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Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-05
STREET CLEANING ny DAY nApon.
Results Prove Satisfactory In New
York and Toronto,

YORK ma TORONTO,
The two c~leaneet cities on the continent
today, says a writer in the Review Of
Reviews, are Toronto and New York. and
they are both cleaned by direct labor.
New York not only employs and thus
directs all Its street cleaning and garbage
| dispatch foiccs. but II has an organized de-
partment, with an adequate and properly
adjusted equipment of horses, carts, brooms,
stables and stations. and II pays its men So
a day and upward for eight hours work. To
be sure. II has had q Colonel Waring, but
had Colonel Waring been a contractor or
a contractors superintendent the metropolis
would not have been the clean city 1t Is to-
day. II Is by the method OF direct labor,
under model conditions of employment, that
this first worthy result Of the kind in a large
| American city has been achieved.
Toronto, the other OF these two ex-
emplary cities. has gone even further than
New York In eliminating the contractor. In
this enterprising Canadian town, with Its
100. 900 people, Street Commissioner Jones
has, during the last seven years, entirely
revolutionized tho care OF the streets OF the
city. He has not only organized the execu-
tlon of this work under a distinct depart
ment, but out OF the margin thus saved from
tho annual appropriations for caring for the
streets he has actually built and equipped n
modest but complete set Of workshops, where
the entire construction and repair work of
tho department Is executed. Not only are
the sprinklers, rotary eweepers,
loading carts and snow scrapers, each after
n special pattern, devised by the commits
sioner or under his direction, built In these
shops, but even the harnesses are made
there, the horses are shod there, and 1t Is the
truthful boast of the commissioner that every
article Of manufacture used by the depart
ment is produced from the raw material in
these shops. 1t is exceedingly refreshing
to find there inventive genius consequently
brought to bear to produce appliances, not
for sale in the general market, and hence OF
that crude adjustment which can be used
anywhere, but appliances precisely adapted
to the particular needs of Toronto, with Its
own climate. soil. street mileage aud pave
ments. BY maintaining thus It's own shops
and construction STAFF, as other large bust
ness enterprises do, the street cleaning de-
partment has produced an equipment such
that the commissioner, in some kinds of
work, claims now to be accomplishing with
four teams and four men what formerly re-
CURED nine teams and seventeen men. A
considerable element Of this saving of labor
has been due to the automatic loading
machines, invented in these shops, which
elevate the windrows of litter directly from
the street into a dump cart as rapidly as
horses can walk.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-05
SENATE WILL NOT BIZ BUSY
Appropriation Bills Will Take Up Most Of
the Week. sqiaf
WILL PROBABLY PASS WITH, FEW CHANGES
Some Errors I'm sundry Civil Dill Need
Correction-One Public Building
Item IL Duplicated as 1t
Passed the House.

WASHINGTON, April 4.-The bankruptcy
bill will be given first place In the senate
program next week. but 1t will give way tc
tho appropriation bills after Tuesday II the
on appropriations reports them
as is expected, and urges consideration
Senator Lindsay will open the debate on the
bankruptcy bill in it's favor, and 1t is pre-
sumed that Senator Nelson will follow in OPP
position.
The appropriation bills will excite more OF
less debate when taken up, but they are
scheduled to pass with. comparatively few
changes. There has been an effort on the
part of some members of the house to i'm
press the senate with the Importance oil
passing these bills as sent over from the
house without any change whatever. TINS
suggestion is resented. and especially by the
appropriations committee, whicn is deter
mined to make some changes, III only Tor the
purpose of demonstrating the senates inde'
peudence of the house. A few notifications
however. are absolutely necessary. IL ap'
pears that there is an error OF S1O0, 600 III
the calculation of totals In the sundry civil
bill and that one appropriation for a public
building is duplicated.
The committee also Will restore the pro
vision for opening the Uncompahgre Indian
reservation in the Indian bill, but will ALLOW
only one claim of gilsonite to each Individual
and not two, as has been heretofore reported
The Uncompahgre matter ana the question
of revolving President Cl%evelands order fol
the forestry reservation in the west VIII oc,
oasion debate. The committee probably vii
make no recommendation in this matter
though there is a possibility that 1t may b'
transferred from the sundry civil 10 the gen
eral deficiency bill. The senators from the
| states affected will make an effort on tine
floor of the senate to have the provision IL
regard to this matter restored as it originally
passed the senate
Tho outlook is that the week will not be
a busy one, and that the day sessions VII
be short. Many senators will be absent. The
finance committee will press forward Its IN
| vestigation of the Dingley tarin Dill, ana 'n'
| various parties will continue their eforts u
| reach an understanding on the ORGANIZATION
Of the senate committees. Some attention
may be given to the arbitration treaty II
| executive session. but there will not be any
| effort to get a vote upon 1t during the week
! Senator Elkins will speak Monday on M
| bill for discriminative duties on goods car
ried in American vessels. q
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-05
INVOLVES VALUABLE LAND
Important Real Estate Case Now On in
District Court.
RESULT OF THE MISSoURrS WeAsItS
Accrction ana an Attorney Turn a
Neglected hit of River Bank
Into n Snug Little
Fortune.

