Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 27, 1891, Page 6

THE OMAHA BEE. COUNCIL BLUFFS. OFFICE: - NO. 12 PEARL STREE' elivered by Carrfer in any part of the City. 1.W. TILTON, - MANA § Business Ofice ePHoNES | RIS Baftor —————————— MINOI MENTION. N. Y. P. Co. Council Bluffs Lumber Co., coal. Crofu's chattel loaus, 204 Sapp block. Born, to Mr. and Mrs, C. G. Saunders, riday night, a daughter If you want water in your vard or house g0 to Bixby's, 802 Merriam block. A morriage licenso wae 1ssued yesterday to John Ford and Barbara Laing, both of Shelby "he city council held a meeting of the com mittee of the whole yesterday afternoon aud took o ride over to the city tolook intoa number of matters which were referred the Iast meeting. Thero will beaspecial moeting of tho directors of the Young Men’s Christian asso- clation Monday evening, September 38, for the purpose of arranging for a physical direc tor for the coming season News was receivod in this city vesterday that John L, Catcon, who was ~ar d 10 ‘Pacoma, Wash., charged with complicity with Ed Albertson in the Fidelity bank rob bery, has had o hearing and been discharged The taking of testimony in the Cut-Off fsland case has been completed so far as Omaha is concerned. The commissioners will hold & session in this _city, commencing sometime carly the present week, in order 10 hear the testimony on the Iowa sido of the case, An entertanment will be given Tuesdny ovening it tho Young Men's Christian asso- ciation rooms under tho auspices of the association. An attractive programme of athlotic contests will be rendered and the proceeds will be devoted to furnishing the &ymnasium, “Mr. Wilkinson's Widows,” which is to be presented at the Broadway theatre tomorrow evening, is said to be a society comedy of the Kind that bursts off buttons. It comes highly recommended from tho east, and presented by one of Charles Frohman’s companics, will bo one of the greatest attrations of the season. The case of the state against W. W. Lang don, charged with committing an assault and batfery on his wife, was brought up in Jus- tico Hammer's court yesterday and continued until October 8. In the meantime it was understood that ho was to keep as far away froia his wife s possible, in order to prevent the recurrence ot any such scenes as disturbed the peuce of Duck Hollow Friday night. A couple of type sotters became involved in an_altercation I htin front of the “oftice” on Broadwuy. Words led to blows, and 1o fow ~ minute a lvely fight was in progress. A friend tricd to separgte them, and both printers jumped on bim. His chances for coming out of the three-cornered scrap with bis complexion unmarred were anything but finttering when Dan Graham. the bartender, came flying out on the sidewalk and took the belligerents inside, wherea truce was patched up. Thero were no arrests ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. The Boston Store Always Leads in Fresh New Goods and Low People who seo the immenso lot of boxes that are being unloaded evory day at the Boston Store naturally wonder where the contents all go to. The goods all £o on the shelves, but they don't stay there long. We belicve in making prices that will move them. This week we got in an immense lot of now fall dress goods, hosicry, underwear, domestics, ki gloves, mitts and the like. This will be another banner week at the Boston Store. We want every lady in Council Blufls and vicinity to eall. BOSTON STORE, Covneil Bluffs, Fotheringham, Whitelaw & Co., Leaders and promoters of low prices. The Reason Why We have marked our goods at plain manufacturers’ prices is that we are go- fng out of business. Our time here is limited and wo are willing to dispose of our roods without a cent of profit as rapidly us we can employ heip to waiton custoners. Everybody who visits our store can see what goods cost and all must be sold at cost. Furniture, carpets, cooking and heating stoves, bedding at actual cost; many goods less than cost. Call eurly beford the stock is broker MANDEL & KLEIN PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Alderman Poter Wind has gone to Green- field on business, The Misses Iouis have returned from a two weeks' visit with friends in the east, Charles Bray started yesterday morning for Itasen, I T whers ho will bid on semo ilroad work. D. . Hutehinson and wifo havo returned from the Black Hills, where they have been wisiting triends nund relutives, Fino buthing at Lake Manawa, Sum- mer has returned and every afternoon and evening hundreds arve taking advan- tago of the fine bathing. Now fall goods, finest line in the city, “.,n received av Reiter’s the tailor’s, 310 roudway. . — Drs. Woodbury, dentists, 30 Pearl streot, noxt to Grand hotel. Telephone 45, High grade work a speciulty LA ARl Church Annoancements. Broadway Methouist — Services morning and evening. Moraing subject: “‘Financial Consecration.” First Presbyterian — Preaching by Dr, Phelps in tho mornng and by F. L. Hayden in the evoning. Congregational—Morning subject, “A Cup of Water.” Eveuing, “God Mindful of Man." First Baptist—Preaching by the pastor, morulng and evoning. St. Joho's Enghish Lutheran—Services in the Young Men's Christian association chapel at 1l a. m. and 8 p. m. Reception of members and the Lord’s suppor will take placo at the morning sorvico. Young Men's Christian association—Mr. Henry Delong will lead the meu’s meeting at o'clock. Berean Baptist-Preaching by the pastor ot 10:80 a. m, and 7:50 p. m. Sunday schooi Bt 11:45 8, w, # Louis' Annual Millinery Display Will occur on Thursday and Friday of this week, and will be tho leading event of the week. A very large importation of pattern hats and " bonnets has been made for the opening, showing all the Pavisian, London and” New York styles Anothor iniportant feature of the event will be the flue display of furs made by Aulabauch, the Omaha furrier,who will *show his finest seulskin garments and all the boautiful and costly furs that will be s0 popular this season, High Five Party, Miss Mary Koy entortained a number of her friends Fricay nigut at her home on Bouth Seventh street in hounor of Miss Carrie Btevens of Passedena, Cal., who is visiting her. The evening was passed very pleasantly in playing progressive high five and at the end prizes were wwarded as fol- Jows; Ladies' prizes—Firsy, Miss Miller