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Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
SOME PLAIN TALK.

County Treasurer Bolln denies that
he has contributed two thousand dollars
to the Jefferson square Doodle fund, and
adds that he is not quite as generous as
represented. He ascribes what he calls
TIE BEES assault on him as private
citizen and an official to the despera-
tion with which THE BEE is fighting to
retain the city hall on Farnam.
Mr.. Bolln may have been mis-
quoted as to the exact amount
he has contributed to the Jetfer-
son square fund. 1t may be
eighteen hundred dollars instead of
two thousand. That does not matter.
The fact remains that Mr.. Bolln has
contributed large sum, and that he is
out canvassing for scheme which
every honest man must look upon as not
much better than trying to
rob citizens and tax payers of
hard-earned money by seeking
to destroy the value and rental capacity
of buildings expressly constructed at
an enormous outlay for Office pur-
poses.
AS private citizen, Mr.. Bolln is in
very bad company with gang of
repudiators who want to see crows roOst
in the largest and most i'm
posing newspaper building in
America. AS an otficer,' his
conduct is scandalous. He was elected
by the votes Of the people whose prop
erty he is now endeavoring to damage,
and his little earnings as treasurer,
which amount to from ten to fifteen
thousand dollars a year, ought to be in
vested in more legitimate enterprise
than in Doodle campaign that exposes
Farnam street property owners to be
bled by vagabonds and ritfratf at the
risk of having their property de-
preciated.
II Mr.. Bolln had erected four hun
dred thousand dollar building in Omaha
at time when her boom was all col
lapsed, he probably would consider it
an outrage and infamy to be black
mailed and assaulted when he would
have right to expect encouragement
in his task and gratitude from the city
he had helped to build up.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
AS TO EGRAY.
A Working Man Asks Some Pertinent
Questions.

Questions.
OMAHA, Jan. 2i-To the Editor of
THE BEE: While walking at Fifteenth
and Farnam street Saturday happened
to see Major Furay como out Of The
Little 22O saloon. He was busy cXhort-
ing working man to go and work up
the city hall business. Said he;
There's no use going for those buns
now; we can buy them at election time.
We've got the subscription list aud can
get the money when we want it. just
go and hustle among the workingmeu
and work up n sentiment among them"
Now as workingman l would ask,
is this the same Furay who a few years
ago while in the council voted against
paying workingmen fair wages when
the question came up and Fred Bhom
and Pat Ford supported the movement?
Is this the same Furay who made him
self so odious to laboring men that he
dared not run for the council second
time? Is this the same Furay who on
certain occasion said to "a bricklayer
who wanted a job that he had no use for
union men and could get the work done
cheaper by hiring scabs? Is this the
same Furay who now with the combine
wants the union labor organizations to
support the Jefferson square city hall
site because he and his relations own
property there? SCoTrlE.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska Jottings.


There are 5l1 pupils in the Columbus
schools.
Broken Bow shipped 1923 cars of produce in
1888 ana imported 703 cars of merchandise.
Dean Gardner of Omaha, is to conduct a
seven-day mission at Columbus, beginning
February 4.
Another general store has been opened at
Ellis, making the third now running at that
place.
Kinney s. Harrigan, Exeter saloonkeepers,
have been fined $50 and costs for selling liq-
uor to minors.
The citizens of Columbus are working hard
to secure the state encampment OF the
Knights of Pythias.
Fire at Long Pine Quilted the clothing store
of T. Il. Renshaw. but most of the stock was
saved, though badly damaged by water.
A move is being made at Springfield to rid
the town of females of questionable char
acter One Of the women has been arrested.
The Barneston Bell has stopped tlnkling.
1t did not make "a big enough noise to drown
the music of its numerous Gage county com
petitors.
The democratic board of commissioners of
Polk county would not receive bids for PRINT
ing their proceedings, but gave the Job to the
Polk County Democrat for 500, raise or
$50 over the amount paid last year.
John w. Gordon, VINO escaped from dep
uty sheriff at Minden Neb., two weeks ago,
while under arrest for embezziement from
Masonic lodge, was captured at Columbus by
Sheriff l3loedorn and turned over to Sheriff
Hill, of Kearney county.
The Brewster (I3laine county, Democrat
contains this plaintive wall A." 1t is to be
lamented that there are those in our com
munity so low in scale of humanity that they
cannot attend social parties without stealing
articles of clothing"
The streets of Scotia were taken posses
sion of by crowd of hilarious countrymen
the other night, and the saloonkeeper was
obliged TO close up his shop TO prevent a raid.
Ladies did not dare TO venture out and the
towu marshal was nowhere 10 be found
Tho Red Cloud National bank, which has
been in the hands of United States Bank Ex
amlner Grinith for the past three weeks,
opened its doors Wednesday under new
management, with l.. II. Albright as cashier.
Judge Rich of Chicago, and Richard Gentry
of Kansas City, are among the new stock
holders and directors.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
uTHE new immigration bill which the