A case that is Of some interest to real
estate men is on trial in the district court.
1t is a suit brought by George II. Stillman,
a young attorney who used to live in this
city, but is now practicing his profession
in Rock Rapids, against c. S. Lefferts OF
Council Bluffs. The suit is to compel LET
ferts to make an equitable division OF two
tracts Of land, title to which he recently
received from the government under the
homestead law. One tract lies in East
Omaha and the other south OF Lake Manawa.
Tho East Omaha piece is valuable, worth
somewhere between s25, 600 and 100000. 1t
embraces about nineteen acres, and lies near
the factory district. While digging among
old county records Leffevts or Stillman, and
both claim TO be the discoveries, found
o triangular bit of land in East Omaha that
was unclaimed and title to which still
rested In the government. The tract was In
tho shape Of "a letter V, and contained
l1-10Oth OF an acre. But the mouth of tho
angle was toward the river, and the little
plot laid away back from the present bed OF
the stream, and under the decision of the
United States court the accreted land be-
longed to 1t, and this little V in the years
II had lain there had not been idle, but had
| accreted TO itself q good sized farm, worth
" NVNS b- ~
necessary steps to pre-empt the tract, and
| succeeded in doing so after a little unimpor-
| ,ant litigation with the men who supposed
| they owned the entire river front.
The Lake Manawa lands have an area OF
| about 300 acres and constitute part of Man
haitian beach. Title was acquired in the
same way, and Lefferts has an unassailable
deed to all of the valuable property.
Stillman's suit Is based upon the claim that
It was he and not Lefferts who discovered
tho opportunity to acquire title to the prop
erty and that he revealed 1t to Lefferts upon
| the condition that Lefferts was to furnish AL
of the money necessary and Stillman was
to do the legal work and get half OF the
| treasure when the title was perfected. He
asserts that he did this and carried the
| cases through the courts and made a win
| ming fight all along and that Lefferts FUR
| nished the small amount Of money that was
necessary to keep The judicial wheels run
ming smoothly. When Lefferts got his title
from the government Stillman says he never
/, said a word about the other part of their
| agreement, and when reminded of 1t refused
to fulfill 1t. Suit followed numerous at
tempts to effect a settlement. The case is
being holly contested.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-05
Nebrnskn News Notes.


Tilden is making an effort to secure a grist
mill.
The Polk county Jail is without an occu-
pant.
One hundred thousand sheep are being fed
in the vicinity of Chiffon.
Tho WILDER mill is shipping large quaint
ties of corn neal to the south.
North Platte city council proposes to make
Migrants work on the streets.
A Burr, Otoe county, farmer has a flowing
well which is only sixteen feet deep.
Work on the irrigation bitches near Bayard
IL being pushed as rapidly as possible.
All over Nebraska come reports to the eff
feet that Arbor day will be extensively OBJ
served.
A Pierce hurter is reported to have killed
ninety-six ducks and three geese in one days
shooting.
Arrangements have been made for a two
days shooting tournament at Minden, April
IA and 10.
There Is some talk of the various lodges
at Leigh pooling their issues and building a
large hall.
In many places Nebraska farmers are
sowing spring wheat where winter wheat has
been killed out.
Scotia is now without banking facilities OF
any kind, and the people there are greatly
Inconvenience as a result.
Dawes county Is foreclosing on a quarter
section of land to secure $243.3O due from
eX-Deputy Treasurer Hardy.
Heavy Losses on the sheep industry are re-
ported from the west part of Cherry county,
4. towering being among the heaviest losers.
The Grand Army boys OF Chester are max
ing strenuous efforts to raise enough to build
them a hall, and are circulating among their
friends and the public in general for sub
scriptions.
Many men have got their legs tangled up
and fallen downstairs trying to carry up a
load of whisky, but 1t remained for a Chadron
man to accom- plish that feat with only a load
OF plain water.
Recently while Henry Stanclift of Alexan-
dria was burning grass around the building
where his corn 10 stored he was startled by
two bullets passing his ears. He discovered
| that four thirty-eight caliber cartridges were
In the grass and two of them exploded, max
| ing a close call for him.
A small cyclone visited the farm OF A. l..
Zimmerman, on Cobb creek, Sherman county
Tuesday evening. The roof of the barn and
part OF that OF the house were blown OFF, a
carriage was torn to pieces. a windmill blown
down and things scattered in general. No
stock or persons were injured, however. The
cloud Is said to have been shaped like a bel
lows.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-05
Tax OH Inordinnte Wealth the Cure
for the Nations Ills.

