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The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-02-02
Hoods Sarsaparille
100 Doses One Dollar.

Sold by all druggists. s.; six for 8. Prepared only
by C. l. HOOD i Co, l. well, Mass,
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24

Tur BEE published an exposition OF boodlers
aud boodling in the old city council, aud 10
has brought forth fruit, but nothing new In
the way of developments, although some of
the papers continue TO turn the ma tier over.
There is no doubt but what The BEE's ex-
pose at a timely date led TO the appointment
of an Investigation committee by the city
fathers, una the outcome is watched with no
little interest. Tho opinion, however, Is
freely expressed that 1t will prove to be an-
other case of whitewash. So far rs Burns
is concerned, the charges he makes will be
thoroughly ventilated in the courts. But
tho Meyer OF al matter bids fair TO reach an
obscure pgeonho Mossrs. Cooper aud
Dean can not escape so well. Distinot
charges stare them IN the face, and as yos
they have not even ventured denial. The
committee of investigation, consisting Of
Messrs. Bushnell, Hamilton, Mclaughlin,
Pace and Dean, have n good deal at stake,
and it Is altogether probable that they will
make something of a showing. 1--WE are
after them," they say, and the future will
determine just how hard. The muddle in
the Lincoln council will likely produce
profound stir when the committee com.
mences TO knock the bottom out of tho
charges.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24

SPECIAL attention will be given in
the forthcoming census to the beef sup
ply OF America. 1t has been decided
that careful statistics shall be gathered
on cattle growing and on our beef and
pork products. 1t is claimed by experts
that the statistics will be important on
the ground that the meat supply per
head of population is becoming less
from year to year and it may soon
become serious problem where
sufficient beef viii come from to
supply the homo demand, TO say
nothing of foreign consumption. 1t is
claimed that in 1860 the number OF
cattle in this country was eight hun
dred to one thousand population, while
in 1887 the proportion due to heavy
losses was reduced to seven hundred to
ono Thousand population. This state
ment, while it may be true in itself, by
no means establishes law of diminish
tng ratio in the meat supply. The cur
rent belief has bcen that America has a
supply wholly sufficient for present or
future demands, and recent investiga-
tions as we'll as the continued low price
of cattle on the hoof would bear out this
Interpretation.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24
Nebraska and Iowa Postmasters.

WASHINGTON, May 23.- Special Telegram
to The BEE. .l-Nebraska postmasters APP
pointed: George Banta, Cotton, Cheyenne
county, vice John Meyer, removed, o. M.
Ross, Mingo, Cheyenne county, vice Frank
Burs, removed; Mrs. G. M. Latham, st.
Libory, Howard county, vice Ernst Weller,
removed: w. V. Van Petten, Stanton, Hitch.
cock county, vice j. B. Slim, removed; +. F.
Gilmore, Wolbach, Greeley county, vice l..
M. Mulford, remover.
iowa postmasters appointed: J. G. Per-
son, Adelphi, Polk county, vice Noble john
son, removed; William Hoyle, Boonville,
Dallas county, vice James Winter removed;
d. B. Rice, Desota, Dallas county, vice Il. @.
Payne, resigned; j. A. Henry, Durham,
Marion county, vice g. II. Durham, re-
moved; William Painter, East Peru,
Madison county, vice G. w. Wright,
removed; j. H. Boston, McCallsburg, Story
county, vice A. B. Griffith, removed; Daniel
Stoltz, Norwalk, Warren county, vice j. A.
Sterile, removed; James Bartholomew, Pal
myra, Warren county, vice @. Il. Reynolds,
removed; Il. j. Prentice, Pleasantville, Ma
rion county, vice G. G.. Stevens, removed;
=, w. Brown, Rannells, Polk county, vice
L. T. Brown, removed; Sidney West, Tay-
lorsville, Polk county, vice j. It. Harder, re-
moved; Q. B. S. Peterson, Story City, Story
county, vice A. N. Torp, removed; j. w.
Smith, Truro, Madison county, vice Ella
Earl, removed II. A. Givens, University
Place, Polk county, vice Il. o. Mersham, re-
signed: j. w. Welch, Van Meter, Dallas
county, vice +. M. Ross, removed.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24
THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD.

