Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 24, 1892, Page 4

THE DATLY BEE. | R fl(flFWATFH Eorron, pLBLI\" D EVERY MORNI TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION. Dafly Ben (withont Sunday) One Year Drily and Sunday, One Year. £1x M onths ‘ Threo Mont Fundny Bee, One V Sutordny Bee, One Your. ®eekly Bee. Ono Year. OFFICES, Omahs, The Ree Building. Routh On aha, corner N 1nd %0th Streets Councll WiumL 12 Poarl Street, cnco Office, nLer of Ca Sow York Toon 1, 14 and ga-eibune huliding Waushington, 513 Fourteenth Street. LAR0D 10 00 50 | 250 200 1M 100 | CORRESPONDENCE. All_communications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed tc the Editorial Depuriment. BUSINESS LETTERS A1l business letters and remittnnces shonld teaddressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha Drafis, checks and postoffice orders 1o be made payable to the order of the coni- puny. The Bec Publishing Company, Pmurwlur FWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Hatgot Netraskn gy ounty of Douglas. Geo. B, Trachuck, secrotary of The BEE Jublishine compiny. does soleninly sw Ahut the actual circuiation of THE DAILY Brk for the week ending Fevruury 20, 180, was as follows: Eunday. I'ob. 1 Mondsy, I' s.mm y. Fob, Average .. Eworn to | crived” In Tresence this SxAL ¥ Notary Pablle, Average Cireatation for January 4, ——————————————— TuE Board of Trade should never rest until milling-in-transit rates have been secured for Omaha. The Union Pacific never made a greater blunder than when the switch- ing charges were raised to extortionate figures. Casit talks louder than resolutions. The Omaha Keal Estate association noeds cash to successfully carry forward its plans for upbuilding the city, Tik Towa rond that broaks down the bridge arbitrary of 5 cents por hundred will make a ten-strike for Omaha busi- ness to fowa and north Missouri points. THE farmers of Dougias county are enthusinstic over the propusition to es- tablish a beet sugar factory here. It will not be their fault should the enter- prise fail. Tae lowa legislature has a warehouse bill before it for consideration, modeled after the law passed by the last session of the lawmakers of Nebraska. If the Towa legislature is wise it will pass the measure, THE city council should relocate all useless hydrants and take the chances on the legality of the action, especially since Mayor Bemis secured an agree- ment with the water company conceding this point. THERE is one man in the New York delegation to the democratic national convention who is itching for an opvor- tunity to break from Senator Hill to Governor Flower. He is the lieutenant governor. THERE is no possible chance of carry- ing Nebraska for the republican party this year with a ticket loaded down by men who have n record that must be de- fended and men who are notoriously subservient to railroad corporations. It 15 to be hoped the council will, without further delay, pass all the ordinances framed for the purpose of revising the salary lists and abolishing sinecurcs, This should have been done within ten days after the new council was organized. THE late chief oil inspector refuses to turn over receipts, stub hooks, vouchers, otc., belonging to the office of his suc- cessor, Mr. Louis Heimrod. This is because . C. Carns has always lookod upon u public office as a private snap and not a public trust. « Vanderbilt has gobbled the Union Pacific or not will probably become known by the time of the arnual meeting next month. Thero are somo straws floating in the ntmosphere which give color to the rumor of another Union Pacific revolution, THIS is a bad year for boodlers and " railroaders, and republicans who belong to that class may as well curb their ambition and let the party nominate men who are free from corporate influ- ence and are known to be boyond the reach of jobbers and bribe-givers. DENVER is nogotiating with an Ogden firm for a fruit canning establishment, and yeu nothing but small fruit is grown to any extent in the vicinity of the Queen City of the Rockies, if the can- nery is established it will simply be another proof of the adage that where there is a will there is a way. PERIAPS the approachf o a senatorinl election in Nebraska is respopsible for | the sudden interest aroused in the ques- tion of the actual residenco of men and women in the departments at Washing- ton who are charged to Nebraska. ‘The conditions complained of have provailed for many years, 1f at all, and this is the fivst Lime any protest hus been made, —_— {7150 be hoped the trip abroad of Becretary Foster will speedily result in the full restoration of his health, The | Treasury dupartment in recent years has put a very severe strain upon its chiefs, Two secretaries of the treasury, Manning and Windom, have died within five years, the arduous duties of that of- fice being in a large measure responsi- ble for their breakiag down. When Mr. Foster assumed the duties of secre- tary of the treasury he was a vigorous man physically, and although always an active man of affuirs with extensive business interests that gave him ample work to do and a great deal to think about, the demands of. the Treasury de- partment appear to have overtaxed