Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 7, 1895, Page 8

OMAHA DAILY BER: ANUARY 7, 1895 POLICE MAKE A RICH HAU They Oapture Three Men Suppoted to Be Expert Hotel Workers, FOURTH MEMBER OF THE GANG [SCAPES Desperate Struggle at the Jail, but the Rufflans Are Overpowercd and Safely Lodged Behind the Bars, Where They Will Be Held. James Grifin, alias Tom King, William O'Brien and William Beck, were arrested early yesterday morning by Officers Monroe, Russell and Starkey. These are the men who are alleged to have robbed the guests at the Paxton and Millard hotels on Thursday and Friday nights. Three of the watches taken from the Paxton hotel have been recovered from the pawnshops where one of the trio sold them, The police are of the opinion that thesc men are members of a recently organized gang that has been traveling over the coun try ‘“doing” up the leading hotels. Their plan o operation Is to go to some popular hotel, secure a room, and then work the rooms of other guests with skeleton key and other burglars' contrivances. King 18| Sold by Goodman Drug Co. well known to the Omaha police nu;] o R DRI T e gentenced o three years in the Nebraska 2 . ¢ in, penitentiary for burglarizing Mr. Cramer’s| On and_after Sunday, November 4, the residence, near Twenty-fourth and Seward | Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul ‘“electric treets about six years ago. After serving | lighted limited” will leave Omaha at 6 p, the sentence King went into Towa and bur- | m., arriving in Chicago at 9 a. m. Remem- glarized a house there, for which he served three years in the Fort Madison prison. It | is claimed that he has not been out of that The police but are con- two slick ingtitution more than ten days. do not know the other two men fident that they have in custody thieves. On_Thursd: night these room at the Millard hotel, being anxious to secure first class apartmen It so happened that they were assigned to a room directly opposite (o the one in which was Sandow, the strong man. The next morning the men left the house early and in a short time San- dow awoke to find that a diamond encrusted chronometer, valued at $3,500, and §100 in $20 gold pleces had been stolen’ from his room during the night. Another guest was robbed of some money and fewelry. The matter was kept as quict as possible and Detectives Sav- age and Dempsey were put at work on the case. The next night several of the guests at the Paxton hotel were robbed of jewlry and money and a description of the supposed thieves was furnished to the police. Satur- day the men were trailed to South Omaha, Dbut there all traces of them were lost. Thero were four men in the party and the police hope to soon locate the other man. On re- turning to Omaha the detectives visited the pawnshops and recovered three of the watches and got a good description of the man who sold them. They Kept a sharp lookout in hopes of bagging their game, but had partlally given up the case. BATTLE AT THE STATION. About 3 o'clock yesterday morning the three men under arrest went into the Mil- lard and demanded a room. They were some- what intoxicated and the clork hesitated about_giving them accommodations. Then they began abusing him and he sent a bell boy out for an officer. Officer Monroe hap- pened along Just then, and as soon as King saw the officer he ran out of the side door and down Thirteenth strect, In doing so he ran around tho corner into Officer Russell's arms and was captured. Officer Starkey as- sisted in capturing the other two and the three were taken to the police station, from which they made a desperate effort to es- cape. When the men were taken into the statlon the officers on duty were Sergeant Whalen, Patrol Conductor Teideman and Officer Ma shall. The latter was acting as jailer and is badly crippled from a_wound which he re- ceived last summer. Just about this time a commotion was heard down stairs among the cells, and Sergeant Whalen ran to see what was the trouble, He found a colored woman named Nellie Robinson hanging to a water pipe running through her ceil, with a towel around her neck, slowly strangling to death, The sergeant did not have the jafl keys, so he shouted for Patrol Conductor Teideman to bring them down. While the men were engaged in cutting the would-be suicide down, the men under arrest jumped onto