. Mr. Doadrige has already wiven J. A, Edson, who also came here with him, a division superintendency of & thous- and miles of road, If Mr. Calvin resigns C. C. Goodwin, now & couductor, will proba- bly succeed him, S —-— A River Steamer Burned. EvaxsviLug, Ind,, Jan. 25, It is rumored that the steamer DeSoto burned to the water's edee one wile south of Oweusboro, Ky., this morning. The report 3tates that no lives were lost, although theve were about twenty-five passengers aboard the boat, which was a total loss. It was valued at about §15,000 and insured for $10,000. THE CAPITAL CITY CGRIST. Postoffice Matters Considerad by the Real Estate Exchange. A NEW BUILDING DEMANDED. cle Sam Will Be Asked for One Million Instead of Two Hun- dred Thousand Dollars ~Ne' Noves, The Real Estate Exchange. LixcoLy, Neb, Jan, 28.—(Special to Tie Bk, |—At the meeting of the real estate ex change today a series of resolutions were in- troduced by the Hon. Albert Watkins reln t1ve to the new postofice building. They sot forth that it would be unwise to attempt to patch up the prosent symmetrical building, whicb is to0 small in its general plan even for present needs, Thoy stalo that the rev onue of the postofiic has incroased S0 per cent during the four yoars ending December 81, 1880, tho carrier force 133)¢ por cent, tho mail matter handlod 125 per cent, the popu- lation of the city 150 per cent. ‘That there are sixteen statos in the union without a single town with a postoffice business as large as Lincoln’s, name a dozen lending states with only one town each whose postofiice business equals Lincoln's, and as many moro with only two towns of that character. Thoy claim that judging by past growth, the incomparable location of Lincoln, which, with the bost railroad sys tem of any town betweon Chicago and San IPrancisco, makes her the trade center of the richest agricultural region in the country, and her status as a political and educational centor, by the time a new building could be completed 1t would have to accommodate forty to fifty carriers, as many clerks, and, owing to the inevitable division of the state into two federal court districts, this court and all its officers as their headquarters. hey thereforo reject the proposod bill for $200,000 and ask the representatives in con- gress to secure $1,000,000 for an entire new building. They were adopted. THE SUPREME COURT, Court met pursuant to adjourament. The following gentlemen were admitted to practico: Frank R. Waters, es(., aud George A. Adams of Lancaster county. The following proceedings were had: Ting- loy vs Gregory, motion suggesting diminu- tion of record sustained; state ex rel. Culver vs Sizor, defendant to ruary 4, 18003 Crabb submittea; Peterson va Townsend, submitted ; state ex rel. board of transvortation vs K, E. & M. V. R. R, Co., appearance of Hon, O, 1. Mason w. drawn; Oppenheimer vs Melone, revived in of Samucl McClay, adminstrator of ant; Fitzgerald vs Brewstor, submit 3 C., B. & Q. vs Moore, subuitted. The following cases wero argued and sub mitted: C., B. & Q. va Houan; state ex r Farmer vs Graud 1. & W.C. R R. C Griffith vs Woolworth; Harte vs Dogge; Trester vs M. P. Ry. Co. In Martin vs state leave was given to de fendant to file vriefs by February In Oppouheimer vs Malone, plaintiff was given ten days to file briefs, und defendant live days thereattor. Crabb vs Morrissoy, leave aiven appeliants to file briefs in five days, and appellves to file briefs in ten days thereafter. Gale, ete., Co. vs Laughlin, leave given plaintifts to file briefs by February 3, and defendants to February 1 Alexander vs Thacker, leave given defend ant to file briefs by February 10. State ex rel. bourd of transporzation vs M. P. Ry. Co., defendant given ten duys to an- swer. Court adjournod to Wednesdny at S:30 o'clock a. m. STATE HOUSE GOSSIP Governor Thayer reportsthat Mrs, Thayer is siowly improving from her recent illness. Judee G. D. Thayer of Meeker, Colo., 18 visiting his father, the governor, Some time since Frankie Curry, a Lan- caster county patient in the insane hospital mado complaint Lo Mayor Grabum und Go ernor Thayer of ill treutment. Governor ‘Thayer went out yesterday mvestigated the matter, and reported today that he wes satistied that the comulaint was entirely without foundation. Bailey Waggoner of the Missouri Pacific appeared in the supreme court this morning und asked for three weeks in which to answer the compiaint filed i the case of the stute ex rel the state board of transportation vs the Missouri Pacific, regarding the kim- wood eleyator case, Ho was given ten auys. The uarrowness of the supreme court quarters was very clearly and plainly donion- strated at the opening of the court this morning, as fully a dozen members of the barhad to be provided with seats in the hallway, It bas boen suggested unless bet- ter quarters are provided in the capitol build- ing for this court shat it will ndopt the prace tice of siling at the principal district court room in each judicial district for hearing the business of that district. ‘Lhe following connty treasu tlements with the auditor into the state treasury the stated below : 13, C. Jackson, Washington county .§18,871.50 W. M. Nesbitt, Burt county 4,514.00 G. W. ‘Wilkinson, Dakota ‘county.. 4,90.: B. F. Dill. Thomus county........ 2508 The foilowing insurance companies doing business in Nebraska filed their anoual statements today. Uriefly they are as fol- lows: rs made sot- tay and paid aums of money Promiums. Losses, California Fire,San Fran ol Mercantilel! 