Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 21, 1891, Page 4

4 DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Eprron THE MORNING PUBLISHED EVERY TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dafly Bee (withont Sunday) One Yoar Dally and Sunday, One ¥ ear Bix_months Thres Months Bunday Bee. One Y Eaturdny Bee, On Woelly Tioe, O $80 o m ] Ar Yenr sur OFFICES The Bee Buliding. 1. corner N and 21th Streets. s, 12 Penrl Strect Chicago Office, 317 Chamber o New York. Rooms 18, 14 and 15Tr1 513 Fourteenth Streot Omaha Eouth O Couneil Biu merce. CORRESPONDENCE All communications reluting 1o news and editorinl patter should be addressed to the Editorial Departuient RUSINESS LETTERS, A1l business lettors andremittances should bo addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafts, chee nd postofieo ordei 10 be made payable to ordor of the coni- pany. The Bee Publishing Company, Propristers | THE BEE BUILDING SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Btats of Nelrusia i County of Douglas. p N. P. 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In order to give every reader in this state and Towa an opportunity to keep posted on the progress of the campaign in both these states w ve decided to offer T WEEKLY BEE for the balance of this yoar for twenty-five cents. Send in your orders early. Two dollars will bo accepted for a elub of ten names. Thi BEk PUBLISIING CO., Omaha, Neb. PATRONIZE Omaha industry is not a plank in the council platform. IN THE great game of international chess in Furope, England invariably manages to checkmate Russia. —_— COUNTY ATTORNEY MAHON will lose no sleep becauso Governor Thayer does not like him. Mr. Mahoney has company. THE Stato Board of Transportation went to a great deal of trouble and fired off a good deal of pyrotechnic powder in reaching a foregone conclusion. No man can afford to allow business engagements to prevent his attending the meeting of manufacturers ai the Board of Trade rooms today. Work for Omaha and Nebraska LET overy dolegate who believes tho timo has come to retire the railroads from politics be at the state convention. Ho will be needed. The other fellows will be there on passes. THE arguments of Messrs, Koontz, Dilworth and Johnson in behalf of the existing schedule of rates would have been more convincing if less time had been taken in their preparnf IF THE Douglas county delegation numberiny sixty-three delegates should vote as a unit in the state convention its influence would decide mostof the im- portant questions to come before that body. JUDGE BROADY preserves a discreet silence as to whether or not ho will ac- copt the nomination for associate justice of the supreme court, unanimously ten- dered him by the democratic state con- vention. ADpdIT the correctness of their conclusions for argument’s sake, what provented the railrond secrotaries from @nnouncing this for full four months after their tabulated comparative state- ment was propared. VWHEN everything else failsin the way of news to the Washington correspond- ent he always falls back upon the “pro posed changes in the cabinet,” and he invariably moves Secrotary Noble out of the Interior department. CONSIDERABLE discussion is going on In railroad circles as to the effect of cer- tain movements relative to the Donver & Rio Grande railway. The question is asked whether or not Gould will get it. The answer is easy: Not unless he wants it. Lire is short and time is fleeting. It took the Board of Transportation four months to decide that long haul rates are delightfully in our favor and against our eastern neighbors, This board will not live long enough to get at the facts rogarding discrimination ngainst dis- tributive centers and individuals. Our demoe friends out in the state are not making a fair open fight. They are divecting their attacks against the court housos under cover of the in- dependent guns. The democratic party will still bear watching, notwithstand- fog its demoralization. It is broken into bands of political guerrillas and they are all out foraging for offices. —— JUDGE AMASA Coul was allowed to select the Lancaster county delegtion to the state convention, though the vote glving him the privilege was not unani- mous. This clearly indicates that the venerable chief justice is in his political dotage. Any man who can see any- thing will perceive thag Judge Cobb's nomination is altogether improbable and his election would be impossible if nomi- nated. | for o Buliding | ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK. Tue Brr's special dispatches from nearly every county in Nobraska clearly show that the republicans of the are full of energy, enthusiasm and hope the approaching campaign. The surprise of o year ago will not be re- pented in November. The party is har- ry county and will not be by factional conflicts in The exprossions of monious in ov torn asunder the state campuign, the local conventions on the state t are along tho line of policy indicated by Tig BEE. Everywhore the feeling pre- vails that if the state conv tion makes no mistakes in its nominations and adopts a ringing plat- form demanding nmong other things, that the corporations shall kec hands out of the politics of Nel henceforth and forever the republicans will redeem Nebraska in November. The prospect of wise action on the part of the convention is sufficiently promising to anticipate with a good of confidence, and THE DEE congratulates the rank and file upon the happy conditions under which the wty will be ablo to conduct the campaign. This newspaper