Officer Marshall and had nearly succeeded in “doing” him up when Whalen and Teide- man started up stairs to his assistance. One of the thieves threw a Jieavy cast iron spit- toon at Sergeant Whalen, narrowly missing his head. Whalen and Tiedeman managed to subdue the prisoners and in searching them made O'Brien disgorge three $20 gold pieces which he had concealed in his mouth. This 18 gupposed to be the money stolen from San- men engaged a dow. Another of the suspects was seen to swallow something and the officers belleve that it was some of the diamonds stolen from the Millard. Nothing else was found on the men, but the fourth one of the g who is thought to be an old time managed to make his escape, and it Is b Iieved that he has the valuable watch stolen from Sandow, or else that he has “‘planted” it for safe Keeping. King's picture wa. found in the rogue’s gallery, but none of the officers were able to identify the other men. O'Brien is an old man and Is the one who pawned the watches, Beck is a young man. All of the men pre- gerve a silence as to their identity and will acknowledge nothing. The detectives hope to capturo tho other member of the gang and are sure that they will eventually recover Sandow’s watch, —_——. u AMUSEMENTS, Melodrama shows signs of returning life, many reputable managers belleving that the theater-going public Is about ready for a change in the form of entertainment. While the good old blood and thunder stage story has always had its enthusiastic followers, the drift of late years has been toward farce comedy and comedy drama, but farce comedy I8 growing somewhat shopworn, and a revival of some of the older melodramas 15 seriously contemplated. To be in touch With the new, or rather old-new, sentiment *“The Ship of' State’ was probubly written, the naval battle on Lak fe when Com- modore Perry administere d thrash- ing to the Dritsh ficet b the play, which tells th such piays. The scenic ticularly " commendable, the being that the stage of the B where the play will be giy not sufficiently large to use all the drops and set pleces ineidental to the development of the drama. What are used, however, gr well paintcd and give au”alr’of v the times when General Harrison only regret ism to wag in command of the armi s of the United States, tishers. ptable, M the fighting Indians and 13ri pany in the malin is ace 15, who plays the The com: s 1dith heroine, part of show deci talent, There are roug edges apparent in her characterization, but #he 15 still yonng, and gives promise of much stronger work than she 1s now doing he hero fs played by Willlam Barbour, while Frank Sheridan makes a good deal of the spy. W. J of Tippecanoe The training of wild animals is now Jassed as an art, and the old saying that rtists are born, not made,’’ proves true. of. Willlam Conrad, now ‘traveling with The Country Circus,” which comes to the Boyd for four nights and Saturday matine Commencing Thursday next, stands head and shoulders above all oth:vé (n this line, All animals from the king of beasts 1o the ordinary dog succumb (o his magle powers Ihis 18" exemplified in a marked degree in Butler 15 bre: zy in the role lom, & front rsman, his celebrated baboon, Jocko, who rides a horse and a donkey ‘with marvelous ease and grace; no straps are needed, bareback i his specialty. He tu single and a double Somersault, a'so a backward somer- sault from the donkey's a feat nev before attempted. Somet when feelin particularly frisky, he performs some r diculously “funny ‘evolutions, He is on th most friendly térms with Prof, Convad; he chatters in his own peeuliar way 18 seemingly understood. After every pesfo ance he' s sure (o be petted and recelye gome tid bit from the capacious pocket of his friend and trainer. Jocko is a great fa- vorite with fhe ladiés and children, Seem never 1o tire of his antics who The Empire offers an especially attractive program next week, when John L. Sullivan will present his new and original three-act romantic drama, written for him by Bdmond E. Price of New York, and entitled “A True American,” for four nights. Mr. Sullivan seems to have lost none of his popularity, as everywhere (hat he has ap- flu«l, people vie with each other to prove oir alleglance o the man who was thelr Adol for 80 many years. His tour, so far, has had somewhat the character of a tr mphal