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Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska % tIurs.

NeDTaSka 10 tilEs'
The business men of Talmage have Or
ganized a board of trade.
The Times says that Lindsay is badly in
need of first-cass hotel.
The Richardson county teachers associa-
tion meets at Stella March 8.
The dates for the Dawson county fair have
been fixed for September "a, 26, % and 2T
The south-siders of Valparaiso want a
good hotel man, general merchandise store
and the post Office.
Footpads held up Chadron physician the
other night but failed to find a single article
of value upon his person.
Burwell expects to start spring boom
with new church, school house and furni-
ture store, besides several residences.
The West Point Manufacturing company
has about 400 600 brick in kiins ready TO be
bu ned in time for the spring demand
An adjourned meeting of the Holt county
G. A. II. will be held at O'Neill March 80 for
the purpose Of locating the next reunion.
A foot race for 800 side will be held at
Grant next Saturday between M. Makurn, of
Oscela, and Abe Harper, of Wool River.
The Good Tcmplars Dramatic club Of
Piainview are 10 present "Out in the Street"
at Creighton for the benefit OF the Creighton
lodge.
Farmers in the neighborhood of Ewing are
agitating the creamery question and have
been promised the product of over one thoas-
and COWS.
Fred Buckta, who burglarized a store at
edgar, fell into the clutches of the law at
at Exeter and was lodged in Jail TO answer
for his crime
A Wayne man who was under the Influence
of liquor playfuliy grasped the hind leg Of a
mule and is now undergoing repairs in the
hands OF a surgeon.
The Valparaiso hose company, composed
of twenty young men, has just completed a
I.tailA "A 4 n ha lan ag "A
meeting room and will soon give an enter.
tainment TO defray the expenses.
The eighth annual meeting OF the State
Pharmaceutical Al association will be held In
Lincoln May IA TO III in the capitol building.
The meeting will be an important one and
the exhibits will be very large Reduced
rates on the railroads and at hotels have
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY MARCH 5. 1882

out was largely directed by political
considerations, and in this respect both
parties are amenable, in very nearly
equal degree, TO criticism.
The failure TO make any provision for
reducing the revenues OF the govern
ment was unfortunate, and undeniably
the responsibility for this rests chiefly
upon the majority in the last house of
representatives. The opportunity given
this majority to cut down reve uue, and
thereby prevent the accumulation of the
surplus in the national treasury by re-
moving the tobacco tax, was rejected,
although in doing so the majority was
clearly stultified. 1t had persistently
maintained that there was danger
in a growing surplus, since it
invited reckless waste of the
public money, and no one ques-
toned the soundness Of the argument.
Men sincerely fearing this danger, and
finding it impossible to carry their own
plan of REVENGE reduction, should have
gone as far as was practicable in avert
ing the danger, particularly when the
ohll tliot tOuiu ouSSVSU "eo Sh
tirely in conseryance with traditional
democratic doctrine. The result will
be growing surplus, which may make
some trouble for the financial and busi-
ness interests OF the country before the
next congress can apply the remedy.
The failure to legislate against
monopoly in the form OF trusts and
\, nj nnfn
tunate. There were brave promises
that these organizations against the
freedom OF trade would be summarily
dealt with, and there were investiga-
tions and the introduction of n score or
more bills. But neither party showed
any genuine desire to act. The conse-
quence is that the trusts are given at
least another year in which to
strengthen their position and to plunder
the people. The failure of proposed
legislation to forfeit unearned railroad
lands was another serious dereliction
that will result In losing many thous-
ands Of acres to the people, and
is one evidence of the potency
of the influence eXerted at Wash
ngton by the land-grant corpo-
rations. The expectation that the last
congress would do something to compel
the Pacific railroads to make prepara-
tions for settlement of their obliga-
tions to the government was disap-
pointed, and in a number of matters of
less Importance the interests of the peo-
pie were neglected.
1t will be the duty of the next con-
gress to provide for the omissions of the
last, and as there will be a good work
ing republican majority in both houses
it is reasonable expectation that this
will be done.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
KEEP APPROPRIATIONS DO

