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Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10

with the main be. broken and. that
their connecting pipes. DO taken up.
This order was obeyed as to the breaking Of
the connections and the removing OF part OF
the pipe when the above cited application.
was filed in. court. The court ruled that,
8 uader the present ordinance in regard to
CONNECTIONS with the. public. water mains
along the public streets of the city, the.
waterwpris company must allow the pipes
through the grounds at Fort Omaha TO DO.
connected with the main in the street IN
front of the fort and that the officers of the
company or its employees are ordered to re-
strain from any interference with the maxi
ing OF the connection of the pipes in and
about Fort Omaha with the main in tho
street and that the water supply for the fort
can be drawn from the pipes connecting
with the main pipe Of the waterworks COM
pany at that point.
The transcript from the district court was
filed in the case of Charles Rogers against
the American waterworks company, in
which the plaintiff sues for 5000 DAMAGE
on account of injuries sustained while work
ing in a trench al the corner of Pierce and
Eighteenth streets.
judge Dundy handed down his decision on
the petition for u rehearing in the case of
Peck against Butler county and Collier against
the same defendant, TIL suit was TO recover
interest from the county on bonds they issued
In 1879 for the building of the Lincoln 4
Northern road. Tn case was heard last term
by Judge Dundy, and decided in favor of the
county, thus declaring the bonds valueless.
The petition to reopen the case was argued
IN %chancery, and according to Judge
Dundy's opinion was denied. The opinion
was concurred in by Judge Brewer. The
Judgment is made absolute from the county.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10
THE DAY OF THE PRIMARIES.
How Council and Webster Jared at
- Last Nights Meetings.
WHERE TO CAST YOUR VOTES.
And Your Attention Called to the
Duty OF Appearing at the Polling
Places to Cast Them The
School Board Combine.
The Fourth Ward Meeting.

The Fourth ward republican caucus last
night was short, sharp and decisive. Hon.
W.. +. Bechel was nominated for chairman.
MIR. II. w. Breckenridge objected, and nom
mated Mr.. ID. H.. Wheeler, a move that was
seconded by Mr.. Moses p. O'Brien. Mr..
Bechel, however, was chosen by an over
whelming vote. Messrs. Breckenridge and
O'Brien, who represented the interests of
Candidate Webster, withdrew from the
caucus and watched the further proceedings
from the opposite side of the street. They
threaten to have a ticket in the field this
morning.
The following resolution, offered by Fred
w. Gray, was adopted unanimously:
Resolved, That the republicans of the
Fourth ward III caucus assembled Join with
the First and Second wards of Omaha in de-
claring in favor of Hon. w. j. Connell as
congressman from this district, and the dele
gates from this ward are instructed to use all
honorable means to secure q solid delegation
in his favor TO the congressional convention.
The committee to select delegates and al
ternates reported the following, and their
action was ratified without dissent:
Delegates. II. Mlllard, T.. w. Gray, f.
Rosewater, W.. f. Bechel, II. S. Hall. W.
+. Gurley, f. +. Moores, +. II. Mcconnell.
Alternates-L. S. Reed, Elijah Dunn,
George b. Tzschuck, f.. Whitehorn, Peter
Sharkey, p. II. Green, II. ID. Duncan, Gus
taV Anderson.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10

THE misfortune which overwhelmed
the sixty-ive families of Cherry and
Keya Paha counties in the total de-
struction Of their crops appeals directly
to the %sympathies Of the people Of Ne
braska. Assistance should be sent to
these sufferers Immediately, either
through the local committee at Norden,
Keya Paha county, or through such
channels as Governor Thayer may di-
rect. These pioneers in the new coun-
ties deserve the help of the state
in this trying hour OF need. The bur-
den OF assisting these sixty-ive families
in order that they may be able to return
to their farms, will be comparatively
light il the people of Nebraska come
forward individually to contribute each
one his mite. 1t is moreover a matter
for congratulation that the scene of de-
struction was confined to SO small an
area. Other states, east and west, have
been heavily stricken this season by cy-
clones, floods and storms, doing damage
amounting to hundreds of thousands of
dollars. Nebraska has been fortunate
in this respect. Blessed with a bounti-
full crop, let us not forget our brethren
in their afiiction.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10
In the Interest of Moonshiners.

