Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 27, 1891, Page 4

BEE. HTOR DAILY B ROSEWATER, F THE [ PUBLISHED TERMS OF ally Ree (without Sunday) One Y buily and Sunday, Ono Year....... 1x Months o Thirea Months. wevere Bundny Bee, One Year. Buturday Bee, One Y Weekly Bee, One Year, OFFIC The Roe Building. corer N and 26th Stroots. 12 Peari Streot N Shicago Office. 317 ¢ ham ber of Commerc Ko Vel Kannra1, 1 nd 15/ eihano Buliding Washington, 513 Forirtoenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE \tions relating to nows and should wddressod to the e e BUSINESS LE Al business lotters and remitt be nddressed to The Bee Pablishin a. Drafus, checks and postoflice orders 20 o madt H1yabie to the order of the com= DNy Tac Bec Publishing Company, Proprictors THE BEE BUILDING. EVERY MORNING SUBSCRIPTION ar....8 8 00 10 00 500 250 200 160 r 100 Omaha. Bouth Ol Counell By | L Lditor! shonld CIRCULATION ! 88, = BWORN STATEMENT OF tate of Nebraskn County of Donzglas, | Geo. B. 17 , seorotary Publishin: col does hat t for the week ending Novem of Tne Bre wnly swoar DALY Bk 1501, W 13 nuradiy, § ridny, Moy Baturday, No Average GO TSONMUOK. and subsorivod 1o sy resonce th s 215t day of Novembor. A. D. 1801, PR N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. The growth of the averaco dally clrealation of The ek for six years is shown in vhe fol- Jowine table: Sworn to before mi Ty [ 18T | 1888 ] 1 January. | 10,26 15,208 15, L[ 14 18 24B | 10101 11 $.080| 1434 ctober ovember 13| 15,405 19 & ecomber 011 18,22, 20,085 25,4 e T T AFTER a suspension of oig months our esteemed exchange, the an- ue and unique Congressional Record, will shortly resumo publication, THE two prohibition candidates ran just enough ahead of their ticket to defoat Senator Shumway and elect Mr., Hadley regent of the university, MILLING in transit rates ave fair to ghippers and the ronds, and of the utmost importance to the citizens of N braska and Omaha. Let us have them. Ir Cuier OIL INSPECTOR CARNS will peruse THe Beg cavefully from day to day he will learn how to perform his duties honestly, efficiently and promptly. SINCE his return from Europe, it is observed, Hon. Shelby M. Cullom has taken no esnecial pains to inject the elixir of life into his littlo blossom of a ‘boom. JupGE CRAWFORD of West Point has been twice beaten for distriet judge by Judge W. K. Norr This ought to patisfy the Blkhorn valley democratic statesman, but he has appealed to tho courts to make it three times and out for good. AND now comes the omnipresent *‘con- fidential friend” giving away alleged secrets showing that Blaine will or will ot bo a candidate for president and that Harrison expects to be renominated. The onfidential friend” is nsually a fakir and a very tiresome one at that. RMANY proposes to incroase her effoctive naval fovce by upwards of £20.000 men, and yot the young emperor only the other day expressed the opin- ion to the recruits of the guard in Ber- lin that they would never be called upon to prove their fidelity by actual war. A SPECIAL peculinrity of the peri- edical rumor of trouble among the In- dians of South Dakota is that the peri odical rumor generally originates at some village or hamlet remote from the reservations. The farther it is from the supposed dangor the more ularming and {mprobable the stor, TuE South Dakota liar is again in the harness. He telegraphs two or three times a week that the Indians are about 10 go on the war path or do something oqually improbable. If the citizens of South Dakota would scaip this line they would perform a valuable sorvico for their state and country Tue niggardliness of the government toward some important branches of the public service is illustrated in that ot the Life Saving sorvice, where the an- nual percentage of rosignations of com- petent men who goiuto more remuner- ative callings reaches 30 per cent. These men carry their lives in their hands and yet their pay is so meagor that they can be taken into other less huzardous occu- pations at higher salaries. WHEN a general freight agent cannot out a rate without involving himself in the danger of avrest and imprisonment things have come to a protty pass, How tho govornment expect one genoral freight agent to dif- for from another if they all forced toabide by the solemn agreements made with ench other? The reputation of a general froight egent depeads upon his ability to got business away from rivals and this thing of arresting him for giving a shippor an inside rate is roally embarrassing. —— MR JOSEPH CHAMBERLALN, conferenco of the National Conservative Associations in Birming- ham, England, announces that the unionists and conservatives will remain In harmony “until they have finally do- featod tho conspiracy against the em- pire,” and that their joint efforts would “igive the people legislation based upon true democratic instinets.” The para doxical charactor of these seutiments are apparent only, not renl. The British empire in England is rapidly becoming democratic. Monarchy is simply an ox- ponsive luxury handed down from feudal times, like the Enghsh land tenure, The people of Great Britain come quite as close to the power which actually rules and logislates us the people of America. does are at the Union of OIL AND O11 INSPECTIO The Investigations of THr BER'S spe- cial oil commissioner are revealing a vast amount of carelessnoss in the mat- ter of oil inspection, - His earofully pre- pared reports thus far show that the ofl inspectors are not so much interested in protecting the peopls from inferior Wluminating oils as in making sure of their fees. The tests made are often nominal. In many instances tanks of oil are sold without so much as a hint at inspection. In other cases the retail casks and tanks which have heen stamped ns tested are used time after time without further inspec- tion. In one instance the brands of a retived inspector were found in pos- session of ono dealer who was at libe rty touse them as he liked Taking ull these facts, in connection with the methods of their appointment, the inherent weakness of the law itself and theextremely liberal interpetation of its conditions which cnables corpora- tion consumers of oil to escape ofl censorship at the hands of inspectors, it must sar to the reader that oil in spection is n misorable farce, now conducted. When the inspectors and deputies have looked in upon the deal- rs long enough to collect ten cents a barrel they are too oftea con- tent, without as much as going throngh the motions of making a fair test according to the terms of the inspection law. The Standard Oil com- pany has managed by its shrewdness in enacting this law to make Nebraska the refuse tank for its rejected enstern oil and at the same time to crowd out of the state about all opposition. Wenk as the law is, its proper enforce- ment might prove beneficial to the pub- liec. There would be some satisfaction in knowing that tho oil sold in the state and | used in the dwollings of all our citizens had been tested and found up to the standard required of 1002 flash test. There is reason to suspect, however, that a very large proportion of the oil offered to our people is inferior to that quulity. The fault lics primarily with the Standard company, which ean asfreadily test its oily any inspoctor and should be sovorely punished for violations of the law. The cupidity of that monopoly, however, is well known and it is not above imposing the inferior article upon a community which permits the Standard Oil compuny to manipulate its legislature in making the inspection law, and appoints its inspectors not on uc- count of fitness for the duties to be per- formed but to pay them for political servie be ¢! a8 ns THE S¥STEM OF PARKS, The people voted the generous sum of $400,000 tor’ parks at the last election. The Board of Park Commissioners an- nounced informally in advance of the election what tracts, exeept one in the south part of the city, they should pur- chase if bonds were voted. Although the proposition as voted upon by the peoplo did not definitely indicate the lands to be obtained, the park commissioners feel morally bound to expend the fundas from the sale of bonds for the lands which had been se- lected in advance of election. This will secure to the city the Distin tract, lying one-half mile north of the Deaf and Dumb institute, the Par- Ker tract north east of Fort Omaha and the Elmwooa. park addition on West venworth street. They are all admirably located and the best lands that wore offered, prico and purpose considered. Bemis park in the center of the city will likely be secured and some suitable tract in the south part of Omaha will later be determined upon. There is no reason, so far as THE BE: can see, for any change of plan with re- gard to these park purchases. When tho south park has been selected, tho ontire system will be complete and boulevards and small parks in the in- terfor connecting them can be so designed and secured by condem- nation as to make Omuha famous for her parks and boulevards. Fort Omaha on the north will in all probabil- ity be donated to the city for a park by the general government. Syndicate pnark within the limits of South Omaha will sooner or later be added to tho sys- tem. Probably some generous property owners will fill in small and large tracts here and there where needed. In fifteen or twenty years when the improvements have been developed we shall have a park and boulevard system which will make every citizen of Omaha thankful for the election of 1801, BORDER IMMIGEATION, Tho statement that North Dakota is likely to be fooded with pauper