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Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

100 pounds in one minute and ten seconds,
were put in yesterday.
st. Agnes Temperance society is arraug-
ing TO give an entertainment. The nature OF
the programme and the time aud place have
not yet been decided upon.
II, b.. Kooser, Missouri Pacific travelling
stock agent, was at the s~tockyards ycstcr.
day.
Manager John u. Boyd, OF the Union stock.
yards, left yesterday for Denver.
L.. c. Houson, of Greenwood, is visiting
his daughter and son.in-law, Mr.. and Mrs.
George IL, Cutler,
w. a, l.. Gibbon. cashier Of the South
Omaha branch of the Nebraska Savings
bank, was one of the c. Nj. Il. A. guests at
the Millard hotel Tuesday night,
] Powell, salesman for Martin Bros, ha.
returned form ST. Joe, Wisconsin.
Diphthcria In its most malignant form ia
raging, Within "a week two children have
died out of one family, and cases, nearly all
the fall and winter.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

LANCASTER county, as usual, ha;
carried OFF all the capital prizes in the
legislative gift enterprise drawing.
Mcbride is chairman of the ways and
means committee of tho house, and
Raymond is chairman OF the same COM
mittee in the senate. The public lands
and buildings committees are within
the grip of the L~incolnites with a nice
chain attached to nearly every member
Of these committees by reason Of their
hailing from towns and cities in which
public buildings are located. In all
other committees from which an appro-
priation is expected for Lincoln i~nstitu-
tions the members from Lancaster
county are strongly entrenched.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

THE amended charter for metropoli-
tan cities has been introduced in the
house by Mr.. Berlin. As n matter Of
economy, we would suggest that this
valuminous bill be not printed until the
Douglas delegation has fully agreed
upon its various features, OF in case
they agree to disagree, at least until
Mr.. Berlin's committee on municipal
corporations are ready to report. 1t is
n waste OF money to print a bill that
cover forty or fifty pages Of type-writ-
ten manuscript.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10
Omaha Italians Organize.

Dial Cenislo al Etna, "From Mount Gents
to Mount AGtna," such is the name of a new
organization formed in Omaha on last Sun
day at the residence of its president, on
Davenport street, between Ninth and Tenth.
This society has been contemplated for some
time by the leaders among the Italian resi-.
dents in Omaha, and it now starts out with
bright prospects, numbering already about
thirty members. Its object is of a social
nature, as well as one of mutual aid. 1t looks
also TO the naturalization of its members,
that they may have their proper place and
weight in the Guys politics. The following
were elected officers for the ensuing year:
President, Antonio Venuto; vice president,
G. Mainelli; secretary, Giovanni Colombo
treasurer, Rafaello Venuto; directors, j.
Dimerli, G. Capolungo, Pictro Vincelli,
Francesca Pascale, Vincenso Cresci. A hall
has not yet been decided on, but for the pres
ent meetings will be held at the residence of
the president.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

NOT the least important action of the
house of representatives since the re-
cess was the recommittal of the reso-
luton which proposed a change in the
rules intended to give consideration to
the Pacific railroad funding bill. This
action is regarded as a death blow to
the bill in the present congress. In
the next it must take a new start under
conditions less favorable than the
present. The result will be entirely
satisfactory to the great majority of the
people most directly concerned, who
regard the funding bill as unjust to
them, and promising little or no ad-
vantage to the government.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10
ren

The trial of the nine men charged with
gambling at Florence last Saturday night
came up before Judge Cleveland yesterday.
Although the circumstances were much
against the men, the testimony failed to con
vict eight of them. James Flemming, one of
the waterworks men, was the only man
found guilty. All the mon accused testified
that they were merely playing a sociable
game for chips and not for money. Mr..
Tucker, who was authorized by Marshal
Walker to take part in the game to procure
evidence for the state, swore that the game
was for money and that he had paid a dollar
for twenty chips. The witnesses for the de.
Tense testified that they did not see any
money on the table.
The city council met last night and the
only matter of Importance was the councils
approval of Mayor Hunts appointing MIR.
Walker city marshal.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10
Modest Of Greatness.
Cbfr11o Tribune

