Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 28, 1893, Page 4

e — THE DAILY BEE. —_— o F. ROSEWATER, [ e s——— PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. Faitor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. {1y Beo (without Sunday) One Year.. § ANy and Sunday, One Year 1 x Month ree Montin. un oo, R mld" Bee, Ono Yen ‘eekly Bee, One Year OFFI1CES. Omaha, The Ree Bullding. Bonth Omahn, corner N nnd 26th Streota Council Blufrs, 12 Pearl Street, Chicago Office, 817 Chamber of Commerce. New York, Rooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune l"ldlnn. ashington, 513 Fourteenth Stroot. CORRFSPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and itorial matter should be nddressed: To the itor. RUSINESS LETTERS, All husiness iotfors and remittanees shoutd e addresscd o The Bee Publishing Co mpany, Ommha. Drafts, cheeks and_postoffice orders 10 be made puyable to tho order of the com- pany. Parties leaving the city for tho summer can have the 1y Addross by leaving an order at t THE BEE — SWORN STAT Bate of 'll‘lvl':\‘kkn. " 1 Dotiins. Goo, B Trsehiici, Sterotars of THE BEE publish: tng company doos solernly swear that the actual eireulation of Tk DALY Euk for the week ending June 24,1803, was as follows: amday. June 18 jonday, June | nesday, June 5 Wednd ay, June 21, Thursday, June 2! Friday, June 23 Saturday, June ~Ae SWORN to befo T el it s 5 + me and subscribed In 241h day of June, 1893, P, 1L, Notary Publie. “The Bee In Chicugo. Tae DALy and SuxpAY Bee Is on salo in Chjeago at the following places: Palmer house, Grand Pacific hotel. Audiiorium hotel. @reat Northern hotel Gore hotel. 9 State sireot. ® BeR can be scen atthe Ne- nd the Administration build- ing, Exposition erounds. Average Ciros ation for May I 18 to be hoped that Omaha will be correctly rated in the next weekly clear- ing house record. The last report was ten points shy. IT TOOK the “‘financial crisis” just four weeks to travel from New York to San Francisco. If it had noround trip ticket the country may begin to breath easier. THERE is something in the nature of coincidence in the fact that train rob- bers show so great a partiality for the Gould system of roads as the base of their operation: THEsinking of the battleship Victoria has taught naval warriors at least one significant lesson. In the future they will keep conveniently out of reach of the ram, in times of peace as well as in war. IT 18 true that the state saline lands are to be sold upon competitive bids. It is also true that state officials may re- ject any or all bids and continue to re- ject them until a fair price for the lands is secured. FROM reports that percolate back to Omaha from time to time it begins to dawn on the average mind that the suc- cess of the World’s fair does not depend upon the Nebraska exhibit. A fortunato thing for the fair. CONGRESSMAN BRYAN'S visit to Georgia is already bearing fruit. The Atlanta papers which are not repres- ented in the cabinet are prodding the administration with a vigor which is somewhat remarkable. THERE i3 veally no reason to become excited over the rumor that Blount has resigned the Hawaiian mission. There are still one or two patriots south of Mason and Dixon's line who may be in- duced to accept the place. IT SEEMS that at least one member of the State Board of Public Lands and Buildings has not thoroughly learned the lesson of the recent impeachment trial. The apparent jugglery of the state printing bids requires further in- vestigation. THE BEE'S telegraphic news service, 88 has been genorally conceded, con- tinues to throw all would-be competitors into the shade. Take for instance the leading feature of yesterday’s issue re- specting the action of India concerning the coinage of silver. THE New York bankers continue their policy of contracting credits and calling in loans, while at the same time they advise people to evince more confidence in the banks. Now that the situation is 80 rapldly improving there is no reason why the banks should not begin to show 8 little more confidence in the people. THE Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs fireman who shot Charles Mec- Clure, train robber, two weeks ago, in- flicting a severe wound in the forearm, deserves a liberal reward. McClure has admitted that the fireman's bullet touched him. With a few more such firemen, train robbing as a fine art would become unnopular. THE County Board of Equalization has mado a ruling that will be of incal- culable benefit to this community. They have assessed locally the lots and lands of the Belt line railroad in Douglas county regardless of the fact that the property had been returned for assess- ment in the name of the Missouri Pacific by the state board. A Cuic. GO paper ridicules the posi- tion of THE BEE as to reduced rates to the World's fair. Theowners of western pleasure resorts, however, are in full sympathy with the idea that reduced railroad rates to Chisago are detri- mental to western interests. The ‘World’s fair is ruining the business of Colorado and South Dakota health promoters. THE most uotablo thing about the re- lease of the three Chicago anarchists is their asse:tion that they have had enough «f anarchy, There