procession, thereby proving how staunch the Americans are where they have once set thelr affections on a favorite. At the eame time Mr. Sullivan Is doing all that s possible to keep the warm pos:tion he held in the regard of the public by winning a place as an actor. Not satisfled with merely rely- ing on his great notorlety to attract, he has | made a strong bid for the respect and favor of his audiences by having a good play, a strong company and a first class attraction. | Add to this that Mr. Sullivan Is showing marked ability as an actor, surprising even the most sanguine anticipations of his own friends, and it will be easily under- stood that “A True American” displays stand- ing room only signs more often than some more pretentious shows, Hermann Goes Throngh. Prof. Hermann, the magician, and his company passed through the city last night, | arriving over the Chicago & Northwestern railway and leaving Union Pacific r: | way, enroute to the Pacific coast. Th { | fessor carries a special sixty-foot bag | | ear, in which are his fancy team of h | stepping driving horses, Matchless and | | Queenie, and a French dog cart, which hoe | use for his own private drivin and 240 | cases of stage properties for his fllusions, | Matehless and Queenie won blue ribbons at both the New York and Baltimore horse | shows, and are considered by horsemen as | fina a' pair of fancy driving horses as « be found in the country. Hermann' | this yvear is much larger than ever befor: 1l consists almo-t entirely of new business, He will be seen in Omaha the first week of next March, i —— Karl's Clover Root, the great blood purifier, | glves freshness and clearness to the complex- lon and eures constipation; 25ec, 50c, $1.00, ber this train carries dinner a la carte, C. 8. CARRIER, Ticket Agent, 1504 Farnam St. . IS WATCHING THE OUTCOME. Judgo Vi mans Has an Eyo on the Maxi- mum Rate Case Appeal. Hon. J. D. Yeomans, a member of the Interstate Commerce commission and a man who has made considerable political history in the state of Towa, arrived from Washing- ton ye:terday. After a day’s sojourn in this city on private business he will returh east. will be in Omaha again the latter portion of the present month on a mission which will be of some local interest,” said Commis- sioner Yeomans to a Bee man. ‘“‘Commie- sloners Morrison and Veazey will accompany me and we will hold a sesgion here to investi- gate the Kearney discrimination case and other cases of a like character that have been referred to the commission. “The maximum freight rate bill, is, as a matter of course, a subject of interest to me, and I am watching the outcome of the recent appeal from Judges Brewer and Dundy's decision.” “What do you think of the pooling bill which has recently reached the senate for action?"" asked the reporter. “1 belleve it is quite probable that it will pass,” quickly responded Judge Yeomans. It it becomes a law it will allow railways to pool their earnings, subject to supervision of the Interstate Commerce commission. It will be an amendment to the bill which created the commission and seems to be re- ceived with approval by shippers. The bus ness men of Davenport have recently sent a petition to the Iowa senators at Washing- ton, asking them to urge the amandment.’” “Will the bill to create a national board of arbitration in railway strikes be likely to pass do ot claim to be a prophet, but in- dividually I will express the opinion that I doubt whether or not such a commission could operate to the general satistaction of employer and employe. Arbitration should not be compulsory. Then again, a board of mediation would simply mean an official in- tervention in behalf of amicable settlement of laboritroubles. . The present statutes per- mit the president to have the labor commis- sloner and a commission inquire into causes of strikes, as was done in the recent Chi- cago troubles. T doubt whether a compulsory arbitration blll would ever pass. This is an individual opinion, mind you.” Tow about this agitation for government ownership of railways?" “Sixty per cent of the railways of the United States and 80 per cent of the mileage are in the hands of federal courts at the present time,” replied the commissioner. “They are likely to remain In recelvership, too, for an indefinite period. The past ycar has been a severe