Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 20, 1894, Page 7

THE OMAHA DAJLY BEE: SUNDAY,"'MAY 20, 184—TWENTY PAGES CORMICK WAS SUSPENDED Bergeant Bhoop Reinstated and Orderel to Report for Usual Duty. DECISION OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS Case of the Polico Captain Will Be Further Investigated—Evidence Submitted Yos- terday Afternoon Kelative to the Assault. The Board of Fire and Police Commis- sioners met at 1:30 yesterday afternoon to complete the taking of evidence in the 8hoop-Cormick case. Joseph Michaels, clerk of the police court, was the first witness. Ho sald that on Wednesday night, when the trouble occurred, he was at work In his office, when he heard loud talking down in the jail office. He went to the head of the stairs and heard the captain call Shoop “a —— —— liar.” He heard Shoop reply to the effect that the captain was a gentle- man, and then went back to his work While in the court room he saw two men go up to the captain’s office, and shortly after- ward heard Shoop cry out: “Oh, boys, he struck me.” He did not hear the captain call Shoop any names. Jaflor Bebout told about the row in the Jail, and said that when the men went up stairs he heard some one say: ‘You're an A P. A This remark was immediately followed by Shoop's cry for help. Andrew Haze, mounted policeman, after describing the origin of the trouble, said that when Shoop called for help he and other officers ran upstairs and met Shoop on the flanding. Shoop was bleeding profusely from the nose, and sald: “Look what the captain has done. He called me up to his office and struck me in the face.” Officer Corey and Hans Timm testified to about the same things as did the other witnesses for the defense, and the defendant rested his part of the case Captain Cormick was recalled and de- niled that he struck Shoop when they were upstairs or that he called him any names. He also denled ever having met Shoop or any other officer without saluting or re- turning the salute of his brother officers. This ended the taking of evidence, and the attorneys were allotted twenty minutes each in which to make their arguments. The cases were argued from the standpoint that Shoop had been guilty of insubordination and Cormick gullty of conduct unbecoming an officer. The board went into executive session, and after remaining behind closed doors for more than two hours they came out and an- nounced that they had suspended Cormick pending further investigation, and had Testored Shoop to duty. The charges by Shoop agalnst Cormick for assaulting him and violating the laws of the state was sustained. The charge of assault against Shoop was not sustained, but the sergeant was found guilty of leaving the jail without being relieved from duty by the oncoming officer, contrary to the regulations of the Uepartment. Chief Seavey ordered Sergeant Shoop to report for duty at roll call last night, and Captain Cormick was relieved from duty until further orders from the board. It is the evident intention of the commissioners to Investigate and give the case a much more thorough consideration as soon as possible. FIRE DEPARTMENT ROW. Troubles to Be Brought Before the Police Commissioners. For the next few weeks the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners will have all that they can do 4n straightening out the troubles which have arisen in the fire and-police de- partments. There has been row at engine house No. 1 recéntly and trouble has arisen which will probably be called to the attention of the commissioners. At the meeting of the board last Monday night a communication was read from a number Of the members and directors of the Benevo- lent Paid Firemen's association, in which it was stated that, owing to the actions of cer- tain officers of thé fire department, they had been unable to meet and organize or fo get control of the books which they “wanted to audit. This matter did not come under the Jurisdiction of the board, and the petitioners said that they would take the matter into the courts unless they secured satl§faction. See- ing that the trouble was likely to create a scandal Chief Galligan, who has been presi- dent, and Assistant Chief Salter, who has been treasurer of the association, told the commissioners that they were going to resign at the next meeting. Among the signers of the petition was John Ormsby, a popular member of one of the hose companies stationed at Engine house No. 1. When he came down to work the next morning he was ordered out of the house and told to leave the department by Second Assistant Chief Barnes, who is sta- tioned at No. 1 house. Barnes felt person- ally aggrieved at Ormsby because he signed the petition in order that the Benevolent assoctation might become organized and pro- ceed to transact their business, which wa getting into bad shape. It is now alleged that Barnes borrowed $200 of the association several months ago, and so far efforts to collect the amount have failed. During, the absence of Chief Galligan the new directors allege that they tried to dall a meeting and get control of the books, but that Assistant Chief Salter would not let them meet durfng Galliga absence. In order that a member may borrow money from mg assoclation his application must be signed by a majority of Ormgby was one of the signers for Barnes and, he and others were about to be held accountable for the indebtedness, he wanted to try and make irrangements by which the matter could be amicably settled. But his action in signing the petition angered Barnes, who took it ,upon himself, without any right, to order Ormsby from the house. No charges were preferred against Ormsby. He donned his citizen's clothing and came down town. ‘When Barnes' action became known to Chief Galligan he told his assistant that he had no right to do as he did and Ormsby was hunted up and persuaded to return to duty for fear he would prefer charges before the com- missioners, at thelr next meeting, against Barnes. the directors. bl From § tter Croek. SUTTER CREEK, Cal, April 12, 1894.