Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 29, 1894, Page 3

II{E OMAHA DAILY BEE SUNDAY, JULY 29, 189 g BRIMDF ONAHY' S BROO\I Is on tho Marci Every Night Under Gener Jim Btephenson, NOCTURNAL PROCESSION WITHOUT POMP How the Streets of the City Are Kept Clean ~Fquipment and the Men Who Hundle ft-A Night with the Sweepers. paved the end Omaha has eighty-six miles of atrects, and will have niore befor of this year. The streets of thls city are paved with ccdar block, vitrified brick, asphalt and granite. The most durable, and cong quently the most popular with many of the property owners, Is brick and granite This applies to the down town districts, for on the boulevards the people seem to prefer asphalt. Strangers visiting the city for the first time cxpress wonder at the clean appearance of the strects. The. item of keeplng the stroets clean is one of greater magnitude than most people imagihe. In the past it has cost the taxpayers from $20,000 to $25, 000 per year, this year it will amount to at lcast $15,000, although the Roard of Public Works has cut down the schedule to the lowest po ble Umit, and the woekly average of mile cleancd f5 less than six. The price pald per mile for cleaning the streets is $17.99, and the contractor Is guarantecd with 1,000 mile that In making his bids he can figure on an Income of $17,990, and ax much miore as the Board of Public Works sces fit to give him. The work of cleaning the pavements usu ally begins about the 1st of April each year and _continues until about the 15th of N vember, or until such a time ax is desig nated by those who have work in This year the contractor did not n early Start, and it was nearly th 1st of May before the work of cleaning began. Last year 1,200 miles of pavement were swept, but Superintendent Niles Calla nen kays he will be in luck to make it 1,000 miles this your and work later in th: sea son than usual Nearly everybody who has had business down town late at night has secn the street cleaning gang at work, but beyond an effort to keep out of the way of the disagrecable dust which arises from the machines no attention is given the subject. MEN WHO USE THE BROOM. The street cleaner is a nocturnal person and iy rarely seen by the gencral public, al- though previous to the adoption of the Au: tralian ballot system he was an object of much solicitation by the ward heelers and petty politiclans. — However humble these men are, they fill “a long felt want,” and are, as a general thing, good citizens. Be- tween forty-five and fifty men are employ.d by Jim Stephenson, the present strect cle ing contractor, and these men are paid at the rate of $1.25 per day. They are sup- posed to work ten hours, but {f they get through with their nightly schedule in less time, that Is their fortune, for they get full pay just the same. Until recently the me were paid at the rate of $1.50 to $1.75 per day, but the hard times scem to hav caused a stringency In the money market in this line of business just the same as in other lines of work. Becaus> of this r duction the old gang of sweepers, composed almost entirely of Italians, went on a strike, but they were not successful. Every one of them was discharged, and now new men hendle the brooms and’ gather up the dirt and leavings of a busy public. The new gang of workmen is a mixture of nationali- ties, with a few Americans thrown in. Their work {5 not as hard as that of the general laborer, and during the hot summer month they have the advantage of working in the cool hours of the night, from 10 p. m. to 7 a. m. Their work is very dirty, and be- fore morning it is hard to tell whether one of them is black or white, as he becomes Ko thickly covered with dust. And this dust is not productive of an appetite for invalids either. In fact, after a man has put in several hours Wwiclding a broom or shovel after one of the big sweepers he is a more fit associate for stable Lands than in recherche soclety, and a bull pup would disdain to whet lis teeth on the men at the end of their day's labor, but they look different when oft duty; then they appear just like other human beings Who do manual labor for a living. Every evening, unless It is raining, th» street cleaning men assemble at Stephenson's livery barn, and when it is time for them to €0 to work Superintendent Callanen takes charge of them. He is assisted by three foremen, having charge of the swecpers, shovelers and broom men. About 10 o'clock in the evening the sprinkler is started on the streets to he swept that night, nearest to the barn, and, as soon as the wetting down of the dust is fairly begun, the big sweep rs four in number, are started to work. Thes sweepers are mounted on four broad-tircd wheels and underneath is a big roller from which innumerable spring steel wires proj-ct for about ten inches. This roller is worked by a sprocket and chain and revolves in an opposite direction from the wagon wh-e's, throwing the dirt forward and toward the right side of the machine, where it falls in windrows, after which it is swept ints little piles by the broom m n and then shovelers Beoop it up Into wagons and the stuff is carted oft to the dumping ground. A NIGHT WITH THEM. A Bee reporter followed the sweepers on their rounds Wednesday night from the time they started until they finished in the morn- ing. That night the sweepers commenced at Seventh street about 9 o'clock and worked to Thirteenth on Jackson. The big sprinkler wad filled at a convenient hydrant and started west on Jackson. The four big sweepers soon followed and the people living on Jackson between Tenth and Thirt-enth Boon tasted the delights of metropolitan life, as well as the dusty scourings of the street, which soon hovered over th'm in great clouds, driving most of them indoors until the sweepers had done thelr work. The pavement was so hot and dry that the water from the sprinkler was quickly absorb d and It hardly laid the dust, and the people who were out on thelr front porches trying to get u breath of fresh alr got a stiff breeze of dust. On the west side of Thir- teenth street the sweepers turned east and Bwept the other side of the street, repeating the dose of dust. Then a sweeper was left on each block to finish up the work and soon all of the accumulations of the day were in a continuous pil> on either side of the thor- oughfare. Then the squads of men who had been walting with their brooms and shoyels were get at work, The broom men, armed with heavy bass brooms, b gan pushing the lines of dirt into piles about ten or fifteen feet apart and then came the shovelers and