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Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24

THERE Is something radically wrong
with the mail service between this city
and Yankton. A letter mailed at that
place on Saturday will not reach Omaha
until the following Tuesday. The reg
ular time of passage between the two
cities is ten hours, and even this should
be reduced to about four by direct line
on this side of the river. The sooner
the business men OF Omaha realize the
Importance of the South Dakota trade
and the necessity of close communica-
tion with the Jim river valley the sooner
will they gather into their Golfers the
hundreds of thousands of dollars now sent
annually from South Dakota to Chi
cago Under the present railroad fa-
cilities the time between Omaha and
Yankton and Chicago and Yankton is
about the same.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24
AN GID OFFICE REVIVED.
A Peculiar Omission In the
Amended Election Law.
THE PROBABLE OUTCOME OF 1T.
Another Poor Unrortunnte--The De-
cedent Law Said TO BE Unjust
Supreme Court Records
The City News.
LINCOLN BUREAU OF THE OMAHA Bus !
1929 p STREET.

LINCOLN, July ~.
Now and then an occasional piece OF bung-
ling legislative work comes to light. Chap
ter twenty-five Of session laws of 1899 shows
that section seven Of the compiled statutes
entitled "Eloctions," was not only AMENDED
but repealed. 1t appears that tho new law
provides for the election of state ana county
officers at the stipulated times aud epumer-
ates some Of them as follows Governor,
lieutenant governor, congressman, state
treasurer, auditor of public accounts, secro-
tary of state, attorney general, commissioners
Of public lands and buildings, superintendent
of public instruction, one district attorney
for each judicial district and members of the
legislature. The net in question specifically
recites that these officers shall be elected in
the year 1880 and every two years there
after.
1t is only necessary, however, to cite the
law for the connection in the point sought
to be made. Some of our state officials and
Capital City lawyers contend that the law
re-establishes the Office Of district attorney
and abolishes that Of county attorney. 9th
ers express the opinion that because section
seven OF the compiled statutes, amended and
repealed, does not mention the Office Of county
attorney that 1t is noBnecessarily abolished,
as that office was provided for and instituted
during the session of the legislature four
years ago. ana therefore NOT Incorporated In
the section repealed. But this peculiar fea-
ture Is said to still exist The new law pro-
vdes for the election of the various state,
county and precinct officers, names them in
regular order, and is wholly silent rs to the
Office of county attorney. 1t is urged that
because the act cited, passed at the late sit
ting Of Nebraska's lawmakers, distinctly
names the Office of the district attorney and
fixes a time for the election of the officer
that the Office has properly been re-instated
Inv lnx uuE RER fallel
get the opinion of any state official or lawyer
as to the intent of the of the legislature in
passing chapter twenty-five of the session
laws, but the conviction seemed to exist that
the insertion of 'district attorney and omis-
sion of county attorney" was an oversight.
In any event it seems that construction of
the new law will be necessary from the SUI
preme court
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24
SUMMER zEPnYRs.

