Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 6, 1885, Page 7

THE DAILY BEE- e e —ee e ————— TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1885, [ COUNCIL BLUFFS ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS, ~ THE NEW BOARD. Robert Kirkwood Elected Chairman and Col, Kealley Connty Attorney. The New Oounty Officers, Yesterday the new county board of superviaora met for the first time, The new board is not materially changed from the old one, the only member retiring being Mr. Underwood, who is succecded by Mr. Jones. The board proceeded to organize by the election of a chalrman, and Robert Kirkwood was unanimously chosen for that position. For county attorney Mr, William Mynater was succeeded by Col, Keatley, whom the board elected unanimously. The bonds of the new clerk of the courts, Mr. J. J. Shea, were approved and tho officlal stepped at once into his officlal duties, his deputy being his brother. The bonds of the new county recorder were also approved and he at once en- tered upon the actual duties of his office. The afternoon was spent in examining and approving the bonds of justices of peace, constables, etc., throughout the county, there belng a large number of om. Nothing will be done in regard to the streot matter until this afternoon or to- morrow. ——— THE CITY COUNCIL. Sericns Charges Made by the City Marshal Against the Police Uther Business Transacted, The city aldermen mst last evening first as a board of health and instructed the clty clerk to advertise bids for some physloian to take complete charge of small-pox patients. The complaint concerning the smell from Stewart's packing house, published in yesterday’s Bee, was reforred to the whole board and marshal for inveatiga- tlon. The aldermen then as council transact- ed a great deal of routine business. The city marshal complained that the chief of police had given instructions to his foree 0 bring prisoners first to-police head- quarters, search them there and retain their valuables, instead of having the prisoners searched at the jall the valua- bles placed in the safe there as provided by ordinance; also that policemen search- ed some prisoners on the streets before bringiog them in; also that the policemen had been golug to the jall and there kick- ing and abusing prisomers. The police committes was instructed to investigate the charges, The report of the public library was received and Rev. Father McMenomy, ‘W. R. Voughan and A. W. Street re- slected trustees. ————— As many of the members of the board of trade were Interested In the private meeting of business men at Masonic hall last evening, the annual meeting and electlon of officers was adjourned until this evening, Professor Starr, of Coe college, Cedar Raplde, gave a very interesting lecture last evening, at the Y. M. C. A, hall, on *‘Sunbeams,” The lecture was a scien- tifls one, divided into the four heads, atatistics, structure, eclipses, and spec- tra. He presented the subject In a very Interesting manner, and illustrated the same by uss of the stereopticon. This afterndon at 5 o’clock Prof, Starr, of Coe college, will talk to the school children on the revolutionary war and wlill illustrate the lecture)with stereopti- can views, The lecture will be at the Y. M. C. A, rooms. Admission 10 cents, e Iical Estate Transters, The' following is a list of real estate trandfers filed yesterday in the recorder’s office of Pottawattomle county, Iowa, as furnished by A. J. Stephenson, abatrac- tor, roal estate and loan agent, Council Bluffs, Yowa, January b, 1885: Lawrence Newman to John McGulre; s2ne} 97441, $1,600. R. N, Mer- riam to E, S, Woodbury; part of lots 9 and 10, block 7, Bayliss first addition, $2.500. Total sales §4,100. IOWA ITE mS, Tho Atlantic packlng house is plokling 250 hogs a day. The Holly waterworks at Sioux City will be tested this week, The postoffice officials of Sioux City moved into new quarters yesterday. The LeMars postoftice sold over 20,000 postage stamps during the month of De- cember. MRLowa increased her production of canned es from 47,922 cases in 1883 to in 1884, A dis similar to cerebro spinal meningitis has broken out among