his strength. It is undoubtedly the most pxmcting and laborious oftice under the | government. HEMP GROWING AND BINDER TWI The Fremont binder twine factory introduced a now and important indus- try into our state and growing profitable to Nebraska farmers It clnims furthermore to have been the | instrumentality by which the price of binding twine to Nebraska furmers has been reduced fully 2 cents per pound. Not only so but it has steadfustly ad- hered to the policy of using only Ne- braska grown hemp, therehy assuring the growers of hemp a home market. The Fremont Binder Twine company ns a home institution deserves encourage- ment. It is further nnnounced that the e periment at Fremont has been suffi fently profitable to warrant ‘the estab- lishment ot additional factories in this state. Kearney, Bancroft and other cities ure negotinting for such indus- tries. Within a few years tho manu- facture of binding twine will become an important element in our commercial prosperity unless congress shall remove the duty upon hemp twine and so crush out the factories, Congressman Bryan, having r in tha state buta short period, could not be expected to know of all its indus- tries. in the intorest, perhaps, of his Iilir.ois friends, he has introduced a bill for free binder twine. The people of this state, however, are calling his at- tention to the fact that such a measure, if passed, will kill the hemp producing and binder twine industries here. If he wishes to represent his constituents’ wishes he will withdraw hi tempts to strike down these new and important enterprises. The Nebraska company has refused to enter the cordage trust. It is u home institution. It deserves to succeed. It will succeed if congress keeps its hands off. THE HILL PLAY. The first act of the interesting play in which Davia Bennett Hill is the lead- ing character, has ended, and Mr. Hill is formally proclaimed a presidential candidate, backed by a solid delegation of New York democrats. The pre- arranged program was fully carried ouv at Albany, so far as related to the lead- ing character. Mr. Hill was extolled in robust rhetoric as a leader who had never known defeat, and then a delega- tion was selected and instructed to pre- sent his name tothe Chicago convention and to give him its solid support. There was a feeble protest made by the friends of Mr. Cleveland which was summarily disposed of. When all this was over the man ‘“‘who has led his party from victory to victory for seven successive years, and who has never known defeat,” was summoned be- fore the convention and delivered acare- fully prepared speech. It was not a particularly remarkable effort, and will not be likely to add materiully to his strength in the country at large. The *‘young Hickory of the democracy” tramped over the same ground that he covered in his Elmira speech some weoks ago, which did not make a very favorable impression. He denounced the existing silver law and declared in favor of a return to the old policy of the gov- ornment regarding the coinage of gold and silver—in other words, putting sil- ver on an equal basis with gold at the mints of tha country, which, in effect, would be free coinage. As to the tariff, Mr. Hill repeated his previous aeclaration in favor of a repoal of the present law, leaving that of 1883 in force, a proposition which a much wiser man, Senator Carlisle of Ken- tucky, declared to be absurd. The fact was disclosed by the speech of Mr. Hill that he approves of the plan of attack- ing the tariff in detail. *‘Better divide into easy chapters the lesson of a long campaign of education,” said Mr. Hill. **Abolish, whenever you can, one after another, one indefensible tax at a time. This is true progress.”” In this view Mr. Hill will not have the sympathy of Mills and other radical tariff reformers, who believe it to be the auty of the democratic party, as it certainly would be in line with its traditional pol endeavor to veform the tariff in tirety. The anti-Hill movement will go on. Its promoters have issued an address to the democrats of New York and called upon them to elect delegates to a state convention to be heid May 31, at Syra- cuse, to choose a delegation to the na- tional convention. This program will undoubtedly be carried out, for there is hardly a possibility that the anti-Hill faction can be induced to aban- don its fight. But, when the program is carried out what is it likely to amount to? Everybody must concede that the convention just held was regular, the question of the date at which it was held being merely one of expediency that does not in the leastaflect its rogularity, It is hardly possible that the national convention will take a different view of it, and it is entirely safe to predict that the delegation chosen at Albany will take their seuats in the national conven- tion. It by no meansfollows that David Rennett Hill will head the democratic presidontial tickot. its en- A0 HIRKING. By ull odds the most glaring injus- tice to which Omaha is subjected ut the hands of the railroads istheir persistent vefusal to bear a proportionate share of the burdens of taxation The jugglery by which they have wuuaged w evade taxes on the same footing with all other corporate and