New York Mercury: # may sound para.
doxical, but ones ''bare" word Is not
always sufficient to establish even the
''naked" truth.
Drake's Magazine, Foreigner-"who is
that solitary individual whom nobody no.
ticesW American-"Ie's an ex-presdent
of the United States"
New Orleans Picayune: Electricity had
made but little headway at the time Of the
flood. What Noah most needed and could
not get was an arc motor.
Terre Haute Express Rejoice, o young
man, in the days Of thy youth, but remem-
Der that, big as he is, the whale does not
blow much until he reaches the top.
Gloucester Advertiser; A fellow that has
actually tried says that although there are
three scruples In dram the more drains you
take the fewer scruples you will have.
Puck: "That actor you introduced me to-"
remarked Giles, 'cau drink more than any
man ever met" "He belongs to the new
school, YOU know" returned Merritt. "Hes
a tank actor"
Judge: Mrs Butts-What delightful
conversationalist MIR. Jabberbox is. II just
does me good to hear him talk. Miss Minnie
Ball-Yes, indeed; but how restful it is to
hear the silence while he listens to somebody
elsel
Life: Clerl-"1here, sir, 1 call that
pretty good fitting pair Of trousers"
Farmer Stubbleteld (from Wayback juno
tion) -"They feel all right in the seat, bub
but it seems to me they don't fit very snug
under the arms"
Minneapolis Tribune: A crazy Detroiter
is creating a sensation by hugging Defense
less women on the streets at night
He is very bright for an insane person, how
ever. He hugs them at night when it is too
dark to see their faces.
New York Mercury: "Robert, dear, what
is jag'" "A iagl 1 don't know, Maria"
MRS. Jones says that her husband told her
that he saw you down town with your jag
on" "Oh, yes, see He meant my Eng
lsh top coat. It is sometimes called a jag.n
Chicago Tribune: II have quite an inter-
esting pathological collection at home"
said professor to his host ''I would he
glad to have you call. Are you interested in
birdsr Not much" "Except in larks,"
his wife put in, sending wave of indigna-
tion over his face
Life: Cumso--I see that Edition has in
vented a machine by means Of which per-
sons face can be seen miles away. Mrs.
Cumso-O, how NIGEL You'll get one,
George, and then when we go to theater
you can see man on the street witho ut
leaving your seat
Puck: Miss Dovecote (hostess)-Why
don't you come into the parlor and dance,
Mr.. Orkwoodl Mr.. Orkwood (who loves
flattery)-Ah, deah me, YOU know, I darnce
so beastly, don'tcherknow, that I'm sure I'd
make a fool of meself. Miss Dovecote IRE
assuringly)-You couldn't do that, Pm sure,
Mr. Orkwood. You know it takes wise
man to play the fool
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24

AS AN inducement to increase the
efficiency and interest in the railway
mail services ,othe postoffice authorities
have decided to, give the clerks in
service at Omaha an opportunity to
compete for gold medals in the distri-
button OF mail. This is a new departure
on the part of the postoffice officials that
is likely to lead to good results. An in
centive is given to the men to win pro-
motion as we'll as to receive the appro-
baton of the department, and the serv-
ice will be greatly improved, insuring
to the public more careful mail distri-
button and delivery.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24
A New Mail Schedule.

Parties to whom schedules Of arrival and
closing Of mails have been sent will remember
that copy was filed in the government
printing Office May 81 and that connections
must be made as follows: Lincoln to
Alliance, express pouch, 1880 a. m.; all b. &
M. trains marked on schedule due at 10 80
q. M, now due at 1905 a. IN. Chadron to
Casper. due ut 400 p M; Omaha to Hast
ings and Superior, due at 1910 p. IN. North
western, Rock Island and Milwaukee, due at
7:35 p. M, instead Of s 200 p. m.
PAUL VANDERvOORT,
Superintendent of Mails.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24
You can run a locomotive

You can run locomotive on extra
high pressure at seventy miles an hour,
and run the risk of busting" the boiler,
followed by general smash-up. You
can boom the circulation of paper by
giving away thousands Of copies on trial
stimulate your cash receipts by playing
a confidence game on credulous patrons
who are willing to pay for year in ad-
vance at half-price. But such high
pressure financiering is just as sure to
end in wreck as if banker were to
pay ten per cent to deposltors and loan
at eight per cent.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24

THE good people OF Yankton have
awakened to the fact that Mr.. II. f.
Pettigrew, who has been given fran
chise TO build system OF street rail-
way in their enterprising city, is i'm
clined to delay matters, having so far
failed to make a beginning. Mr.. Pet
tigrew is candidate for United States
senator and needs the support Of Yank-
ton in HE effort to capture that prize.
Mr.. Pettigrew will probably continue to
make promises to the people Of Yank-
ton until after the election, and then
drop them, and the only cost TO him for
their support will be the loss of their
confidence, and that he will no longer
care for.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24
THE prospectus of tho proposed salt