A provision of the Mills tariff bill pro-
poses to allow distllleries which mash
only twenty-five bushels of grain n day
70 pay tax simply on their capacity. 1t
was charged in the course OF the debate
on the bill that this would work favor
ably to the ''moonshiners," but the al
legation had no effect upon the authors
of the provision, and it was retained in
the bill.
On the last day Of the whisky trust
investigation by the house committee
on manufactures, the president Of the
combination for regulating the product
and price Of whisky was asked what
effect the provision in the Mills bill
would have upon the whisky trade. The
reply of the trust president was direct
and explicit. He had not a doubt that
the large and legitimate distillers would
be driven out of business, and that the
result would be the escape of more than
one-half the whisky product from in
ternal revenue taxation. He said there
would be a little distillery on almost
every farm throughout the grain dis
trict, and that these distilleries would
become as numerous in the north as the
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. AUGUST 10. 1883

fruit distilleries are in the south. The
little distilleries would pay a tax on n
capacity Of fifteen bushels a day. There
would be no government officers to
watch them, and by forcing their
mash they could run through four
or five times as many bushels
of grain as their measured
capacity. In this way the government
would be defrauded Of millions Of dol
lars of
Regarding the fruit distilleries of
the south, the trust president said that
all Of the small ones use more or less
grain, fruit Oscillation being confined
to q few days in the year. The use of
grain in these fruit distilleries is Illicit
business, but the effect of the provision
of the Mills bill, allowing small distil-
leries to pay taS on capacity and freeing
them from government supervision,
would be to render legitimate what is
now illicit, and whether so intended or
not, would be a direct and very great
advantage TO the moonshiners. Some
allowance must perhaps be made
for the apprehensions Of the
president Of the whisky trust.
The distillation of whisky would
doubtless not become so general as he
suggests, even under the encouraging
policy which the Mills bill proposes.
Supply and demand would in time assert
Internationally as a check upon universal
production. But it is none the less OBJ
vious that the proposition of the Mills
bill is not wise nor desirable, and it is
certainly suggestive of a purpose to
serve a sectional interest that is of very
considerable proportions, and which
has become a source of very great
trouble and expense to the government.
Perhaps the representatives of the
moonshiners will be less disposed to
insist upon the provision since they
have learned that 1T may conduce to
northern competiHon.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10
THE DEAD ACTOR
The Remains Of william Davidgt
Pass Through Omaha,

The body of William Davidge, tho actor
who died so suddenly at Cheyenne on Tues
day last while en- route for San Francisco,
passed through the city Wednesday afternoon
on the Il. Il NJ. en- route for Brooklyn, where
they will he Inferred.
Davidge's death, according to the best ac-
counts, was a result of Il cessation of the
hearts functions, caused by over stimulation
on account of the altitude. Prior to his de.
mise, not exceeding the space of thirty min
utes, he had been telling stories and singing
songs. When stricken with death in his
berth, his companions carried him to the
smoking room whore, after gasping q few
moments, he exclaimed Great God, am |
going to die away out in this country Gen.
eral Agent Vallery, of the Burlington, sent
for a physician, but he had hardly closed
the door on the messenger when Davldge
gasped out, God blesss us ALL" and ex-
pred.
MIR. Davidge was in his seventy-ffth year
and was one of the most noted in the profes.
sion. He has been connected with Palmer's
Madison Square company and two years ago
played the part of the sot in Saints and Sin
ners." He has played in l,0l9 parts, of which
he has preserved an alphabetical record.
They embrace every degree of comedy char
actcr.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10
POLITICAL POINTS.