Within several years Chicago workmen
have gained these concessions: Bricklayers
have had their hours reduced from ten to
eight, and their wages increased from 81. so
and 1926 to $3.50 and "a: carpenters from ten
hours and 50 to eight hours and 81. so to $3.50;
painters from as low as 81 and ten hours to
1925 and eight hours.
The New Orleans bricklayers will work
for the old scale, IS cents.
A strike is threatened in the lace factories
at Nottingham, England.
The ST. Paul & Omaha Railway company
will no longer employ Italians.
At Cleveland 100 girl cloak workers have
had a cut from Sl.25 to S5 cents for certain
cloak.
AT Skowhegan, Mass, a factory for turn
ing out coats alone is being built. 1t will en-
ploy 240 men.
A New York woman's operatives union IS
trying to bring before the Legislature of the
state a bill providing that employers of work
women shall not require their employees to
work in rooms which are so poorly ventilated
as to endanger the health of the occupants
The bill also demands that decent sanitary
arrangements be provided, and the working
gagged in occupations which make standing
necessary.
The third annual report Of the New York
board of factory inspectors shows that the
condition Of workingwomen in that state has
been much improved within the last year.
The law prohibiting girls under thirteen
years of age from working in factories has
been so we'll enforced that now compara-
lively few of them are thus employed.
The Hematite Iron works at Barrow-in-
Furness, England, employ about 5000 men.
They are paid from 81 to 81 week.
Locks are so cheap in Willenhall, Little
London, England, which is devoted almost
entirely to their manufacture, that when
workman let's part of his work fall he does
not think 1t worth his while to pick it up
again. The men earn from $3 to S. week.
Recent revelations Of the condition of
factory girls employed in the larger cities
have stirred phlanthropic women every
where to join hands in helping them. New
York has a very ablb organization of this
kind, headed by wbmeh who have both
brains and money.
Great preparations are being made in
Paris for the international congress OF work
ihBmch, winch IL w phke place tnere IN
August. Questions relating TO strikes and
combinations will be among the matters
taken up. .vns
The tailors are the best organized workers
in England, and are able to- earn good wages
in the large ciiies
The Cincinnati Post says the wages of the
1,100 girl shoe-workers there have been cut
90 per cent in year.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24
RRIIISH DEEENGES

A dispatch from Ottawa, Canada, re-
ports that the Canadian government
has been notified by the imperial au-
thorities that work on the Pacific coast
defences will be begun this summer.
The British admiralty last year de-
tailed an officer to make an examina-
tion of the coast of British Columbia,
between Vancouver and Esquimault,
with the object of deciding upon sites
for the erection of batteries command
manding the entrances to Puget
Sound and protecting Esquimault.
The matter had dropped out of the
attention of the British government
until the renewal OF negotiations at
Washington regarding the Behring sea
question, when it was decided that the
work on coast defenses should be begun
at once.
The Notifications already constructed
on the southerly corner of Canada's Pa
ciiic coast line, and which will soon be
garrisoned by big force, are the
strongest on the continent. 1t is not
easy to odivine the motive which prompts
the British government to a further
heavy expenditure for Notifications in
that quarter, and it is mat
ter regarding which our government
might perhaps with propriety make
inquiry. When tho President of the
Canadian Pacific railroad was before
the senate railroad investigating COM
mittee in New York, he replied to a
question regarding the object of these
Notifications, that they were intended
as precaution against posi- BILE trouble
with Russia. This was obviously SUBJ
terfuge. Cf course they are con-
structed In response to a demand of the
Canadian government, and The precau-
tionary motive can have reference only
to the United States. Doubtless the
right of the British government to con-
struct Notifications on its own terri
tory can not be questioned, but its
doing so at least suggests the ex-
pediency OF the United States provid-
ing like defenses for the territory op-
posite, which is now defenseless. If it
is the design OF the British government
! 70 make second Gibraltar at tho en-
trance OF Puget Sound 1t will be the
duty OF the government OF the United
States to confront this menacing enter
prise with defenses OF equal proportions
! and strength. We recently noted the
opinion Of San Francisco paper that
one OF the most important matters
which this government should consider
is that of obtaining possession of British
Columbia, and that to accomplish this
the government could afford to pay any
price. 1t is not improbable that Cana
dian statesmen feel that the possession
of this portion of tho Dominion by the
United States may become a serious
question OF the not remote future, and
that 1t is well 10 be prepared for it. At
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24
HITS AND MISSES.