regards the coming election as by far the most important in its ultimate vesults of any ever held in the state hopeful that the deliberatic state convention will wwako the kindled convention bo so judicious fires of in caucus, all over this great P enthusinsm veudy club and county state. Th tod: is no mistaking the signs of The rising sun of the morning is no more cartain to reach its zenith at noon than the rekindled biaze of reput licanis to sweep everything before it in November if we give the people that proof of fidelity which o ot and plat- form uninfluenced by railroad rings and corrupt bosses affords. A RACE LOR THE NEW LANDS, At noon tomorrow about 800,000 acres of land in the eastern part of Oklahoma will be opened to settlement, and the > to get possession of it promises to be ag lively and as full of incident as the ‘rush into the new territory when it was opened last yoar. For s people have been gathering at the starting line, and the numbe: there at present is probably not less than 25,000, According statement recently made by Governor Steele of Oklahoma, men have been training horses for the grand rush. A race track was made just outside of the town of Guthrie, and here horses have pxercised daily 50 as to bo in good form for the great race. This is altogether a novel expe- dient, and the race will form an interest- ing chapter in the story of the opening of these new lands, In the meantime the troops have been kept busy driving “boomers” out of the new territory and assisting to maintain order. It is said that many of those who have gathered to invade the new territory have their claims picked out, but it is highly probabls that a large number will fail to secure them. It is absolutely necessary that the settlers shall be guided by the list of patent lands, and those who do not take this precaution, as many doubtless will not, are certain to be shut out. Allouments of land have been made to the several Indian tribes but the Indians are not yet in these allotments, nor is there any mark on the ground showing the tracts allotted. The settler is thereforo liuble to get on land belonging to the Indians unless guided by the list of lands patented, If he ignorantly should settle on an Indian allotment he would lose his opportunity and be defeated, and it will bo the duty of the military now there to protect the allotments and drive out persons who may attempt to settle on them. Iuis not unlikely that some interesting in- cidents will grow out of the exercise of this authority. Another source of pos- sible serious trouble is the hostile atti- tude assumed by the whites toward the negroes who are proposing to settie on tho new lands. A bloody conflict is threatened, and it would not be surpris ing if & number of people were made to bite the dust in Oklahoma tomorrow. At any rate the opening of this littlo strip is pretty suro to furnish some in- teresting episodes during the next fow days. was wee been THE BRITISH CATTLE RESTRICTIONS. It is announced that the next step to bo taken by Secretary Rusk in the in- terest of the American farmer will be an effort to induce the British govern- ment to remove the restrictions upon American cattlo, The secretary hopes to be able to demonstrate to the British government that pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious diseases are absolutely prevented by our system of inspection, and while this could be done at once he will wait a fow months until results shall prove absolutely that our system is perfect. Speaking of the ndvantages that have already vesulted from the new regulation: cretary Rusk stated that they have besn of n nature that every American cattle denler will appreciate. Tho shipper can now count on recoiving from $18 to $10 more fora good steer than he did under the old system. The care taken in loading the cattle and the proper inspretion of their feed- ing ve reduced the death rate per cargo from 16 per cont to 1 per cent, andi it has lessened the cost of insurance irom $10 io $2 per head. Should the restriction rogarding the of all euttle ten days after land- moved it would, in the opinion of tho secrotary, be still further to the advantago of the American shipper. He stated the interesting fact that Canadian shippers had alrendy seen the advan- tages of an inspection system and had asked the privilege of shipping through ourports. This they may do, but their cur- goes must go through without an Amer- ican certificate. Ho also stated that the fact that our meats are freo from disense is boing appreciatod in England, and American beef s in greater demand than that from Canada. The British restrictions have not been maintained wholly upon the ground that American cattle were believed not to be healthy, though this pretext has been steadily employed as a defense of the ac- tion of the government, It is well derstood, howover, and has more than once been virtually acknowledged by the English authoritios, that the protec- tiom of howe cattle raisers wus a strong un- stato | THE OMAHA DAILY F——_—'_‘———_'_—_-——_————'——w"‘ . motive in establishing the ctions, It will be a very casy matter, ns | tary Rusk says, to prove that our in- setion system is as nearly a perfect against tho exportation of cattle and meats it is | vido, but it muy not be so | me the other reason for strictions, that of protecting the | British cattle raisers from unhampered American competition. Itis inlerest- | ing to note that our foreign trade in cattle and beef products, notwithstand- ing the obstacles to its has grown enormously during the last few years, and