The closing days Of every legislature
are the. most costly to the people. Hun
dreds of thousands Of dollars are reck-
lessly voted to jobbers, bogus claimants
and mismanaged state institutions. The
time for exercising good, sound judg-
ment is when the appropriation bills are
under consideration. Nebraska is IN no
condition TO bear the burdens which il
is proposed to throw upon the over
mortgaged farmers and producers.
The men who cut down appropriation
bills, vote down all the normal school
bills, knock out the soldiers cottage
nonsense, and refuse to appropriate a
dollar for additional wings to existing
state institutions, viii merit the graft
tude OF the people, The enormities of
the legislature of two years ago must
not he repeated. Let the state take a
rest from oyer-taxaHon for the next
two Years.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
A Cruel Stepfathcr.

Ora Hemins, boy of about fou rteen, who
had no coat on, was arraigned at the police
court on the charge of vagrancy, his mother
being the complaining witness. His case
was continued till 3p. nj. The boy has not
a vicious appearance and Mr.. II. II. Howard,
for whom the lap is working, says that Ora
is outrageously abused by his mother and
stepfather. Mr.. Howard appears in his de-
fensc and says that he has always found Ora
a good and tractable boy. He says that the
stcpfather has been seen to knock down the
lad and kick him into the street, beslaes
practicing other cruelties on him. The boy
has become afraid to stay at home and sleeps
in barns and any other place he can find.
Mr.. Howard says that Hemins is the fellow
who was arrested last summer on the charge
of obtaining money under false pretenses,
while his wife was the principal in SQUAD.
BILE over a fence, that was aired in the police
court The lad himself expresses a doubt as
to his mother being really married to Hem
ms.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05

NEXT Tuesday the people of New
Hampshire are to vote upon a prohibi-
tory amendment to their state constitu-
tion. For over thirty years a stringent
statutory law, prohibiting the sale and
manufacture of liquor, has been in force
in New Hampshire. The penalties have
been increased, and the rigors of the
law multiplied from year to year by the
legislature. Now the advocates of pro-
hibition confess that the law is practi-
cally dead letter and the cause Of tenn
perance has not been materially
advanced by its operation How a
constitutional amendment can in
any way make prohibition more e!fec-
tive, passes our comprehension. An
amendment cannot enforce itself with
out law, and if stringent temperance
laws already on the statute books of
New Hampshire fail to suppress the
liquor traffic, the proposed amendment
if adopted, is not likely to effect ma
terial change.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
EVERYTHING points to a year of sub

EVERYTHING points to year of sub
stantial progress in all lines in Omaha.
The record of the clearing house is the
barometer OF q, business. During the
past week the banks did a business ag-
gregating three million five hundred
and forty-ninei thousand eight hundred
and forty-nine dollars, an increase Of
thirty-nine and two-tenths per cent
compared WITH the corresponding week
OF 1888. Only fohr cities in the country
show largerrper cent of increase, and
these are mainly spasmolic. Real es-
tate transactions are steadily increasing
and profitable prices are obtained for
inside property available for improve
ment. The favorable opening Of
spring has given an impetus to building.
In every direction are evidences of pro-
gress, accelerated by the certainty that
two magnificent public buildings will be
started early this year. A strong and
united pull on the part of our business
meu will insure record for 1889 sur
passing any one in the history of the
city.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05

wage war upon every person in public
life who was in any way favored by this
paperp
That combine broke OF its own weight,
just as all combinations and plots to get
Rosewater on the hip have failed in the
past fifteen years. Instead OF striving
to excel by publishing first-class dailies
and taking position squarely with
the people on every vital issue,
these papers have centered all
their energies upon one point,
and that was to down Rosewater. In
this eudeavor nothing has been too
vile and low, and no occasion has been
neglected that gave the faintest chance
TO besmirch the editor of THE BEE.
And what has been the outcome?
Every daily in Omaha excepting alone
THE BEE has been sinking thousands
of dollars year, and some of them are
sinking thousands of dollars every
month.
Two of the proprietors of these would
be great dailies have never earned a
dollar of the wealth they possess. 1t
fell into their laps as an Inheritance.
it takes brains and industry to establish
anG maintain a great daily. Neither
of them has been endowed by nature
with these essential qualities. Their
incidence, lack of judgment and
moral stamina and business ca
pacity are responsible for their
utter failure to make newspapers that
will pay. Pulling and tugging at THE
BEE and getting Rosewater on the hip
has been stupid and losing task.
But we could afford to ignore these
barren efforts were it not for the in
decency and lack of journalistic cour-
tesy which these papers and their re-
to lower the profession in the esteem Of
reputable men than any other malign
influence. It is not only a
disgrace to journalism, but a positive
iujury to this city and state.
Omaha and Nebraska have been built
up largely and advertised extensively
by THE BEE, which has taken rank
among the great dailies OF America
To discredit It's standing abroad and at
home by malicious assaults can only
tend to curtail its influence and useful
ness for the public good. No reputable
business man would stoop so low as to
treat competitor as Mr.. Hitchcock aud
other unsuccessful newspaper men have
THE BEE and its editor. Such conduct
would not be countenanced or tolerated
in any community.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
THE FAILURES OF CONGRESS