is no doubt that ana'chy has been effectually throttled in the United States. The Il- linols authorities resorted to drastic remedies, in which oxpediency was con- sulted at the expense of justice, but they performed an effectual eure. WILL THEY HEED THE WARNING? Railroad managers will do well to peruse and digest the editorial wo re- print on this page from the United States Investor published at Boston. It is o clear, foreible and logical presentation of the history of the maximum rate law | and the policy the railroads have pursued toward their patrons., If the railway managers are wise they will heed the warning and repress all retaliator measures that tend to exasperate the people. The maximum rate law would never have been on tho statute books of Nebraska today had the railroad man- agers allowed the people to govern themselves instead of attempting to dominate over them through an abject set of mercenaries. It now remains to be seen whether the men who have been entrusted with the management of the railways propose to heed the lesson taught by oxperienc or whether they will be guilty of the criminal folly of trying to coerce the people into subjection by depriving them of facilities for travel and withholding from them accommo- dations to which phey have been accustomed, and to which they are en- titled. If the law is to be made odious by intolerable barriersto local traflic and travel and by avbitrary exactions for transporting products beyond the state, the people of Nebraska will resist the tyranny and right their griovanc by making common cause against rail- way corporations. In such a contest party lines will be swept away. There will be no republicans, no democrats, no populists. The contending forees would be the railroads on one side and the people on the other, and the outcome will be the subjection of the railways to popular sovereignty. EFFECT ON THE MINING |NTERESTS, There wasa further decline in the market price of silvor yesterday and no ono can foresee where the depreciation will stop. The decline already is un- precedented, but a still lower price will probably be reached before there is a reaction. The future policy of this country and the extent of the produc- tion are the conditions which will de- termine the course of silver. The de- cision of the guestion as to the future of the white metal is practically devolved upon the United States alone. The whole of Europe has declared war against it and the position of the dis- tinctively silver countries, like Me and the South American statos, is of no eonsequenc It is not at all probable that our government will undertake the impossible task of -up- holding silver against the opposition of all the other great financial and com- mercial nations of the world. It must continue to recognize that metal in a monetary capacity, but nothing short of its free and unlimited coinage would check its further fall in price so far as that can be affected by legislation, and a return to this policy is now more hope- less than ever. Everybody intelligently informed rogarding financial affairs must know that to adopt this policy now would place the country at once ona silver basis. No political party could survive the adoption of this policy, which would be the beginning of a pro- longed period of disaster to the fin- financial, industrial and commereial in- terests of the nation. Tho repeal of the silver purchase law without making any other provision for the use of silver in the currency except in a subsidiary capacity would doubtless precipitate its decline, and the possibility of this action is likely to be tosome oxtent anticipated. The obvious and certain way to check the decline of silver is to reduce produc- tion, and this is undoubtedly what will be done at once. Such a course is in- dicated in the advices from Colorado, the leading state in the production of silver, and it is safe to predict that the other silver states will tollow the ex- amplo, Silver is mined in Colorado at less cost than perhaps inany of the other states and there is a good profit in it for the mine owners at the present price, but as a practical business matter it is reasonable to expect that thoy will adopt the course which alone promises to prevent a much greater fall in silver than has yet taken pl It would manifestly not be a sound business pol- icy to maintain the production of silver in the face of a diminishing demand, and the mine owners can be depended upon to govern themselves by what they sce to be their own interests. The outlook is unguestionably a gloomy one for the silver mining interests and they will not suffer alone. Other interests to the prosperity of which they contribute, will also be hurt more or less geriously and it is to be apprehended thatin all the silver states an experi- ence of hardship for a very large num- ber of people is at hand. The whole western country, and indeed all sections, must ultimately feel the depressing effects of a material decline in the mining industry, but in the end it will doubtless be better for the west and the country generally to secure a settloment of the siver question on a safe and poer- manent basis, which is reasonably to bo expected to result from the