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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 17, 1899)
THE OMAITV T ) VILT BEE : rRIDAY. AlATUII 17 lilt FIELD ( It ELEURICIiY nr England Elfctnc Lin BenAisg Oai for ANOTHER RAID ON STEAM ROADS Qfllcienr ; of the Current In I'rtuenVnter I'lpeo < > < n rrninciit Olieintltiti of 7eleilMint.-k | In The Inroads ute , th * local rtteaott of rtewa 4i jnBfle by interartwa oieetrlc lines aad the st aj- growth of the inter It the owrtora and tniddlt wrntM have beii fr iti nUy in this column. The ] G of lift-H Interest to transportation at , it Joreahaflow * u&mlst&liiiblj a revolution la existing methods The marled Huce * of electric lines In meeting the watitfi of near-by communities is not likely to tie llmltud , atut present , to pas-1 i ncngor traffic. Manj iutcrurban lines arci 1 already handling freight traffic In a small way. In the New England nates , particu larly MassaohunottE , the electric line * are' seeking jclief from the restrictions Imposed 4 > r law , HO that thej maj carry goods. The growth i f the movement detailed toy th Boston Transcript at. follows "Evvryliodywho reads tht newspapers nowadays linows that electric operation of r.treet cars has votKed & great change in transportation methods HO tar as passengers tire concornud , and that a revolution in the methods of carrying freight and parcils IB being hinted ut on all eldcs Unless one has tal.en the trouble to look Into the matter carefully , however , he would probably ibcl rurprlu'd to find to what au extent tht rr- Istlng und projected street rallwnvs In this Mate are scrambling to secure the right toi earn everything from small parcelfc to thC heaviest freight over streets and hlghwnjR. and to vhat un extent this scramble has been increased within the last five jtart. "There are thirty street rullwoj matters before the prestnt legislature , and eleven ol them ure petitions for authority to carry merchandise or ft eight ; but this Und of petition bus mudt its appearance , generally Bpcaklng , within the last six sears In IS'fS ' there were five railways incorporated with out any common carrier privileges , one with express und parcel privileges unrestricted one with such privileges restricted to night hours between D p. m. and 4 a m. , while one mad , a NantucV.et company , hud its passenger powers extended to the carrying of freight and malls. In IBM one rallwaj was Incorporated with common carrier privi lege Joi goods merchandise and freight In 18U5 a compan > was incorporated to carrj goods and merchandise and one without anj common carrier privllegi In 18 ! > fi three were Incorporated without such privilege ; hvt to carry merchandise und malls , two were given mcrchandlEc and freight privileges In 18)7 ! ) t-n-o companies were Incorporated with out the common carrier clause ; two were empowered to carry buggaqe and small par cels : for one companj the bill was phrased to allowit to carrv "goods and merchan dise ; " whil * a HolyoUe companv was al lowed to carrj freight on certain streets , but only small parcels on others Lust year. HiiR , two companies were Incorporated with out the common carrier clause ; one -with Imggage. eipress and freight privileges practically equal to those of a steam rail road ; while five previously Incorporated companies were granted the right of earn ing baggage , malls or small parcels of mer chandise , TrnllHIn Sllilit. "A good example of demands tht are now being made for freight tnifflc on street railways lh afforded by the ruchburc case now penning In the Mate legislature. Two steam railroads now run through the sec tion covered by the Titchburg & Suburban Street railwaj and the Titchburg & Leom- inhter Struct rallwaj Neither of the steam roads run very near the big granite quar ries there , 'however ' und at u bearing rt- centlj before the committee on street rail ways n quarryman in business there salfl thut in u year fiO.fiOO tons of stone were taken out and that it cost 20 cents a ton merely to cart it to the railroads for ship ment. Now the street railways , with the quarrymcu and business men to back them ' want'to have the uuthoritj to carrj fieight. so that they muj take up tUe businee- of currying this granite from the quarries to the Ptnam railroad stations. The street railway already runs within u short distance of the quarrieh. so that enl } a short spur truck would be needed there , but oiaer spur trucl.r , with hheds and platforms , A would piobnbly be needed at the points where the rallwojs connect with the rail roads Incidentally , the railways want au thority to build spur tracks to tlie yards of the factories or other business ettat > - llbhrnenth along their lines and their re quest has been supported by the local boards of trade. In fact , it was stated that the business men of the district representea by Ix-omlnster , North Ueominster and ntchburg wanted freight privileges on the street railways for tUe lust throe jenrs or more , largely for the sake of getting their goods to the lines of the steam roads with out teaming A large pupei company is said to l e ready to provide five cars of freight a day If the privileges me granted "A somew-hut radical