wagons. There were nine wagons, with a squad of shovel men to each one. ~ As fast as the wagons were fllled they were driven to the dry creek just eastof Metz's brewery nd the loads dumped. Back they came for another load and until 7 o'clock the next morning the wagons and men were kept busy cleaning up the littl> heaps of dirt. Just a8 the whistles were blowing for work to be- gIn for the next day in the factories these men shouldered their tools and marched to the barn whence they had started on the preceding night, and after being checked off by the timekeeper, went to their homes to sleep and rest up for another night's dusty crusade. About 9:40 the sweepers began on Howard street, from Eighth to Seventeenth, and the guests of the Mercer hotel were treated to a cloud of dust resembling a Kansas z:phyr in full operation. Some of the language uttered by the men who were outside enjoy- ing their evening clgars will not bear repe- tition. Shortly after 10 o'clock the sweepers chased each other up Harney street as far Sixteenth, and at 11 o'clock they w:re at work on Farnam street from Bighth to Eighteenth, About this hour the street was filled with ladies returning from places of amusement.s They were nearly all dressed in white or very light colored fabrics, the colors of which were not improved after a brief en- counter with the dust-ralsing procession From the bridge to Twentieth street on Douglas the sweepers moved along merrily, but as it was then nearly midnight only the wienerwurst and tomale man got the benefit of thelr Industrious actions, but in some places which had dried out nearly as soon 85 the water was put on, and especlally where there was sand on the pavement, the store and house fronts were frescoed with finely powdered dust. But such Instances were an exception, not a rule, on this par- ticular night. Then Dodge strect was cleaned from Ninth to Seventeenth. The schedule for the night was completed with the sweeping of Tenth from Dodge to Pacific; Eleventh, Jackson to Dodge; Twelfth, Jackson to Dod Thir- teenth, Jackson to Dodge; Fourteenth, Jack- son to Capitol avenue; and Fifteenth, How- ard to Capitol avenue. The sweeping ma- chines got through their work about 6 o'clock In the morning and it took the shov- elers and brcom men a couple of hours longer to complete their part of the work The work was given a general inspection, as it was completed, by the superintendent and his foremen, but at the street intersections where there are several street car tracks some of the work was not done as well as it might have been. The reason of this was that the steel teeth of the machine sweepers do not dig down between the rails where the dust was brushed as the sweeper passed over the spot. Then there were some de- pressions in the pavements which could have been better cleancd. places were not 80 noticeable until it became daylight, and then they could be plainly seen. LOOKED OVER BY INSPECTOR. With the resuming of trafic and the ap- pearance of wagons and teams on these ets these overlooked little piles of dust were soon scattered out over the surface again, and as the city Inspector does not begin' work until after trafile has fully com menced he can easily overlook these plac Then as many of the cross streets are not swopt at the same time, the wheels of ve- hicles carry and spread dirt from the side streets onto the cleanly swept thoroughfares It would seem that tie inspector should be an early bird in order to discover any im- perfections in the work. In case any part of a street is condemned, the contractor s docked for the whole street, or else has to g0 over it again and clean it to the satisfac- tion of tiie inspector. his does not often , however, for Superintendent Callanen ms to be a careful overseer, and he fre ntly gends hie men back to do a plece of work over when it is not satisfactory to him. The sweepers are partial to asphalt pavement, and brick is their next favorite Stone and block are harder to clean. Along in the middle of the night, generally utter 1 o'clock, the men gather around the tool wagon in which they storc their lunches and provender for the teams, to eat their funches and enjoy a half hour's rest. Some times it takes them more than .ten hours to complete a_schedule of sweeping, but gen- lly they do not work more than eight hours, and then they are permitted to g0 home. The sweepers are not put in operation when it is raining, but the contractors gain nothing by this, as he is only paid for what le docs. Raining causes a postponement of the schedule, and if some of the streets on the date of the rain happen to be in schedule “B,” they are not swept until they come up on the next schedule. Owlng to s fact some of the streets go for several without being cleaned. Three blocks » vicinity of the police station have not swept this summer because of being d, and the sand which was placed top diessing by the paving con- tractor is considerabie of a nuisance on a dry, windy day. The superintendent said that he was going to ask permission of the street inspector to sweep these blocks at once, as there had been considerable com- plaint about the accumulation of dirt there, The dirt Is dumped at the most convenient place which the contractor can secure, and in many instances the owners of lots below grade give him permission to fill them up with the swecpings which are said to make good filling in such places, although some- times oblected to. The broom men have to keep the opeaings to the surface sewers clean, and clean the dust from under the sidewalks Although the contractor agrees to occa- sionally clean the alleys in the business por- tion of the eity, he has not found it nec- ry to do so this year, because the city vrisoners sentenced to work out fines are put at this work when there is nothing else they can do. been newly on as a - Boating and bathing at Courtland beach. DYNAMITE UNDER AN ENGINE. Burlington Lo otive Lifted from the Tracks by an Explosion-Two Men Hurt. CHICAGO, July 2. —\n at'ampt was wade after midnight last mght cck 4 Bur- lingivn engine by expte i ynamite bomb under the wheets of omotive. Two men were seriously iy They are: Joseph M. Best, special oflicar of tne round- house, wounded m brewst wnt lege by frag- ments of the bomb. Frank Motuck, 5w The engine was Provaiiing ¥ the Panhancie tracks. Near Twenty-fifth stree. the front 1o small ob- struction. An lowed, which lifted the heavs cigine from the tracks, shatteving the forward fruck and drivers. Officer Best, who ~as o few fest awiay, was thrown down by the force ot the explision. Switchman Motuek was at 1he swifeh, @ short distance ahead. lle was s ck on the thigh by a plece of Nyiag irn and badly hurt. along KEPT IS NAMESAKE'S MAIL. King Arrested for Stealing n Nego- tiable Note of Ten Thousaud. DENVER, July 28.