existing con- ditions. The trial may for a time be a somewhat severe ome to.the communi- ties which depend wholly or largely upon the production of silver, but it will be a great gain tothe gencral interests to have the relations of that metal to our monetary system wisely and firmly establishe THE U, P. BRIDGE iAX AGAIN, The statement submitted by the aud- itor of the Union Pacific to the county © mmissioners concerning the earnings and expenses of the Union Pacific rail- way bridge and its terminal facilities at Council Bluffs and Omaha is misleading. The total earnings of the terminals and bridge for the year 1892 are represented ab $485,047. This is said to include the réntals from roads that are using these terminals. The expenses are reprosented as $195,238, of which amount $143,825 is put down for ‘‘conducting transporta- tion.” Now, in the first place, the commis- sioners of Dauglas county in cousidering the value of the bridge are not in the least concerned about the terminals in Council Bluffs, or for that matter the terminals in Omaha. All they can properly take into account is the value of the bridge and its approaches and the THE OMAHA earnings of the bridge, de lucting theres [rom the cost of maintenance. There is evidently some discrepancy regarding the rentals received from the Milwaukee and Rock Island ronds. Offi- ciuls of the Milwaukeo road claim that their road pays #250,000 a year for the use of the bridge and terminals. If half this amount is credited to the terminals and trackage between Omaha and South | Omaba th for the use of the bridge. ural to presume that the Rock Tsland pays fully as much bridge toll as the Milwaukee, On the hand, the charges for terminal handling of freight and passenger trans- fer are no part of the bridge expense. The Union Pacific must have a terminus somewhere. Itwould have the same ex- pense for loading and unloading freight to and from connecting roads whether there was a bridge at the end of its main line or not. The auditor doubtless docs not wean to falsify the record and the system of charging transfor oxpenses against the bridge carnings has been in o would still remain $125,000 vogue for years in order to cover up the | enormous earnings of the bridge. But this system is inequitable and in any event cannot be considered in computing bridge carnings as a basis for assess- ment. The “vhole question and the only ques- tion is, whether the Union Pacific bridge is assessed out of proportion w other property of equal valus and carning e, pacity. Assuming that the net earnings are justas represented by the auditor, 6,219, which would give 8128,000 in round numbers for one halfof the bridge, after deducting the taxes, which of course is all wrong, this end of the bridge would still represent a 10 por cent in- vestment of $1,280,000, ov a 5 per cent in- vestment of $2,560,000. Assume that the assessed valuation is on one-tenth actual value, the proper assessment would be 256,000 instead of $105,000. The ave real estate in Omaha earns loss than 5 per cont on its real valuation, after deducting cost of re- pairs and maintenance. The complaint of the Union ¢ tax commissioner that the bridge is assessed too high is manifestly groundless, and the anditor’s figures cited in support of his petition prove that it is groundless. go PARDON OF 1HE ANARCHISTS. The action of the governor of Illinois in pardoning the anarchists convicted of complicity in the Haymarket viotin Chic 2 ago and sentenead to the penitentiary—two of them for life and one for fifteen years—will undoubt- edly rereive a great deal of adverse criticism, partly from partisan prompt- ing and partly from prejudice. Governor Altgeld, however, has made a very strong statement of reasons in justifica- tion of his action, which undoubtedly nobody knew better than he would cre- ate great surprise and widespread discussion, and we venture to say that no candid man who will care- fully consider these reasins can doubt their sufticiency. The plain truth is, as everybody knows who is familiar with the history of the trial and conviction of the anarchists, that preju- dice played the largest part in sending them to the gallows and to prison, and that while the forms of law were ob- served to some extent, very little regard was paid to its spivit. There was a pop- ular outery for the condign punishment of these men against which the appeal for justice was worthless. The consciences of judge and jury, if not willingly in sympathy with the public preju- dice, readily yielded to it. The men charged with tho Haymarkat crime were doomed from the hour they were taken into custody, regar dless of proof or the just requirements of the law, Victims were wanted to atone for that bloody episode, and it was enough that the men arrested were known to enter- tain anarchistic sentiments and to be prominent in anarchist councils. Be- yond this no proof was needed and very little was presented. Could the trial have taken place anywhere else than in Chicago there can be no doubt that most of the men charged with the Haymar- ket killing would not have becn con- victed on the cvidence adduced, and among them are the three who have been set free by Governor Altgeld. There