one, financially, on ra ways, and nothing but ‘a good crop will pull them through this year. The crop fallure in some portions of the west and the frost which bligited the orange crop in the south has impaired raliway earnings beyond imagi- nation. There has been a big decrease in the issuance of free transporta- tion, cven within states, all over the coun- try, and the prospects are that the lines will be drawn still closer In this respect during the present year, ““How about rebates and discrimination?” “Pardon me, but I don't care to discuss those subjects just now, on the eve of the visib of tlhe commission to Omaha. We will visit Milwaukee and St. Louis in addition to this city, and will try a number of cases that have come up for hearing.” With an amiable adieu, the commissioner pushed his tall form through the Farnam street entrance and disappeared with a friend. —_— In Olden Times People overlooked the importance of perma- nently beneficlal effects and were satisfled with transient action; but now that it is gen- erally known that Syrup of Figs will perma- nently cure habitual constipation, well in- formed pecple will not buy other laxatives, which act for a time, but finally injure the gystem. o PP T G—— THE DIRECT SOUTHERN ROOTE Via the Rock Island—shortest Line and Fastest Time. To all points in Kansas, Oklahoma, Ind'an Territory, Texus and el! ‘points in southern California. Only one night out to all points in Texas, The ‘‘Texas Limited” leaves Omaha at 5:16 a. m. dally except Sunday, landing passenger:, at all points in Texas 12 hours in advance of all other Ines. Through tourist cars via Worth and El Paso to Los An- geles. For full particalars, maps, folders, cte., call at or address Rock Island ticket office, 1602 Farnam St. CHAS. KENNEDY, G. N. W, P, A. e The Burlington Koute Personslly Conducted Excufslon To California leave Omaha every Thursday morning. Through to San Fi without chan| Cheapest and ancisco and Los Angeles best way of reaching any point in Colorado, Utah or California. Tickets and advertising matter at 1324 Far- nam street. M. J. DOWLING City Passenger Agent. - Peaten by Hoodlams, Louis Fay of Duluth, Minn., a late arrival | in Omaha, was brutally assaulted yesterday | afternoon at Seventh and avenworth | streets, while In search of a friend, Fay was rossing the ralilr tracks, when he was | ssaulted by two men, who beat him u mercifully. ” When he arrived at the police station he was covered with blood. Dr., | Towne was called and the wounds dressed. | IPay’s nose was broken and his face was red, Dr, Towne ordered him | tuken to the Presbyferian hospital, where he will be compelled to remain for a few days, I'ay was unable to give an accurate descrip: generaily disf tloh of his assailaits, and in consequ | no urrests had besn made up to this morn- | ing. | I Hud Hoys Are Joe Hawkins and Charles Haker, two o ored boys who have given the police siderable trouble at various times, w re ar rested last night, charged with being sus- | plclous characters. Baker has been arrested several times before, and at one tme was hound over to the district court in the sum of 10, and was to have been sent to the | o, but was relased on his pror Omaha and go to his home in Kansas. This falled” to do, and the Judges will have atother At him, e gaged 1o Steallng Logr. A number of fine hunting dogs have been stolen In this oity recently, and owners of valuable canines are talking of taking steps toward apprehending the men who are doing | this work. 1t (s thought that the dogs that are stolen are shipped (o other places and | MANY MILES OF PAVEMENT Board of Public Works Makes Its Report for the Year, FACTS AND FIGURES ARE SUBM.TTED Report Shows the Kind and Quality of Pavement and Follows with a Discus- slon of Materiuls Which Have Been Used In the Past. The Board of Public Works has made up the books for the year and the information is given out that the city 76.83 miles of | paved streets, The facts are also ascer-| tained that the materials used in this paving are wood, 23.19 miles; stone, 23.07 miles; as- phalt, 20.38 miles; brick, 10,19 miles, It Will be seen that there are more miles of wooden block pavement than of any other kind, with stone coming next. Asphalt less than three miles behind stone and wooden blocks, but the brick pavement does | not exterfd very far. These