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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : IUESDAY , JUttE 23 , 1887. TIIH DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. OF BL'nCfttPT10X ! Dnllr ( Mbrnl.ix'Edltlon ) Including SumJny Ilr.r , Ono War . $10 00 For Six Months . 6 CO ForThrvoMontlM . 8(0 The Omabn Sxndnr DEE , mailed to nny iKlro ( ] s , Ono year. . . . . . 800 orncr. No. mi Axn ma FAttxAjc S Nrw vntiK orpine , Hoov c.V TKini'.sz itfii.niNO. WAMIIINQTON orriCE , Mo. tu POUUTCENTII BTIIEI.T. connEsroNDCKCE ! All communications rotating to news nnd odl- torlnl mnttor uliould bo addressed to the Em- xoit or TUB IJF.K. 11USINCS8 I.r.TTEIW ! All business k'Uurs nnd romlttaneosihould bo addressed to THE Hee I'UIII.ISHIMI COM PAN r , OMAHA. Drafts , clibcks nnrt po tolTlco orders to bo made payable to the ordlr ot the company , THE BEE POBLISHlSliPW , PHOPRIETOBS , E. ItOSEWATKrt. EntTon. THE DAII/y BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btato of Nebraska. ) . County of Hondas , f " ° * Oeo. 11. TzschucK , secretnry of The nco rubllshlnu company , does solemnly swear that the actual circulation ot thu Dally Dee for the week ending Juno 24 , I to7 , was as follows : Bnttirdav.Jtine IS 14.250 Sunday , June 19 H.200 Monday. Juno 20 l4.C . - > Tuesday , June 21 14,0V ) Wednesday , Juno 23 14.VM Thursday , JunolU 14 , 26 Friday , Juno'Jl .14.040 Average 11.173 ( Jr.o. 11. Tz.srirucK. Subscribed and sworn to bcforo mo this 25th day of Juno,15J > 7. N. 1' . FF.II , . [ SEAL.1 Notary Publle. Oeo. B. 'IVsuhuck , bclni first duly sworn , deiwses and snys that ho Is secretary of The lice Publtahini ; company , that the actual average dally circulation of the Daily lleo for the month of for June. 18W ) , 12.293 copies ; lor July , 181 , 12,314 copies ; for AiiRiist , 1SH5 , 12-iCl conies ; for Septem ber , 18bO. 13,030 copies ; for October , 18MJ. 12,089 copies ; for November. 1880 , 13,343 copies ; for December , IbSO. IM.sr ? copies ; for January 1887 , 10.2CO copies ; for February , 1887 , H.lOa copies ; for March. 18&7 , 14.400 copies ; for April , 1837,14,310 copies ; for May , 1837 , rl,227 copies. Ono. H. Tzscmrcit. Subscribed and sworn to before mo tills 4th dsynt Juno A. 1) . , 1887. ISEAL.I N. P. Fr.rL , Notary Public. WITH Armour in Omaha it means con siderable for Nebraska. WITHOUT bucket shops , gamblers or boodlers.Chicago , the city of Hams , will make a charming summer resort. Two passenger trains have recently bcon robbed in Minnesota. Can it bo that Cole Younger is being avenged ? AUMOUU & Co. will take charge of the packing house now occupied by Thomas J. Lipton. Omaha is not losing any of her prestige. COMMISSIONEK SI-AUKS , metaphorically speaking , is making the sparks fly in the direction of honest enforcement of the the homestead law. COLONEL FUED GKANT , it is predicted , will bo nominated by the republicans of Now York for secretary of stato. The returns after the election will show what there is in a name. THE Now York World advises Governor Pattison to "camp in Omaha until ho can communicate with the panic-stricken natives , " who are fleeing before the Pacific investigators. THE traduccrs of Governor Thayer continue in their indecent cause , nnd Governor Thayer continues to possess the respect and confidence of the reputable people of Nebraska. ELEVEN of the hostile Apaches have returned to the reservation. It the United States army can avoid moating the other nineteen , it Is thought the In dians will secure no scalps during this outbreak. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NEW YORK'S base ball club had a game "called" on thorn , nine to nothing. It Is hoped that Now York will keep up this style until the game is called on Jake Sharp twelve to nothing , for con viction. DAKOTA haa boon visited by a frost. The enterprising newspapers of the ter ritory take advantage of the weakness of sweltering humanity by advertising the fact as one of the rare and peculiar ad vantages enjoyed by the settlors. REV. MK. SAVIDOE , in his sermon Sun day , against ball playing on the Sabbath day , said there wcro seven clubs in each league , lie was mistaken in this. There are eight. Yet Mr. Savidgo showed more knowledge of the game than has boon shown by umpire Doaglo. AND now the Republican wants to shifl the responsibility for the mutilation ol the section of the charter relating to parks upon Senator Linlngor. This is decidedly cool. It h notorious that Mr. Liuingor made an earnest appeal against the mutilation of the charter , and sought up to the last moment to have the park provision restored. But the judiciary boodlers under the load of the editor o the Republican and his associates of the oil room lobby carried the day and do- fontod the section relating to parks. It may not bo out of place incidentally to recall the fact that Captain Wilcox whoso friendship for Chief Soavoy is the prime cause of opposition to the chief am the police commission on the part o : Councilman Hascall , was down at Lin coin working cheek by jowl with the charter wrecker of the licjniblica ) against parks. Curses , like chickens como home to roost. A O.UEAT many of the arbitrary regula tions of railroad companies woult speedily como to naught if people whc have the intelligence to know when tboj are impositions would disregard them Justice Field , of the United State : supreme court , recently sot an example in this direction that is interesting. He went to the railroad office in San Fran Cisco to purchase a round-trip ticket tc Portland , and on being asked by tin ticket seller to write his name on tin ticket refused to do so , on the grounc that there was no law In the Unitct -V States compelling him to sign a railroai ticket. The otHclal on learning who tin objector was promptly handed over tlu ticket without tha signature. As a Sat Francisco paper remarked , "it would b < a strange law which would require nj one to enter into n written contrai which be had not read , and of the con touts of which he was in entire tguo rauco , " and