THE prospectus of tho proposed salt
trust contains this significant passage:
"And if, as has been arranged, portion
of the shares should be taken in Eng
land by those having similar interests
there, even in the event OF "a removal of
the United States import duties on salt,
it is not probable that they would desire
to injure this market by making ruin
Gus prices here, or we in turn go beyond
our natural market; indeed, an UNDER
standing to this effect has already been
arrived att In other words, the salt
trust gives the people of the country to
understand that if the people OF
America should repeal the duty on salt,
with the hope of escaping the exactions
of MONOPOLY at home, the English
syndicate wolld not allow salt to be
shipped to this country due to an
understanding" with the American
salt trust. 1t would be by this method
that the salt trust would circum-
vent any attempt made by
congress to obtain relief by
abolishing the salt duty even il laws be
not passed declaring such trade com
binations illegal. Be that as it may,
there is still another avenue for relief,
and that is through the courts founded
on law dating back to the time when
the memory of man runneth not. 1t has
been declared time and again in cases
relating to combinations and trusts,
that public policy is opposed to monopo-
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24
Another Unfortunate.

A very pretty girl, perhaps seventeen
years of age. lies between life and death in
scantily furnished room on p street. Her
condition is due to criminal operation per-
formed on her by so-called midwife of this
city. 1t is hardly possible for her to recover,
and, deserted by the author of her trouble,
among strangers and without any of the
comforts so necessary during the hours of
travail, the poor girl lies as the hours 20 by,
the past lost, the future terrible.
Az Christmas festival last year In the
little town of Waverly, Ia, this poor girl
met law student who has since been ad-
mitted to the bar, and who from that date
showed her marked attention. Under prom
ise Of marriage, shortly afterward, he
her condition became apparent, and
in desperation she implored her
seducer to fulfill his promise,
but this he refused to do, and added insult
to injury by insisting that he was not re-
sponsible for her condition. This almost
broke the poor girls heart, and she came to
Lincoln, where she expected to find an old
domestic who had worked in her fathers
family but IN this was disappointed. She
then engaged room and board with the
family on p street. where she endured the
tortures of a criminal operation last night.
1t appears that her landlady noticed her con-
dition and advised her to go to doctor and
rid herself of her trouble. She visited sew
eral physicians of the city, who, to their
credit be itsaid, refused to perform the opera
tion. Finally, however, she met the mid
wife in question who eXacted her watch and
valuable gold ring for her services, leaving
her destitute of means to pay her board and
attendance. and even refused to visit her when
the dread hour came, for fear of compro-
missing herself. The midwife, becoming
frightened to-day, left town over the Bur-
hngton, but her whereabouts are known,
and should the girl die she will have to ac-
count for her handiwork. No persuasion
can induce the suffering girl to give the
name of her betrayer, nor her own, but she
has envelopes bearing the imprint Of we'll
known Waverly law tirm and parties have
the matter in hand who propose an investi-
frnfinn
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24
City News and Notes.

Some OF the members OF the board OF public
lands and buildings went to Omaha to-day II
inspect the fire escapes and other improve
ments Just completed on the deaf and dumb
institute building.
Fred Benzinger, OF the Capital City
Courier, and w. Morton Smith, of tho
Omaha Republican, left to-day for Spirit
lake, Ia, TO attend the regatta that com
mences there tomorrow.
The work on the boiler house and smoke
stack of the capitol building is progressing
rapidly. IL will be completed an an early
date In September, and will add to rather
than detract from the appearance Of the
state house grounds.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24

THE acquittal of McQuade, the
boodling alderman Of New York, at
Baliston, In that state, was to be ex-
pected. 1t was taken as a matter of
course that where District Attorney
Fellows was the prosecutoS the case
would be SO weak and lame that il
would practically be abandoned by de-
fault. AS the verdict stands, however,
1t is no crime for public Official to ac-
oept bribe in New York.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24

A CHICAGO jury has just acquitted
two attendants OF the Cook county in.
sane asylum charged with the murder
OF an inoffensive inmate. The verdict,
however, should not be interpreted rs
q vindication OF the course Of brutal
keepers. 1t does not give the members
OF that craft license to maltreat pa
tients with impuuity, and an example
should he. made of one of them at the
very first offense.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24