Pistols, gasoline, tlower-pots and arsenic
are making combined effort to populate the
suburban hillsides. At last accounts gaso-
line was several leagues ahead.
"F'rom non-partisan standpoint" ex-
claimed Colonel Gallagher 81 consider the
rehabilitation of Cleveland premature. 1
am laboring zealously To make the admins
tration of General Harrison a whooping sue
cess. My official relations with him are so
close and affectlonate that it would be indel-
icate for me to express my admiration for
him publicly. Remember Mulvany!"
The practice of showering living bouquets
on passing pedestrians is not a success as an
advertising medium. 1t is hardly fair to
mortise mans skull with pot to attract
his attention to the virtues of patent medl.
cine.
The union depot threatens to become the
Tascott OF Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24
Reminded Him of Home.

tHtcdHO i1Tfbune.
The gaunt, travelstained and footsore
man was making his way back from Okla
homa TO Topeka on foot. He looked hungry
and felt thirsty. AS the heart panteth for
the cooling water brooks, so painted he for
the drug store soda of Kansas fair capital.
Stranger" he said huskily, as he paused
by the wayside, ''doth not yon singular
shaped cloud near the horizons brim por-
tend storm of no ordinary character,
thnkest thoul"
THAT, replied the soiourner, looking at
the cloud with the eye of an expert, sis an
cyclone. Don't you see it is fuuncl-shaped,
you chuckle-headlr
"Methinks I do" rejoined the traveller in
an eager voice, land its shape rejoiceth my
heart. Since ] left my loved Topeka half n
moon agone, mine eyes have not been glad
dened by the sight of anything as thirst.
quenching as even funnel. l would fain
have closer view.
And drawing the back of his hand across
his mouth he hurried ON in the direction of
the cyclone.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24
FINANClER FISH'S MONEY.
An Effort to Be Made to Force Him To
Yield Up.

New YORK, May 23.-iSpecial Telegram
to THE BEE. l-One of the penalties of the
freedom that the ex-fnancer, James ID.
Fish, has already enjoyed nearly two weeks,
will be the revival of numerous suits that
were lying dormant during his convict days.
There is an impression in many quarters
that some part of his millions, which are rep
resented to have been swallowed up in the
crash that startled Wall street five years
ago, Is where he can get at it. One of the
most important suits in which he will appear
as defendant is that begun long ago to re-
cover the money that the city lost by the
failure of the Marine bank, of which Fish
was president. When the bank closed ts
doors in May, 1881, in consequence of the
failure of Grant 81 Ward, there were 81, ,000,-
900 of municipal funds on deposit The
United States bank examiner took charge of
it. Several dividends have been declared al
ready, and another is shortly expected
which will bring the total up to about rs per
cent. so instead of losing Sl,OOO,000 the city
will be out only a quarter of that amount
through the bank.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24

THE manner in which the secretary
of the navy is addressing himself to the
business of the department in the mat
ter of the construction of new vessels,
gives assurance that the present secre-
tary does not propose to be outdone by
any of his predecessors in this particu-
lar. Seven war ships are now building
at various yards, and existing legisla-
tion authorizes the construction of
eight more at cost of upwards of six
million dollars. Secretary Tracy is de-
voting himself assiduously to the pre-
limlnary work connected with the build
ing of these vessels, which he may have
learned from the experience OF his pre-
decessor is no small task. Secretary
Whitney was only able to begin twelve
out of the twenty new war ships pro-
vided for by congress during his ad-
ministration of the navy, and he was
only able to complete one. But he had
to encounter all the difficulties incident
to the initiative of so vast work, and
under the circumstances he really ac-
complished a great deal. With far fewer
obstacles to overcome Secretary Tracy
ought to have all the vessels now pro-
vided for in commission long before the
end of his administration, and doubtless
he will.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska Jottings.