130RL0R 2845 s German, Rochestor. Humourg, Bremen, Gor- many...oees Niagara, Now York aicate, Minueapo! tizens, Pittsburg Standard, New York, PEDEIAL In tne federal court today the following proceedings wero bud: In the case of the Kansas manufacturing ompany va J. Wat- son Riley et al the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $601.20, In the following crimiual cases a nollo prosequi was entered by the United States district attorney; Charlos Fisher, for illegal sales of liquor; " Sherman Wolfe, for assault with intent to kiil; Anton Zopka, for illegul sales of liquor; Kd Callahan, for illogal sales of liquors and tobacco; Abe Lincoln, for stenling o lettor from » mail box; J. P, Eian, for noglect of duty us clerk of election, Marshal Slaughter stated tiat the citation n the contempt case against Grandpa Bur- rus had not been served for want of time, CITY NEWS NOTES, A. D. Gifford, a harmless patient in the insane hospital, will be sent to somo friends in an-m;, W. A. Hartley of Bennét was appointed by the commissiouers Lo big business affairs, 1t is said that thera is absolutely no ques- tion now about the carly completion of the electric atreet railway to Cushwan park, rant A. Bush and Samuel D. Woodley re appointed councilmen from the new eventh ward last evening and took their seats in the council chamber last evoning, Tho following unappropristed balances were reported in the city treasury last tve ing: Sidewalks, §20.76; wuter, 30,340, lighting, $2.368.70; road, #$13.454.94; poli :}zl 67.85; special police, §1,031.40; sewer, Miss Ada K. Farnsworth was summoned w Corning, Ia, yosterdsy by a telegram aunounciug her fuller's serious illness, Newton Hall of the Cherries directory company received a telograw yesterday ans oounciog the death of bis fattier ot Boone: ville, o and Marine wind up not the only home of the money d 8 Lincoln citizen today to Tue LgE correspoudent. “We have them righi here as well. A lady came to my oftice a day. or two ago who had been robbea’ by one of these creatures. A little over & year ago she became indebted to him for §25 as a commis- sion on the transfer of real estate. He then bought one of fier notes for 864, running ber indebtedness up to 59, Thenhe went 0 her and proposed Lo take in paywent her note for #150 due in tharey days, drawiog 10 per cent interest. She is poor, but hud some real es- tate under a $700 mortgage. He wld her thay | untess she gave bim her note for $180 Lo party would bring suit against her and tho holding the morteago would foreclose. S gave the note, ‘This ocourred less than th teen months ago, but ahe has $150 on tho notos and still owes §30. ering that this is on 30 investod the harve 18 pretty fair for the money shark a possibility that the case will bo the courts.” An amusing suit in replovin was bagun Justice Foxworthy's court toaay Hudson, a farmer living seven milos the city, sued to recover from M. A, I vedy thirteen grel breed, thirty bushels of glotreo, wi unlawfully possesses. An officer was sc out this ‘afternoon to run down and sc upon the thirteen chickens. Hon, Frauk ansom of Omaha was the city today. -Senator Brown of Sutton city today. C. M. Hands of Omaba was in the city day ‘groeting old friends. Hon. R. . Windham and Byron Clarko Plattsmouth ure in tho city. H. Woolleyof Weeping Water is watc ing the supreme court proceedings. E. 1. Birdsall received a tole morning announcing the d City of Addison Lashloy pnoumonin. aired enand a s was in t n t ath at v Addison was & son Lashley, whoso doath was mentioned t other day. Both of the daughters are ported seriously ill, Born, to Mr. and Mrs at noon yesterday. Last night's bal masquo at Bohanan's h was o very pleasant affair. It was he Ackerman, under the auspices of tho Germania Mo nerchor, The grand march begau at 3 and was led by Otto Glaser of this city ar Miss Roso Ottmun of Quiney, 1. An attempt was made last night to bur, larizo the residenco of Dr. Bliazard, at North Eloventh, printer. 1t contains 621 cases. Coll Allin, whose billiard pa Eleventt street was destroyed by week, lins sottled for There was a small fire in school this morning. A man by the name of Dewhurst, fro Indianapolis, is tho Q stre Nebraska Caty. The Localization of Industrics, The general principles determinin the employment of the soil of differen countries and loc simple. Common, bulky able articles are naturali near as possiblo to sumption, though enabling them to be more cas and perish the places of cor an S, suys in the Popular Science Monthly Such are the compression and baling ¢ hay, the conveyance of dead meats i r' ated chambers, of live in specially adapted wagons and stean «hips, and of ordinary fresh fruits an vegetubles by expréss trains, valuable ar nd luxurie: the finer fruits, sugar, tobu ton, the cost of transport of which is re latively loss important can and ofte dapted to them at gr from the places of therr ater distane sumption. Dried fruitsare more fitte for distant and uncertain markets tha green fruits. Other generally teemed avticles, such as silk, tea, an the finer wines, naturally monopoliz the limited areas capable of producin them. On the other hand, as almo ho i pad him ovor Consid. =% st The o 18 n chickens of acommon, mon n ich Hudson claims that Kennedy nt in o toe h 18 from imflucaza and s — . ho a girl, 0 W The trial docket of the February term of the district court is now in the hauds of tho lor on South fire last m a the city today Jooking for his brother, Dick, formerly a car driver at R N1 ities ure tolerably produced as improvements d cheaply transported render them more a it n animals 1= a Moro such as cco and cot- must be produced in localities specially oS aventual cone n es- d { iy part of the world can grow whea and the ordinary small g ment of & comparatively cupital, as the is inconsiderable. poil, and tities in handled and tition among producers of enable and n tate their turned over at the minimum profi growth of these indispensible staples i feft to the newest, the poorest and the most remote coun they are not lix the enormous g which they - ar the universs as v the vy ltmited st of transporting them compe- S ries and to those parts of other countries for which no better employment can be found. 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