u HE new inning fdJlOn OIL WHICH lnc
Ford committee has reported to con-
gress proposes to prevent anarchists"
and socialists from putting foot on
American soil. The interesting uueS-
tion is by what means will our consuls
abroad and customs officials at home
carries in his hat concerning principles
of government, society and rights of
property. Will the hapless foreigner be
put through catechism especially
prepared for the consular service, and
what answers will convict him as an
anarchist and which ones will stamp
him as socialist? 1t will be necessary
for our government to define precisely
what avowals and beliefs are necessary
to mark a man as an ''anarchist" or a
SOCIALIST. Moreover, it will be nee
essary to establish degrees of anarchy
after the manner of degrees of murder.
For, manifestly, it would be unjust to
convict man of the first degree of
anarchy who believes in mild way in
the community of goods and the evil OF
too much legislation and too many
foolish laws. 1t would be decidedly in
teresting to learn in what category such
men as Henri Rochefort and John Dill
Ion would be classed were they to come
over as immigrants under the Ford law.
On the face of it the proposed regula-
tions are absurd, and merely illustrate
what impracticable schemes national
Legislators are liable to hatch.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS.
Honor the Pioneer.
KedrueU Hub.

hCdTHeU nun.
Since the admission of Nebraska to the
union, the rapid developemenJ of the state
has been almost unparalleled. 1t has been
but few years ago At the Indian, buffalo,
elk, deer roamed at will over the prairie
which Is now dotted with happy homes The
transformation to a stranger seems mary ell
Gus, and to have been made without a strug
gle. Those of the old settlers who survive
the wrecks of time, can recite from the un-
written volumes of their experience the tolls,
struggles and privations that marked the
subiugaton of the American desert To the
pioneer is due the honor of making this an
inhabitable and desirable country. Where
the dug-out, od-house and homestead cabin
signalled civilization have been reared the
farm house of the planter, the village, town
and city. But few of the pioneers of the
sixties are left to tell the tale of their suffer
ings. Worn out, they have gone as pioneers
to the Great beyond. They were the great
soldiers of the period, the warriors of civili-
zation, the veterans of the dark days of Ne
braska's early history When you meet one
of these raise your hat to him for he de-
serves the compliment.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25

THE Interstate commerce commission
example of railroad managers who have
not complied with the orders made by
the commission in Chicago recently. 1t
will be remembered that the investiga-
tion then prosecuted resulted in dis
closures which led Judge Cooley, chair
man of the commission, to talk very
plainly to the offending managers,
whom he warned that repetition of
the abuses would be summarily pun
ished. Complaints Of a violation Of the
orders of the commission have become
so numerous that it will again
visit Chicago, and if the charges
are substantiated it is ex-
pected the commission will. proceed
against the offenders to the full extent
of it's authority. 1t ought by all means to
do so. The fact appears to be that moth
ing short of firm and rigid enforce
ment of the law will prevent its con-
slant evasion or violation. The evil
dence is that the agreement entered
into few weeks ago in New York,
which promised full compliance with
the requirements of the Interstate act,
is not being generally regarded, thus
furnishing additional and more con-
vincing proof of the faithlessness of
railroad managers. The plain duty of
the commission is to hold all violators
of the law to a strict and severe re-
sponsibility.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25

