Omaha daily bee., 1888-07-29

evening by going on a strike" The Calls
regular force, about twenty in number re-
fused to sell papers because the manager of
the city circulation had put a number of new
lads on the carrier force. But they waited
on Col. Fairbrother and adjusted the diff
Guilty. The colonel stood by the boys. In
Lincoln the newsboy has rights and publish
ers are bound to respect them.
RAILROAD EXToRTIoN LOVERS.
The board of trade of the city of Hastings
has a penchant for railroads. This is evil
denced by the protest filed before the state
board of transportation yesterday evening
against the action of the board reducing local
freight tariffs. The president, secretary and
executive committee, C.. II. DIETRICH, A. ID.
Yocum, M. l.. Ellsmorc, l.. Hahn, II. Bost-
wick, j.. j. Wemple, A. l.. Clark, G.. l..
Evans, J. b. Hartwell and +. d. Taggart.
give reasons for so doing, as follows:
To the Honorable, the State Board Of
Transportation, Lincoln, Neb.-Geptlemen:
Our attention having been called to your
recent order e%ffecting II change in the dis
lance tariff over all railroads within the
state, and realizing that any change in the
rates must necessarily interest all business
communities, we have carefully investigated
the same, and have reached the following
conclusions, namely:
That the operation of such a tariff must
certainly prove very detrimental to all bust
ness interests throughout the state, and es-
pecially so to the people of the western por-
ton, of which we form a part, and in whose
prosperity we are most vitality interested.
With a large territory in this part of the state
undeveloped, and consequently practically
uninhabited, we most earnestly protest
against any action on your part that will re
tard the construction of railroads, or prevent
the free investment of capital therein.
Therefore, we deem it very unwise, and
most certainly unjust, to compel the railroad
companies doing business in Nebraska to
haul freight at, or nearly at, the sam rates
as in the older and more thickly settled states,
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Judgment that the rates now being charged
on local shipments within this state are fair
and reasonable. The interstate
act gives full protection to the people, and
with it those in favor of railroad legislation
are satisfied.
The action of the state boards of Iowa and
Nebraska against the railroads has so re-
duced the earnings of some of the best
equipped and economically managed railroads
that they are not making expenses. BY so
doing they have antagonized and driven CAPT
tai from us, and stopped the construction of
railroads in this state, thereby working great
hardship and loss to thousands now living in
the western and portion of the
state. Nebraska is dependent upon the pro-
Queer for her prosperity, and the producer is
dependent upon the railroads to reach our
markets in which he can buy and sell. Such
markets are reached mostly by interstate
shipment, over which the state board has no
jurisdiction. If a reduction in rates Is Or
dered by the state board the railroads will
maintain correspondingly high interstate
rates, which means that the farmer must pay
more to ship out of the state his grain and
stock, and also pay more to ship in his lum-
| Der, coal, salt, etc, that he uses,
a reduction of the state rates is of no ben
eft to the farmer, as he seldom travels or
ships anything from town to town in the
state.
In view of these facts we request that the
order making a change in the rates within
this state be recinded, believing that such Or
der as it now stands is detrimental to the
best interests of the state.
NEW ELEVATOR COMPANY.
Articles were filed with the secretary OF
state to-day Incorporating the North Platte
milling and elevator company. The company
is located at North Platte, Lincoln county,
and will buy, sell and store grain and manu-
facture mill products. Organization was eff
fected July 10, and will continue forty years
unless otherwise decided by II majority vote
of the stockholders. The company authorize
a capital stock of SO, 900 divided INTO shares
of 800 each. John X. Ottenstein, Nj. A.
j. Alum are the incorporators.
ATTENDED THE SHRINE.
A delegation of Omaha citizens were in
Lincoln to-day to visit 1.-THE Temple of Sero-
sis' and to attend the Mystic Shrine degree
this evening. To become a member of the
Shrine a person has TO be a knight templar,
the degree in the York rite of masonry or O
mason of the thirty-second degree. The
meeting tonight is one of peculiar interest to
all ranking masons, but it is said to be a side
issue and still a link of the square and com
pass"
CITY NEWS AND NOTES.
Ninety-seven teachers are undergoing ex
animation before Superintendent McClusky
to-day. This is the concluding scene in the
teachers institute session.
Owing to the crowded condition of the in
sane asylum no more patients will be re
ceived for a time. Notwithstanding the re
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have taken their place, and the accommoda
lions are now pushed to the utmost. Their,
ought TO be ample accommodations for thu
states insane.