Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 24, 1888, Page 8

A\ NEW CONTRACT COMBINE, Most Recent Developmenta in the Oity Hall Muddle. CHRISTIAN AND LEAD DOLLARS. Phe Democrats Organizing—Condition of the Wasserman Family—Grad- ing and Other Public Im- provements—Labor.] We, Us & Co. Ever since the great brass-band meeting at the city hall, which was ostensibly called to fliscuss the employment of convict labor on public buildings, the actwity ° of the entire combine of Omaha paving, grading, street-sweeping and sewer con- tractors with the city hall muddle has been common town talk. Whether the bruss was paid for by Brennan or Hugh Murph) unknown and immaterial; perhaps. It known, however, that the great hu and. cry about Bill Stout and the convic labpr business was raised by Hugh Murphy first and kept up chiefly at his instance to cover his real design. "Hugh Murphy is not only interested as one of the suretics in the Regan-Brennan bond, but he has conceived a scheme for a mammoth city hall job in which he is to have the sugar plums. Murphy is seconded Vigorously by Jim Creighton, who has been in partnership with him in paving and other cnnmum at Omaha and Lincoln. When the “yl-m' meeting was held the other day at the chamber of commerc ighton was made chairman at the instance of Tom Bru- ner, who has also got some scheme on hand in ' which his interest leads him to make common cause with the contractors. ‘When Mr. Nattinger proposed W. A. L. Gibbon as chairman, Hugh Murphy loudly whispered across the hall to Tom Bruner *'That won't do; you must be quick.” Tom jumped up and proposed the Hon. Jim Creighton and, as no objection was made, the council gang scored a point. The next move of the contractors’ combine ‘was upon the commissioner: On both Saturday and yesterda when the commissioners were about to co sider the Yankton road proposition, the con- tractors with Jim Creighton at their head and Fanning & Slaven at their tail, were all accidently, as it were, on_ hand to object to the propositich and appeared very anxious to postpone the county election which was to have been held on the same day with the special city election for public improvement bonds. In this they were accommodated and scored a sccond point. In theinterim Murphy, Jim Creighton & Co., have mude themselves busy about re-locating the city hall and getting up their scheme for a mammoth city-building pie in which they expect to havea hand. A sub- scription paper has been gotten up and is now being circulated among proper- ty owners interested mear _ Jeffer- son square to raise with which paper promise théy will offe urchase the site of the city hall on upper farnam street. With that money, the pro- ceeds of £200,000, city hall bonds and an oc- commodating architect, it is expected that there will be meat enough to feed the hungry and clothe the naked. Among the initiated it is believed that there is a good deal of spite work mixed with this project so tar as Jim Creighton is con- cernad. Jim has no love for McShane or anybody by that name, and the Herald's vosition against re<location of the city hall and the council's course in connection there- with is believed to be in accord with the views and wishes of its proprietor, John A, McShane. So, Jim Creighton is trying to kill two birds atone throw. He'll help Hugh Murphy into a fat job and out of a bad scrape as Reagan's bondsman and he'll spite McShane as far as lies in his power. These cross-purposes are making the city hall contest more interesting than ever, ———— WHAT 18 HE? The Pal of Thicves and Counterfeiters or Merely a Wayward Boy. Edward Peterson, a watchman at the Union Pacific depot, is much perturbed about the fate of his seventeen-year-old son Christian, and the circumstances do tend to show that the son is in & fair way to stray from the path of rectitude and virtue. Mr. Peterson, to- gether with Daniel P. O’Connell, constable of the Second ward, were out yesterday in uest of official aid to help them in recalling the erring Christian. They first applied at the office of United States Marshal Bier- bower, and turning over to his'keeping a half dozen counterfeit silver dullnr:l, they teld tne following somewhat confu: story: The boy Christian, evidently of an adventurous superinduced, in all probability, by large doses of saffron- fl(,d literature, has for months been the boon companion of one Ed Johnston, who re- sided with his brother, Albart Johnston, & wood machinist, on_Sixteenth street, under the viaduct. ‘Chis Ed Johnston had no stated employment, yet always