individunl owners of property is well known. Under pretense that their property values are equalizod by the state board and distributed through the whole state, they have dumped into the pool as mileage millions upon millions of dol- lars’ worth of depot grounds, warehouse aud elevator grounds and valuable tracts of land that were never intended to be used for right-ol-way, and they have for twenty vears practically been exempted from city taxation, in spite of the man- date of the constitation, which declares that for city purposes the proparty of ull on the same basis. Last year the legislature diceciod the city clerk to lst all raflrond property outside of rights-of-way within the eity limits for local taxation and the right- | of-way was defined s being fifty feot on oither side of the main tracks. The clerk listed all this railroad domain at 1E [ #300,000 und the raitronds at once ap- ) has made hemp | c ! and corporations shall be subject to tuxation | | being considered by penled to the courts to enjoin colloction on the ground that this assessment | would be double taxation. This is the most nudacious attempt at tax-shirking that ever has taken place in the state. The Union Pacific reports for genoral taxation 334 miles in Douglas county, valued at $381,180, Of this amount less than £70,000 represents the portion cred- ited to the city of Omaha. The court rocords in tho cise of the Union Pacific and Rock Tsland suits show thet the ‘ Union Pacific company valuos its torm nal grounds and tracks at Omal: $7,000,000, on which the Towa lines are paying a fixed percentage for the privi- lege of joint or mutual use, In other words, the Union Pacific property in Omaha, worth by their own appraisement 87,000,000, is assessed at $70,000. At 10 per cent of the actual yalue, which is below the average of other property, it should be assessed ab least $700,000, regardless of the vast amount of property the Uhion Pacific owns in Omaha outside of its terminals, The Omaha Belt Line is the indi- vidual property of Jay Gould and Rus- sell Sage. Its terminals are by its charter fixed in the county of Douglas, and in compliance with the law it should bo listed for tuxation in Omaha and Douglus county the same as stroet rail- wiy, gas or water company vproporty. But it has been unlawfully and frandu- lently hooked onto the Missouri Pacitic for the purposo of tax evasion and ro- turned as Missouri Pacific miloage at 35,650 per mile. Jay Gould, who knows as well as anybody what railroad prop- orty is worth, estimates the valuo of the Belt Line to be at least $8,000,000. But the state board has computed it to bo worth $03,451 for purposes of taxation, of which Omaha for local taxation only gets an assessment of about $60,000. No less than seven-eighths or about $7,000,000 worth of the Belt Line is within the city limits of Omaha, and at one-tenth of its actual value the assessment would be $700,000. It is safo to say that the proporty of other railroads within the city limits is worth at least two millions of doliar: computed at one-third below what the companies themselves value it, there i at least $10,000,000 worth of railre property in Omuha outside of the ma tracks subject to city tas One mil- lion would have been a very low assess- ment. The city clerk listed it at only $300,000, or one-thirty-third of its ver lowest actual value. And yet the rail- roads have cnjoined tho assessment of this tax. The question is, on what principle can any railroad attorney or manager de- fend such glaring tax-shirking? NATURALIZATION LAW CHANGE: The bill to amend the naturalization laws having been roported favorably from the house committee on the judici- ary will probabiy be acted upon at the present session. The salient features of the measure are provisions doing away vith the claration of 1intention at present required, and making the deter- mination of the question as to whether or not a man should bo naturalized w ju-s dicial question to be decided by United" States courts after leral proceedings, the government to be represented through itsdistrict attorneys. Natural- izetion questions are taken entirely out of politics. A form is set out in accord- ance with which applications to be na- turalizede must be made, These peti- tions must declare that the applicant has been five years a resident of the United States and possesses certain other qualifications, and the statements must be proved in court. The bill names certain classes of persons who shall not be naturalized, the proscribed list em- bracing persons who came to the United States in violation of our immigration laws, anarchists, polygamists and por- sons convicted of felonies, The bill is based on the idea that American citizenship is worth an effort to obtain, and not something to be ac- corded cavelessly to anybody who may apply for it. The latter view of itis the one that has too commonly prevailed, as the investigations of the house judic- iary committee of the last congress showed. It was found that many of the courts were guilty of the loosest possi- ble practice in granting naturalization, and it is unquestionabie that thousands of men have been made citizens who had not complied with the requirements of the