—Fred G. King, general manager -of the Duarragh Manutacturing company of this city, has peen arrested near Telluride on complaint of Postoffice Inspector MeMelchen, King is charged with unlawful detention of a letter containing a negotiable note for $10,000 intended for another F. G King, a wealthy resident of Rochester, N. Y., which was deiivered to the Denver man by mistake. F. G —_— JAMES MULLIGAN DEAD, ‘Was the Author of the Famous Letters of the Blalne Campaigo MAYNARD, Mass,, July 28.—James E. Mulligan of “Mulligan letter” fame, died here this morning. He was born in 1831 in a little village in the north of Ireland and came to this country when 15 years old. For a number of years past he has lived in Boston, but lately removed here. ——————— Suing Phil Dwy for Libel. W YORK, July 28.—Philip J. Dwyer, the well known horseman, was served with papers in a $50,000 libel suit on the Saratoga Racing association track. The plaintift in the suit is David Gideon, also a horse owner, who won the Metropolitan stakes and Su- burban with the now famous Ramapo. Tk alleged libel arose out of a dispute several weeks ago, which grew out of a talk over the Suburban winner, Ramapo, who had then just run a dead heat with Banquel Banquet 15 owned by Mike Dwyer, Phil's brother. Gideon and Phil Dwyer got into an argument over the dead heat, and in the exchange of rather uncomplimentary r marks Mr. Gideon alleges that Phil Dwyer libeled him, e Carried Off by the Current and Drowned, ST. LOULS, July 28.—A large skiff contain- Ing fifteen men was capsized in the river at the foot of Grand avenue last night. Four- teen of the men were rescued after con- siderable difficulty through the bravery of three members of the North St. Louls Row- ing club. The ffteenth man, Wilson David- son, was carried down the river by the cur- rent and drowned before aid could reach him The body is still missing. T For the Murder of Ed Doggett GREENVILLE, Tex., July 28.—The grand jury has returned bills against Louis Lut- trell, Jose English, Captain N. Anderson and E. Andrews, indicting them for the murder of B4 Doggett on or about Septe ber 18, 1893. Warrants for their ai were issued and served Horse Became on the Ferry. SALEM, Ore., July While crossing the river on a ferry at Woods yesterday in a bug- gy Mrs. Terrell of Newburg, her four children and another lady were capsized in the stream by their horse becoming frightened and back- ing of the boat, Mrs. Terrell was drowned, but the others were saved. e 1linols Favored By Kain ROCKFORD, I, July 28.—A heavy rain today broke the long drouth in this section. Oregon Kidney Tea cures backache. T tlze, 25 cents. All druggists, VOTERS NAY SAY YES OR N Platte Uanal Subsidy Question Will Be Sub- mitted to Their Arbitrament, SPECIAL ELECTION CALLED FOR AUGUST 4 Proposition as Agreed on by Commissionars and Company Differs Little from that of Committee of the Whole ~Synopsis ot It It is now established that the Platte canal proposition will be submitted to the people and that a special election to vote on the issuance of the $1,000,000 bonds will be called within the time prescribed by la: The amended proposition of the canal com- pany was accepted by the county commis- sioners late yesterday afternoon. The en- tire day was spent in discussing the, propo- sition with representatives of the company, and although some compromises were made, the proposition that will be submitted to the people 1s in most respects identical with the one formulated by the committee of the whole. The main controversy hinged was special election, The sisted that the contingent expense should be borne by the company, while the canal pe ple were unwilling to assume the responsi- bill The result was a compromise. It the proposition carrfes the county vill pay for the election, but the company will put up a suffic t bond to defray the expens: in case the proposition is defeated. Several minor points over which there has been some dispute were rrangsd more casily. The compa has objecte o the clause in the proposition which bound them to construct permanent bridges over the canal at every public highway, but they finally decided to waive this point and it was included in the final agreement. It was after 4 o'clock before the attorneys had finighed their examination of the docu- ment and had pronounced it correct, far as its legal phraseology was concerned. The report of the committee of the whole as presented in the shape of a resolution by Stenberg, which embodied the proposition and provided for the calling of the speci clection at as early a date as possible. The bond of the company in the sum of $4, l‘\xl to pay the expenses of the election in proposition failed to carry, app with George L. Miller, H. T, Clark, Solon L. Wiley, Lyman Richardson, George W. Ames, Jeff Bedford, R. C. Patterson and D. C. Pat terson as sureties. The date fixed for the election was September 4. The question of the adoption of the re of the committee, together with the ac panying resolution, was then put without de- bate. It was carried by a majority of one, Livesey and Williams voting in the negative. Following is a synopsis of the proposition us it ncw stands STIPULATIONS The amount of bond running for twenty years, 4 per cent, payable semi-a 18 nal shall start at a point on the Platte river within five miles from Fremont. running from there northerly to a point six miles from place of beginning and two miles west of Arlington on the Elkhorn river: thence it will follow the river casterly to a point near Arlington, thence leaving the Elkhorn, its course will be southerly to the point_where the Union Pacific cuts through the divide, thence aloug the cut on the north side of the raiiroad, then easterly to a point nearly south of Seymour park, thence north to a terminus at or near Seymour park, the lceation and course subject to revision after more accurate investigation. The terminus must not be more than four miles from the present limits of the city and in Douglas county. Length of the canal is to be about forty miles, with a delivery capacity of 750 cubic feet per sccond from source of supply to storage basin for twenty-four hours a day and 1,800 cubic feet per second from storage basin' to the pemstock at the terminus of the canal for ten hours per day, the meas- urements to determine capacity to be made from a level three feet below the