will wmount in value this year to fully $65,000,000. It would doubtless increase to halt as much moro with all restrictions removed. | | | ased s | possible to ensy to overe the progroess, SHOULD BE REPUDIATED, The late ex-Governor David Butler presontod to Charies H. Gere the origie nal plant of the Nebraska State Jowrnal, Its editor had neither the ability nor the money-to own or build up a newspa- per. From the day it was started until now it has subsisied upon the gratuities of corporations and politicians and the corruption incident to their manipula- tions, Without itsextensiva job depart- ment, supported chiefly from the funds of the people the printing of the raitronds, the newspaper could not exist. It isrecognized in Lincoln as the organ of local corruptionists in the state it is regarded as the mouth- of the B. & M. railroad. It scarcely over takes an candid position upon any local or state topie, but is conducted solely for self and the benefit of the bindery and power presses in the Journal building. Its owners have been enriched at the expense of their manhood and the state has regu- larly muleted to make them arrogant. The editor of the Journal has alw; n a supple tool of the capitol, peni- tentinry and other rings. He has licked very man who ever and and ringsters and piece hones been be the boots of public position who been in a would contribute business to the or aid his ambi- Jowrnal company tion. Ho has Dbeen consistent only in this particular. A more selfish, unblushing political purasite than Gere has never achieved prominence in Ne- braska affairs, A man who will stoop lower to do the bidding of corporation masters than this same Gere has never been given a place in a state convention, Charles H. Gere has long been the resident rogent of tho Nebraska university, and in this capacity he has been known chiefly as u trimmer who would sacrifice the dignity of his office and bring disgrace upon his associates by trickery in awarding con- tracts, by perfidiously abandoning his friends in the face of probable victory and by a constant effort to secure job work for his printing establishment. Thero has never been an office with a salary attached which could be held without releasing his hold upon the printing pap of the state which Gere was unwilling to take. As a member of both houses of the legisiature he always in the railroad and appropriation camps. As a secretary of the railroad commission he was not content with serving the railroads, but in a cowardly manner sought to strike down the bene- factor and friend who gave him his positicn. Whena better man was a can- didate for postmaster it was this parasite that plucked the plum. The republican party has had enough of this self-seeking individual. It has helped the railroads and rings to make him 1independently rich. He can live upon his iil-gotten gain for the balance of hislife and he should no longer im- pose himsell upon republican conven- tlons as a candidute for office. His pur- pose in seoking a renomination for regent is to retain for the Journal com- pany the $10,000 per annum now ex- pended for university printing. This is the style of individual who reads THE Brr and its editor out of the republican party in a recent issue of the Jowrnal. This contemptible traitor to all that is honorable in public life, this miserably avaricious parasite who never earned an honest dollar by honest labor in his life, this pamperea pet of the corporations, this creature who has fattened upon state contracts at the public expense, this utterly conscienceless political hypocrite has the infinite assurance to deny ToE BEE and its editor the right to advise the republican party of Nebraska us to its duties in the coming campnign, I is this tool of corpora- tions and advocate of all the jobs ever perpetrated, or that have been at- tempted at Lincoln since the stato was admitted to the union, who pre- sumes, in the absenco of Mr. Rosewator, to call in question his loyalty to the rvepublican party. There is no danger of Charles H. Gere being again elected to a stute office, but the people of Nebraska must be nauseated by the fel- low’s unblushing check. TuoE emioent attorney of the asphalt company and councilman from the Sev- enth ward gives it as his opinion that the alleged confirmation of John B. “uray as a member of tho Boara of Pub- lic Works is illegal. The chief trouble with the opinion is that it is worthloss and windy, though characteristic. A LEADING cigur manufacturer in this eity is authority for the statement that if the people of Omaha will buy one-half of the cigars they smoke from local manufacturers the Omaha demand will give steady employment to 500 men. Tue Omahn man bid $22,105.24 city hall furniture; the Ketchum ture company #24,721.50. The Omuaha bid was not accepted. Comment on this state of fucts is exasperating and undor the circumstances apparently useless. — on urni- THE vote on city hall bonds will not bo incrensed apy by the recent action of the city council in shutting out a home bidder who was 32,600 below an outsider in his proposals for furuishing the city hall. Cror reports from Nebraska show the corn to bo out of danger frow frost. 