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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-23
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wheat Patents 50 IS as so Bakers s. 20 93 So
Cash quotations follows: No spnnk wheat 80
SIC. No. Spring Wheat Of zoe. No Red az s7o
No 331.c. SO2 DATA "a &c. No Rye 400 No Bar
lev nominal No ! Flar seed a, 81 Sc Prime Timothy
seed az o. So Mesa PORK Ell 50Sll SIS per Dbl Lard
Sailed Shoulders Oored IS l25a525 shcft Clear sdst
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EfRndard
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-23

COTTON-The spot market WAS nrnly nalhts!neu ,,iop
fairly active demand Sales 1888 bales tSf . %soS
,y ,Sraints sos bales against SJ2 p1es ~
e23 bales for the ;ims last year sinS me- baieI
,bc recent, al the ports aggregated o't4eos, 49,
comparnS With 3Sj 1873 bales for the corresponding w
Of ClaAsh.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-23
SPIRITS OF TURrESTINE

cHAarEsroS. May 22.-Turpentine steady a. $50
sAyAyYAR Nav 22.-rurpentine firm AZ Sb9c
WILMINGTON, Mar 22.-rurpeatine arm 81 seSs
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-23

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-23

4 decline Al tha West sales. 100 bbs Ness privato
terms Mess quoted at flsdsl3 IS Cor short Clear
Fl4fslG. CITY Family Mess, SI3 2basl4; Western 10,
sl2 7Sdsl8 o5; EN,ra Prime si26st2 25. BEEF-Dc,
mand continues slow and prices somewhat nominal
n bbls 80 Is Plate, q 5oass..: BEEF HAMs-Haye :
si2 50...CUT MEATS Hams strongly held fair
demand, while other cuts rule weak Sales. 10000 n
Bellies So 1000 rlcasd Hams, li'e; 1000 Picked
do. &c. Picked Bellies, u n aver. 09c Picked Hams
ilRc Smoked DO l2bdi 2ae Picked shoulders Ssdbhe
A. Chicago. short Ribs May, closed bsSs DO Juns,
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-05
PERTINENT SUGGESIIONS.

The letter addressed by Chairman
Cooley of the interstate commerce
commission to the Western States Pas
senger association, directing attention
to the fact that large numbers of per-
sons are improperly carried free on the
roads in the association, that the privi-
lege of granting excursion rates is
abused, and that the ticket broker or
''scalper" is still tolerated and directly
or indirectly supported by the rail-
roads, is pertinent and suggest
i've. Judge Cooley points out to
the association that the OBJ
ject lesson conveyed by these
facts may impress the public mind that
regular passenger rates are now alto
getner too high, and he asks if persons
charged the regular rates should COM
plain of them as excessive how could
the railroad companies undertake to
show that complaint to be not we'll
taken.
These matters were under considera-
tion by the Interstate commerce COM
mission several months ago, and there
was some very plain talk from Judge
Cooley regarding them, and particu-
larly with reference to the ar
rangements between the railroads
and the ticket brokers. 1t will be re-
membered that it was shown that the
most fragrant violation OF the law was
general under these arrangements, the
disclosures being characterized by the
chairman OF the Interstate commerce
commission in the most vigorous terms
of condemnation, accompanied by earn
est warning that the improper business
must cease. 1t would seem that not
only was this warning without effect,
but that the practices by which a
portion OF the travelling public are
imposed upon in the interest OF fa-
yored class, and to support an army OF
scalpers, have been continued in aggra-
waited form. The obvious inference
from Judge Cooley's letter is that the
railroads have persisted in disregarding
the provisions Of the law as to free
transportation, excursion rates and the
discrimination necessarily involved
in dealing with ticket brokers,
and he asks why, when the rail-
roads SO distinctly give the pub
lie to understand that their regular
rates are more than fair remunera-
! tion for the service performed, tie fact
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-05
IA Co,nmon sIana.rer