surface of the canal ban to the bed. The object of the enterprise shall be irri- gation, affording freight by boat and other purpos. Work of construction must be begun not later than October 15, 1894, and thenceforth pushed to completion without un- necessary delay, and not less than $75,000 for actual construction must be expended by June 1, 1895, this sum to include cost of material paid for and delivered on the grounds, and cost of right of way actually paid for, proof of this expenditure to be by the sworn statements of the sccretary, treasurer and chief engineer of the com- pany. The canal, including terminus, reser- voirs and all other works incident to the complete construction and equipment of the canal, shall be finished, and the canal in active operation ready to deliver power to any party demanding it in Omaha or South Omaha by October 1, 1898; provided, that Omaha and South Omaha, either or both, grant the canal company the free use of streets and alleys as right of way and fran- chises to operate power houses and privilege to erect plants and other equipments for carrying on the business of the company. When the bonds are voted they must be given by the county to the Farmers Loan and Trust company of New York as trustee, but shall not be delivered except as the work progresses, and in_that case at the rate of $15,000 per mile; $75,000 additional when the canal Is completed to the Elkhorn river and the dam or aqueduct across that river is completed; $75,000 additional when the canal is completed to the Platte and the basins and weirs thereat are finished; $75,000 addi- tional when the machinery, power houses and other equipment and structures are completed at the terminus of the canal; $75,000 when the water from the Platte is turned into the canal from the western to the eastern terminus, and the balance of $100,000 when the canal and plant are ready for practical operation and delivery of power in Omaha and South Omaha in such quantities as are required for use. As evidence that expenditures have been made and work perfected so as to entitle the company to instalments of bonds, sworn statements must be made by the company and filed with the county commis- sioners, and when it is made to appear to the satisfaction of the commissioners that the work has been done according to terms, then on the written order of the chalrman of the board of commissioners the trustee shall deliver bonds to the company as speci- fled. At the expiration of any six months when semi-annual interest is payable the trustee shall return to the county the in- terest coupons on any renewed bonds. he company is required to maintain the canal with such quantity of power at the terminus as to be abl: to provide water or power or both to cities, corporations or private individuals in the county as de- manded, if not to exceed the aggregate canal power. The right of the cities and towns in the county to be furnished with water for municipal and domestic purposes shall always have preference as against corpora- tions, The price to be charg:d for water to cities for municipal or domestic purposes shall at no time excced the rate of $3 per 1,000,000 gallons. MAXIMUM ANNUAL RATES. Maximum annual rates for power transmit- ted to Omaha or South Omaha, not to take effect until after the company shall have found purchasers for 7,000 transmitted horse power, shall be One horse power or five and less than ten, twenty, $45; twenty point on which yesterday's the matter cf the commissioners in- AGREED ON. is fixed at $1,000,000, with interest at inually from Jan less $50; than five, $55; ten and less than and’ less than thirty, $44; thirty and less than forty, $43; forty and less than fifty, $42; fifty and less than 100, $40; 100 and less than 200, $34; 200 and less than 400, 400 and less than 500, The canal company must erect and main- tain bridges over the canal where the same intersects highways. County may purchase canal at after twenty years from January 1, 1595, glving company three months' notice and at appraisers’ valuation, Bonded Indebtedness of the canal company shall not exceed $2,000,000 In the way of routine business the com- missioners took up the city council resolu tion in regard to a consolidation of the gov- ernments in the county, which was laid oyer any time at the last meeting. On thotion of Paddock the board concurred in )the! suggestion of the council with regard to' a conference, and Stenberg, Jenkins and Paddock were ap- pointed to represent the board on that oc- casion, The services of the assistant county agent at the store were continued until further notice. The county clerk, wag instructed to advertise for bids for 22,000 yards of grad- ing on Center street west of 'fhe bridge over the Big Pappio. Bids weré ilso ordered for the removal of 5000 yards of earth just beyond the German church in Jefferson pre- einet, —— Lions and leopards at Courtland. phsnhr® . STRIKE INTEREST IS SUBSIDING. Congressionul Investigation Will Give Place to the Nicuragua Canal 1L WASHINGTON, July 28It Is the pres- ent ontlook that the resolution reported from the house committee on commerce for an investigation of the causes of the great rail- road strike looking to legislation to prevent recurrences of such troubles will not result in action this session. Although the com- merce committee had the floor yesterday, the resalution was not brou: : forward beeanes it was known that it we .1 lead to a warm debate and block the way to that other bills of the committee could not receive con- sideration. Members of the committee do not expect to be able to get a day for the bill this ses sion, and If they could secure more time would prefer to devete it to the Nicaragua canal. Moreover, the interest in the strikes has subsided viry rapidly since thewr col- lapse, and there is not tne desire for an in- vestigation by congress that there was before President Clevelund appointed the com- mission. 8 Granted Appe: July 28.—President Debs and leaders have been granted an wppeal to the United States court of appeals, in the chancery proceedings In the United States court. The appeal was granted by Judge Weods at Indianapolis and the order 18 rece d by ma'l today. The appeal will stop all proceedings in the circuit court under the bill filed July 2 cn behalf of the railroads, but it leaves the injunction in force and does not interfere with the con- mpt proceedings against Debs and his as- ates. De CHICAGO, the A. R. U Coke Workers Will (0||(l-uu- the Strike, SCOTTDALE, Pa., July 28.