Two of Mr.. Blaine's sons-Walker and
James G., twill take the stump for pro.
lection early in the fall.
Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, who wrote the tenn
perance resolution adopted at the repub-
lican convention, will take the stump for the
party during the campaign.
General Fisk will make no prohibition
speeches in Kentucky during the campaign,
that state being hopelessly give overto polIti-
cal and spiritual bourbonism.
Mayor Filters little boom in the Chicago
convention is said to have cost that ambitious
gentleman $4,000, spent in sending forward
several carloads of shouters from the Quaker
city, who seem never to have arrived.
Mr.. c.. Fl. j. Taylor, the colored represent
alive of the administrator at the recent
indianapolis convention, carries cards con-
tanning this modest announcement: &C. II.
j. Taylor, N of the United States
supreme court. Late United States minister
to LIBERIA
Mr.. j. F. j. Tresch will soon start in New
York a republican paper IN the interest of
deaf mutes. 1t is estimated that there are
1900 deaf mute voters in this country, and
it is on record that 81 900 deaf mutes voted
for Blaine and Logan. The paper will be
called the National Deaf Mute Advocate.
In the log-cabin and hard cider campaign
of the grandfather of Benjamin Harrison,
eight Hazen brothers formed a brass band
and blew their way through this state. and
helped elect old Tippecanoe. The eight are
all alive yet, their ages ranging from 60 to
so. They live in Wisconsin, and they propose
whooping it up for the grandson of his grand
father.
Chairman f. M. Clark, of the state central
committee of the American labor party of
Colorado, has resigned because he doesn't
think the modern know-nothing organization
has even a fighting chance. ~ shall devote
my energies and give my undivided support
aud labor to assist the election to the office
of president of the United States that genu
inc representative Of true American princi-
pies, Benjamin Harrison of Illinois," he
~
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10

cured the greater number OF the caucuses.
This fact is conceded even by Webster's
friends, Nevertheless, IL is very difficult TO
determine which wards may turn to the sup
port of Webster. 1t is stated that he Is
strongly supported in the Fifth and Ninth,
and some people think he will make a
good fight in the Fourth. His
supporters say that Cdnrell will not get
q delegate in the third. This is partially
owing to the fact that there has been Il
united opposition to him in that part of the
city, manly occasioned by the leadership Of
Mike Maui. Yesterday however, Con-
nells men assembled in Lee Frost's room
and agreed upon delegates which they will
support to-day at the polls. The battle
of the day will be fought in the Third.
Tho republican primaries for Douglas
county will be held at the follow
ing places:
First Ward-Southeast corner Eleventh
and Pacific streets.
Second Ward-Frank Kasper's hall.
Third Ward-Twelfth street and Capitol
avenue.
Fourth Ward-County court house.
Fifth Ward-Engine house, Sixteenth and
lizard streets.
Sixth Ward-Twenty sixth and Lake
streets.
Seventh Ward-Lee & Nichols barn.
Eighth Ward-2403 Cunning street.
Ninth Ward-Twenty ninth and Farnam
(Johnson's store).
South Omaha-Old First ward school
house.
Valley Precinct-Schoo house.
Union Precinct-Harry Thomas residence.
Elkhorn Preclnct-City hall of Elkhorn.
Millard Precinct-School house.
Waterloo Precinct-G. Johnson's ONCE.
McArdle Precinct-School house.
Jefferson Precinct
Florence Precinct-Tucker's hotel.
Chicago Precinct-H. A.. Notes Office,
Elkhorn City.
Douglas Precinct School house.
West Omaha-De Witt Rcade's residence.
The polls will be open in Omaha and South
Omaha from noon until { O'Clock in the even
ing. In the county precincts they will be
open between the hours of 6 and 0 in the
evening. AT these primaries each ward Of
Omaha shall elect eight delegates to the
county convention, which is to be held on
Saturday next in the council chamber.
South Omaha will also be entitled TO eight
delegates. All other precincts in the county
shall be entitled to three delegates each.
This convention shall elect thirty-seven
delegates to the state convention, which
meets in Lincoln August %, and thirty-sevcn
delegates to the congressional convention of
the First district, which meets in Lincoln
September 20. Every person who shall be a
qualified voter at the national election in
November, and who shall declare his inten-
ton of voting the republican ticket at that
election shall be eligible to vote at these pri-
maries.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10
Frightening Prospects.