is no defense for anarchism in this country or for those who preach it, but because it is a country of law and justice such people are entit) to the same consideration under the law and to the same rule in the administration of justice that ave accorded to others. The men arrested in connection with the Haymarket affaiv did not receive this, and therefore those of them who have been sot free, after having been confined in prison seven years, are justly ontitled to thoir lib- erty. Governor Altgeld did not act in this matter without the warrant of a large public sentiment. He was petitioned by thousands of reputable citizens of Chicago to release the pri oners for the reason that they had re- ceived punishment’ enough. The gov- ornor has done what hie conseientiously believed to be right, and he need not trouble himself, as he doubtless will not, about the criticism that is the prompting of prejudice. The condemna- tion of & kundred people who cannot rise above their vrejudices will not stand in the fnal judgment of history against the approval of one fair-minded and justice-loving cit THE War department is evincing a more earnest interest in the supervision of the training of the militia of the states than ever heretofore. Not only has iv made known its disposition to do the utmost possible for the summer en- campments, but the methods adopted are sure to add to the efficiency of the drill and discipline of the national guard. Nor is thero any offensive exer- cise of the ample authority with which the department is vested for this pur- pose. The plau pursued is that of co- operation with the state military author- ities, which while adding to the useful- ness, at the same time increases the at- tractiveness of the state camp. A num- ber of the states have asked for the pres- ence of bodies of regulars at their camps, and wherever practicable this has been conceded. Other states merely ask for army officers as inspectors of their camps. In every instance such requests have been liberally granted. Theso two forms DAILY 1t is but nat- | | other BEE: WEDN SDAY, of the participatign of regulars in militia camps afford manypractical advantages. With a commeén “model of the profes- | sional soldior $idtore thom the state | troops must necessarily approach a com- | mon standard ig''drill, discipline, sol- | diorly duty and alf, the minutize of mili- tary servico. This co-operative plan also enables the 4y officers detailed to the national guard camps to familiarize themselves with the character and ef- ficiency of the militia, on whom they must rely as auxilisries of the army in case of a suddenbmergency. It isasim- ple, economical and practical plan and must bo productive of mutual benefit to the soldiery of the nation. | AN AMBASSADOR of the Chinese gov- ornment has arvived in this country whose mission, it is stated, is to ascer- tain the drift of popular opinion relative to Chinese residents here and what the intentions of the government are as to the enforcement of the Geary exclusion ucl Doubtless he will be accorded every facility and courtesy by the gov- ernmont and the people with whose sen- timent he desires to become acquainted. He will find the government confronted with a law which itis practically un- able to enforce, and discover that con- gress in its enactment did not reflect the general popular feeling. Moreover he will ascortain that in all probability the next congress will undo this unwise act of legislation, The people will not encourage the unjustand inhumane policy toward the Orientals that the sand-lot politicians and Chinamen baiters on the Pacific const would adopt. THE Union Pacific railroad certainly has no good ground for complaint about excessive taxation in Omaha and Doug- las county, The Union Pacific has a fraction over thirty-two miles of main track, eleven and one-half miles of branch lines and over 150 miles of side track in Douglas county. All this trackage, right-of-way and the stations ana rolling stock are ass d by the state board this year for $437, The Union Pacific owns about four miles of railroad and possibly ten miles of side track in Towa. This trackage, etc., is assessed by the Iowa state board at $317,775. In other words, for less than one-tenth of the trackage in Iowa the road is assessed three-fourths of the amount at which it is valued in this county. THE State Board of Transportation has thrown the railway editors into a stato of intense mental perturbation by an- nouncing that the new maximum rate bill makes a cut of. ).7 per cent, in- stead of 20 per cent, as has been popu- larly supposed. This fact will worry neither the people nor the railroads. If the rates fixed by the law are unreason- ably low the remedy lies in the supreme court. If, on the other hand, the rail- roads decide to put the new rates into effect without appealing to the supreme court, the people will try and stand it. MAN hesitates, and is lost. When the committee of the Council Bluffs town council met with a'liké‘committee of the Omaha municipal legislature an ordi- nance might have been framed then and there providing for a 5-cent bridge motor fare between the two cities. But the motor people asked for time to con- sider and report