Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 30, 1894, Page 5

THE OMAHTA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30 BOSSED BY THE BURLINGTON Preliminaries of the Coming Legislature | Directcd by B. & M. Pluggers. BURCH AHEAD FCR THZ SPEAKERSHIP | | Tacked by the Operating Department th He Pulls Ahead of Kichards Who Was the Legal Department's Cholee, ot Czar's Road LINCOLN, Dec. 20.—~(Speclal.)—The work of manufacturing a speaker of the house ot representatives goes merrily on at the Lin- dell hotel. But'is should be noted that the process 18 not taking place in the crowded rotunda, where members and lohbyists con gregate and exchange guesses on the out come. They Imagine that they are important factors, but they are not. The real work s being done in a small room rented by the B. & M. rallway, where B. & M. agents are | busily engaged “putting up the job." The large rooms rented by the republican central committee were deserted all the afternoon, while a secret conforencs was being held in the B. & M. auxiliary. It has lately developed that there are two factions among railroad manipulators of Ne- braska legislation. One Is the legal depart- ment of the Burlington and the other the operating department. It is understood that the 'former is for C. L. Richards of Hebron for speaker, the other for J. C. Burch of Wymore. Upon the final settlement of this question hang a multitude of inferior official positions, and there are many on the anxious seat. Whoever wins, the Burlington will have named e speaker, and the caucus next Monday night will be’a hollow mockery and a political farce. Not._more than three-fourths of the mem- bers-clect are in the city. Of course there i8 & showing made of a fight among some of the other aspirants for the speakership, and it must be admitted that they are making considerable noise. W. 0. Chapman, editor of the Crete Vidette, believes he fs in it and that he has a strong following outside of B. & M. influences. John Brady of Kear- ney, Randolph MeNitt of Red Cloud and J 0. Cramb of Fairbury join with John J. San born in shying their castors into the ring. It is being openly claimed against Richards that he has had charge of the Burlinton's business at Hebron, and it is known that two of his most ardent champlons are A. W. Agee, Burlington attorney at Aurora, and J. H. Agee, the Burlington’s all-round plugg What hopes have the above-board candidate against such a combination? The fight on the part of the legal department of the rail- rond is led by Mr. Deweese, whila Mr. Big- noll is in charge of the operating end. Rep- resentative T. C. Munger of Lancaster, who announced himself as a candidate for speaker some,. time ago, is now out of the race, and is said to have gone over to the Richards contingent. ABOUT SETTLED FOR BURCH. LINCOLN, Dec. 30.—(Special Telegram.)— At 1 o'clock this morning the indications are positive that J. C. Burch of Gage county will distance Richards in the speakership race. The contest has been bitterly waged all day. Richards has suffered a number of serious defections from his forces. Burlington strik- ers give it out cold that Burch is the man. For president pro tem of the senate John ©. Watson is regarded as the sure winner. All opposition to him has apparently melted away. It looks now as though log rolling will_continue all night at the Lindell. For secretary of the senate Tim Scdgwick has gained steadily until he now scems to have a walkaway. There is a strong probability that the Sab- bath will be badly fractured by the un- seemly scramble for minor offices. Governor-elect Holcomb is expected to ar- rive tomorrow. ARGABRIL 'S DEF SE, Testimony In the Anourn Murder Trin Favorable to the Accused. AUBURN, Neb., Dec. 20.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The defense in the Argabright trial commenced to put in thelr testimony Friday morning. Most of the testimony introduced that day was for the purpose of impeaching the testimony of John Van Wie and James Sparks. John Van Wie was the man who swore for the prosecution that he was on the police force in South Omaha at the time the defendant was, and heard him say just be- foro he come to Nemaha county that he was going lome and get his children if he had 0 kil his father-in-law to get them. Miles Mitchell, Ivor Thomas, C. C. Stanley, John W. Snively and Charles’ Curtis all said that the reputation of John Van Wie for truth and veracity was bad. James Sparks 18 a son-in-law of the deceased and swore on the stand for the prosecution that he did not strike the defendant at the time of the shooting, and J. M. Wright, Amos Hughes, Levi Hughes, all said that soon after the tragedy Sparks said: “I hit him a blow in the butt of the ear intending to knock him down, but it must have been a glancing blow as it dld not knock him down.” The testimony today was that James Sparks and the deceased were both attacking the defendant, and that the defendant was retreating and had retreated to the wall be- fore he fired the fatal shot; that after the shooting Smeltzer was carried on to the porch, and one witness testified that Smeltzer there said: “Have they got the rascal? Tell them to keep him and kill him; I would if he had not shot m One witness said that the time he attacked witnesses testified that the defendant of- fered to loan another policeman his revolver in South Omaha before he took the train for home, but the offer was declined. meltzer was mad at the defendant. Two Unkinduess of & tiotel Landiord. ABHLAND, Dec. —(Special.)