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Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15

THE suicide Of Amasa Stone, the
Cleveland millionaire, caused quite a
sensation In New York. No class
seemed more unnerved by the shock
than the rhoddy %srlstocrats who are
struggling under loads of immense
wealth. Poor Stone had lost over 49,.
coo. 900 and had only "a 900, 900 more
left. He was one OF the leading rail
road men and iron manufacturers Of
the west, and had attained the age Of
Go, when he should have bean resting
quietly after a busy life, instead Of
specializing In stocks. But his rest
less energy WAS as boundless as bis
grasping greed, ana his recent reverues
~deranged his mind, The trouble with
the American business man IL that be
rever knows when he has enough.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15

When the creek Is levelled much OF
that drainage will be distributed.
SO far as the theory Of sewerage ca
pscity Is concerned, engineering Is an
exact science and experience Is q safe
guide. Mr.. Phillips, who designed
our surface sewerage, is q practical
and experienced man. Cincinnati Is
o city whose locationis much the same
as that Of Omaha. Smaller sewers In
Cincinnati drain q larger area. But
there are no untitled creek beds to
converge the body Of water and pourit
with terrific force against the mouth of
any single sewer.
Oar sewer system Is all right, and
will be found sufficient for ever mer-
gency when completed. And it ought
to be completed at once Tho creek
bed must be filled up as 500 as posoi-
Bile, not only where 1t Is crossed by
streets, but through private property
as we'll. Mr.. Woodnsn will then dis.
cover that o fve.foot sewer is as good
for the purpose as n three times the
size.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15

IT was . great mistake on the part
of congress when they pIgeonholed the
bill to relieve the supreme court.
Turing their term just closed the
court disposed of twelve less cases than
at their last term, and there are 81
undisposed of cases now on the docket
Only 1856 cases were disposed Of during
the past year, which IL 20 less than In
1880. TIE court can never catch ny
with Its arrears. That Ia . physioa
impossibility. One of the first acts o
the new congress should be to pass
measure for the relief of the suprem'
court.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15

A DESTRUCTIVE cyclone swept over
Missouri and Kansas Sunday, leaving
ruin and desolation In Its path. The
meagre reports thus far received do
not enable US to form an estimate of the
loss Of life and property, but from &C
counts that reach ia from Kansas City,
where the hurricane wrecked many
buildings, We should Judge that the
damage to dwellings In towns and to
farm houses .Aadicfops will aggregate
many millions. Iowa and Nebrask'
have so far been more fortunate thar
their next door neighbors south
While both have been visited by heavy
rain and thunder storms, they have
escaped the terrible visitation of . cy
clone during this stormy season.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15
PERSON ALITIHS.

Lord Byron was q very fat boy, his lat
est biographer says.
Mr.. Gladstone appeared In the house Of
lords in sky.blue stockings and gold clocks.
Cole, the circus man, Is thirty-three
years old, and Is said to be wor,h S4,C00,.
600.
Governor Butler is credited with being
one Of the most graceful poker players in
New England.
Mr.. Willard expects to be the first
through passenger over the Northern Pa.
ci6c railroad in September.
Senator Palmer, Of Michigan, has given
his first years salary, as senator, to estab-
lish IN art museum In Detroit.
Patti says music belongs to Heaven.
There are no 81, 600 salaries there, row
ever. which is why Patti is still with us.
Bertha Won Hillern, the young girl who
forsook walking to become IN artist, Is
sketchipg along the Baltimore Il Ohio road.
Among the eccentric whims Of Lady
Florence Dixie WAS her having herself
photographed in the scanty costume Of an
ancient Highlander.
Peter Cooper, the great novelist" says
The Appslschicols Tribune, has passed
away. A man whose memory deserves to
be reversd by all civilized nations
President Arthur wrote poetry in his
youth. Bearing this point in mind it sp
pears that Mr.. Arthur Is o good deal more
of = reformer than he has been taken tob be.
As beautiful o brunette as Is seen in
New York is Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, who is
a native of the upland country near Wash
iDgton City. Her husband was presented
to her by John b. Clark, q family friend.
The actress Katie Putnam hiss been
elected an honary member of Fire Com.
psny No. 8, of Mobile. Probably the
members were fascinated by the way che
handled her hose. Boston Post.
Jem Mace. the p~ugilist, and Patti, the
opera singer, departed for Europe upon
the same vessel the other day. The world
OF artists" includes q great variety OF
people. Mace Is considered as much Of an
artist in his line as Patti in hers.
Marble, the patent office commissioner,
has 6shy blue eyes. is large and coarse,
and ha an intensely red tuft of chin whis.
kers, while his bald head is studiously
plastered with thatch of the same color.
pushed up from the sides.
Miss Anna Dickinson is now 10 New
York, the guest of Mrs. Croly. Miss
Dickinson is in unusually good health, and
is about entering on o course of readings
FROM her drama, "Aurelian," and from q
dramatic lecture on Jeanne Dare"
She will be heard in q number of the
eastern cities during the spring.
John Bach McMsster, the new historian,
who is an Instructor at Prin seton, is small
in stature. and his head is very large in
proportion with his body. During the
years In which he was engaged in the
preparation of history o, the American
people it is said there was but one man
besides himself who knew of bis labors.
He has an unlimited capacity for work,
and the light in his room at Witherspoon
hall is generally the last to be extinguished
in the dormitories. which are filed with
students who are not devoted to early
| hours.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15