Tax OH Inordinnte Wealth the Cure
for the Nations Ills.
Topeka, Kan, April 4.-Ex-Lieutenan
Governor Percy Daniels has succeeded in in
teresting most Of the leading democratic
populist statesmen of Kansas in an organiza-
ton, the object OF which is to operate a
bureau Of information concerning his scheme
to tax inordinate wealth and ultimately tc
secure an amendment to the federal consti'
tuition giving congress the power to levy
such a tax. TIE names OF some Of those
who belong to the association follow: Franz
Doster, chief justice of the supreme court
S. ii. Allen, associate justice supreme court
David Overmeyer, democratic leader; j. w
Leedy, governor; william Stryker, superin'
tendent public instruction.; A. NJ. Harvey
lieutenant governor; w. NJ. Campbell, rail.
road commissioner; John Martin, eX-United
States senator; l.. c. Boyle, attorney general
ID. H.. fgefilebower, state treasurer; w. E
Bush, secretary of state; w. P. billiard, rail
road commissioner; j. ID. Botkin, congress
man-elect; w. ID. Vincent, congressman-elect
Jerry Simpson, congressman-elect; w. A
PETER, ex-United States senator.
The organization Is now working on a plaI
to arouse public interest all over the coun-
try on this subject. The Kansas leglsla'
ture took up the question at it's recent session
and adopted a resolution asking congress tc
submit a proposition to amend tho federal
constitution providing TOT a TAX on lhordinatt
wealth to a vote OF the people. The legisla-
lures of all other states will be asked to
adopt similar resolutions. Tho promoters OF
the idea do not expect to accomplish the OBJ
ject sought Immediately, but believe that by
proper management the people might get a
chance at such a proposition in 1900.
The correspondence throughout various
sections OF the country already coming tt
be enormous. The promoters of this latest
scheme are laboring unuer the impression
that 1t will have a big run. They look for
local organizations to spring up Throughout
tho nation and make a national organization
that will sweep the country as the farmers
ALLIANCE did the west a few YeaIs ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-05
Duffy's Pure
Malt Whiskey

as a speedy and certain means of relief.
purity than this great stimulant, which
capricious season. Avoid %congcstions
lungs by taking Duffy's pure malt as
OF your neighborhood. You can get ID
of any druggist or grocer.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-05

MINOR MENTION.


Scientific o%ptlcian. wollman, 400 B'way.
The regular convocation OF Star Chapter
No. %, Royal Arch Masons, will meet thie
evening at Z o'clock sharp.
John Williams. one Of the Fremont county
prisoners who has been serving a twenty
days sentence for vagrancy, was liberated
from the county jail yesterday.
Wanted-A man with general acquaintance
in Council Bluffs, to canvass for a well
known Omaha establishment. State expert
enco and references. Address, F 81. Omaha
Dee. Omaha.
We cater to people who appreciate good
work. prompt service and businesslike
treatment. We please hundreds Of others
and can please you. The Eagle Laundry
724 Broadway.
Charles Cooney was arrested at his home
IN lewis township yesterday charged with
seduction. Cooney was indicted by the grand
Jury and his Indictment was among the
batch returned on Saturday afternoon.
william T.. Coffman and John Smiley, two
federal prisoners In the county Jail, were
taken to Monroe county yesterday, where
they will appear as witnesses. Each a
serving a 100 days sentence here for boot
Logging. They were called for by Sheriff
John Doner.
The annual meeting of the Western Iowa
Poultry, Farm and Garden association will
be held in Farmers hall in the county court
house tomorrow evening. The meeting VIII
be OF a business nature. Officers for the
ensuing year will be elected and tie Judges
selected for the next poultry and hortieul-
tural show.
A year or two ago an organization was
formed in this city. known as the Good
Citizenship league. Its formation created
some uneasiDess among politicians, for II
was formed just prior to the city election
and the call invited the participation OF all
good citizens. 1t has held one or two meet
ings since, but has not been an active or
ganization. A call has been issued for an
other meeting to be held this evening In the
Y. NJ. G. A. rooms.
Two little girls reported to a South Main
street policeman late Saturday evening that
they saw what they believed to be the body
of a murdered man lying in a freight car in
the Burlington yards. The children were
picking up coal in the yards and they peered
through the bars of an empty car and saw
the body Of a man partially covered with
bloody newspapers. They thought the man
might have been asleep until they en-.
deavored TO awaken him and failed. The
officer reported the story to the station and
two officers were detailed to make an in
vestigation. An hour was spent In the dark
ness and rain, but no dead body was found.
A freight car was found with a pile OF
papers in one corner, but they showed nc
bloodstains.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-05
REAR ADMIRAL RAMSAY RETIREs
DISTINGUISHED Naval Gommhh"ef
About to Leave the Service.