1f this be the case Unele Jorry will please | turn on tho cold air a whil e I should be nccepted us a prinecipal of action by all citizens and corporations in Omaha that Omaha manufacturers, BEE: MONDAY, g0 Omaha rota and os of houses in the Omaha jobhe ors Omaha roprose st oust doaling in g¥pds not made in this ety should T rg proferanco in purchases whother for private or public Wao mst stand by each othe —— OMAA workfgfrmen and Omaha peo- ple favor Omaha:industry in preference to that of Chicagd or any other eastern city. iven A Thofoigh Cleansing. Philadelphia Ledger, A new Philadelphia cannot be built on a sound sanitary basis with the corruptions of the Keyatone bank covered up and hidden awny. Thoy must be dragzed to the light and air, the best of disinfectants, and this can best he done by the government experts. ——— ueation and Matrimony. Duluth News, The Omaha Board of Education has passed & resolution prohibiting the marriage of school teachers during the school year. Otlier school boards have decided not to emoloy married toachers, Al this is the height o nonsense. Indeed it closely approaches an outrage. What good reasons can any school board assign for excluding teachers from employment merely because they are married ! Union Pa Grand Founce, New York Press, There probably never was such ter of railroad officials as President has made since the last annual meeting of the Unfon Pacific company. As ono man puts it, “heads of Harvard and Yale gradu- ates are falling into tho basket so fast that you can hardly keep track of them.” One after another of the old officials of the road have been put back in their old places from which Mr. Adams removed them, and now, although you may miss a great deal of Latin and Greelk, you will see more railroading. Omaha and the Convention. Laramis Republican. Omaha has startod out to raise $100,000 asn. repuvlican national convention guaranteo fund. This will e raised by subscriptions, and 3 per cent will be collected by October 1 to defray prelimwary expenses. The remain- ing 97 per cent will only be payable in case Omaba secures tho convention. As drawn up, the subscription paper does nov become binding until $100,000 shall have been sub- scribed. It is har)y necessary to add that the full amount will besigned for in the stipulated time. And even if Omaha does not get the convention, her offort to get it will givo her more than $3,000 worth of ox- cellent advertis In no event can thoe plucky city auit losor. NEW YORK ON FLOWER. a slaugh- Dillon New York Times (mug.): Nobody can seriously pretond that Mr. Flower is in him- self a strong candudate, In respect to native , in respect to experienco in stato af- tness for executive duties, he is vastly overmatched by Mr. Fassott. In- deed, Mr. Flower's deathless ambition to be governor of the state of Now York has al- ways scemed to be absurd. New York Sun (dem,): This yoar Mr. Platt has his own cuudidate, und, besides, more strength is 11 ‘the republican maching than was in it evon in the days of Roscoo Conkling. ~ Against these the democratic forces are to foliow Mr. Flowor, and they must follow bim to_ victory. He is an ablo and popular democrat. His success will be the corner stone of Yictory in 1802, Now York Morujng Advertiser (dem.): As between Mr. Fassett and Mr. Flower, tho personal comparisop is in favor of the former. In address, intelloctual equipment, magnetism ana parliamentary skill, the odds are largely on the side of the young man of Chemung, but the two.men_must be taken for what they represent, Upon this point the voters of tho state are competent to pass. New York Times {mug.): If Mr. Fassety were not carrying Mr. Platt upon his back ho would dofent Mr. Flower, we think. He is 80 much the more prosentable candidate of the two, he could bo fought for with so much more heart and spirit ana genuine vleasure, and he has such special and valuablo qualifi: cations for the office, that the contrasts of tuo canvass would work uniformly and powerfully in his favor. New York Recorder (rep.): TheTammany Junta-Black Rock Canal ring slate went through without a scratch. The ticket i appropriate 10 its mission and its or represents private corruption ana_ public plunder. The names ou it matter little, for if the dummny candidates should be elected thoy wouid ot be able to raise a finger to- ward the execution of their own will or the people’s desire, They are one and atl the slaves of an atrocions cabal which prosti- tutes_the forms of freo assemblage to tho vulgar tyrant’s lust for power and pelf. New York Tribune (vep.): It is a sham tickotand a sham platform. ’he nomination of Flower and Sheehan for tho two chief laces on the democratic ticket isun abso- ute surrender of the cardinal principles upon which tho - demooracy proteuds to stand. Professing to be distinctly the party of “the plain people,” of *‘the masses," of “‘the bono and sinew,!” of the “poor man," it selects for governora Wall street millignairo, who is distinctively what one of the Brook" Iyn delegates named him vesterday on the floor of the convention—a boodle candidate. [ PASSING JESTS. The lamentations ot Ne York democrats when the Fassett was turned on promises to develop into n mighty roar when the hoso is turnod loose in Nov A Salt Lake minist on the irrigatio rasponded with copi avention. Fickle us Showers. Lribune: vo .heard, that Nr. Weetpit, the ye Board of rade broker, who comes to seo you, Is what they call a boa rene (blusl Thut aoesn't be foot box Laura? vividly)- He's u per- sxpress it. Cholly (to_his country low ye can bo contented jehornaw, oIl tike o ye can luce, d Well, yer oyo that tarnal charges nio a Washington Star: t to profe ‘gln dat man. said un gl colored wou nty?” rs for white the charges were entel I I1is head like spuo® groat wind-mill whir Enzagod to foupkepn summer girls. A sudden tnouzht his cheok Inflames— He can’t remorbir all thelf names Now Orloans Plonyiimno: strikes a