—The striking coke workers held another convention with fifty-one delegates present. The delegates came instructed® to report the number of men now at work and the amount of coke shipped from the region. An estimate places the whole number of men at work at nearly 10,000 and gives the shipments of over 900 cars of coke daily. The convention, as on a previous occasion, voted to continuc the strike and arranged for several more meetings, ded by Strikers, July 28.—At midnight last uight the Milwaukee frefght transter train was sidetracked near Mewloa by etrite sympathizers. A dozen wen jumped on ihe engine and pounded the engineer and fireman. The latier, Bdwagl Perren, living in Minneapolis, was badly used up. With poli otection the train was bronght back to this side of the river, e engineer was a0t seriously hurt. Dyn ited w Nonunion Man's House. CONNELLSVILLE, Pa., July 28.—Another itempt at dynamiting was made by the strikers near the Tretter works. A bomb was thrown at the home of John Bailey, a nonunion coke worker, the ‘missile striking 2 tree in front of the house. It ezploded, shattering the windows and splintering the tree. Had the bomb struek the house a Lumber of lives would have beca lost, as the Bailey family were at home and asicep. There is no clew to the perpetrators. Chicago Strikers Sentenced. CHICAGO, July 28.—Righard Lawrence and Edward Rlodes, the first of the strikers to be punished for lawlessness growing out: of the Pullman boycott, were sentenced to forty days In jail by Judge Grosscup of the United States court, ' The men were Santa Fe strikers at Chillicothe, TIl, and were cnarged with contempt of court fa interfering with the traffic of a road in the hands of govern- ment recelvers., Declared Off Almost Unanimously. SAN FRANCISCO, July 28.—The local lodge of the A. R. U. decided to declare the strike off at a large meeting held yesterday. Speeches were made favoring a continuance of the organization, and the men were urged to stand by the union, notwithstanding they had lost the strike. A standing vote was had on the motion to declare the strike off, and resulted 107 to 8 in its favor. Kecewver for the » CHICAGO, July 28.—A receiver was ap- pointed today for the Switchmen's Mutual Aid assoclation. The liablities are placed ,000 and the assets consist of §1,150 de- ted with the superior court and the rights under a bond for $2,000 given by ex- Treasurer Willlam A, Simsrott. The bill attributes the insclvency to the acts of the defaulting treasurer, Smsrott. Debs at Home Rexting. TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 28.—President E. V. D:bs of the A. R, U. is at home rest- ing. The s'rain of the past month shows plainly and he is badly in need of rest He stated that he would be here for several days, returning to Chicago next week. A public meeting will be held here Sunday night, which will be addressed by him. Assaultea Nonu intters. NEWARK, N. J., July 28.—Two hundred striking hatters besieged the Buckeye-Doug- lass hat forming mill and made threats against the nonunion men employed there. They attacked nonunion men who were about entering the shops. The police were obliged to charge the mob to disperse them. No arrests were made. Quit the A. K. U. or Resign. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.,, July 28.—The Cincinnati Southern railroad has issued an order requiring all employes to either re- sign from the A. R. U. or be discharged. Practically all the members of the union In Chattanooga have compHed with the or- der and given up their membership cards, No Strike on the Danviile Road NORFOLK, Va., July Chiet Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is here to adjust the differences between the Danville road and its employes. He announces that no strikke will take place. Militha Relleve CHICAGO, July 28.The Seventh infantry of the National guards 600 strong, was re- lieved from duty last' pight. Fine sandy bottom af Gigurtland. - Emptied Itis Revolvar on His Wife. ALBERT. LEA, Mion,iJuly 28.—William Arley, a brakeman on: the Minneapolis & St Louis railroad, shot hig wite five times yes- terday afternoon, eveéry ‘shot taking effect They Kept a rallroad, bodrding house. The shooting occurred in bed.,,After shooting her he turned the empty weagon on himself in- tending to suicide. He' A'f‘!‘ himself up and is in jail. Mrs. Ariéy "cannot live. The shooting was the resuft”of a quarrel over the A. R. U. strike, Mre.'Atley opposing her husband’s connection with it. ANCE, 0., July 28.—One hundred men of Jeffrey's Seattle army captur Cleveland & Pittsburg train just Newburg last night. The poiice at Ravenna maneged to dislodge twenty-five of the men, afier which the train started for this place with the remainder. A large force of police ardmen surrounded the train here and in driving out the entire gang, nd they are now encamped in the public square. caves tor Washin 1L, July 28 Stevenson BLOOMINGTO. ident Stevenson left his home In today for Washington. He about a week —— Picnle at Courtland beach, Vice Pres. this city has been here INTO A FICHT RICHT AWAY Oregon Railway and Navigation Oompany Into the Ring with Southern Pacific, WILL BE ON CALIFORNIA FREIGHT EAST Recelver MoNeill and Unlon Pacific Man- agers Come Pleasantly to an Unders standing—Close Traflic Agree ment to Be Made Soon. Recelver McNeill of the Oregon Rallway and Navigation company has concluded Lis con- ference with the officials of the Union Facific and left last evening for Marshall- town, Ia,, his old home, wnere he will spend Sunday, going to St. Paul on Monday. The speculation as to the position which Mr. J. G. Woodworth will hold with the Oregon company is about set at rest, au thoritative atements being made that he has accepted Major MeNeill's offer of a place with the new company and will be assistant to the receiver and general manager, having direct chiarge of all purchases as well as look after the office detalls of the company in the operation of the road. No better man could have been selected for the place and Major MeNeill has already shown his thorough railroad knowledge by surrounding himself with men who are not only well acquainted with the several posi- tions to which they have been callad, but who are the receiver’s intimate friends as well In the conferences Mr. McNeill ha with General anager Dickinson, Irel Traflic Manager Munroe and General Pas senger Agent Lomax, it has deveioped that the new management of the Oregon Railway and Navigation company means to enter the field against the Southern Pacific company ring to Overland business, which gely been monopolized by the Southern Pacific. The Oregon company largest steamers