seemed to be well supplied with cash, which he spent lavishly and in consequence was a favorite in the gang with which he paced. By those who best knew him he was always regarded with sus- picion, yet nothing of a positively detrimental character had ever been t d up against him. This, however, did occur: On the cve- ning of the 4th of last month a certain society ave a ball at Metz' hall, and a partner of ohnston’s, one Jim Holmes by uname, . was one of the door keepers, an after the hop was over and the managers came to count the cash, quite a large number of bunglesome counterfeit silver dollars was found among it. Nobody could account for this singular circumstance, though all were mys- tified to know how the man in the box oftice could have allowed 80 many awkward coun- terfeits to be palmed off on him. He was called us‘]llml emphatically declared that he had not handled one of them, that they had been added to the cash, or exchanged for @)od dollars after the ofice had been closed. 'his thickened the plot most materially and none could advance the merest shadow of a theory in elucidation of the queet transac- tion. Constable O'Connell was present and took charge of the spurious silver, in- . tending at some future day to try ~ his hand at a little personal detoc- tive work. Well, nothing was developed unti last Monday night when this Ed Johnston and Christian Peterson boarded a west bound tram for San Diego, Cal. At least they had . r viously w}clnm\ud that point as their des- ination. he Peterson boy's father heard of his son's departure he was much ~‘worried, fearing that, considering the -ques- _ tionable character of his companion, it por- tended no good to him or anybody e He called in his friend Constable O'Connell and laid the case betore him. The two talked the ‘matter over, then went and hunted up Albert Johnston, and asked him whether he knew anything' about the boys, where they got enough money to warrant them taking such a long journey, what their intentions were and ‘where they were bound to. Albert said all he knew was that the gang, and_there were about seventecn of them, had drawn 81,000 in the last drawing of the Louisiana State lottery, and that every last one of them had jumped the city. This was all they could ascertain from this source and the interview terminated very unsatisfactorily. At this juncture it was that Constable O'Connell re- called an instance in his acquaintance with young Johnston, that he wondered had not occurred 1o him' before. He said that on the 17th-of November last young Johnston got full, and in & crowd he ‘declared he had a lettor, producing an_envelope at the time, that he could make $200 out of, and he in- ténded to do it. He then added, ‘‘this let- ter contains an offer to furnish me with so much counterfeit silver for so much mogey. But Idon't want to buy, and ead 1 am going to turn this letter over to the United States authorities and get the §200 reward the government offers for the arrest of just such ducks as these.”” This Johnston +did, but his plans failed to connect, and in. stead of receiving any reward whatever, he was held under suspicion himself. However, that was the last of the case, and O'Counell never thought :&vnhlnx more of it until the counterfeit epis at the Metz hall dauce, when he remembered that Jim Holmes, one of the door-keepers, was a bosom companion of Johnston, and roomed with him at his brother’s under the viaduct. All this infor- mation, in addition to being laid before the United States nnu'lhlll has been furnished to the chief of police, and both tam.(o- are in- dult'r.i:mly engaged in looking into the who is bent, R Beldenberg’s Figaro is the only long Havana filled 100 elpr for 5con sale ']_voqwhen. .BENCH AND BAR. l)lulrlcl Court. A HEAVY SENTRNC Frank Jones, better known as ‘Big Frank," was sentenced by Judge Groff to ten years at hard labor in the penitentiary yesterday In sentencing the prisoner Judge Groff re- viewed the man's career at some length. showed how Jones had been arrested several times for.various crimes and in each instance he had within twelve hours aftér his release committed some new crime, The robbery of which he is convicted was committed within ten nours after his release from jail, and his honor said that he could see no reason why Jones should not be put out of the way for a long time to come. The court then formally sentenced the prisoner. Jones betrayed not the slightest emotion and when in his cell at the jail an hour later w a happy frame of ‘mind. He said that his long sen. tence was mainly due to