law. In Massachusetts and New York the carelessness of the judges in this matter was found to have been gen- eral and long-continued, and had the investigation bsen more widely extended it is not to be doubted that a similar state of affairs would have been found elsewhere. This cheapening of citizen- ship, which ought to be accounted a most valuable hoon, could not fail to have a bad effect upon those who re- ceived it. Men who were made citizens with a full knowledge that they had not complied with the laws would naturally disparage the value of the possession as woll as lose respect for law. The bill in question provides an ado- quate remedy for these conditions. It puts upon tho applicant the burden of proof of worthiness and subjects him to a formal judicial inquiry. The judge of a court to which application was made for naturalization could not devolve the duty of nscertaining whether the appli- cant was fitted for citizenship to a clerk or other subordinutle, as 13 very gener- ally donenow. Our naturalization laws have stood with little echange since the foundation of the government. There is the high authority of the supreme court that they could be improved. The importance of surrounding the privi- leges of American citizenship with greater safoguards will be conceded by everybody. THE combine of the nnlhrm'llu coal roads is not to be allowed to stand un- challenged. Governor Pattison of Penn- sylvania has received from several sources vigorous demands for judicial proceedings against the combination, the question whether there is grouna for such ceedings is now the attorney gen One of these demands in the Peunsylvania Railrond compuny, who takes the posi- | tion that the consoiidation of the com- poting lines under ono control, with the | avowed purpose of vemoving competition | wud of securing the power to regulute pr ral of the stite 8 irom a directo: OMAHA DAILY | Pennsyiyhu | this matten has BE the produttion and fix_the price of an thraciteBhl, is in violation of the pro- vision of 'the state comstitution which prohibitmonny transportation company from ncqliffing in any way the control of a compeging line, cloar thatahis position is sound, but if not the gohbination may boattacked on the generaf ground that it is against public poticy. The provision of the ia constitution relating to hithorto been inoper- ative, bt #6 a groat corperation is now interested | in invoking it there is a possibilitysthat it may be given offect and the general public obtain a decided advantage therefrom. AM woful 1 ICAN congressmen exhibit a k of information regarding the interests of other communities than those in which they reside. If it were possible for every congrossman to visit all parts of the union after his election and befove he takes his seat, there would be less ignorance displayed and many important matters could bo intelli- vontly discussed and legislated upon. The recent visit of senators and repre— sentatives to Chicago opened the eyes of some tern and southern men who had no concention of the growth of the west. It was a brief survey, but it revealed a great deal to discerning gen- tlemen. It is probable that not £00 members of the present congress have ever been west of the Missouri river. Tur wool growers of the United States produced last year 850,000,000 pounds of wool. We imported $34,000,000 worth under the high duty 1mposed by the McKinley bill, The year preceding, betore that bill was passed, the wool im- portations reached a value of $54.000,000. Clearly our home munufacturers were provided with a home market for $20,000,000 worth of woolens. With these facts staring them in the face the Springer scheme for reducing the tarift 40 per cent is not likely to meot with much favor among sheep growers. New York Commercial. The town of Creede, adjoining the Holy Moses silver mino, is growing as if by magic. Ithas four newspapoers, an electric light plant, and at least one barroom murder. All it wants now 1s a political ring and a boss to be a first cluss city. — e a Pull, Globe-Democrat Conkling was a bigger man 1ntellectually than Hill is, and ho had as 1nuch of a *‘pull” with his party} but his power vanished 10 a day when ho broke the party into factions. Hill seems:to b in a dangerous stage of his caveor at thiismoment. Maw About the Bar'l. St. Paul Globe, If Mr. Whithey is really s presidential possibility he should choke off Ward McAl- lister when' hd attempts to class him as among the 150 residium of the voiling down of the 400. That is not a quarter to look for a candidaté, of the plain, toiling democracy. All:er nllTlTl» Oritie. New ¥ork Morning Advertiser, And this soldier, the man who secured a colonelcy for iSheridan and helped him to win his first battlé, is brapded as a coward and », skubker. from duty.by «Charles A. Daus, who nover wore a soldier's button nor faced an_enemy of bis country in the field. Politieally Doo Nebraska City News (Dem.) Tug Ovaua Bee says it is *‘time to call a halt” on the “political ghost' aancers,” ‘‘the incendiary talk” men, ‘‘the sectional agita- tors,” and many other pat names who, as members of the republican party are making it decidedly interesting for Omaha aud Tue Beg, Itissimply the bogmning