OMAHA, Nov. 3.-To the Editor of THE
BEE: Mrs. Helen Cougars career of Sian
der did not begin In Nebraska. In the
spring Of 1887, in Leavenworth, Kas., the
business men of that city nominated candi-
date for mayor. and the prohibition element
also put up candidate, Mrs. Helen Gaugar
came and threw herself into tho fight and
endeavored to organize a support for the So
called temperance candidate among the
women OF the city, the Kansas laws permit
ting them to vote at all municipal elections.
But the wives and daughters OF the best cit
izens of Leavepw0rth, in the wise exercise
OF their new-foupd right of suffrage, de-
cliRed to array themselves against their
fathers and husbands. This SO enraged
Mrs Cougar that she gave vent TO the most
atrocious and unfounded charges against
the morals of tho entire circle OF society
ladies in the city. The charges were not
publicly made-they were too coarse and
vile-but they were given pretty extensive
circulation, and Mrs. Cougar, when con-
fronted with the statements, did not deny
having made them, whereupon she was
quietly but firmly requested TO leave town.
which she promptly did just on the eve Of
election. The editor of the Leavenworth
Standard can corroboaate the above state
ment and give you full particulars.
"A READER OF Tue BEE.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-05
Cougar and the Bee. .

Chicago Times.
The fight for prohibition IN Nebraska has
developed an interesting quarrel between
Mrs. Cougar of the stump and MIR. Rose
water, of THE BEE, IN Omaha paper with a
sting. With the indiscriminatc zeal often
characteriGiug proponents of what they
choose to regard as great moral reform
Mrs. Cougar declared ut al interior town
that the editor of Tue BEE was a bribe-taker,
who sent reporters into Iowa instructed to
make q false report of the operations of the
prohibition laws in that state; that he was a
tool of the Liquor Dealers association and
had accepted n bribe of 81, 900 to assist III
preventing the submission of the prohibition
amendment, AS madam was making these
remarks wherever she presented herself be.
fore an audience in Nebraska Mr.. Rose
water, with a stenographer. presented him.
self at Tckamah. Mrs. Cougar, unaware of
his presence, made the usual charges, advls-
ing everybody, upon the representation she
made, to cease subscribing for Rosewater's
paper. Under the Illinois law madam would
be indictable as conspiring to diminish the
value of property, but Nebraska does not
provide for the punishment of slanderer.
When Mrs. Cougar had rected her piece re-
garding RoseWatcr he sat silent in the audi
ence. Upon the conclusion of her TRADE he
arose, without any exhibition of anger to
ask for the proofs of her allegations. She
had none of course. No journalist of ordi-
nary good sense needs the stimulus of money
to stir him to opposition against SO absurd,
fanatical and impracticable n proposition as
prohibition. Her course was that OF per-
son conscious that in her irresponsibility she
had gone too far. She adduccd no proofs
supporting her allegations but insisted
that Rosewater was intcrrupting relig.
ious meeting and ought not be heard.
Further speech was denied him. lie resorts
now over his own name to his own columns
declaring that the stump speakers conduct
has been as dishonorabie as it was shameful,
unchristian and un-Americap. No man or
woman possessed of a spark of uecency and
honor would publicly charge a man with
pcnitentiary offenses and when faced by the
accused refuse him hearing in his own de-
fense, much less refuse him a chance to de-
mand the source from which his accuser has
made up such charges. No honorable man
or woman, and nobody who has any respect
for religion, would be guilty of publicly
bearing false witness against any man, how
ever humble, and cap the climax of infamy
and cowardice by melting credulous audi
ence to do bodily violence to the victim of
foul SANDER, and urge his arrest under the
pretense that he was q disturber of q re
ligious meeLing.'"
1t is not q pleasant quarrel to have on ones
hands, for warfare with woman is not
chivalrous employment, but the editor seems
to have been without other resource.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-05

COBURN AND THE PINKERTONS.
During the memorable strike of the
Burlington locomotive engineers
horde of mercenaries was imported into
Nebraska and stationed all along the
line from Omaha to McCook. Armed
with clubs, revolvers and rifles these
hirelings we're instructed to knock
down or shoot down workingmen who
showed the slightest disposition to come
near any locomotive to induce the i'm
ported engineers or firemen to quit
work. In several instances innocent
men were brutally beaten or shot down
by the Pinkerton gang. And when the
governor was appealed to to expel this
outlaw police, he pointed to the fact
that he was powerless to do so, because
thew had been commissioned as deputy
sheriffs.
BY what authority the sheriff could
deputize non-residents has always been
a mystery.
Why, for instance, did Sheriff Coburn
commission Captain Foley, of Chicago,
and his platoon of Pinkerton's hired
cut-throats. There never was any seri-
GUS disturbance that he and his regular
deputies, aided by the police, could not
have quelled, and if there had been any
serious trouble, the mayor and the
sheriff together could have mustered
one thousand men at any time to main
tain order. On the top of this Sheriff
Coburn would have been reinforced on
short notice by the regulars from Fort
Omaha.
But Coburn was too anxious to serve
the Burlington managers, who supply
him, his deputies and jailors with passes
| for trips to the penltentiary and insane
| asylums. These passes are worth hun
dreds of dollars year to the sheriff,
| as the county pays him ten cents
a mile for round trips. There
| are also other Civilizations which Sheriff
Coburn incurred, and he paid his politi-
cal debts and balanced his pass account
| by issuing commissions to the Pinker-
| tons.
With the dive and road house-keep-
ers, the railroad bosses, DR.. Slominski
and his Poles, and subsidized political
clubs, Mr.. Coburn, in spite of his vulner-
able record expects to be reelected for
third term. If the workingmen of
Omaha and citizens who desire our laws
enforced, do their duty, he will be rele-
gated to private life.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-05