popular preju- dice brought about by newspaper attacks. EIGHT YEAIS FOR CRAWFORD, William Crawford, Big Frank's pal, and who assisted the latter in the robbery of which they were convieted was sentenced to eicht years at hard labor by Judge Groff. The court stated that there were no exten- uating circumstances in_Crawford's parti- cipation in the crime and that he was a dangerous man_to be allowed to live in any community. Crawford took his scntence h nd would see or speak to no one on- the subject, William oy 1 WILLARS Willard's sullenness was not diminished yesterday ‘notwithstanding the fact that Judze Groff gave him the light- est sentence possible—one year in the peni- tentinry, Ever since his e pe from the jail and recapture Willard has not spoken to anyone. Th I BRUNER PREE ' State vs. Peter Bruncr was' e yest . The pros- ceuting witness made such a failure_on_ the stand that it was evident that the defendant could not be convicted, The jury were in- structed to_acquit, which they did without leaving their scats. THKEE MURDER CASES. Three murder cases will come up before Judge Groff next_week. They arc that of the state against Hoymon Mittman, for the murder of Forcmuh Duarham at’ Millard; Peter Lutz for the killing of Peter Lynch on “Thirteenth strect, and William Ferguson for the shooting of Ole Oleson in the Fourtcenth street saloon last week. WAN T THEIR The police commissionc that it is about time for the city to pay them the salaries duc, and _accordingly cach and all of them have filed petitions with the dis- trict clerk. The claimants state that they were duly appointed May 7, 1887, and became qualified May 10. From that date until De- cember 81, 1887, they have faithfully per- formed the duties of their oft the §183.38, \vlmh th be due them. Tk Smith, Ch Hartman, Lewis M. nett and George I Gilb the petitions with the objective point. FOR IIER MUSRAND'S DEATIL, Honora Holland, ndministratrix of the es- of Henry Holland, has brought suit Paul, Minneapolis 9. Henry Holland ‘Wys' 1n the employ of the company and While beying instructions was run over and killed. December 12 'The plaitiff claims his death was caused by the dangerous condition of tracks. ARIES, have decided Ben- are attached to ity of Omaha® the A CASE OF NENT. Among the potitions filed yesterday was one from Matthew C. Wilbur praymng thathe bo awarded £1200 damages from Martin Cameron. The petitioner claims that he rented a barn from the defendant for a four year term aud placed one J. E. Blackwall in charge, That there was a conspiracy be- tween Blackwall and Cameron by which the former willfully neglected to pay the rent and failed to inform the plaintiff of the fact, thus allowmg the defendunt to regain pos: session of the barn and re-let it at anadvance of $40 per month. It is this 40 for the unex- pired term of the lease he wants and for which hie brings suit. A MISSING EEGISTERED LETTER. In the course of his daily rounds Letter Carrier C. H. King had a registered letter addressed to & guest of the St. Charles hotel and left it in the care of the hotel clerk, From that_time all trace of it was lost, and the person o whom it was addressed brought suit ngainist King and recovered $100 it was suid to contain. King to-day brought suit against G. A. Joslyn, the_clerk, for the same amount with costs, and Judge Hopewell, after hearing the evidence, took the casé under advisement. He will' render his de- cision this morning. SUIT FOR DAMAG William L. Sanders is a traveling salesman and formerly lived at Chicago. At that time the Omaha Carriage and Sleigh company se- cured his services by offering him $1,200 & year, paying the cost of removing his furni- ture’ from Chicago to Omaha, agreeing to find him a suitable houso in this city at the rice he was paying in Chicago, and promi ing to pay him a bonus equivalent to the divi- dend on_one_share of Their stock. This he claums they have not done, but instead dis- charged him hefore his year was up, and he accordingly brings suit for $1,000 damages. The case will come up iu the county court. THE TIZZARD DIVORCE. In the divorce case of Richard against Kate rd the court allowed $25 per month tem- porary alimony, and attorney’s fees of $100, the care of the chilarén being given to the father. County Court. Mrs. Rounds’ application for the appoint- ment of administratrix of the estate of her late husband, Sterling P. Rounds, will come up for hearing in the county court on Mon- day next, and Mr. Rothacker's petition will not receive attention until later. The appli- cation of Horace Rounds for a