political conve have no time to bolt. Toxas Siftings: The hen that sits on u porcelain oz muy not necomplish much, but she has onnest inteptions. When the Hizhtning tion the members Lochester Post: Wo have noticed that no mattor where & man hins w pain ho 18 wlways sutisfiod thit ho wauld bo very brave and pu- tlent I It was ouly somewhere olse, Philadolphia Led| girl has entored « dbnt Inod to push her wiy to su 11 find that sho'll have to pull her way SON. Erpress She never the pockots inside ou wspider and two cockrg Yos. sir. Yo £erio for § Wian't expoct to , d.d your™ 1N GROOIA. A'lanta Constitutum Behind the squaw's light bireh canoo The wiid book a20ut Favos, And re uro 00t i fow AUOYE bOOK EONS KFAYOs! Natfon, -Here, o Tribuno poor min, 15 w Krince Albert ¢ of my hushand’s. 16is but Hitle worn will be quite o good fit Tramp (wWith lznified humility)--Mueh as [ need u eoit, maduni, I oannot that atyle. If | word 1o wour a Lmight bo sty for an w from good old I stock 10 nover eadure the disgrace. Pastor's wito (to tramp) at nnd SPTEMBER 21, 1891, [OMAHA AS A GRAIN NARKET. | Advantages to bs Reapsd From an “Opsn Beard” at This Point, CHICAGO'S PROFIT FROM NEBRASKA. Interesting Interviews on a Topie of | Vital Tmportance to the State Opinions and Sage Suggestions, “Thore seems to be some little friction in starting the machinery of the now warehouso law." Tho speaker was a well known banker who has been closely identified with Omaha’s growth and progeess, and who has watched tho development of the now warohouse law and the emerging of the Board of Trade from its chrysallis state, “Of course,”” he continued, ‘it was not ex- pected that it would move off with the grace- ful regularity of our new 18,000,000 gailon Omaha pump for various reasous, lu the first place the chief grain inspector, if all reports are true, may bo a good republican, but he evidently lacks experienco or ox- ccutivo ability to organizo this very im- portant department. I hope reports aro not truo. It may bo that a a vpoliticlan ms hands aro tied, but there should bo 1o politics 1 this offico. Tt should be organized on a business basis, and managed in the intorests of tho pro ducers and business men of tho state. Thoeso oftices wero created to aid in bringing active Jifo a great busiuess which di or indirectly has to do with everv busines man in the state, They should not be filled by politicians looking for soft snaps nor by incompotent men, and T hope public rumor 1s not correct in this respect. “I regard this warehouse question as one of greatimportance to Omana and the state of Nebraska. The law may be imper- fect, but it can be strengthenea 1n 118 weak points. In the roport ot the meoting of the state Board of Transportation tho other d ay, I noticed this paragraph: ‘Some membors claimed that a public warehouse could not be mamtained in Omaha, for the reason that to shin there and then reship would provent them from competing with the western through shipper.’ Now, that is exactly what Omaha wants to do, and it is what must be_done, if we are to become a_graiu conter. My friend, Gon- cral IS K. est, who is perhaps botter posted on' this subject than any other Nebraska citizen, and who was really the father of tho new law, appreciated the absolute necessity of untond: ing, cleaning, warehousiug and iaspecting all this grain in Omuha, rather than Chicago. Ho nas been familiar with the gram trade of Chicago from its infancy, and bas long con- tended that Omaha could be made a great grain center, if railways would extend tho samo_facilities as are enjoyed by Chicago olovators. It is o public misfortune that General Tost was not chosen chief grain in- spector to organizo the state inspection, “Phere is enough suggested in the para- araph quoted to call out tho best thought of Omaba business men. The atter class has not yet caught anything but a faint ghmpse of what it means to the business of this city to have Omaha the chief grain metropolis of this great agricultural empire. If Tuk Brk and other papers can spread out the wholo pic- ture it will astonish them. I have not timo. Nor have you the spaca for the many reasons that could be given why the city of Omaha should wake up to the advantages of this ware- house question. Amongother things,1f asuf- ficient number of eleyators are built t accom- modate the demands (aud they can be con- structed in_ninety days), before n yeur our banl clearances will be nearly doubled, the large grain buyers in all eastern cities 'will have offices in Omaha and deposits in our banks to vuy grain, creating a demand fer more oftice buildings, the banks will also have a gilt-edged collutoral—warehouse cer- tificates—upon which to loan money; Omaha grades will become recognized in tie markets of the world, and_onr city will nerve up and occupy the' position in'the grain markets which is ners by right of location, but which is new denied her by reason of a cheerful neglect of bright opportunitios. Good Food tor Thought. ““This wholo warchouse question 1s an in- teresting study. For the prosent the railway officials hold the koys to the situation and suggest that some plan of action may be do- cided upon which will at least placo Omaha on a par with Chicago. T'hat is ouly fair. It is my firm conviction that if the railway managers of lines centering in this city will answer this question in tho affirmative, at least one, and possibly two or three, 1,000,000 bushel capacity elevators will be erected be- foro tho snowfiies. Theloan and trust company with which I am connected 15 already nego- tiating with one