— Tom Groen of this place says: “Last sum- mer I had a sudden and violent attack of diarrhoea. Some oune recommended Cham- berlain Colic, Choler: and Diarrhoea Remedy, which I procured, and aft tak- inz a couple of doses was completely cured. Since then I have often persuaded friends to use it for the same complaini, and in every case a prompt cure has been effected. my opinion it is the best remedy on the For sale by Of all the freaks that nature has produced in these parts, one reported by A. G. Dager- man takes the cake. Mr. Dagerman llves eight miles west of this city. A few days ago one of his cows gave birth to & calf, which, if it had lived, would have had all the dime museum manugers in the coun- try after it. But, unfortunately for the owner, and probably fortunately for the calf, it gave up the ghost befors it had com- pletely made its entree into the world. The entire under part of the animal from he fore to the hind legs was slit open, the entrails all bring outside. The ribs were curved upward over the back. Its hind legs were bent upwards and came up to the shoulders. But the strangest fact of all is that the animal was alive when born, al- though its death ensued almost Immediately. Marriage Licenses. The following marriuge licenses were is- sued yesterday Name and address. William H. Large, Omaha Mary A. Larson, Omaha.. Axel Strom, South Omaha Alma Nonlahl, Omaha. H““ Jusperson, ary Johnson, C Gustave Gibson Anna G. Olson, Omaha e I Courtland Heach Opentug. The summer season at Courtland beach will be inaugurated next Saturday and Man- Ager Grifiths is up to his eyes In prepara- Asge. U35 24 2 = 2 tions for the opening. ' Since the close of Mt season a great many changes have been made in the popular resort and the crowds that will visit the beach this summer will be surprised at what has been dome. The improvements made are upon a broad scale and will meet with the approbation of the general public. The street car service has also been greatly improved by double- tracking the line, which will do away with the crowding at either end Many new features will be exploited this season, it being the desire of Manager Grif- fiths to make the resort second to none in the country. CLAY, ROUS ——— SEAU AND BRECKINRIDGE. From the press one would conclude that the course of Colonel Breckinridge in stand- ing for renomination whilst under the cen- sure of the house of representatives and almost unanimous public opinion is unusual and anomalous, but this is not so. A simi- lar case arising from a different caus® in the Thirty-ninth congress from the same old com- monwealth of Kentucky occurred in the Fifth (Loulsville district) with which the house wrestled for over ten days. To represent this district was considered an acme of Kentucky ambition, and well it might be. Henry Clay had made the Blue Grass reglon {llustrious. _ Garrett Davis John J. Crittenden, James B. Beck and our own Seaator Joe Blackburn had all honored this district on the floor of the house of representatives. Another who ranked but little above Breckinridge, also represented this district, James B. Clay, the son of the great commoner. James B. Clay was a member of the Thirty-sixth congress, being elected as a democrat. In a discussion in the house, being interrogated by some mem- ber about his great father, and reminding him of how he differed with his father, took occasion In some way to criticise his father's (the great H. C.) political course. There was a howl all over the country. A few days afterward in_the bar room of the National hotel in Washington he was de- nounced as “‘a degenerate son of a noble sire’ and a bystander threw a glass of whisky in his face. A few days later he went into se- cession, and shortly afterwards ran away to Canada’ where he died in exile during the latter part of the war, but his body was taken to Kentucky and laid away among the bones of his great ancestors. Lovell H. Rousseau was a remarkable man. He first galned a notorfety in southern In- diana when a laborer in a brick yard when about 18 years of age. In a foot race with the best sprinter in that section he won. At the beginning of the Mexican war in 1846 or 1847 he volunteered in Colonel Booth's Second Indiana, which regiment so ingloriously fled at the battle of Buena Vista, of which in after years I have heard General Rousseau often speak, giving the cause of what he called “a great foot race,” the ignor- ance and cowardice of Colonel Booth, who was summarily dismissed from the service. After the Mexican war Rousseau was ad- mitted to the bar in Indlana, and removed to Louisville to practice. When 1 was about 17 my father placed me in Rousseau’s office, as he said, “to pick up what I could learn and try to make a lawyer.” From that time, though there were about thirtcen years between us, I knew him well, and from the beginning of the rebellion until 1866, when the affair of which 1 write, his opposition to the Freed- man Bureau bill, and his support of Anfrew Johnson's policy, alienated us, and he never forgave me for my criticisms. At our last interview with a few qualifying adjectives in the superlative degree, with two pro- nouns, one noun and one verb, he invited me to visit a far off country, where there is supposed to be a process of eternal in- cineration. The affair of Rousseau in_the house arose in debate over the freedmen’s bureau bill. Josiah B. Grinnell, a member from Iowa, made some caustic remarks about Rous- seaw's conduct reflecting dishonor on his state. Rousseau demanded explanations. Grinnell made explanations, but not sat factory to Rousseau. Three months after- wards an occasion presented ltself, and the mutual acrimonious remarks obtained. Roussean, in company with-the late Colonel C. D. Pennebaker, Colonel Grigsby and Col- onel McGrew, went together to the capitol, and near the door of the rotunda, on the piazza where all presidents are inaugurated, wore out over the head and shoulders of Grinnell a rattan cane. Congress was pre- sented with resolutions for expulsion, sus- pension, fine, and finally this one, by Gen- eral Nathaniel Banks of Massachusetts, passed: Resolved, That Hon Lovell H. Rousseau, a member of ths house from the state of Kentucky, be summoned to the bar of the house and be there publicly reprimanded by the speaker for the violation of its rights and privileges of which he was guilty in the personal assault committed by him upon the person of Hon. J. B. Grinnell, a mem- ber of this house from the state of Iowa, for words spoken in debate. Rousseau