yet ilmllar demands an Bade by reilroads every day and ac dad to. . OH llooms. ' ' When mdn biro themselves out to cor- ) orallot)3 ) as procurers , seducers nnd cor- uptors of the people's representatives , hey are capable of almost any infamy. t is not at all surprising that the miscre- ints who have played thd decoy for the Nebraska railroad boodlors should delib erately add perjury to their more detest- iblo crimes. Several of these political prostitutes mvo testified under oath bcforo the Pa cific railroad commission that they tncw nothing about legislative oil rooms and never heard about an oil oem , except as it was mentioned by the UKE. This will surprise John M , Thurs- ton in his Minnesota retreat. Legislative oil rooms have notoriously been kept open at the leading hotels at the state capital during every ses sion of the legislature since the railroads entered the domain of politics. These resorts were always supplied with a full assortment of choicest liquors , wines and cigars and the hotel bar was usually kept running all night catering to the oil room orgic.s. It was in these oil rooms that Thurston and his stool pigeons entertained mem bers of the legislature with champagne , brandy and whisky until they wcro in condition to drop into the pitfall which the wily Union Pacific lobbyist had set for them. It was in the oil rooms where the legislative boodlors most did congregate , and yet the dissolute henchman who lit erally lived in the oil rooms during the legislative session pretend that they never heard of such a placel The only wonder Is that these case-hardened wretches have admitted that they wore hired by the railroad to keep the Ne braska legislature from "making mis takes. " A Victory Over Ulno On last Sunday the hotel keepers of Now York wcro enabled to supply their guests with wine at their meals , a privi lege which had been denied them for several previous Sundays. It may bo safely assumed that the opportunity was fully improved both by the hotel men and these they entertained , and that the line was not rigidly drawn at meal time , which however is very nearly continu ous at New York hotels. It is also a safe guess that a great mauy more people wore registered at the hotels than were in a legitimate sense guests. The excise law which has boon in operation for thirty years in Now York contains a sec tion prohibiting the keeper of an inn , tavern or hotel , or any ether pc rson , to sell or give away any intoxicating liquors or wines on Sunday oren on olcction day to any person whatever as a bo'vorago. In the attempts to enforce the law that were made from time to time the privileges of the hotel keepers were not interfered with , and it had grown to be the com mon understanding that they were not intended to bo amenable to the statute , notwithstanding its Very explicit lan- 'nago. But when Mayor Hewitt deter mined that the law should bo rigidly ou- forccd and carried that determination into action the hotels wcro required to submit in common with all other sellers of liquor. They did so protestingly for a coupla of Sundays , but finally the pro prietors of two of the most prominent hotels the Gilsoy and Fifth Avenue- summoning a police officer to witness their action , dispensed liquor to their guests on Sunday. They were arrested , and the matter being taken bcforo n judge sitting la supreme court , cham bers , ho decided thafthe law did not per mit thorn to sell liquors or wines to their guests on Sunday. Thecaso was appealed to the general term of the supreme court , and a decision rendered , all the judges concurring , reversing the deci sion of the inferior tribunal and affirm ing the right of hotal keepers to furnish their guests with liquors or wines at meals on Sunday or any ether day. The general importance of this deci sion lies in the siuglo fact that it makes a liberal spirit of construction not too common in issues of this kind. The prin ciple which seemed to bo at the founda tion of the opinions rendered by the judges each submitting bis own view independently was that the hotel is virtually the homo of the guest , and that to deny him the right to have liquors or wine served there would bo to practi cally deny him his homo rights with re spect to this privilege , which no law should be allowed to do. Ono of the judges said if the construction placed on the law by the inferior court wore to hold , no person could on Sunday or on any election day "supply at his own table to members of his own family a single glass of wine. " Obviously no such harsh and intolerant restriction was over intended , and if it was it would be Impossible to enforce it for any length of time in New York. It is evident tiiat this statute needs over hauling and remodeling. It is in the line of these "blue laws" which the senti ment of this time is wholly out of sym pathy with , and the continuance ol which is simply a source of annoy ance and trouble without doing any good to anybody. Results of Co-Oporatlon. For more than n generation most ot these who have made the labor problem n subject of careful and rational studj have regarded co-operation as an import ant factor in the solution of its ditlicuL ties. It is interesting , therefore , to in quire ns to the results of the application of this principle. There is very little to bo obtained , and not much of that en couraging , from the history of its trial in this country. Co-operative enterprises have been established hero , and a few have recent existence , but most of them that have been undertaken had f brief and troubled career , and either wont to pieces or passed into the control of a few individvals who developed the necessary administrative ability to carry them on , becoming simply like any ether company , though perhaps retaining the title aa co-operative estab Hshmonts. Examples of this can be found in almost every manufacturing clt ] of the country. Of these establishment : that are now running on the cooperative tivo principle the reports of success an not uniformly reassuring. A few an moderately