embankment at the mill with suffi.
cient strength to turn Its course 1t
would have resulted In the destruc.
ton of Mr.. Toozer's and Mr.. jack
sons houses, and very likely the loss
Of q dozen or more of lives.
When the water was receding 1
utood on the bank with Mr.. R. N. With
nell till we could see the mouth OF the
sewer, and 1t was free from obstruc-
tion. It is simply q case of miscslcu'
tlon In regard to the size OF q sewer
required to carry off the water from
q heavy rainfall, and you cannot find
a dislnterested man in the city who
will advocate any other theory. This
same sewer was running full yesterday
Sunday morning, and the water was
backed up two feet above Its mouth,
with no obstruction In the mouth what.
ever. We were all assured that the
sewer was amply large to carry of the
water from the heaviest storm. Mr.
Oleson relied on this ASSURANCES and
filed his lot as he had q right to do.
The city apprehended nc danger Ia
bnilding the sewer across the creek at
Nineteenth street and In filling on top
of II from bank t. bank.
When the county commissioners
ordered the filling of the creek bed at
Sixteenth street and the removal If
the bridge there, they expecsed the
sewer to do Its intended duty. All
talk about repeated warnir 6, Is simply
bosh, and the city engineer says 1T
originated In q reporters imagination
that he never made any such state.
ment to the council, and the preslden,
of the council bears him out Ia this
ass ,rtiop.
When the foundation walls of the
mill were put In last fall the city en-.
gineer suggested the putting In of q
sewer Pipe through the walls of the
mill and under the basement floor Of
the mill, to connect with the sewer
and terminate in the old creek bed
above the mill.
This pipe was put In exactly as sug'
gested and Its mouth was In the bot
tom OF the creek on Mr.. Jsckson't
lot.
Mr.. Jackson and Mr.. Toozer both
have houses and live on the bank o.
the creek at this point, and they wert
both interested in seeing that thi'
pipe was kept open, and they vii
bear me out In the assertion that II
was open at all times, and that Il
drained the creek bed ss low as 1t was
possible to drain 1t and have 1t rur
into the sewer. There Is not a mar
of ordinary intelligence who has Wis
tied the locality and examined the
water marks In the vicinity but what
is now satisfied that the sewer will
not carry off over one.third of the
water of q heavy storm, and any efforI
to defend the calculations upon which
it was constructed will not stand for 8
moment. A theory as applied to sew
erage engineering In the more leveI
eastern cities will not apply here, and
If the city council allow It's engineers
to be guided by these calculations II
will learn by dearly bought expert
snced that a good deal of observation
and less theory Is what Is wanted ir
this city. CLARK WooDMAN.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15