the horaes at Ottbmwa, Throe creamerlos in Madison county Py to the farmers frem §125,000 to $150,000 annually, Ano'her accidental discharge of a gun killed & young man named Grubb, at Nevada, last Friday. The officers of the railroads centering in Keokuk have decided to erect a union depot at that place, A1 Audubon county man has just be- come a father for the seventeenth time. He ought to be chained. canning fastory in that eity, An Indianola merchant was recently fined $10 and ocsts, for keeping his store open and selling goods on Sunday. Thirty Towa was atate, mitted into To-day she is one of the best the Union, The name of 8, M. Olark, of the Keo kuk Gate City, is the latest addition to the list of gubernatoiial possibilities in the next Towa election, _ There are 500 men out of em in Burlington. Most ¢ of them are skilled enport is getting up a stock com- pany for the purpose of establishing a ht years ago, Deceber 31st, the Union asa in p!n(monl mechanics, and yet they would be willing to do almost any kind of work. The teenth annual meeting of the Towa State Horticulture society will be held at Atlantic, commencing on Tuesday January 20, 1885 and tinuing four days. An Atlantic pauper who has been liv ing off the county for years, recently re- fased to work for falr wages, because it would lower him in the estimation of his professional neighbors, Pes Moines has reduced the her policemen to €60 per month, firemen to €60 per month. , The of the mayor and each alderman at $1200 and $450 per year respectively. Des Moines pork packers are only pay ing their laborers 90 cents a day, and men outting ice there work for 10 cents an hour. Even these prices there are hundreds of icants, The auditor of Dubuque county reports the total value of Dubuque county as $10- 449,086, on which the county tax to be collected is $264,174 The valuation included lands, lots, persc pro- perty. Dr. R. Y. Watson, from Milford, Del., is in Sloux City purchasing live praitlo chickens for propogation in the tidevater marshes of that state, The The transplanted chicks will be protected by law from sportsmen for five years. The artesian well on J. V. Farwell’s farm, near Montezuma, has reached a depth of 2,600 feet, and work has been diseontinued. Water comes to within twenty-five feet of the surface, The ex- pense of the experiment cost Mr. Farwell over $10,000. An insane man named Carver got away from his folks in Indiana and started for Wayne, Nebrasks, where he claims he has a sister. He brought up at Logan the other day, and belng in a bad condi- tlon he was arrested, put in jail and his friends in the east notified of his wherea- bouta. About 4 o'clos aries of and her d Wednesday morning there ¢ explosion in the round house Creston, caused by the gas generated from the forges becoming ig nited. Considerable damage was done to the building and machinery, but fortu- nately no one was hurt. Statistics show Towa is the ba butte ate in the west. There are creame in Towa, 470 in Hlinois, 430 in Wisconsin and 139 in- Minnesota. Here isa total of 1,680 cream s in four northwestern states, and Towa has more than one third of them. Take duct of the same number of! creameri the other states named and it will not ex- ceed the quantity of the Towa creameries. A bon ton attorney named Jones, of Cherokee, it is reported, went to Illinois last week to get married, and the sheriff’ levied upon his books and other effects to secure the clothier who had made his wedding outfit. Everybody in the town that would trust him is victimized, and the attorney, geiting wind of the proceed- ings being commenced against him, hias conc'uded not to return, but will take his fair young bride to a more congenial cl mate, where he will not be harrassed by hard-hearted creditors. John Glenn under indictment for the fraudulent representation of the condition of the Bloomfield bank, which suspended February, 1877, was arrested in Kansas City, Mo., and brought to Bloomfield by Sheriff Gay, of Appanoose county. Glenn left soon after the suspension of the bank, going to Kansas, where he has been re- peatedly arrested by Iowa officials, but each time being released