NEBRASKA makes a poorer showing
than any other western state in the pos
tai service of the country, under the
present administration While Iowa
has seventeen representatives, in the post
Office department and Kansas eight,
this state has but four, two being allotted
to each of the political parties The
three states furnish seventeen republi-
cans against twelve democrats. Under
the next administration Nebraska may
reasonably be expected to receive a
more generous recognition.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25

THE proposed legislation intro duced
in Pennsylvania, New York and other
eastern states to place an emb argo on
the sale Of dressed beef will not benefit
the local cattle raisers and farme rs of
those states. The consumption Of meat
far outruns the supply. II laws are
passed for the inspection OF cattle on
the hoof for the purpose of encouraging
the home market, what is to prevent
the railroad companies from bringing
live cattle from the westp Such was
the cattle business before the great
packing houses OF the west had suffi-
ciently developed to supply the whole
country with dressed beef. The bills 60
prevent the sale OF western meats in
Pennsylvania and other eastern states,
II they become law, would necessarily
raise the price of meat, and would ben
eft the railroads and the local butch
ers. But the farmers would reap no
benefits. And ii looks as il the hue and
cry raised over the issue is merely an
attempt TO get the farmers to pull the
chestnuts out OF the fire for the good OF
the other fellow.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
SEEN THROUGH "A TELESCOPE.

Mr.. j. II. Millard is quoted as saying
that he did not want to look at the city
hall Sthrough n telescope. Does Mr..
Millard look through telescope at the
New York Life building? Through
which end of the telescope does he see
the eighty-fve thousand dollars which
the New York Life company paid him
for their lots on the corner OF Seven
teenth and Farnam on the assurance of
the city hall location, and which lots
Mr.. Millard offered to sell for thirty
thousand dollars only few months be-
fore the city hall was located on the
adjoining block? Are citizens OF
Omaha, and bankers especially, willing
to let it go abroad that any man who in
vests in property in this city must take
his chances on being contidenced out OF
his money II he is dupe enough
to place any value on public building
locations. This is the marrow of the
present so-called competition between
Farnam and Jefferson square. So far as
public honor is concerned it Is on par
with an effort to repudiate a public
debt which has passed into the hands OF
capitalists credulous enough TO believe
that the city will redeem its obliga-
tions.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25

THE corn crop of the United States is
now officially stated to be one billion
nine hundred and elghty-seven mil
lions which unquestionably is the
largest ever raised. While the open
weather has favored the rapid move
ment of corn to market it is neverthe-
less unfavorable to its maturity and
farmers are holding back their ship
ments for fear of finding their corn
graded unnecessarily low. Neverthe-
less the prices Tor corn are ruling firm
and the farmers of Nebraska should not
fail to profit by them.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
DEADWOoD'S MISTAKE.

1t is conceded on all hands that busi-
ness is looking up in the Black Hills,
and that many things are combining to
turn the attention OF capitalists to that
region, Most prominently stand for
ward the good showing made in the re-
cent efforts to handle refractory ores,
and the opportunity Of making loans
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25

THE Legislature of California is said
to be body and soul IN the power of Boss
Buckley. The democratic legislature
of that state voted salaries for one hun
dred and ninety clerks, which is moro
than double the membership of the two
houses. The spoils system is evidently
spelled with capital letters in Cali
fornia
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
A Corner I'm Ice.

M. Coleman was fined 50 and costs for
striking o. Finney with pair of skates, on
Monday last. Both families appeared en-
force, the testimony being of very conflict
ing character. The disturbance arose out of
who should have the right to skate on piece
of ice which the boy Coleman had cleaned for
himself and sisters Coleman was unable to
pay the fine and was released on his own re-
cognizance
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25

T7TDTTTtF ITINN.
OF all the unmitigated evils in this great
republic the inauguration ball is the most in
significant and infinitessimal Why do not
the moral purists who are now cracking the
ceilings of various edltices with violent phil
ippics against inauguration ceremonies turn
their attention to larger game! There is
plenty of it footloose in every community in
the United States
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25

BILLINGS and his ig-poisoning the
ory have a dangerous rival. An Ar
kansas doctor soberly claims to be ex-
tirpating hog cholera by the faith cure.
Unfortunately it is not stated whether
the hog or the doctor must exercise the
necessary faith.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25

THE sale and closing down of the
Fowler packing house at Sioux City will
create general surprise. Fowler Broth
ers made mistake when they passed
by Omaha in the midst of the corn and
hog belt, and went to Sioux City which
is lust at the edge.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25

A MARKED increase in the number of
hogs packed for the week ending jan
uary % is perceptible all along the line
of the leading packing centers. Omaha
has felt the quickening impulse, and
its record is beginning to compare very
favorably with the product of the corre-
spending time last year.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
FRYING Pan to Fire.