at once resigned, returned to Louisville and the governor of Kentucky called an election. His enemies and op- ponents could find no one to oppose him, and he was unanimously elected, and in thirty-five days he was in his old seat. Grinnell returned to Iowa. He was not renominated and was not heard of in poll- tics afterwards. The people of lowa some- how thought he should have fought. Andrew Johnson and Rousseau were indi- visible friends. The next session of con- gress President Johnson appointed him a brigadier general in the regular army. He was sent to command at New Orleans, where he died in 1868 or 1869, He was a man of magnetism, impetuous, faithful to his friends and the best hater to his enemies; was ready at all times to listen to the words of wis- dom, and ready, as well, to concillate when advances were equal. The profound minds by genius and educa- tion of his ancestors, so powerful and in- fluential in social, religious and political circles, concentrated in W. C. P. Breckin- ridge as the last prominent representative of tuch a broad lineage demands the ask- ing of the momentous question, What shall we do? The mothers, wives and daughters should inquire, Is the sacredness of the home and fireside safe from the heritage of names of great influence? Let fathers and brothers ask, Without rebuke to this man, where is the safety of virtue? Let the innocent school girl always have her duenna, fearful that & man of mighty name might send her out upon the world as a convicted harlot. To a native of fair old Kentucky that lived there for the first twenty-nine years of his life it would seem that the quondam gallantry, chivalry and superb manhood that the good, red blood of that old state, by the conduct of Breck- inridge had degenerated into stallions, jacks and Short Horned bulls. PAT 0. HAWES., el COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. Contracts and Bonds for County Road Paving Approved. Curtiss C. Turner appeared before the Board of County Commissioners at the meeting yesterday afternoon and presented the petition of interested property owners asking that the location of the southwest road be changed before it is paved. He stated that by selecting another route a little farther north they would secure a much easler grade. His plan would give 3% instead of a 5 per cent grade. There would be a_difference of only 3,000 yards in the amount of dirt to be moved, but it would be necessary to secure a right of way, which Turner estimates could be secured for $2,600. The proposition was re- ferred to the committee on roads. The contracts and bonds of E. D. Van Court & Co. and Hugh Murphy for paving the country roads with macadam and sand- stoge respectively were approved, the former recelving all the votes with the exception of Willlams', and the latter receiving a unanimous vote. Williams sald ‘his objections were not against the bond, but against macadam, and he was unwilling to cast a vote that would have the effect of assisting in using it. The macadam members relterated their expres- slons of confidence in that material. Addi- tional protests were received touching the matter, one belng directed against mac- adam and the other agalnst sandstone. Both were placed on file ar—— Welghing the Malls. Yesterday completed the thirty-five days weighing of mails in this division, on which the compensation of raflroads for hauling it for the next four years will be based The welghing shows very little chang since the last previous welghing, with the exception of the trunk lines, which show a little increase. The compensation will not be materially changed. WANTED T0 DEFER SENTENCE How ':he Gambling Oases Have Been Dis- posed of Before Judge Scott. WHITE GETS OFF WITH A LECTURE AND FINE Intention of the Bench Gives Way Before the Plain Urglng of an Attorney— Other Matters in District Court, All of the numernus criminal suits against the proprietors of the Diamond pool rooms are to be dismissed from the dockets, and Charles White, one of the erstwhile owners, who was convicted last week, has been sentenced by Judge Scott to pay a fine of $400 and the costs of prosecution. Yesterday was sentence day in the criminal section of the district court, and as a result | White was before the bar. After the con- vening of the court H. J. Davis, represent- ing the prisoner, flled a motion for a new trial, alleging that at the trial and while the jury was being secured G. W. Doane, who had been appointed to prosecute, asked one of the jurors the question, “'Do you know the location of the gambling house known as the Diamond and kept by the defend- ant?" This question, Judge Davis contended, prejudiced the minds of the jurors, as it presumed that the defendant was guilty and also assumed that the defendant was the owner of the Diamond pool rooms, some- thing that at that time had not been proven. The motion was promptly overruled, after which White was called up for sentence. In imposing the penalty Judge Scott made the usual grand stand play, saying that since taking up the criminal docket cases were numerous where young men and even boys had been brought before him charged with the commission of crime. They had been charged with robbery, burglary and larceny, and in nearly every instance the origin of the crime could be traced back to the gambling room. The commission of such crimes and their origin had become so num- erous that they could mnot be overlooked, especially when the first downward step of the boys could be traced to the date when they crossed the threshold of the gambling rooms of the city. The court said he did not think the defendant was morally cor- rupt, as he had a good family, but the busi- ness was the passport for old and young men to enter the penitemtiary. The gambling room was the false hope that al- lured the young men on to the commission of crime; men with the wages of the day would start on their journey home, but on the road they would &top in the gambling hguse, there leaving the money that should bé used in buying bread for the poorly clad wife and the starving children. For two vears, the court said, there had been a system of legalizing the business by allowing the gamblers to pay a certain amount into the treasury each month for ply- ing their calling. The author of that