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Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

GENERAL JAMES w. DENVER, who is
out as a democratic presidential candidate,
is not a Californian after all. He merely
lived in that state for a few years. He
resides in Ohio, and for this reason his
chance may be said to be very fair, for
as a rule an Ohio man hardly ever gets
left. General Denver has established a
literary bureau, which has issued his biog.
raphy, and the next thing will be the
usual wood cut in the newspapers. From
his biography We learn that he was born
in Virginia, now resides in Ohio, and
has resided in Missouri, Kansas and Cali
fornia, so that he stands the chance OF
being a f~ayorite son of five states. His
democracy and his Virginian birth make
him all right in the south, and his ser
vices in the army. from which he resigned
ia April, 1868, makes him all right north,
and beside all that he is a stock raiser in
Ohio. 'If the people are grieyed on the
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16
Army Orders.

Recruits William C. Bailey and Viii,
liam Maxwell, enlisted at Fort Douglas,
Utah, are assigned to Company B, 9th
Infantry.
Assistant Surgeon Alonzo r. Chaplin,
U. S. A, is relieved from duty at For
Douglas, Utah, and will proceed to For
Laramie, Wyo,, and report to the com
handing officer thereof for duty thereat
The travel directed is necessary for th'
public service.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Frank j
Ives, U. S. A, having reported at these
headquarters in compliance with para
graph 5, Special Orders No. 76, current
series from the headquarters of the army
is assigned to temporary duty at these
headquarters.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

THE utter absurdity of the demand of
the Pennsylvania democrats for an aboli-
ton of the internal revenue system is
somewhat amusing. The internal ev-
snue taxes now bring $3.50, 900, 900 into
the treasury. To abolish them would
leave a deficiency of $50, oOO, 900 at the
very least. How would the able demo.
cratic tinanciers supply that They
omitted to say in their platform, but
they will have to explain this little point
before any considerable number of people
outside the insane asylums endorse their
sentiments.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16
ARBOR DAY.

Nebraska'su arbor day is certainly bear.
ing good fruit. Several states, following
her example, now have a tree-planting
day, and the custom will be established
in nearly every state of the union. 1t
was indeed a happy thought on the part
of the men who organized the idea. The
New York Star says:
Ten years ago the governor of Ne
braska inaugurated 'Arbor Day." and
the custom is now followed in Mime
sofa, Kansas, Colorado, Indiana, West
Virginia and Ohio. By proclamation the
people of these states are requested to
devote one day in April to the planting
of forest trees, and thousands of shoots
are set into the ground that a generation
hence will be of priceless value to the
inhabitants of these states. Governor
Albeit has inaugurated the custom in
New Jersey, and its adoption is being
considered in other eastern states.
custom and none worth speaking OF
against it. While our legislature is
shllly-shallying over jobbing schemes for
the preservation Of the Adirondacks,
would it not be a good idea for the citi.
zens of New York state to set them an
example of practical forethought and
have an arbor day Of their own2 We
commend this suggestion to the gov
ernor
Apropos of arbor days, the Newark, N.
j. advertiser says: "Men do not need
to be taught the duty of leaving the fam.
lily provided for, and they look out for
the possible rainy day in their own lives,
but of another and future day for the
city and country they are more obvious.
But Providence wisely orders that the
young shall take a fresh and hearty en-
joyment in all outdoor occupations, and
to plant a tree is a delight to them, with.
out regard to that distant future
which their minds are hardly able to
grasp. A tree is to them crystallized
poetry, an emanation of their own happy
natures. Let that taste and feeling be
cultivated Teach them what trees are
suitable for different soils and situations,
and which will best harmonize with their
surroundings. They may live to see
some of the fruits and blessedness of
their present labors, and if they do not
they will live long enough to rejoice
that, in the usefulness of their hearts
they have done something to make the
world more beautiful and the people
hanpier
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

1t is becoming a very serious question
for the naval department what to do with
the naval officers. There are not ships
enough to hold them all, and their mum
beers are annually being increased by
g~raduations from the naval academy.
There are altogether 1855 commissioned
officers in the department, and less thar
half are assigned to ships. OF the rest,
662 are nominally employed on shore
duty--which means doing nothing-and
the remainder, 254, the secretary il
forced to report 30 frankly as ''unem-
ployed" Scarcely any of the commo,
dores have been at sea more than a yeai
or two since 1874, and very few of the
other officers have had much practical OK
p~erienoe in naval papers. The object OF
a navy is supposed to be a means of Of
Tense and defense on the ocean in war.
But a navy without ships and without ex-
perienced officers to handle ships would
not be worth very much in warfare.
Considering the results the American ma.
Wy is the most expensive in the world. II
causes a serious drain on the national re-
sources.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