pavements have to be swept and kept clean during the spring, | summer and fall months, and costs the city about $20,000 per ycar for this purpose, Of all these materials which have been thor- | oughly tried on the Omaha streets, asphalt is the most popular with teamsters, In dry weather at least, but stone is the most dur- able and requires the least expense to keep it in repair. The block pavement has been a failure, and it is not likely that any more of it will ever be laid in this city. It does not last long enough to pay for the putting of it down; it is unhealthy in hot, wet seasons, and goon becomes impassible for either light | or heavy traffic by rotting, leaving holes and depressions, making a most unsightly thoroughfare, Lately little or no attention has been given to the streets paved with wood and now most of them are in a terribly bad condition. Capitol avenue, for instance, from Sixteenth to Twentieth streets. Traflic has practically been abandoned along this street. WHERE BLOCKS ARE LAID, Fifteenth street from Jefferson square north is in an equally bad condition. Sher- man avenue, one of the finest drives in the city, and the most direct route to Courtland beach, Is almost impassible for any kind of a rig, and pleasure seckers carefully avold driv- ing along the street. There are very few pleces of wooden block paving in the city but what are in more or less bad condition. The streets paved with this material are: Spaulding, from the Belt Line to Twenty- fourth; Twenty-fourth, Spaulding to Burdette; Wirt, "Sherman avenue to Twenty-fourth: Lake, Twenty-fourth to Eighteenth; Eigh- teenth, Lake to Cuming; Sherman avenue, Wirt to Nicholas; Grace and Clark, Eigh. teenth to Twenty-fourth; Cuming, Thirty- second to Fortieth; Ninetcenth, Cuming to odge; Seventeenth, Cuming to Davenport; Fifteenth, Davenport to Webster; California, Sixteenth to Twenty-sixth; Cass, Sixteenth to Twenty-second; ~ Chicago, Eleventh to Twenty-second; Davenport, Bighteenth to Twenty-second; Capitol avenue, Sixteenth to Twentieth; Dodge, Sixteenth to Twentieth! Twentieth, California to Pierce; Twenty- second, Davenport to California; Twen fifth, California to Dodge; Farnam, Twentiath to Forty-sixth, exceptin two blocks; Harncy, Fifteenth to Twenty-sixth; Jackson, Six- teenth to Nineteenth; South Sixteenth, Jack- son to Vinton; Seventeenth, Leavenworth to Pacific; Tenth, Williams to Mason; Tenth, Center to Castellar; Twentieth, Vinton to limits of Deer park; Vinton, Twentieth to Twenty-fourth; with several smaller patches of this paving from one to three blocks long. GROUND INTO DUST. The stone paving is mostly in the downtown districts, around the wareiouses, depots and places where heavy traffic 1s necessary. The brick paving is generally in the residence portions of the city, and makes a clean, dura- ble covering for the streets. The district where most of the asphalt paving lies, fs bounded on the north by Davenport street; on the south by Jackson; on the east hy ninth, and on the west by Eighteenth streets. Then there are also long strips of this pave- ment on South Twentieth street, Twenty- ninth avenue and street, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth and Fortieth streets, Thesa streets have become quite popular with the owners of fine horses and carriages, and numbers of them may be seen Speeding their animals along there on pleasant sum- mer evenings. The owners of property along the strects, that are now disfigured by the wooden blocl are preparing to petition the council to put down new materizl more preferable to the majority of the residents. No one is allowed to “take the loose blocks, up. which are being slowly ground into dust, and on windy days the eyes of the pedes- trains are filled with the debris of poor people have been caught carrying away these blocks for kindling and firewood and have been arrested and fined. In many s the blocks have been floated to one side of the street after heavy rainfalls. The city has attempted to partially repair soms portions of this pavement by filling in the broken places with pulverized stone and cin- ders. During a long dry season, like last fall, these blocks shrink up and become so lcose as to topple back and forth when horses step on them. On North Nineteeth street, for a coupla of blocks near Cuming, the city has taken out the