immi- grants from Europo unless vigorous measures are taken to provent iv, made on the authority of an agent of the Treasury department, will doubtloss receive prompt attention at Washington. According to this agent immigrants are flocking into Winnipeg in large num- be principally from Russia, many of whom will eross the border into the United States unless inspection stations ave established and e ficient means takou to exclude such as are classod undesira ble by the immigration law. The difficulty is that thore is no authority to establish inspection stations on the border, and provision for them is ono of the matters to which congress should give early attention. It obvious that, however vigilant and eflicient tho inspection of immigrants at the seaports may be, and it is now being conduoted with more thoroughness than ever before, we shall not be able to keep out all the undesirable clusses until we have estublished inspeotion at every ue- cessiblo point on our borders, or made some are ment with the Canadian government by which it will agree not to pormit the clnases oxcluded by our laws to come from its ter- ritory into the United es. This matter of protecting our borders is p haps the most difficult one connected with the problem of an eflicient regula- tion of immigration. To provide in- spection stations along our extended northern frontier would involve a very large annual expenditure, yot it is perlaps the only safe procau- tion, It is possible that the Canadian governmeat might be in- duced to agree to some plan for our protection against the invasion of paupers and criminals from its terri- and THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; FRIDAY tory, but we could nover safely leave tho carrying out of such an agreoment wholly to Canadian officials. We shall be sufe from border immigration only when we have inspection officers at all points where persons are likely to cross from Canada into the United States. The Canadian government not exhibit a friendly sp'rit this country in allowing and others excluded by our laws to freely pass through its territory and enter the tercitory of the United States. As a neighbor country it ought at least to show a disposition to respect our laws to the extent of refusing to allow its territory to be made the gateway for the passage into the United States of classes of persons whom our suy shall not bo admitted into the country. We cannot, perhaps, properly find fault with nada for allowing the Chinese to come into that country, but we have just cause of complaint that she intorposes no obstacle to their going from her territory into the United States, and tho case with d to ISu- ropean paupors and is still more serious. This difficulty in the way of a thorough plation of immi- gration will have to ho met. and the only safe way to deal with it appe be in establishing inspection stations along the frontier does toward Chinese laws ceriminals rs to WHAT SUALL THE ISSUE BE? If the democrats in congress heed the counsel of such as Senator Carlisle they will give secondary con- sideration to the silver question and keep the tariff to the front. In his let- ter endorsing Mr. Mills as in every way qualified to be spoaker of the hous, the Kentucky senator declares it to be the first duty of the democratic party to change the taviff laws, and he suys that ‘“whoever proposes to postpone the performance of this duty in order to inaugurate a war among our- selves over the silver question, or any other question, is not a wise counselor, and would not make a safe leader.” Mr. Carlisle at this time represents the view of a minority of his party, there being no doubt that the majority believe, with Senator Pugh, that the issue of the free and unlimited coinage of silver 1s quite as important and valuable to the party as that of tariff reform. But the minor- ity, which incjudes Mr. Cloveland, is strongly influential, and it will not be surprising if it shall succeed 1n ving its view of party policy adopted. In any event, however, a bitter fight scems assured, the effect of which must inevi tably be to create a great deal of dis fection in the party. The tempt of the free trade element, represented by Mr. Mills, to crowd out the conservative tariff reformers is being hotly combated, with abundant evidence of a growing feeling of sharply defined hostility between the fore The leaders have reached the point of publicly eriticising each other, and the exchange of recriminations may be ex pected to grow in volume and forco as the day of actual battle draws nearer. It is u situation that clearly threatens to make.a breach in the demoeratic party wich it will be extremely difficult, if not impossibie, to close before the next presidential election. Assuming that the free trade element will define the policy of the party, what