prac- tice had been guilty of making a contract between virtue and vice and had thrown about the gambling places the understanding that the boys should be kept out. That was a grand thing for the boys, but there was nothing of the kind dome to save the husbands and fathers. For two years po- licemen of the city had made trips through the gambling places and they had seen the boys there, notwithstanding they were ex- cluded by law, but they had closed their eyes to what they had seen. Not a preacher, not a church man in the city who did not know this to be a fact. The mayor himself knew it, for two years ago he became a party to the contract allowing the gambling houses to exist under certain conditjons. An election, the court declared, came on, and prior to the-casting of the votes it was arranged that the plan should continue if a certain man was elected to the position of chief magistrate. On the day of that election the church people were falling over one another to vote for the man who had made the contract. Here the judge opined that he was glad that he was not like some other men, who would vote to have a quiet Sunday, and at the same time vote to have the working day turned into a hell. Getting back to the original theme of gambling, the court declared that it should be stopped in Omaha, s0 long as he was upon the dis- trict bench. He could not understand how it was that White was convicted by the jury and Jack Morrison was acquitted, for the evidence against the latter was the stronger. “It was marvelous,” he continued, and then making a threat, he said, ‘“Morri- son got out this time, but I want to serve notice upon him now, and I do so in all kindness. It will not be safe for him to try the experiment again. What I propose to do is to place a ban upon gambling, and if this man will quit, we have accomplished this much. I had it in my mind to place this man under bonds to keep the peace, delaying the passing of the sentence until some other time. There was an Interval of silence, and turning to Judge Doame, the court asked: “What do you think about that?” Instantly Judge Doane replied by saying that he was not quite sure if a judge had the authority to postpone thé imposing of a sentence until another term of court. The court was of the opinion that he pos- sessed the power, when Judge Davis raised the point that when White was tried he was not an owner of the diamond pool rooms, having sold his interests some six months ago. Indications were still pointing to the fact that Judge Scott was not anxious to pass sentence upon White, for again he asked, looking at Judge Doane, “What is your idea ubout deferring the sentence?" Judge Doane answered that he did not think it the proper way of enforcing the law, adding, “If a man has had a fair and impartial trial and has been found gullty, the court should pass sentence without un- necessary delay.” hat depends upon the case,” answered the court. Judge Duvis did not think It the proper thing to place the defendant under bonds, as he was out of the business and was not intending to re-engage in the same line, That settled the whole matter, and after the imposing of the ine Judge Scott gave White a parting skot by telling him of the narrow escape he had from being sent to the penitentiary. The Garbage Matter, The suit brought by Henry Cocmbes and others against Alexander McDonald and others came on for hearing before Judge Ferguson yesterday, where the plaintiffs were seeking to secure the defendants from in- terfering with them in the hauling, and also where R. S. Berlin sought to have a receiver appointed to take charge of the garbage business of McDonald. The whole of the issues were presented on aMdavits, after which there were arguments on the part of the plaintiffs tending to show that the garbage contract was tinctured with fraud from the day of its inception. On these issues the plaintiffs asked the court to declare both the ordinance and the con- tract void. ( City Attorney Conmell, in behalf of the city, contended that the court could not issue a ‘mandatory order compelling the Board of Health to locate dumping grounds for the city, as that was a power which rests wholly ‘with the city government. At the hour of the afternoon adjournment the case was only fairly under way, and fur- ther proceedings went over until next week. Case Argued. Echoes of the case of Ingre Madsen against the Omaba Street Rallway com- pany floated through Judge Ambrose's court yesterday. This case has been tried three times, and at the last hearing the jury found for the defendant. After the return of the ver- dict, the attorneys for the plaintiff charged that some of the jurors had been guilty of unbecoming conduct, in this that some one of them had sald that Mrs. Madsen did not walk lame on the strects, while.in the court room she could hardly step, and that this had been discussed in the jury room Yesterday all of the jurors who sat upon the case were called before Judge Ambrose and examined, after which the case was argued and taken under advisement. Minor Court Matters. In the case of C. 8. Elgutter, as adminis. trator of the estate of George Jay, deccased, against the Missour! Pacific Railway com- pany, and wherein judgment was recently found for the defendant; the plaintiff has filed a motion for a new trink. The case of Samuel Ekifs against On Street Rallway éompany has dismissed at the cost of N blaint'sr Four years ago the plaintiff sued the com- pany in an action to recb¥er $2,000 on ac- count of alleged personal lnjuries. In 1891 the case was tried, the jury failing to agree. The next year it was tried Again, this time the plaintiff recovering a verdict for $1,600 after which it was sent to the supreme court, where the judgment of the lower court was reversed and the case remanded. — CAUGHT AT RANDOM. the been Congressman Weadock of Bay City, Mich., while in attendance at the Ancient Order of Hibernians' convention here, gave a reporter a rather humorous account of his first im- pressions of Omaha. Said he “My attention had been called to some editorials in The Bee and 1 was prepared for a rather unusual state of railroad affairs, but for nothing like what I found. Leaving Council Bluffs, 1 was first astonished to find a very fair depot out on the prairie— neither in Council Bluffs nor Omaha, nor anywhere else that I have 8o far been able to discover. Crossing the bridge the train stopped at what I supposed to be some switching suburb, and although the brake- man, with his usual stentorian emphasis, had announced, ‘Omaha,’ T kept my seat. There were no indications of further progress, and I finally got out and found myself on a long plank platform, on one end of which were a couple of baggage trucks and on the other a blind man and a couple of tramps dozing in the sun. A telegraph instrument was tick- ing tn an adjoining tool shed or temporary baggage house, and inside I found an in- dividual who in response to inquiries for the Union depot directed me to a massive brick foundation, weather beaten and time stained, which loomed up _ across the tracks. ‘When was it burned?' I asked. ‘Never was burned. 