center of the block paving and filled the space with cinders, but this method Is said to be too expensive for a temporary make- Ift, so. it is generally concluded by the property owners and city officials that the best way to repair the decayed block pave- Ing is to replace it with something more sub- stantial. VIEW A number | ERVIEWS, do not see where the silver men can make much profit in sending silver to Mexi- can mints to be coined into Mexican dollars,” said Governor Boyd. “There certainly is a very little margin, even at the present low rate of silver. There are 371 grains of silver in an American dollar and grains in a Mexican dollar. There are 480 grains in an ounce of American silver and 420 grains in | an ounce of Mexican silver. Alloy is put into the dollars and the balance is silver. | Now any one with a knowledge of arithmetic can figure out that, with the present value of gilver at 60 cents, and mint charges at 4 cents, that this, with express charges, don't leave the American shipper much mary I think this new fad will be a short lived one.” Willilam Paxton expressed himself to The | Bee man thusly: *“With regard to that con. templated legislative bill, said to be in readi- ness to spring soon, in favor of Lincoln as the permanent location for a state fair, I Wish to ay that the Idea of Lincoln’s dona- tion of 160 acres of ground for the fair as an inducement can be m 1 defeated by a similar proposition from Omaba, if the people here will act at once and act in unity. I be- lieve the whole thing has been cut and dried but that the publicity of the plan will spc the fond hopes of the Lincolnites, If Omaha don't look out she will be caught napping, but I believe Governor Holcombe would veto the bill if it passed, If he was convinced Omaha was not accorded a square deal,” “President Cleveland has restored substa tion superintendents of the postal service t the protection of the Civil Service Commis sion," said a prominent politiclan last even- ing. is clearly indicates that the presi dent has taken a step which pr 5 the po sibility of putting postmasters under the ciyil | service commssion, and I actually belle that if the present bill, recently introduced in congress in this respect, shuld pass and be | Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, . Gov't Report Rl ABSOLUTELY PURE . A o s s s i | every come a law that it would stop an endle amount of annoyanee and worry in the white house. For the 64600 postoffice plums in the United States, thepe are generally 200,000 ap- plications, and the congressional delegations are annoyed by the friends of the respective candidates. Good wmail service should be paramount to indieidual popularity, or polit- ical preference. “he postoffice should be taken out of polities."” - - STRIKING THE SILVER GONG. Dr. Sanderson Deltvors Hig Interesting New Yoa Bermon, At the Trinity Methodist church yesterday morning Dr. Sanderson, the pastor, preached a sermon, taking as his title “The Silver Gong' and as his text “How Old Art Thou?" The discourse was essentially a New Year's sermon and was a fine plece of word com- position, delivered with effect. “At this time of the pew year,” sald Dr. Sanderson, ‘‘when the future is vague and the new year is only a few days old, being cradled on the grave of the old year, it is pertinent to ask ourselves the question, “How old art thou' The vear will be an eventful one, a year of pageant and conflagration; a vear of laughter, song and groans. Alto- Rgether, every one is looking forward to a year of the most intense activity, And one, whetlier old, midile-aged, young or in childhood, whether male or female, shonld stop and answer the question,” The doctor took occasion to condemn the women who, when their natural charms be- gan to fade as they grew old, have recours to artificial means to restore them. *Th 18 no fool like an old fool,” said he, and, in his opinion, they had much better strive to cultivate their minds and characters, that their influence and power would not decrease. “Consider,” he continued, “with what ve- locity the years are passing away. All our past years have gone more swiftly than a weaver's shuttle. ‘Time is the most valuable of all the possession of man, Once gone, it can never be regained. It defles all human imagination. The trinity, space, time and God, are incomprehensible