Mr. woodman on the Sewer Question
To the Editor Of the Bee.
In your Issue Of the 18th In an edi.
torial headed attacking the sewers"
you say: "The damage done to the
Woodman oil mill was largely, If not
entirely, owing to carelessness on the
part of Its builders. They had been
repeatedly warned that there was dan
ger in case of an extraordinary rain.
fall. In spite of the warning they
neglected to keep their overflow pipe
open and permitted stsguant water tc
back itself up to the depth of twelve
feet adjoining their property. When
the heavy rain came of course the wal
Of earth gave way"
I do not know where you obtainet
the above information but there Is no
word of truth In 1t. No sucl
state of affairs has v Q existet
there. The overflow pip,
was unobstructed and open ant
1t has been In this condition eve sine
, 1t was put In. No stsgnant water &C
!. cumulated above It's mouth and Their
wac no bank of earth there to Civ
D away. Tho first bank of earth tina
gave away was the filling on q lot be
r longing to Mr.. Oleson. This lot
situated in the old creek bed, nea
Twentieth street, about three block
from the oil mill. The earth that wa
put into this lot held the water till
was ten feet above the mouth of tn
q sewer. 1t then went out and the MAJ
Of water and mud rushed down till
= struck the filling on top OF the sew
8 where the sewer crosses the creek
Nineteenth street. When this latt,
wall of earth gave away the water an
= mud rushed down In q volume
least fifteen feet deep, carryir
Q the walls of the mill before 1
III there had been 9 hea,
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15
STATE JOTTINGS.

In Wisner the dog tax has besn placed
at 80.
Dwelling houses are very scarce in Loup
City.
Nebraska's population is increasing at
the rate of GOO a day.
A big rush and high prices are antici.
psted at the opening Of lhe O.oe reserve
sale.
A revivalist is holding meetings at West
Point. The Republican speaks of him as
being cranky.
Eleven hundred head of cattle passed
through Lincoln last Friday, bound for
Butler county.
Over $1,000 worth of town lots were
sold in Hampton, Hamilton county, in
two days last week.
1t Is expected that within eight weeks
trains will be running from Nebraska City
via Tecumseh to Beatrice.
Articles OF incorporation for the Platts.
mouth & Southwestern have been filed
with the secretary of state.
A young man named Rogers, who for
meIly lived at Dakota City, was on trial
at Lyons on the 10th for larceny.
d. L. Bruen, of Platte county, ia raising
100 lambs, the product of LOG ewes, the
other lamb having been accidentally
killed.
Madison county is looking for o colony
Of fifty families from West Virginia, ar
rangements for whose coming are being
perfected.
Mrs. Colby. Of Beatrice, is con,idering
the scheme Of starting q newspaper for
the advancem Mt Of woman's suffrage In
this state.
An effort Is being made by the citizns
OF Furnas, Gosper and Frontier counties
to organize an Agricultural aud Fair IS.
ISOLATION.
A large lynx, measuring over three feet,
WAS recently killed near Oxford. The ami.
NAL had long been raiding on the sheep
and fowls of that vici Iity.
In Burt county the other day q little
girl named Mabel Dooley was helping her
brother burn cornstalks, when her clothes
caught fire and she was 80 seriously burned
that she died in q lew hours.
Loup hkye organized and formed them.
selvas into societies to take undsr adviss-
ment matters Of public concern, and to
promote their interests generally.
There was q little disturbance raised OF
the colored Baptist church in Lincoln Fri.
day night. Some Of the ungodly coons OF
the city, who seem to have no respect for
the religious element, attended the church,
cooked their f.et up on the seats, squirtad
tobacco juice over the floor. threw the
hymn books and bibles about, and gave
the minister some sauce.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15

WI cheerfully accord Mr.. Wood.
man space In our columns to. print
his version Of the late trouble with the
North Omaha sewer. His arguments,
however, fail to break down In the
least the common sense position that
an unfinished piece Of public works
cannot be expected to perform the
functions of . completed system.
Look at the case squarely, aside
from personal prejudice and
personal damages. Here was q
sewer, or more properly a
o~ulvert built v Q . creek which drains
some 400 acres of bur city. The
mere building of tho oulvsrt was only
tho beginning of the improvement in
tended to relieve nj of the open creek,
The remainder contemplated was thu
filling In of the valley of the creel
above the arch of the sewer, leaving
strong culvert of FIVE feet to take sur
face water from the streets o
North Omaha. But before tn,
plan Is finished, and Will
| the natural bed of q large portion o
. the creek Is still untitled, we ar
I visited by a terrific rainfall, which
a adding additional force to the stag
nant water already contained an
I banked up In the creek, causes 1t I
overflow Its boundaries and does cor
n siderable damage to property. There
q upon Mr.. Woodmsn and Mr.. Cor.il
and several other gentlemen proclaim
the sewers q failure.
This Ia not common sense, Whe
IT the creek Is filled, five
foot sewer will DO amp
10 large enough to carry off all the wat
10 that reaches it. The mistake mat
10 by Mr.. Woodmsn lies In a false cal
mate of the body of surface wat
y, which, when the Improvement is col
~ pleted, will fall into the north Omal
40 culvert.
to A large portion of the amou
to which now seeks the valley of +
20 creek viii be absorbed by the groun
An Anothsr norton will find
h. way to the river by the q
w tsru. As matters now a
ve the untitled valley Of the North On
y. hA creek Is . funnel into which all I
'drainsg 4 % acres is poure
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15