VWIfUUD ITfNWVt.
The prospects before the republican party Is
improving steadily, and is now much better
than at any time since the meeting of the
Chicago convention. Where u month ago
many republicans talked of boiling the ticket
or refusing to vote because of dissatisfaction
with part of the platform few-practically
nonc-now make such declarations. The de-
termination of the republican senators to
bring in Il tariff reduction bill and take posi-
tive action with a view to reduce the surplus
and modify excessive tariff taxation has
tended to allay dissatisfaction and convince
hesitating republicans that despite McKin-
leyism in the platform the real doctrine of
the party is its work in congress, and that it
can be depended upon to meet the present
exigency in a reasonable and proper manner.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10

THE dispute which has been going on
some time between Fort Omaha and,
the wnterworks company has finally
been taken to the United States courts
for settlement. In some respects the
contest is unique and the legal contro-
versy will be watched with interest.
There will be knotty points Of law to
untaugle. The facts in the case appear
to be that a contract was entered into in
June, 1883, by the waterwOrks company
for n period of five years to supply Fort
Omaha with water at a price of about
$500 per month. Accordingly mains were
laid and connections made to the fort.
At the expiration Of the contract this
year, the water works company insisted
ON a renewal of the contract at the old
terms. To this proposition the quarter
master at Fort Omaha objected and
claimed that as the fort is now within
the city limits the water rates should be
at the city's rate of fifteen cents per
thousand gallons. But the water works
company would not agree to these terms
and began breaking the water connec-
tions when enjoined by the courts in
behalf Of the government. At the new
rates, the fort would pay no more than
n hundred dollars per month for
which it had been taxed three hundred
dollars,
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10

THosE people who are unwilling to
believe there is any restriction upon
free speech In the south are advised to
read a dispatch elsewhere from New
Orleans, reciting the experience at a
public meeting of Il republican who had
been twenty-five years Il resident of
Louisiana. He is represented to be q
most reputable and worthy citizen, who
has done his share for the material
prosperity of the locality in which he
resides. Yet, when he veutured to as
sert that his political rights as a citizen
had been outraged, he was yelled and
Kissed into silence, and had he per-
sisted in going on would very likely
have been subjected to harsher and
more summary treatment. The specific
complaint Of this gentleman was
that, having voted at the
last election for the republican can
didate for governor his vote was counted
for the democratic candidate. Very
likely this was not his first experience
of this kind, but the opportunity was
favorable for a protest, and he attempted
to make it, as he had a perfect right to
do. He will be fortunate if his cour-
ageous effort does not bring him further
trouble. The returns of the last Loui-
siana election indicate that several
thousand republican votes were used in
the same way the Madison parish citi-
zen asserts his was used, and although
protests against such outrages are
somewhat dangerous in that country,
and perhaps OF no great consequence, it
is still to be regretted that more of the
republicans there and elsewhere in the
south have not some of the courage of
General Frank Morey, Of Madison par
ish, Louisiana.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10

paved, the whole length Of it is taken.
possession Of and blocked for at least
six months, 10 the exclusion of travel
and traffic. The regulations Of the
board of public works prohibit the.
blocking up of more than three blocks
at a time, but this regulation remains u
dead letter. If the board cannot en-
force the ordinance and rules regarding
the tearing up of streets, the council
should make it the business of the street
commissioner TO raise the blockade.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10
YOU SHOULD GO.

The Importance of the primaries to-day
is great. Every elector should vote. The
result to-day will determine the selection
of thirty-seven delegates to the state conven
ton, at which all state officers will be NOM
mated, together with five presidential elect
ors. The primaries will also settle the mat
ter of the selection of thirty-seven delegates
to the congressional convention which NOM
mates a candidate for congress in the First
district. Don't forget the primaries.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10
THEY MUST HAVE WATER.
The Court Orders the Water Works

Company to Supply Fort Omaha.
An application has been flied In the United
States court on behalf Of the United States
against the American Waterworks company,
asking that its officers be e~nioined from de-
stroying the water connection at Fort Omaha
with the water main running in front of the
fort. The connection was made with the
main in 1888 to supply the water for the fort,
and at hat time all the wells and ~cisterns
were abandoned, or virtually so. The
amount used was about 1000 gallons per day
aud this was supplied under a contract. The
10th of last July the waterworks company
ordered that the forts connections
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10

THE season of G. A. r.. encampments
is now approaching all yer the country
when the old soldiers can meet again to
revive the memories of days gone by.
The preparations made for the state G.
A. r. reunion at Norfolk on the 9th
inst. are said to be complete and made
on a scale calculated to draw thousands
of veterans around the camp fire. There
is but little doubt that a large attend
ance will be present.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10
Charles Scutchey.