of the bat- tle between Dr. Mercer of Omaha and Lieu tenant Governor Majors as to which ono shall be the republican nomiuce for gov ernor. And that fight will split tho repub- lican party so wide open that all the glue 1n the country could not hold them together again, Poltically, Omaha is doomed. eSaintieity Campaign Issues. Senator Hiscock in North American Review. The legisiation of the Fifty-first congress fixing the presont customs duties will afford the leading issue. The republican conven- tion will aporove that legislation, and the democratic convention will denounce it in both elaborate and pointed rhetor but, in my judemont, the actual contention upon this great economic question, will be mado, not by the resolutions of the two conven- tions, but by the house of representatives of the Fifty-second congress. The democratic party 18 largely in the majority here. The constituencies of the democratic members will expect, the republican party will bave & right to demand, and the country will exact of them, an expression, in the form of a bill agroed upon and passed by them, of the changos which they propose in our prosent tariff laws. The law making power of the democratic party must, therefore, make the issues of the next natianal election upon this subjeot. Regarding Telegraph Tolls, St. Paul Pioneer-Press. Tha state ot Georgia is trying an oxperi- ment which will bo watched with interest by other states. It has authorized its rail- road commission to regulate tho prices for the sending of tolegraph mossages. The or- der has gone forth fixing the rates at 25 cents for messages of ten words to bo sant within the state, 2 conts for each extra word on day mossages and 1 cent for each extra word vn night, mgssages. The tarift Lereto fore has beon 40 cents for messages of ten words. Tt is/afsumed that the telegraph service, which is.one sort of trousportation, naturally falls finder the same head as rail- road freight and passenger servioe, which 1s another sort, ynd’ that it thorefore follows that it should g Subject to the same kind of supervision. (IBe results of this suparvis- on in tho casg,pf these othor lines of public service have not mlways been satislectory, but the princiglphas becomn an estabiisbed one of public. pplicy and it has certainiy worked well intho cases where the legislative intecfereuce hgs‘paeu contined to ity legiti- mate limits, s well that corporations of this extensive/sifil powerful nature should feel Lhat they Are subject, to soms extent, to rogulation by the'state. T'he Georgian exper- iment of applying this survellianos to tele- graph compauies wilt bs watched with inter- ost. NOVELTIE JEWELRY, Butter picks for butter pats are pretty wrifles for the table. For the skewer Ii the skower extractor, which is & pretty weapon of silver. Wauille knives app2ar with tho awakening taste for waflles. Waflio suppers and wallle luncheons are sometimes given. From tbe Coinese we have learced the fort of hund warm¢ra, The Coinese hold 1 in their linked sieeves. The A werican wowan keops them in her muff. ang of small coins 1o forn ban fraudulent even L1he piercing of & coiu tur chrm peodant s hold 1) b2 Houve Lhe fulr $6x @Ust Lury Lhele ultv.\ 1t would seem to be | BRUARY 24 1892. to some othor form of levying upon their friends, Chased siver poxes are used to surround | the sardine box of commerce. This obviates the rending of swall fish in the effort o serve it, And otherwise the silvor box is a desirable addition to the table service, Silver weights for scales are alwavs pro curable. Womon, with the correspondence | entailea by their charities, find ecales for mailing letters essential. ‘These scales aro made dainty and oraamental jor their writ ng tables. Tho moat coveted jewels now are the Sugar river pearis from Wisconsin. which rival the Oriontal pearis in soms respects, ana come in raro colors, pink, black and bronze. They are much used in rlugs, sot in rows of thres or five, or encircled with small diamonds to set off the natural tints of tho pearl ANOTHER BIG COMBINE ON, i | Optior mplenient Mannfactories. Cricaco Buraau or Tag B Ctieaco, [, Fob, Two representatives of a syndicato of east- ern capitalists have been at work 1o this oity for tho lust two days amdtheir mission has Just boen divulged in the report that they have secured options on the plants of tho Deere Plow company, tho Moline Plow com- pauy and the Deere & Mansur Corn Planter company. Thoy are also negotiating for the Moline Wagon works, and it is believed that it will be inciuded in the deal. Several months ogo & British syndicate pumd $10,000 for au option on those samo properties and then backed vut of their bargain. Negro Flend Strung Up. Miss Carrio Lowis, the handsome daughter of the postmistress of Lebanon, was return- ing home from church at that place Sunday night when Mat Hendrickson, a negro, sprang ous from a side street, seized her and was draggng ner to an alley when aid ar- rived, Tho nogro waus hanged threo timos and then taken to Jail Investignting o Mysterlous Deuth, Last fall Mrs. Post, n wealthy widow of itchfletd, foll in love with u music dealer named M. A. Wilson. "Togethor thoy went, 10 St, Louis to be married, Mvs. Post draw- ing from