The Fiftieth congress will he MEM
orable quite as much for what it failed
to do as for what it accomplished.
There was an extraordinary amount OF
business presented TO it, but with the
exception OF not more than half a dozen
really important measures, chief among
them being the bill for the admission o.
four new states, the legislation OF the
lust congress does not make record Of
SURPRISING credit. Its course through
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
srEAKER CARLIsLE's conduct

SPEAKER CARLIsLE's conduct in
preventing action on important meas
ures that did not meet his approval is
the boldest exhibition of arbitrary
power Witnessed in recent years. How
long congress viii permit one-man
power to override its will is serious
question. 1t is certain that the coming
congress. will make a radical change in
the rules and reserve to itself the power
which Carlisle usurped for selfish ends
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
SHANE AND MYERS.

Mr.. Daniel Shane has placed himself
in very awkward position before this
community. When man, discharged
from public employment, turns round
to accuse the officer who dismissed him
of corruption, of which he claims to
have had knowledge for many months,
he places himself in the light of an in
former who turns states evidence
against his accomplices.
Mr.. Shane was superintendent of the
county hospital. The architect, Mr..
Myers, found fault with the wretched
work done and inferior material used
on the building under Mr.. Shane' S
supervision. Thereupon Mr.. Shane ac-
cuses the architect of certifying to
fraudulent estimates for the contractors
as far back as July, and also trumps up
charges of incompetency and gross neg
hgence against Myers.
Assuming that Mr.. Shane's charges
are true, he has confessed himself cul-
pable for an ineXcusable violation of a
public trust. 1t was his duty as the
superintendent employed by the county
to make the fraud known as soon
as it was discovered by him.
To hold back this knowledge for eight
months is an admission of unfitness On
his part to be trusted with the position
he held. This is the natural con clusion
every fair minded person will reach in
the premises.
In private business it is always con-
sidered in very bad taste for man to
denounce a superior to his employers
after he has been discharged, especially
if the party pretends to have withheld
from his employers facts concerning the
dishonesty of his superiors in position.
The denial of the contractors OF Mr..
Shane's bribery charges may be passed
as biased and unreliable, especially in
view of the fact that the masonry in the
county hospital Is very inferior.
But the worst of the matter is that
the county has wretchedly constructed
public building on its hands. For this
the county commissioners are RESPONSE
Bile. They had no business to let the
contract to Ryan & Walsh under pre-
tense that they were saving money to
the tax payers. They knew better, and
cannot explain away their course in
connection with this building.
The facts that have come to light re-
Gently show conclusively that there is
something rotten in the whole business.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
A Tribute to Cattle Kate.
Chicago hltey-Ocedn.


In discussing the career Of that sportlve
Amazon, Cattle Kate, who recently drove her
horse into saloon and ordered the gamblers,
who were indulging in a 'brace game" at
the expense of her cowboys, to throw up
their hands while she divided the spoils pro
rata, the New York Tribune says: "We
take off our hat to Cattle Kate. She may
have had her faults like the rest of us,
but she certainly comes out strong in an
emergency" This is discreet. Cattle Kate
has been in the hapit of shooting off hats.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
THEY HAVE HIM ON THE HIP.