of Omaha; second, Miss Jessio Farnsworth; third, Miss Ida Lutz. Gentlemen—irst, J, N. Bewman; second, Dr. Pitts of St. Joseph; third, Walter 5, Stillwan, Frank Trimble,atty, Baldwin blk, tel 303 AL Bl A troat is promised the ladies in pat- tern atour opening. Watch for the the date. Louis, Masonic block Picnie at Manhattan beach. Round rip tickets from Omaha, including boat ride, 60¢; on salo at news stands at Mil- lard'and Murray hotels, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SUNDAY SHPTEMBER 2 | NEWS FROM COUNCIL BLUFES. Eusy Burglar Gets in His Work on the Safe of an 0il Company. INSTRUCTIONS ON THE DOOR IGNORED. Cracksmen Preferred to Enter in the Conventional Way—Other Visits Were Paid by the Laws less Maranders, Burglars visited tho oMco of the Consol idated Tunk Line company at an early hour esterday morning. They entered by fore- though by a cnisel or other sharp instru- ment. A hole was then drilled in th o door just above the combiuation, and tho combination was blown into smithereens. The money drawer was also broken in pieces by the oxplosion, and the contouts wero in cash. A lot of papers were also taken out, examined, and left Iving about the yard. Day before yestordav afternoon a couple of men entered the estabiishment and one of them made some inguiries of the proprietor, whilo the other meandered into the oftice, which was desorted at the tune. The theory of the men about the office is that the two were reconnoitering, but so little at- tention was paid to them that itis notat a 1 sure they would be recoguized if they should bo found. It is hard tosee what object the burglars could have had in blowing up the safe, as it has been the custom for some time past to tie a card on the door knob each night so that if thieves should happen to get in they could gou into the safe without damaging it. After completing their labors st the tank line oftice, the burglars crossod thestrect and broke in the outside door. Thev then pro- ceeded to ran the de; Jhiere was no money in the ofice aavwhere, and the vis itors had to content thiemselves with scatter: ing the papers over the floor. Nothing of auy value was missing. Some time during the same night the black- smith shop of Georgo H. Brown, on Upper Broadway east of the Ogden house, was broken open und a lot of siedge hammers, braces, bits, cnisels, drills and other tools of tho same kind were taken. The tacory of those acquainted with the affair is that all the burglar work was done by the same par- ties, and that the marauders “used the tools which they obtained at the blacksmith shop to ussist them in carrying out their plans at the other places. There is no clue to the present whereabouts of the thieves. Do you ever look back ten years to a time “when Council Bluffs was much smaller than it is now and when corn and potatoes were being grown on what is now some of the best proverty in town? Do you ever wish you had bought some property then, even if it was hard wotk to pay for it? Do you know that Coun- cil Bluffs could not stop growing if it wanted to, and that in addition to its own growth we are sure of catching a good share of the increase in population which will come to Omaha with better times? \We venture to predict that the is not a dollar’s worth of real estate in town that will not be worth several times what it is today in another ten veurs. When that time comes you will have to pay a good round price if you want a lot in Morningside, becnuse they will all be owned by people who won't sare to sell at any price. He Rises to Remark, olonel A. T. Whittlesey, who has acted as scuool census enumerator, complains that he has been done an injustice in & rumor which has been started to the effect that he was guilty of “stuffing the ballot box" in order to mako a good showing. “In point of fact,” he says, ‘‘the enumera- tion which I have just completed, instead of being excessive, is likely to be under the actual figures. [n the First and Third wards there is a large outlying territory where mauy residences may not be in sight of the passers-by on the main roads, and they may have been omitted. Cutoff island has not been enumerated at all. 1 went there last Thursaay but could not find any one whoknew where tho real limits of the dis- puted territory wore. I presume a complete onumeration would probably show 500 names more than [ have been able to enumerate, Autumn Millinery Display. The finest millinery display for the autumn of 1891 the ladies of Council Bluffs will find will be that of Misses Sprink and Fearon, which oceurs Tues- Qay and Wednesday of this week, both afternoon and evening. They will find the latest Parisian, London and New York styles of autumn and winter pat- terns. The rooms will bo handsomely decorated and the ladies will be assured a pleasant time whiie noting the beauti- ful and radical changes that have been made in the new season’s millinery. — Morningside was platted last year. Ten wmodern artistic houses have al- ready been built. A large number of lots have been sold to others, who in- tend to build. ——— 'he “Poet Preacher’s” Friends. w pastors have won such a strong hold upon this community as has Rev. G. W. Crofts of the First Congregational church, Arrangements are being made for expressing this appreciation by tendering to him and his estimable wife a testimoniai and recep- tion, to take place in the Royal Arcanum hall' next Friday evening, October 2, this being their twenty-fifth wedding auniver- sar, Mr. Crofts has always been ready to re- spoud 10 all demands uvon his timo and thought for the public good, and his numer- ous friends, without regard to church ailiations, deem it hichly befitting that they should now improve this opportunity of expressiug their appreciation. — Everybody is invited and the occasion will be one of gen- eral interest. —— Extensive improvements always add to the value of property. Morningside is being improved us no other addition in the city has ever been improved, 1f you will” save o little money every month and invest 1t in a lot you will got the benefit of these improvements and you will find it a most satisfactory in- vestment, You will have a chance to see t} finest furs as well as the finest milliner Louis’ annual millinery display Thursday and Friday this week at M sonic block. —_— - The choicest noveltics, new goods every