D~,stinruished Naval, ,a Commander
About to Leave the Service.
WASHINGTON April i4.-Rear-Admirai
u,rano,s NJ. Ramsay. holding the most I'M
nortant offic. in the naval service, that OF
chief of the bureau of navigation, VIII De
retired on account of age tomorrow.
He was born just 60 years ago in wash
ington. ID. c., coming from military stock,
his father having been q general IN the
United States army. He was a graduate Oh
the naval academy and MS nrst sea eIse
was on the frigate st. Lawrence IN $500
During the civil war Lieutenant Ramsay DIS
tipguished himself by his bravery and IN
tegrity in msny of the important naVai ac-
lions, first in the lower Mississippi ana ialer
on the south Atlantic coast. at Fort flsher
and elsewhere. Commanding the Choctaw,
his vessel was struck over fifty times by
cannon shot in the engagements at Hames
Bluffs. Other engagements IN wnlcn ne uis,
tinguished himself were those at Liverpool
Landing, Milliken's Bend and up the fazoo
river. At Miiliken's Bend his vessel, the
Cboctaw. turned the fortunes of the day,
for it came up Just in time to save the union
troops. who were in full retreat, and to turn
that into an advance. ir.
In 1863 Lieutenant-C Commander Ramsay, at
The early age of 2S, took ommand OF the
Third division of the Mississippi river squad
ron, with flag rank, and from that time on
he was in the midst of heavy fighting, COM
handing the expeditions up the Black and
Ouachita rivers, into the Atchafalaya country
and being connected with the Red river ex-
petition. Leaving the. Mississippi, Lieu
tenant-CommaEder Ramsay saw hard service
on the Unadilla at Fort Fisher, Fort Ander-
son and others forts on Cape Fear river, and
ha was present at the capture of Richmond
In 1865 he was at the naval academy and
was fleet captain of the South Atlantic sta
ton in 1867 and 1868. After that he was
inspector of ordnance. at the Washington
navy yard, naval attache to various European
legations, commander at the naval home,
Philadelphia; in charge of the Newport tor
pedo station, in mman Of the Trenton on
the European station, superintendent of the
naval academy and a member OF the naval
examining board. AS superintendent OF the
academy he made his mark by a thorough
reorganization, as far as 1t was possible to
do so within the law, to make the course
meet the needs of the new navy Just coming
into existence. His next important com
mand WAS that OF the New York navy yard
and from that place he was transferred In
1889 to the bureau of navigation as chief to
succeed Admiral Walker. He has discharged
the manifold and responsible duties OF this
place with a display of good judgment and
fairness, as was evidenced in his reappoint'
ment for another term of four years in 1893
and altogether the retiring admiral has been
one of the most progressive and energetic
officers in our naval service.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-05
GROUND Is THOROUGHLY SOAKED.
Farmers find Rain IL DrcnchinG the
Soil All over the state.