A CORRESPONDENT asks us to settle
q controversy by deciding the pro-
nunciation of the word dude and ito
origin. Dude Is pronounced to rhyme
with rude, Ito origin Is o. difficult to
trace as that Of any slars expression.
1t Is claimed that II has been used In
some portion of New England to de-
scribe q know nothing and pronounced
In two ~syllables. However that may
be, the modern dude pronounces hit
name In one.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15

WITH q cold winter and q wintry
spring, the railroad builders In the
United States laid down fourteen
hundred and fifty miles OF new track
In January, February, March and
April, 1883. This Is seven hundred
and fifty miles short of the work done
In the corresponding months last
year; but last year was the apogee In
the circuit of railroad speculation,
when 1t reached the distance limit. Il
will probably be another generation
of men that will find 1t necessary II
any year hereafter to build railroadI
enough In this country to reach hal
around the earth.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15
Army Officers keuired and to Retir,
w..LI.ulen p,..It

Army Officers kerired and to Retire.
Washington Special.
The Army and Navy Register con-
tsins the first complete list Of army
retirements for the coming ten years.
In 1883, the prominent officers retired
are: Gen. Iugalls, August 20; Col.
James A. Ekin, August ID; Col.
Hunt, Fifth artillery, September IA;
Col, Getty, Fourth artillery, Octo.
Der A
In 1884, Gen. Sherman, February
8; Gen. Wright, chief Of engineers,
March 6; Col. Reynolds, of en-
gineers, March II; Col. F. 7. Don't,
Third artillery, December II.
In 1885, Chaplain Van Horne, July
6; Gen. AuQur, July 10.
In 1885, Col. Hatch, Second cav
Airy, January 8; Gen. Pope, March
16; Gen. Ssokett, April IA; Gen. Stur'
gis, June IA; Gen. Newton, engineer.
July /.
In 1888, Gen. Hancock, February
Ia; lon. Baird, August 20.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15

ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER will
now have an opportunity to conduct
another suit, which need not be as long
as the star route trial. Secretary Tel
Ter has written him II recommending the
instituting of proceedings againOt the
Union Pacific for the sum of 81 .727.-
742, due the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15

JAMES r KEENElooko for the great
est financial panic In Wall street that
New York has ever seen, and he pro.
poses to stat d from under. The pub
lie quite agrees with Mr.. Keene In
Its distrust of Wall street sharks, and
PROPOSES to do the same thing.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15
Look Below the Supreme Court.

Look Below the Supreme Court.
osceolA Farmers Advocate.
1t seems to us, as We carefully look
over the field, that the district courts
are much more at fault for doing their
work SO bunglingly. Does 1t not seem
to a man up q tree we have elected
scheming politicians to preside on the
bench of our district courts, and the
governor has followed the same u
tom and appointed some railros tools
to that position-with n exception
at Omsha-instead Of selecting men
of ability and we'll skilled in law, who
can command the respect of the peo'
ple2 Our jury drawing Is a farce,
our law making q shaun, aud the seleo'
tions of the district judges a disgrace,
and the whole system rotten and dis
honest, and why should We throw al
the blame on thesupreme court, which
In nine cases out of ten Is right In
these decisions2
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15
The BEE PUBLISHING co., Props.
E. ROsEwATER Editor

WE haven't yet heard who is to be
civil service examiner for Nebraska,
but at the present rate of removals
and appointments there will be no use
for his services for some years to come.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15
AN ONE GovERroR