as to whether the com- pany could afford to reduce the far +The respective councilmanio commit- tees are still holding the sack. MR. MOSHER is still waiting for the verdict—and so are the people. G od Money vs. B1id Money. Globe-Democrat. One of the gre: try is good mone; a curse and a peril, L~ An Evidont Nocessity. Washington Fost. It is about time that the administration being furnished a marked copy of the go platform. S Lung Financiers. Cincinnati Commercial. The haymoyw financiers of Kansas continue to clamor for more silyer. When congress meets it will immediately administer a sound spunking to these maniacs, 1t cannot do it 100 soon, either. i e Tho Skies Aro Clearing, Philadelphia Times, izn now points to a st nd bad mouey is always FEyo of bu: apprec be rapid, but each day should now make the general business outlook brighter. Let us have faith in our country and in ourselves, and all will be well e — Where the Li Comes In, Cansas Ci‘y Star, It looks very much as though the young “war lord” of Germany will be able to laugh an autocratio laugh July 4 when he sees the new Reichstag assembled ready to do his bidding. It « not have been intended, but it looks 'y much as though the kaiser means to rub it in on the foes of absolutism by calling the Reichstag together on the day sacred 1o liberty . ———— A Comforung Discovery, Indianapolis Journal, After a hont of more than three months, the men who are assailing the pension rolls have found o case in which, upon the state- ment made by them, a pension should not haye been granted. . ‘When all the evidence is in, however, it may Appear that there was other cause than loss of hair by typhoid fever. Still, this ouy case will afford the pension-hating papers'no end of comfort, B Republican Fol y, Washington Post. It may be that the Connecticut republicans are pluymg a very shrewa political game, and will reap enoPmous profits from the | opposition to a modernized election svs but the general opjujen will be that they have m ‘wn?fismku. The political party v itself in the path of popu- lar government must sooner or later expel ence bad results. The present mode of electing oficers in the state of Conuecticut is uaamorican and gaunot be fustitied, no matter how much sophistry may be indulgad in while such an attewpt is in progress, Vandallem) Rbrching On. Philadelphia Press. Nothing very effective has been done in the way of haltiug the trolley vandals on the battlefield of Gettysburg. The United States government has not been able to determine whether it can interfere or not, and seems to be deliberating with a groat deal of de- liberation while the trolley work is going on all the time. The meetings and reunious which are to be held on the field next month, 1 commemoration of the anniversary of the great battle, will be very likely heard from. The soldiers w'll realize better when they see it the extent of the desecration which is destroying the battle mark D Au Early Extra Session, New York Evening Post, Solong as doubt remains business will coutinue iv an uncertain and unstable con- dition, and the whole country will suffer in consequence. 1f congress docs nov meetb till September action is not likely to be taken tillat too late a time to benefis the fall trade. This is an lmportant matter to be JUNE 28, 1893. considerad. If congress were to bo called ‘ togothor at once, or as soon as is practicable, the repoal of the Sherman law night be varried before the end of summer, and in that case the fall trade of the country conld bo undertaken under conditions of ! stability which would make fta veritable business “boom," the effects of which would bo of the greatest value to all the peopl What all business is waiting for, and mu: continue to wait for till congr ts, is the removal of the element of doubt. tadelphta Ledger, That must be a disgraceful condition of af- fairs in thestate of Washington, when Pre: dent Cleveland is impelled to summarily o the United Statos attorney, marshal, special agent of the treasury, six special in- spectors and the collector of customs at Port Townsend. Investigation set on foot by Secretary Carlisle is said to have unveiled a conspiracy in whi ofeials in question were involved, by reason of which the wholesale smuggling of Chinese and opium was accomplished in the Puget Sound dis- trict. Bad reports ns to the management of federal offices in that section have beenin existence for at least ten years, and tho ras- cality has smirched politicians of both par- ties, Ifthe removed oficers are guilty the charges preferred, they should be vig- orously punished. Dismissal from office is no meet penalty. Corruption among those clothed with the administration of public business is one of the most dangerous evils that can befall a nation. Secretary Carlislo cannot be too prompt in dealing with the offenders. ———— The Useless Citizen Who Refuses to Vote. Right Hon. James Bryce in July Forum, Indiffer to public affairs shows itself not merely in a neglect to study them and fit one's self to give a judicious vote, but in the apathy which doos not care to gi vote wher the time arrive Itvis a serious evilalready in some countries, serious in London, very serious in Italy, serious