—Frank ‘Whittlock went to Schuyler last night and brought back George F. Royce of that place, who took “‘French leave” from here and for- got to settle his board bill at Hotel Selma He was taken before Judge Jesse N. Moon and got a continuance till Monday at 9 o'clock a. m., when he will have his hearing. Miss Susa Ward, who has been visiting in Ashland for the past few days, returned to her home in Pawnee City yesterday, ac- companied by Miss Fredericka Derry, who will spend a few days visiting friecds” and rela- tives in that vicinity. Mrs. T. J. Pickett, two sons, Stanley J. Friday In Lincoln Don Folsom, assistant postmaster, is spend- ing the holidays in Wahoo among frieods and relative Misses Nellie Nichols and Lillian Bell are spending the holidays in Council Bluffs Rev. John M. White returned today from Auburn, where he spent Christma The generosity of the young men of Ash- land came to the surface in good form Christmas vight. They organized in a band and visited the hen coops of the wealthy eltizens and carried off a chicken apiece and placed it on the front porch of the cus- todian of the Assoclated Charities, New Chairs To the Vack. LINCOL 29.—(Special.)—There has been discovered a fatal defect in the new and elaborate chalrs recently furnished by Secretary of State Allen for the house and senate at a cost of $976. The chairs are very high and tho backs are of solid wood. Therefore, when & memder arises to “cateh the speaker's eye" the chalr immediately in front of him completely obscures the large poster on the front of his own desk desig- nating his name and the county from which ho balls. There are many new members, and the only way left open to the speaker or president of the senate (o recognize the member who has the floor is by means of the placard on his desk. This obscured, as It 1s by the latest extravagant importation of the secretary of state, confusion is sure to result. It may be that the old chairs will have to be used after all Albert Whipple's CRAWFORD, Neb., Dee. 20.—(Special Tel- egram.)—The general merchandise stock of Albert Whipple here, Invoiced at $2,765, was #cld today under the Hay Springs Milling sompany’s §$1,200 mortgage to F. B. Jandt for §1,465. Rushville Water Works Plant Damaged. RUSHVILLE, Neb., Dec. 20.—(Special ¥elegram.)—The tank of the Rushville water works burned early this evenlng. It cau from & stove which had boe:‘phced l:ht: accompanied by and James 8., her spent | mitted | wife and children, who were at | about fifty feet from the sh | He advised | $1,000 in the C bound enclosure to thaw water was in the tank at was no Insuranes out the pipe. the time, There BLEW OUT HIS BRAINS, Joseph Valek of Ravenna Becomes Tired of Lite and Commits Su RAVENNA, Neb., Dec. 29.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Joseph Valek, a Bohemian black smith and an old time resident, committed sulelde about 11 o'clock this forenoon, blow- ing his braifs out with a horse pistol. He aid the decd in a small bed room in the rear of his blacksmith shop, and when found was sitting on the floor in an upright posi- tion, his back leaning against the side of the bed. The weapon with which he com- the deed lay across his lap. His the house, P, heard the re- port and were the first to see the body. Mrs Valek was entirely prostrated. Hanging to the lapel of Valek's coat was a lengthy letter, written In Bohemian and addressed to his family. He gave a list of the debts he owed about town and made known his wishes as to the disposition of his property. his son Bdward, who has been associated with him in his business, to give blacksmithing and learn another trade. Valek was about 60 years of age and leaves a_wife and seven children, three of whom are living at home. His life was insured for P. 8., a Bohemian benevo- lent organ Ord Personals. ORD, Neb, Dec. ~(Special.)—Miss Musa Perry of Brownell hall, Omaha, Is spending the Christmas vacation with her parents, Mr. James A. Patton, cashier of the Ord State bank, returned Saturday evening from a visit to his old home In Indiana. Fred L. Harrls of Lincoln spent Monday in_the city Miss Alice Robbins quaintances In Omaha. Misses Turner of Omaha are spending the holi with their sister, Mrs. O. L. Kirtley. A. G. Lehmer of Lincoln Is visiting among his old acquaintances here. Frank Mallory was an Omaha visitor this week. Is visiting with ac- s To Command the State G. A, R, SUPERIOR, Neb, Dec. 20.—(Special)— on. C. B. Adams of this city has, after much persuasion of his friends throughout the state, announced himself as candidate for department commander of the Grand Army of ihe Republic for the Department of N braska. Mr. Adams is prominent in Granl Army circles from the immense succoss which he has made of the interstate district rounjons held in this city for a numbar cf vcars and from the present position he holds as senior vice commander in the department. Celebrated § n's Day. OSCEOLA, Neb.,, D (Special.)—It has been the custom of Osceola lodge No. , Anclent, Free and Accepted Masons, ever since its organization to celebrate St. John's day, and last night the brethren to the num- ber of seventy met at their hall and ob- served the custom. Addresses were delivered by Brother J. L. Makeever and Rev. A. B. Whitmer. Afterward they sat down to the, banquet table, which was loaded down with the good things of life. The banquet broke up at midnight. Populist Mass Conventlon, INDIANOLA, Neb., Dec. 29.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The populist mass convention was largely attended and resolutions outlining a plan of work was adopted.- Seth T. Par- sons was elected permanent chairman and E. J. Mitchell secretary. Meetings are to be held the last Saturday of each month at Indianola. The Bee's fight against corporate influence was indorsed. Two cars of relief held since December 6 for freight charges wero released this even- ing. Dakota City Farmer Robbed. SIOUX CITY, Dec. 2).