A Good Templars lodge has been organ
lied at Holdrege.
Stanley is to have bank, which will be
run by Kearney parties.
Tecumseh now has Y. M. G. A organiza-
tion with membership of forty.
Fifteen newly arrived Norwegian emf
grants settled at Humphrey this week.
A frisky horse kicked in three ribs for
Elijah Jordan, a Seward young man, but the
youth will recover.
Two hundred pr0hibitionists met at Syra1
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24
ARRESTED FOR sWlNDL1NG.
Chicago Men Indicted on the Testi.
mOny Of Nebraska People.

mOny OF Nebraska People.
CHICAGO, May 23.-ISpecal Telegram to
The BEE. Prank l.. Loomis, Howard G.
Loomis and Edwin l.. Jewell, officials of the
Century Book and Paper company, have
been indicted by the grand jury. For some
weeks the business methods of this company
have been matter of discussion in various
Justice courts. Witness after witness has
taken the stand and testified to the alleged
fraudulent practices of the company. These
witnesses have, with one or two exceptions
been vlctimized, as they affirm, By the trio
mentioned above, who were placed under ar
rest last evening. They became tired of the
dilatory tactics the company's attorneys
were pursuing in the justice courts and
transferred their cases to the criminal court.
Among those young men who were induced
TO put up their hard-earned money to secure
alleged agencies of the company was one
from Omaha one from Lincoln and two from
the state of Iowa, beside u number from llli-
nois Indiana and Ohio. The sums obtained
from them range from $500 to $1,000 each.
The prisoners were bailed.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24
ELEVATE THE STANDARD.

The board OF education should be non =
partisan in the broadest sense OF that
term. Its membership should be COM
posed OF men chosen because of their in
telligence and superior fitness for the
management OF our public schools, and
not on account of their political creed.
They should be chosen in accord with
the spirit and letter of the law. The
trainers of our school laws have pur-
posely separated the school board cleo
tions from the general elections. They
have extended the franchise to women,
located the polling places in school
houses, and closed the public schools
for that day with view to awakening
live interest among the parents of
children who attend the public
schools. The manifest intent of all
these provisions is to divorce
the school management from politics.
But party hacks and political bosses
have for years sought to override the
will of the people. They have used
the party machine with its packed eau
cusses and conventions of ward bum
mers as the source that supplies the
candidates for the board of education.
The effect of this political interfer-
ence could not but be demoralizing. 1t
has eXerted a most pernicious influence
upon teachers and janitors. Our school
management has degenerated into a
dispenser of patronage, and spoils-hunt-
| ers have dictated who should or who
should not administer the affairs of our
schools.
Now there is no more reason why our
public schools should be partisan en-
gine than our judiciary. Omaha has
discarded the political bosses and
showed under yellow-dog candidates
| for judicial honors. Shall we permit
our public schools to be prostituted for
political ends? Is it not our plain duty
| to elevate the standard Of our school
board, and place it above dependence ce
upon party bosses and spoilsmen.
THE BEE has for years refused to
countenance partisan nominations for
the board OF education. 1t is now
more than ever convinced that its aims
have been in the right direction. But
when we advocate non-partisan nomin-
ations, we do not mean crazy.
| quilt tickets made up from
candidates that have been put
in nomination by democratic
and republican conventions. Those
candidates are the product of the
party primary and caucus. They are
necessarily creatures of the machine
and cannot rise above it, any more than
the stream rises above it's source.
What is needed to free our school
system from partisan domination is a
ticket made up outside of party lines
of material that cannot be used for
| political ends. Such ticket can and
will be elected two weeks hence. The
people are ripe for change. They
have a surfeit of the party hack in the
school board and are determined tc
break up the combinations which have
their handspring in party utilization.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24

THE constantly increasing amount OF
deposits in the New York banks, despite
the shipments of gold abroad. excites
the wonder Of financiers. Recent state
ments show that the deposits in that
city are fast swelling, and that the
amount OF loanable funds will soon
reach the high water mark OF four hun
dred and fifty millions. There has never
been in the history OF our country
time when SO much capital was idle in
the banks awaiting profitable invest
ment.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24
SimnI,a Rig FAKE.

WAsuISGToN, May 22.-[Special Telegram
to The BEE. There was silly fake IN an
evening Broeklyn paper yesterday announc-
ing the probable resignation of Blaine
Window and Proctor. Blaine is the only
one of the cabinet officers in regard to whom
a suspicion of dissatisfaction is entertained.
In reply to a card of inquiry, he penclled. in
big capital letters, the word, Nonsense"
Secretary Rusk says there were only him
self. Blaine Window and Miller present at
the last cabinet meeting, and the whole pro,
ceedings were of the most agreeable and
harmonious character. Proctor was not
thara Mt all
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24

ATTENTION is directed to the in
creased activity in the shipment of corn
from Nebraska. The grain movement,
however, is not confined to our own
state. Fourteen hundred cars of grain
were received at Chicago one day and
two thousand another day this week.
The recent unexpected foreign demand
coupled with the anxiety to get rid OF
the surplus before the new crop, has
stimulated the movement, which is
likely to keep up until midsummer.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24
Big Schemes for Persia.