will it do with the tariff? Mr. Millsand his followers ave in favor of ng duties on and to provide for evenue cost by cutting off other dutics the Texas candidate for the speak- ership advocates an income tax. If eclected specker he will un- doubtediy constitute the ways and meuns committeo with reference to a complete revision of the taviff as nearly as practicable on free trade lines. Tho attempt 10 enact legislation of this kind would of course be futile, but any- thing short of it would not be consistent with the clection of Mr. Mills to the speakership. The sugges- tion that the democrats in the Pifty-second congress should not at- tempt to pass a general tariff bill, but content themselves with pro- posing certain changes in the oxisting law, will not be regarded if the freo trade eclement secure control of the house. They will be satisfied with noth- ing short of a sweeping attack the tariff, bocause only in that way can they justify their demand for reform. But of the two issues in debate, the tariff and the free coinage of siver, whichever one the democrats decide to adopt it is evident that more or less disaflection in the party will be inevit- able.” The immediate future of the democracy is certain to be fuil of trouble and angioty, and the contention of the warring elements can be regarded by republicans with the utmost com- placency lendors resto sugar, on SENATOR CARLISL 1 has a good opin- ion of Roger Q. Mills and endor him for speuker of the house of representa- tives. Congressman McMillan of the senator’s state has boeen logking with some interest towurd this position of honor and Mr. letter is probably intended as notico to the aspiri Kentuckian that thoe last democratic speaker desires to discou age Kentucky ambitions looking in that direction. Should Colonel MceMillun or some other leader win the race after all, Senator Carlisle will probably wish he had attended entirely to his own busi- ness in bis own end of the capital, own Carlisle’s remar ALCOHOLISM is us deadly at Point Barrow as anywhere else on earth, and carried off a native chief thore receutly. The report of the superintendent of the refugo station does not inform us how the liquor got to the old mun, but probabiy in the usual way—some white man gate it to him in exchange for something of value. From all accoints there seems to bo a cail for & Keeloy in- stitute in that section, which {8 about the only field left unoccupied by this enemy of the cup that intoxicates. Wonk has been resumed on the union dopot, but the workmen will do nothing mors thun cover the exposed walls to protect them from the effects of the weather. Al ¢EN, South Dakota, is after a sugar factory and has sent a delegation to Norfolk to negotiate with the Oxnard company to secure it, Meanwhild Omaha is leisuealy looking on appare ently indifforent:to the fact that the sugar beet indwstty will in twenty-five years be the greatest resource of this goction of the unton, and great central factories and "¥éfineries will be estab- lished in some onterprising city within fifty miles of Omaha. —— AN eolection judge calls attention to the fact that Ahe registrars were al- lowed 50 cents am hour for their services and insists thuv’the election officers should be equally‘well paid, thus giving such ns worked thirty-eix hours $18 each. The judge’s point is not weli taken. The election officors are by law allowed but 46 for their services and nomore. They are paid by the job and not by the day or hour. The re ra are remunerated giste under upon o different the law The election officers may nave earned more th 26 each, but in view of the importunce of a prompt canvass the votes it would be impolitic to establish a precedent which might be abused by election officers in the future, who would unnecessarily prolong the count for the sake of the wages they would receive, basis. of ™ mend system of heating and ventilating school buildings may ov may not be satisfactory. There ave wall in- formed persons who object to hot air furnaces under and all circum- stances and there are others who have no faith in dry closots, The Kellom building will, however, afford a good test of the merits of the system and it is not necessary to make the experiment in any other building. The Hitcheock school isa wooden building of four rooms, only two of which are needed at pres- ent. To the avernge taxpayer the idea of expending $1,200 for a heating planu to nccommodate two rooms now and but four rooms next year savors of recsless extravagance, THE people wili hope that no loop- hole of escape from the new law govern- ing the deposit of public funds and cq lection of interest thereon for the benefit of the city shall be discovered. It is a wholesome law, and the effect should be to make it effective rather than to annul it. The stated ry