distribution of the estate was, yesterday withdrawn. SUITS BEGUN. Suits were entered by Hamilton Bros, fllfllml'- Brennan & Whalen for a balance of flsan lue on a honse building contract; by the peuter Paper company against Adams & th o company for §202.83 on & promissory note, and Laubdck Bros. ugainst A. A. Bru- backer. M. F. MARTIN SUED, Egbert & Mayo, contractors, wish to col- lect a 8100 balance from M. F. Martin, on two frame houses built by them for him, and have e ly filed a petition yesterday to fore- a close a mechanic’s lien held by themn, The following cuses were disposed of yes- térday morning : Disorderly—George Brown, 8L and costs; P. J. Golden, §5 and costs; William Smith, two days. Drunks—William Smidt, John charged; Frank Robins, one day. Vagrants—William Murray, M. C. Foley, Qischarged; John Cooney, Thomas Davis, Harry Carleton, onc_d orge Robinson, Johu Johnson, five days; Tommy ntinued. Resisting an OMcer—Mike Cross, Joe Gill- ette, continued Obtaining C Lee, dis- 'S CARNIVAL. The Depots of the Union Pacific and B. & M, Infested With Thieves. The Union Puacific depot, the B. & M. depot and the transfer at Conncil Bluffs, as well as the dummy trains, are infested with gangs of confidguce men and thieves. Not a day passes by but some crime is reported, and during the last month the Bee has con- tained accounts of many daring robberies and successful swindling operations. The police force at the depots has not been in- creased, notwithstanding these frequent crimes, ‘and as yet no avrests have been made, The last victim of the gang is a German named August Kolson. Mr. Kolson hails from Dodge county, and with his daughter is route to California. He purchased his tickets Wednesday and went to the depot at about S o'clock p. m. While sitting in the ladies’ waiting room’ with his daughter he wis uu\m\ hed by s fine-appearing man, who succeeded in engaging him in conversation. Mr, Kolson was very communicative and wld his new friend where he was_gong and exhibited his pocket book, containing tickets to California and some $5 in money. This pocket book was @ large one, and Mr. Kolson carried it in his hip pocket. When the train came in the gentlemanly stranger offered to assist Mr. and Miss Kol- son on board and carvied one or two of the bundl Both Mr, Kolson and his dnu hter were loaded down with pack: the str: unm'r brought up the rear. He lu.v them cow! vrwmv scated uod as the traln bogip @ He | fHE OMAHA DAILY SEE: FRIDAY, 'wll out bade them. good-bye and de hen the conductor came through Mr. Kol- son discovered that his pocketbook was miss- ing. At South Omaha he and his daughter g0t off and returned to Omaha and_reported heir loss to the police. A search was made and the pocketbook containing the tickets, but minus the money, was found on the side- walk near Tenth street. Mr. Kolson thinks that when he stopped aboard the train his new made friend stole the pocket- book. He made a new start for Cali- fornia last night. « WASSERMAN'S FAMILY. Forced to Accept Charity From the | \ County—A Sad Case. The family of Chatles Wasserman, con- victed in the United States district court of | perjury and seatenced to ove year's hard labor at the Sioux Falls prison, ingly indigent circamstan es, consists of Mrs. Wasserman, a very pretty daughter sixtoen s of age and another daughter seven yeéars of age. daughtor appears frequently at County Agent Mahoney’s office for aid. To a Ber reporter she stated that a carpenter named Ne or , Who lives near Hanscom parlk, owes them money for labor performed by Mr. Wasserman and that he promises nearly every day to pay it but never make good hig word. Mr. Mahoney has placed the case in the hands of the bureau of charities and attempt will be made to collect the debt. The ease of Wasserman at the time of his trial and conviction clicited much sympathy, inasmuch as the prisoner wasa very ignor- ant man and believed that he was® acting under the instructions of his attorney. Judge Dundy, in senteneing Wasserman, expressed symuathy for him and gave him tho 1i "Phere seems to be no one ded to_commit the ;jury, and in the opinion of many, a pardon could easily be obtained. A proni” nent attorney said to a Bre reporter that Judge Dundy, the jury which brought in the verdictof guilty, und neafly every mem- ber of the Omaha bar, would sign tie peti- tion for exccutive clemency, EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYE. What They Have Done and What They Wish to Do. On next Mopday cvening there will bea meating of a committce on conference he- tween the Plumbing, Steam