'Taint finished,’ he responded, and shut me off. I shouMered my grip and rambled about for some time deliberating as to whether I should wait for the completion of the depot or find my way out of the place in which I found myself, for there were neither hacks nor ‘busses in sight. Finally a ragged young urchin directed me up a sort of cattle or hog chute where I found a street car. 1 was just regretting that I had not brought a shotgun to have a try at the qualls and ghost dancers which probably infested the Nebraska metropolis when 1 found myself in a city of splendidly paved streets, stately public and private build- ings, sumptuous hotels and a hustling, en- ergetic population, which tolerates for a union depot a ramshackle frame shed lo- cated in a hole in the ground.” 1t is not generally known that Police Com- missioner- Willlam Coburn among his other numerous accomplishments numbers that of being a great fisherman. It has become a general and reprehensible custom to regard With coolness and doubt the recounted feats of piscatorial artists, and the custom pos- sibly has some cause for its existence, but in the case of Mr. Coburn it is different, for he himself was the raconteur only yester- day and the tale of his unrecorded exploits was told with that plain, unvarnished candor which characterizes all his wttcrances. This happened in the days of h1s downiness and willowyness, before he needed a mirror to see the shine on his shoes..oHe and a con- genial companion rowed (up’ an Towa stream of such crystalline purity that the clam shells and shoe buckles son the bottom, ten feet away, seemed within hand grasp. They reachied a dam and prepared their lines with the succulent angle worm; but before the first cast was made a strange thing hap- pened. All the fish in the river had deter- mined to jump that dam, and it was only necessary o use the bailing pail to fill their punt with a glistening mass of sunfish, black bass, speckled trout, shdd, mackerel, cuttle fish, conger eels and the like. A school of other marine monsters attempted to jump into the boat over the gunwale, but ‘they beat them off with thelr cars and rowsd back to town—*“two proud boys.” The next day: their fellow, townsmen chartered o flotilla of boats and sailed up the stream to capture what they had been, unable to carry, but the stream was deserted by fish. AL another time Mr. Coburn stood on a rock in mid stream with a four-pronged spear in his hands and in the intervals of conversa- tion with companions on the shore woull carelessly drop his weapon into the water, to bring up on each prong a splendid specimen of pickerel or bass. This feat was performed ten or twelve times. No one of those who heard Mr. Coburn tell of either experience could doubt the absolute veracity. of his re- cital. Bickerings and strifes, vituperations and all manners of uncharitableness have within the past few days disturbed the erstwhile peace of a semi-suburban locality in the northern portion of the city, and the cause of it all is a rabbit—a measley, mangy, mumbling, mud-colored “bunny,” which one of the boarders picked up on the street and took home for a pet. On the first forenoon of its residence on the block, the stranger was content to hop about the common lawn to the amusement of all. Suddenly Mr. O'Neil's big Newfoundland dog, who had been eying him suspiciously, made a lunge, but was beaten off by the neighbors. He who kicks O'Neil's dog, kicks O'Neil, and so one family was alienated. Then Mrs. Van Norman left a box of strawberries on the back porch, and Master Rabbit helped him- self to all he wanted and spoiled the rest. He chewed the bark off the young trees planted by the landlord; he heiped himself to the dinners prepared for the family cats, and finally found his way into the garden which is the joy of the life of an Irish neighbor. In a few minutes the old lady appeared with the struggling bunny grasped by the ears: “Yez'll tek thot robbit or I'll breck its dom back. Luk at me cabbages an’ me raddishes, an’ me lettuce! Divil a one is left,” and the old lady, almost in tears, passed the offender from door to door, repeating: ‘‘Tek you're robbit,” but no one would take it, and it suddenly dawned on the block that nobody owned it for the boarder had left. Time alone, how ever, can heal the breaches its temporary sojourn has caused. e WANT FURAY'S PLACE. Aspirants for & Place on the Board of Public Works. It will be nearly two months before any one is requested to assume the ‘uties per- taining to the office of a' member of the Board of Public Works to fill the vacancy made by the expiration of Major Furay's term, but there are already numerous can- didates, who are willing. to serve their country in that capacity. i ¥here has been but little open effort to 9btdin the appoint- The booms that hEVE ment. been launched up to date are dfsguised under varlous forms, and the candidated have contented themselves with making -their aspirations known to their immediateupalitical friends and doing a little quiet wizespulling, with a view to getting a good pleemmt the start, It s no secret -that Major Furay would not be averse to succepding himself. Be- sides ‘being able to ‘idefitiow a good thing when he sees it, the majbr &iks spent a good deal of his time duringl sHe past eighteen months in investigating ghe electrolysis question, and would be pérfectly willing to stay in office for another terfn, now that the matter