change to Uie run ning of regular railroad freight cars on the street milway Is oc of ! lie plans of the ritchbuig enthusiuhUs and 'Uipii ' scheme , If followed out gentrullj , would u-voluvionlre th whole i-jBtem of itransportatloE by rail. The promoters of ntchburg Subuiban bill told the. committee tlmt a good deal of the granite to be used on tlie big metropoli tan water works dam at Clinton would prob ably be taken from the ntcnburg quarries TMs would mean a number of tons of granite a day for three jeais and if the railwa } company can got freight privileges buch at. It debit's It "will put on an electric locomo tive , sothe promoters told the committee , und will druw railroad fliitcarn directly from the Btcum railroads Into ihe quarries , where they can br loaded and druwn buck to the trucks of tlie steam roiult. for the haul to Clinton The quurrynwm Ftuted that wme eutJh scheme was verj desirable. Blnte u suffi cient numUir of vagons could not lie driven into the quarrlet. to handle the amount of granite required at Clinton Then ngaiu , on cans , blocks of granite ttiat were too large to I't ' loaded bet worn the wheels of u wagoner or flruy could oasilj be taken can of Also the udoptloci of ihe strew car pluti lor oarrj - ing prauite would save Uie lonEtaiit grand- CLAUSOK" A Fell Dcti Fivontt ; PEABODY&CO " " I MAKERS of T hbbrc t > - - ty Lbt hetn 1 * ; the itM fortnight to the ptan tor a forty-mile utrwt nUlw y htnn WtltfeMB mimher of villwcf * in tbe Cwwfl aafl Actcci fllctrict , tt > pppHjrsll Th di- triot it not covered by nr exlMJng mil line * and one of tb * r BM > m given for grant- Isg a timrter 10 the MteA railway men is that tht railway , -with freight-carrrlm ; prlvilcgf * would in time noire the problem ot retting ftwh farm products into Bbfiton trtery morning in time for the early IBM- ketttiS without tbf tedious trip eve' the roafl "market WUCOIM. The ue * ro d t produce could not be brought into Boston under coidltlon ! bteauoe the Boston el- vatefl railway , which control * tbt losatlonc botweeo tVahlitm and iWwtoa. is not a Jrelplit-wirrj-laB roafl. but the projectors of the new line My that even * t present their Un * rould do a goofl bustnerfr and 11 s long- frtt want in tal.ing produce from the tkrm along Its propowd rout * tnfl Carrying It to a jtotoiit v here the Rt m railroad alght bring It l to tlie crty Tarmcrs living alone the route bad : up the railway men In this state ment " Tlinvlim I'roreiiVntet l'liet > . No recent development of electricity has awtliened such widespread interest a tbe ' demonstration that the current will thaw out frozen water pipes. The discovery and demonstration were made bv Trot H W 1 Wood , instructor of physics at the Vulver- I Kltj of Wisconsin. It Is a boon to bouse- | holders in northern cllmre. nnd elves promise of affording prompt relief from the aggra vating discomfort * of the old method of digging up nnd thawing out lroen plpcE i Prof Wood gives the following account of his ex-porlments ! "In view of the extent of the water famine , due to frozen pipes and the number | of communications that v.c hnxe received | I for more explicit information about the 1 eleurlcal method we have for leaiovlng the i Ice from the pipes , the follow lug details are of Interest | I "The second house to which the process wns applied wns that of Senator W r. Vilns , where there wns a stretch of IDO ! feet of solidly frozen pipe between the house nnd tbe main. One of the wires was con nected to the pipe where It enters the el- lar and the other curried to a faucet on the outside of u neighboring house BCIOSB the street Prom this faucet the current traversed tbe service pipe to tbe street along the main nnfl through tbe BOO feet of fro7 n pipe to the cellar connection In wenty minutes from the time of turning on the current there WUB n full head n" water flowing from tbe faucet in the cel'-ar Tbe street main was not frozen. In this case , of course The frozen pipe wns only heated o about CO degrees Fahrenheit , but this -nns quite sufficient to rapidly clear out the Ice The apparatus used must lie carefully adapted to tbe work required of it and must ie Tircperlj operated , but the process is lerfectlj slrnplt and may be carried on bj nny intelligent workman after he has been properly instructed " 1ele ] > lioiiei > . Alirond. The English government has decided to go Into the telephone ( business and hns asked the House of Commons for $10,000,000 a starter to enable tbe p .tofflce depart ment to develop the telephone communica tion of London This is of more or less mpcrtnme to this countrj Alreadv , it ap pears , the British government has acquired control cf all the. telephone trunk lines , which It now owns and leases to the com pany at n rental It has nothing to do with the distributing lines which are rua bv the company. The latter has a conces- .lon which expires in ifldfi It pavs 10 per cent of Its gro s receipts to the government , urnishes instruments and service free to all the government 'bureaus , glvefc unlimited sfcrvlce In thp metropolitan district of 750 square miles for JS5 n yeur to subscribers and charges onl.v G cents a message at pay Ktatlonfc The fact thnt all thcie conditions