and Gas Fitters' association and the Bmployers' association,to consider the auestion of hours, wi and the system _ of _apprentices. As the last mentiondd question stands now, the avprentice is.. a source of annoyance, He is of little benefit to him- self and less to his employer. He will serve a couple of years, run and try to get work in some other plac him at the w he thinks he isworth, Five years is the period of apprenticeship usuaily juired in the plumbing and three years for steam and_gas fitting. It is not 1510 T three because it is_claimed he cannot be p feet in any one of them. The plumbers and steam and gras fitters here, all of whon lon same union, itices of one to eve 3 b This is a decided move over that of the plumbers in New York who refused assist- ants of all kinds into the business and who lost about £130,000 by the idea, * On the que: tion of wages, the figures which < will prob- ably be asked by the meémbers of the union will be for plumbers £4 and for steam and gas fitters 3 per day. hours will be consid Dt on Saturday, when eight hours will be insisted upon, The association now claims about M5 active members, 2ol % The Press Entertal Onnext Monday night the first annual benefit of the cOmaha press club will take place 1 Boyd’s opera house when' the fol- lowing excellent programme will be ren- dered: LI G Tambourine. tor, Goodall. W, (, Gregory. Mvr. Painter. Mr. Doty. Soloists—Riggs, Jacobson, Pennell, Wilkins End songs, Tannper and Goodall Leaaer of orche «Prof. Butler Mr. Tanner ir. Watson The Madrigal Club Prof. B. B. Young .Revel France Miss Pennell panish Students Solo—Bass Solo—Contri Mandolin Quintet ctub, THIRD PAl A localized burlesque written especially for she occasion by W. R. Goodall entitled “The New Adonis.” \ Adonis, with imitati ..W. R. Goodall Ir. J. M. Tanner Village beauty Sculptres .Mr. Charles Ott The Murky. Mr. Enders Duchess. . Andres +our little duch .. Watson, Gaellen N FINALE. Grand s]\mhwulur muofifi&(uu of Omaha Contingent ballet. There is ever, house will ain the largest and able audience that has. assembled the ing the season, Iehearsals have been quent during three months past and e one taking part is thoroughly. familiar their lines. Reserved scats canbe had at the box office on Saturday and Monday next free of extra charge. ns. the Streets and Walks. Since the work of street cleaning began Mayor Broatch has had -Sidewalk Inspector Allan keeping the time of the men employed in the work by Fanning & Slaven. He says there are about seventy-four men on the roll, though but about half that' namber are employed. There are’ also 'nine teams en- gaged. The force has been at work for ulmutcight days and is engaged on Sixteenth, Tenth and Cuming stréets in some of which places the mud Is six inches deep. Mr. Allan says the work will be finished in a couple of days. The same ofticial has mdu'ctll twelve-foot sidewalk on the east side of Thirteenth street between Leavenworth and ‘the Union Pacific road, beside the vacant lot of the packer Swift. The mud is always deep there and peovle are compelled- to waik through it or cross the street, This walk will "&nable predestrians to use both sides of the str Mr. Allan 18 going to take steps to have the sidewalks on Jones street between Thirteenth und Tenth graded and widened twelve feet. The walks certainly require tbis, be- cause a large part of them have disappeared in kindling wood. Democrats in Club. The democrats of the Second ward have early entered the campaign and last night held a meeting at the store of Kammerer & Justos. It was decided to build a political vigwam at 1610 Williams street, the size to when completed, is to be christened Cleveland hall, Daniel O'Con- nell presided over the gathering and George V. Hines elected as secretary, filling the vacancy caused by the removal from the ward of EQ Brennan, who now resides in Kountze place. George Holmes was elected first vice dent, Charles nmerer sceond vice president, John F. Murphy third vice president and James Donuelly, sr., treasurer, The next meeting of the club will be held at the same place next Monday night. The Indian Won. Last evening, the Daniel Webster debating society of Creighton college opencd the first scssion of the year with a debate.on the sub- joot ““Which Has the Greater Cause for Com- plawnt Because of the Ill-treatment of His White Brethren, the Indian or the Negro" The sides were led by Thomas Lynam and John Walkin, respectively. They were as- sisted by H. Murray. T. Hartnell and M. McGrievy. The discussion was warm and interesting, and