—(Special Tele- gram)—A farmer near Dakota City was robbed of mbout $100 last night by masked men, who went to his home in the middle of the night and after intimidating him and his wife bound them and ransacked the place. They found some jewelry and the money and escaped. It is believed that the Jjob was done by the same men who a few days ago robbed John Collin, a farmer near Sloan, of $4,500. Grafton Brovitles, GRAFTON, Neb.,, Dec. 20.—(Speclal)— George Burt, R. Stuckey, Charles Bosser- man and W. M. Sheppard returned yester- day from the State Teachers' association in_ Lincoln. Prof. W. H. Bartz of Ravenna, formerly principal of schools at this place, is spend- ing the week in Grafton. Miss Grace Smith has gone to her home in Hamilton county for the holidays, Crippled for Life, NORFOLK, Neb., Dec. 29.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Peter J. Jones, a carpenter for the Elkhorn's Black Hills division, attempted to board the afternoon Omaha passenger train at the junction. One foot was cut half off and the other leg was cut off just below the knee. SRR £y Result of the Ashland Alumni Contest. ASHLAND, Neb., Dec. 28.—(Special Tele- gram)—Frank Young won first and Will Rosecrans _second in the alumni contest. Profs. B. W. Dnasky, Prague, 8. W. Miller, Schuyler and C. Abbott, Fremont, were the Judges. - Fire at Mascot. OXFORD, Neb., Dec. 20.—(Special Tele- gram.)—At Mascot last night fire destroyed the general merchandise stock of Postmaster Grace. The building and stock were a total loss, covered by $1,400 insurance, e REFUSED TO INDICT POWERS, Chicago Grand Jury Piaces No Credence In the Big Bribe Story. = CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—The grand jury by a unanimous vote today refused to indict Alderman John Powers for soliciting a bribe. Alderman Powers had been charged with at- tempting to secure $25,000 to repeal an anti- cigarette ordinance. 'ho principal evidence against Powers was the notes of a stenographer, who claimed to have been concealed in an adjoining room when the alderman’s alleged proposition was made to a representative of the Cigarette trust. The notes as produced before the grand jury gave a detailed report of the conversation, but a return of ‘no verdicet' was made on the ground that the sten- ographer did not see Powers during the con- vorsation and the notes were made In a darkened room after 5 o'clock in the even- ing. The charges against Alderman Powers had created a profound sensation in political circles, as he is a prominent member of the city council, having for years represented tho Fourth ward and being recognized as a leader of the democratic side of the chamber. —_— HARDIN STILL IN CHICAGO. Kuusas City Oficars Fall to Secure the Cus- tody of the Express Messenger. CHICAGO, Dee. 29.—The attempt of Kan sas City officers to secure ex-Express Mes senger C. J. Hardin, who was acquitted at Nashville of the charge of stealing $35,000 from the Adams Express company, again falled today. Hardin was in court charged with threatening to Kill Clara Bushon, a colored girl, and she not appearing to prose- cute, the case was dismissed, The Kansas City officials at once presented requisition papers and charged Hardin with assaulting @ railroad man in the Missouri city, but Chicago officers succeeded in baving the prisoner sent back to jail to await = trial charged with being a fugitive from justice. The case has developed a bitter struggle be- tween the Kansas City and Chicago police for the custody of Hardin, who claims he is being persecuted et Twelve Torpedoes for the Olympia. NEWPORT, R. I, Dec. 20.—Orders were recelved at the torpedo station to ship, at once, twelve Whitehead torpedoes, to be placed on board the cruiser Olympla, now at San Francisco. This is the largest equip- ment ever placed on board & wman-of-war from here. The San Francisco, soon ex- pected to arrive here, will receive the sec- ond largest, as elght torpedoes will be placed aboard of he NOT DEFICIENT IN COURAGE|™ Drouth Sufforers Ready to Meet Hardships and Try Again, CHEERFUL AMID THEIR DESTITUTION Not Anxlons to Rely Upon People Out- side of Nebraska for Ald to Enable Them to Tide Over the Winter, LINCOLN, Dec. 20.—(Special sentative W. Z. Taylor of Hitche was in the city today and spent considerable time assisting officers of the Lincoln Provi- dent association in packing supplies to be sent to the destitute of his county ports of the destitution existing in his local- ity he confirms. He states that there has been a total failure of crops for two years In succession; that everything on the farms has been gold off, and that the people are sadly in need of food, fuel and clothing. Mr. Taylor says that the state relief commission has the names of 250 needy families in his county, and that the figures are not large. Ex-Repre- too NOT SUFFERING FOR FOOD. Dr. R. D. Harris, representing Lincoln, Cheyenne, Keith and the unorganized terri- tory west of Logan county in the leg| Is a prominent practicing physician r In Ogalalla. His profession has afforded him ample means for informing himself regard- ing the situation in that territo.y, as well as in Deuel, Lincoln and Perkins counties As one of the directors of the Ogalalla school district he sent rellef blank applications to a large number. But six applied for re- lief. He says that while it is true that the people are hard up, they are not suffering for food. What they do nced, however, Is feed and seed grain. Dr. Harris does not Wish to be quoted as saying there is no desti- tution, but it is by no means so general as has been represented by the correspondent of an Omaha paper. Perkins county is the worst off, but the people there are gritty and determined to pull through it they can secure aid for feed and seed in the spring. In the other counties the residents will help each other to food and clothing. Representa- tive Harris is firm in the belief that the situation in his locality has been grossly mi