prosperous , as for example those engaged in the textile trades a Philadelphia , but generally they do no grow , and their existence in of the "frou hand to mouth" order. Co-operation ir the United States has uot yet been such a success as to contribute greatly to confl donee in the system , but if the priucipli is sound there can bo no doubt that ultl inatcly It will be made successful. Turning to England , where co-opera ion has boon.longest In.practico and has cached Its highest' development , there Is ound to bo most substantial reason for ho faith of those who believe in the virtues nnd advantages of this sys- era. There are 1,201 co-operative so- ilctlcs in the United Kingdom , and their nstory is ono of remarkable prosperity. n twenty years they have done a total nislncss of $1,839,000,000. from which the ncmbors have derived $100,000,000 as irolits. But even there the system ap- > oars to have reached a limit beyond which there is uncertainty , and perhaps danger. At the great congress of cooperative erative societies recently held , Mr. Thomas Hughes , ono of the oldest sup- lortcrs of the movement , delivered an iddress on Its history and prospects , in which ho said that co-operation in distri bution in the purchase and sale of articles of daily consumption had been nn enormous success , but that co-opera- : ion , where it had succeeded , find ceased n a great measure to bo co-operation in .ho early and best scnio of the word , The prosperous societies have devel oped in recent years a strong lesiro to go into the business of produc ing. They have naturally reasoned that ; hey ought to manufacture at least a por- Jon of the goods they consume , and for which they have a ready and assured market. This fooling has led two of the largest distributing societies to nmnufao- Lure boots and shoes on an cxtensivo scale , nnd with successful results to th o societies , but it is being done at the sac rifice of the co-operation principle. The workers in these shoo factories are not co-opcr.Uors and do not share in the prollts of the business. They got the prevalent rate of wages m the market , and have just as many differences with their employers as do the workers for ether manufacturers. Furthermore , these wealthy societies do not hesitate to use their power to exclude weaker so cieties from catering the liold in competition with them. In a word , the managers of those factories have all the characteristics of human nature when engaged m the conflicts of business , and although Mr. Hughes warns the societies against the introduction of labor which has 110 interest in profits , as likely to prove the destruction of the movement , there is very little likelihood ol their heeding the admonition. The conclusion from results thus far must bo that co-operation for distribu tion is entirely practicable , and can bo made of great advantage to labor , but that co-operation for production is at best hazardous , if confined strictly to the the principles of the system , while to keep it within such limitation has thus far proved absolutely impracticable on any largo scalo. The Monetary Situation. The reports of the leading clearing houses of the country for last week show a considerable aggregate decline in the business of the banks. There was an in crease , though a small ono , as compared with the corresponding week of last year , bnt the evidence of the figures is that trade generally is quiet. Such a situation is to bo ex pected at this season , and it will very likely continue for the next sixty days , but the condition exhibited by the record of clearings may not bo duo wholly to natural causes. It is quite probable that the bauks are disposed to pursue for a time a very conservative policy , induced thereto both by recent commercial events and by'a feeling of uncertainty regarding the future of the money market. The effects of the devel opments following the collapse of the wheat deal , while the severest damage was local , have boon somewhat generally felt m financial cir cles , and as usual in such cases have incited to care and caution. Thou there are tendencies in other directions which conduce to the same feeling. Beyond all this there is n question as to what the situation may bo two or three months hence , when there is an extraordinary demand for money to move the new crop. From the latest figures of the treasury there doesn't appear to bo any strong reason for apprehending an insuffi ciency of currency for the trade wants of the country during the next six months. It is now believed that the receipts of the treasury will not exceed the disburse ments between July and January to the amount of more than $30,000,000 , and this sum can perhaps bo spared without disturbance to the business of the coun try , though certainly it would bo very much bettor in the hands of the people than the vaults of the treasury. The banks , however , arc appar ently not disposed to take chances , and there is something in tills fact to build confidence on. So long as the banks adhere to a policy of giving support only to legitimate enterprise there need bo no fear of financial dis turbance , or that the country will not have the means to carry on its regular business without interruption. TIIEKE has not been ono word said by any Omaha paper except the BEE about the street sweeping jobs. Why are all our contemporaries so silent ? Can the city afford to pay $4,000 u month for street cleaning ? 'If wo can afford to double the street cleaning expense , is there any valid reason why the contractors should be allowed f 000 permonth more for sweep ing the streets than the work can bo contracted for ? Docs the condition of the city treasury justify such a reckless outlay ? Are not taxes high enough without doubling the street cleaning ex penses. STAT12 AN1) TKUIUTOKY. Nebraska Jottings. Kushvillo has added a cemetery to her list of industries. The Fremont creamery churned 18,448 pound ; ) of butter last week. Sutton business men want an excur sion over the Kansas City & Omaha to Omaha. H. B. Fetz and W. E. Hitchcock have blossomed out with the Times at Nonpa reil , Dawes county. The state of Beatrice is worth ? 