day at Louis’, Masonic block. ——— Swanson Musie Ce., 835 Broadway Very Well Done. One of the prominent social events of the Past weok was the prosentation of tho drama, “After Ten Yoars, or The Manine Wife," by tho Inisfail Philharmome Dramatio club, for tho benefit of the German Catholic church The members of the club have boen rebeurs- iog on this play for several weeks pust, and tho resuits of their puinstaking labots were evident in the excellent way in which oach character was reprosentod, Miss Cocilia Hughes as Mrs. Braudon, the maniae, and Mrs. C. A, Fox as’ Mrs. Archer, carriod off the houors of the evening, while Heury DPashel as Jos Braudon, ' tho man of the world, George F. Hughes as Randolun Archer, the recluse, and Mr: George I, Hughes s Rodua Archer, were worthy of special mention. Hezekiah Slick, the Yankeo peddier, was played b a very taking way by Thomas B. Hughes, and P, J MceBride, as John Perkins, the fat lanalord, met with applause wheuever ho showed him. self. Tho parts of Frauk Wallace, the law yer, by Phillp P. Paschel; 'Jonsthan Dobbs, = the backwoodsman, by Audy Kustuér; Pat Roouey, by J. J. Hughes, Kate Wickham and_Euwily Joyce, companion Archer, by Miss Mar. 1 T'he wudience was large and showed its appreciation of the efforts of the players by frequent applause. Hy request tho piece will bo repeated next September 24, all played well Broadway theater. — Struck on t Marion *Parker, works at the Rock Island round house, was the victim of a bad accident yesterday morning. windlass connected with a turntable, crank caught throw him to the ground. As he struggled to arise the handle mac sanother revolution and Ho was work- terribie wounds on the scatp. He was picked up in an unconseious condition and moved to H. Pinney, who sowed up Ho was then taken to his home last accounts the offiee of Dr. C. on West Broadway. sting easily has never been ing open tho rear door, which was tiarred as | investment as Morningside oh promise of a large profit not depend on oven on the ‘e improvem and are now being d to what nature has already a boom no cleanedout. Among the booty wus about £20 | It will not be long till Morning- side will be so much residence pla the city, that people who manent homes lots there at prices | ‘o than any- | thing clse in ant nice pluces will be glad to that would secm extravagunt now. IN CHRISTIAN OMAHA. Sad Case and Destitu- A very pitiable case of dostituti discovered vesterday afternoon and Fifiteenth an aged widow, who has been for some time destitution, home of one of the neighbors brick vard and begge ity ot Locust the wolf of for something “T'he poor woman had asked the county commissioners for assist had been refused, and she had almost reached It is absolutely nec- nco be furnished the des tute woman, and it appears to be the duty of sioners to_furnish the re- the point of sta essary that assists the county commis Itef required. Members rtertain Their Friends. In honor of the third anniversary of the singing society of tho Omaha Plattdeutscher- Verein tho society gave a_very pleasant mu- entortanment at (iermania hall last to overflowing by and proved to be “The hall was frionds aud invited gues appreciative audience, instrumental selections wero rendered until the programme of fiftecn numbers was ex- light lunch was served at the concluston of the entertainment indulgea in for an hour or two afterw i highly complimented by all present and was certainly a success Constipation poisons the biood: DeWitt's riy Risers cure coustipation. cause removed, the discase is It Will Be Entertaining. celebrated K dian, Mer. Coquelin, will give a monologus in costume on Thursday evening next, October 1, at the Young Men’s Chuis association s a talented elocutiorist and the programme to be rendered this occasion The Mercuant of being given in undoubtedly literary treat and should be well patronized. Use Haller's German stipation and liver regulato; OMAHA CIGARR PACTORI Pills, the great co n How Home Patronage Would 1 Business Mauy i‘old n0ss has suffered any other lin of manufacture in Omaha from the lack of homo patronage. The cigar bus That is putting it would more the truth to say that tho urig interests in Omaha havo been wrecked by the_gustom so prevalent here in lato years of going east for every- cigar manafac a fow years azo that one firm rmakers in this city, and at o time, too, when Omaha was only about half This particular firm put up what was a fine building for the time, cost- )00, and moved their businoss ¢ fess than £0,000. Whero is this you buy your ¢ employed 1 its present size. At that timo uld not have been bought for business now! (io east where gars and you will find 1t. The proprictors are still_here, but they have and the business of ey other cigar manufacturer dwindle down year ftor year until it amounts to aimost notking. here are now from thirty to thirty-fiv employed in all the cigur fac about one-fourth of the ployed by one single firm whea Omaha v city of ouly 60,000 inhabitan iythiing demonstr sity for home patronago than this wreek of what was once an important indus- ‘Phis, too, when it is taken into consid ories of Omaha, number em- to more forcibly work cnough here for 500 cigar- Paul employs between cigarmakers and Minueapolis not many los: The two cities together employ not less than 800 men in this brancn of manufacture, Sioux City, with & population ) to forty cigarmakers, or more toey manage to do » instanco that will furnish a koy to the wholo matt Omaha cigar manufacturer friend in tho retail cigar busines He went up to see his friend and pro- posed to sell him somo cigars at What was tho Sioux *“You kuow that I would go a long way to accommodate you, just as vou would me, und it you will move your factory to Sioux City you'can make every cigar that Isell, but [ would not dare to buy a cigar from ‘any factory located outside of this city, It my patrous found that 1 was going away from Sioux City to buy my goods they would than Omaba. has an old-time sonable price, man's answor ! Cigarmakors earn $12 to $15 per week, or suy on an averago 813, which would and as @ class they speud thoir money as that would X eut umong the retail dealors of the city, or £33%, 000 per year. i3 80 lively and times generally so good thut tho busingss men and praperty owners of this city can afford to do without the &338,000, let thom go on smoking easte some other city havo the money. If any one asks manufacturing interests of tuis city the an- The wholesalo and re- pokly to bo 1f business n cigars and what killed swer is easily given : tuil dealers did it, through the indiffer Cizars made by child and paup labor in the tenement houses of the east can be bought as low as §11 per 1,000 and sold in this city at 5 cents aviece. like to sell eastern goods, and that is a smoker speaks of That is why the he laughs when claims that they candot make good cigars in The eastern papers have *written u tenement houses where cigars aro mac Lave painted such horrible filth of the places suffering {rom the vilest of contagious dis- eases, that no eastern man will smoke pictures of the Statistics show that cigars are sold 1n the w ss smokers who tenths of these suffer from such discases as cancer of the When it comes to the better class of cigars that can be retailed at from 5 cents up, made by union labor in factories open to public in spection, Omab quality with any other city Uulon labor 18 no higher here than B CAN COmpPeLs enst, and lon“b[ufl'n can be shipped from the ‘south and eastat a lower rate than the manufactured cigars. The whole trouble is that the wholesale dealors contratidite retail dealers and put off onto them the cheapest cigars that their trade will take bdcause there is more profit in them. The only remedy is for the smolker to domand Omaha brands in spite ot what the dealer fnay say. Supposing the smoker buys an Omaha made cigar at 5 cents, he will get an_article costing at the factory not less than $25 per 1,000, instead of ono costing i New York from $11 to #15, Tt may not please the dealer s0 well, and if yoy are smoking for his bene- fit you will have to take an eastern made cigar. It hias been suggested by soveral Omaha cigar manufacturers thatthe Manufacturers’ association adopt some trade mark that could bo placed on all Nebraska made articles, s0 that consumers would know that thoy were getting home made goods SOULFUL I'l;l‘\fil)lil‘l} LOST. A Census Agent Laments the In- sufliciency of Deaths in His District. The story of the census, if thia from the correspondence of the office, would make o literary sensation. Life struggles are told in cold figures; charactor studies may be had of.all classes of people; humor and pathos mingle with the unfeeling lines of avarice. During the preliminary work of census tak- ing the oftice was startled by tho rofusal of an Omaha clergyman to aceept $100 for col lecting data regarding the church to which hie belonged. He told the officials that thero were enough people plucking tho public crib, and that he would gladly do the work re quired without compensaticn. Replying the consus office expressed amazement, and warmly thanked him for bis patribtic action. Credit is due the census oftico for bringing out a humorist who acted as_enumerator at t. Albans, Vt, The following letter from this functionary to bis superior officer is self- explanatory and establishes the right of its author to a place on the starry scroii of the immortals who have seryed their generation by lighting up the gloom. T'he letter ruus tuus: I'have your favor of the 19th _inst. inform- ing me of the dissatisfaction of your depart- ment with my mortality reports, and that it was unreasonable to supposo that in a dis- rict containing 1,810 persons there should be but six deaths during the last five months of the consus yeav; that according to some laws of averazo, hitherto unknown and therefore uniceded by the good people of my district, there should have been ten deatiis rathe than six during the period indicated. Iam very sorry that my conscience pre- vents my reporting to you move deaths than were actually reported to me, for 1 inquired in every house, and you already have the ro sults, I studied your instructions very carefully and found nothing in thom to indicate that you expected ten deaths in my district in order to make the census complete. Of course nad I known thut the safety of my country's iustitutions demanded ten deaths I might have taken means to have obtained thewm, for I know of several good subjects for ploasant funerals, all of said subjects being men whoso deaths I would have recorded with much pleasure. But pardon me for calling attention to a seeming inconsistency in your luw of average as applied even to the different districts of thistown. In Barney I Kelly’s district (No. 110, St. Albans), there were about 1,500 persons ' und twenty deaths ow, from your letter I understand you require one dead person for each 151 live ones, but he re- urned one dead one for each ninety-five live ones. Now, this. number being so much 1n excess of tho average dicated, will it bo re- quired to resurrect enough to bring it down where it belongs{ But possibly 1f you know my district you would not presime to apply to'it the rules indicated. Iu the first place I bave it from good au- thority that therois but onc place in the world where the rate of mortality is us low as in St. Albans, and that place’is far_away in sunny Italy: but those people, being ig- norant and beyond our jurisdiction, we can hardly expect’ them to die accordiug to the rules of tho census department. My district coutaius a large number of persous who for pluck, patience and perse- verance ure the wonder and admiration of the age, I refer, pof course, to Vermont democrats who, you must know, occasionally grow old, but never dic, There are a fow goyernment ofticeholders, and you know that dying is not one of their peculiarities, but had Lreceived your instruc- tions provious to the last election, and if they felt m any way as L gid when the returns were coming in, I think I might have persuaded some of the newly appoiuted ones to die with little difticulty. ‘Ihere are also a few school teachers, but presiding, as they have, so long over that band of augelic beings whoso bright abodes are in the pleasant homes of St. Albans— they ars nou yet prepared to rur: tho risk of bemg compellod to take positions in the su phurous “district teyond the veil,” whero the reigning spirits have as littie comprehen- sion of a good sciool law as the Vermont log- islature, There aro some lawyers to whom, if tho angel of dcath were to appear with uis sword already drawn, they would calmly ask for bis crotentials, and finally, when their last breath had departed. they would insist upon proof of their own death. “'nere are, 100, some physicians of excelle standing, but their opérations have been coufined 'to Mr. Kelly's district, where the death rato is so high, and, never baving taken any of their own' medicine, of course, T huve derived no assistance from this source in securing victin “There are also some merchants, but they have been so busily engaged in navking up their goods in anticipation of the imagined effects of the McKinley bill that they haven’t died, but they would probabiy have dono so had they known it would accommodate any- body, particularly the census enumerato who are very popular, There are several clergymen, a few dea- cons, somo stewards, an Episcopal vestry, and a couple of Sunday school superintend- ents, but, of course, none of these dare to die. “Thero aro somo editors, called by somo “uncrowned kings of thoughts.” 