resulted in fayor of the sympathizers with the Indian, The officers of the association for the Rev. James O'Meara, Burke, vice president’; Joseph McCarville, Kinsler, John McCa standing committee; O'Connor, censors. Noon, secreta treasurer; J. ville and John Branuan, H. Murray and M After the Thumpers: Tommy Miller, the well-known feather weight, was run in yesterday on a charge of vagrancy, just as he was about to take departure for St, Paul. Heis outon bond and will be tried to-day. Jimmy ' Lind- say, another vuglllllh.nlly inclined young man, was run in the day before on & like chirge, but acquitied arted.. | m\d 'hnl of this nmmmt the city The oldest | Mr. Gaellenbeck | AGAINST THE BONDS, The Consumers Refuse to Order the y YanktomRoad Election. Al the county eommissioners were present when the roll v as called yesterday afternoon, and all the taxpayers who objected to the bonus for the Omaha & Yankton railroad were on hand to see that their inalienable | rights were not voted away. Among thom were Pat Ford, Pat McArdle, J. J. Galligan, Joseph Bartley, George Barker, James Creighton, Thomas Bruner, Thomas Swift, Charles Fanning, George Smith, ex-county surveyor; Arthur Briggs, Henry Gibson and Owen Slavent? 8o as not to keep them wait ing, routine business was tushed through with all due haste, and under the head of communications Treasurer Bollen informed the board that 8537.20 was necessary to redeem lots 1 and 2, block 280, in the city of Omaha, snould pay 15 for taxes and terest. He also ac- knowledged receipt of the tax levy of school district No. 10, in the village of Elkhorn, but claimed that the levy on real property wis 10 mills, and on personalty 15 mills, Under the circunstance he wished to know which was correct, and_was referred to the judicial committee, B. Van Tuylalso wrote the com- | missioners on bebalf of the B. & M., asking for a rebute of $40.57 taxes overpaid, 'und e, too, was handed to the “judicial.” James J. Casey, justice of the peace, is tired of office, and handed in his resignation, asking at the same time t] Elwood A, Shaw be appointed his successor. His re- quest. was backed up by a petition from the residenis of the precinet, and it, too, was referred to the judicial committee, The estimate of R. R. Steward for £467.03 ding Missouri avenue was allowed, 11 be paid from the road fund. Referving to the proposed 50,000 bonds for grading, County. At- torney Simeral cited a number of es from the official law reports, and in- formed the commissioners that ‘‘No power having been given to the county to vote bonds for the purpose of grading, it has no right to s issue of finished the routine business, and the spectators moved un until Commission- ers Mount, Anderson and Turner were ready to hand in their report on the question of is- suing £300,000 bonds to the Omaha & Yank- ton railroud. It came at lust and read as fol- ur committee on judiciary towhom was »d the proposition of the Omaha, Yank- Northwestern railwa sking the county the following proposition, » bonds of the county of Douglas Nebrasfa, to the amount of £300,000 be iss 0 aid in the construction of the Omaha, Yankton & Northwestern r W2 on cor tain conditions, would respoctfully report that the proposition of the suid Omaha, Yankton & Northwestern railroad be not ac- cepted, for the reason that in the opinion of your committee said proposition does not wuard the interests of the taxpayers of Dot county.” * This settled it, and the audience found the shortest way to the open air where they could breathe more freely and ail speak at once without creating any disturbance “Why did they refuse {o endorse the prop- osition " asked tho BEE reporter of a com- missioner, “To protect the taxpayers,” was the an- swer, “If the company submits a properly., drawn up memioriul we will consider it. W want them to guarantee a new right of through the city, v nt them to build o track of their own and not make use of any other company's rails after they get the money.” L05 LS SOUTH OMAHA NEWS, Frank Aldridge brought a load of hogs in. L.I Carlson, of Mead, brought in a load of cattle, R. F. Williams is in from Bancroft with a load of cattle. E. W. Van Doren is down from Zeven with two of hogs. Henry Truelson, of Millard, had a car of hogs on the market P. M. Colby tson the market from Brad- shaw with a car of hogs. I. Ferrington was on the maraet With a car of cattle from Lyons. Judge Reuther has been heard from and is (‘mn‘\)num, business with pleasure on his trip east. The case of J. Q. Adams against Van Franz for wages duc was azain