represented, magnified and exaggerated sensational correspondence, AMONG THE EX-GOVERNORS. The portrait of Governor Lorenzo Crounse was today added to the galaxy of ex-gov- crnors in the executive rooms at the state capitol. Ex-Governor Thayer today placed In’the adjutant general’s office two swords presented to him by members of forces Which he formerly commanded. One is a handsome officer's sabre, presented to Briga- dier General John M. Thayer by the officers of his old regiment, the First Nebraska, in 1863. The other Is a less elaborate and more ancient relic presented by the Omaha Light Artillery as_a token of their appreciation of his kindness to them in the Indian out- break of 1859. Buffalo Bill has gone into the beet sugar Industry. Articles of _incorporation were filed today of the W. F. Cody Beet Sugar company of North Platte. The incorpora- tion is” authorized to build public water powers for irrigation, as well as to manu- facture sugar from sorghum and beets. The works will have a capacity of seventy-five tons of sorghum and 100 fons of beets per day. The capital stock is $250,000 and the incorporators are W. F. Cody, James Pratt, Thomas C. Patterson, W. C. Keith and Wil- liam E. Hymer. IN THE COURTS. The city of Omaha and Henry Bolln, treas- urer of the city of Omaha, are appellants in the case against Samuel Hawver. This is the case in which Hawver in the Douglas county district court set up that a portion of his land had been wrongfully taken by the city as a right of way. The Midland State bank Is appellant against the school district of the city of Omaha in a matter involving $11,385 for construction of a school house. Robert Barrett and Frank Mileham, two young fellows arrested with the Grossmans and George Metz on the charge of being implicated in the theft of a lot of hogs, were arraigned this morning and pleaded guilty. The court gave them each a year at hard labor. Willlam Duvall pleaded guilty to forging the name of M. L. Scott to a First National bank check and passing it on the Globe Clothing house. He was sentenced to two years at hard labor. LOOKING FOR STOLEN GOODS. A Missourl Pacific detective was in town today, and in company with Detective Ma- lone visited the penitentiary to ascertain the whereabouts of $500 worth of cutlery stolen from a traveling man's grip from the Missouri Pacific depot some time since. It is known that the theft was committed by young Orth, now in the pen. LINCOLN LOCALS. The Nebraska Academy of Sciences elected the following officers prior to ad- Journment: President, A. W. Norton, Peru; vice president, W. S. Skinner; secretary and treasurer, G. D. Sweezy; custodian, Lawrence Bruner; directors, H. B. Lowrey and A. M. Bell, At a meeting of the board of managers of the State Poultry assocation in the council chamber of the city hall, Secretary Ludden upied the chair in the absence of the dent. Arrangements were made for the annual “‘chicken show,” to occur in this city, beginning January 15 and continuing three days. To provide for a list of special premiums F. T. Dean was made a committee of one. At a meeting of the Federal Labor union last night 8. J. Kent, independent candidate for commissioner of public lands and build- ings, received the club's endorsement for deputy labor commissioner. The resolution endorsing him was adopted by a rising vote, and a vote of thanks to the Omaha Centrai Labor union for its endorsement of Mr. Kent, The young son of Mrs. Wirth, who has been missing since Monday morning, re- turned tonight in a pitiable condition. He has been as far as Plattsmouth looking for work. He walked thirty-two miles and his clothes were in tatters. He sold his shotgun to pay expenscs, but ran out of money sev- eral days since, ——— EXAMINATION FUR POLICEMEN, 0 Hundred and Twenty Blg Offcers Undergolog ® Test, CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—The first examination under the new civil service government of the Chicago police force was held today. Every policeman on the rolls must submit to a physical and mental examination, and their falling to reach the required standard will mean dismissal. Today's Installment consisted of 220 big officers from the north side districts, and every one of them wore a worried look under his helmet as he filed into the examination rooms and took his seat at the desks. The examination was a long d tedlous one, but it was not believed that nany of the policemen would lose their posi- tions, as It is understood that past efficiency in the service would count heavily in the markings. e PROBABLY A DOUBLE MURDER, lody of Thomas Morton Louis and His Wife Dying. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 20.—The body of Thomas Morton, the owner of a shanty boat in which his wite, Lizzle, was found with her skull crushed on Christmas day, was found at 1 o'clock this morning buried in a shallow grave about 100 feet south of the tent oe- cupled by Notle Shepard, who is new under arrest for the sssault upon the woman. It 13 supposed Shepard also killed her husband Morton had a bullet hole in his neck and his head was beaten to a felly. Mrs. Mor- ton lies at the City hospital fatally injured, but refuses (o say anything about the as. sault. It is sald Shepard made a confession to detectives late this afternoon. R Four Ologles at Baltimore. BALTIMORE, Dec. 20.