THOSE of our citizens who are contem.
plating erecting costly residences this
season ought to take advantage of our
water-works and put elevators in their
houses. A small passenger elevator for
two or three stories can be put in for
about $500, and the expense OF running
it will be a mere trifle. An elevator in
a two or three story residence will be
found a great convenience, and will save
many a step up and down stairs.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16
PRESIDENT ARTHUR is unite intereste,

PRESIDENT ARTHUR is quite interested
in a daring but graceful equestrienne ,whe
every afternoon exercises her horse on the
circle that lies between the executive
mansion and the river. She has a fine
horse and rides him in the most reckless
manner. The president often watches
her from the window of his library and
admires her Workmanship, but nobody
knows who she is or where she came
from. She is usually attended by a groom
IN livery, and when she finishes her exer-
else rides off into the northwestern part
of the city.-Boston Globe.
Is it possible that Omaha's famous
equestrienne, Nellie Burke, is laying
siege to the presidents heart by means of
her skillful and graceful Workmanship?
There is nothing too bold for her to at
tempt.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

A DELEGATION of people from the Pa
ciic coast is about to swoop down upon
tiramercy park in a body to ascer.
tain the exact truth as to Tilden's physi.
cal condition and his intentions as to the
presidency. This is pleasant news. We
shall now have it definitely settled
whether Tilden is q tottering paralytic
with both feet in the grave, as some have
asserted, or a bounding athlete able to
throw two men over the barn, as other
liars have told us. 1t seems strange
though that a delegation from the Pacific
coast should go all the way to New York
to discover anything about Mr.. Tilden.
Is it possible that they have never heard
of the editor of the Omaha Herald
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

SUMNER, Perry, and the Omaha Her.
ald' are the three great lights on politi,
cal economy in this country, according to
DIR Miller. OF course everybody under.
stands that the mention of the first two
vas merely complimentary. The Her
aid is really the great authority on all
economic questions for the whole CONT
nent, and the others simply get their
ideas from it Os the great fountain head
of wisdcm
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16
Postothce Changes

In Nebraska, during the week ending
April 10, 1884, furnished by VIM. Van
Week, of the p~ostofice department:
Estaolished-Dunn, Lancaster county,
VIM. H.. Dunn, postmaster.
Discontinued - Buckeye, Hamilton
county; Chase, Greeley county; Ford,
Holt county; Latrobe, johnson county
Postmasters appointed--Cameron, Hall
county, John nj. Steam, Jr.; Ceresco,
Saunders county, Horace Adams; Cole,
ridge, Adams county, w. FL. Pollock
Henrietta, Nuckolls county, Mrs. Minnie
Ruhlemann; Lambert, Holt county, Mrs.
Laura M. Foster.
Name and the site changed-Wells
Mills, Richardson county to Green, and
Charles M. Gillian appointed postmaster.
IOWA.
Pcstofice changes in Iowa during the
week ending April IL, 1884.
observation-disclosures, Osceola county,
David j. Jones, postmaster; Jehn, Boone
county, John G Porter; Newport. Lorain
county, 81 as p. Brogan; Survy, Greene
county, Ibos. j. Armstrong.
ostuiAsoers aPPoIuteu-baAter, JAS
per county, M ID. Burnett; California,
Harrison county, A. N. Fountain; Graet-
lingen, Polo Alto county, l.. N. Bryan;
HASTE, Polk county, Reuben Viggor;
Irving, Tama county, Florence Twogood;
Jameson, Clarke county, Thos. Bernart;
Lacey, Mahaska county, A. e. Hover
ton; LineviUe, Mayne county, b. w.
Vanderveer; Littleton, Buchanan county,
Jacob Hoffman; Maine, Appanoose coun-
ty, Thos. Gladfelder; Mount Pisgah,
Harrison county, John R%olline; Prepare
ton, Monona county, Henry M. johnson;
Taya, Webster county, Rose Donaghu.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

wool question, let them put him up as
the candidate to represent the farmers"
Considerable space is devoted in his biog-
raphy to his governorship of the territory
of Kansas twenty-seven years ago. For
the past twenty-one years he has had no
record at all except as a great and good
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