which land and San Francisco, the Columbla, the State of California, and the Oregon, and als the steamer George W. Eller, which plies between Portland and Alaska, now laid up on account of dull times. In addition to this the company operates a thousand and odd miles connecting with the Great Northern and Northern ~ Pacific at Spokane, and the Unfon Pacific at Huntingt It is an open sccret that the Union Pacific is bound by a contract with the Southern Pacific company to handle no California treight by way of Portland. This business has always been handled by the two roads by way of Ogden and the steamers plying be- tween Portland and San Francisco have only handled such way freight as they could ob- tain between these points. With the Oregon Railway company as a free lance it is in a potition to compete for busincss that has been di- verted via Ogden and the way Major MeNeill is laying his wires it is evident he intends to make his road pay out if such a thing is possible. He came to Omaha with this object in view, but he was met in a friendly spirit on the part of the Union Pacific officials and so pleasant were the confcrences with the officials above mentioned that a close traffic agreement will grow out of the consultations alike beneficial to both companies. The Oregon Railway and Navigation com pany, while in the field for business, rcec nizes that its natural ally is the Union Pa cific, and so long have these two roads b associated that it was found cedingly hard to break the connection with ut injury to both. Under these conditions the liga- ments_that have united the two roads will remain intact, strengthened somewhat by mutual concessions on both sides for the purposes of still_closer union. Receiver MeNeill, while reserving right to take freight and passenger truffic from the Great Northern at Spokane, od- mitted to a friend that the friendly as<ccia- tions between the Union Pacific and Oregon compinies would continue. An_office will be opened San Francisco for the transaction of freight nd passenger business, and Fred W. Con- nor, late of the Milwaukee railroad, has been appointed by General Passenger Agent W. H. Hurlburt to open the battle between the Southern Pacific and Oregon company for some of the overland business. ownz the thre ply between Port and Navigation the fmmediately in June Statement of the Burlngton. CHICAGO, July 28.—The June statement of the Burlington shows a heavy decrease in earnings all along the line and this in the face of the heavy decrease in operating expenses for the month. Freight earning fell oft $584, , passenger earnin de- creased $351 and the gross earnings de- creased $929,321, compared with the same month last year. Despite the decreased carnings the operating expenses were re duced $868.385 and the total net earnings of the road for the month were only $1 compared with net earnings for the same month of last year of . The totsl net earnings of the road from to June 30 shows a decrease of $36: com- pared with the corresponding months of 18! Rathway Notes Hon. John M. Thurston will return Monday from St. Paul and the Minnesota lakes. Secretary McCullough of the transmis- souri committee of the Western Passenger assoclation has tendered his resignation, which has been accepted. Western roads have agreed to change the date of sale of tick:ts to the Grand Army of the Republic encampment Pittsburg to September 8 and 9 from territory east of the Missouri river, and to September 7 and 8 from tcrritory west of the river. ———— Coolest location, Courtland beach. —— SOUTH DAKOTA CROPS RUINED. Recent Mot Winds - nd Contlnued Drouth Too Muct SIOUX FALLS, S. D., July 28.—(Special to The Bee)—Notwithstanding the reports that crops in South Dakota are yielding fairly well, they are a failure. After each little rain which have been very infre- quent, reports have been sent out that the crops were greatly revived, but the long drouth, intense heat and the scorching winds have done their deadly work. Speak- ing generally, wheat will not average four bushels to the acre; oats may average cight bushels; barley will yield probably = six bushels; corn, which was In the finest con- dition possible the t of June, Is now just about a failure. “The hot wind of the past two weeks catching the corn in the tasscl has burned the life out of it; with plenty of rain flax would be half a crop; late mil- let, potatoes and grass are in the best con- dition of anything In the vegetable line, but they cannot withstand the drouth much longer. The small grain harvest is prac- tically over, and In several cases the farm- ers have already threshed their grain. The quality 1s very good, but the quantity i small. There are spots over the state where crops will about average with last year but they are few. Beginning about ten miles south of here, there Is a. strip of country twenty miles wide which has hoen wonderfully blessed with rain. The strip extends through Lincoln and Union coun- tles. The crops are good in that strip, and farmers feel confident of getting twenty bushels of wheat to the acre and twenty- five bushels of oats. Crops last year were not considerel good, but they were much better than the crops of this year, Ex ending Important Litigation, SIOUX FALLS, 8. D., July 28— (Special to The Bee)—Judge Edgerton of the United States court has under advisement a motion for a new trial In the case of Willlam Ful lerton against the Homestake Mining com- pany of Deadwood. This case has already been tried twice, the verdict being for the plaintiff both times, the first time for $20,000 and the second time for $23,000. The moti is based on the ground of erroneous rulings by the court and the excessive damages awarded, i 5 Lost One Handred Sheop. CHAMBERLAIN, £ D, July 28 Telegram to The Bee)—Two Charles Mix county stock men named Lewellyn and Anderson lost 100 head of sheep in a pe cullar manner, The sheep had just been (Special crossed to the west side of the \lum»nrl’ and it Is supposed they got overheated while | crossing. SE TEAM. It s the Pride of Town. July 28 a great many beautiful city agency s her splendid schools. Another is the that she gets that Section HARLAN, Bee,)—There Ing to make famous. One (Speclal to Tho things tend of Harlan Ia, are the such public fine train servico under the auspices of the great Rock Island route. A third, and one of which she {8 much prouder than of the sec- ond named, is her famous hose tearm, the W. L. Baughns, an organization which has perhaps done as much as any other means to bring the county seat of Shelby county to the notice of the public eye of Towa