THAT twelve hundred dollar vault
balcony matter will not down. The re-
markable feature of the whole fiasco is
the complacency with which the county
commissioners filed the report of the
expert who estimated the value OF the
vault fixtures to be only four hundred
dollars.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24

THE popularity of Parnell is by no
means or the wane. His recent recep-
tion in Scotland, and especially at Edin-
burg, where the citizens accorded him
the freedom OF the city, was mark OF
confidence in the integrity and patriot
ism OF the great Irish leader.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24
AN opPoRTUNE rain along the lii

AN oPPoRTUNE rain along the line
OF southwestern Kansas a6 last insures
the success OF the corn crop in that Sec
tion. There were fears that the
hot winds which parched that Sec
tion of the state for three successive
years would again set in this year.
Happily for the thousands OF farmers,
that danger seems now past. and large
corn acreage is looked for all over the
state.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24

THE prohibitionists of Washington
territory are quite anxious to at least
leave their mark on the constitution to
be adopted. They have introduced tho
same measures time and again, and are
not one whit discouraged in seeing the
waste basket Of the convention fairly
groan with their communications.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24
Monopolies Defy the Law.
Pittsburq Dispatch.

There can be no monopolies in this coun-
try IL the laws are maintained and
supported In their integrity; neither can
there be rule Of the rich If the popular
suffrage is preserved in its purity and thus
made TO support the popular rights. But
few such gigantic facts as the Standard oil
trust and the defiance of the courts and law
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24

berlaiu ct al. Error from the district court
of johnson county.
Sallie A. Ward vs. Michael Watson ct al
Appeal from the district court OF Lancaster
county,
James ID. Russell ct al VS. William Grimes
sheriff CT Johnson county. Error from ths
district court of Johnson county.
John w. Marshall ct al vs Milton III. Goblc.
Error from tho district court of Douglas
county,
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24
INTERESTS IN COMMON.

Inere Is no doubt tnat IHE OMAHA
BEE has interests IN common with all
other papers that expect to pay dollar
for dollar for their materials, and meet
all other obligations, as against any
paper like the Omaha Republican, which
is incurring enormous liabilities to it's
subscribers by taking SIS in advance.
To be sure it does not matter to THE
BEE or any other paper, whether the
Republicans subscribers find themselves
''chiseled" ont OF three or four dollars
of the amount they have advanced, in
case the Republican in it's wild run over
the highway of ruin to the receiver,
shall collapse. But any concern that
carries on profitless and reckless busi-
ness demoralizes, to some extent, the
trade in which it is engaged, and to that
extent only has THE BEE an interest in
common with other papers that are con-
Quoted upon business principles:
We are told by our eminent financiers
that we do not know anything about the
newspaper business, and that the
more subscribers newspaper gets
over certain number the larger its
profits. True, always, providing the
paper is sold at price above the cost of
production. But suppose that the
Omaha Republican, or any other paper,
has collected five dollars from each of
five thousand subscribers, or twenty-five
thousand dollars in advance, and by so
doing incurs a liability to five thousand
patrons to deliver the paper by mail
three hundred and sixty-five days in the
year. Then if it should transpire that
such a paper could only deliver its
papers at that price two hundred and
sixtvfive days in the year, where does
have the dupes of these cheap and fitful
issues that the paper will not completely
collapse before the expiration OF the
year?
1t is said that railroad in the hands
of receiver is the most dangerous of
competitors, because it does not pay
dividends upon its stock, or interest
upon its bonds, and therefore for time
demoralizes the entire railroad traffic.
A well managed, first class
railroad, like the Pennsylvania or New
York Central, is not affected very much
by bankrupt competitors, but still it is
concerned sufficiently to be in sympathy
with those weaker roads that are less
able to stand competition. THE BEES
relative position is very much the same
with reference to newspaper competi-
tors in this city. Its business is estab-
lished, and no inroads have been, or
can be made by the Republican, even if
it should give away its paper to every
body.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24

HUNDREDS OF claims in Oklahoma
are invalid, due to the fact that they
were taken up before noon of April %.
In consequence many a landlord of that
embryo territory is likely to find him
self wanderer once more on the face
of the earth.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24

THE hitherto friendly relations be-
tween the two Dakotas is liable to be
strained now that the hair-splitting has
begun over the assumption of the terri
torial debts and assets.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24
Fatal to Democrats.