her bank account somo 84,000, Tho next heard from them was a telogram re- cewved by Mus. Post’s mother, informing her of the ¢eath of her daughter at Galveston, Tex. Wilson has not been seon since. No record has been found in St. Louis of a marringe between Wilson aud Mrs. Post in that city, nor is there any record that any railroad brought a_corpse from Galveston to 8t. Louis at tho time tho tolegram said tho body reached St. Louis. The mystery s rounding her death has caused ber reiati to mako the present investigation. At tho post mortem exsmination no marks of vio- lence were found, but the stomach has beon seut to the University of Illinois for chomical examinuation. . and Ends. a Chicago middlewelght. cked out Charles Voight, alocal celebrity » bard rounds last nignt, Chicago's colored 400 is in a flutter and the cause thereof is the announcement that a grand cake walk is to take place at Battery D on the evening of March 1. The manager of tho affair Is William A. Brady of New York, wbo so successfully couducted the recont “‘walk” in Madison Squaro garden, New York City. At that eako walk 13,000 of Gotham's bost people, be- sides Ward MeAllister and his uitra _blue- blooded favorites, saw the unique contost. Western People In Chieago, ‘I'na following western people are in the cit) At the Grand Pacific—-Frank Bell, Du- buque, Ia.; William Waasworth, Daven ort, 1a.; Dr. Bailey, Sioux kalls,'S. D.; J. ", Houser, Iowa City, la.; J. Francis, Omaba. At tho Palmer—A. Frankel, Oskaloosa, 1a.; Mr. and Mrs. C. Davis, Keokuk, la.; Charies Barkel Ella Barker, Omaha; W, W, De Framont; Mr. and Mrs. F. T, Evans, Sioux City, Ia.: Chfford Wescott, Plattsmouth: Mrs. R. Taylor, Dubuque, Ia. At the Wellington—L. P. Best, Daven- port, Ia.; J. N. Casidy, Council Bluffs, At the Auditorium—Allen Johnston, J, T. Hackwerth, Ottumwa, la. F. A. POL o Baker, 2D REMARKS. erc is a cool touch of grim numor in the v York mmereial Adve At 50 the joke upout the bald- lea man in the front. row doos not seem Balf 8o funny us it did av 15" Did T tell asked Marbor Four tines Tust nigt and three this morning,” sald Burton wearily. ou what my OU A FLIRT. Yorlk Mercury. 1a she to me, New “Are you u flir 1 know you are. How can you be 80 bud and bold? Thouzh T've been told Allmen are flivts by spinisters old,” She udded us she sipped her toa, Her eyes were brizht, her glances free; No fairer maid you'il ever see Than she who asked me frank and hold: “Aro you a flirt?" Lawore to ior on bondod koo love should Inst eternaliy. e hioard mo through in manner cold, Married u fellow with far more zold; Loft me to moan in misery You are a flirt.* inkeo Biudo: Customer—Yau choated me In thoso apples. 1 have mady inquiries: and discovered the tac Dealer (na hurt you would have perfo appointed Lam in you. And yet vou said vrust in me. ‘How dis- t persistent ) always an sye for in nuture is th its pointand aly business. New York Recordor to 1d." does coed from 3 h! been ¥ She was one of a theater party last night,” Washinston Star: The woman who pub- 1ishos successtul novels his money in her own write. What the country hunkers for hereabouts is that the favorite sun get out of the fox. Boston News: Mr, 1 very fine picture of piger. Mr: e uikinghorn—There 18 n r minister in today's Tualkinghorn—Indeed! What cured of? has he 8hocked lndy—Do you know of littlo boys who swonr? Little W'en they gits big 'nough they uduy drivin' a team. Good News: what bec Yoy —Yes' iinegrn Philadelphia Times: Apart from polities a man'ssiiver views are seldom satisfactory when he sees the first strands of that color coming out In his huir or mustuche, A s THE RED, RED WE T, sme Field in Chicago News. I've travelled in heaps of countries and studied all kinds of art Till there Isn't_a critio or connolsseur who's propor 1y deemed so smurt, And PI'red 10 suy that the raid results of my explorations show Thut somehow paint gets redder the further out wost 1 0’ I've sipped the voluptuous sherbert that the on s serve. And 've felt the ziow of red Boredaux tinzling cuch sepurate nerve: P've sampled your classlo arbor green, Massle under an And I've recked With song a whole night long overa brown poteen, Iwart brow of pps of the fr 1o land o' cakes, the 1 Duteh, 1 wine of the distant Rhine, or praised overmuch, he ale of dear ol London ana the port of *Mmlllvrn ] AL ad intin, | sand time: The st tuken in a hundred thou- Yet,us [ utore ese othor charms Compired with the DAFAmMOUNE ZOFEEOUSnORS ith which the west Is fraught; For urt Lure are just the same lo the Tand where tho porker erows, Aud the palnt_keeps getting rodder the fur- ther out west one gous. Our savants have never discovered the reason why th s Is so. Aud 90 per cont of the laymen care less than the suvan now | 5 every purpose that this is wauni- | keeps setting redder the farther | Ut west! a¢ 1o home 'neath the pale pluk dome of Eropean skies forwo by the salmon sex that far to the sautnward lies: Bat away out west | would Lulld wy nest on top of u carinine bill yan yint withoul restralat. Wiiel creation RAILROADS IN THE COUNCIL Farther Aotion Taken Looking to the Revocation of Certain Privileges. RESOLUTIONS ON THE SUBJECT PASSED Mayor Bemis Afiem ntracts Tmportant