onough in the United States, not indeed at presiden- tial, but at city and other local elections, for some reformer to have proposed to punish with a fine the citizen who neglects to vote. as in_some old Greck city the law proclaimed penalties against the citizen who in a sedi- tion stood aloof, taking neither ous side nor the other. For, unhappily, it is the re- spectable, woll meaning, easy going citizon, as woll as the merely ignorant citizen, who is apt to be listless. Those who have their private ends to serve, their axes to g and logs to roll, are not indolent. Pri interest spurs vthem on; and if the s “good eit| who has no desire or cept that good government which benefits him no more than every one else, does not bestir himself, the public funds may become the plunder and the public interests the sport of unscrupulous adventurers. it Shbiniad SIGNS OF BETTER TIMES. Globe-Democr: Here and there we hear of the resumption of a wrecked bank, the latest instance of the rt being in Los Angeles. When bank: open their doors a week or two after closing them, as several have doune recently, the financial situation must be pretty encouraging. Philadeiphia Press: California marks the outer limit of the wave of collapse, distrust and panic which really began nearly three years ago in the failures and shrinkage m ‘Argentine, China and India. Failures b multiplied along the track of tho tidul wave started in these lands. Baring's toppling came fiest and from this collapse, spread over Kurope, has this spring penetrated this country and now reachies California. 1f con- gress will give the country half a chance, re- action will begin next fall or spring and 1804 will be a big boom year. Philadelphia Times: We have now passed the worst stage of the present financial re- culsion unloss all signs at fault, and, nning with the diffusion of over §100,000,- 000 among business chanuels within the next fortnight, there is every p nise of steady improvement ia the money s‘tuation. Just as it improves, confidence and credit will im- prove with 1t, and then all must soon see that our troubles have been greatly inten- sified by our own distrust of the boundless resources and energies of the richest and atest coun of the world. New York Times: Thestatementof foreign trade for the month of May, issued by the bureau of statistics, is distinetly encoura- ging in its bearing on the course of gold. The excess of imports, which for March was 6,000,000 and for April over $24,000,- 000, has been reduced below $10,000.000 (80.965,043) for last mouth. As compared with April, exports have increased about $0.000.000 und imports have fallen off $5,000,- 000. Theso figures do not include the pur chases of June and July wheat for export which produced the fall in foreign exchange, stopped tho export of gold and made a mo- mentary counter-movement possible. Philadelphia Ledger: Some of the news- papers have been holding a special session of congress on their own account, and have taken a vote on the repeal of the Sherman silver act, which scems to show that it can be repealed without much trouble as soon as congress shall assemble in Septomber. If that should be the case, the way will be opened for an improvement of the financial situation. It is already plain that the pros- pects of a repeal are much better than they were in March, and it is well t a special session of congress was not called until the people of the west and south had been given a demonstration of the gravity of the finan- cial situation. It will make them more ready to listen to the warnings of experi- euce as well as theory P SE— NEBRASKA AND NEBKASKANS, Congressman Kem will talk to the cele- brators at St. Paul on the Fourth, T'hirty Osceola people have started for the World’s fair and will be gone two weeks, Grant Bothwoll, a Grant county ranch- man, was shot and probably fatally wounded by a gun in the hands of Tom Reid, which was accidontally discharged Mrs. Myers of Fremont went into court to get a bunch of keys from her daughter, Daisy, but when the case came up for trial the police judge dismissed it. While drawing water from a well Herman Budka, aged 61 years, a wealth; ‘mer liy- ing nine miles soutl t of Hubbell, fell in and drowned. His body was discovered two hours later, While Walter Yates, a Kansas bicyclist, was wheeling his y through Hubbell, he was thrown from his wheel and besides hav- ing his shoulder dislocated, he was other- wise painfully injured. Miss Vena Johnson, aged 18, an employe of the shirt factory at Gothenburg, while wad- ing in the lake with some companions, ven- tured out too far and was drowned before assistance could reach her, The corner stone of the new Presbyterian hurch at Beatrice will be laid July 6 with appropriate excrcises. Rey. Dr, Goorge B, Hays of Kansas City, one of the noted divines of the denomination, will deliver th dedicatory ad ress. Michael Moher of Adair, Ia., while on his way home from Colorado, died uboard a Rock Island train and his body was taken from the cars at Lincoln to b prepared for bu He had been in Colorado for the benefit of his health, ent trip through the central portion 70 county, suys the Beatrice Iixpross, bs the pleasant fact that the corn ou