Messrs. Kimball, Stebbins and Shelby
returned from Denver Monday, having
placed Leadville and Utah business on a
satisfactory basis of armed neutrality.
The meeting adjourned subject to the
call of Commissioner Daniels, after one
test vote had been taken ON the selection
of a referee on Colorado percentage, it
being conceded then that nothing of a
permanent nature could be accomplished,
pending the result of the higher confer
ence between the Union Pacific and Bur
hngtcn at Boston.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

COVER production" has lighted upon
the copper industry also, and the mine
N Michigan which has hitherto paid
about 80 per cent. annually will this
year skip a dividend. Exactly the same
causes have brought this about which pro.
duced the stagnation in the iron trade,
The home market being glutted, there i,
no demand for the output. The SAM
remedy will cure this disease in all cases
1t is foreign trade.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16
q FLATn HOUSES.

fLdT hOOoho.
Chicago is having an experience with
high rents that may be instructive to
Omaha. During the last ak years rents
have advanced 80 much there that the
building of "dat' or tenement houses has
multiplied three-fold. There are great
numbers of families hat were abundant
ly able, five years ago, to rent houses,
and are now obliged, for economy's sake,
to rent a fourth or fifth floor ''1at." The
Herald says that "a third floor fiat on
a desirable street rents to-day for as
much money as a three.story and base
ment marble front brought six years
ago." In spite of this high rent, how
ever, single houses have advanced 30
much that the ''1at" is still the cheaper.
The demand for them is 30 great that
they are being erected at the rate of a
hundred or two a month. AS soon as
finished, they are occupied by families
forced out of single houses. The
"fat" houses are usually built from
four to six stories high and frequently ac-
comodate forty or fifty families. They
are not pleasant places to live in. 1t
may be questioned whether on sanitary
grounds people should be permitted to
live in them. The ventilation is sim
dly wretched. There is no air but the
poisoned air of the crowded streets.
There is no sunlight. There is no play
ground for the children, who merely
grow up like plants that have sprouted in
the cellar. There is ~veiyoften sewer gas
and always great danger from fire. Many
of them look and smell and feel like
jails. Human beings cannot be said to
have homes in them. They only exist
there. Yet vile as they are, many thou
sands of them have been built in Chicago
since 1878, and others are icing com-
pleted and filled with amazing rapidity.
The people must live some where. They
cannot afford to rent separate dwellings,
and they cannot live 30 far from
their business as the suburbs. The
fiat becomes the only resort of people of
moderate means.
At the same time there is q large
amount of unoccupied land in convenient
portions in the city, on which dwellings
could easily be erected. The trouble is
there, exactly as it is in every growing
city, that the price of the land is too
high. A landlord can realize three or
four times as much by building a fiat
house as he could by building dwellings.
Probably a moderate rent from the latter
would scarcely remunerate him for the
mere cost of the land. The real source
of the trouble is to be found in the ex-
orbitant price of the land, and the ra-
pidity with which it has risen in the past
few years.
There is no doubt that tenementhouses
are a curse to any city. 1t would be an
unfortunate to have them introduced ex-
tensively in Omaha. Yet we are liable to
have them. The want of cheap houses
within a reasonable distance of the bust
ness portion of the city will eventually
create a demand for them. unless it be
supplied in some other way. A supply of
houses renting from $15 to $25 a month,
and situated within the convenient access
Of those employed down town would be of
~incalcuable benefit to the growth as well
as to the health and morals of Omaha.
As long as the price of land is so high,
however, there is no chance of seeing it.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

The Standard OH company has long
assumed to be absolutely Independent of
all laws whatsoever. Therefore it treats
with contempt the special order of Gov.
Cleveland, commanding it to abate the
nuisance 1t has established near New
York, by which q large part of the city
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

The Omaha Herald will now have to
trim it's sails and begin giving to Charles
Francis Adams the taffy which it has
hitherto 80 generously dealt out to Sid
ney Dillon. When Dillon retires from
the Union Pacific presidency, DR.. Miller
will have no further use for him.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

LIEUTENANT EMORY, who has been Sc
lected to command one of the vessels in
the Greeley relief expedition, has beer
offered 500, coo by his rich young wife
if he will refuse to so. And still he per
sists in going. Perhaps he lives with his
wife's mother.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