of the urer under tho law annum, which is ample compensation w is technically inoperative, it decidedly graceful thing for sr-elect to make his own arrangement with the banks just as he would under the old law, and give the city the interest received on deposits. ity troas- new Tire Real Bstate Owners association should not be satisfied with exposing ¢ travagance, or corruption in any branch of the municipal or county government. It should push its ivestigations to the point where extravagance shall be re- strained and corruption punished. THE boodle 1nvest closed for the present. Although no one can fore- tell what report. the special committee will make. it is very clear to the reader that a grand jury might use the stories told before the committee as clues to a series of very intovesting facts, cases against the suburban sa- s for violation of the license o their slow length along court., Meanwhile the county is losing license fees at the rate of not less than )00 per annum, s of election who $6 worth of Tho people can- precedent estab- Tie loon keey law ave draggi in a justice THE judges and clot propose to demand $18 for work are wasting time. not afford to bave the lished. CHRISTIAN SPECHT managed to estab. lish a pretty good name before the in- vestigating committee in spite of hercu- lean offorts to give him a bad repu- tation, Ixception Well Taken. Globe- Demacrar. MeKinley’s plurality—21,511—is tho largest secured by a gubernatoriul candidate in Ohio since 1331 except in 1887, The major has good reason to be proud of hiis triumph. - he Malady is Chronic. Cineinnati Commereial, For a man committed to the oae-term idoa, Mr. Cleveland is making quite an active campaign for a third nomination. But, of course, we must take into consideration the fact that & third nommation does vot mean another term. ient for Bribe Kansas City Star. The constitution of California makes it couventent for bribe-takers. It provides that in casos of legislative bribery the person bribed must answer, but that what he re- als shall not bo usod against nim. The purchased creature may ‘give away” his parchaser aud go froe himself. Treeds God en and Horses, Lowsvil’e Times, When General John M. Paimer takes his seat in the foderal senate two weeks from today he will b the tenth man vorn in Ken- tucky to hold the commission of Illinois in tho United States semato. Thougha vo small stato comparad with New York and Pennsylvania, it is probable that Keatucky has turned out as mauy senatorsas both those states togethor Conve Takers. - Food for the Calams, Chicagy Tater=():an. Calamity croukers may find & grain of com- fort in the fuct noted by Dopaw in his speech attho Chamber of O that this country 18 likels to suffer from a very serious famine duriug the coming winter auid spring—a famine of cars and locomotives to transport our enomnous surplus products to tue markets of the World to feod the millions hungering to recelyg thom. Vs u dreadful situation. mmerce banatiet, e An Aps Simile. Minneayolis Times. The position of tfie republican party in Towa on the pronibittn businoss recalls very forcivly the story of tho two boys who wero hunting ana camo across a wild boar. One of them climbed & tran, but the other was unable to reach this havou of safety ana the boar, making a lungoat him, sha between his legs. The bos ciught him by both ears aad, after holding ou for somo tims, shouted outto the boy 1n trao: *uohn, hero.”” **What for#"" queried tho othor. want you to holp mo let this hog go." republicans of tired of ridi hibition, but they daren Modest C1 Onicar) Hor . If New York hadn't beea so about it the humilistion woulda’t 0 great. Butto go down to Washington with Platt, Passott und Colonel Shepard, to tho striets in uniform and In step to the of bands, to claim the Towa ure tlet go. T oor New flamboyant have been Hiscock, parade NOVEMBER | | | B | | laugh | York, how 27 earth from Genosis to Revelation, and to come out at the end with three votes! Itis said that little Omaba stopped orying to at the spectacie. How especially strong and dignified was the modest atutude of Chicago by contrast! And to bo beaten by Minneapolis! Poor, antiquated New many tines moro must you b kuocked out before you can understand that you are no longer in it} RUBBING IT IN. Chlcago Times: 1t isa strangoly sugees- tive colncidence that the Omaha and Minne- apolis boomers and a cyclono should have struck Washington the same day. Plattsmouth Journal: The national repub- licans are not aware of the vast quantity of self-love thero is bound up in the average Omahog, or they never would have humil- 1ated him in that mauner. Fremont Tribune: Colonel Scott, of Omaba, who vresonted that city’s claims for tho uational convention before the repub- lican committeo showed bad taste in scold ing some of the