CNtcuyO TTlDINt.
Eminent statesman-I wish you would
take occasion to say in the strongest possible
manner that my name must not bementioned
IN connection with any cabinet Office what
ever.
Reporter-But, senator, 1 have never
heard your name spoken of in any such con-
nection. The idea has probably never oc-
Cured to any
Eminent statesman with vehemence)-
And it must not, sir-it must not! Be care
full to say so in writing up this interview. 1
believe that is all-but, hold onl You may
tell the business manager of your paper to
send me 500 copies of to-morrow's issue.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

G. p. HUNTINGTON, the Southern
Pacific railroad magnate and chief
owner of the Oriental Steamship COM
pany, plying between Hong Kong and
San Francisco, is trying to have the
Chinese exclusion bill repealed. He
intimates that he will put his steamers
into other business as soon as their
charters shall expire. Mr.. Hunting
tons business in the bringing Of coolies
to America was. sadly cut up by tho
passage OF the measure. Where each
steamer used to bring from twelve to
fifteen hundred Cinnamon, who paid
fifty dollars a head for steerage pass
age, now each vessel does not average
fifty Chinese TO a trip. or course a big
hole is made in Mr.. Huntington's re-
ceipts, and this goes a great way to ex-
plain his anxiety for tho loss of Amer
lean trade aud commerce with China.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

THE st. Louis iute bagging trust,
which went to pieces on January |, evil
IDENTIFY made a sorry mess of it. The
price of the bagging up to January /
was twelve cents a yard, but the mem
bers Of the combine were sadly disap-
pointed in the quantity OF the goods
sold. Now the manufacturers would
be willing to sell the fabric at eight
cents the yard. But the cotton planters
have found a cheaper substitute for the
covering Of their cotton bales and twid-
die their fingers in the face of the iute
rObb ers.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

Mr.. FAssETT was very careful not to
put himself within the range Of the
libel and SANDER law when he init
mated that THE BEE was Offering itself
to any school furniture firm that would
pay the highest price for its Influence.
If Mr.. Fassett would make his innuendo
specific we would give him an oppor-
tunity to make good the charge in the
courts. If Fassett had taken the
trouble to read the testimony before the
school board investigation he would
have been able to discover that THE
BEES effort in connection with the
school furniture scandal was to detect
and expose just such boodling agents as
he has confessed himself to be.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10
Sneezing Catarrh.

The distressing snee2e, sneeze, sneeze. the acrid
watery discharges from the eyes and nose, tho
painful extending to the throat
the swelling of the mucous lining, causing chok-
ing sensations, cough, ringing noises in the head
and splitting headaches, how familiar these
symptoms are to thousands who suffer periodi-
cally from head colds or influenza, and who live
in ignorance OF the fact that Il single application
OF SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE FOR CATARBH Will
afford instantaneous Teiief.
But this treatment in cases of simple Catarrh
gives but a faint idea OF what this remedy Will
do in the chronic forms, where the breathing Is
obstructedb by choking, putrid mucous accuinu-
latiOns, the hearing effected, smell and taste
gone, throat liberated and hacking cough grad
ually fastening Itself upon the debilitated sys-
tenn. Then II IS that the mary ellOus curative
power of S%ANFORD's RADICAL CURE manifests
itself In instantaneous and grateful relief. Cure
begins from the first application. IL Is rapid.
radical, permanent, economical, safe.
SANfORD's RADICAL CURE consists or one bot
tie Of the RADICAL CURE one box OF CATARRHAL
SoLYEsTan and IMPROVED INHALER, price u.
POTTER DRUG q CHEMICAL Co. BosTos.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

THE resolution which passed the
council providing that all bonds shall
be registered in the comptrollcr's de-
partment before being delivered to the
treasurer to be sold, is good as far as it
goes. But all our municipal bonds
should be registered at the Office of the
secretary of state for the mutual pro-
lection of the city and the boudholders.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