s becoming of imggdfive Importance Another candidate Who, sting anxious eyes toward Mafor Furuj‘s% is ex-Coun- ellman George Munro. Hwgsas servid one term in the city council,avhere he made a creditable record, and is.netynwitling to re- enter official life. Jobn McLearie, who was formerly a m:mber of the city council and of the Board of Health, is also fixing his fences to make a fight for the vacancy. He has a good wany friends,who are already quietly working for his interests and he cx pects to come in near the bhead the pro- cession. Ex-Councilman Frank Kaspar Is being spoken of in somé quarters, and it is under stood that he would be willlng Lo accept the appointment. Mr. Kaspar nas been favor- ably identified with the industriak interests of the.city and bgs a strong follawing: L. M. Anderson thinks his expe county commissioner would qualify him to perform the duties of the sewer doi.mis- sioner and is making a quiet effort.dn that direction. George J. Paul is suld o b> u business men's- candidate, and this about completes the list of aspirants who have announced themsclves up to date. There i3 plenty of time left, however, and there be no lack of candidates who will be willing to take thelr chances in the race. as a will | READY T0O MARCA FORWARD Time 8eems Ripe for the Business Interests of the Oity to Advance, BETTER FEELING AMONG BUSINESS MEN Prospect that a Number of New Enterprises Will Be Immediately Pushed—Activ- ity in Bullding and R Week's Record. Omaha has constructed a solid foundation upon which it has begun to rear a beautiful and permanent superstructure. The time is distinctly within the memory of the younger class of the city's business men when not one metropolitan element could be named in behalf of the town. The commencement of public Improvements in 1880 created the epoch, the results of which have made the majority of Omaha's ploneers wealthy men At that time the city's supremacy was con- tested by rivals, both in this state and lowa, but proper business sagacity and en- ergy soon put the town beyond the reach of all competitors. The so-called boom of 1886 and 1887 wae the result of the natural expansion of the clty’s resources, which could not be realized by even those who assisted to bring It about. The development of the state and territory southwest and northwest largely contributed to the augmentation of wealth and popula- tion and the push of business men did the rest. A successful business community attracts to it many varieties of humanity, the ma- jority of which are beneficial to a city's growth. Speculators assist more than any- thing to make a town grow. They take chances which conservative men would shiver at. If there is a leader the rest will follow. All Omaha requires at this time to make it the Gate City in fact is some project of a substantial character which will attract the attention of men of means to ‘t. At the present juncture the Platte river canal scheme seems to offer more proba- bility of success than any other suggested The men who have taken this matter in charge view it as already in shape to soon produce tangible results. A prominent finan- cler, speaking on the subject of the canal a short time since, said that the inauguration of work on the enterprise would mark the most im portant perfod in Omaha’s history. As the gentleman has accumulated a fortune of several millions in guessing on Omaha's future his opinion is entitled to great resne, By reference to any enterprise of consider- able magnitude ever started in Omaha it will be seen that it has always had a suc- cussful issue. Without naming several of importance the smelting works, started upon the smallest possible basis, and now con- ceded to be the largest in the world; the South Omaha stock yards, making the city the second beef packing and third pork packing town in the world, may be pointed to as notable examples of what natural ad- vantages and man's assistance may do for a favored locality. These and other points have found a per- manent resting place in the minds of pro- gressive men here and new enterprises are being developed as rapidly as time and cir- cumstances will admit of. In the meantime realty appears by the records of recent transfers to have caught some of the spirit of the time and is doing considerable toward the rejuvenation of con- fidence. Since the destruction last autumn of the Farnam Street theater building negotiations of a more or less tangible chyracter have been on foot for the sale of the corner of Fifteenth and Farnam streets. Until lately no offer has been made which came near enough_to the owner's idea of property values to be accepted. It is now stated upon good authority that the Common- wealth Ground Rent assoclation of Boston has about concluded to buy the fee and lease for a term of ninety-nine years on a 6 per cent valuation to an Omaha man who will put up a permanent building. A Farnam street property owner has figured the probable rents of a fair Improvement on this corner and they aggregate some- thing over $60,000 a year. A leading man, in referring to municipal affairs he other day, gave some ideas which are good. In relation to public improve- ments he said the vast corruption in almest every branch of public business was almost inconceivable. It has been computed by a person well versed that of the amount yearly raised in this city for the servico of the public and for improvements one-fourth, if not more, is sunk and intercepted through the several classes of artful men in offic> before the remainder is applied to its proper use. X The only remedy for this condition is bet- ter men in office. While such men are in places of trust, who have no other views than thelr own interests, taxes will be high and improvements of an inferior class. A nonpartisan city government seems to afford the only remedy. 5 Renl Estate Notes. A contract has been signed for the trans- fer of a Sixteenth street business property on a valuation of $100,000. The transfer will probably go on record within the next ten days or two weeks. Negotiations are now in progress for forty-four feet on North Sixteenth street, with improvements, valued at §15,000. Frank E. Moores' purchase of 150 feet at the southeast corner of Thirty-sixth and Farnam streets, at $80 per front foot, is regarded as a good one by real estate men. Loan men are doing more business in out- side and vacant property loans. Last week a three years loan on vacant lots in Tut- subdivision was made on favorable terms. There is a good demand for acreage prop- erty, and a number of sales are reported. Real estate transfers for the past week: Monday . 