1t is an old aduge, you know, Uneasy lies the head that wears i crown, * but being uncrowned edi- tors generally lie so extremely easy that | would not feel justified 1u reporting them as dead upon their own testimony aloue. “There are some plumbers, but it would be a great disadvantage to them to be compelled to depart for that portion of the undiscovered country, where, owing to the intense heat of the climate, solder ever remains i a liquid state, As’ for the rest of the people, T can only say that if you were ever to visit my section of this bemutiful villago you would seo at once how hard it woald bo to eutico them into any other country, here or hereaftor, no matter how fair its fields, how blue its skies, how golden its gtreets, how happy its inbab’ itants, ( But T am aware that your department likes condensed offichtl reports, heance 1 must hasten to cluse Lhis one, only trusting that ou will rogard this explanation of the small umber of deaths in my district as satis- factory; but while I am upon this sub- ject of the census I may us well stato that while regreting rexcoedingly to sever the ofticiul relatious existing between us 1 shall 1ot bo 4 candidate for enumevator in 100, I believe in passiug these things around, Lot other who have labored long and faith- fully for republiean success share in the spoils. Ikuow by the way in which my sovoral repo ts have been received that you will be grioved, at my resolution. ~ I myself, though modest, am con- straiued to admik that wy veing no longer connectea with the census department will be a serious 10ss to the country, but when I flect that if ouly four more persons had understood tho rules and died I should have been entitled to #8391 for six weeks’ work, tho mystic cords of conscience, vibrating to the touch of patriotism, luli me into believ- ing that I have been fed all that [ deserve to be at the publie crib. — Towa's Best Crop Year. Des Moixes, I, Sept. 26,—The Towa weather and crop bulletin issued today, the last of the sewson, reports corn practically socure. Allowing for all drawbacks, the state will produce 00,000,000 busheis ' of sound corn. An output of 120,000,000 bushels of oats and 20,000,000 bushels of potatoes is estimated, making it the best all-round crop season iu toe history of the state, Pillsbury’s Gift. "The editors’ monument which George A Pillsbury of Minneapolis, has presented to his native town, Concord, N. H. was formally dedicated September 8 in the prosende of 3,000 people. 7. 1801—SIXTEEN PAGES. SPECHT SPOKE HIS PIECE. o'clock, 1 was called out of bed to meet Mr. Billineslay. He came to my house in a cab, He wanted to know how the committeo was getting along with tho tabulating of the bids, aud what show his company stood of getting tho contract. I told him we were not through with the work yet, but that I would be in favor of giving the lowest responsible bidder the contract. He tuld me of tne work his company had dona on the court house at Blair, on McCague's bank and 1 think at Lincoln, and said he ought to have the con- tract “Billingslay came to my house again the next Sunday night about 10 o'clock and I got out of bed agatu to talk to him. He said he had come again to see how the committeo was gettine along. I told him I did not Know as wo were not through with the bids yet. Hesaid: ‘We have got the tning foul, have it natled and aro bound to get the cor tract. We have votos enough. [ will fix the boys all right “Ho told me he had the votes of Morearty Conway, Burdish, Elsasser, Donnelly ut Blumer' and thought Blumer would bring Olsen’s vote, Il tell you Specht,” he nd, ‘Morearty wants §1,000. but you've been cutting out so much of the furniture that wo can’t afford to pay more than £2,500 or &, 000 to gat this thing through, and I've about got Morearty down to $i00. Conway will get £200 of this and Burdish $200. Blumer gots 00 and ho'll bring Olson with him. Do nelly gets 200, and as you have so much work to do, Specht, we'll give you $300, and Mel.earie will vote as you do, “I told Billingsley that I wonld not voto for him unless his bid was lower than that of any of the others, and that if 1t was 1 would vote to give him the contract and that e would bettel ave his money. This was the substance of our conversation, although ne stayed until nearly 1 o'clock in'the morn- g Mceting at the Shoe Store. Mr. Specht then detailed the particulars of his mecting with Billings!ay at the shoo store at Hl4 South Sixteenth stres, “Billiagslay sat on a beneh at the end of a desk that stood about two feet from a thin board partition ahout six feet in heighth. After entering the store he said: *We've got it all fixed, and 1f you will stay with us there is £00 for you' He asked about Osthoff, and T smd, *You had better let Osthofl alons or you will got hurt.’ Then ne asked about Davis and ChafTee, and I said I don’t think they will vote for anybody.,’ Billingslay said, ‘its going to be a_hard fight, but I've got it fixed with Moriority, Conway, Burdish, Donnelly and ~ Elsasser! Osthoff is our friend and we count on him, 1f you will vote with us there will be no troble about McLearie,! “Again 1 tola him he had better save his mouey, aud going out of the store I got in wy buggy and drove away. Upon ‘several ocassions on going to my shop, 1 found a nots written on my slate. The notes were written by Billngslay, requesting me to cali on him, Made an Early Call. “The night after the committee finished tabulating Mr., Coots bid, after I went home and had gone to bea, the door bell rang. My wito went to the door and then said it was Billingslay, the furniture man, and that he wanted to'see me. 1 told her not to let him in. I think this was about 10:30 o'clock. The next moruing shortly after ¢ o'clock my wife looked out of the window and said ‘there was a-man in the barn.) 1 looked out and recognized Billingslay talking with tho hired man. After dressing I went down stairs and just at that time ne rang the coor beil and was allowed to enter. “Thns was the day before the council w to mect and award the contract. After talk- ing u fow moments ho said the time bud come when the furniture matter had to ve fixed up. Ho wanted to know what I proposcd to do. “ told him that I should advise returning all of the certified chiecks and let the success- ful bidder put up & bond, as there was no money i the treasury to pay for the furni ture, and would not be until bonds were vote What did Billingslay say?” asked Mr Wharton. ““He veplied, ‘we can get it through with- oat your vote. " Did you vote for the award (" “No sir." “Did you vote against it?? “Yes s, Continuing Mr. Specht said: *Billingslay was at my hoa six or eight times and when conversations were held with him either my wife, my cousin George Specht or my sister- in-lay Miss Klimbard wers present. Miss Klimbard was the young woman who brought the cigavs the night that Billingslay and [ talked prices when we sat in the parlor, and at that meeting we checked over the names of the councilmen who would vote for bis contract,” Now Mr. Specht, you may tell who was in the Sixtcenth stréot shoe_store when you haa the conversation with Mr. Billingsiay.” “W. H. Walker, and he neard all that was sad.”” On Cross-examination This closed Mr. Specht's direct examina- ton and Mr. Gannon took a hand at cross examination. He asked concerning Mr. Specht’s ofticial career and finally got down to the question of boodlo by asking when Billingslay first made his appearance at the Specht mansion. It was August 24 At that time he simply asked how matters were gotting along, but on the following Sunday Billingslay' got down to business aud aceording to the testi- mony put out his lines for suckers. o quote Mr. Specht's language, Billing said, **You can have 8500 if you will vote our bid." Mr. Spectt replied: **No. 1f you are tho bidder you will wet my Vote without money. " “Did ne tell_you™ that Morearty wanted woney ¢ asked Mr. Gannon. “Yus, he said ‘Morearty wanted 1,000 but, I got bim down to £i00 and Burdish down to £00." 1 toid him to save his money.” “Did ho offer you any money ¢ “Yes sir. He told me I could have $300." “Did you think the price too low ¢ ©No man can buy Cliris Specht,” retorted the witn Mr, Wharton insisted that Mr. Gannon's question was improper and out of place, “Let him o on,” said Mr. Specht, I ve- seut the insult, but am not ashmed to answer the question.” Mr. Gannon asked Mr. Specht if he know of the boodlism on the uight the award was made to the Ketcham people, Heo did ana told Messrs. Bechel and Davis to voto agaiust the contract, us he was sure that money bad been used. He did not tell them that night, but had spoken tothem at their offices two or three days before the council meeting, At that meeting nio mentioned the names of Blumer, Buardish, Conway aud Morearity. Witness had neve talked with Agent Hugen about money or rates. Caused Some Excitement, A ripple of excitement spread through the lobby when Mr. Ganuon asled, *Did you say anvthing 1o Mr. Billingslay about having a note to pay and thal you were short of money " “No, siry" quietly and quickly responded Mr. Specht. “Did you tell Messrs. Cooper, Davis, Tuttle and Lo'/ry in the council chamber that Mr. Billingslay had bribed some of the members and had offored you a #00 bribef’! o, sir, but I fought and voted against the contract,” “Did you 1ot go to Mr. Davis and tell bim to suy ‘noding’ about the matter? 0, 8ir." Upon the redirect examination Mr. Specht testified that Lo bad told Messrs, Becnel o Davis that mouey had been improperly used. Mr. Morearty asked this question: “Mr. Specht, 4o you know persouaily that any man hus ever bribed me No sir,” revlied Mr. Specht Talks with Members. Again Mr. Gannon took up the questioning andusked: *Mr. Spocht, did you not tell Mr. Conway that his namo was not to be mentioned " “No, sir. I told him that when the t mony was all in that he would not be hurt “And did you not talk with Burdisht” Yes, 1tola bim the same thioe. Did you not go to the other members and tell the same thing ! 0, 8ir “Did you not go mding with a furniture man ¢ “Before the bids were opened Tom Swobe brovght Mr. Reemer down to my shop. 1 had some business down on South Thirteent strect and invited Mr, Keemer t¢ go along | ton, aver to Twentioth ‘street and honi “1s 1t customary for peopio to call at your We got into my buggy, drove down to V houso late at night " “Not for furniture mon," replied Mr. Specht. The witness was excused and at miduight tho committee adjourned until 7 o'clock to. morrow evening, when the investigation will be resumed. — - NEW STRIKES Encouraging Nows Fr South Da- Kota's Rich Mineral District, Deanwoon, 8. D., Sept. 20.—[Special to Tur: Ber,]~Owners of the Sala, Deadbroke and Golden Summit lodes, patonted clains, within city limits of Load City, have uncoy- ered near tho surfaco, & blanket vein of silicious ore that runs from £190 to &40 per ton fn gold. A good force is at work taking out the ore, which is being treated at the iolden City chlorination plant Tho Big Missouri mino has closed n lease for the Uncle Sam stamp mill, and will | about October 1 put it 1 operation. There is an eight mile haul by railroad from the mine to the mill. The mine adjoins the Homostake, hns been thoroughly developed and shows immenso bodies of freo milling gold ore worth $4 to & per ton From Bare Butte district owners of the K. B, Hayes mine aroshipping 200 tons of higl grade lead ore. Mr. Cook is now wotting out some high grade load ore, the vein improving in size and quality as development work pro- gresses. a valuable vein of high grade carbonato and galena ore which is being stored in bins and on the dump. 