SPAIN proposes to divide with the
United States the honor of celebrating
the fourth centenary OF the discovery
OF America. Preparations for the event
have assumed such proportions that
congress must take prompt action il it
hopes to attract her share of European
exhibitors and visitors. 1t is pr opposed
to hold an international exposit ion in
Madrid in 1892, and the Spanish gov
ernment has invited England, France,
Portugal and Italy to cooperate. Bris-
tol, England, proposes to celebrate on
her own hook, not as tribute to Co.
lumbus, but to John and Sebastian
Cabot, the latter native of Bristol
who, five years after Christopher,
struck the desolate shores of Labrador,
sailed down the coast and foated the
British flag over what IS now New
England. With two foreign .competi-
tors in the field, it is 9ecessary that
congress act promptly so that the
American exposition can be thoroughly
advertised abroad and exhibits secured
from all departments of foreign in
dustry.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-05
MURPHY Is PRESIDENT.
Only One Street Railway Company
Now in Omaha.

The papers transferring the effects of the
Omaha motor railway company to the Oma-
ha street railway company have been finally
signed, and yesterday morning Frank Murphy
president of the consolidated c, npany, took
formal possession of the power house. cars
and tracks Of the late Omaha Motor railway
company. Mr.. Murphy left orders that
everything should continue as usual and
there is no indication at present of any
change IN employees, although there Is
probability that, later, there will be q sus.
pension of some superfuous help.
The first move will be to perfect the service
of the assimilated motor lines by having the
cars run on schedule time aud to make any
changes or improvements that may be found
necessary.
The Hauscom park and North Twenty
fourth street line is still in the hands of the
Sprague company, and probably will not be
turned over to the street railway company
for a week or ten days. The working of the
line is entirely controlled by the Sprague
agent. Mr.. Bickford.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-05
A CHANGE rs NECESSARY.

The voters Of Douglas county cannot
plead ignorance Of the condition of
county affairs IL they fail 10 elect com
potent and trustworthy men to office.
THE BEE has repeatedly shown what
the grand jury investigation has con-
firmed. that reckless incompetency and
indifference to public trusts are at the
bottom OF the scandalous waste OF the
peoples money.
First of all, change is demanded in
the management Of the county Jail and
the sherifI's office. Mr.. Coburn has
shown himself to be the friend and de-
fender OF the criminal class. His con-
duct tends TO defeat the ends OF justice.
and his avarice has deprived the
county OF thousands of dollars in fees
which he has illegally retained. The
fact that the county is compelled to sue
for a recovery OF these fees is in itself
sufficient cause for his rejection at the
the polls. Taxpayers cannot stultify
themselves by keeping in Office
notorious fee-grabber.
A radical change in the character OF
the board Of county commissioners is
necessary to secure honesty and econ
omy in tho management of county busi-
ness. The reckless extravaganza of tho
present board has brought disgrace
upon the members and cost the county
thousands of dollars. for which there is
no adequate equivalent. 1t has encour-
aged jobbery and bribers, and permit
ted scandalous raids on the
county treasury. Messrs. Berlin
and Smith, the republican
nominees, are well and favorably
known. In character, ability and bus
mess experience they are far superior
to their opponents, and their election is
guaranty that competency and
business methods will mark the future
conduct OF county affairs.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-05