in other companies or the propri-
etors OF property surrender their
stock or their property and OBTAIN
certificates issued by the trustees, or di
rectors OF the trust. He shows that in
the evidence given by reluctant wit
nesses there was direct contradiction,
%notonly between the statements of each,
but between their statements and the
legal documents which were admitted
in evidence. Many efforts were made
TO show that there was no surrender OF
property, and that the trust was only
an agreement looking to certain praise
worthy results. But these, as he shows,
were prompted by counsel. Also, with
regard TO the watering of stock, this
writer's statements contrast strongly
with the absolute silence OF Prof.
Dwight. His words are:
'Have the great trusts secured TX
traordinary gains? Undoubtedly they
have done well. The face value OF the
sugar reincrs' total certificates was
fixed at n sum far greater than that of
the total stock which they replaced.
The New York committee says four
times greater, and the way in which
counsel fought shy Of the point lends
color to some such estimate. Putting
various data together we hazard
the conjecture that the prop
erty which was placed in trust
has been gladdening It's owner with ten
per cent returns, which would have
been much higher had it not been for
'all this howl In the papers about
trusts as Mr.. II. O. Havemeyer ex-
pressed it,"
Yet, Mr.. Andrews, whilst showing up
the bad features Of the trusts, does not
condemn them utterly, but points out
with perfect justice the good they have
done. His salient idea seems to be hat
under the present conditions of inter
national competition certain industries
have been forced into such o]rganiza-
tions by the instinct of self-preservation,
but that they have taken advantage of
the machinery Of organization to help
themselves to illicit profits at the ex-
pense of others. The public has not al
ways been hurt by these very peculiar
combinations, though individuals and
rival companies have been remorselessly
ruined. In some of them, notably in
the sugar and oil trusts, a distinct vein
of patriotism was manifested. The
writer says nothing about the Chicago
meat trust, of which probably he knew
nothing. Summing up all his facts and
differences which he himself did not do,
the advanced and perfect trusts seem to
have grown out of the close commercial
connections between the nations of to-
day and the Earring systems of protec-
ton and free trade. The trusts protect
themselves.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

Mr.. THOMAS MAJORS has been made
chairman OF tho committee on fish cult
ure. This is in accord with the eternal
fitness of things. Thomas belongs to
the eel family. But THE BEE would
suggest that spending sixteen thousand
dollars on fish culture for about one
hundred dollars worth of minnows is
almost as great q luxury for taxpayers
as raising farmers in the agricultural
r0lleoe.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10
Will Anything Be Left?

WUV NTTCFI NOUS.
A movement is now on foot to save as
many as possible of the ties and rails as are
still left on the main line of the st. Louis s.
Chicago road. Gentlemen who know a great
deal about the mismanagement of the prop
erty say that nothing short of complete and
radical reorganization can save a dollar to
the various security holders. The stock,
which was some time ago quoted at 10@12,
sold on Saturday at 81 per share, and then
only 100 shares were required.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10
Van Etten AGAIN Arrested.

David Van Etten is once more behind the
bars. He was allowed his liberty on a 81 900
bond which expired Friday last, and was no
titled several times by Deputy Sheriff Grebe
that it must be renewed. Yesterday he was
again notified, and warned that jail would
follow any further delay, but he remained
obstinate, and at last, on instructions from
County Attorney Mahoney, he was locked
up. He demanded that he should be taken
from his Office by force, and was accommo.
dated 10 that extent.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10
Fools To-day, Fools Tomorrow.

JOWWsTCIUT HurCFyIScT.
In the palmy days of the South sea bubble,
we are told, an occasional advertisement
used to appear IN London to this effect: al
enterprise, the nature Of which cannot at
present be disclosed, but which will return
from 50 to 100 per cent per annum, is open
for investment during a limited period"
The able protector did not disclose the ma
ture of his enterprise until he had collected
a few thousand pounds sterling, and betaken
himself to parts unknown. How much has
the American Spectator of the nineteenth
century advanced in intelligence beyond the
standard Of the British Spectator of 1920.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

THE creation Of four hree-dollars-a-
day pages for the senate committee
rooms is strictly original with the fertile
genius that holds a presumption on the
secretaryship OF the state senate. BY
right of original discovery he is entitled
to a royalty of fifty per cen Of each
pages salary. When Walt Seeley's in
vention for squandering taxpayers
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10
Notes About he City.