look is the best for years. An immeuse acre age has been plauted and it is generally well ueced for the son. Oats will make about half a crop. In some sections visited however, the oats outlook is excellent. Wheat, of course, will be 'y near a failure. Potatoes give promise of a big yield, and in brief the erop prospects for the current year are all that could be desired excepting as re- gards wheat and oats. e, BASE BALL Somerville Journal, Base ball unto a woman is of mystor. same tuny fun From such a stupld gume. atden falls in love 1l young uan, ther game could intorest Thast girl as biase ball can, Sho wute ory play, uld throw 1010 & spasi. nd it all? ou, nol tsfied v it verunk’ And does she understa Why, hoaven bless 8o i3 complotely 1f she enn Of taking & keen intorest In this mysterlous game- And be seex through her subtorfuge, Aud loves her just the same. EERING RATLROADISM, United States Investor, June 4, Tolographio dispatchs from Omaha, Neb, announce the fact that tho railroad compa- nios are retaliating, as thoy throatened to do when the maximum rate bill was up for consideration. The report adds that Presi- dent Perkins of the Burlington inspected all lines in Nobraska and immeaiately upon his rotarn ordered a now timeocard ; that soveral passenger trains on branch lines will be dis- continued; that the discontinuance of these trains is in pursuance of an agreement mado with the Union Pacific, which also has a number of branch lines in the Aurora dis- trict; and that all passengor trains on the latter road will also be discontinued. It is more than likely that this report is inaceurate and exaggerated, but thero ovi- dently must be some foundation to it, and whatever action the railroads take in the direction of retallatory measures must bo condemned as unwise. As a matter of principle it may not bo right for logisla- tures to eontrol or coerco the management of ilroad corporation, but it matters not instance, so far as concerns a policy of retaliation. It is now a question of con- ditions and expediency and not of principle, The railroads for years have, in the estim- ation of the people of the west, taken advan- tage of the producers, shippors and passen- gers in Nebraska. Becoming desperate at what thoy considered the continued oppros- sion, the populist legislature of 1890-91 passed o most radicaljmaximum freight rate bill, but Governor Boyd, a conservative business man and a democrat, vetoed tho bill and it was nover a law. Inthoe logislature of 1812-03 the populists and democrats joined hands and passed another, but a very much modified, maximum freight rato bill, and Governor Crounse, a conservative business man and a republican, approved vhe bill, and it is now a law. If the provisions of this act are unjust and inequitable in their effect unon the earn- ings of railroad companies, the attorneys of the roads can easily soek redress in the courts, and will be very likely to obtain re- lief. Such a course will be inexpensive, and ought to satisfy both sides. Western rail- roads make a grievous mistake in thus bit- ng the proletariat atevery It is this pugnacious course which railroad managers pursue that has fostered the unfricndly feeling now existing in thoso western states, Touching lightly upon these things and passing on, it can bo said that if the pruning knife is applied to western roads, and thoy are relieved of the burden of supporting and transporting deadheads, lawyers, ward heelers, corrupt politicians, lobbyists and the countless army of camp followers and other barnacles, the business of carrying ng freight and passengers will bo volutionized. By such a readjust- ment the farmor will be called upon to pay a reasonable rate for tho servico rendered to him alone, instead of his being charged enough more to make up for the deadheads, ete. This position works two ways. Re ion means loss to the stockholders as well as inconvenience to the pubiic. Careful railroading means profit for the stockholders as well as convenience to the public. Careless, deadhead rvailroading means profit for the salaried managoment and the recipients of the deadhead favors, but it means reduced profits for the stock- holder and hardship for the farmer. If man- agers of western roads will treat the west with consideration in these matters they will be best serving the interests of the men who employ them. The fact that the stock- holders’ rights are paramount is too seldom remembered in these wars between mana- gers and patrons, and lately they have been lost sight of altogether. UNEQUAL Owam, June 27.