firm for tho location of such an elevator, but nothing further can be done until the railway people show a disposition 10 aid the upbuilding of the grain trade of Omaba. How this ean best be accom- plished remains to be seen. It is claimed that one grain firm in Omaha has exclusive privileges not extended to others and which makes it _impossiblo for other houses to compete. Moro than this, I am re- fably informed that if all_elevator men can be treated oxactly alike and assurauces can be made permaneént and reliablo_capital will be forthcoming to develop the clevator sy: tom of Omaha on o larze scale. This city chn then store, clean, inspect and load for shipment, direct to_consumers in New Eu- gland, the south and seaboard points without stopping iu or paying tributo to Chicago, “Now, I speak advisedly, when I say that general ‘managers, or general trufiic an- agers of our splendid railway systews, cun decide this question in Omaha's favor, Will they do it? Is it to their interest to'do sof If not wholly so at_present, can not steps bo taken to win them over to Omaha? “In the investigation of this subject somo things have come to my knowladge which I am not at liberty to mako public. But I have endoayored 1o indicate in agencral way what can be dono by the Board of Trade, Real Estate Owners' essociation, or some other organization. Let them go to work on this line, and if they succeed, I predict that wo shail sco a dovelopment in Omaba of tho warehouse or olevator system unequaled 1n the west, and which will add millions upon millions to the businoss of the city. Why, just think of it! Nebraska corn is rocognized as the best in the grain markets of the United States. Tt goes to Chicago, is inspected and dubbed Chicago, No, 2, while we sit down here quietly like of a lot chumps and allow this condition to exist. As prominent statesman has said, *We are confronted by a condition, not i theory. “The coudition 1 that Nebraska is furnishing Chicago with No. 2 corn for the world’s best markets. We must build up a home market aud inspoction and call 1t Omaha No. 2. The theory is as 't the new warehouse law, which may be ridiculed und suffer at the hands of politicians, but it must be reclaimed and changed frow a ‘theory’ to a ‘condition’ by the business men of tho city of Omaha and state of Nobraska. In this important worl, as in aimost everything else, ono must look 'to the press of the city to pull the strong oar.” Railroad View of It “The Union Pacific stands ready to do everything in its power to aid in the estab- lishment of a grain market at Owaha," re- plied a prominent ofticial of that rosd to a question embodving tho main points con- tained in the interview quoted, particularly that part of it referring to the elevator com- pauy alroady established which is referred to as having exclusive privileges not granted to others, theroby making it imoossible for otner houses to com.pete, it being understooa that the Union Elevator compuny was the one referred to. “The Union Elovator company is not given any privileges which would not be given to 0¥ other concern uudor similar conditions. Ouo thing must bo borno in mind, howovor. Tho Union Elevator company bus a large amount of capital invostad in olovators throughout the state and collocts the grain {rom the surrounding country and stores it in these elevator When ready to snip it notities the proper persons and a whole train of grain cars is run out on the sidotrack and loaded in ono day from the olevator. This train is then hauled to the elevator in Omaba \d unloaded, thus releasing tho cars. “Now, compare this condition of &ffairs with that of & wildeat speculator who noti- fles tho rallroad that he wants a_single ocar o, perhaps, two or throo oars, which aro run o'to & sideteack out in tho country and stay thero for ten days or two weeks, while tho buyer chases around after the farmor and buys grain enough to fill them. It Is as much of an expense to the raillway company to put those two or threo oars on a_sidetrack s to run a wholo train on the same track, besides, the company isdeprived oftho use of its cars for a long time whilo they are being loaded, Tuen, when the cars aro loaded & regular train is delayod there while those cars are being taken up, Tho cars are hauled to Omaha and are keot here on @ sidetrack three or four days while the owner looks for a buyer. I ho doasn't find ono ho orders tho cars’ bauled to St. Louis or Chicago to another market. Now, this man expects tho samo torms as aro given tho olevator com- pany here, notwithstanding the difforence in the conditions. hese are the peoplo who make all the noise about rates and expect to be given the same or better terms than are give tho company which has its capital | investod in large olevators whore it is tied up all the time, No Secret Contract. “Is it true, as is reported, that the Unfon Elevator company has a soorot contract with { tho Unfon Pacific whercby that company is given a lowor rato on grain than is given other grain denlers 1" ““Most emphatically not. As I said before, any other company or person would be given tho samo ratos as ave given tho Union Elovator company. The Union Pacifio is interested in the dovelopment, of Omaba by reason of its being the eastorn termint s, practically, of the road, and there need be no fenr that thore will bo any discrimmation | between dealors. | “My opinion, asa_citizon of Omaha, is | that this is the natural conter for grain, but we must make this a storehouse for all kinds of grain, and that will force the buyers from | all over the country to como here. You know that Nobraska is not what might bo bo called a ‘reliablo’ wheat state, We havo plenty of ~ corn, and can always | bo depended on to produce plenty of that, “but the stato is still young in | the wheat business, and it will take some | little timo to establish a_reputation in t direction. 