Assistant Manager James Fl, Howe, OF the
Arn.our-C udahy packing house, has returned
from Chicago,
The bylaws committee, consisting Of
Messrs. David Anderson, john Doe and A, j.
Baldwin, met last night to draft a set of by
laws for the South Omaha Electric Light
company. Other meetings Will be held till
the work is completed.
LYDIA aged ten years. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Trouson, died at z O'Clock last
night of malignant diphtheria, The inter
ment was had at 3 o'clock yesterday after
noon in Laurel Hin cerpetery.
Peter Lovely, of Arcadia, Ia, is in the city
the guest Of NJ. Il. O'Donnell.
Swift 4 Co. ave been adding machinery
10 the sausage department. Two new chop
pers and steam suffers, with u capacity OF
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

FAssETT, the Grand Rapids school
furniture agent, boldly admits that he
tempered with an employee of the school
board, and paid him money for his sup
posed influence on members. And the
only excuse he gives for such conduct
is the broad assertion that they all do it.
In other words, that he is no worse
thar any other school furniture agents
whom he unblushingly charges with
systematic boodling in procuring Or
ders. This ought to be a revelation,
not only for urboard of education, but
for all school boards. Such an indict-
ment of the school furniture dealers
must, in the nature of things, place
every drummer for school furniture
under the ban.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

A CoMMENDABLE resolution was
passed by the state senate which pro-
vided that clerks and employees should
receive pay only for the time actually at
work. If the spirit of this reform be
carried out, the state will be relieved
of paying thousands of dollars during
this session for services not rendered.
The house should by all means follow
the example set by the senate.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

COUNCILMAN WHEELER's resolutions
brought before the council meeting,
providing that all contracts for public
works shall be certified by the city
comptroller if sufficient funds have been
provided for their payment before being
presented to the mayor and council for
final action, will meet with the approval
of u citizens. The comptrOller's
report will at least call atten-
ton to the creation of overlaps
if it will not to a great extent
act as a check to extravaganza.
However, there is nothing to prevent
the council from ignoring the comp
troller's report. Contracts can be made
and illegal expenditures voted despite
his protest that available funds are not
on hand. In the past the mayor has
repeatedly called attention to overlaps.
But the council time and again ignored
his protest and entered into contracts
over his veto. 1t remains to be seen
whether that body will respect the
comptroiler's injunction under similar
circumstances. But the remedy to pre-
vent illegal expenditures must come
through a provision in the charter
which shall make the creation of over
laps a criminal offense and the debt of
the individual councilmen voting them.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

THERE can be no doubt hat a large
number of persons in the city and
county are drawing aid from the county
charities who are not entitled to such
support. The county commissioners
should carefully investigate the matter.
Not only the taxpayers but the deserv-
ing poor who are deprived of the bene-
fits which belong to them should be
protected from imposition.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10
q at the Front.
Laramie Boomerang.

The OMAHA BEES annual shows the me-
tropolis of Nebraska TO be behind no city in
the west in prosperity and enterprise. 1t is
already the third pork packing center in
America. Its bank clearings last year
amounted to over SITS, 900, 900 and the VOL
ume of wholesale business done aggregated
S4T, 900, 900.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

symptoms of the drowning man. They
catch at everyiusiguiicant remark, and
torture every expression of THE BEE
to make a point for their readerlcss con-
Germs. Because THE BEE has not seen
fit to fall in with the n~ew-faugled
and untried election reform which
is being pushed in the name Of organ
lied and unorganized labor, we are
told that THE BEE is turning its back
on the workingman.
Who is entitled TO the w~orkingman's
respect and confidence. Is it the man
who dares to differ with them because
he is convinced that a scheme for which
they clamor is impracticable, or is it
the demagogue who pretends to be con-
verted to any ism that may be brought
up in the name Of labor and tries to ride
the hobby for his own benefit?
Are the workingmen of Omaha such
dupes as to trust the professions OF
papers that are edited by kid-gloved
dudes who never have done a days
labor and always apologize to their in
innate associates in the clubs for the
part they are taking in workingmen's
meetings? Are the w~orkingmen Of
Omaha dupes enough to allow
corporation attorneys who threw
dust into their eyes by pro-
Tossing to favor proposed election
reforms when their masters keep an Oil
room lobby at Lincoln to dcbauch the
lawmakers? We do not believe they
are. And we do not believe that ~intelli-
gent workingmen, native or foreign,
will construe the objections made by
THE BEE to one feature OF the imported
Australian reform on account of the in
ability of many foreign voters to read
and understand the English language
as a fling at all foreigners. Has
it come to this, that q man can't
tell the truth about naturalized
foreigners without being %placarded as
aknow-nothing and IN enemy of the for
eigner. Has a man who conscientiously
exposes the weak points of any project
or reform become an enemy of every
workingman? Are all the editors and
politicians who play the hypocrite for
the sake of eXerting an influence on de-
luded la~boringmen the only true friends
that labor has in the press?
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

An lnsuItcd Man.