should not be stated with equal dis
tinctness by the commission in its OFF,
cial communications.
All these matters IL is to be presumed
the commission will present fully and
clearly TO the attention Of congress, and
meantime public attention should be
directed to the object lesson suggested
by Judge Cooley. This simply is that
tho railroads which are guilty OF
the practices charged by Judge Cooley
are evidently exacting moro than
reasonable compensation for the service
performed from those who pay them
the regular rates. The commission
should have larger authority to rem
edy this state OF affairs. It may have
full knowledge OF these violations of
the law, but it can only proceed against
railroad company committing them
upon complaint of some one who has
been injured by them. The very remote
chance of complaint ever being
made allows the railroad managers to
persist in their course with n sense OF
comparative safety. II the commission
we're empowered to call them to ac-
count upon its own knowledge OF the
facts the improper practices complained
of would in ali probability be speedily
abandoned. Advice and warning hav-
ing proved to be OF no effect, treatment
more summary is evidently necessary,
and this congress will undoubtedly be
asked to provide for.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-05

MONTANA is republican. The COM
plete canvass by the state canvassing
board shows that the democrats elected
only the governor among the state
officials, a result due mainly TO the SUI
perior personal popularity OF the candi-
date. A majority Of the judicial officers
chosen are republicans, and there will
be small republican majority on joint
ballot in the legislature, SO that the full
congressional delegation from ths state
will be republican. This political sit
uation in the new state will be entirely
satisfactory to republicans generally,
and when all the circumstances are con-
sidered must be regarded as really a
signal victory.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-05
CITY News and Notes.

Hon. ]. L. Caldwell went to Omaha to-
day.
The B. g. M. car thieves were bound over
to answer to the district court this afternoon.
Deputy County Clerk Churchill is suffering
from u severe attack of rheumatism.
Mrs. Sylvanus, mother Of the well known
contractor. r. r., left for her home at Clin-
ton. Ia, to day.
X. w. johnson, chief clerk of the Capital
hotel, goes to Beatrice this week TO under
take the management of the Paddock for II.
X. Crily 81 Co.
j. j. Imhoff brought suit to-day in the dis
trict court to foreclOse a mortgage of $4,000
on lots 10, IL, H. IA, Is, l6 and part of z, sec
tion 2, o and q, against Charles Peterson,
Thomas Ryan, j. j. Butler and Edward p.
Childs.
Dave Ackerman, charged with raping his
little sisters, was discharged this evening by
Judge Houston, because the evidence pro-
duced was not convincing.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-05
New Railroad Company.

AS required by law, articles were filed to-
day Incorporating the Missouri s. Sioux
Reservation railway company.
Niobrara, Knox county, is cited as the
principal place for the transaction of pusi-
ness, and 500, 900 is the authorized capital
stock.
Its business nature is stipulated to be the
construction, maintenance and operation of
n railroad, or railroads. and branches IN the
state Of Nebraska, with telegraph lines in
connection Herewith, and in such other
states and territories as it may acquire the
corporation right TO enter for that purpose.
The corporate existence dates from Septen-
ber 49, 1889, to September Ii. 1888.
The certificate fixes the termlni of the
road at township twenty seven, range five,
in Antelope county, and thence through
Knox county TO the north boundary line of
the state, with other rights as Indicated.
Incorporators: F.. p. Bonnell, Charles
H. Swigart, A. Beal, John MUElhinney
and j. N. Kesterson.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-05
Banks 60 Consoliaa,e.

banks are on the point of consolidating. IL
is expected that the deal will be con-
summated this week. A stockholder Of the
latter concern says that everything has been
agreed upon except the disposition of GER
tain positions. Each corporation has en-
ployes whom 1t wants to provide for. II the
consolidation should be effected, the Union
the Douglas County bank, corner of Dodse
and Sixteenth street. Which of the two
names viii be retained is still under discus
aiOn
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-05
LEANING TO CATHOLICISM.
Many Changes in the Rites and Ser
vices OF the Episcopal Church.

mighty changes have come over the
Protestant Episcopal church since it's
seeds were first sowu in this country
100 years ago." said q prominent min
lister of that denomination, to reporter
for the Philadelphia Record. '.In
forms of organization and vf worship,
rs we'll as in doctrine, transformation
has gone slowly on. From simplicity
in church architecture, form an ritual
thoroughly Quakerish, the Protestant
Episcopal body has advanced to love
OF the ornate, the esthetic and the awe
inspiring, almost Roman forms.
LOOK at the change in church archi-
lecture. Where once the house of
worship was plain and OF forbidding
aspect, rich cathedrals and churches
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-05