5,315- 200 for tax purposes , an increase of 1200,000 over last year. A brace of glib-tongued fakirs are do ing Hamilton county for subscriptions to an atlas that will relieve the rcsidcnU of $20,000 or more cosh. A. L. Bixby.'one of the brlchtest stars in the profession , has retired from the Naico county Journal. Ho goes west to whoop up the country. The assessors' returns of property in Gage county shows 1,500 ! ) horses , 38,14- < cattle , 1,818 mules , 21,203 sheep , 38,003 hogs , lands valued at $2,337,757 and rail roads at f850,169. Over 1317,000 in gold and silver was paid in aonuiticj to the Omaha Indians. this wcok , and there is now. n strong demand among the savages for ( tiro- water. A terrible aflllction befell thd family of West Johnson , living near Mead , Saunders - dors county. Three of his children died during Sunday and Monday of last week , stricken by diphtheria. Two years ago the couple lost two children by the same disease. Truly their cup of sorrow is overflowing. ' The Tecumseh Republican denounces the second class dilapidated cabooses run on the B. & M. line in Johnson county , ami frankly confesses that before April 1 there was coiiblderablo enter prise , courtesy and convenience shown patrons of the road. The cash basis has had a wonderful'cQcct on the editorial temperament. J. H. Buchanan , general passenger agent of the Elkhoru Valley road , has notified the people of the Black Hills that the company will transport free of charge to the Omaha exposition and state fair at Lincoln , collections of pro ducts for exhibition , ores of various kinds , marble , stone , flro clay , brick , etc. The offer is a generous ono and will bo accepted. The Fremont Oil company , of Glen- rock , W. T. , was organized in Fremont Saturday last by the election of G. W. E. Horsey. E. II. Barnard , C. 11 , Toncray , W. E. bmails and \V. \ J. Crane as direct ors , who were aftcrwarcs elected in the above order , president , vice president , treasurer , secretary and general man ager. The capital stock ot the company is § 1,000,000 , and the object of tiio organ ization is to develop 8,000 acres of oil and coal land which they already pos sess. lotvn Items. DCS Moincs county claims to have as line iiro-clay as thuro is in the world. An institution to be known as the Evaporated and Condensed milk com pany , with a capital of $100,000 , will lo cate at Cedar Kapids. A Davenport rifle team carried off the honors at the lifth annual contest of the Northwestern shooting society , and their captain , George Cook , made the highest individual score. The Davenport Democrat says two men were arrested there and lined $50 and costs each for "fighting and disturbing the police. " A man who would wantonly disturb the police should bo shot or hung. Conductor Harry Uarr mot with a pain ful accident at the Esthorvlllo crave ! pit , Thursday , while switching some cars. Ho was knocked down by the pilot of the en cine nnd. the wheels passed over the ball of his heel , cutting off the flesh up to the ball of his foot. For some time back so many potty thefts have occurred in northeastern Van Burcn county that detectives were set at work to discover the thieves. Their in vestigations resulted in the arrest of Harry Vance , George Kliso and Albert Van Winkle. William Van Winkle es caped arrest by running away. The proof against the gang is positive and they will all no doubt receive the full benefit of the law ! ' ) ' UfAh. The Utah railroad company , a branch of the Burlington , Has been organized in Salt Lake City. ( , President Potter and a partv ot Union Pacific officials distributed a large quan tity of railroad swcqtuess in Mormondom last week. ] * , ' Mineral shipments from Salt Lake City for the week ending July 18 wore : Twenty-two cars bullion , 137,899 pounds ; 10 cars load , 280,313 pounds ; 20 cars sil ver and lead ore , &J0.250 pounds ; 0 cars copper ore , 101,000 pounds ; total , 04 cars , 1,810,203 pounds. , , The sureties of George Q. Cannon , the saintly unlawful cohabitor of Salt Lake , have sought to bo relieved from liability on their bond , bnt the territorial supreme court of Utah decided against them. They appealed to the United States supreme premo court. The amount at issue is $40,000 , with interest and costs. John Tobin , the Kansas City man who has been lecturing against Mormonism , is about to institute a suit against Salt Lake City for property valued atone million dollars. Tobin's claim is based on the following facts : In 18G3 ho was obliged to fly with a penalty of death hanging over him should he return. Just before John D. Lee was hanged for the Mountain Meadow massacre , ho con fessed that ho had been employed by Brigham Youne to murder Tobin. Ho hau in fact attacked his party and killed several but only succeeded in wounding Tobin. At that time Tobin was obliged to fly from Salt Lake City. He then owned considerable property in the heart of the city. That is now estimated at being worth over $1,000,000. Montana. Bullion shipments from Butte last week amounted to $134,088. The Drum Lummon is producing bul lion at the rate of 13,000,000 a year. Seven prominent mines in the territory paid dividends aggregating $1,043.500 during the first five months of the year. A railroad company backed by the Union Pacific has been incorporated to build a line from Butte to the National Park. The end of the Manitoba track is now within the confines of Montana. It will boom ri ht along now till it reaches Butte and Anaconda. Ill's believed the tunnels of the North ern Pacific railroad in Montana , where caves have obstructed travel this winter , will never bo safe until they are arched witli solid masonry , which will bo an enormously expensive undertaking. Pacific Coast. The now directory of Los Angeles figures out a population of 00,008. Mother Hubbard dresses are forbidden on the streets of Albuquerque , New Mex ico. Spokane Falls Is to have a steve fac tory , paper