Charles Scutchey, a fine-looking man Of
presumably thirty years of age, died ut st.
Joseph's hospital, and his embalmed body
now lies in Drexe & Maul's establishment
awaiting shipment to Liverpool, Eng. From
papers found in his possession it is evident
that he was a man of good position. Among
the papers was an affectionate letter from
his brother, A. w. Scutchey, a merchant in
Lower James street, Golden square, London,
enclosing u postal order for $50, telling him
to take the trip home by easy stages, and
that he would be met at Liverpool. Drexel
Il Maui notified the brother by cablegrau Of
the decease, and have received instructions
to forward the body, which will be done at
once.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10

David Van Etten, the attorney who was
sentenced to one year in the penitentiary for
embezzlement, has completed his brief for
the presentation of his case TO tho supreme
court, and submitted II TO County Attorney
Simeral. The brief Is quite lengthy and is
rich in venom heaped upon the county attor-
ney, in which he cheekily charges him with
having suppressed the ~pIcadings in the case,
and even bribing witnesses as well as other
irregularities in the trial. The brief will 10
sent to the supreme court next week.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10
"A Costly EyDerimcut.

South Omaha has been incorporated
less than eighteen months. In that
brief period her town councils have in
Cured liabilities to the tune of thirty
five thousand dollars over and above
their receipts from local taxes. For
this little deficit they have nothing
more to show than the fact that they
are a free and Independent corporation,
capable of making debts. 1t is pro-
posed in the very near future to convert
this deficit into a permanent debt and
to load up with one hundred and
fifty-two thousand dollars more of bonds
which are to be used for needed public
improvements.
If these bonds are voted the bonded
debt of South Omaha will be about one
sixth of the bonded debt of Omaha. 1t
does not take 3 prophet or the son Of
a prophet to foreSee what the final out
come of five years more of suburban
city government would be to the prop
erty owners of South Omaha. Without
a fire department worthy the name; with
their gas and water supply dependent
on Omaha; without an efficient and
well-paid police force; without sys-
tematic public works; without the ad-
vantages of q metropolitan board of ed
u%cation, and without a high school for
branches above the grammar class, the
resident property owners OF South
Omaha will presently find themselves
burdened down with a debt that will
seriously impair the value Of their real
estate.
1t was an outrage on both Omaha
and South Omaha that the char
ter was tempered with through
the influence of corporate sharks
and spectators, so as to prevent the ex-
tension of our city limits over the terri
tory covered by South Omaha. This
keeps on growing, and the lines that
divide the two cities are obliterated.
The only advantage of the double
barrelled city governments so far has
been derived by the saloonKeerers,
whose license at South Omaha is only
five hundred dollars a year against one
thousand in the city proper. But ever
the saloonkeepers will cease to reap
any benefit from the duplex system
within the next year
The state law regulating the liquor
traffic makes the license one thousand
dollars a year in every city of ten thous-
and population or over. 1t is safe to
say that South Omaha will have more
than ten thousand population within
twelve months. By that time nobody
xcept tax-shirking land spectators
will be interested in keeping up a separ-
ate city government within two miles
and a half of the Omaha court house.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10

THE country is safe. The North At
lantlc squadron under command of
Rear Admiral Luce has been sent to
the fishing grounds in the Gulf of st.
Lawrence to protect our fishermen.
Hereafter we may eat our Goldfish and
salt mackerel with the satisfaction of
knowing they were caught under Uncle
Sans big right arm.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10
YOU GO,

The importance of the primaries to-day
is great. Every elector should vote. The
result sto-day will determine the selection
of thirty-seven delegates to the state conven-
ton, at which all state officers will be NOM
mated, together with five presidential elect
ors. The primaries will also settle the mat
ter Of the selection of thirty-seven delegates
to the congressional convention which nom
mates a candidate for congress in the First
district. Don't forget the primaries.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-10

THE governor of Kansas has issued a
proclamation peremptorilly ordering
all liquor places in Stevens county to be
closed. But come to think of it, isn't
such an order out Of date when Kansas
has been a prohibition state more than
five yearSp