—The Geological Soclety of America, the American Soclety of Naturalists, the American Physiological so- clety and the American Morphological so- clety have been holding sessions bere. Tech- nical papers were read. Found at St The re- X BUGRBEAR. —_— New York Hwwming Post. Nothing Is more comtmon In politieal dis- cussions than the attethpeito unload responsi- bility for unsound views'§nd bad government upon the “forelgn elbment.” We could get along well enough, It 4 Biten sald, if we had not had for a genera#lsh’this flood of immi- grants from Europe. T is they, the argu- ment goes, who are to blame for all the bad things In our government—munieipal, and national A has recently been pub- lished showing what proportion of the fin- habitants of the United States in 1880 were of forelgn parentage, wWhich, for the first time, gives a basis Por' accurate statements on this subject. The feport covers all per- sons, whether themselves born in this coun- try or abroad, who had elther one or both parents foreign-born. This is a much fairer em than the old division of native and foreign-born, since the child born here of parenis from a European country s often quite as much a_foreigner as though he, too, had been born abroad, 1t appears that almost exactly one-third ot our people are the chiliren of parents one or both of whom came from another country, the proportion being 3.02 per cent of the whole population. The varlations in propor- tion a from se enths of 1 per cent in North Carolina to 78.98 per cent in North Da- kota. Most people would probably expect to find the percentage largest in the states along the north Atlantic seaboard, and particularly New York; but it turns out’ that the greatest proportion is in the northwestern sta of Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakot nearest of which is 1,000 miles from the port where most immigrants land, The south as a section is extraordinarily free from any foreign mixture. North Carolina, as has been said, has less than 1 per cent of such inhabitants, and the proportion does not sach 3 per cent in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi or Alabama, while it Is but little larger in any other state in that part of the country. In short, the “foreign element” amounts to practically nothing in the whole south. That region is almost ex- clusively peopled today by the descendants of the original set:ler; One of the chicf issues before the nation for many years past has been the financial one, in its various phases of greenbackism, in- flation, and the ‘hodge-podge of theories known as populism. Theoretically, it the country is being ruined by the “foreign element,” it ought to have been, during the past twenty years, the section where that element was strongest which would have gone furthest wrong, and the section from which it was almost absent that would have sfood true to ancient traditions. In point of fact it has been the foreign north that saved the nation from the ruin in which the native south would have involved it if it could have had its way. Over and over again the south has come near to being unanimously wrong, while the right has been sustained as overwhelmingly by states like Massachu- setts, Connecticut and New York, with more than' half of their people foreign-born, and almost as warmly by such states as Wiscon- sin and Minnesota, where the proportion reaches three-fourths. Take the recent campaign, for example, and consider Georgia as a native state, only 178 per cent of her people being of foreign parentage, and Minnesota as a foreign state, the proportion being 76.42 per cent. Almost every leader of the people in Georgia has advocated free colnage, while many of them have gone far toward outbidding the populists on kindred issues, and the populists polled a heavy vote, of which probably not 500 came from the foreign element. In Minne- sota the populists ,were routed, and the leader of the sound money side was Governor Knute Nelson, born of a poor family in Nor- way, whose widowed mother brought him to this’ country when be was 6 years old, and who has made his way 'to prominence and honor by his own efforts. The legislature of Minnesota contains 168 members and forty- seven representatives-elect are Scandinavian republicans, who are as sound on the finan- clal jssue as Governor Nelson. It the foreign element. increases the difi- culty of securing good ;government in our great cities, it is easy to exaggerate |its influence. ‘More than 80 per cent of New York's people are of forelgn parent- age, and less than 67 per cent of Phila- delphia’s. ~ The proportion was still smaller in the latter city years ago, and yet Phila- delphia has had its rings, its machines, its stealing from the public treasury, Its frauds in elections and jts demands for popular up- rising against the enemies of good govern- ment, The city which has the largest for- eign element is Milwaukee (36.36 per cent), and the city government of Milwaukee will compare favorably with that of Baltimore, where the proportion is less than half as great, or Memphis, where it is not one-fourth so0 large. Indeed, any student of municipal government must’ have been impressed by the complaints of the same evils and the same difficulties as exist in New York which come from smaller cities all over the country where the foreign element is small. Run over the list of men who have been leaders on the wrong side in our politics and one will be struck by the small proportion of them who are of foreign descent. Speaker Crisp was born on English soil, but there is not another man in the whole south who has been prominent in advocating financial follies who was not a “good American” by descent. The Dave Hills, the Tom Platts, the Camer- ons, the Quays, the Ingallses, and a long list of such leaders who believe that “the purifi- cation of politics is an iridescent dream’— these are not ignorant importations from for- eign countries, but products of our own in- stitutions—not a few of them, like Ingalls, graduates of our colleges. It was not a foreigner who challenged the indignant wrath of the people by running for judge of the court of appeals in New York last year, or for goyernor this year, It is not a foreigner who now threatens to deprive the people through the legislature of the fruits of their victory, nor is it the party which depends on the foreign vote that he leads. 