THEY HAVE HIM ON THE HIP
The most prominent and conspicuous
heading on the first page of the Omaha
World yesterday was over scurrilous
dispatch received by mail from Lincoln
regarding the Royce relief fund. The
pith OF this dispatch is in the following
paragraph:
The newspapers and reporters are having
an interesting time with l.. Rosewater, and
now think they have him on the hip, so to
speak.
Who were the reporters, and what
newspapers do they represent2 Are
those reporters the same persons who
have disgraced the profession by ca
rousing night after night in the bar
rooms and brothels Of Lincoln in COM
pany with boodlers and jobbers? Is not
the leading spirit among these report
ers one Frank Morrissey who has made
it his business for two or three years TO
concoct plots against THE BEE and its
editor and was the head and
front OF the tripartite com
bine OF wrecked Omaha dailies
that waged an infamous and ruinous
warfare which they knew would cripple
this city by depriving it OF parks ana
boulevardsp
Are not the newspapers that are hay-
ing such an interesting time in getting
e. Roscwater on the hip piloted by the
same parties who made compact two
years ago to oppose every measure
which The BEE woald advocate and
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
FROM the marts of trade come,

FROM the marts OF trade comes the
news that manufacturers and whole
sale dealers are encouraged at the
business outlook. So many orders for
wares have been placed that factories
are beginning to run on double time.
The increased demand for goods of all
kinds makes it necessary to run the
looms day and night, and if reports be
not exaggerated, there is promise OF a
prosperous season in mercantile liues.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
THE Iowa state pharmacy con

THE Iowa state pharmacy commission
congratulates itself over the fact that it
has cut down the number of incompe-
tent druggists in that state who were
simply dram shop keepers in masquer-
ade. But the pharmacy board has evil
IDENTIFY not taken an inventory OF the
number OF blind-pig drug stores and
bootleg druggists supplying the fever
and ague population OF Iowa with the
needful tonic.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
Alabama w hisky.

During our civil war there were, in news
paper record, S,493 soldiers whose lives were
saved by bibles and testaments carried in
their breast pockets. But now in Spinvllle
Ala, pint bottle of whisky carried in the
breast pocket stopped the bullet of an angry
revolver. That is the kind of whisky they
make down thcre-awful tough.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05

THE people of the west have good
reason to cherish the memory of the
Fiftieth congress. The addition OF four
new states to the union marks au era OF
prosperity and power for the people of
Dakota, Montana and Washington.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05

in this country. The exercise OF cor
porate power to coerce and drive men
from their home should be resisted by
all possible means, and the law making
powers of the states should be cXer-
cised to protect the weak against the
strong.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05

WILL our citizens permit the erection
of several miles OF over head wires for
the electric motor through our business
streets without a protest? In tho city Of
Boston the fire underwriters union has
determined to raise insurance rates on
property facing streets strung with the
electric motor wiie. II is a question of
short time when Omaha will be sim
ilarly threatened.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05

THE exposure made by Commissioner
contract has soliditied the triangular
combine in the county commissioners
office, for which poor Corrigan is play
ing dupe, and of which Mount is the
head and front,
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
Railroad Notes.

w. d. Ransom, chief clerk in the office Of
the superintendent of the Nebraska division
of the Union Pacific. boasts over the arrival
of bouncing girl that came to his home 92S
South Twenty-third street Sunday.
General Traffic Manager Mellen OF the
Union Pacific will leave Wednesday for st.
Louis where on Thursday he will attend
tide conference of general managers called to
make certain changes in conformity with
the presidents agreement.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05

THE street commissioner draws a
salary of one hundred and fifty dollars
"a month. In four mouths he has tapped
the city treasury for six hundred dol
lars without rendering the slightest
service. The streets of the city, espe-
cially in the business center. reek with
accumulated filth Of winter, yet this
official sinecure pays not the slightest
heed to the complaints of merchants.
Why cannot the street commissioner
clean the cutters of the principal streets
and cart away the rubbish? Unless this
is done promptly the rain storms of the
spring season are liable to choke the
sewers with rubbish, overflow into base
ments and cause great damage to
property owners and business men.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05

THE American people have one thing
for which they may we'll feel grateful.
Congress will never again be disgraced
by the presence of Riddleberger, Of
Virninia
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05

Now the little local railroads in Iowa
are appealing for relief. Like huge
anacondas the big roads swallow all the
business, and the weak lines are only
running deeper into debt. This a phase
OF the railroad problem over which the
Iowa state commission may well knit its
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05

THE German government proposes to
establish combined art collection and
museum for the display of articles as
sociated with the Bismarck era of the
empire. A few remnants of Bayard S
Samoan policy will be given conspicu-
Gus position.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
Globe Democrat.