other compotitors. Denver Sun: The scloction of tha young motropolis of the northwest is the most ac- ceptable to the republicans of Colorado of any that could have been made after Omaba, 1t is & recognition of the new west. Plattsmouth Herald: While Omaba was unsuccessful in gotting tha ropublican na- tional convention, set for Tuosday, Juno 7, 152, at Minneapolis, Minn., she is willing to recognize the fact that the choice was weil made, Columbus Telogram: Minneapolis was tho place selocted for holding the republican i tional convention in 1802, Owaha might have sccured it if sho had gono about it . but sho dian’t. She triod force to securo it, and that was fatal. Molasses catehes more flios than vinogar. Minneapolis Journal: Omaha was very wealc from start to finish. Judge Scott was aware of this and that is tho roason he spent tho time abusing the other citios. Omaha may bo a gateway; but that is all. A gateway without busiucss may as well be “a lodge in some vast wilderness.” Chicago Tribune: Lot fall a scalding tear or two! Iuis a thousand picies, But New York, Chattariooga, San Francisco, Detroit, 5 Louis, Omaha, Cincinnati, Plunketvilie, Franklin Fur- nace, Haverhill, Oluey, Bilisvitle, Hack- etv's Mills, Pecatonica and Yazoo Arn not convention cities, ——— POLISHED POINTS, New York Herald: Smythe—Tdropned o cont in front of w biind bezgar tolay to see 1€ he'd piek it up. Tompking Swyil and I'ii fo Well. did he? o ke 1t a dollar, boss, Chicago 1imes. “A 1ittlo nonsense now and th 1s relished by the best of in By this oid saw excuse is For editorluls on “the bal Life: Judge—Onc nd 59 fine. Prisoner’s lawyer =1 would 1iko to muke motion to have that sentence roversed Judge—Ail right. Fifty years, and $i fine. Washinzton dochter, Denny s, muther. “Phwat did he sa; “He asked me wus Ol cured an' T the troot, which wus “Oh, bogorrah, it's nc tellin' im no.” and trow git yer pieturo in the pap Eugone Fleld doclares thut when James Whitcomb Riley gave son oudings on ship- Do while turning from Europe a few weeks ago, he ad Lwo enthu tic Scots ong his auditors. *Is it no wonderfu L remarked one of them, “that bonnie poct?’ “And isied “the otlicr. of trade Did yez go to see the told him nubition yez huve away & chaneo to “Doed s he answerced the firstspe “Did ye no heir the dowminie intryjuee | the honsi Just think of it mic thin vdividing tine makin just at duetor—Wi ction and you will Wit n b this station six houts. 0ld Lady (whois a little nervous on the railroad)=Well, Um safe for six hours any- way. have have to SIE DO 3 Phitad:tinia Preos, He “poured his soul into her ear mblin Listened 1o his v were we e Who does the © you, dear, with My lode vour 1o will o So.rl hly 'twill bo summer *Tis she who docs the talldu “My love will open wiys throu Will zather blooms from oran And pluck each flower thit earth “Tis sho who does the Glkin < now. thorns, bough, ddor vos are there oes the t tobert, dear, how do you Brooklyn L' fe: nd dozens of empty suppose those dozens Dottles ever wot, into the cellur “Why, 1 don't know, my dear, T bought an cmpty bottle in niy life, never you t 1o anythin Digs—1 g1 he stepped on i hie wouldn't tumble 1 skin, i India SAILY dressod the tab) The Boston man looked moment. “You should e he. It Is your bet id the man ad- the n dlo of thim sadly for a be profunc,” sald Washincton Stir: #Thav's the £ Lover heard of." sald the man mennost with a ctually oxpects his customers to bring there own stieking plaster with them. " Union County St 5 it and a tramp prosent ab Lappe: ances the disting AbuTe is that one is wrecluse, the other i€ 100; hing LW o A New llaven man for fifty-five ye.rs, land of steady hubits, Binghamton Lead, s worn the same eoat But then ho Jives in th Rochester Post: Tn the absence of pugilistic mitehes of noto the footballists are doing ull thoy ean 1o kick up a row, e American: I must bebrave and the man said when ne went oom. Ba timo take chinees,’ into the fair - GCHESTANUTS, | DECLARE!" Shet in Buffato News, veuts o sueer Joln €. Tho thouznt At some And term And de Wil oft 1 Or ronn o sharpen With “Chestn ‘r queer, \ hore, pkes aro Wi quite n whoro J tair, Dimas ado, 15 blado 1 climes, cast Toid | flowe ATO music They've | Ar Stream of time thouzht th tnuts, I declure wit or rhymo Tho sons tho ext Aro sung i hew Yes, horo and i [ vigor strons as then The trembiir 5 0f harps that hung Upon the wiliows there Are still vibrating—and th No “Chestnuts, [ doe story's told flung The grand old plays of Shakespeare are Tha glory of this wse They're hi 11t on Stories told afar O many wa anclent pi The sonss of Scotland, st Tn mitohless verse ind ilr Are s Lt i oot [onFns From “Choestnuts, [ deciare! )y Burns, s stories, chilaren's play, And children That charmed from son The wishing of “Good nizht Ali, when were these