The first thing which Mr.. Hendricks
did on returning from Europe was to
e~mphatically deny that he had ever said
it would be inexpedient for the demo-
Gratis to take a presidential candidate
from Indiana. Mr.. Hendricks evidently
wants to get the lightning rod for his
end of the cold ticket" into position as
as possible.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

HAVING refused a present Of 500, 900,
Carl Schurz thinks he can now go to lee.
turing, as he believes the people would
like to see the man who threw such q
bundle of money over his shoulder. He
proposes to begin his ~lecturing tour in
New England.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

THE disappointed candidates for the
chief justiceship Of Wyoming will now
have another chance to make a fight for
the place, the recently appointed chief
justice, James @. Perry of New York,
having died suddenly of paralysis.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

We occasionally hear of efforts
being made "to protect the forests." A
meeting wa held in New York last
week, with this end in view. There was O
brass band present, and several speakers
detailed in eloquent language the evil ef-
fects of denudlng the earth of its trees.
1t is also noticeable that the subject il
being revived with considerable interest
In Minnesota, by some of the newspa
pera. This scrt of thing has been going
en- for about twenty-five years. The
''denuding" process has also been going
on, and one has about kept pace with
the other. Forest trees are being de,
stroyed Just as rapidly as they were
when the agitation FIRST began, and from
all that has thus far happened they seem
likely to be destroyed for an indefinite
time TO come. 1t never seems to have
occurred to the good people who are
arguing against the destruction of for
ssts that q legal provision by which lum-
Der could be brought from other u
tries might be q pretty good thing to
keep our own trees from being cut
down.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

ia filed with horrible smells. 1t would
be interesting to know whether there is
any authority in this country which this
gang of plunderers is bound to respect.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16
THE Ohio LIQUOR sellers who last YEA,

THE Ohio liquor sellers who last year
worked 30 hard for a democratic legisla-
ture, in order to get the Scott law re-
pealed, are wailing bitterly. The demo-
cratic legislature has adjourned and the
Scott law stands just as it did before.
The democrats promised to repeal it, but
they did not dare to force public opinion
on such an issue.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16
InL oIRlL Uni ttHL,
Prominent C., B, %, and B, N. Off,
Gals IN The City.
In Consultation with the Officials
Of the Stock Yards Go.
How the Railroad Party Barely
Missed q Disastrous Accident.
An Elected Tramp Suspected of
Placing the Obstruction.
Trial of Quinn Bohanan for the
Murder Of Cook.
In n Dispute Over the Spelling of
the Word "Peddler"-
Other Items.
FROM LINCOLN.
b. AND NJ. MOVEMENTS.

Special to THE BEE.
LINCOLN, April 15.-T. j. Potter, third
vice-president of the Burlington system
of railroads; G. w. Holdrege, manager
of the B. & NJ, in Nebraska; Thomas
Miller, general freight agent of the b. &
NJ. IT. E. Calvert, chief engineer and
r.. j. Mcclure, consulting engineer OF
the 80" together with some other promi-
nent railroad officials. were in the city
this morning, having arrived in Manager
Potter's car, No. 80, from the west.
They have been examining the Holdrege
and other Lateral extensions, and before
long Nebraska will hear some important
news from the B. & M. There is but
little doubt that the'visit here was for the
purpose of consulting with the officials of
the Nebraska Stock Yards company in
this city. 1t is understood that the Bur-
lington officials are very friendly
to this movemant and that they
will take a practical financial interest in
the enterprise. If they do, the U. P.
stock syndicate in your city will have q
strong competitor that will not only con-
troll the business of the south part of the
state, but will make things lively in the
west, especially when the projected B.
& M. line to the Loup country is com
pleted and the talked of branch to Chey-
enne put in practical shape. Manager
Porter expressed himself agreeably sur
prised with the fourishing condition of
Lincoln, and spoke in high terms of the
energetic efforts being made to construct a
system of waterworks. The party left at
II o'clock a. M, for Columbus, and will
return sometime tonight, when the stock
yard officials will undoubtedly havea con-
sultation with them,
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

SENATOR PAyNE's fortune is 500, 600,
900. He has been obliged to have it
given out that he is not a candidate for
the democratic presidential nomination,
as the calls for money from his ''barT'
have become SO numerous and of such
magnitude that if he acceded to all the
requests his twenty millions wouldn't
last him through the campaign.
Every mail brings him hundreds of
letters ''striking" him for sums all the
way from S5 to $4,000. However,
when the convention meets it is safe to
say that Mr.. Payne will be a candidate,
and as the democrats are in favor of nom
mating "a bar'l of money" he will very
likely carry off the honor. His with,
drawal" is only temporary, and is intend
ed as a check to the demands for money.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