Meoting. an Ap- polntment and duot and Interesting The city council has not yet quit oine butiness with the railroaa companies. Ono week ago Councilman Elsasser intro duced an ordinance repealing all tho rights and franchises granted to tho Union Pacific company, such as allowing thom to lay their tracks and switches along and over the streets and alleys, * That ordinance was reforred to the commit- tooon viaducts and railways. Last night Chairman Princo roported the ordinance back with some amendments. ‘The amend ments wero that the rights and privilages granted to oach and every railway to use the streots and alleys bo ropealed. As amended the ordinance passed, Presi dent Davis being the only member who voted “no.” In explaining his vote he said that ho was in favor of treating corporations with tha same degree of fairness as ho would individuals, The ordinance did not show that the railway companios were not entitled to all of tho privileges that they had enjoyed. Ho did not favor such arbitrary legislation and was not in favor of jumping upon the railroads with both feot. Chairman Princo states that the ordinance is'not for the purpose of injuring the com s, but merely to protect the city in se- i ering its rights, He stated that an ord nance was boing prepared and would bo in- troduced at the next council meeting. This ordinance, he said, would grant all of the companies equal rights and privilegos, and would be so [ramed that tho city would have something to say nbout switching charges. Resolutions by Mr, ¥ his ordinunco was followad by tion introduced by Mr. alopted nsser, a rosolu- Elsasser, which was The mayor, city attorney and clty 00k the first steps towurd the recov- lands cluimed by the ompany; nnd 1700, Property ow ry stop ties: therefore be it it tho city attorn 1 lYu report and ho ch wnd every regulur e progress has Docn i to brin this suit u el eatl wy company to said lots and lands in the ity of Omuh Before sitting down Mr. Klsasser intro- duced the following resolution, which was adopted by a unanimous vote: Resolved, That tho co viad and railways, and the city r. he are hereby (nstructed to walt: upon the ofi- clals of the Union Pacific and the B. & M Railroad companies in regurd to th tion of an iron bridge or v teenth streot. and for the romoval of tho piles now holding up their tracks. Then the ordinance ordering iron and steel viaducts over tho railroad tracks on the line of Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets, and order- ieg the city engineer and the members of the Board of Public Works to prepare plans for the same, were passed. Some time ago Superintendent of Build- 10gs Tilly appointed W. R. Johnson plumb- ing inspector. Last Tuesday night the coun- cil approved the appointment and for one week Mr. Johnson held the office, but now ho is out of & job. Last night the mayorsont in a letter in which he stated that he had votoed the appointment. He gave several reasons for bis action. The first reason was that tne building inspector had no legal right or power to make the appointmont. He also stated that he had no personal acquaint- ance with Mr. Johnson. The appointment by Mr. Tilly was under tha proyision of an ordinance that had becn repoaled. The mayor stated that he was willing to work in hurmony with the council, but he proposed to assert the rizhts that belonged to the chief executive of the city. The veto was sustained by a unanimous vote. Employment for City The meyor aguin called the attention of the council to the necessity of a workhouso or a stone pile, where city prisonors could be put w work. The matter was referred to the committee ou police. The mayor called the attention of the coun- cil to the fact that u large number of interest coupons had been sent out with lithographed signatures attached. He feared that the coupons might fall into the hands of evil dis- posed persons. The bonds of the national banks which nad agreed to keep and cere for the city funds were presented and approved. The mayor had learned that O. Davis, a subcontractor under _All Brainard, had agreed to pay his men 77 conts per day, but had not dendso. Thoira ter was referred te the Board of Public Works. The contract aud boud of J. E. Knowles for laying wooden sidewaiks were approved. ‘The contract of Arthur Pulaski for hauling away dead ommals was accepted and the bond approved. Pulaski agreed to do the worl for the term of two years freo of cost to the city. Twenty gh e, City Attorney Connell reported upon the ainst the Union i iot the title of me and for the risoners, Streot G o W, Corner 1 on on price $1. ROWNING, K| Hth and Douglas & Facts about G. Washington--- George W ashington was born Monday, F d) 22,1732, and ever since that, Monday’s been Wash day. When George was 6 he chopped a chunk out of his pa’s cherry tree. If he'd had ¢ of our suits for 6 year old boys he wouldn’t have done it. When he was 12 his pa died. Our 12-yr old boys’ suits are the talk of the city. \V.xshmg tons of dirt out of old shirt waists is wasted labor when you can get new ones of us that Wash and don't fade for 75¢, old Last week of cut prices on our provosed lovy to cover the one-half cost of of grading T'wenty-eighth street from Loav- enworth