Soil All over the State.
BASSETT, Neb., April 4.-tspecial)-The
worst snow storm OF the season ragged here
yesterday. Fully ten inches OF the beautiful
fell within twelve hours. and this and the
recent heavy rains have put the ground In
better condition for farming than 1t has been
since 1899. The storm will be very hard on
cattle, as the snow Is wet, and 1t Is accom-
panied with a strong wind. However, most
OF the farmers have good sheds, and the stock
will not perish.
FARNAM. Neb., April 4.-(Special.)-Rain
commenced falling again late in the alter
noon of the 2d and continued to fall steadily
until 6 a. III. Of the Sd, when 1t developed
into a snow storm OF unusual severity for this
season OF the year. The most confirmed
gruniOlers among the farmers are satisfied
with the quantity, but there are croakers
who say. I'VE shall pay for this with a
drouth later on"
RED CLOUD, Neb., April 4.-(special.)-
The heaviest rain of the season began at 5
o'clock Friday evening and continued
steadily for twelve hours. Most farmers
have their wheat In and are ready to begin
blowing as soon as the ground dries out.
DUNBAR, Neb., April 4,-(Special.)-Rain
fell here the greater part Of last week. The
ground is thoroughly soaked and full OF
water. The farmers will be unable to get
into the fields for at least a week.
SHELTON, Neb.. April 4.-(Special)-The
greatest amount of water which has fallen
for years at one time fell since 6 o'clock
Friday evening. when rain began falling and
continued hard all night and most OF Satur-
day. Last evening 1t turned to snow. Roads
are almost impossible, and farmers will be
unable to do any farming for several days.
Hardly any small grain has been sown yet in
this locality.
MOOREFIELD, Neb., April 4.-(Special.)-
The sun has not shone in this vicinity for
seven days, being mostly a continued rain
all Of that time. Fall wheat is looking fine.
About one-half the spring wheat was sown
before the severe wet whether set in. The
old settlers here claim there never was a
better show for a crop.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-05
CONVENTION OFF GOLD MINERS
Called to Meet in Denver in June-An
Exhibit of Minerals.

DENVER. Colo, April 4.-The National
Mining bureau has issued a call for an "in-
ternational gold miners convention" to be
held in Denver on the 18th and 10th of June.
The exhibits will consist of refined gold and
gold ores, and a general mineral display.
State bureaus of mines, state schools Of
mines, chambers of commerce, boards Of
trade, mining exchanges and mining and
miners organizations are invited to cooper
ate in the exhibit and movement. The mill
ing and smelling interests are requested to
participate, as well as machinery manufac-
turers and dealers. Each county in the
mining states is asked to hold a mass con-
vention not later than May 20 and elect
delegates to the gathering here. Governor
Adams was named as president Of the con-
vention and Irwin Mahon as secretary, and
the delegates from each state are requested
to elect a vice president. Louis r. Enrich
is to represent Colorado In that capacity.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-05
FOREIGNERS DO NOT LrKE IT.
Embassies at Washington Are Closely
Watching the Tani6 Bill.

WASHINGTON, April 4--The foreign EN-
bassies and legations I'M Washington are
watching the progress of the tariff bill with
great care. as it mortalIyo Affects all com
mercial nations. Reports age being for
warded TO the various foreign offices, and
there in turn are being made public abroad
for the information of concerns shipping
goods to the United States. Naturally the
feeling among the diplomats is not favorable
to the measure, as II will restrict many OF
the lines of foreign trade with this country.
Among the Representatives Of the larger
countries the expression is general that
there will be a large decrease In imports,
and that this In turn will be followed by AN
increase of duties against American goods.
The representatives of the nations which are
most concerned with reciprocity do not re-
gard the reciprocity features OF the present
bill with favor. Without exception, how
ever. members OF the diplomatic corps are
refraining from exerting any influence to-
ward keeping down the duties.
Omaha daily bee., 1897-04-05
NOTHING FOR THE HOUSE TO DO
VII Meet on Wednesday, and Then
Adjourn to Saturday.

IToDuDIy w
WASHINGTON, April 4.-The house, in
pursuance of the waiting policy mapped out
by the leaders, adjourned yesterday until
Wednesday, and ON that day will imme-
diately adjourn again for three days, the
constitutional limit Of adjournment without
the consent of the senate. Many OF the
members have gone home subject to call in
tho event they should be needed. In case
the president should decide to ask congress
for special legislation for relief for the Ms
sissippi flood sufferers, as N is anticipated
he may, the proceedings ibti Wednesday may
be more interesting. Any legislation which
may be proposed in the present situation
while 1t is not likely that there would be
captious opposition to a bill, Which would ap-
peal so directly to the SYMPATHY OF con-
gress, an objection mights be made. This
would necessitate a special order from the
committee on rules for Its consideration and
all attending complications. No