bezun? The fu laby—the of sleep; I'he Kklss, the ovening prayer; The tonrs thit 10¥in © mOthUrs \weop—= No “Chostnuts, I declure anta Claus, and all Pl con’rous 2i(ts he brines: His hurry g footsteps 1 the hall; Tho stackings on the strinzs Must theso retire, subdued (n doubty Amdd the Christmus giare eon iae, forsooth, the youth just ous Cries, “Chestauts, I declare™ And dear old OIL INSPECTION MADE EASY. Peculiar Mothods Whioh Obtain in Enforo- ing Netraska's Providential Statute. NO TROUBLE TO BRAND THE BARRELS, Stencils Lot at the Warehouses- Empty Barrels Refilled—What North Bend, Nebraska City, Lincoln ¥ nd Superior Show. Pursuing his {ovestigation Tie Ber man found that it was a common occurrence for tho Coasolidated Tank Lino company at Fre- mont to ship to retail dealers small iron tanks of the kind mentioned in this papor yestorday,containing about fifty gallons of oil. Theso tanks wero traced on the cars and pri- vate wagons to Kontauelle, Scribner and other places, but inno instance was th anything to show that the oil they contained nad ever been iuspected. This absenc of proof of inspection had been noted by some of the more observant merchants, but was passed by without in- quiry. When, however, thoir attention was varticularly directed to tho matter by Tur Bek reportor, thoy mado up their minds to handle no moro tanks which aid not bear proof of inspection and, wherever it was pos siblo, to receive the oil only 1 wooden bar rels. Many of them doubtod that a barrel, aven with a braad of approval, would insure to them botter oil, but they thought it wouwid protect thom as against their custom- ors, North Bend's Experience. The roportor then went to North Bend, whence it was alleged the two iron tanks st roforred to hud heen roturned. A can- vass of the groceries in the thriving town was made, veral of the dealers admitted that they had been using the illgal tanks, butsald that they would doso no moro, They also soverely eriticized tho tauk company for the unwarranted decoption which it had practiced upon them “If I had thoughta moment,” said one of the dealers, “that one of those littlo tanks took the place of a barrel, | would immedi- ately have noticed that it was not inspected. But the fact of the matter s that the ma: jority of us do not sell our cit out of tho bar- rels wo recoive 1t in. We generally pump iv into fixed tanks of our own, to do away with leakage. Wo have nothing to show, however, that tho ol has on oven nominaliy inspected except tho empty barrel which we sometimes let ho in the back yard. I am convinced that we have been domg things loosely, but then you know we could fall bacic on the tank lino if any- thing occurred.” AU tho time of Twe Bre man's visit all tue North Bond merchants were selling the oil which bad a_short time before reached them by carload from Omana, The last them to dispense with his uninspected tank was C. 5. J. Leo, or rather the manager of the storo which formerly belonged to that gontleman, the stock recently, because of unfortunate circumstances, Laving tempor- arily fallen into the hands of creditor Thoso tanks had been sent out of the store the night preceding the roporter’s visit and wero found by the latter on tie depot plat- form awaiting shipment by freight to Ere- mont. These tunks were numbered 693 end 30, and were of the general description as has afready boeu referred 1o in these columns. Ready-Branded Barrels. Tie Ber man next jumped to Nebraska City. The Consolidated Tauk Lino company hys at tuis point several large tanks and fair sizod warehouse, When tho reportor entered the latter ho asked tho manager: *Do you know_Mr. Allen, who t ——— (another oil firm). “No, but I know you,” was tho response. It appeared for a moment as it somebody had apprised tho superintendent of the object of the sit, but the watchfulness of tho tank man disappeared and he himself coutinued his work, which was that of filling with o0il bar- rels which already bore the stamp of approval of E. C. Carns, chief nspector, and C. H. Rickards, deputy iuspector. 'Tho in- spector was not about ihe place, and could not have known the Kina of oi which was in- tended fov the barrels, because the superin- tendent, for a moment, 1aft tne warehouse, went to'the yard and opened a valve on one of the large tauks—which one the reporter could not determin The wurehouse man then roturned and, in tho prosence of the scrive, filled the two bar- rels which had already been approved ny the inspector. A lino of similar empty barrels lay upon the floor, and one by oue they were rolled up and filled. It was a parallel case to that recorded yes- terday, as occurring at the big warehouse in Omatit where Deputy Inspector slcDonald had branded wud approved about forty empty burrels befora they had been touched with a drop of oil, During the