'he managoment proposes taking out several hundred tons which will be t. :d here or shipped to one of the out side smelters I'he Seabury-Calkins company i Carbonate district has made a_contract to have soveral hundied tons of £20 dry ore treated at th Deadwood smelter. 'Lhé ora is taken fron six foot body lately cut through by a drift on tle 160 foot ievel The Silyer Keef shaft has beon carried down 145 feot, at which depth on Wednes day o six foot vein of oro worth £0 in gold and silver was found Owners ot the Gold Mountain group in Snobit guleh, have been doing considerable prospecting and were this week rawarded by uncovering a six foot blanket vein of silicious ore that carries §21 in gold. i RS ROUNDABOUT THE COUNTRY, A paper mill in New Jersey has turned out a sheet of papert feot wide and /¢ milos longs. A huge potato, weighing twenty-soven pounds, has been raised by a farmer at Bayon Sars, La. A curiosity in Ripley, O., is"a sunflower full bloom growing from a crovice of a tall maple tre Detroit lays claim to the biggest horse in the world—twenty-one hands high and weighing 2,365 pounds. A squad of Philadelphia policemen has been furnished with “safeties’ with which to ride over their beats. Alaska contaius six active voleanocs, but they do not seem very materially to warm up the chmate of that country. Henry Cook, a Norwich, Conn., tuilor, has a beard seven ' foot two inches long, though he is only five feet six inches tall, _ Petreleum has boen discovered at Col- igno, Fresun county, Cal. The oil is smd to bé of better quality than any yet found in the state, *“I'he Seven Sisters Stars of the Myste: ous Ton ana the Daughters of the Sepulchre’ is the dazzling title of a colored hife ass tion of Texas. Ofticer Rollings of Philadelphia is s be the largest policeman in the Unit Ho is six feet oight inches in height and weighs 0 pounds. The celebrated Lick observatory reveals 100,000,000 stars, and some of thém are so small that it would require 30,000 of them to be visible to the naked oyo. The consus men found in the United States 14,056,75 r L 16,019,501 cows, §6,875,643 oxen and cattie, 43,431, sheep aud 50,625,106 swine. Boston s the only city in the world which preserves an exact record of the proceedings of the common council. Every motion, argu and remark, no matter how unimport- stenographicaily taken down. The metnbers are, therefore, very careful of their utterances. 1555 the mica product of the Umted amounted to 147,410 pounds, worth 308,535, while that of 1830 was but 49,500 pounds, worth only 0,000, Sinco there is 1o increase in demand of this article this d cline in the home praduction can be attributed 10 no other cause than the large quantities importod from Canada and other foreign countries, So great s the demand for suburban homes, near New York thutalmostany sort of a land speculation succeeds hereabouts if managed with any degrce of skill. Not long ago a landowner ericlosed a bare suburban hill with ustroug wall, pierced it with pretentious gates, laid out the grounds with gravelled drives, and gave the placo an attractive name eudiog in “parik.’ The sale of lots ne off recently and much of the land sold ut the rate of $14,000 an acre, NEWS OF YESTERDAY. Carl Sehurz has resizned the presideney of the thonburg-American Packet company John M. Butler of Indianapolis, so'tis said will be appointed to the vacaney on the Inter: state conmission. James S. Kelley ford, Miss., has Liabilities 15 preps One of the four prisoners who mado their escape. from deilerson Barracks, Mo, on Thursday lust, has been recapturéd. P, W. Meltanna of Madison, Wis, while lab orinzuander o it of temporary insunity at Tempted to murder O, O, Wessler of the sane elty. Tho trial of €. Breedlove of San Diego, Cal., srged with tho murder of Josoph Brown, i Sadlor of the Unitod States erulser Charleston, July M, has begun, 1t now looks as though a sottlement would be had in the celebratod Searles wil ease. Overtures to that eifect having boen made by both partics to the contest, sseph Blank, a prominent farmer, whilo iving to Cambridge, Ind., with his wito and two daughtors. wero strack by a Pan Handie freight train and all four killed In u quarrel over the division line between two farms at Faxon, Sibley county, Mint., Jumes O'Neli killed 'Miehael Collins and fu* ally wounded Lis two grown sons. Ex-Judge T, O. Ball of Wichita, Kan., hus been soloeted to preside it the fanous Kinsis murder trinl nt which James Brenoan will be tried for killing Colonel Sumucl Woods. ers Feport that about thirty sLores ire 1 tents At Lthe ten porary. Lown nour 2 Ok, und that Co.onel Willinn D, of Clinton, Mo., has the Bank of Okli- in full operiation. ave fears e felt for the safety of fishing sehinoner Albert WondEury, whieh salied fron Boveriy, Muss., six weeks io, The vessel wis commitded by Caprain Watkin of Beverly, nd comprised eleven nien Phe International congress. which has been considering the questions of accidents o Workingn et anc workwomen, employers' Hia Dility in such cuses, state instrance and other Tike Subjects, elosoi at Berne, Switzerland Laust night at White's saw mill, on Crooked ercek. In Hlount county, P, John Everott Killod his brother. Frank, by Stabbing him in the heart. The niurder was the indirect re suitof an old quarrel. The murderer eseaped eph Black, his wito and one daughter were Killed and un other futally Injured short distance out of Indianapoflls. [nd.. by Raving tho careinge in which they ‘wore rid- i Fan down by an expross train on the Pan- hundie rond The conviet miners fn the cosl mines n Bricoville, Pi, hieve beon surrounded by an extra strong foree of guards, and fortific Yions have heen built around the workings Tt 18 not thought thist the (res miners will at- tack the mines. The east end of Emmons county, North Da- Kotit, hits been swept by @ terribic ‘prairie fire fin whieh throo mon lost their lves. M families are renderod homoless. Who o herds of enttle perished 1y the flames, The fire orlg fuated from a threshing engine Mr. and Mrs, Tubor filed in tho Federal court nufacturor of Mil- No statement of of Arkansis wsuit LU0 v ges g st Muyor €. C. Doran \arkini, Ark., for false fmprisonment, Mr. and Mrs. Fabor are spiritualists, and wore arrosted for te.ling fortunes without paying for a lieonss Melbourne, the ratnmaker, hus postpone the test he' proposes tomake at Goodlnd K., wnd for which, If successful, ho is to £00, Dol next Pucsday. o