The suit Of Stella Munger against Sarah
Bernstein was to have been tried in tho
county court yesterday, but fortune willcd it
otherwise. While the plaintiff was proceed
ing TO the court room she fell on the slippery
sidewalk and broke her arm. The hearing
of the case was therefore postponed indeh.
nitely.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
PerhaDs He Wonders,
NeW York Press,

NeD York Press.
Perhaps Secretary Bayard wonders what
business anybody had with an American flag
in Samoa, and regards it as an objectionable
breach of international etiquette IN anybody
to raise an American flag on his house in an
other nation.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25

THE Herald discusses intelligently
the presidential aspirations of Senator
Beck, of Kentucky. AS the senator
was born in Scotland, his presidential
aspirations will probably trouble no one
outside the Herald Office.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
Vanderbilt and Hayti.

BUTIlmOfC InflICUN.
Rumors have been current that Mr. Van
derbilt's yacht was about to be sold to one
of the Haytian governments. If such deal
should be consummated the island would
probably be turned over to Mr.. Wand erbilt
in part payment.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
FanaticaI and InpracticabIe.

High license and strict enforcement of
high license law regulates the traffic to a far
greater extent than prohibition and at the
same time provides very large revenue,
which helps in a measure TO cOunteract the
evil effect of intemperance, and compensate
for the expenses incurred as the result of in
temperance state prohibition is not only
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
Lobbying For a Bonanza.

The list of lobbyists who regularly swarm
about the legislature would be incomplete
without mention Of the school book publisher
who has scheme to secure a greater uni =
formity in the use of books. There is no Do-
naDza that is equal to an exclusive control TO
the publisher of the school book trade, but
there is a chance to make a great saving in
the cost if the purchase and supply of books
was not left to the dealers entirely.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
Not Failure.

Beatrice Democrat.
The question "Is the legislature failureW
is the leading subject for discussion in lyce-
ums and school house debates. The aflrma-
tive side of the question seemed to have IL,
when the tables were turned by evidence to
show that the governors message has been
ordered printed in five different languages.
The legislature is not a failure.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
One Fair Spot.

TTfWONI IFIOWNt.
The fact that no White caps have yet
opened up for business in Fremont is good
cause for large amount OF congratulation.
1t shows that in these days OF wickeduess
and degeneracy, there is one fair spot on earth
which does not have to be regulated by an
ORGANIZED band of villains.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25

Snn FT0nCiSCO Itu.
Oregon desires to raise the salaries of her
state officers. We sincerely trust that moth.
ing will be done to raise the price of votes in
that state, for it is already beyond the reach
Of many poor but willing candidate.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25

EXCLUDING reporters from the meet
ing OF the western railroad presidents
at Chicago was an indiscreet move. The
reporters will get it just the same.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
The Two Missions.

Democrat am going to Washington in
March to see your friends sworn into office.
Republican-Yes, and I'll be there 10 see
yours go swearing out.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25

OMAHA, Jan. 23.-To the Edition OF
THE BEE: / noticed in last evenings
BEE an article in which you give me the
credit of having contributed to tho
campaign fund for the location of tho
city nall on Jefferson square, $1,000,
which / must say is absolutely false.
Now, Mr.. Editor, am not quite as
generous as you quote me to be, because
| have better use for the little money [
have got than to spend it for the selec-
tion of a site for the city hall. You
must have been misinformed, other
wise l can only ascribe your
assault on me as q citizen and as an
official, to the desperation of your fight,
to retain the city hall on Farnam and
Eighteenth street. While, perhaps,
l am benefited by the Farnam street
site as much as by the jefferson square
site, because | own fully as much real
estate on Farnam as do on Sixteenth
street, / must say thaS prefer the
Jefferson square site for the reason that
[ believe that the general welfare and
future prosperity of the city will be best
subserved by building the city hall on
jefferson square. BY allowing the
above to appear in your EVENING BEB
you will confer favor on, yours truly,
HENRY BOLLN.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
The Chief objection.
Boston Globe.