Texas Siftings: "Gus De Smith is
very angry at you. He says you in
suited him at the railroad depot the
other day" remarked Hostetter McGin-
mis- to Gilhooly.
"Ycs, and | will insult him worse still
il ! can lay my hands on him. Tho
miserable scoundrel saw me going off
with my mother-in-law on one arm and
wife on the other, and he asked me
if / wasn't going on II pleasure trip"
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

THE national banks of Colorado have
declared a net profit of twenty-nine per
cent, and a dividend of nineteen per
cent on the capital invested in banking.
That speaks volumes for the banks of
Colorado, but how about the borrowers?
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10
Discrimination.


If a farmer in Kansas who grows sorghum
should be paid a bounty of one cent a pound
on sorghum sugar, why should not his next
door neighbor, who grows corn, be paid a
bounty on the Johnny cake or whisky that is
produced from his crude material' Why
make fish of one farmer and flesh of another?
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

MINNEAPoLIs has a park system
comprising an area of more than one
thousand acres and of more than thir-
teen miles Of boule wards. 1t would
make us blush TO give Omaha's park
area and extent OF b~ouleyards.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

THE people Of Dakota have taken the
reins of government into their hands in
the organization of their territorial leg
islature. If they guard the interests of
Dakota as zealously when admitted to
statehood, the new state will have a
prosperous future before it,.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

WHAT did Senator ingalls, near when
asked whether he would accept a cabinet
position by replying: Il have a dollar in
my pocket-do you think 1 would wish
to trade it for u half q dollar?"
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

THERE are six hundred and twenty
four banks in Nebraska, Of which n
hundred and six are national, three
hundred and four are private, and two
hundred and fourteen are state banks.
The necessity OF revised banking laws
will impress itself upon our people and
LEGISLATURE.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

CONSTITUTIONAL amendments are
being flung around at the state capitol
like shelalas at an Irish fair. You
can't step across one of the corridors
that lead to the great dome without.
being struck on the head by somebody's
constitutional amendment.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10
A Canadian Sheer.

TOlONtO TTODC.
The victorious American feet should now
be diverted from Hayti to Samoa. Bismarck
might give in as readily as Legitime did. In
both cases the American flag was insulted.
Why should not Bismarck he made to pay as
well as the president of Haytil
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

money reaches Washington it is barely
possible that the United States senate
may avail itself OF it. Such a thing for
congressional committees have not yet
been thought Of at the national capital.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

To WHAT class of politicians and lob
byists do our granger friends in the leg
~islature refer in the bills introduced to
prevent the growth and spread Of noX-
ious weeds and sunfowersp
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10
The Rainbow Chaser sits Down.


Calvin Brice appears to have chased the
rainbows into their retreats and then sat
down to rest.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10
A progressive Euohre Party.

Mrs. George Higgins will entertain her
friends at progressive euchre at her resi-
denoe, corner Of Poppletou and Georgia ave
nues, this evening.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10
the DAILY BEE.
Sworn Statement OF oircuIatio,

Sworn 10 before me and subscribed in my
presence this 9TH day of January, A. ID. 1889,
Seal ~ N, p. Ell, Notary Public.
State OF Nebras a. L.,
County of Douglas,
George II. T2schurk, being duly sworn. de.
poses and says that he is secretary of the Bee
Publishing company, that the actual average
daily circulation of THE DAILY BEE for the
month of January, 1883, 1925 copies: for Feb.
ruary, 1888. l5.gas copies: for March, lsSs. 1859
copies; for April, 1883. Il. IA copies; for May. 1883,
Is IS] copies: FOR June, 1888. 9.243 copies for July.
1888, 1903 copies: for August, 1888, 1873 copies;
for September, 1888, 1854 copies; for October,
1898. was 1904 copies; for November. 1883,
1895 copies; for December, 1883. IL. 223 copies"
Sworn to before me ANA subscribed In my
presence this 3rd day OF January lSS9.
\. p. FELL Notary Public.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-10

HUMBUGGLNG THE WORKIAGMA AN
In their desperate struggle for life,
drowning men have been known to
catch at straws, In their desperation
to keep their heads above water, some
Of u local contemporaries exhibit