188,912 Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday ... Saturday Total Bullding New: Walker & Kimball have the plans for a $60,000 stone and brick residence for E. A Cudahy completed. Work on this house, which is to be built at the southwest corner of Thirty-seventh and Howard streets, will begin immediately. F. C. Leaderbrink, the architect, is taking bids on a residence for C. Will Hamilton of the United States National bank. The cost will be about $12,000 and the location Park avenue. W. Birkhauser will build a $5,000 dwell ing on Thirty-fourth street between Farnam and Douglas. The new public library will be completed t the last of June. The brick work on the Omaha club build- ing is progressing rapidly and will be fin- ished some time in June. Work on the Schlitz roof garden at the corner of Sixtienth and Harney, first re- ferred to In last Sunday's Bee, will begin immediately. Building permits for the week MODARY; 41 s nrsanrss o bhakyerenasaadansel Mol 10 Tuesday ... S PR ) Wednesday 7,030 Thursday 503 Friday % Total e / 14,080 e Rheumatism Cured in Three Days. “I have been afficted all winter with rheumatism In the back. At times it was 50 severe that 1 could not stand up stralght, drawn over on one sid but was says George A. Mills of Lebanon, Conn. “I tried different remedles, but without relief, until about six weeks ago, when I bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Pain Bulm. After using for three days, according to directions, my rheumatism was gone, and has not re turned since. 1 have since recommended it and given it to others, and know they have been benefited by its use.” For sale by druggists i e T Damaged by Frost. The Frost Friday night did immenss damage to crops in this vicinity. lee formed a quarter of an inch thick, and vegetation on { these facts to the attention of the council A RESERVED SEAT FoR CENTS POPULAR PRICES. SUMMER OPERA SEASON. COMDMENCING TOMORROW, F OPERA C AMUSEMENTS. BOYD’'S *‘Coolest Place in Town.” ——am SAFE, CONFORTABLE EXITS A SUMMER BOWER, EXITS Monday, May 21 “+CARLETON OMPANY REPERTOJRE. Monday and Twesday Evenings and Saturday Matinee, ‘‘Queen’s Lace Handkerchief. Wednesday Ma nee and Wednesday and Thursday Evenings Friday and Saturday Feenings, *‘Dorothy.”’ PRICES low land was cut down. ers report that all ve potatoes, tomatoes, beans, pletely killed. - - ROBBERS OF CARS CAUGHT. inelnding were com- ables, ete., Union Pacific Gets the Leadersof a Gang at G River, Sherifft Tom Whitmore of Sweetwater county, Wyoming, was in Omaha yesterday having in custody George Harris, sr., who is wanted at Green River for receiving stolen goods pilfered from Union Pacific cars. In 1800 George Harris was a saloon- keeper at Green River and kept a rather shady place, the resort for all the tough citizens in that section of Wyoming. Dur- ing the year the Union Pacific company began missing large shipments of freight consigned to parties west of Green River, and they succeeded in tracing the missing consignments to Green River. Up to that time the Union Pacific was compelled to pay thousands of dollars every year for £00ds lost in transit on its system of rails and the stealing, as such it proved to be, became 8o open and insolent that General Manager Dickinson determined to inaugu- rate u secret service department, and he placed Mr. Canada at the head of the new office. Mr. Canadz st once began a syste- matic investigatic: of reported losses, turn- ing his attention to the constant disappear- ance of goods at Green River. Quiet search revealed to the clever inspector a remark- able state of affairs, and so persistent did his inquiry become that many of the brake- men, switchmen and other railroad em- ployes in that section decided to leave for parts unknown. Some were incontinently discharged from the service, while others, who were not aware of the evidence in Canada’s possession, gave up their jobs to follow their vocations in pleasanter climates than is found in the little oasis of Green River, set down in the heart of the great American desert. The investigation, patiently pursued by Mr. Canada caused George Harris to leave Green River for tne east, and all trace of him was apparently lost. George Smith. a switchman, also decided to quit, but Canada thought otherwise, and he followed Smith to Cape Cod, where he was finally captured and brought back to Green River as being the leader of a successful gang of car rob- bers. Smith, seeing that the tide was run- ning against him, made a clean breast of the whole affair, implicating a number of people in ‘the pilferings and charging George Har- ris, sr., with being a “fence.”” In his writ- ten confession he told of barrels of whisky, brandy and baskets of champagne which were stolen from Union Pacific cars and sold to Harris for nominal amounts; of boxes of cigarettes, caddies of tobacco, which he also bought, to say nothing of invoices of Irish igens, napkins, bed linen, table cloths, of d8zens of pairs of silk stockings and silk garters with silver buckles, boots and shoes, which were paid for by Harris at ridiculously small sums, Smith recelving his the money as well as others who assi in breaking open the cars and caching the stolen booty, to be delivered to Harris when- ever funds were Jow. Harris, being directly implicated in the systematic robbery which went on at Green River for upwards of a year, in which time nearly $5,000 worth of goods were stolen, Mr. Canada proceeded to locate his man and found him in Peoria, Tl Sherifft Whitmore was notified and quietly slipping into Peoria on Thursday he arrested Harris on the charge of being a “fence” and recelviug stolen goods. Friday Governor Altgeld granted requisition papers and yesterday George Har- ris passed through Omaha to be tried in Sweetwater county for his crime. Skbt ALl DETENTION HOSPITAL. Health Commissioner Saville Will Urge the Councll to Take Action. There is a six-room house sanding vacant just south