temporary occupation of tho superintendent, the reporter noticed the brands of several iuspectors on somo of the tanks in tho vard. This was the fist instance in which such brands had been uoticed on any of the tanks visited. e also noted a vari ing upon the ond of oi of these was @ company alleged government s, @ third could uot be wdentif fourth was the ap- proval brand of O. H. nillips, deputy in- spector, Information, is not now available as to what right tho present chief imspector or his acputy has in allowing any such brand to remain wbout tho warehouse. It could sorve 1o legitimate purpose, ovon if the deputy were stll among the inspeetors and a part of it could be used to advantage by an unscrupulous superintendent. Automatic Oil Ins Tur Bee man next went to Lincoln, and for part of two days awaited the rowurn of Joseph Carns, the deputy 1nspecfor, who makes his headquarters at” that point. The gentieman, however, was away in_ Fromont, it was said, and during his abscnco the pe plo at the Consotdated Tank Line warehouso, as also tho offico of the chief inspector at Lincoln were left to take care of them. selves. There wus nobody uround, howeve, to inspect the oil which the Tauk peoplo sent out during that time. Tu Beatrice tho roporter introduced him sell to Mr. Buenler, tue wanager of tho Tank Line company warehouse as a party desirous >t knowing whother anybody lad Sought to buy the right to sell oil by wagon-tank in that city. Mr. Buehler said thero had not. Oue man but recently had rotired from the business, aud the former d he could supply ali tno oil people of Beatrice. “Aiut I seen vou in Omahal” asked M., Buebler, sharoly evelng the reportor L am indiroctly from Omaba,” was the re- ply. “Haven't you uny tanks hero! timidly asked the scribe. Mr. Bueblor did not answer. It was not porformiug a labor of love, 1t was now dusk and cuilly and the gentieman was evidently anxious to get hou He lod the way, how- over, to three large, red iron tanks which They were all nearly fu u branded, but they had scen u and sinee that which had been placed upon them by O. I Phillips, And y - Bueblor had in tho meantime been ene ully drawing from them for the supply of his Beatrice customors. Tu the SLOPEHOUSO Propor Were a number of barvols, but these had been shipped from ¥ of idle stencils 1y of the barrals. One brand, another un of | avels for Lincoln and bore the approval of Deputy Carns. These barrels are sent totowns in the nelghborhood on order from the main house in Omaha. Runs Under an Allas, The roporter reached Superior on Sunday. Half a mile from the depot he found “'F' Bishop's oil_house.”” He found the suporin. tondont working like a beaver. He inguired as to_the location of a suppositious ofl firm and tho dil man repliod “1 know noarly all tho ol dealers in the South Platte country, and I don't know of such a house.” “Has the wag1" Woll, this place is in it bolongs to the Consolivated company.” The warohouse was a littlo one, porhaps 15 X10 foot. It had two stories, Tho upper of these was ou a lovel with a railrond platform in front and tho lowor was on a plane with a rond at which oil could bo sent out to the city. On the top floor thero wero about a dozen bavrels of oil. All of these bore the brand of Deputy Inspector MeDonala of Omaha, Thore wera soveral empty barrels from which this brand haa not boen effaced On the floor below were threo lareo sheot fron tanks. These wero visible through an ovening in the upper floor, made appar- ently by raising a couple of the planks. Tho “warchouze man rolled ® ba toward the floor opening, serted a faucot at one end and then laid the ba on fts side. From ono of tho tanks benoath a ruober hose led through the opening. This the man attached to the faucet in the barrol. He then bored a hole through the bung and the oil rapidly loft tho barrel and flowed nto tho tank. In this manner a numvoer of the bare rels woro emptied. This was doliberately doing away with an alleged approved pack ago and putting tho oil into a tank in ordor to facilitate its handling, heedloss as to whother or not the people would domand proof of its safoty If such a demand had been made 1t could not have been satisfied. ‘These tanks had had otbior ails in them and the mixcure cortainly was not t which had nomimally received the approbation of the deputy inspeetor In this city, As such, it was a violation of tho law to scll, even as it was of purchasors to consume v bofore they know that {t had beon lagally nspectod But the Tank Line doos not seem to caro about the law, and thereis expressed sur- prise that they respect it at all in view of tha coaches and four’” which the inspoctors al- low them to drive through it. ‘ank Line a warohouse out this Bishop's name, but Tank Lino filled in. 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