'This can only bo doze by tho es tablishment of larwo elevators here and stor- | ing the grain of the state here. Whea that | is done tho buyers of tho world will come | here fast cnough.” ““But are not tho rates on grain {nto Omaha practically probibitive when it is considered that tho grain must bo reshipped after going through the elevators?" “That difficulty is overcome by a system of througn billing, the samo as in usoon live stock and dressed meats in and outct South Omaha, “To illustrate: Tho rato on wt at from the Missouri river to Chicago is 19 conts per 100 pounds. F'rom the first tier of towns west of the river tho rate to Chicago is 20 cents; from tho second tier it is 31 cents; from tho third, 22; from the fourth, 23; from the Afth, 24, and from the sixth tier it is 25 cents. 'The latter rate, 25 conts, is the max- 1mum and obtains at all points' west of tho fifth tior of towns, which is in about the cen- ter of tio state, That 1s to say, we take a car of grain from the western part of the state consignad to Chicago and haul it to Omaha for 6 cents more than n_shipper could takoe the same car and send it to Chi- 0. At Omaha tho grain 1s run through tho elevator, the car is reloaded within a reasonable time and sent to Chicago on tho original billing. ow no one will protend to say that any railroad could haul wheat from thoe wostern end of the staio to Omaha for 6 cents per hundred, and of course tho railroad gots more than that much out of the business when it comes to dividiug the" through rate. “All these things go to_increase the facili- ties for doing a large sharo of the grain busi- ness right here in Omaha.” Here's Kichness. Mr. C. Crow, now of Whitewood, S. D., but formerly of Omaba, was in_the city last week. Mr.” Crow is connected with the Omaha Milling company and when in this city acted as manager of that concern. Ho has a large milling plant in W hitewood and is lnn extensive shipper and thereby hangs a | tale. Mr. Crow charges that aiscrimination of the raukest kind is practiced against Omaha and in tho interest of Minneapolis and St. Paul by the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railway. So rank is this discrimina- tion that tho grain dealers and other ship- pers in the vicinity of Whitewood aro vir- tually compellea to be a party to the boycott established against Omaha and to ship their products to the Minnesota towns. “Iam an Omaha man,” exclaimed Mr. Crow, warmly, “and it makas me hot to seo the way that road works against Omaha. It charges us 27 conts per 100 on wheat to Omaba and hauls the same wheat to Minne- apolis for 35 cents, S conts moro. Now, just eallup tho Omuba Milling company and ask Mr. Boudinot hows much ho pays the samo railvoud for bringiug wheat to Omaha from Minueapolis Mr. Boudinot was called up by telephono and asked what rate ho paid on wheat from Minneapolis to Omaha. He replied as follows : **We pay 25 cants per hundred. Do you think that is a high rate “1t is very high, but it is the best we can do. Woe have tried several times to have it lowered, but the railway paople won't listen to it.” “1" have had somo experience with that railroaa myself,” continued Mr. Crow as the telephono was hung up, “and I say it is an outrags. I have tried to get better rates, but they say, ‘Wa don’t have to mako better rates and wo 'mever do auything until we aro obliged to.” As a consequenco we aro c pelled to patronize Minueapolis and Sioux City when our best interests demand that we patronize Omaha, Some Hope in Sight. “The B, & M. is disposed to do_bottor by us, but the agent of that road at W hitewood told me one day that he had instructions to ‘throw everything for Lincoln.” He said Li colu was thoir town and ho turned over thing that way. 'here 15 another thing. If Omaha wants 10 bo 4 grain market sho must establish a market and then get the grain here. Sbe can’t expect favmers to ship grain in_hore and not know what they aro going to got_for it or whether they are going to sell it at all or not. “Pho trouble is right here. These people who have elevators here, the Union Elevator company and all the rest of them, aro inter- ested in keoping this from being an open grain market justas longas they possibly can, They know that just as soon as there is o open market establishod here and prioes are quoted, Just that soon thoy will bo compelled o opcrate on & small margin, an cighth or a quarter of a cont, and that will destroy the nico little suap they have beon enjoying for lo! these many years. Why, | can cite you Instances whero I know thoso people have bought grain on a margin of 30 cents per bushel! ‘Think of it. Iy it any wonder that thoy don’t want an open market! They are interested in keep- ing the thing dormant us long as possible. As a result there are no Omaha prices quoted aund farmers haveno idea what grain will bring in Omuba. “I sent these poople some somo tit amples of grain v would handle it. I received u nio; reply, thank ing me for the 1g they were we'l pleased with them and would be glud to nandlo my grain, but could not do 30 on ac- count of the distance! What has the aistanco to do with itt I would like some oxplanation for this sort of thing. “What tho Board of Trade ought to do is toestablish prices and announce them through tho vapers. Then whea a farmer had any grain Lo dispose of he could seo what the Omuha price was und could decide what to do, Then there ought to be buyers here with money enough to buy gruin when it gets here.” A farmer can’t afford to ship a car of grain in horo and then chuse all over town looking for a wan to buy it, payng demur- rage on the car and perbaps’ not finding & purchaser after all." THEY WILL FORCE RATES UP, Towa Railroad Mon Organising for Political Purposos. CONSERVATIVE FAVOR DEMOCRATS, ployes of All Lines Preparing for the Campaign with Definite Ideay of Their Obligations in tho Promiscs, Des Moixes, Ta., Sept. 20.