of the corner of Fifteenth and Jackson streets which, in the opinion of the commissioner of health, would b admirably adapted for use as a detention hospital. The building contains six rooms of moderate size, which would be amply sufficient for any or- dinary emergency. It is located within a couple of rods of the police station, where it would be as convenfent as could be de- sired, and can probably be rented for from $15 to $20 per month. Dr. Saville will bring hare of ed him and endeavor to induce them to endorse his opinion. “While at first sight this looks like an ad- ditional expense for the city,” said the com- missioner, “the fact is that it would really be a measure of economy, to say nothing of itz advantage trom a hygenic standpoint. In the first place, whenever a sick or injured person is taken to the police station I have to send him to one of the hospitals where the city has to pay $6 a week for his treat- ment, ~ The county authoriti's estimate that it only costs them $1.50 per week to care for a patient at the county hospital, and 1 am sure that it would cost the city but little more than that to take care of a patient in the detention hospital. “‘Another point s illustrated by a case that we had the other day. A man was brought in on a train from somewhere out in the state. One of his feet was badly in- jured and he was dropp:d in the railtoad | yards, where he was picked up by the police | and faken to the station. I had to send him to the hospital at the expense of the county. Now if we had a detention hospital | near the police station under the joint con- | trol of the city and county he would have | been taken there and sufficient evidencs | would have Leen at hand so we could com- pel the rallroad company to pay all the ex- penses. These are only two of the advan- tages of a detention hospital and others have bsen pointed out 50 many times that it seems as though the council would be compelled to take some action in the matter before long.” e Politics in the Fifth, Judge J. 8. LeHew of McCook, a member | of the democratic state central committe and incidentally talked of as a candidate for | congress from the Fifth district, is in the city on business connected with the prosecu- tion of the Indlanola moonshiners in the fed- eral court. In discussing the political situa- tion in the Fifth, the judge remarked that there was altogether too mueh machine poli- tics in existing conditions to” make it at all interesting. ‘‘Probably Tobe Custor will take care of it in due time,” he remarked, in a tone of intense disgust. “Tobe has charge of all these matters, you know, he added | “Don’'t understand me as for whatever Tobe don't want 1 don’t want. Tobe is very impartial He uses us democrats just as well as he does elther the repulicans or populists, and that seems to be all we ought to expect There don't scem to be any democrats fall ing over each other out there to run for con- gress, but Tobe can be depended on to pick out & man when the time comes. Mayor J. E. Kelley of McCook is Judge L Hew's companion on (his trip. Mr. Kelley is & republican and likewlse & member of apologetically. finding any fault Fra Diavolo,” Sunday Evening, Mikado,” ~First floor, 25¢, 50¢ and 75¢, Balcony, 25¢ and 50:. —_ oy couner o (540 Street Theater| ™ One week comni cing Sunduy Matinee, May 20th, Clark and La Rose HICH CLASS VAUDEVILLE CO Matinces Wednesday und Suturday. Second Concert The Harr};dny. Club. MR. J, T \ELL' FIRST M. E. CHURCH, TUESDAY, MAY 22, GAUL'S SACRED CAN “IsTrael’ WITH CHORUS OF 85 VOICES, tGAN ANDORCHESTRA at Chase & Eddy's. Ad- HERE are a dozen uses for the “Book of the Builders;” there are a dozen places in the house that can recceive it; there are a dozen reasons for its purchase. . But there. are a dozen ways to miss this great work. There is only one way to secure it. That. way is the broad avenue of Action which leads directly from the path of Determination. Buy it this very day! You will never know how much it can broaden your life until you see it for your- self. No man can own and read this greatest book of the year and be thereafter the same man that he was before. It is impossible not to derive some value from the myriad lessons and experiences recorded in its pages. Address all orders to Memorial Department, Omaha Bee. the state central committee. He home last "evening, but will return to be present at .the meeting of the committee Tuesday evenng. He fayors Lincoln as the place for holding the state convention and thinks that it should be held some tim= In August. In this he differs a little from Chalrman Slaughter, who thinks the last of August or first of September will be plenty early enough, Mr. Kelley says W. E. An- drews has the call for the congressional nomination In the Fifth at this time, and that on the governorship both Tom Majors and Jack MacColl have a strong following. - - Claims Grain Certificates Were Forged. went ST. LOUIS, May 19.—The suit of W. E, Munford & Co. of Chicago, brought here against Chief Grain Inspector Joseph M Shea of the state of Missourl for the for- feiture of his bond and $2,030 damages, be- cause of the alleged Issue of inspection rtificates upon elght cars of wheat at Kansas City to J.' D. Richland & Co., whose draft Munford & Co. cashed, relyiug upon the' certificates, which aflerwards proved to have been upon wheat which did not exist, took a sensational turn toda when “Inspector Shea announced that t certificates were forgeries and that there fore his office incurred no responsibility in the matter. This will be his court detens J. D. Richland & Co. was the title of & firm which, after victimizin grain commission firms, di e - Republicun State Convention, Chairman Brad Slaughter of the republican a number of peared state central committee Is In the eity, at- tending to certaln preliminaries attendant on the coming meeting of the committee here next Tuesday. He says that the cholce of the “boys" as to the location and date of the state convention will be satisfactory to him, but he has ideas of his own on the sub- ject that are quite as positive as & Pennayl vanla majority. A strong pull is belug made to bring the couvention to Omaha, as Liu- coln had it two years ago, and it is con- ceded that the cholce lles between these twe cities. it