"The Harrison Grip is the name which
has been given to a new-fashioned collie
which has made IT'S appearance IN the Hud-
son river counties. HSo the Albany Argus
reports. We judEefrom thls that the new
collie means business and is warranted to
make democrats sddirm.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24
Prohibitionists for Revenue Only.

The prohibition organization will undoubt.
edly be maintained by the continued ascen.
dency in its councils Of the men who secure
their bread and butter through agitation.
A few OF the elect may be deceived but the
movement shows undlsputed signs of weak
ness and fipal dissolution.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24
Encouraging Signs.

Louisville Courier-J0Hrndt
II girl in Alabama really did say, 81
should jump up and tiptoe to cackle," our
northern friends will not despair OF the
"New South" There are some signs of
progress that are eunmistakable.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24
What DoK't Editors Know.

IIuUTtHUB HWtFTCuW.
We received pamphlet yesterday entitled,
SHOW to Raise Poultry on Large Scale"
We knew all about it before we saw the
book at all. What you have to is to do place
the poultry on the large scale, press down on
the other side, and You raise your poultry.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24
INCREASING THE DOMAIN.

There has been very considerable
increase OF the public domain, from In
dian lands made accessible for settle
ment, during the past two years.
Within that period about eighteen mil
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24

HENRY GEORGE is on the flowing
main on his way to America. Is it
possible that he is coming home to i'm
press his single tax theory on one of the
four virgin statesp
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24

Detroit Journal
stalk about Jay Gould's making money!"
said Mr.. Shornlamb; ''he never made a cent
in his life. He waits till other people make
it and then gets it away from them"
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24
Robbins in all Directions.

ButIHlOT6 dHlerICdn.
Some of the trusts are not getting along
harmoniously. The cause is too much greed.
Next to their desire to rob the public seems
to come their desire TO rob one another. If
there could be reversal of these preferences
the public would not object.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24


THE BEE has observed that a news
paper cannot dive unless it charges
more for its paper than 1t costs TO pro-
duce it. The Chicago papers have, by
experience, found this 70 be true, and
some of them have raised their prices
to paying basis. That old established
paper, the Chicago Times, has Just suf-
fered temporary embarrassment,
owing, probably, as much rs anything
else, to the low price at which it has
been selling of late. 1t has found the
"give-away" policy a failure. 1t
was sold to dealers in Iowa
and Nebraska at one cent
per copy, and even less, during the last
campaign. 1t is utterly impossible to
sustain business at such rates, and
make both ends meet. That paper
should have been property worth a
million OF collars, earning from 100000
to $500, 900 year to the publisher, and
to-day would have been in such condi-
tion had it been handled as ably as
Story handled it in his palmy days.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24

THE re-rating OF pensions has stirred
up hornets nest in the peusion office
that is likely to cause Commissioner
Tanner considerable trouble.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24
sleepy Pennsylvania Villages.

A Huntington paper says: There are
villages in this county of 200 and 800
inhabitants where it would be impos-
sible to find soul astir on Sunday after
noon. 1t is universal custom to
'uap,D
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24

THE cyclone has met rival in the
waterspout this season, and both are
tearing about the country like dis
gruntled politician.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24

LET us have electric light from that
company which will give the most sat-
isfactory service at the most reasonable
terms.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24
okIaboma's Metropolis.

Guthrie, with its suburbs, now has
1900 inhabitants, six banks, eight
newspapers, thirty-seyen lumber yards
and hundreds of stores.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-24

lies which work TO the injury Of the
general publicity destroying competi-
tion in trade For that reason the
courts do not stop to inquire as to the
degree of INJURY inflicted on the public.
1t is enough h'tolknow that the inevitable
tendency of such combinations is injuri-
GUS to the public, and therefore trusts
are unlawful and must be suppressed.