1t New York, Pennsylvania and Kansas had never had any more emigrants than North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia there would still have been Hills, Platts, Quays, Camerons and Ingallses to demoralize the ‘politics of the north, as there have been Vances, Tillmans and Crisps in the south, ——— Passed Worthless Checks. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 20.—J. G. Patton, who clalms to b the proprietor of a mammoth shoe house In Portland, Ore., is under ar- rest here charged with attempting to swindle, He had purchased big bills of goods from several local firms and given in payment therefor worthless checks on the First Na- tional bank of Seattle, Wash. Patton is a well educated and stylishly dressed negro. ——— Towa's Sch Roll, DES MOINES, Dee. 29.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The statement of the superintendent of public instruction, made public today, shows there are 697,228 children and youths of school age in the state, a gain of 10,078 during the year ended with October, 1894, The apportionment of interest from general school fund is made, from this statement. S — Denver to Have a Gonvention Hall, DENVER, Dec. 20.—A committee of the Chamber of Commerce is negotiating for a site for a huge convention building which it is proposed to bulld fn this city with a view to having one or more af the national politi- cal conventions held here in 1896, The plans call for an auditorium with a seating capaeity of 12,000, ——— Modern W dmen's Growth o Missourl. JEFFERSON CITY, Dec. 20.—The state camp of the Modern Weodmen of America has adjourned. The first lodge in the state was organized at Joseph less than two years ago, and the report of the (reasurer tonight showed a membership of over 3,200, Rl it Shortage of Seventy Thousand. ROME, N. Y., De —The shortage of Cashier Blelby and Teller Gillette of the Central National bank increases as the ex- perts continue thelr investigation of the books. It has now reached an aggregate of $70,000. state census bulletin Sulug a Newspaper for Libel. CINCINNATI, Dy 9.—Bach of the four members of the city board of administration today sued the Tribune for $25,000 damages. a total of §100,000, for false charges in con- mection with recent contracts for wa' * works tanks. | with the PREPARING THEIR REPORTS Heads of the Oity Departments Show What They Have Accomplished, SOME FOOD FOR IUTURE RIFLECTION Many Changes Are Advoeated All Along y Tending to Show that Reforms Are Needed in tho Several Beanches of City Government. According to the established procedure In municipal affairs, all heads of depa are now beginning to consider the substance of thelr annual reports, which must be com- pleted not later than February 1. Some of hese have been practically completed and will scon be in the of the printer, while other officials have not started on the task. It is customary for heads of depart- ments, in additfon to a detailed report of the transactions In thelr departments, to sug- gest such measures as they may advisable and to recommend any changes that in their opinion wguld be of benefit to the city. As the year past has been a very quiet period in municipal circles, so far as public improvements are concerned, this fea- ture of the reporis will be.capable of con densation, though some new ideas may be suggested which will be of interest to all who are interested in the welfare of the clty. City Engineer Rosewater is working on his teport, which will be an interesting docu- ment. Among the matters which he will consider in detail will b the question of water pressure, of which he has been a student since long before he became city engineer. His suggestions will be larae along the line detalled In his testimony before the investigating committee, but he will_go into details more particularly and submit dlagrams showing the present water and _indlcating the nature of the es which he believes would be bene- 1is general conclusion fs that the mains in the business part of tho city are too small and that the hydrants now in use are too complicated and get out of order too easily to obtaln the best results, Mr. Rosewater will also consider the pay- Ing question at considerable length, and in this connection will transcribe some of the unwritten history of the combination that, in his opinion, has systematically robbed the city through fraud and official connivance He will show the immense profits that the asphalt contractors have reaped and the man ner in which they have succeeded In ex- cluding all real competition in the business. He will urge that the monopoly that has been enjoyed by the Barber Asphalt company and its different branches cannot be broken in_any other way than by letting down the bars to all kinds of asphalt, only stipulating that it shall be first-class in quality and that the pavement laid shall be as good as the best. The report of the Board of Public Works is still in contemplation. As this has been a very light year for public works, it will not require a voluminous document to represent the transactions of that body. WANTS BETTER INSPECTION. In connection with his report Commissioner of Health Saville will recommend the addi- tion of several new features to his depart- ment. Chlef among these will be an ap- propriation for a_supplementary bureau for the inspection of water, ice and varlous articles of food which are known to be subject to adulteration by dealers. The recent discovery that dealers In flour were mixing more than 12 per cent of alum in their best grades to give the produgt a white apearance is only one of the severbl reasons why the commissioner wiil contend that there ought to be a thorough inspection of all_articles of