mills , oil factory and woolen mills. Large gray timber wolves are destroy ing calves and colts in Bear Lake county , eastern Idaho. , , The coruor-stono qf the now Catholic cathedral at Sacramjnto was laid with imposing ceremonies Just , Sunday. The Piuto population in Nevada has In creased nearly 2,000 since the census of 1830. On that date ittwas 7,700. It is es timated now at 0,200. i The count of Indian * at San Carlos con firms the previous count that only six teen bucks and ono squaw are absent from the reservation A narrow vein of "coal and another of copper ore have beih'tllscovered by the deep cut for the railroad near v\ bite Pine , on the southern'side of thoSIskiyou mountain. ' . | f The board of rc oits of the Arizona territorial university , ! have contracted with the Ithaca ( N.A.woll ) augur com pany to bore a 1000-fooc artesian well at lucson for | 5,000. The Reno reduction-works are kept constantly going , and It is now certain that the capacity of the establishment will have to bo increased or other works of that kind erected if business continues to increase. They are now receiving ore from California and all portions oi No- veda , and the returns have been bo far entirely satisfactory. For Sulc. One newspaper Campbell press , bed 32x40. Ono Potter Cylnder Job Press , bed 22x93. Ono boiler and engine , shaft ing and bolting. All in good order. Will sou this machinery very cheap as. the owner has no use for the same. Address to 1120 Capitol Avenue , Ginaha , Neb. . ' HOW THfeY TAKE IT. Central 1'nolflo IttivcnRO on Potter Ilttlcf ) for the Now Koutc. San Francisco Chronlclot Uailroad gossip centers on the latest move of Tom Potter. In deciding to "throw over" the Central Pacific and handle all Montana , Utah and Idaho freight , to and from this city by way of Portland , Potter Is giving the Southern Pacific company consider able food for reflection. Not that the Southern Pacific company cares for the losts of business oh , not but it did not think after all these years of close con nection with the Union Piiclllo that the latter company could have it in its corporate heart to thus rudely tear asunder the bonds of commercial union. So now the Sourhorn Pacific company is "cooking up" some choice form of ven geance. It is deemed likely that it will use the Sunset routu for working out a grand scheme of retaliation which shall make Mr. Potter wish ho had never heard or dreamed of such a thing ns routing Utah freight via Portland. Now rules and conditions governing the shipment of freight to the territory reached by the lines named in the \o\nl \ \ tariff wcro re ceived yesterday. Irom these rules the following extracts of special interest to local shippers nro taken : No shipment , however small , composed of ono or more classes , will be carried for loss than would be charged upon 100 pounds of second-class freight. All freight for which carload rate Is pro vided must bo loaded at point of shipment by shipper , and unloaded at destination by the owner or consignee , oral tliolr expense. All cars loaded with property which Is to bo unloaded by owner or consignee , whether at side track or regular stations , must ho un loaded within twenty-four hours ntter ar rival at destination , or a charge of S3 per day or fraction thereof will be made for each day thereafter until unloaded. The companies , however , reserve the right to unload and clmnro the owner or consignee of the prop erty for the cost or expense of same , the com panies to be ontlioly exempt from nny lia bility for deficiency In quantity laden In them. A charge of S3 per day or fractional part will also be made for detention of cars ( longer than twenty-four hours ) which have been ordered by and reserved for shippers. The companies do not uuaraiitoa to carry the freight by any particular train , nor in time for any particular market , and will not bo responsible for losses occasioned by de lays. Agricultural Implements , wagons and sim ilar freight , when loaded upon standard gauge lint cars , should not bo loaded to ex ceed twelve fcot in extreme height above the top of the rail or nine feet six Inches in extreme - tremo width ; and upon narrow gauge cars , eleven and one-half feet high and eight and one-half feet In ( extreme width. The com panies reserve the right , when the rules are not complied with , to either refuse the freight , to transport It entirely at owner's risk of in jury from collision with snow-sheds , water- tanks , etc. , or to remove any excess from the car and cliarco first-class rates upon the same Freight will bo charged upon the stakes , etc. , If delivered. If left with car no charge will bo made. Unless otherwise provided , the minimum carload weight of a standard gauge car shall bo 00,000 pounds ; of a narrow igauge car , 16,000 pounds. Cars may bo loaded to their marked capacity , but In case no capacity Is marked thereon , 28,000 nounds may be loaded to a standard gauge , and 00,000 pounds in a narrow i uo car , and bo charged for at the carload rate provided. All In excess of such maximum weights will be charged for as provided in the western classification. The minimum carload weight shall bo 20,000 pounds upon freight Interchanged be tween standard gauge and narrow gauge points. Forty Per Cent Discount. Salt Lake Tribune. Silver miners are losing about $10,000- 000 annually because of the discount on silver. Because of that discount the pro ducers of the country at largo are losing the same percentage on their products. This is proven by two or three facts. The silver dollar will purchase as much wheat or cotton or tobacco or any other product as it did in 1873. While this is true , nil settlements are reckoned upon a gold basis , and wo have the same result that would befall the dry goods merchant were some ono to substitute for his three-foot yard-stick a stick that meas ured 48.0 inches in length. It would re quire 30 per cent more cloth to make a yard. The truth of this is proved in another way. We have paid on account of the national debt and interest , in the last twenty