and chenp rutt * . which would be considered so fnvorable to the public in this , country , still fall to give satisfaction in Ixindon , perhaps as much against govern mental ownership ue for It , but tbe purpose of the government now it seems IB to com pete with the private companies , permitting Lhe latter to continue in 'bublness ' if they can Kruno m ? Ill Kleetrif I/ltrlit Inir. Ways of economizing in the use of electric lamps is the pubject of a paper by Alton D Adams in tbe Scientific American , in which he says The fact thut consumers put up with electric lamps that have burned bOD , 1000 and even 1.200 hours and loat fully half their candle-ipower shows that a 10-candlo-power lamp is not required in many places nnd this Is confirmed b > the manv gnB Jets which , through poor gas or dirt ? pipes , give but 10 or 12 candles It can also be shown that the great advantage' of the electric light IB In its qualit.v rather than Its volume , which , together with above facts , leads to the conclusion that a smaller lamp snj of 10 cande- ! < power , could well be used instead of tbe IC-canclle incandescent lamp , in ninny places ut n large saving in coat of operation Tbe above opinion Js strengthened bj the verj general use of tbe 10-candle incandescent lamp In England and tbe continent of Europe , for place * where the IC-candle lamp would 'be ' used bv us Ten-candle-power lamps can readily be bad that require tout thirty-five watts , costing , nt 1& cents per 1,000watts per hour , but ! > % mills per lamp hour , or nliout thnt of gns These 10-caudle lamj * . If burned only 200 or 300 hours each , give about tbe same aver age light as the IC-caudlc lamp burned SOO hours nnd at about two-thirds the cost 1 eleitliiiiiet. In the Countr. ' . Neighborhood telephones in farming dis tricts are in-coming more and raore common An Illinois ecriespondent of tbe Homestead thus desi-rllies tbe woi kings of one in Mason countj In thnt state. Our telephone service was inaugurated March. 'P7 , by Halpb Bow ser , u ? ouug man "but " 20 3 ears old , an en thusiast in electrical work , who connected bis father' * * house nnd nearest postoluce by a Hue n mile and a quarter In length. The upper win cf a barbed wire fence was used nt firm und worked so well that J remember btntlng distinctly a vatch tick over this line rnm this small beginning lias grcwn a sjFtom of seven separate lines twentj-one miles lu length , using thirty-eight tele phones and mote aic wanted Our tele phones rtifct tt > each , wire B cunts per pound , or f4.f > 0 pur mile. The batter } with each telephone is eflwtive six mouths without at tention. The use of our telephones IB free to all. Tbe practical utilltj is evident , but tbe use UF u means of social entertain ment is not so well understood or appre ciated UB it deserves "We frequently listen to piano solos nnd songs , also Bouca's lout marches plnjed lo a graphopbone before a telephone three mile * awnj and b > simply turning b switch two lines are mitloij and the graphophout' can be hcuicl at twenty' four telephones Lir Hull s Cough Syrup , regularlj lul.cn , wards off attacks of asthma 25 cents \lcer I.okt-k uii i : < ju)1 ) ; Suit. CHATTANOOGA Tenn. , March 1C Judge : Clark in tbe Vnltod Stains circuit court bac i tiled u dextlttlon disuiiealug u bi.'I ' of Sticre- I tarv ofVur H A Alger against tbe heirt of John r Audem > n Genwal Alger siinfl | r I for the mi urn of fl&MHiU which ht had paid tbe Anderson heirs for a tract of limd | . lu Friinkliii county , Tenn. He claimed that fbe f- had bt < n imposed < m bj faUf rofire- mutations At u previous trial G n ral Alpor was givau judgment for tb * aaunwi 1 asked J. Biwur Sudalia , Mb . oouiJtHUftr no ulw- tric etrettf ear Une , vvrltu * that bit UtUc duuehtor was vwj low with croup , uml bin ' lift BuvmJ utisr uli pbycicians had fatltid , only by UBlng One Minute Couch Cure ONE AlUBlTEfT OR MORE' { Qacctira AciVftVing Miais of M fflb a ef [ Board of Edaottioa. | I ! DIVISION OF SENTIMENT ON PROPOSITION ' I A re n nit * tit A lt ntieetl tlinl One Mnn Mn.ultl IJrittt I'lntifc for All Ilulld * , Ii n . AVIillcOtlier * Are lor I'tikhliiK Aorl Around. I I 1 ! , i Before tbc Board of Qductitlon decidec ' who tihkll flrtw the plane for the proposed High Beiool atifl the three praiamtr school building thmt arc to be erected tht * > ew. i it Dnfls that It mutt determine another queetton whether ou architect shall t * j ftelected to flrnw the plane of all tit build- | i lug * , or v , bother one architect shall be given the- High school and another the other three buildings , or whether & separate architect shall .be chosen to draw the plans of cabh "building " There Is s dlvcrelty of opinion on this matter Some of the members feel that j i one architect can flo better vvorl. than a ] i number , but tbp majority ecem to think the wort : rhoulfl tie divided Among the latter the sentiment seems to favor two rather than four arehtterus. however It IF pointed out that If such a division is made the two men chosen would tooth hnve good contracts 1 one for a flMooo building , and the othtr tor buildings to ct.st HOO eon If one architect enl > is selected the Held seems to lit wide open If the woil , IB di vided between two. however. Architect Mc Donald IP t > ald to have n shade the best of the running , us H Is reported that he has seven vote * that will b" cast in favor of Riving him the High school If he IE j-fveu this , these votes \illl be cant in favor of awarding the other buildings to Architect Latenser , BO it IB reported This proposition IE not t'ntlrel.v satisfactory to all the members - ' bers of the board , however , and changes may lie inude 1n the program Theie appears to be but one price fixed foi the drawing of the plans At the conference last Monday "between " the architects and the members of the board all the former wercj asked -was * what the > would charge , and the answer wns practicalv ! the same f > per cent of the COM of the building If thej will be asKed to superintend the construction and 3 pur cent without this superintendence This figure , however mav also lie changed before the board decides tht matter at its regular meeting next Moudu > night WALLENZ HELD TO ANSWER Acruil < if Si'Iline Li < inor VVIlliout a Licence and I'luofil t iirter l' nd * . MittmelVallenz , 1314 Leaven worth street , was bound over to tie district court by Judce Got don for selling liquor without a license. His bond was placed at SiiOO Wallenz was charged in the information with having sold beer to AV. R. Feuwick on Felyruury i'7. Wnllenz runs a lodging house and It was there that tlie liquor is alleged to have been sold. Fenwick testi fied that he bought some beer on the date mentioned without any questlone being asked him concerning the use to which he desired to put It Officer Urban detailed w he had witnessed the sale , having watched Fenwick enter the place ana emerge later with a bucket of beer. Other persons bought whisk ) and this was used as evidence against the defendant Clerk Davis of the Board of Fire and Police com missioners testified that the letords con tained no trace of n license having been issued to Wallenz Judge Gordon thought the evidence convincing nnd ordered \Vul- lenz held for trial in the higher court. UOItUOX I'-I'ND' ' . JOMK ALLE'X Gl ILTV. Cool * Mrlk * * 'I error lo Infinite * ni DooU-j Ilolirtllz-.K HOUMC. Josie Allen was hned I1T > and costs by Judge Gordon Thursdav afternoon because she assaulted Mrs C M Dooley , IRU'l Farnam htreet , with a knife and a menacing threat. She was left in the court room to pay her Hue and deliberately walked down the stairs and escaped Mrs Doolej said that she went to the kitchen to make Home suggestion to the de fendant , who was her cook The latter took offense at the suggestion and proceeded to vent her spleen invery positive language She accompanied her remaiks bj flourish- ins u butcher knife and threatening to kill Mrs. Dooley. who fled from the room with the woman after her All the boarders took refuge on the second floor except one who went down and persuaded the woman to behave herself j ' The defendant insisted that she could not get along with her mistress and quit She said they had trouble because Mrs. Dooley told her to fill the dishes so the boarders would have moie to eat When Bhe wanted to auit she said her mistress told her she would 'have to wait until Mr Dooley came home for her paj' 4n Ohio Haul. Suvi. llnC'lti. . Suit has been brought toy the First Na tional bank of Barnesville , O. , against the city to recover J IDS 42 on warrants issued j In lbP4 for street and sidewalk improve ments The burden of the complaint is that the city has made no levies to paj the war rants , issued to the following parties Fan nie L. Grlfllth , for opening Hickory street from Thlrtv-second to Thirtv-slxth. damages Jl.Sf'd Marietta Hughes , same improvement JS.'O John Klockner , for widening Ohio street from Sherman avenue to Eighteenth stitet , damages f 1,1131 ; William Preston , foi opening Woolworth avenue from Thlrt.v-st4 - end to Th.irty-hlji.th streets , damages , $3,100 , W E Clark , Ewlng Brown. Francis Smnh and G W Smith , same improvement , J1.700 J E Knovvlcfc. wooden sidewalks contract , $340 , and A D Slater , stone sidewalks con tract $78" 42 All the transactions in con nection with the issuance of the Tan-ants i , their presentation for payment and the citj's refusal to cash them are set forth in the petition The bank came into possession as the result of several assignments ol the paper IVorklnu on IlirVlilt Cat-c. Count ) Attorne ) Shields lias been utwoil. . ever slues the Sudiborougb trial W.UE finished J upon hU Information in the quo warrnnto proceedings against Chief of Police Martin J White to carrj out the older of Judge Scott Shields does not seem to be very 1 | confident of the outcome and 1s careful as I to everj detail of the instrument so that be may not run up against u tHiccensful mo tion to quash before the case can be beard upon its murltE He msj file the pajicr at any time pow. As White is out of the city and will be absent for about a month , the matter may not reach a hearing at nil during the present term Taking the course of all criminal proceedings , quo warranio being quasi-criminal , the case under the j rules -will be assigned to Judge Baker E floel.et. I l.m -fc from Die Courl Ddc-cket. 1 Judge Few celt has opnfirmtid the