THE tumble in Union Pacific stocks is
partly due to the failure to rope the Bur-
lington into the tripartite pool.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

If Mike Meaney paid as much atten-
ton to the streets as he does to politics
he might make a good street commits
sioner.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

If Mr.. Pusoy can do anything of any
value in aid of the bridge, the mint
bed" will be forgiven and forgotten.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16
WATERwORKs

Plans for a watorworks system were
submitted to the ommon council last
night, and Chester B. Davis, formerly of
Omaha, and for some time connected
with the construction of your waterworks
under Mr.. Shelton, sent in IN application
for employment as hydraulic engineer.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16
ALMOST AN ACCIDENT.

Right here I might mention the ia
that these distinguished r%ailroaders came
very near netting with a serious
smush up last evening of which
they knew nothing until their arrival
here. The engineer of an extra freight
following the east bound passenger train
between Exeter and Friendville yester-
day discovered distractions on the track
a few miles from the latter place. He
stopped the train in time to avoid an &C.
cident, when it was discovered that some
fish plates" had been so arranged that
if the engine struck them a wreck would
surely have occurred. The plates were
removed, and when the train reached
Friendville an engine was dispatched
after a suspicious looking individual who
had been seen walking on the track near
where the distractions had been placed
He was overtaken and jailed in Friend
vile in default of $1,000 bail. He gave
his name as Charles Oldham, and it is
thought that he sought re-
venge for having been elected
from the east bound passenger train, and
hence placed the obstruction on the
track. President Potter and party'sspe-
cial was following the special at a high
rate of speed, and in a few moments
more they would have encountered the
distractions, and it is doubtful if a seri-
GUS accident could have been prevented,
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

MURDER ABOUT SPELLING A WORD.
District attorney Strobe is in the city
on his way to Nebraska City, to attend
the trial of Quinn Bohanan which com
mences there tomorrow. The prisoner
has been taken down and the case
will be watched with much interest
here. 1t will be remembered that he
shot a well-known citizen named Cook
at Waverly, a short distance west OF
here, about ayear ago, in a dispute as to
the spelling Of the word ''peddler." He
was tried and convicted, but a new trial
was granted by the supreme court on
some technical grounds. Subsequently
a change of venue was ordered to Otoe
county. Bohanan is a hard customer.
He has already served a term in the pen.
itentiary, and was one of the most dar-
ing leaders in the McWaters uprising in
the pen some years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16
THE LIGHT

is all ready for illuminating, the machine
being prepared for work and the wires
stretched to the business premises of the
principal subscribers. All that is wanting
for a trial are the lamp globes which
were ordered some time ago and are on
their way from the east.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16
MORE LIGHT.

The Electric Light company of Lincoln
have filed its articles of incorporation
with the names of w. w. Wilson, j. j.
Imhoff, j. @. Mcbride, j. e. Houtz, and
A. Il. Zeimer as incorporators. The
capital stock is placed at 500, 900, and
the time of commencing business is to-
day. QUID NUNc.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-04-16

Wllimantic Spool totton is entirely the product of Home Industry,
and is pronounced by experts to be the best sewing machine thread in the
ORD. FULL ASSORTMENT CONSTANT fly ON HAND, and
or sale by HENLEY, HAYNES 6 VAN ARSDEL,
m&e Omaha, Neh.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-04-11
Rspn,sa

There are. aa aerld. nssa w1ars .
man earns sTss; sssatlr. wals has
wife's existence 10 that es q hnrsscts.
writes Col. 7. W. HS1,sassaN fhsse
cases are rare; taking 0as .lnsty With
another, the wife woSss ~ AArd - sas
husband, and the fses that II, share tz-
wolves the handling o. the ueaxy dsss
not make 1t his money. IL hsbg1xs ts
both, and what he Pays over to aer =,
not gift, but matter OF rtyas. ssrhis
was present to me from my wife, said
rich man. showing an ornanen1
bought with your money. sasi frtead
jocosely. "Nol' he said. ''oas Of her
own hard earnings. She keeps house tsr
Q man Of your acauaintanee!'