the meantin nature has antieipated Bim, und his troatod the, people of that town and vicinity to ey eral Souking showor Jumes 1, Daey. of the firm of Daloy Bro groceries, at Port Chioster, No Y. w " Killed in his store by fohn 1% Gloason witehmun, There had been bad fechin twoen Glogson wnd Doy on account of Diley permitting Mrs. Gloason to stay ot his house after she had soparated frou lier busband | | e | | | | | Indiaua Brates Tioa Woman toa Post and_ Whip Her, FIFTY LASHES ON HER BARE BODY, Cut from Head to Foot as with a Knifo [ —Decent Residents Enraged | | Because of' the Terrible Outrage. Ixpraxarorts, Ind., Sept. 20— A Birdsey® specinl says s, Harmon, a woman of loose charncter living at Mentor, was last | night visited by a vody of thirty men, who tied hor to a post ana applied fifty lashos to her bare body. Her body was cut from head to foot by a knife. Across her abdomen was | @ gash twelve inchos tong and so decp as to | loave tho bowels exposed. The community dtiat such an awful thing should have bhappened. CHANGING THE CONFESSION, | One Presbytery Which Has Madg Some Tmportant Alterations, Rocusster, N, Y., Sept, %, Tho presby | tery of Rocliester has held its stated fall T'he Bristol company has lately uncovered | meoting at Nunda, N. v, The matter of chief interest and importance that camo up for consideration was the confession of faith 18 revised by the committ of the general assembly I'he last sentence In the xth section of the sixth chapter was struck out, towit: Neither are any other rodeomed Uy Christ effectualiy called, justified, adopteq, suncti d and saved, but the elect ouly.’ I'he most remarkable thing done was to te chat the seventh section, in_ the original and the revised form which declares tnat ‘I'he rest of mankind God was pleased to pass by and to ordain todishonor and wrath, should be omitted altogetlior and the follow- g adopted ns a substitute for it I'he de- crees of God, concerning all munkindg are to be so construed as to be 1 harmony with these arations of Seripture, vi I'hat Christ 1s the propitintion for the sivs of the whole world and that God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentanco and live” This chane having been made, 1t was decided to bo necessary to strike out the last soetion of the chapter which relates to the hign mystery just ¢ plained. In_the third section of chapter six, the clause, “the guilt of thissin was imputed’? was dropped, because to say “we all sinned in Adam’ is to say what is” utterly unintel- ligible and inconceivable, and the whole iden is contrary to natural justice and to tho ex- press declaration of Scripture, “'The son shall 1ot bear the iniquity of the father.” sl Sl RIOTING COTTON PICKERS. Sanguinary Conflicts -Some of the Striker nilled, Lirree Rock, Ark., Sept. Late reports received from Marianna says that the troublo between cotton pickers near there culinated in a riot, several negroes being killed and a number wounded. The sheriff quelied the dise turbance and the head leaders are in custody. The riot erew out in a strike inaugurated by a number of pickers who demanded 50 conts ver hour. Tho planters refused the de- mands, Tho dissatisficd negroes at once struck and their places were filied oy others. ral fighting cnsued; women, mon and children taking part, avmed with hoes, sticks, kuives and revolvers. — - CREDITORS COME TO TINE. ¢ Subscribe for’ the Union Pacifle Collateral Trust Notes, New Yous, Sept. 26 —The creditor’s con- mittee of the Union Pacific railway met today, and after adjournment it was an- nounced that four-fifth’s of the £,500.000 col- lateral trust notes for the extension of the floatiag debt had been subscribed for. Jay Giould subscribed for £1,000,000. ———— stimony for the ltata. Los AxceLes, Cal,, Sept. 20.—Tho taking of the testimony of the Itata's ofticers began before commisstoner yesterday. William Bbell, the purser's cierk, said the ship was only a merchant vessel and no sailors or arms wore on boavd when the vesscl was at San He says the arms were taken on off San Clementi e ne T Losses by Savannah's Five, Savassan, Ga, Sept. 26.-The losses by last night's fire are £100,000. Guekenheimer & Sow’s building and stock are a total loss, amounting to £205,0005 insuvance, $140,000. Henry Solomon & Son, wholesale groceries and tiquors, sustained @ loss of #10.000; fully insured. Other smaller losses comvlete the total. e Fatal Balloon Ascensios Morst Preasist, Mich., Sept 25, ~As the result of a batloon ascension yesterdav aftors noon Lewis B. Earl of Murshall, Mich., is dead, and Frank Thayer is severely injured. The causo of the accident was the ~bréaking bz Topos. SPECIAL NOTICES. COUNCIL BLUFFS, 4 Willow avenue and Sherraden's gallery, Lurn to 620 Willow avenue nnd g reward, VW ANTED Nicely furnshod room for Indy and gentieman in Council Hlufre, with or without hoard for lady. Address, Loek Box 162, Couneil BLufs, JEVERAL stocks of merchandise and clear WY Oniahin imd Counell BIulls property to ox change for lowa fuems. 16 you hive to offer. write to Johnston & Van Council Blufls DOR SALE 20 acre frait tarm three miles From postoflice, henlv inproved and verge deatrabien Forest Suith, Baidwin Diock FANTED - young girl from 1 to H years W A Taaet e bao il Mrs. Doll G.Mo gan, 1307 Soeond avenue VWV ANTED-—A good burber at once; steady job. Tnquire at St Jou house AXPERT Columbia bieyele, 82 fneh, in pers Uteet order, will trade for good” rifle, §2 catibre. C. AL Atking, Councll Blufts, Ta ALATRVOYANCE. mind reading or Psys Jehmutry, - Disenses of all kind diagnosod and treated with, hot biths and massuge, Al ieticrs promptly answered. Office hours, W 0 10 Do, No. 2L avenue By near cor. 1th streot o Y0 SALE or Rent Garden Dand - with OO i e il "Rt ot ot Blurs - CITIZENS STATE BANK Of Council Bluffs, CAPITAL STOCK........ .. $150,000 SURPLUS AND PROFITS TOTAL CAPITAL AND SURPLUS Dinkctons—I. A. Milier, £ 0. Gleason, B L. Shugurt, B B it 2 D Ednnindson, Ciarle K Hannan, Transact general banki ness. Largest capital und surplus of In Southwestern lowi NTEREST ON TIME DEFOSITS FIRSTNATIONAL l}s\\ll( Paid Up Ca . L. $100,000 Oldest orgn rolzn an domestic exchn Eapecial g ttent . ivid- & GEO. 1% SANFORD, Presidont A W. RIEKMAN. Cashier. ICE. Assistant Cashier. THE GRAND Council Bluffs, Ia THIS ELEGANTL APPOINTED HOTEL IS8 NOW OPEN, N. W. TAYLOR, Manager,