Bale of j the personal mets of the German Savings i bank ; Thr upptml nf John R Porsell agalnrt Swan G Johunon. involving a tmall * um , IE un trial before Judge Sufltt. The suit pf C H Mullio t Co against the I Omaha Milling Oumiumj growing out nf the . replevin of w > me Hour is on trial before I Ju4gt SlKbaugh ' Twuuce A IU1 } ' , MI tunjiloyc. hue bund Armour & Co lor } 16 , ( d&Bi& F tor in- juriiif uetidiit < 4 bj the falling uf tht "uut- ting floor tilPVwar" In the "hoc boufce" De Munbw U. UWi A P iUuo hut bttttc filttd It the uoucty court fur thr appointment of Albert F Gwm CE the bdsumtlrutor of tht c-etate ol iiU ' Mr > , wr had $ " < x lif * innumti m ! * $ > " 0ft worth of real wtrt * atfl I : OMi worth of pcrnonkl property. H rry Glover , t dimltiuuve nirro 18 he lm i : tried upon ft timd charge of burglary before Judec Baker M k Mid to b vt > J taken nbtiut ft worth of nonfltcrlpt otufl from ! A Mofikowltt .Utiwiry 81 * Owing to the f * t that Mrs Ynwr IIKI left , the city NIelKria * Tonw hit * file * notice M that he will ohtatn serrtw by publication in hi ] * dlwrrr n H nbe havtaf : beoomt a aoa- rrslflrnt ; Lymnn Page It said to Irnvr alwo ,1 left town Letie A Slmmeraan has obtained a 01- vi rce from Churl es R Simmcrin&n i-n the ground of cruelt ) Shr pete the custody of their l daughter , Ddlth Marie , and is ulltmcd Hf > jier month for two jeart for the support of i tht child and Hft per month alimony "Slof.pvSaitth was attqulttefl oa the charge i of dajllcbl entering und breaking and ' inrldentall ; ntmllng an overcoat The complaining ! witnnM admittea that there were about two doeen PWMHIB besides Smith In ( his store that dav though nut i > f them all , hr could recognise onh Suiitb Judge Scott came in Irom Sarpy county Thursday nnd began holding court It is understood that an effort will be made to havi the motion for B new trial in the Molse k Co mandamus rase argued this week , but no notice to this effect hue yut b jn civ en by Cltj Attorney Connell An answer has been filed on behalf of the cltj council in the mandamuE suit James A. Fitrputrick biought to compel It to tnhe Itn- mediBtt action on his claim for about $1.100 extras for the city Jail plumbing In the answer the provision of the cltv charter al lowing nnj officer or committee of thr cltj council thirtv days in which to report If wt up us a sufficient reason whv the mandamus suit should not have bren brought The Gunning company bus lost Its appeal In the $1 0tO ( suit against Shlvtrick & Co. in what has become known as the "tobacco sign" case Judge Slabaugh Instructed the jury to find for the defendant , thus afllrrn- ing the countj court's position that the plaintiff could not successfullj prosecute n damuge claim fcir trespass unless it could show that It was in actual possession of the party wall in question nt 1200 Douglus street at the time 'SUGAR TRADERS ON A TEAR ) I Illoekh of 1 lion"ml Muirch ( lintice Uniiil * . l-rciiuritfl ? > " l Price .luniii > from 14 to 17O. I NEW YORK Martb 1 ( ! The trading in the Sugar crowd eclipsed everything of the sensational order in the stock market of rei'ent jeurk. Thete was an immense crowd of surging brokers , who were clamoring for the block at anj price. Blocks of a,00 ! > shares changed hands frequently and the rapiditj of the rine can be Judged by the fact that while 348 was the ruling price ut midday 170 was the cuirent price half an hour later The shortf. w ere panic-stricken and fought for the block nt any price. Large amounts were unloaded at the high level and there- was a rapid desrent in the price to 151. with a recoverr to ItiR b'y 1 o clock Glucohc sugar : eflnery , which was mentioned us a factoi In ihe rumored deal wiih Sugar , Jumped l > points , but lest half of tht Im provement The general market , particu larly the railwaj-s was at a standstill while the 'bull sving In Sugar was on , tout subse- quentlv there vvae a levival of Inlerest in Manhattan Metropolitan and Third Avenue The former which was under a drive earlier , run up S points to 112" . , TO OPEN THE CREEK NATION Dciuirlnient \VnKliliiKtoii Dcclilck lo Permit MocUiuvn to drure Cr.ttr. FORT WORTH. Tex. , March 1C The de partment ut Washington has decided the Ciuck nation open for rtockmen to graze cattle. News received todny from the at torney general refuses to approve the lease contracts of parties not In possession until selections me recorded before the Duwes commission , but permits citizens In posses sion of approximate shares of land them selves and minor children to lease the same for cuttle grazing The attorney general thinks It safe to introduce cattle into the Cieek nation J. < H > OOKI Sailor * , from One ' ' 111 p. The V S Receiving Ship Vermont , now- over SO years old , has been tbe school house for over 1.000000 sailors in our navj The age and the accomplishments of the Ver mont ure much the same as Hosteller's Stomach Bitters , which bus lieen lief ore tbe public for lift ) years and has cured innum- e-able cases of malaria fever and ague , be sides tlysjieiitria , constipation. indigestiDn , blcofl disorders and kidney affections. Mn-nniiUcc-'fc Cnml nl Piitrcnut. MILWAUKEE is March 1C The di- lertors of the