on a writ of habeas corpus. He gave bonds for his appearance at the February term of the district court and returned to Kansas, « Jacob Werb, a Taylor township, Du- buque county farmer and his_neighbor, Mr. Anderson, quarreled on Tuesday on the farm of the latter. Mrs. Anderson appearing during the controversy. to help her husband out. The parties became so enraged that they rushed from each other, armed themselves with clubs arid returned to contest the argument with those weap- ons. Werb sparred with Mrs. Anderson for a time, and finally got in a blow with his club on the head, which settled the fight, and as the case may prove to be, settled Mrs. Anderson, as the result of her injuries may be fatal. A pamphlet, just issued from the Iowa department of public instruction, for the educational department of the New Or- leans exposition, contains a dotted coun- ty map of Iowa, each dot representing a “gohoolhouse on the hilltop,” and every schoolhouse being represented by a dot. 1t is needless to say that there Is no room on the map to show anything bat school- houses. In this pamphlet the school population of the state is put down at 321,222, and the enrollment in the public schools at 469,537, There are 1,170 dis- trict townships,. 8,234 sub.districts and 3,205 independent districts. The New Year's address of the board of trade of Des Moines contai ing assertions : ‘T tion during the past few y s remarka- ble as the following figures demonstrate; in 1850 the town contained 502 inhabi tants: in 1860, 11870, 12 i 1880, 22,696 laiin a popi- latien of upwards of 40,000, Des Moines is the largest city in the state, by many thousands, and we doubt not the next fed- eral cencus will show the population to be Des Momes is_becoming more and more the center of Towa li yet we must be active, doing all we can to adyance the best interests of the city i order to retain our pre-eminence amc the cities of Towa.” ——— SELF-HELPING GIRLS, Two of the Sex Who are Ea Independent Living, Detroit Free Press. ‘Whtle the restriction to which women are subjected I the choice of occupation is gradually belng removed, the sex has yet to encounter many obstacles in the pursult of a livelihood. There are many cases in which women strike out courage- ously and score a success by their own industrial efforts, One of thess in point is that of two bright and attractive young ladies yet barely ont of thelr teens, who have opened an office in the Seitz build- log and have for two months been suc— y blished as type-writing copylste, A Free Prees roporter dis- sovered their location Saturday and called for imformation. The office isa ocozy little room, partitioned off from a window. It is comfortably furnished with the simple articles neceasary for the prosecution of thelr carpet, the neat arrangement of the furn- iture and the flower-pots on the window- B indisposed toward speak! ome. solves more than anybody else. ‘Yes, sir,” tion opened, |50 much on hand now that we expect to | our services Then our friends speak for larger office and lighted by only one business. A tasty sill would have told the sex of the occu- ants, even had there been nobody at The young ladles were at first ocoyly unnecessari] ng tion u of what they thought concerned th'm,- ; id one, after the conver- it probably did require me coursge to embark in business for ourselves, but then there s not very much steady employment for type writors, and wo thought we could get more work, make money and be more in- dependent by opening an office.” “Did you have to wait long for busi. ness {" “1Oh, no, sir; we didn't have to walt at all, because one lawyer promised us enough nearly to keep us_going for a month, so we commenced business at once."” “What class of work do you have mostly 1’ “Lawyers' work mainly; copying legal papers and testimony. W ad one joh of testimony that kept us busy for a week. Then we have work from some of the churches—such as_copying their minutes, ete. Weo have letters to copy fot some insitrance companies, and we copy a good deal of work intended for the pr On that kind of work our copies are regarded the same as press proofs, and it saves trouble to