The chief objection to admitting Dakota
as a state is that she blows too much. If she
will take in rect IN those Billiards she will
be welcomed as a sister.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25

THE bill introduced in the legislature
to amend the law fixing sheriffs' fees
for the boarding of prisoners should be
vigorously opposed, especially by the
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
Will They Meet?

tNlCdUn NelrS,
The republican oflceseelscrs now walking
to the national capital hope to meet the dem.
ocratic officeholders walking in the opposite
direction.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25
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Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25

the afflicted districts in Scott county outside
of Davenport
Mount Pleasant young men played n gam
of base ball on skates the other day, tn o
score being TO 3.
Robert L. Thompson, a Massachusetts
wheelman travelled a distance of ,436 miles
during the past year.
, Davenport claims to be frcer from depre.
datlons of the criminal class than any other
city OF its size i'll the land.
The Alden lyceum has been in existence
for twenty years and is still fourishing,
without a sign OF old age.
For attempting TO buy counterfeit plates
Charles f.. Landcrs, of Keokuk county has
been sentenced to one year in the peni
tentiary.
The log school house has not yet gone from
Iowa. Thirty remain-mostlY in Dubuque,
Lee and Alamakec-some of the first settled
counties in the state.
"a small station on the Santa Fe in Lee
county has been christcnCd Macuta, the In
dian name for Black Hawk. The site of the
hamlet is said to be where the Sac and Fox
tribe of Indians built village
Manchester parties have recently organ.
lied company to deal in real estate, lumber
and mineral in Arkansas. The capital of the
company is 100000, and they nave 10000
acres of good land in that state.
Dakota.
There is talk of building $4,000 Touring
mill at Rapid City.
Over $500 have been subscribed for the
establishment of a reading room at Madison
The oldest man in Brulc county is Samuel
Bailey, sr., who was ninety-iive years old
last week
OF SlS2 900 taxes to be collected in Mime.
haha county this year Sioux Falls will pay
Sl20, 600.
The Rapid City board of trade is consider.
ing proposition to secure the location of a
foundry and machine shops
There is talk in Lead City of organizing
company ior the purpose of erecting rcduc-
tion works on Squaw creek.
Having failed to secure the territorial fair,
Sioux Falls is now organizing a fair of its
own, to be called the Southern Dakota eX-
position.
There is talk Of erecting monument on the
YanktOn Indian reservation to the memory
of Strike-the Roe, the late chief of the
Yanktons.
According to the superintendcnt's report
there is an average daily attendance of
2,S22 children in the public schools of Law
renee county.
The ministers of the Watertown district
surprised their presiding elder, the Rev. a.
ID. Traveller, the other day, by presenting
him with very fine coon SKIN coat, trimmed
with plucked otter.
The merchants of Mitchell have been I'm
pressed with the fact that they are being
Systematically robbed, and have instituted an
investigation which has already resulted in
the discovery of the stolen goods.
"Grover Cleveland" is the name of fight
ing cock at Yankton which has gained two
famous victories in the pit and is believed to
be bird of destiny. His owner is now rear
ing rooster which he has christened "Ben
HARRISON and he Is expected TO etfectually
do up Grover.
The city council of Watertown, at its last
meeting, passed resolution accepting the
DrODOSitiOn of n responsible party in EurODe
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25

Six light cases of smallpox are reported in
one Wayerly family
Railroad improvements to cost 500 600
are promised at Belle Plaine next summer,
A $4,000 house sold in Dubuque for $1,000
because it had the reputation OF being
haunted.
Diphtherla has nearly disappeared from
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-25

fanatcal, but utterly impractcable, as has
been amply demonstrated in Maine Iowa
and Kansas