Milwaukee Carnival associa tion lodu ) t-'avc to i be Si Louis builders of floats a conlriei' foi $ K > 000 for the carnival pageant to be ttld ueie June 3D Through treacherj pf an ernjilove at Si Louis drawings of the firsi deriprs. already well under v.av , were sold to and printed bj o 1 local Goimnn paper Nofvithslunding the I de-lny to he caused b. > 1 rt paring new eie- Hicns tbe es ntractors bv voiking dor and night , will uclive-r the pn eam on time IIIOiilj ] { < - nutt > M lint HUM Hern Salil Vroil 11 it tli J Globe. i It has be-en demonstrated repeatedly in { i every state in the union and in man ) foreign - eign countries thut Chambei Iain's Cough Remedy is u certain preventive and cure lor croup It bus become the universal remedy for that disease M V Fisher of Libert ) , W Va , only repeats what has been said around the globe wben he writes " 1 have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in my tunrily for several ve-nrs und alwajs with perfect success We believe thut It Is not enl ) the best cough reined ) , but thnt it ifi n sure cure for croup It has saved the lives of our children a number of times " This lemed ) is for sale bj all drusgibtb Iluini. hmc ( nllforiiiu Crojit. . SAN FRANCISCO March 30 There is burdly a Beiction of California that bus not been visited b ) lain within the lust two daj-s and in most places it has been rain- Inp almost constant ! ) for fort-eight home This rainfall wtlll prove the savior of the state this year , nt , hud It not fallen at this niot > t opportune time this would have be-en the second dr ) season , but now the ueips are saved the rivers will furnish pletm of water for the miners and business geneially will be good IlllnoU Jlcfiinirnt Trnillnn Home. , NEWPORT NEWS Vu Mnrth 1C Tbe 1 Eirhih mine-is regiment left heie this after- i noon at 1 o'e-locli for Chicago Tbe tegi- me-nt is traveling in three trams mude up of tourist and Pullman cais Tbe men will re-ach Chicago earl ) Suturdu ) morning One Child Sllil'k Aiiotlier. DETROIT , Mich , March 1C George J. Mink aged ] 0. was stabbed under the left shoulder blade toda ) b ) Xnvier Glombin , a 12-ear-old boy , who it seems , started a quarrel with him The blade penetrated the lung , with probably fatal rcsulte. BOULEVARD IX THE BALANCE BoarSaf Equalisation Oimsiflering Pat * of PROPERTY OWNERS FIGHT THE TAX * > nne Porlj I'rolrH * Tllfd tli - I'roiMiM-il IMnn uf inM-a nnil Contliniitlodnj. . The Ute of tbe eouthwost boulevard 6caeme hangs in the balance Yesterday afternoon th city council. Bitting B a Board of Bqimlltstlon. oomaii'ticed the con- Blderation of the question whether or not to j adopt the plan of aBseBStncut proposes lor | the purpose of raising the * MOOD ) net-flufl to pay for the land that must l > c conflemnefl ' for the rand way. If thlE plan should bo ' adopted , tbe boulevard pchemc will pt > j i through unless the courts intervent , if It It not adopted , it is the general Impression that the scheme is killed , for tht present , at least For three days tbe Board of Equalisation i has been receiving protests against the proposed - ! | posed assessment. Yesterday afternoon | iome forty of these protests had been filed. I The hearing upon them was begun and was | continued for a couple of hours. The end of the matter was not reached , however , and therefore au adjournment wat taken to 10 o'clock this morning A majority of the protest * come from small property owners , who possess but one or a few lots that are located some dis tance from the proposed boulevard. Some of the protestants , however , have much heavier holdings Among the latter are John A. Crelghton , the Byron Reed company , which represents tht bigger part of Summit Hill addition. Harry I > Reefl , who repre sents Hazel Terrace addition , Charles W. Lyman. James G Mcgcath and the Omaha t Southwestern Railway company. A majority of these complaints charged that the proposed taxes were excessive , Il legal and unequal , nnd that tbe taxed prop erty is too fur away to be ( benefited , but a good many other reasons were given , among them the following "That the city does not need the boulevard any more than a wagon needs a llfth wheel , " that no benefit will be derived , that the tax should be as sessed against the whole city , "thut the cltj has already more park and boulevard laud that H can afford to improve and that the boulevard would be of no value until riiiO.OOO or 1200,000 is spent upon it " "that the southslders do not need nor want the boulevard , " "that the property to be as sessed is already taxed more than it can stand. " 'that it would give some taxed property owneis no pleasure because they have no carriages , " that the proposed tax would be equivalent to confiscation j Park Commissioner Cornish appeared in I [ ' support of the assessment and be plcudcS . ardently that It be adopted He declared j that the people who ure objecting to it and [ consequentj ! to the 'boulevard ' are in reality objecting to their best interests He asserted that within five 3ears after the boulevard It constructed the propertj assessed would be benefited many more times than the tux it must now bear In support of this , he as- j serted that since Hanscom