the person ordering. Much of our work for the press is done in mani- fold, and we can take from four to six impressions,” ““Your work requires considerable skill, too, I should judge!” the reporter st onded the quires pr and common s is much more in it than mer the type-writer,” “And some of your customers have their own ideas about how work should be done?” “Indeed they do. Lawyers ate such a finicky lot, and we need to do everything just so.” “You have succceded tolerably well, too?" “Vory well. When we started we had Dbeen under some expense, and had only one machine for both. Now we have two and as much work as we can attend to.” “A great many lawyers have type writers in theie own offices,” she contin- ued, “but there are many who haven't business enough for that; and yet we get a good deal of work besides feom those who have them. For some large jobs, where directions were required, and the manuseript needed to be kept at home, we have moved the machine to the lawyer's oftice and done the work there, We have other, “‘it re- There y operating work until quite late to-night.” “How do you keep yourself in the line of trac ally by sending our profession- al cards whoever we think will need us when they have a chance.” “So you are well pleased with your venture?” eato of ono cont for each two ounces; that is, if the card Is of an embellished design. olry in an unreglstered letter not only runs the risk of losing his property but places needless temptation before persons who might not otherwise be tempted to commit a felony. it can be done, give the street and num ber as well as county and state, saves much time and is a sure preventive agalnst errors of delivery. better to spell the namo of the state in fall. being closed against inspection and is therefore subject to letter rates, masters have no right to pry open such a box and then nail it up agai they had the right to do #o, they have not the time. tle, a power of attorney, a promissory note, mortgage,a draft or check,cancelled checks, coupon ment, dispatch, a bank note, or any document with writing upon it, is subject to letter rates. J. H. MILLARD, CAPITAL™SURPLUS Omakia Safe Deposit UNITED STATES National Bank U. 8. DEPOSITORY, S. W. Cor. Farnam and 12th Sfs. Capital, - '$100,000.00 . W. HAMILTON, Pres't, M. T, BARLOW, Cashier DIRKCTORS: H. M. Catnwety, B, F. Swrn, C. W, Hamiuron, M. T. Bartow, 0. Witt HaMILION, Accounts sollclitod and kopt sut ject to sight check. Cortiflcatos of Doposit Issuod pay ablein 3 8 and I2months boaring Interest, or on demand without In tore & Advances mado to customer: approved securltl t market of Intores i The Intorests of Customers ar: c'osely guardod and overy faclilty compatible with principlos e sound banking frooly extended. Draw sightdrafts on England,ire Iand, Scotiand, and all parts of Xu ropeo. Rl RICHARDS & CLARKE, | Proprietors, W. A. CLARKE, Supeninand Any person who sends money or jew- Omaha Iron Works J. P, RATLWAY, YTH & 18TH STREETS Tnall your correspondence, whenever This 1t 1s much A box with Its lid nailed on 1s held as Post- Even if A tax bill, a receipt, an abstract of ti- an involce bill, a state- voucher, a telegraphle pensio Omaha National Bank, U. S. DEPOSITORY" jrapenn Bagas o Tia kate OMAHA SAVINGS BANK ! Cor. 13th and Douglas Sts. Capital Stock, - £150,00¢ Liability of Stockholders, 800,00¢ Fite Per ContInerest Pai on Dot LOANS MADE ON REAL ESTA1R MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS Steam Engines, Boile WATER WHEELS. ROLLER MILLS, Mill. and Grain Elevator Machinerv MILL FURNISHINGS Ox ALL KINDS, INCLUDING THE Oelebrated Anchor Brand Dufour Boltin)g Cloth STEAM PUMPS STEAM WATER AND GAS PIP BRASS GOODS AND PIPE FITTINGS ARCHITECTURAL AND RIDG WNMIWALLAQE, Proeident. Caehlor $500,000. OfMoerm o Directors JAMES E. BOYD Pro m L. M. BENN] Prosident Managing Director .Cashier THOS. L. KINDALL MAX MEXER L. STONE. . A. PAXTON,. JOHN E. WILBUR, CHAS. F. MANDERSON, J. W. GANNETT, HENRY PUNDT. VAaULTS. Fire and Burglar Proof Safes, For ront at from § 10 860 per annum CMISSES A & i MoVANN, Fashionalble DRESS MAKING FARNAM STREET, Opposite Boyd's Opera House. United States Depository