continued vy Justice Lev Sergeant Al. Sigwart, of the Omaha force, was in town endeavoring to find some wit- nesses in an old time murder case, Culver & Sons brought in three cars of hogs from Clay Centre, and both S. and J. N, came in with them. Th ught top prices. Cinders instead of plank crossings scem to Le most desirable, but in some casses, like the approaches to the postoftice, both are needed. “I don't mind the new police rules so much,” said a member of the force yesterday, “but I would like to get paid under the old rules first. Another horse almost disappeared in the mud on N street yesterday. He was dug out, and a denger signal will mark the spot till dry weathe ‘The suit of Mrs. Ora Cunningham against the city has been called for March 16, and the council might as well bear that mind in mak- ing up the eshmates for '83-0, Contractor Hangen is again preparing for the summer’s grading. He is bri ng down hir teams from Fremont and on March 1 will renew his attacks on N street, A witness was subpeenaed to appear at “1 o'clo’k in the forencon’ in a recent suit, and because he didn’t there 18 an apjeal to the district court. At least that is one ground of the appeal. The spring boom is on hand and a sixty foot lot on Twenty-fourth between L rnd M streets, that was bought for 1,000 two months ago, has been sub-divided, ana forty {feet of it sold for §2,400. Exchange hotel guests vesterday were: S, Culver, Clay Center, Neb.; R. F. Williams, Bancroft, Nab.: C. F. Way, Ord. Neb.; Ge: Shiff, Clay Center, Neb.; Wm. Conley, Mas shall, Mich.: A. G. Evuns, Hampton, Neb. T, R. Ross. Stromsburg, Neb. ; Henry Pr ard, Demoine, Friends of G. G. George, who until recently. was a boarder at the Delmonico hotel, are somewhat anxious to hear from him. He dis- or two ago, and has not since n, although the proprietors of the house ha ade every effort to find him. As he had always been known to lead a rog- ular life 1t is fewred that he is sufféring from mental depression, and, as usual, there are some that say there's a woman in the case, Policemen want to know why they are not paid out of the $1,200 or - £1,500 reported _on hand by Treasu Hunt last Mondu The finance committee say its because they have to cash the warrants issued to the policemen and sold by them weeks ago. In the mean- time the men have not been paid since Janu- 1, and as landlords and g rs are kick- g, there is a prespect that the committee on **destitution’ will have to look after seven or eight additional families, Clearithe Sidewalks, Chief Scavey intends to see that the walk ordinance isstrictly observed here and yesterday all his officers were busy ng notices on shopkeepers and mer- chants who have been in the habit of ob- structing the sidewalks with barrels, boxes, projecting signs, ete. Another nuisance the chief has concluded to] abate is the peanut stands that adorn many of the sidewalks in violation of the law and to the detriment of free pedestrianism. side- fter, Grading, ing and Sewering. According to City Engineer Tillson there will be very little or no grading done in Omaha during the year 1883, The reason is that there 1s no, money in the general fund that can be used for that purpose. Mr. Till- son thinks that more paving will be done in 1388 than during any previous year provid- ing the people vote to issue the $100,000 bonds asked for at the cloction on March 2. The r fus ape, and a large addition will b made to that system. A Peremptory Demand. Dr. J. T. Armstrong, superintendent of the Nebraska Institute for feeble minded youth at Beatrice, does not seem to like the way in which Douglas county pays its bills. Dr, Armstrong has written a letter to the county clerk stating that if the bill sent to the com- missioners on February 6 for the board of three paupers sent from this county is not aid by February 25 he will returx them to Bo las county.” The bill amounts to §35.63, FEBRUARY 24, 1888, He Broke a Broncho, Chlrln Moss, & horse dealer, was arrosted yesterday charged with cruelty to ani- mal It is alleged that Moss beat. a balky bronco Wednesday in a way that will cause the animal's death, He whipped until it laid down, and then he hitched a chain to it and dragged it about the ot with a team until it was in a horrible condition. This is Officer Cullin's story. Mr. 8s, however, says that the animal_is not hurt in the least, that he is an old trainer, and _he was only putting into execution some of his treaties for curing a balking pony. Abzolutelv Prire, ‘This powder never varfes. 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