The first state fireman's tournament fin which a Harlan team participated was that held at Council Bluffs in 1889, The team of that year was organized and trained by J A. Campbell, who at that time was at work in the office of the Harlan Trib une. 0o took his raw recruits down end succeeded in winning fifth place In the state hose race. The boys brought back $50 in cash and incidentally something better—a determination to con tinue in the fleld “if it took all summer. Thelr perseverance told in the succeeding an nual tournaments, and since the day of their Council Bluffs Initiatory contest few if any teams in the state have carried home more reward of merit shekels than the Harlan lads. Today the record of three straight sweepstakes in the last throe Towa statr tournaments and the best thme made at each of those contests are things standing to the credit of the me “boys they call the fel lows.” In 1801 the team “W. L. Baughns” in was then mayor of the city. Baughn steadily stood by his fleet proteges, and a year or two ago presented each runner with an elegant old medal, upon which was en graved the time of one of their best p formances, Considering the fact that overy man in the team is a strictly amateur run ner ard that it has never enjoyed the hene fits of thorough physical training under an cxpert who understood his business, the ning of the team has been remarkabl od. In fact for years past the strafghtaway 300 y sen looked upon as being a thing that ft would be safe t wager idle capital that [farlan would gt Time and again the Baughns have covered the 800-yard streteh in thirty-six seconds flat. Good timers have caught them in cven less than that. And thirty-six seconds is at least (wo scconds better than other Towa team is in the habit of doing The couplers’ work has kept pace with the running of the hoys, and in 1502, at At lant'e, Booth and True of the Banghns b came champions of the state. At the recent state tournament held at fowa City, where by the the boys were most shamefully treated by fhe Sawyer team of that place. Booth and True again distingulshed ther selves by making three couplings in 2, 2 and 2.2 1espectfully, an average of 2,13, the previous state record heing 24 (average of three st t couplings). The team’s best for 300 ya i is 40.4 recond: last year in thie year's Dave Booth and Parker, Tom Fred Boyd, W stem of romarkably name of who hns assumed the honor of Baughn, two member team " Gus Moore George True, couplers; ewby, Pearl Downs, Tke Fritz” Heise, Ed Parker. Hugh Harry Swain, Frank Hille, Morris Day Ledwich, Clark Beems and Will Smith. tanle, —(Special third succes- ORT legram sive day making cloudless days. A DODGIE, . July to The Bee)—The of the work with the Jewell rain emicals clos's tonight with a sky. They will work two more leavy wind has prevailed most of the time, which is offercd as an excuse by Jewell's champi Incaleulable damage his been wrought by the drouth this week. rd Reghment CRESTON, Ta., July 28.—(Special Telegram to The Bee)—The Third regiment en- campment, Towa National Guard, composed of cleven companies and the Centerville band, went into camp here tonight. The encamp- ment will last eight days. About 500 men are in attendance. nenmpment. Rain DES MOINES, Dbeen cooler today. The weather has There was a slight shower las' night. The indications are for rain. The temperature ranged 85 (o 90 degrces. Ao S Fishing and bathing, Courtland beach. e Oflicer Curses Offeer. While patroling his beat on South Sixteenth street last night Officer Raven- kamp saw some sparks fall from a window in which wcre seated two women, and the awning of the store underneath was set on fire. The officer went up stairs and re- auested the women to be more careful with fire, and they became somewhat indignant The officer went on his way across the street, but a man came down and hurried after him. It was Oflicer Gustavison, who was off duty. He was angry, and told Of- ficer Ravencamp that if he had been in when Ravencamp came to the door (it hap- pened to be where he lives) he would have used Ravencamp for a foot ball and thrown him out into the street. His remarks, ac- cording to a bystander, were interspersed with profanity, and drew quite a crowd around the men. Ravencamp went on about his business, but some one reported the matter to Captain Mostyn, and the matter will probably be aired” before the police hoard. - Tunnel Under East River. A tunnel has been constructed under the gast river. Little has been heard of its truction, yet it is 2,541 feet long, ten feet wide and eight and a half feet high, so that it s big enough for four or five persons to walle through abreast, although the tun- nel is built only to carry gas from genera- tors at Ravenswood, L. I, to the service of t ast River Gas company In York. Ground was first broken for the tunnel in May, 1892, The engincer-in- hief was Cha M. Jacobs of London. The tunnel is 135 feet decp on the Ne York shore, and 147 feet deep at Raven weed. It runs under Blackwell's Island The top of the tunnel at its greatest height is nearly forty-one feet below the bottom of the river. Under Blackwell's Island the tunnel goes through solid rock. Under the river bed it is made of cast iron plates sur- rounded by liquid concrete. Added to Mort % Department. WASHINGTON, July 28.—The senate com- mittee on agriculture decided to report fa- vorably Senator Powers' amendment to the sundry civil bill to place the geological sur- vey and the national fish commission under the control of the secretary of agriculture, and to make them a part of the Agricultural department. The amendment will now go to the committee on uppropriations. - opards at Courtland, s WEATHER FORECAST. Generally Fale and Warmer W Nebraskin Toduy. WASHINGTON, July 28.—The indications for Bunday are: For Nebraska—Generally t in the extreme variable winds. Tow Lions and 1 ather for fair; southeast pe warm rtion; alr; warmer in ton; variable winds. Dikota warmer in the Buth winds, r; warmer in arfable winds fulr; warmer in portion; variable the extreme Kansas the extreme winds northeast Locul Record OFrick oF Tie WeATHER BUREAU, OMANA, July 28 —~Omaha record of temperature and rainfallcompared with corresponding day of pust four years 1891 82 61 1804. 1893, 189 ity temperatute. 815 70 Precipitation TR Statement showing the condivion peruty id prosipitation at O.naha for y and since March 1, 1504 Normal temy Excess for the duy Excoss sinco Murch 1 - Normalprocioitation . 18 fuch Deficiency for the dav .. 