—To the Editor of T Bee: Thanks for your editorial on the assessments as legal robheries, for they are nothing less. T hopo you will continue your exposures of our miserable mode of assess- ent, for there is no subject that so decply interests the willing taxpayer of Omuha are, that the small home owners n who improves the city by put- ting his money into brick and mortar are payiug thecity expenses, while the rich men who own the land, as well as the assessors, are shirking their just share of taxation. What a burning shame it is to Omaha that the only real good measure in our new charter was defeated at Lincoln last winter (the assessment clause) and that too by the very men who are today and al ys have escaped their just share of taxation. Have your reporters look up the assessments of all the large land owners who never put any money into buildings and you will find that they are not paying on one-twentioth valua- tion on their lands, while we of the cento of the city, who have borrowed money and improved the city as well as the value of their property and are paying them from 8 10 10 ner cont interest, on swhich they pay no taxos. We aro paying taxes on our property on a waluation of from one-fourth to one-tenth. As you say it is timo to call a halt. And there is no subject so interesting to the hon- ost taxpayor at the present time. 1 hope you will keep it up and tell us just what pro- portion of the taxes tho tax shirkers are payine and who they are and why they had the assessment clause i the new chartor stricken out. Taxraver Wno 1s Pavise ox O VaLvATION, R S— GREAT FALLS. Fourtm A Montana Town Lot Scheme that Smacke of Imposture. GreAT Farvs, Mont., June 34.—To the Edi. tor of Tur Brr: I consider 1t my duty to di- rect the attention of tho citizens of Omaha and adjacent points to what appears to bo a flagrant imposture and to apprise them in a general way in relation thereto. Situated several milea from town ure two additions to the city of Great Falls, one known as Hossack's addition, the other as I 1. Hossack's addition. This property is being sold in lots (I believe 20x100 feet in area) to porsons residing in and around Omaha at prices, I think, varying from &0 to $200 porlot. 1 am informed that the county clerk, recorder and county nssossor are daily in ipt of a greater number of s, from peoplo who have been induced to buy property in that neighbor- hood. than they can possibly answer. There- fore this letter may be of some service., An acquaintance of mine who recontly came to town, who just previously had been spending a few weeks in Omaha, was re- quested to 100k ub this property by a certain party who had invested considerable money init. Ho wenton horsoback in the direc- tion in which he was informed it was sit- uated. After traveling a couplo of hours il seeing nothing on all sides but a broad panse of prairie, he returned home and communicated to his friend the condition of the soil and the climate in that locality. I question whether thero is a single house in Hossack's additions; certainly I can find no one who knows of one. This land, par- celed off in the way it is, is being sold at from $100 to £500 per acre. vo and two and one-half miles nearer to town is plenty of land that can be purchased for §25 per acre. If T wished I could send you let- tors from people residing in Omaha asking about the box tory, mill and ele- vator, the streot car service in that vicinity, ote,, ete. Such a thing as a box factory doesn’t exist, the mill and elevator are within twenty minutes ride on the olectric stroot car line from the business center and not five miies out on the prairie; street cars, I think I can safely predict, will not run to Hossack's additions for twenly come, and in all_probability men will grow old and old men wi fore the property at Hossack’s additions will be worth $100 per acre. 0w, 1 have frionds and relativ in your vicinity, ingly that they shoula be duped by any mis revresentation of facts; and so long as I have che sense of distinguishing between right anda wrong I feel it my duty to expose that whi wrong. is 0 thriving young city,a city more rapid growth th in tho west, a city that has o power than the combumed water power of all other cities in the s and a city that promises to be one of the largest between St. Paul and the coast—a city that off better opportunities for in- vestment, probably, than any other, and it seems o shame that people who are trying to take advantage of theso opportunities should be so grossly misdirected. 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Y8 (critieally) T shouldn't put it that way. But I think thiere's no bad form in your bathi- ing dress. Texns Sittings: Sho—1 have beo four hours walting for you to co the club, 'He—1 havo been waiting for four hours as the club for you to go to siéep. awake for home from PEIRYERSITY. Washington Star. A new umbrella he procured, Ho carried it with pride. And not a single cloud appeared Smiling sky to hide, One day—'tls man's unhanpy lot In this way to be pained This same umbrella he forg And, gracious, how it rained! BROWNING, KING Largest Manufacturers and Retailors ol Clothiug in the World. Such a Fuss As some men make over their toilet when the ou of 50 your summer wear. vests, cool collars, cool cool neck wear, cool hats; high class stylish goods. BROWNING, Btore open every evening t1116.30. POk Starday sl 10 weather would They claw at their collars clutch at their cuffs, and rip is a little warm make you weary. t rough remarks in front the looking glass, and get steamed up generally that it's a wonder the mercury stays on the glass. It doesn’ cost one individual, solitary, lonesome cent more to dress cool and comfortable, if f Cool coats, cool shirts, coal you know where to get underwear, cool hosiery, all at the lowest prices for KING & CO., (S, W, Cor. 16th and Douglassts.