to Woolworth avenue, He did not see how the entire cost could bo iawfully Invied against the property along the line of tho streot. He was advised that the petition regaraing the grading Incked several hun- dred feet of boing the required three-fifths necessary to authorize the entire cost to be levied upon the abutting property. Tho clty would not have the right to assess more thau the cre-alf cost on the abutting proporty Mr. Lowry had investiguted tho matter and had learned that the city would have to pay somothing ke $6,000 on account of the ol of the ordinance ordering the grad- ng. J. M. Woolworth aud A. J. Poppleton offered nine acros of land in the viewity of Sulvhur springs to the city for the sum ol £50,000, The bid was referred to the park commissioners, Tho Board of Health named W. . Austin for tho position of dumpmaster at the Daven vort streot dump, The appointment, how- ever, was not confirmed, Inspoctor Tilly of the Building department found fault with the rooms assigned him in the new oity hall. Ho stated that thoy wore 100 dark. The matter went to tho committes on public property and buildings. The Board of Iducatiou filed a motion that it was ready and willing to pay oue-fourth of the cost of renting rooms at the last election, but was not ready to pay any of the in cidental oxponse tingineer Rosewator fnformod the council that the present forea of s ofice in tho sower cleaning department was too small. A resolution authorizing him to smploy three extra men was adopted N By resolution the Koteham Furniture com- pauy was instracted to plan a partition in tho city troasurer’s office at a cost not to exceed &350, ‘Tt proposition to place four are lights upon the Tenth streot viaduct was referrod 10 the committeo ou gas ana electric lights. Tho city engineer was instructod to os tablish the grade of Eightoouth street from Vinton to Canton street, Tho request of City Treasurer two extra clerks for sixty days at the rato of §75 por month was referred. Tho committee report to place an iron gate ucross the alley eust of the new city hall was adoptud. By resolution tho city hall contractor was instruoted to placo wash basins in the offices of tho clork, the treasurer and tho il roller in the new city hall at a cost of The Linahan proposition to erect s markot house was calied up and reforred to the com- mittee of tho whole, to bo reported upon at somo futnre meeting. The resolution to lay permanont sidewalks along North Twenty-fourth street, from Cuming street to the Belt line tracks, was placed on filo, Bolln for - NEW MEN NAMI‘D Omalin's Fire and Police Commission Ro- Boyd The Board of Fire and Police Commis- siouors of the city of Omaba was yestorday reorganized by Governor Boyd, who mado tho following appomtments : C. V. Gallaghor, vice Chris Hartinann romoved; Georgo W. Shields, vice G. H. Gilbert removed: Willlam Coburn was appointed to succeed himselfl as the republican wember of the board and D, Clem Deaver will, in all provability, be ap pointed in place of Howard B. Smith, al- though the matter has not been detormined defintely. With a single exception tho new commis- sioners are men who have beou prominentiy conuected with Omaha politics in days gono by and need no lutroduction to the peoplo whom they ara to sorve. Mr. Gallagher was a person with consid- erable authority about the federal building vefore Postmaster Clarkson negotiated a lease of the oftice. Mr. Shields stepped down from the county bench less than two months ago, and his mpathizing friends tried to make amends for it by electing him president of the Samo- set club. Ex-Sheriff Coburn, who is now head deputy under Sheriff Bennett, was ap- pointed by ex-Governor Thayer (o a place on the Riro and Police commission last May. Nono of the appointees, with the exception of Mr. Shields, knew anything definite about the appointments last evening, but that gen- tleman had received a tologram from Lin- coln that made him smyle. Some of the old members of the board were inclined to be skeptical, though in one (r two instances the report put an obvious damper on ambitious Lopes. Not & word was suid about the matter at the evening session of the board, ‘I'here is a gencral impression that an en- tire reorganization of the police force is soon 1o follow, and already there are heard on overy hand queries as to the nume of Chief Seavey’s successor. R Found Him Without Difficulty, A merchant of Fort Worth, Tex., wants to know if there is such a man in Omaha as Charles Pererson, and if ho1s possessod of sufiicient real estato or personal property to encourage a suit. The police have informed the applicant that there are fourteen Charles Petersons in the city in various degrees of oppulonco and the roverse and he may take bis choice, = Robber Perry Confesses, N. Y., eb, 23.—The American robbor has been complotely Oliver Curtis Perry of Syra- the Utica _train robbery sed thut he 1s the \ Expross Rocu express car identified as cuse, suspected of 1ast October, and has confe: man wanted for that orime. NG boys’ and children’s clothing. Spring goods for boys and men will arrive soon now. Browning, King & Co Open Saturluys till 1 p. Otherevenings Uil 6:00. w |8, W, Cor. 15th v and Douglas Sts