consumption. Dr. Saville will also recommend that a special inspector be employed to see to the disinfection of the houses where contagious discases have been reported. It is his ex- perlence that many people are elther too poor or too careless to properly perform this task and that it It was made the special duty of an energetic Inspector it would be much easier to control the spread of disease. The clty of Minneapolis appropriates $2,000 a year for this purpose alone and the com- missioner thinks that Omaha should make a provision of at least $1,000 to be applied for a more thorough disinfection and an ex- periment in the way of the inspection of food products. He says that while piles of manure and refuse may be unsightly and disngreeable they are not necessarily the most dangerous sources of disease. Impure food may be responsible for a great deal of disease and if there were more rigid regulations in this direction the results would be manifestly satistactory. Dr. Saville will glso reiterate his previous recommendations in regard to a city hospital in_connection with the city jail and an am- bulance service. He will also urge the neces- sity of establishing a contagious disease hospital at some proper location where all such cases may be immediately taken without offering further inducement to the spread of the disease by unnecessary delay. The report will show that ihe general health of the city during the year has been exceptionally good. A slight epidemic of smallpox was suppressed with more success than might have been anticipated, consider- ing the lack of facilities at the command of the department, and the cases of other con- tagious diseases have been generally of a mild character. The report of City Attorney Connell will be in the nature of a general recapitulation of the business transacted in the legal depart- ment during the year. It will show the ca pending and those which have been disposed of and will present a complete record of all legal transactions fn which the city Is interested. It will also show that the ex- penses in that department have been cut in two during the year and that an equal reduction may be made next year. This is owing to the fact that the city has been successful in a greater majority of cases, 50 that the demands on the judgment fund nave been materially reduced. The reports of the various departments of the Board of Bducation are nearly com- plete and will be issued some time in Janu- ary. That of Clinton N. Powell, the retiring president of the board, will dévote a good deal of space to the more ornamental branches of the school work, especially the kindergartens, music and drawing. He will take the ground that there is a general misconception of the utility and expense of the kindergarten system of education, Con to the general impression, t tablishment of the kindergartens does not add a penny (o the legifmate expenses of running the schools. No pupils under school age are admitted and since these would have to be provided for in any case it costs no more to put them in the kindergarten dur- ing the first year than in the lowest of the regular school grad The argument in favor of the kindergarten is that if a pupil is to spend three or four years in the schools, he or she will be further advanced at the end of that period if the first year Is spent in the kindergarten than the child was taken at once into the regular grades as was formerly the custom. The kindergarten training teaches the child to think and trains the memory so that the progress is much more satistactory during the remaining years of school life. Mr. Powell elimination of the ents han consider in it will also protest against the present course in music and drawing. These together only represent a per capita expense of about 25 cents out of a total of $25, and he maintains that they ential to the welfare of the schools. quarters of the pupils are child- ren of poor parents and this affords them advantages that they could not obtain in any other way The report will also deal financial questiol It will tak e ground that there must either be a decided weakening in the educational system or an increased tax on the pioperty owners. Dur. ing the past ten vears from $10,000 to $70,- 000 of the $400,000 required for school pur- poses has been raised by taxation, and he contends that if this amount was doubled, nc single property owner would feel the differ- ence when he came Lo pay his o8, OUTLINES A NEW PLAN Superintendent of Schools Marble will make no report beyond the one which he submitted to the board at a recent meeting The report left by Superintendent Fitzpat- to some extent A ray of snnlight pass acros time you breathe POPLCAI DOV OVDEOBLT Q‘ | | become dry deadly work. ditions are tavorable-=that is they lodge ir amazing rapidity- condition, and them from the system, that they will be destroyed. vent and cure consumption? We will tell you. with guaiacol: live, thus cures the disease. ating to the consumptive. PP PP COIPOCODVCLCIOOVOICODOCICOOROICGIOCVIOVVCOI VOO OCOLCELCIOOVID OO RO VO DVDV IO OC DO CPOCDVOPDOVID faces of the lungs. vhich produce it. should be taken for 15th and Douglas Sts. - ol vers the year up to September 1, and T oo bardculars similar to that of Mr. Powell. Mr. Fitzpatrick emphasizes the suggestion that he made a year ago, thal there should be such a classification of schools “in respect to grades and classes to be admitted as will preserve in the upper grades such numbers as will render the teaching of these grades both efficient and economical. In this connection he outlines a plan for the concentration of the upper grades which he estimates will result i the saving of about $8,700 per year. It is also suggested that the ratio of teach- ers in the High school should be kept down to one for every