years , some $2,000,000,000. and yet of the products of the land , in cotton and wheat and tobacco and every thing else which labor produces.it would require as much to pay what is loft of the debt as it would to have paid it all m the beginning. This moans simply that for some reason the shrinkage m values in the United States in twenty years is equal to quite forty per cent , or just about the same apparent shrinkage which through various legislation caused silver to seem to decline , but which is really the appreciation in the purchasing power of gold. We find the same result at every turn. Thus the 3,750,000,000 pounds of cotton raised last year in the United States did not bring so much jvs the 1,800,000,000 , raised in 1873. In 1873 there were exported 3,502,080 bar rels of flour , which brought $10,381,001. In 1885 there wore exported 10.048.145 barrels which brought only $53,140,330. That is in 1873 a barrel of flour was worth within a trifle of $8 , in 1835 it was worth less than $5. Forty per cent , of $8 is $3.20 , and 40 per cont. taken from the price of flour In 1873 gives its exact value in 1885. Another way to state it is that the purchasing power of gold has increased just 40 par cont. In 1880 there were m round numbers 50,000,000 of people in the United States , and the specie and paper representatives of money in the country amounted to $24.10 per capita. Popula tion is increasing at a little more than 3 per cent per annum , and trade is increas ing much faster. That makes the popu lation now a little over sixty millions , which is substantially correct. If there was not too much money in 1880 , tiiero Bbould have bcon added to it smco $240,000,000. There has been no such amount. Moreover , there has been locked up in reserve funds quite $300,000,000 in gold. This steadily swelling advance in business equal to the creation and full equipment of a state annually the add ing of 20 per cent to the people , and the steady light which has been made on sil ver has brought around the shrinkage In values by the simple action of a natural law. While this warfare upon silver has been going on , all the time there has been $400,000,000 , in greenbacks in circulation to secure the payment of which $100,000- 000 in gold lies in the treasury. If in stead of the Bland law congress had sim ply passed a law making in compul sory upon the treasury ollicials to re ceive American silver bars UOO line and receipt for them in certificates re deemable in silver coin or bullion , and retire greenbacks as fast as those certifi cates were issued , wo should now have had in lieu of thorn $100,000,000 in paper , behind each dollar of which there would have been 4131 grains of silver ; the $100- 000,000 in gold held for their redemption would have bcon in circulation among the people ; silver would have been back in its old position , beside of gold , and the wheat and cotton crop of last year , together with every other crop , would have brought 40 per cent more than It did. It is not too late to begin now whore the wrong was done , and to re store silver to its old status , and with it the product of labor. Unless this shall be uouu the shrinkage will continue until a universal smashing will follow. Wo suspoot that the movement to speculates in silver bars in Now Yorkis simply born of tbo knowledge of this fact , and that the projectors of the scheme are simply , in a romid-about way , accepting the inevitable. Their action ought to bn such a hint to congress ad shall make the proper adjustment ol tbo matter ' easy.this coming winter. , . . . MASSACHUSETTS PRIS05S , Report of the Legislative Committee. Severe ArralRnmont of the System of Contract Convict hnlior. Uoston ( Jlobo : The legislative commit tee on prisons has submitted its report as to the condition of the penal institutions of the commonwealth , and tliolr recom mendations in connection therewith. The following is an abstract of the docu ment : The committee has visited and in spected every penal institution in the commonwealth. They wcro found , as a rule , in very creditable conditionj the ex ceptions to neatness and cleanliness wore very rare , and confined entirely to county institutions. The Institutions which came under the direct charge , and super vision of the state , viz. , the state prison of Massachusetts reformatory and the reformatory prison for women , were in their usual excellent condition. Good , wholesome food , well ventilated quarters and humane treatment arc the prevail ing characteristics. The food appeared to ba well cooked , nutritious , and given in sulhciont quantities to satisfy the nor mal appetite. If there is any criticism to be made upon the management of our state prison and reformatories , it is that the prisoners are dealt with too leni ently ; they appear to bo treated as if In an asylum or tx homo , and not a place of punishment. Wo believe that the present nolioy is of manifest injury to the prisoner and the commonwealth. It should bo more rigid and severe , especially in its appli cation to the state prison. Humane treat ment Is all that is required , and human ity does not demand that the criminal who has violated the laws should bo ab solved f.