2 13 Inch Deficiency since Marcy 1 10.76 Inches GEORGE E. HUNT, Local Forecast Ofiiclak 116 .08 of tome the Fiture WAS A VERITABLE PLAGUE Damage Wrought in Sevoral States by the Hot Wind is Tncaloulable, UNPRECEDENTED DESTRUCTION OF CORN Hope of & Bountify ~Farmers Will Crap Entirely Blasted Have o tuy Iostend of Selling—Roports Va- rlous Quarters, Widespread destruction of all kinds of crops In Nebraska and Kansas is reported on account of the Mot winds. Ofclals of the Burlington road say that figures will hardly express the damage that has been wrought within the past week. Two weeks ago ft was estimated by experts that Nebraska had contributed 400,000,000 bushel of corn to the world's product of 1894, But- lington officials prophesy that it will be nec- essary to ¥hip corn into many counties in Nes braska fn order for the farmers to live until another season. Hundreds of square miles of the finest looking corn hangs dry and life less over an extent of territory as large as the state of Pennsylvania or New York. The reports from the lines of the Unlon Pacific, Burlington, Rock Island, Missour Pacific and Santa Fe arc all of the same tenor. Passengers from the car windows look upon vast flelds of corn and thousands f acres of hay rendered absolutely worthless by the polronous breath of the simoon from the wandy deserts of Texas. In mawe places the farmers anticipated the corn de- struction that was borne upon the air, ond veral days ago they began to cut the corn as it stood green in ids. Thelr object was to save the corn for fodder. Thousands of farmers stood helpless alongside their flolds, watching with gloomy forebodings while the dreadful blast from (he southwest got in its deadly work. Their only lope is that bountcous rains may start another grass crop before it is too late n tie reason Travelers also report & castward through re already thronged settlors, who have abandoned thelr homes and are hurrying toward lowa and Mis- #ouri, for relief from the almost unbearable heat. A similar scene has not been wit- nessed sluce 1872, when the hot winds al- most depopulated western K Deserted towns and lonely houses standing out in naked plains are silent witnesses of the memorable exodus of 1 The year fol- lowing came the grasshopper plague, from which it required ten years to recover. RAILROADS INTERESTED. Railroad men look on the advent of hot winds in Kansas and Nebraska this year as vastly more damaging to the railroad inter- ests " than the recent strike. The strike wis of short continuance, but the falling oft in the crops in the region east of the nountaing will be keenly felt by the rail- d companies for many months to come. The disaster will be felt in other western states in many ways, one of which will be the inability of a large region to buy coal mined in the Rocky mountains. Cattlemen have been accustomed to ship their cattlo to Kansas and Nebraska to be fattened for the market. With the corn crop more than 50 per cent short, it will be a_serious matter with the cattlemen to find a fattening ground for their stock. Reports at the railway that there is great danger of fires along the railway tracks, and the roads will bo required to take extra precautions to prevent extensive prairle fires. The dry grass will be a constant source of danger for months to_come. In places the drouth was broken yesterday along the line of the Usion Pacific and Bur- lington systems. indications as telegraphed to the headquarters of these roads showing that rains, so universally needed in Nes braka, are likely of fulfillment. At Hasting the Burlington officials state a few drops of rain fell at 9 o'clock, with fair rains at Wray and McDonald. There was conslderable appearance of molsture be tween Hastings and Red Cloud, with indicas tions of rain before night. At Arcadia and Ord the needful was also reported as des seending. From the Union Pacific freight depart- ment telegrams showed that there were no slgns of rain north of Columbus yesterday. It was cloudy at Kansas City at'8 o'clock, but later cleared off very hot. Blue Springs repcrted that it was cloudy around that vic'nity, with indications of hard rains to the westward. At Marietta it was sprinkling and thun- dering when the telegram was sent by Mr. O, J. Lane, assistant general freight agent. Oketo wires that there is every appearance of rain at that point, the thermometer rap- 1dly descending toward bulb. ““Corn around her says the agent, ‘“‘has not suffered to the extent reported and a good rain will bring most of it out.” Barneston reports that a light rain had Just commenced at 8 o'clock. From Leavenworth came the report that it was raining at Winchester and Valley, and that all over the Kansas district indica tions were favorable for rain yesterday. Blue Rapids reported every evidence of rain vesterday, a northeast wind bringing moisture and cooler weather in its track, “On the bottom lands corn is still all right, but on the high lands greatly burned.” At 8 o'clock it had started to rain at Marysville and every indication pointed to a heavy rain during the day. The Blkhorn pe-ple report no rain along thelr line yesterday. e Queen Lil's Messengor. COLORADO SPRINGS, July 28.—A royalist Hawallan commission composed of J. A. Cummings and §. Parker, ex-ministers of foreign affairs; H. A. Wieman, ex-minfster of finance, and Major Laward, arrived here last night enroute to Washington with a re- quest on the part of the Hawailan Queen Liliuokalani that President Cleveland shall not recognize the republican government, that the highways Nebraska and Kan- with disheartened offices also show What ‘Causes leples? or mouths of the seba- ceous glands with so- bum or oily matter. The ) lug of sebum in the centre of the pimple led o blackhead, ar comedone, uro will not allow * of the pores to continuclong, hence, Inflammation, pain, swelliag, and redness, later pus or matter forms, breaks, or is opened, the plug comes oat,and the pore is once more fre There aro thousands of these pores in the face. alone, any ono of which is liable to becowe clogged by neglect or diseuse, What Cures Pimples? The only reliablo preventive and cure, wheg not due to a constitutionsl humor, is Clogging of the pore Cuticura Soap. 1t contains & mild proportion of CUTICURA, the great Skin Cure, which ea ables it to dissolve thesebaceous or oily matter as forms at tho mouths of tho pores. It stimulates the sluggish glands and tubes to healthy actiy- ity, reduces inflamma- tion, soothies and heals frritated and roughened surfaces, and restores ho skin to its origginal purity. This I the sceret of its wonderful success. 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