imrk was cstnb- In 1874 the propertj about It has In creased cightj--rwo times in valuation , while the propertj in other parts of the city has increased in value but four und eight tenths 'times ' in the same length of time. The reve- j nut > coming from this Hanscom park prop- j erty has Increased twenty times more Jn , 'size ' ' than the revenue from the average cltv lot As n general rule , he maintained that in any city property located on parks and boulevards increases from 300 to 400 ) per cent in value over propertj in othei , parts of Ihe city Park Commissioner Cornish asserted that [ with the boulevard built all the territory between Hanscom park and Riverview park which is now worth comparativclj little us lesidence propertj. would be greatlj in . creased in value The boulevard will also connect two sections of the city but a mile and u half apart , between which people can not at present paas without covering five miles of ground He also pointed out that t the boulevard would give un opportunltj to Omahans to Ehow something to visitors and 3 be predicted , too , that it would result in a revival in the road horse market in this city Years ago , he asserted , Omaha ivas quite ( noted for its road horses , but It has lost thut prestige , Its people having lost inter est in road horses , because thej had no driveways Tinally tbe park commissioner insisted that tbe obje-tlon to the boulevard is modi i only by a small proportion of the property owners He said that the boulevard has been advocated by big meetings of taxpnjers in tbe First. Second nnd Seventh wards , who kne-w nt the time they would have to be aEHessed to pay its costs. As to the plan of assessment , he stated that it was the most equitable that could be emplojed It was ridiculous to assort that $50,000 bonds should be Issued to pay for tbe baulevatd liecuusc the north end of the cltj would never vole for them. John L Kennedy was the main spokesman of the protestants. He declared that mnny ( > f the statements made Oiy Mr. CoriilBh were without foundation For example , he In- B'fctud that the property on west Fnrnom Btttet has Increased in Tolnatlnn ns much , If not more than tbf propertj about Hunticom park and yet Is not located near a park his conclusion ( being that not a park , but beau tiful nouses nnd other improvements had the mret to do with in-reascfl valuations He asserted too that the reason the people of Omaha did nnt drive horses now is not that they have no roadways but 1ie = nus the people ure ec > uearlv taxed to death that the > cannot afford horses Mr Kennedy ulflo declared that Un cltj has lieen out- l > inl1 VouJlaicAtoiiYS Bought l > ml ( YoullavfAtoavE Bought Ha > E AIMF& BDUgh ! There Will Be Many- A pair ul our men's $ * l.riO hhoes on the ttteeth toda j for they are tlie beet t-hoes ever made or f-old nt the price No rubbers are jcqulred vvhen yon 1ia.vo these bhoeb on your few Hjey Jmvo heavy double t. > lef that Leap the fwrt drj Iteal Imi. calf uppers in oilbar tan or blacK C'alf or drill liued If yon want your bize and want a porlow Jit you'll have to come to Dj i It Siwie- jiiau's vheie thuie are more SH-fiO thfios ; than anywhere else in the \\xu-ld. Drexel Shoe Co. , bliue U1B FARNAJU STREET. 17--- , tU-J "Mary , how do you like the Ivory Soap ? " 41 Best we have ever had , ma'am. The starched clothes are whiter and the flannels are softer than when washed with common soaps. It saves my hands ; they used to be very sore after a wash. " "Well , MarI I am told that it saves the clothes , too , and you shall have only Ivory Soap after this. " Those who have tried both common soap and Ivorv Soap , say tlmt It taUet only two-thirds as much of the Ivory for a wash. . . COnrRIQHT IBM BY THt rtlDCTIK I. bAMM.t CO CINCINNATI rugeoufcly extravagant In investing monej in ? > urk and boulevard lands Refe-rlng to the assessment Mr Kennedy iubistpd thut It was verj unjust The prop erty he reprihenttid is locatwd more than half a mile off and fchould be n.sntM'd no more than other portions of the city One- half the fost of the boulevard bhould be as- t , ssed against immediate ! } adjoining prop erty , he insisted oiid the remainder should be paid by the city at large The board adjourned to 10 o thick this morning without listening to other com- pluintb OPPOSITION TO IMPERIALISM The < -trimp - Dot-trine t > f Libert ? and Umjiirc DlHf-iiNni-d 1' ' ? Cor- SOUTH OMAHA , Neb , March 14 To the Editor of The Bee Of all the pleas in favor of empire "building " to Jar advanced through the dally press that of ex-Judge Neville in The Bee of lust Friday is tbe lament , most { superficial und most un- American "Give us tht trade of tbe Philippine * ; " be says , ' and we will not trouble about their people" Now , the trade of n people whoM ! noclal and political status Is liable to contaminate us is , I think , neither de sirable nor likely to Hie very lucrative And In addition to this , when we reflect that the "open door" policy is virtually guaran teed to European countries in those islands. j thanks to Lord Bercsford and other Bi Itltn I cousins who have convinced us of the bene- jlfit ( " ) of such policy. It is a queBtlnn i w hether our percentage of the trade