The movements of Russian troops on the
Afghanistan frontier promise to bring the
Muscovite once more into controversy with
the Briton 1t was an affair like that now
threatening which came so near punging
Russia and England into war in Asia four
years ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05

THE spasm of reform which struck
the gamblers Of Council Bluffs on the
eve OF the election will tend to elevate
the profession. The tiger will be
transferred from the ground floor to the
upper stories
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
suburban Trains to Manawa.

The Union Pacific is considering the advts-
ability of extending its suburban service to
Lake Manawa by constructing branch
track from Council Bluffs direct to the lake.
In connection with this, the owners of the
property ubutting on the lake are arranging
plans for the construction of an elegant hotel
which is to be located on the beach ana ad-
jacent to the proposed track of the Union
Pacific. The property is largely owned by
Minneapolis parties. The building will be
three stories high and cost about sos, 900.
The Union Pacific, should the deal be effected,
will erect passenger depot adjacent to the
hotel. The initial steps will soon be taken
by both nrOicCtOrS.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05

CONGRESS has effectually vetoed the
Union Pacific extension bill. The Bos-
ton literary bureau chilled the measure
to the marrow and Adams acted as chief
eXecutioner.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
A New Railway Publication.

The Station Agent is the name of new
railroad magazine published at Cleveland, o.
1t is edited by T. w. Wright, an old-t Q
journalist who has just retired from the posi-
tion Of railroad editor of the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. The policy of the paper will be
worked in accordance with its title, and in
its first issue the extensive territory which
it aims to cover is well worked for news.
The peculiar and attractive feature of the
edition is it's devotion to biographical sketches
and personal news,
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05

THE state oiiicials Of Iowa furnish a
wholesome example of economy in the
management OF hthe peoples money.
During the past Three years they have
so far reduced ia debt of nearly he
million dollars, represented by interest
bearing warrants, that by 1890 it is con-
fidently expected the state will be free
OF debt. Instead of emulating this ex-
ample of thrift the Nebraska legislators
are endeavoringo to plunge the state
into debt. Claims which woald not re-
ceive moments. attention in a court
OF justice az, fuYdrably coasideraa and
many of th'~lS9 viii doubt!c - pass and
be paid ull .a,o governor interposes
veto ana ,.'otects the treasury from
the hungry cormorants of the capitol.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.

When Baby was sick, We gave her castorta
When sho was Child. she cried for castoria,
When she became Miss. sho clunS 70 castoria.
WI ,n she had Children, she gave them CssinriA
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
sENAroR RIppLEnERaER improyed

the closing hours OF congress TO display
his capacity as national nuisance.
The joint efforts of the presiding officer
and sergeant-at-arms were necessary to
suppress him. No act connected with
the demise of the Fiftieth congress will
give greatar relief to Virginia and the
country at large than the retirement OF
Riddleberger.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05

WITH three woman suffrage bills
thrown into the waste basket, it is to be
hoped that the suffragist will give the
present legislature much needed rest.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
A suggestion to MIR. whitney.

Chicago Tribune.
BY packing his presidential boom for 1892
in small valise Secretary Whitney can take
it home with him next week without having
to pay any charges on it for extra baggage.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05

CLEvELAND's regret over the retire.
ment of the democracy from power is
rendered acutely painful by the sudden
stoppage of salary of fifty thousand
dollars q wear.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05
Legislative Mills.
CHICAGO Herald,

VWTFUUV H'TWTN
An eastern paper refers to Roger @. Mills
as ian obstructionist." The most serious
distractions to business appear, however,
TO be the mills between members of the SEN
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-05

THE street car railroad Companies are
altogether too sensitive about the mat
ter of paving twelve inches beyond the
outer rails.