to the mind of mankind. No division of time can be made It is a fragment of eternity broken off at both ends, an Interspice between two eterni- ties. It flows through the fingers of man, swift, uncontrollable and without end, leav- ing man behind, petrified. To man Is allowed an_infinitesimal portion of time, three score years and ten. Very few reach this limit and no one has the right to look beyond it Therefore, the question comes up: “On what distance are you reckoning before you ex- nect to reach the terminus?” You cannot ex pect to be a denizen of the earth for eternity and become the reality of the mythical Wan- dering Jew."” With a contemplation of this, thought the doctor, one should become Sober-minded Life 9 not a toy or trifle to be frittered away in idleness or frivolity. Many a bright young life, beginning with high imaginings and am- bitions, soon begins to flatten out into in- pient nothingness. “Why are young people 0 aftractive to the old?” asked (he preacher. Not because of their brightness, or that they possess the germs of genius, but because there are so many opportunities in them. Yet nine-tenths of them will sink into Insiplency and only a few will cling to their ambition and finally reach them. Many of these people speak of p: or Killing time, it were a burden instead of a boon. In years to come this will haunt them, and they will be willing to exchange millions for the time that they foolishly have spent. “In bidding goodby to the old year, we should not forget to bid goodby to cur old sins,” urged Dr. Sanderson. ‘Determine to be loyal to the right, which little, as well as great things. 1t will be a most difficult task, as the bias of both the world and our own natures is a us. Yet consider to what glittering bauble you would otherwise sacrifice great purposes. never dies, in And this should especially appeal to the Christlan. How old is he in the grace of the Lord? ‘Old enough,’ he says, but let him think of the opportunities that he has missed. But yet the preacher did not think that people should look back with regret at the mistakes and the loss of opportunities in past years. They ought rather to admonish and enccurage. “Regret, clamps and lowers the energiss. With thankfulness and cour- age as the twin watehwords of the new year people ought to look ahead and keep moving. Those who look backward, never look forward. Retrospection stagnates, while looking ahead wulates. There is a good time coming. There is only one religion that thinks that the golden age is ahead; all the rest think that it is behind. We are living in the best, the golden period of the history of man. The tendency in man is to unfold and advance, to forget yesterday, and lock forward to tomor- row. As yet the world is green in growth, cven in religion. Let us then follow the call and journey onward.” e AL PARAGRAPHS, PERSON C. E. Brubaker of Salt Lake is in city. F. W. Foster of Sioux City is at the Del- lone. the C. M. Clark of Chicago was in the city yesterda John DeLong of Sedalia, Mo., is at the Merchants A. J. White of Pringhar, Ta., Is visiting his son at the Barker. E. Polk Johnson of Louisville, registered the Millard. Mrs. Palmer and Mr: Miss., are at the Murray. George C. Cralg, United States special In- dian agent, is stopping at the Merchants. W. Tracy Smith and F. Walworth Smith of St. Albans were among Sunday visitors to Omaha. Wilber E. Dare of the United States army, Ky., is McAlvin of ynn, located at Fort Niobrara, is registered at the Dellone. C. E. Embree of Indianapolis, while in the city on special business, is stopping at the Merchants, Miss Edith Ellis and fourteen members of the Ship of State compary are quartered at the Barker for the week. Frank Semple, general passenger agent of the Union Pacific, Denver & Gulf road at Denver, was in town yesterday. Miss Julia McDermott of Omaha has re- turned after her holiday vacation to school at New Orlears. She is the guest of Mrs, Crusell at §32 Dumain strect, New Orlean J. A. Starkey of Kansas City and H. B, Kizer of Racine, Wis., representing J. I. Case Manufacturing company, are stopping at the Mercer. They will attend the conven- tion of mplement dealers in this city on the 8th and 9th, Traveling men over Sur D. Crary, | pany, J. 8. Shaub, ay at the Barke r Tobacco com- le, Ky.; R. B in Louisy Richardson, Nebraska