THE value of buildings for which
permits were issued during the past
ten mouths exceeds by quarter of a
million dollars the aggregate for 1888.
The total is a fraction over four million
dollars. This sum represents about
two-thirds of tho actual cost OF build
ings erected in Omaha this year. 1t is
safe to estimate that the total for the
year will exceed six million dollars.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-05

The Relief and AID society held its annual
meeting last night at the st. Paul M. II.
church, with branches at the First Baptist
and First Congregational churches. AT
each of theso churches there was u large
audience of those who were interested in re-
lieviug the city's poor. The total collections
amounted to S44O.4l.
AT st. Paul the service was opened by DE-.
Stein, who was followed by President Ernst
with his annual address. He reviewed the
work of the society at some length and sum-
MARRIED the objects as follows.
l. There are in every community real and
honest cases of desttution, which it is the
duty Of the more fortunate 10 relieve.
=. There are also a large number of fraud
ulent cases whose destitution, III existing. is
the result of laziness, and who are not de-
serving the sympathy or support of honest
people,
deserving cases. is often misdrected, but
under system OF organized charity like this,
the worthy poor are more apt to receive their
dues and the frauds to be exposed than in
any other way. If the people give their
charities to this society, then the mendicants
eau be referred to the distributing agent,
Elder Howe, and IL they are found worthy
they will be cared for. The following is q
summary of the work done:
Families assisted. Observation-Disclosures. 400
Individuals assisted. ed.................. 2.0UO
Persons provided with temporary
lodging, lunch or transportation. 400
Tons of coal distributed. .....,...... 200
Garments supplied d............. l2,O00
matters. ers............................ 90, 600
Calls made about the city IN looking
up the poor. .................... 1000
Money used IN the work. 49,. ...... S3 239 62
Governor Thayer, Rev. Ludden, DIR. Stein,
DR.. Hewitt, Elder Howe and DIR. Doris
made appropriate remarks. The collection
was Sl93 SO.
AT the First Baptist Church the service
was opened by Professor Adrian, the annual
address by e.. G. Munson, and interesting
talks made by G. M. Lambertson, Rev. New.
nan, Rev. Williams and others. The collec-
tion amounted to SSl.45
At the First Congregational church The
services were conducted by DIR. Curtis and
DR.. Gregory. The annual address was read
by. ID. l.. Brace. and talks were made by
Elder Howe, Albert Watkins and w. j.
Bryan. The collection amounted to Sl65.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-05

THE first real test of the Australian
system OF voting will be made in Massa-
chusetts to-day. II the law with It's
extensive and costly machinery, includ-
ing printing of the ticke's by the state,
works satisfactorily in populous commu-
mites and secures the ends aimed at,
its adoption by a large number Of
states is certain to follow.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-05
Why don't you try Red Cross Cough
Drops, five cents per box.
Toox Ont Their Final Papers.

TooS Out Their Final Papers.
Four citizens of Fremont came to Omaha
yesterday to take out their final naturalisa-
tion papers, as required by the registration
law. The men were between thirty-fige and
orty years of age, and were old-time resi-
dents of Fremont. who had been voting right
along until brought to halt by the new law.
One OF the qnartette holds county office,
but refused TO state what Office it is. James
X. Peterson, 9. A. Peterson, Frederick
Moller and Leopold Moller are the names OF
the parties.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-05
MINDFUL OF THE CHECHE.
society's Darlings win Dance for Ii
TO-NiCht.

This evening occurs the great social
event of the season, when wealth will array
itself in its rarest jewels ard richest gar
ments and whirl for few hours in the bali
room for the sweet cause OF charity. IL
is TO be held in Washington hall, and
this auditorium, beautiful though it is ordin-
arily, is undergoing transformation in
honor of the event.
The promise OF success is fattering, al
though the event has not received the pee
liminsry advertisement that il probably
should.
A large number of tickets have already
been sold, and the leading social lights of
the city are among the patrons. The event
promises TO be u gilt ering social success,
and coming as it does at the com.
mencement of the winters amusements,
wnen society's appetite is keenest for a re-
sumption of the pleasures OF the dance, and
with no counter attraction, there is every
reason TO believe that the event will eclipse
in numbers at least any charity ball held IN
Omaha for some time. The proceeds are for
the benefit Of that worthy institution, the
Creche.