thirty pupils, as required by the rules of the board, and In reply to the contention that this could not be done, presents a table showing the attendance and number of teachers in the various high schools of Boston. he report of the superintendent shows the following figures in regard to attendance. Incroso uplis 2l enroliment wchool dally at High Hikh tendg The average number of pupils per t in the High school was twenty-four, and in the whole system thirty-eight, The total amount pald out in teachers' salaries during year was $244; 1, an Iner 13, 94 over the preceding year. The of the special branches is estimated us fol- lows: Drawing, $1,100; music, $1,400; Kin- rtens, $3,754 noticed the millions of partic disclose? Some of this dust is taken into the lungs every When it contains the gern as it olten does, they find lodgment in the system. This is how the consumption germs enter the lungs, They are contained in the expectoration of the consumps time patient, and are thrown off by coughing. veport will show the usual detailed account of the transactions of the year with some additional information with respect to the financial condition of the board. The reports of the superintendent of bulldings and of the superintendents of special departments will consist of the usual statement of the year's work | Secretary Doane of the Board of Park Commissioners is engaged in the preparation of & report from that body which will record | the doings of the year In the matter of | parks and boulevards. A good deal has been | accomplished, ¢ of boulevards. The most uotable of these accomplishments is the opening of the north | retary Gillan's a darkened room? Have you of fine dust which its rays 1ae 1S boule from Nineteenth and Chicago streets, This is the first to M that part be If; however, the lungs and aiv passa the constitution vard, iller has of tl Have You EverSeen , mix with the air and are then ready for their Now, after the germs have been inhaled, if the con if by reas or any hereditary cause, the lungs or air passages have be- come inflamed, or their tissues or air-cells abraded, and thus a suitable soil prepared for the reception of the germs— stantly, develop quickly, and multiply with 0N ( a The way, then, to prevent and cure consumption is to put the body in such a condition of perfect health that the germs of disease cannot find lodgment, or if already present, This can be done by the use of zomulsion TRADE MARK. But, you ask, what is Ozomulsion, and how does it pre- Ozomulsion is a scientific preparation of col liver oil, It is a rich, liquid food, powerful 2 ent, and the only remedy which contains ozone and guaiacol, Ozone is a condensed form of oxygen, well known, is a gaseous element which helps to support life, and forms 22 per cent. of the atmosphere in which we Ozone, or condensed oxygen, when taken into the blood in Ozomulsion, kills the germs of consimption, and Guaiacol is a chemical product made from the resin of pine and beech trees; and it is the volatile principle of this agent which.makes a residence in the woods so invigor- It increases the appetite, lessens the cough, lowers the temperature and heels the injured sur- Ozomulsion cures consumption because it strikes at once at the real cause of the disease—the poisonous germs It 1s the remedy above all others which Colds, Coughs, Consumption, Bronchitas, Pnenmonia, LaGrippe, Asthma, and all Pulmonary Gomplaints; Scrofula, General Debility, Loss of Flesh and All Wasting Diseases, The Kind Physicians Prescribe KUHN & CO, P ettt & L D which k. ) bro city, n completed a short time It has be a favorite drive is to eventually extend the boulevard to con- nect great amount of work has b with t s are in a healthy is strong and vigorous, nature, unaided, destroys the poisonous germs and expels southeast 1s to Riverview park. PDOOPPPPTOINDD VPP COVPOOPD “.1 s of disease, They soon of cold or coughe a nutri- Oxygen, as s It is OMAHA. - NS Y T T o Y T 2 T X 2 X 2L Sl 2 g X 2 2 3 2 2 L s dd s e g daagdad s aagaded ad ol d i add s d o o d makes a beautiful drive , direct boulevard ught down to the central and although it has only me The Intention of the board boulevard which Elmwood park four entrances have been constructed at a considerable expense and @ n accomplished In the direction of laying out and improving the done gation and some minor impro story, been accomplis the roadways. at B T emls At RI stumps and dead two miles of roa and two and one-half miles of track bridges have featu amou An artestan well ‘will be res o nt of b of thi f b Iways have b here has been but litHe k, a pipe system for irri- ments telling vervie. a good deal has A vast number of old trees have been removed, n constructed Rustio attractive a considerabl has been doh: mpleted this wine added to and grading the ter and next year it is proposed to conplete the lake, for which the well is expected to supply the water, All the Cars Went Into - SUNSET LIMITED WRECKED, has reached h was wrecked early this morning at Ochoa, Arliz , fifteen miles from B bridge gave way car ditch cars. T party is st wo touched large, | A train was the scen: be tr ansfe MOrrow. its e wages. Shipbuil CLEVELAND, O. clally Iu the development | Shipbullding company b plo A The balance train ) sleeper Mrs, K | Cleopatra, for that t Though off 1e the w d an tou 1 1s say o ders Adva he Diteh, but No L Dec. 29, A report the Sunset Limited won. A burnt engine, which train to the was composed of five s wel completely burned. I was also burned. The mery 10 e privaie ‘cat na, escaped injury, It he other cars were un- the Assenger list was oue was Injured. up at Tucson and sént to reck. The passengers will d brought to this city to= —-— under the of the o Wags Dec “Ihi veland declded to grant 10 per cent increage in meh will be affected, —