Fies National Bank ~—0F OMAHA— Oor. 18th and Farnam 8ts It’s nice, pleasant sagreeable about it. ell, too, that we think “Very well indeed. work, with noth: We've done so we'll stick to it.” —— POSTAL POINTS. U. S, Mail. Books, vamplets, and music can be sent at third-class rates. Every counting-room should be sup- plied with soales for weighing letters. The postage on a pair of boots would be at the rate of one cent an ounce. No valuable package should ever be matled unless it is registered. Don’t for- got this. Tea, coffse, sugar, and kindred articles can be mailed at the rate of one cent an ounce. Clothing is classed as morchandise and can be mailed only at the rate of one cent an_ounce. Wedding cake can only be malled when vacked in a tin or wooden box, Con- fectioneries the same, A book presented for mailing with a NURSERY STOCK Vines, Shrubs and Plants, w own interest by calling at the of E. L. Emery, Finest | Millinety NEW SIORE! ‘made upl bo. The Oldest Banking Estabhshmen n Omaha, BUOOKSSORS TO KOUNTZE BROTHNRS. Organized in 1808, Organized as a National Bank in Those desiring Fruit or Omamental Trees, consult their real estate office 1306 Harney St., or 2200 Orders for spring planting must Fumam St be given soon. ALMA E.KEITH. NEW LINXE OAPITAL . : = » - . - $300,008 SURPLUS AND PROFITS - $150,00 OFMOERS DIRROTORS. Hyauan Kounrzx, Presidont. Jomn A. Cawiontow, Vios President. A ausrus Kountaw, 8d Vice Preeideny. A. J. Poreuarod, . H. Dav1, Osobis) W_H M3aquim, Assistant Oashlor, Traosacts genoral banking bustness, Issuos tim certifiostes bearing intoress. ~ Draws drafis on 8a Franclsoo and [riccipal cliies in the Unlied Siates Also London, Dublin, Edinburgh and he princips cltfes of the continent and Europe. COLLEOTIONS PROMPTLY MADE Bee Hive Photograph STUDIO, 218 North 16th Street. ODELL ROLLER MILL, “ITIR 9947709 TIIGO And Hst Goodsiu tho City, NEW GOODS A. KALIlSH.. Merchant Tailor 822 8. 10th street,{betwoen Farnam aud Harney' Low prices and good Goods a, . Aul clothes ot pfl;iond sEyio and on Smes motloo~ Calt g ‘convia Remember the place, 3228, 10th 8t We are prepared to furnish plans and estimates, and wiil ecntract for erection of Floaring Mills and Grain Elevators, or for changing Flouring Mills, from Stona to the Roller System. Ld S~ Especial attention given to furnishing Powder Plarts for any %n o e, and estimates made for some Gleneral machinery repairs attende romptly. Aadress RICHARD & CLARKE, On:aha,Neb P 2 letter attached to it would subject the entire package to letter rates. Never write an address on a_letter or any kind of a package Intended for mail- 1og in a ¢arless manner. Matter inclosed in & sealed envelcps, though the corners may be cut or the ends notched, is subject to letter rates. Liqulds, poisons, explosive and inflam- mable articles are not received for mail- ing, no matter how carefully wrapped. Chromoe, engravings, or lithographs belong the third class, and can be sent at the rate of two ounces for one cent. If you wanted to send a suit of clothes by mail which welghed six pounds you would have to make two packages of it. Send no cash money by mall. It is much safer and cheaper in the long run to buy a money order or postal note, Photographic and autographic albums are classed as merchandise, and postage is charged at the rate of one cent an ounce. Animals, reptiles, live or dead (not stuffed), Insects, except queen bees when safely secured, are excluded from the mails, An unclaimed postal card isnot re turned o the writer, even though his ad- dress is given upon it, bat is sent to the dead letter office. Letter heads, bill heads and envelopes, blank or printed, are charged as mer- chandise, and postage must be paid at the rate of cent an ounce. Farnam in Boyd’s opera house. orders at office or Saxe’s drug store, and Howard streets. and day. seases of women and children. Dr. Amelia Bumoughs 1617 Dodge St., - Omaha, Tas beer re- pharm (Lundburgh's Christmas ourds and other holiday ar- ticles, Remember thal DR. SWETNAM. aro napoctod betore Fetag dchvened rom the BEE HIVE PHOTO- Office 16th strest, first door north o | GRAPH STUDIO assuring every- body pertect