-oin the rigor of his punishment. The committee in visiting the prisons of Pennsylvania , New York and Now Jer sey found a vast diU'erunco in the se verity of discipline as compared with our prisons. Hard tasks , long hours and lack of privileges there prevailed. To the philanthropic heart the senti ment herein expressed may seem hard , but it must bo remembered ; that wo are dealing with criminals many of them confirmed criminals. It is a practical question , and must bo met with prac tical ideas. Uur criminal class is grow ing abnormal , and is not this untoward growth duo in some respects to society itself , which condones the oil'cnso by softening the punishmentT A law has been passed by the present legislature affecting the sentences of habitual criminals. It provids that after the third ollen.se punishable with confine ment in state prison the sentence shall not bo less than twunty-iivo years. This provision is now in operation in Ohio and Connecticut. Its tendency will bo to drive the confirmed criminal class out of the state to localities where sentences arc shorter , thus relieving our prisons from one source of its population. There appears to DO a constantly grow- ing.ovil in tbo matter of sentencing men to the reformatory for the offense of drunkenness. This institution was es tablished for the purpose of separating the youth offenders susceptible of reformation mation from the continued criminal. Its purpose was not to found an asylum for inebriates , yet that Is the direction in which it is rapidly drifting. The treat ment of the unfortunate victims of appe tite should bo entirely different from that laid down for the youthful criminal , yet as the rules cannot bo made elastic the course is cho same. They arc not crim inals , and should not bo treated as such. Yet. as long as they are sentenced to the institution they are obliged to conform to the system established. This is detrimental to the criminal as well as the inebriate. Believing that the interests of the state demanded the separation of these two distinct classes who come before our courts your com mittee reported a bill establishing a home for inebriates , convinced that such an institution would relieve the reforma tory from an incubus which at present rests upon it. COUNTY INSTITUTIONS. In most cases the jails and houses of correction were found in excellent con dition. There are a few cases , however , which deserve some criticism. The build ings are , as a rule , in very gooa repair. In some counties there is a disposition on the part of the county commissioners tu delay needed repairs on tbo score of ex pense , This is not true economy ; it is absolute waste , not to say crimiuality.for the responsible oflicors not to provide the moans for necessary repairs and the improvements which common decency requires. There is a too common senti ment among county ollicials to pose as watch dogs of the troasury.and they thus oppose measures manifestly in the inter est of economy. An illustration can bo scon in tbo case of Essex county , when the county com missioners opposed an appropriation for the purpose of rebuilding the house of correction at Ipswich. This building is tilled with Tilth and dirt to such a degree tnat it is impossible to cloansoit ; ventila tion is very poor. Kssex county in the near future will cither have to construct an entirely new house of correction or remodel - model that at Idswich. The loss expen sive plan will bo to rebuild at Ipswich. CONTRACT CONVICT I.AllOIt. The committee have personally exam- mined the several systems of prison labor as practiced in other states. They are unanimous that the contract system in wrong ; that it is a violation of the rights of the manufacturer and the workingmen - ingmon ; that it is unwise in principle and unsound in practico. Wo have , therefore , reported a bill abolishing the contract system , and providing that the convicts shall bo employed in manufac turing such articles as can bo used in the different state institutions , those goods to be made by hand labor. It establishes the ollice of general superintendent , whoso duties are to supervise the labor of the convicts in tint state and county prisonsIn most coun ties there appeared a great lack of abil ity on the part of the county commis sioner in managing the labor of the con victs. They show manifest incompetcnoy in this respect. This glarmgl shows itself when in some of our houses of correction the labor of the prison ers is lot for from 8 to 15 cents per day. With this view it wai decided to bo for the best interests of the people that the power should be taken from the county commissioners , who had made it evident that they were incapable of properly conducting the labor of convicts. The committee 1 ? thoroughly in narnest In its belief that if properly administered , tin proposed bill will accomplish the long.lookcd-for result of relieving our worthy manufacturers and workingmcu from the harassing and ruinous compe tition which they have so long under gone by reason of the unjust competition with convict labor. But it must bo berne in mind that the system will be a failure unless the gen eral superintendent and ollinials subor dinate to him are in practical accord with the intent and purposes of the bill. Upon them will rest the responsibility , and to them must the people look now that it has become a law. Thn Corporation In I'olltlcs. Now York World : The Pacilio railway commission is getting some facts in lU investigations in the west which , explain and'justify the growing hostility of the people to great corposatior.s. ' . Air.'Thomas L. Kimball , the 'general traftto manngnr of the Union Pacific road , was brought to admit that ho had often undertaken to defeat "legislation hostile to the company , " and that ho had some * , ' times "mlluonced the nomination , olco- 1 tlon or defeat of candidates" In the Intel cst of the company. Ho denied any knowl edge of the use of the company's money , though he would not deny that money might have been used without his knowl edge. The fact that the undlputcd transcript from the company's books shows the dis bursement of OVIT $ ' . ' ,000,000 for which no explanation has boon given , and the further fact that Mr. lluntington admits the employment of professional lobbyists at Washington to "sco that the company received no harm , " Indicate very plainly that Mr. KlmbaU's efforts and those of other olllcors anil agents of the company were sustained by the power of money. It Is this invasion of the domain of pol- Itlcs and of government by the corpora tions that gives danger to their diniua- tion. When they interfere in the choice of the people's representatives , and se cure nu'ii who will serve them instead ol the public , elections become a farce and government Is perverted from its bnno- hcont purposes. The commission should put its probe deeper. The country would like to know more