—[Speclal to T BeE.]—For somo timo past thoro hias b movement among tho railway men of t state in the direction of organization difor ont from tho usual form. Just what thy motive of the organization was has boen Jif floult to determine, though it has al been believed to be of politt Burlington, Ottumwa, Council other railway towns have beon but it was not until Thursday evening 1| that any attempt was mado in this city The meoting was not what might bo callyd a grand success, but few being in attond The ouly crodentinls & member Must possoss is tho fact of beifig employed in some capacity by a railway company, and those who could not show this wero barred. As cases, socrecy is 1o bar to the ubiquitous o, porter, o it proved in this, and something the insido workings of the' new *Non-Part san Political Association of Railway Iim ployes" was loarned in the conversation that was ed on. Ono man sain “Yes, wo are going to organize aud go into politics. All of the other classes of society huve or ganized and why not us? Tho farmer I ganized to botter his condition nnd railroad rates down, thus hitting men. Now 'we are orguii r up, _defeat state offices and won as will let tho railrouds tory power. Wo aro going t organize clubs in_eve railroad city and town in Towa, aud each momber of theso clubs will bo nstructed to voto tho de cratic ticket and induco at least oo of friends to do so. Yes sir, wo mean b and when we get things to going o is going to drop, min't that so Bill1 to a brother railvoader. Bill said it was. low is your ordor run; bills 1" Weil weeach pay 5 cents a month genoral expenses,” was the answer. “How many clibs have you!" “We have ono of 230 ‘at Ottumwa and many along the river towns and thoy are Rrowing.” in most r didates for power such have a mand his 1$108% ot ho said who pays tho for 10WA COAL MINES, The reports of the stato mino inspectors have been submitted to the governor. Thoy are more voluminous than ever be coutain much information of valuo o this subject. Tho following comprehensive table glvos the statistics in a nutshell sLomIsIa - DN Ay *DaONDOA (103 J0 SUMY J0 13y g 1 2| wo ssomo i jo wiw 105 w0y sad pjud w1apw prnt Junomy 0 4omo (v pied Junome (Mo 2 ony 18 w0y a0 9911 Auj((93 HFLIIAY Sanm 1 1npoxd 0 oniws (MO G00'608'018 |0V 18 129118 CROCKER BIIGADE REUNION. The chief attraction in Dos Moines this week will be the biennial reunion of the cele- brated Crocker's Jowa brigade on Wodue day aud Thursday, Tho organization is in tho best condition and thero is cvery pros- pect that this reunion will be a grand ouo, echpsing all _previous efforts of the ussocia: tion, Tho brigade is composed of the Eloventh, Thirteentn, Fifteontn aud Six- teenth regiments, or rather tho surviv who number in the neighborhood of 50 Thero has beon earnest effort on tho part o the members of the association in Des Moinos to make this mesting tue best ever held. Next Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock they will assemble at tho Savery and make a short parade of a few strests and hoid a short business session at the Grand opera housc. Afternoon meetiuws and evening campiros will bo held, also regimental meotings ut tho court house, Grant club rooms and the X- change. A 'grand bauquet will bo had Crocker park, ns Prospect park will be so christened, Thursday afterngon. A very large tent will be the bangueting hail. Among the distinguished men expected at this reunion are General McArthur, Senator Allison, Colonel D. B, Henderso Colonel Stibbs, John A. Knsson, and among tho lu aies will be Mrs. Gene Crocke Itis ex pected the city will bo handsomely decorated and brilliantly illuminated at night, While Curiing Her Hair. Four Dobar, la., Sopt. 20.— [Spect gram to Tur Ber.)-The vanity of a protty ambermaid caused a $4,000 fire hero today The girl was an employe of the Duncombo hotel and was curling her hair in her on the third floor this morning with to heat tho curling tron. The lamp was ovor- turned and exploded, starting a blaze that kept the firemen busy for two hours befora 1t was finally extinguished. The damaz fire and water will amount to 85,000, I covered by insurauce. THE U. Come, listen, little boys and girls, Whilo I a tale relute About a little boy named Tom, Whose age was almost cight. Tom was a headstrong kind of boy, Who thought it jolly fun T scare his mother half to death By blowing in a gun. Ono day a stranger camo that way, As strangers oft had done, But this one left behind the door A double-barreled gun. “Ha, ha!? quoth Tom, the naurhty boy, 1 never saw one such 1f single burrels make such sport, This should mako twico as much." So Tommie took the doublo gun Straixht to his mother fast; Lz isn't loaded, maw,” ho yellod, And blew a mighty blast. And Tommie! Where is Tommie now A halo round his head ! Not much. It wasn't loaded, just As little Tommie said. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Baking Powder