satistaction. Leaye PHOTOGRAPER. EmCREAT=— SACRIFIGE 'SALE On account of mild weather we are_compelled, ‘for tho next thirty days,to sell Boots, Shoes and Rubbers FROM 15 to 25 PER CENT CHEAPER E7Calls answered promptly night |Then aoy other bouso In tho city, M HAND AND MACHINE SEWED. Manufactured for Fine Retall Trade, by the Residence No. 1612 Farnam 8t. Residence Telephone, 579, Office Telephone, 160. DR. DYSART, Office and residence, N. W. Cor. 12th =2 Speclal attentlon glven to the di- OFFIOE AND RESIDENCE TELEPHONE NO, 144, THE SWEDISH DRUG STORE, Cor. Fifteenth §¢, and Capitol ave , ened, fully supplied with Drugs and Care'ul aitention especially given to occriptions by au experienced Swodish Jfl. #4r A tull line of Stationery, Perfumes MRS, ERIC WRETLIND, A postal !:d 1s not mailable with any writing or printing on the address side, except the address, nor with anything pasted or pinned to the other side. When matl matter is once deposited in , | & postoffice or in a street letter box 1t is beyond the control of the purson putting it there and cannot be reclairhed. The dead.-letter office is a monument to the careleesness and stupldity of the Amerloan people. The average number of letters received there daily is about 15,000, Every business man should use return request envelopes in all his correspond- ence. If everybody uged them the dead letter office would soon wind up fts busi- ness. Postal cards are handled with as much care and promptness In the matter of dispatch and dellvery as though they were letters, even though ‘the matter thereon is printed, Third and fourth-class matter can be mailed tn the same package, provided it dees not exceed four pounds In weight, but It subjects the entire package to fourth.class rates, A newspaper is not forwarded in the mails unless postage is fully prepaid, so don't think you can beat Uncle Sam by attaching a one-cent stamp when two are needed. Don t forget that all parcels deposited for malling must be so wrapped that they can be examined without destroying the wrapper, otherwise letter rates of post- age are charged. There are thousands of little articles now sent by s which can be more safely, quickly and carefully carried by mail if registered. The fee is only 10 cents in addition to the postage, In making a present of a book it is per missible to wtite an inseription or dedica 1 the cover or one of the light leaves, but it must not contain anything that partakes of personal correspondence. Written vising cards are regarded as first-class matter and Jsubject to letter rates. 1f printed they can be sent at the RBOOKFORD BOOT & SHOE ROCKFORD, ILL: J, BRANDEIS, 514 M. 16th St. BATISFACTION GUARANTEED, MAX MEYER&BRO JEWELERS and SILVERSHITH Fine Diamonds, Rich Jewelry, French Clocks, Bronze Statuary, English Silver Plate,Antique Brass Ware, European Holiday Novelties. MAX MEYER & BRO. Leadiug Music Dealersinthe West cx-:r.fffi‘fi?{fifi"fifins Pianos and Organs! Lower Prices and Terms this Month th*ap g:;’lei'; i(;gs.red before, A visit to our warerooms H"“m"m Dr. CONNAUCHTON 403 BRADY 8T., DAVENPORT, IOWA, U. 8, A, Establiched 1878—Oatare, Deafuess, Lung and Nervous Discases Bpeedily and Perm: ar ed st Home., Write for **T'ux Mrp1oAL-DIssIONARY, (Oonsultation and Oorru[yon‘ancn Gratis, P. 0. Box 292, Telephone No. 26, HON. EDWARD RUSSELL, Postmaster, Dnverx)on says: *' Physiclan of tien Abllity and Marked Buccoss,” CONGRESSMAN k‘UYl 'HY, Davenport, writes: **An rionorable Man, Fine fuscess, Wonderful Oures."—Hours 8 to 6, ently Oured, Patients for tha People, out: omigriable g 2 Horton H‘-‘Pranm-l Palac af ‘Diiog in the Wori i330uri River Points. 24g0 83d MiDneapolis & “ALBERT LEA A Now and Direct olia and Bt Paui All Through Passenges Trains. Orange Blossom Flour WHOLESALE BY L. A STEWART & CO, 1013 Jones Btreet OMAHA N3 Bacuago oheoked through sod rates of {are o et Tow i GO patiiars that GUer lase advan: H .:!\;r" dotailed intarmation,get the Maps and Foid- CREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE a Otios, or address NewWoodwork! New Attachments Warranted 5 Years. SULD ON EASY PAYMENTS. 8. K LOVEJOY (111640 eob Cmaba, } AsK FoB ED Okoss. |