BANGOR, Me-, May 23.-[Specal Telegram
to THE BEE. Frank Clergue has .organized
the Bank of Persia, the Persian Railway and
Construction company, the Persian Electric
Light company and the city Of Teheran
Waterworks company, each with 81, 900, 900
capital. He has started for St Petersburg,
where he will complete his negotiations with
the shah of Persia and czar of Russia during
their meeting there in June. Clergue carries
with him strong letters of recommendation
from Secretary of State Blaine. Clergue iS
heavily backed by the Reuters.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24

MINNEAPoLIs, May 23.-The Journals
West Superior special says the mayor Of that
town has closed all the saloons 10 anticina-
tion of trouble between the coal beavers VINO
have struck and the new men imported TO
take their places. The new men are work
ing under strong police protection,
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24

OMAHA realty is the cream of the
country. Distance adds to it's golden
charm. The Tacoma gentleman who
imagines he owns a quarter section of
it, is voted the luckiest man in the wide
north west
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24

SEVERAL prominent eastern iobbing
houses are looking about for quarters in
Omaha. They can not come any too
soon. The larger the number, the
wider the territory the wholesale trade
OF Omaha can command.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24

A BEE line from Omaha to Green
Bay, Wis, is one of the possibilities of
the near future. 1t means for Omaha
direct communication with the heart of
the lumber region and another outlet to
the great lakes.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24

JAMES d. FISH, the ex-president OF
the Marine bank of New York city
pardoned out of Sing Sing, is now ex-
pected by the people he duped to turn
over part of his ill-gotton millions.
But Fish is not that kind of u gudgeon.
Itwasn't for that purpose that he served
his two years in the peniteniiary.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24

SAM SMALL asserts that state laws
are insufficient to enforce prohibition.
A member of the Omaha prohibition
club recently declared that prohibition
cannot be enforced until women are
given the rig mt TO vote. Here we have
two advocates of modern blue laws SUBJ
stantialiy agreeing that they are fail
ure
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24

THE factional strifes OF officials and
the imbecility displayed in the con-
struction OF the hospital combine to
prove tho utter incapacity OF the county
board to properly manage county af-
fairs. The members waste their time
in fruitless personal jangles, while i'm
portant matters requiring prompt con-
sideration and action are allowed TO
drift from bad to worse.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24
He Didn't Get There.

NtW OFk IFfDlNt.
The opinion is being expressed in a num-
ber of democratic papers that Mr.. Cleveland
is to be "the Moses" of "tariff reform"
Yes. If we recollect distinctly Moses
lowing to circumstances not under his own
controD never reached the promised land.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24
Striking Plumbers.

The striking plumbers in this city admit
that they can help their Omaha brethren
very little by quitting work. "The reason"
said prominent member of the union to
THE BEH representative, to-day "is because
there are no heavy contracts in progress in
this city, and before any commences our
places can be supplied by non on-unionists. But
the BOYS propose to do what they can, and
am with themu
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24
An Empty Theatre.

KedrncU Enterprise.
"This paper is high-toned theatre, in
which there are a certain number of reserved
seats for advertisers, and each seat has its
value."-Omaha World.
Glad to hear it. Let US know how the
tickets are selling. There appears TO be
plenty of standing room so far.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24

ARE the British to own America?
They are not only buying up breweries
all over the country; but are actually
considering the proposition of purchas-
ing the principal milling establish
ments at Minneapolis and other flour
Apntars
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24

Judge Borden refused TO issue final papers
to liquor dealer whoapplied for naturalza-
tion, on the ground Of having sold liquor to
a man whom he knew to be Of Incorporate
habits he was not person Of good moral
character, and therefore was not eligible to
citizenship. ~ .l
Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-24

ALL parties interested in local street
railways violently protest against con-
solidation. When corporations vigor-
ously denounce each other, it is an un-
failing indication of an early union.