of the methods by which the Pacific railway companies have "protected their interests. " 'How the Jiaril Times David A. Wells , in Popular Science Monthly for July : Thu period of eco nomic disturbance which commenced in Io73 appears to have lirst manifested It self almost simultaneously in ( Jormany and the United States in the latter half of that year. In the former country the great and successful results of the war with Franco had stimulated every do- partmcnt of thought and action among its pcoplu into intense activity. The war indemnity , which had boon exacted of France , had boon used in part to pay off the debt obligations of the govern ment , and ready capital became BO abundant that banking institutions of note almost begged for the opportunity to place loans at rates as low us ono per cent , with manufacturers , for the pur pose of enlarging their establishments. As a legitimate result , the whole country projected and engaged in all manner of new industrial and financial undertak ings. In Prussia alone 087 new joint- stock companies wore founded during the year 1873 and the lirst six months of 1873 , with an aggregrto capital of $481,0 15,000. Such a stata ot things , as is now obvious , was most unnatural , and could not continue ; and the reaction and disaster came with great suddenness , as has been already stated , in the fall of 1873 , but without an ticipation on the part of the multitude. Great fortunes rapidly molted away , in dustry became paraly/od , and the wliolo of Germany passed once from a con dition of apparently great prosperity tea a great depth of financial , industrial.'and commercial depression that had never been equaled. In the United States the phenomena antecedent to the crisis wont enumerated at the time to bo , "a rise of prices , great prosperity , largo profits , high wages and strikes for higher ; largo importations , a railway mania , expanded credit , over trading , over-building , and high living. " The crisis began on tno 17th of Septem ber , 1873 , by the failure of a comparatively unimportant railway company the Now York nnd Oswego Midland. On the 18th , the banking house of Jay Cook & Co. failed. On the 10th , nineteen other bank ing houses failed. Then followed a suc cession of bankruptcies , until in four years the mercantile failures had aggregated - gated $775,805,000 ; and on January 1 , 1875 , the amount of American railway bonds in default amounted to $7811,81)7,055. ) Sport ns n Means nnd its an End. "The Physical Proportions of the Typl- calMan1)yD. A. Sargcdt , M. D. , In- Scribner's Magazine for July : At no time in the history of our country has more at tention bcon given to the subject of phy- , aical training than is given to it at the present day. Schools colleges , and Christaln associa tions , are building costly gymnasia , while athletic organizations , ball clubs , boat clubs , tennis clubs , etc. , are forming in many of our towns and cities. Fifteen thousand dollars is expended an * nually to bring the Yale and Harvard boat crews together at Now London , and it is estimated that f 50,000 docs not meet the yearly expanses of the athletic organ izations of these two universities. Add to this sum the cost of athletic sports to the smaller colleges and and city clubs , and the total would foot up in the mil lions. The object of this outlay is to van quish some rival club , to win n cham pionship , to beat the record , or to furnish recreation and amusement to those who are willing to pay for it. With the rep resentatives of our institutions of learn ing , and with a portion of the intelligent public the object of the encouragement given to athletics is to counteract the en ervating tendency of the times , and to improve the health , strength and vigor of our youth. This being the fact , the questions at on eo arise , now largo a proportion of young men in the land systematically practice athletics ? Probably Jess than ono per cout. How large a proportion of these who are members of athletic organization ! ! take an uctivo part in the sports fostered and patronized by their rcspeotive olubst Probably loss than 10 per cent. In the opinion of the writer the cause for so little active interest in athletics is an increasing tendency with us , as a people ple to purmio sport as an end in tuclf rattier than as u means to an end. In making excellence in the achieve ment the primary ohji'nt of athletic ex ercises , we rob them of half their value. Mo Wanted to Tell n Little Story. Detroit Free Press : "Boss , I'd like to tell you a little Mory , " said Abraham Scoot as Stobbins loft him on the mark. "Well , go ahead. " " 1 was bo'n In Alabama bcfo' do war , an * my grandfather was a " "Never mind your grandfather , pris oner. What were you doing last night ? " "Boss , cnn't I toll whar I was lo'nK" "No , sir. " "Can't I tell how do war sot me free ? " "No , Bir. " "Can't I toll how I got to Detroit from TnsoaloosaV" "No , bir. " "Doan1 yoH want to know how I growed up from a poo1 , no-account nig- gor to whur I ar' now ? " "No , sir. All I want to know is what excuse you have for getting drunk and raising a row last nlglHi" "Bos , rlo war sot mo free , un * I had the awfuljnst timi ) coming from Tusca - " "Thirty days , Abraham I" 'What turr' "For being drunk and disturbing the peace. Fall back. " "Boss , I left Tusoaloosa in do spring , an' it took me u hull - " "Kemovo the prisonorl" "Ytss. sab. Ho prisoner will dun remove - move hls.solf. lis am do wust co't I obor had a lawsuit wld , an' I'll dun go offsrx' do blzness wid somebody clso ! " School Superintendent. Sheriff Coburn yesterday morning said that to accommodate * ho children now in town , and those who vrould como horn in time to attend the opening of the schools in Soptoiubor , at least forty now rooms vould be required. Ho thought the i\ow board would elect the superintendent. Ho did not know that Mr. James would bo reelected - elected ; bufthought ho would. The only candidate whoso name bo Jiad hoard mentioned was ( ho late prlucipal of th Fremont schools '