Governor Walker, Of Connecticut,
deserves credit for his plucky veto
of the railroad tax reduction hill
which was passed through the legi''a-
ture by q strong railroad lobby. The
message accompanying the vetoed bill
contains some sound kernels Of sense.
The governor d%enounces the bill
as Objectionable In the very
object II aims at-ths red NC
ton Of railroad taxes - and
In the method 1t proposes to accom-
plIsh II. He asserts that the people
of Connecticut are already paying IN
average tax of about Ia mills on o dol
Ian on the value OF their individual
property, while the railroad corpora
lions pay only 10 mills on the dollar
on the value Of their corporate prop
erty.
at Is clsimed," the governor con-
~tinues, "that railroad corporations are
now taxed on their indebtedness az
we'll as their property, and that this
bill proposes to partially relieve them
from such obvious oppression. This
Slain, so delusive, is entirely unbound.
ed. The state imposes taxes On prop
erty, but never on indebtedness. The
market value Of the property of q rail-,
road corporation is indicated by the
msrket value Of Its stock and bonds,
and the state adopts such value as q
rule for the assessment Of taxes upon
the property such corporation possess.
es. The bill, to accomplish Its abject,
contemplates the taxation of the same
property at different rates, de-
pendsnt upon the manner In
which such property is held
Such discrimination Is %pernicious. 1t
provides that property, If represented
by stock, shall pay one per cent, but
II by bonds, only one.half per cent.
Such q policy, II pursued in the taxa
ton of individual property, would
permit the large portion of the real
estate subject to mortgage to escape
half the taxation 1t now has to pay.
It Is urged that the object of this bill
that changes the mode of railroad
taxation Is to chsritably aid the poor
corporations. If this were 30 dis.
elimination for such a reason 10 mat
ters OF sx,tion Is as obnoxious be-
tween corporate az individual tax
payers; but I am advised that the
effsct Of thi, bill will be to give In the
course of a year nearly as much of the
! proposed reduction to the rich as the
poov. The refusal to approve thi'
bill will result, I hopo, in the adop
ton by the next assembly Of some
comprehensive scheme that will fairly
distribute the burden of taxation or
the property of the state"
We commend tho above to the at
tention oil tho Nebraska state board Of
equalization. In CJpnec.icus the
taxable value of tho property OF q
railroad is indicated by the msske 81
value of its stock and bonds. Ia Ne
braska the state has besn syatemati'
oaily swindled by permitting the rsi =
road managers to mako their own ap
pralBement of the value Of tho 70
perties which thoy control, Ii thu
| rule which G v2rnor Walker stAtei &C
concisely were adopted in our Owl
state the derived from rail
road taxation would DO doubled
Thsre Is no reason, as the BEE ha
often urged why this method shouie
not be adopted. Property Is wortl
| what II will sell for in the marke
no matter whether the property be
house and lot or o railroad.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15

IF Senator Edmunds, on bis way to
Oregon, shonld happen to stop at Salt
Like he might hear something TO hif
advantage about the operation of hia
polygamy squelcher which fails tc
squelch, notwithstanding a $50, 0CO q
year commission.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15

DENVER society, 1t is said, studieus.
ly Ignores Mrs. Tabor No. 2. Denver
society must draw the line somewhere,
and It fixes 1t ut o who will
consent to be married by q justice OF
the peace.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15

IT 10 rumored that General Thayer
Is to be offered the highly remunera'
tive position of railway postal clerk In
case he can bring ''the unanimous en-
dorsementH Of the Hall county delega'
tion" as a credential Of his character
and standing as a republican.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15

JOE PULITZER, who has taken the
New York World, issues his eel orial
programme, which consists Of: Anti,
monopoly, progressive democracy, and
new party leaders. Mr.. Pulitzer 10
throwing his pearls before swine.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15

BIDS for the location of the new
capital of Dakota will be opened at
Canton to day by the Dakota capital
commission, and the good people OF
Ysnkton refase to be consoled.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-15
They Have a Jolly Time All Together,

They Have q Jolly Time All Together.
Atchison Globe.
The Union Pacific road owes the
government a tremendous amount Of
money, but the company refuses to
pay 1t, and the government Is wonder.
Ing what 1t had better do about 1t. If
1t will hire a lawyer as talented as the
Union Pacific lawyer a way out of the
difficulty will speedily be found. The
railroads engage nearly every talented
legal gentleman in the country, and
when the people appear with q griev-
ance they laugh the ANAL lawyers who
represent them out of court. Very
often the judge joins in the hilarity.
Too many Judges accept favors from
the railroads In the way of special cars
when they travel.