City; F. 8. Plumb, John H. Martin, Lincoln; H. D. Curtls, Grand Island; €. D. Harrington, Beatrice; R. W. George, Roche N. Y.; R. Fowler, H, 0. Rice, Sloux Clity. At the Mercer: W. A, Stratton, Detroit; nelius Kink, Grand Island; J. C. Camp- bell, Ira Mallory, Des Moines; P, Egan, jr., ola, . Shick Ad Bloc hicago; B. H. Andrus, Holdrege; P. Carlon, St. Marys; J. A. Stoke! Kennedy, Minneapolis; , Kansas City; A, € D. Colt, New Yor] A. B. Kizer, Jonas Williams, Racine; L. Beason, Portland; W. J. Walla foux O ). Oscar Carpenter, Abilene, Kan, Nebraskans at the Hotels, the Dellon gar Howard, Papillion; | Galber, Red Cloud, Arcade—J. T. Meyers, Pender; Miss itan, Schuyler; Jeff Smith,’ Ash- | V. (. Shickley, Bhickley; Moldrege; C. Canlon, St Grand arles A ska City Draper, | Merchants—W. H Nickerson, Papiltion; 3 Lin- Bess Baking Powder | and $nsisted that the representatives of The AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMANA Expose of the Gamblers' Pool Becomes the Subj:ct of Disoussion, MAYOR'S FRIENCS TRY TO LAUGH IT DOWN Better nss of Peoplo Were Aware that Corruption Existed, but They Were Sur- prised at Its Magnitude —Investiga- tion May Be Demanded. The Bee's exposure of rottenness in munici- pal circles was the sole topic of conversation in the Magic City yesterday. Friends of the | mayor and councilman laughed at the report | Bee had been misinformed by enemies of the mayor. “It is ridiculous,” said one, ““to sup- pose for a moment that the gamblers would pay hush money after having donated a $50 bill to the city in lieu of a police fine.” Mayor Johnson was called upon about noon by @ Bee representative. The chiet executive had a smile and a pleasant word of greet- Ing for the newspaper man and at once openc the conversation by referring to the story in The Sunday Bee, He said: ““This Is a plain case of our word against this mai Deaver's. If you will take the pains to look up Deaver's record you Will find that his reputation is not the best, therefore, 1 do not see why a person would give credence to such a man's statements fn preference to those men who have lived in South Omaha half of their live “When I came into office 1 found the same | condition of affajrs, that Is, the few gambling houses here made a monthly donation to the city and they were not disturbed by the po- lice, "1 have merely carried out my predeces- sor's policy in that respeet. The financial condition of the city was w hat prompted me to permit the violation of the law," you Wil order the closed?" asked the repc “I will_not do anythin present. In fact, 1 have not serious sidered The Bee's roport as vet. €0 home I will read the full account.” Chief Brennan took matters very cool and denied positively that he had ever *stood {n on a rake off, He d that when the yor ordered him to close a place, he did told. “'So far," said the chief, 1 have recelved no orders 'to close any of the gambling houses and shall not do o with- out instructions from the mayor."” The better class of citizens were pleased With the exposures. “It is surprising to me,’" sald a prominent citizen, “that this thing has not been made public before., Corruption in our municipal affairs has been apparent for some time past, frequently important or dis- graceful things have occurred, but not a word appeared in cither of the Omaba dailies. It was common talk that the gam- blers paid the press representatives to keep still and say nothing.” The city “council meets tonight and it is possible an investigation may be ordered, Solid citizens have decided that an iny gation mu authoritie gambling houses in the m tar at con en 1 i t be held, and will so inform the Magle City Gossip, Mrs. C. W. Butterfield is quite il Mrs, Charles H, has from her recent illness, After the young folks tired of gamos light refreshments were served. M Swi: Elliott lost a gold wa skating at Hardwood lake Saturday Yesterday afternoon Chief Brennan ar- rested Harry Brown and Frank Gordan on suspicion. The prisoners are well known to the police all over the west as daylight house workers and petty thieves. They were recently ordered out of Omaha by the police Judge, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Gosney gave a chil- dren’s party Saturday evening to celebrate the birthday of their daughter, Daisy. 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