w ill Ratisfj imperialists here lit home 1 venture to assert there is very little similarity between tbe condition of the Filipinos of todBj and that of the slaves of antti ! > ellum dayn In the latter the canker 1 of slavery bad penetrated to the -very soul. until the poor unfortunate black man had good reason to doubt the verj existence of a Epark of Immortality within him , and cou- sequentlj his resistance to tjranny wns not very active. But with the Filipino it ifc different He has fought tbe Spanish In- vader from the very lirtt day he felt the 3' ' weight of his governing hand , be has sacrl- fared his life for his country's fieedom. and Judging from his present conduct. It is not a change of musters he det > lres , but tht 'God-Riven ' right of freedom. Hi has suf- fered from the same yoke that galled the Cuban to revolution , he has ottered his services with at least us good grace to our | Invading armj , and In all Justice and hu- munitj he i * entitled to tht same tompenna- tlon In tbe absence of an ofliciul census it is ImpD&slble to know accurately or even to approximate the population of tbe Philip pines , but the Judgment of experienced travelers and tuieful observers places the number of Inhabitants much closer to | 4,000000 than to 6,000,000 , so if it is quantity we ure after and not quality the eno'mou * volume of trade Judge Neville sees with his prophetic ej e bhrinke to one-half While J agree with the Judge that a powerful navy is verj desirable , t-nd 1 hope to see the United States superior to anj rid ing on old ocean ( forln the event of n family quarrel , which IP within tbf range of possi bilities , WP would nee-d a strong one ) I would respectfully remind htm thut with n modern'e navj we have managed to secure a guodlj portion of the world's trade , und bj pursuing a policj in the future similar to what we have in the past there is no gotC rtuson to doubt our ubllttj to expand com mercially. uud to do no Justlj and honor ably Opposition to holding the Philippine * roav be called lunacy nnd pluced in the name categorj of national dlsensee n * free coinage of silver , ( but it is more thau probuWe thnt the Judge will wake up some morning i tin near future and discover that there i method in the mudncbS of the afflicted M J G Protest of n Iteimlillenn. The letter following is from B icsiden1 of Hlver Sioux lu , 70 jrars of ngt , who snv B be has "voted for every republican candi date for president since the organization of the partj " Personalities are omitted To the Editor of The Bee In the Chirngo Inter Ocean of Feibruarj 2K Is this language "No one can reud the stor.v of the i iroes In the Phlllpplue'E without the conviction that hud It not been lor the Amerieuu < ov- perheads the Tagals would huve been the first to adopt the present course of the VlsBj-ans and the negrces It Is not put ting the case too stronglj to saj that the outbreaks in the island of Luzon have been incited by men lllte Hour , Halt and _ Car- negle " That's nice language coming from the mouthpiece of Charles T Yerkes Hoar , Hale and Carnegie are muni ) men who are not afraid to denounce wronp doing even In their own part ) . Thev u e not snivelling hypocrites who get together in a tort of mutuul admiration socictj und wine and dine and charge all their mls- deeds on an overruling Providence n theo logical puppet that con be made to dunce to any tune its priestly managers desire Fine words nnd smooth language want disguise the fact that we are piling up an enormous debt in doing Just wliut the Spaniards did to the Cubans We are murdering people who never did UB any harm und never gave their allegiance to us We call them rebels on the principle that 11 bud name will ' kill' a dog 1 love my part ) and mj countrv , und for that reason 1 denounce this bvpocri mul trampling on the golden rule ALEXANDER T CRANE Spectacles. that are BciectiBcailv nnd properly fitted are the ones that bring tbe must relief. A complete line of optical goods Free examinations. THE AlOE & REFOLD CO. , Lr ai r Scientific Ojitlrlnnt. 14OS rurnam. OMAHA. OPPOSITE PAXTON HOTEL The Twenty-Second IP unliivlunliitr liturclp for itf-elf it. time at Maullii-Tbe Twonty-pccond lu Omnba will litu pit-ut day for tlicu it If- that the fauioub rnvod-ovor aud l > t - lovcd "GodouhUy" will be here The J.IHIIO ho will uw. like all peed will come from Uot-pc-'f and rlu > of it will be Knabe We ure tlie Ointtlsa npeiitg of tlilfe fainotiK nihtruweut mill wt want jou 10 notice ihe tone uuder the touch of such 11 maMer A , HOSPE , We eelrbrute our -Sth l > n tne acnt- Trr arr Oct. 23rd , 1BHD. Music EDfl Art 1513 Douglas , The Coming of Easter IK hailed with delight by the lltnle and ! blp folUp-Nol at niij Eabter time hare 1 we shown a moie artistic or varied ah- j hortment of the KaMer confectionery ! novelties ihan we are ripht now HEPS i of all descriptions EKPS filled with ! lunbonf. funej U tie Easter bonbon lioxes IWids' iiesth Chk-Us and blrdi We ate the headquarteis foi Eamer nov elties. Oui luncheon Is jiiHivlnp more popular , ev er.v duj probably all because we leep : the service tip 10 t > ur usual hiph Htund- itrd and cut the price in half. BALDUFF'S , -Si > 0 U 1620 P rnarn St.