Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 28, 1901, Page 5

KELLY MUST STAND TRIAL Bouth Omaba Mayor is Bound Over to the Diotriot Oourt, HE 1S HELD ON THE CHMARGE OF BRIBERY e Vinsonhaler Remarks Upon the tradictory Nature of the Evie dence and Inclines to Bellet A Crime Was Committed. Mayor Allen R. Kelly of South Omaha has been held to the district court on a charge bribery. He was given a preliminary aring in the county court yesterday, at conclusion of which Judge Vinsonhaler There has been a remarkable contradic- tion of testimony in this cas the story told by the states’ witnesses belng fatly denied by the testimony given in behalf of the defendant The circumstadces are such that I am constrained to give cre- dence to the witnesses for the state from their testimony I find that a crime bas been committed and that there is prob- able cause for holding the defendant. His bond will be $1,000. Mayor Kelly turnished the required boud and his next appearance will be before the criminal branch of the district court The charge upon which he is held is that through the agency of John Maher he collected money from Jorgensen & Sherman on understanding that he was to provide police protestion to the gambling house operated y that firm at 406 North Twenty-fourth street, South Omaha The allegation against Kelly was well stated by the first witness called, Thorwold Jorgensen, the menior member of the gambling firm. He made a first-class wit- ness, his answers being brief, to the point and cor sistent Jorgennen's n Talk. Jorgeusen's testimony, in substance, was as follows About a week before the last city elec- tion in South Omaha Sherman and I met Jack Maber on the street and he said to | us: ‘You people had better get into line. We asked what he meant, and he told us that our gambing house would be closed up It Kelly was elected mayor, unless would contribute $100 to the campaign fund. We refused to contribute at that time, but later on Sherman gave Maher $50 and I paid the treasurer of the campalgn committee $50 “After the election Maher came to our placa and told us that we would have to pay $125 a month for the privilege of operating, and he wanted the first month's fee. We told him that we had understood that the $100 paid to the campalgn fund was to apply on the privilege money, but he denied this and told us we could see the mayor about it The next day 1 called on Mayor Kelly at his office and asked him if we had to pay the $125 demanded by Maher. He said yes. He went on to say that the election bad cost him a large sum and he needed the money. I asked him if I should do business with Maher and he replied that 1 should, “One or two days later I saw Maher and paid him $125 in cash. This was between the 5th and 10th of May. “About the first of June Maher came around again and asked for another $125. 1 told him that business was slow and we couldn’t afford to pay that much. He just simply said that we would have to pay it 1 went to see the mayor and tried to have him cut down the amount, dmt ke refused to do so. He sald they had intended ve charge us $160 A month and that we were gettng' off“ by paying $25 less than we really ought to. = Maher came in again on June 12 and I paid him $125. ‘I went to Europe in June and did not ses the mayor again until after my return five months later. When I got back to South Omaha our place was closed up and I went to see the mayor about it. [ usked him why he had closed our place and he said it was because he didn’t want any gambling house running on Twenty-fourth street. I then asked him why another gambling house on Twenty-fourth street was allowed to rup and he said that didn't concern me. He sald he Intended to run me out of business. Mr. Jorgensen explained that during his absence in Europe the South Omaba saloon and gambling house of which he was part owner was left in charge of his partuer, Myron Sherman J. C. Lawson, the second witness, sald he was a bartender for Jorgensen & Sherman last year and about the 1st of September he saw Mr. Sherman pay $125 in cash to Jack Maher. At the same time witn pald Maher $10 for the privilege of run- ning two slot machines in the barroom. Myron H. Sherman, the junior member of the gambling firm, corroborated the tes- timony of his partner and added that he paid Maher the sum of $125 early in Sep- tember, with the understanding that it was to go to the mayor for police prot tion. Sherman proved to be something of @ humorist when the cross-examination was reached. ‘What kind of games did you operate your place?” asked the counsel for defense. “We bad stud poker, roulette, craps and other games,"" replied Sherman. “You were running then " “No, sir."" “You just sald you bad poker, roulette and craps. Now, what do you mean by telling me you did not run games of chance?” No Chance About It. “There was no chance about the games wo run. Every ome of them was a einch— o chance at all, sir.” Several other witness the games of chance, were put on the You Look Old It's impossible for you not to, with the color of seventy years in your hair! Perhaps you are seventy, and you like your gray hair. And perhaps not! Dark hair for youth and vigor; gray hair for old age and decline. If you will use Ayer's Hair Vigor, in less than a month there won't be a gray hair in your head. It keeps the scalp free from dandruff, stops falling of the hair, and makes it grow thick and long. One dollar o bettle. e ——— ——— ot suppl. e e fpress Dol il charges prapaid. your mearest express ofic: © ' J.C.AvEm Co, Lewell, Mass. nd for our handsome book on The Halr, and | the | in | d to substantiate the testimony given by Jorgensen and Sherman, and then the | (he jadies of the South Omaha hospital were | state rested After the defense had put forth several unimportant witne: in an unsuccessful attempt to impeach the testimony af the Dprosecution, there was a peculiar hitch in the proceedings and for a few moments It appeared that Mayor Kelly was to e left without any legal talent on his side James H. Van Dusen, the mayor's leading counsel, stated to the court that he had two or three other witnesses in contempla- tion, but as he had had mo opportunity o talk with them be would like to have the hearing adjourned until morning. The judge was unwilling to have the case go over and asked Mr. Van Dusen if his wit- nesses were in court. The lawyer replied |in the afrmative, but when the court com- | manded him to proceed with the hearing, he | balked | “Your honor,” explained the lawyer, I |cannot examine these witnesses without first baving a talk with them and learning what they are going to testify. The exami- nation will have to be conducted by the other counsel in the case.” | Mr. Montgomery, the South Omaha law- | year, who was assisting in the defense. de- clined to call the next witness and then | Mayor Kelly sprung a mild sensation | Would Conduct His Own Cane. | “If the lawyers in this case refuse to go on with it said he, “I will conduct my own defense.’” Judge Vinsonhaler relieved the tension be- tween defendant and his counsel by allowing Mr. Van Dusen fifteen minutes in which to consult with his witnesses, who proved to be Chief of Police Miles Mitchell and “Jack Maher Mitchell wae called first after the recess and the burden taken from hls mind by di- | rect examination was the information ‘hat | be called Sherman to bis office one night last September and told him to close up bis gambliog house. “Why didn't you order this gambling place closed before September?” the chief was | asked on cross-examination “I dido’t know it was running until the mayor told me he had received complaints against it and asked me to investigate.” You knew other gambling houses were running wide open in South Omaha?” “'No, sir, I did not | “Bver hear of Berlin & Haley's gambling house ou. Twenty-fourth street?" “1 don’t know of such a place.” “Did you ever know of {t?" No, sir ack” Maher was then called and he proved to be the star witness for the de- fense. He said he was in the restaurant and saloon business at South Omaba. ‘DId you ever make any collections from Jorgensen & Sherman for gambling privi- leges?" he was asked ‘No,” was his emphatic answer. | “Did you ever collect any money them for any purpose?’ “Yes. The mayor had told me that the from “Private John' Allen will soon conclude his sixteen years of service in ‘congress. He has furnished more fun and been the subject of more anecdotes than any mem- ber since the days of 8. S. Cox. The other day Congressman Allen was given unani- | mous consent to speak in support of an amendment to the sundry civil bill, carry- ing an appropriation for the purpose of establishing a fish hatchery at Tupelo, his home in Miesissippi, & town of about 2,000 people. This is what he said, Mr. Chairman, 1 do not deem it necessary {40 take up twenty minutes' time of this | committee to pass this amendment, but as- this fish hatchery is to be established’ at* Tupelo, and | find among some people in {the country—even some newspaper men- and some gentlemen who have been elected 10 congre:s, and who tell me that they have not ouly been to school but gome through college—so much ignorance about Tupelo that I think I ought—in justice to them, not to Tupelo—to enlighten them some on this subject. (Laughter.) It 1 were willing to avall myselt of all the traditions and many well authenticated but not absolutely curate historical sus- picions, 1 might invest this subject with much more historical and romantic interest But I propose to confine my remarks to well authemticated facts, ignoring such tradl- tions, belleved by many of our people to be true, as that when Christopher Columbus had his interview with Ferdinand and Is bella of Spain that in his efforts to persuade them to back him in his expedition that led to the discovery of America he assured them that an all-wise Creator, creating a world like this, was bound to have made some- where near its center such a place as Tupelo. (Laughter.) The first authentic account we have of the section of country that will one day be in- cluded in the corporate limits of Tupelo is that the great Indian chief, Chicksa from whom that great and warlike tribe, the Chickasaw Indlans, took its name, w west of the great Mississippl river and that he, with his followers, followed a pol guided and supported by invisible hands | across the Misslssippi river to the vicinity of Tupelo. There, we are {nformed, the pole stopped, stood upright, planted in the ground, and there the Chickasaw Indians made their home. No people, Mr. Chalrman, were ever directed by a wise Providence 10 a fairer land. 'Twas in the rolling woed- land just north of one of the most beau- titul prairies on which the eye of man or beast ever rested. The country abounded with all sorts of game; the streams were full of fishes, and on this continent there B0 more enticing place for this poetic race of the forest. Here the Chickasaws grew to be. as they are to this time, one of the greatest and most powerful of the Indian tribes. In 1513 the knightly Ponce de Leon landed upon the coast of Florida, and per- verted history has It that he started out to look for the fountain of youth and limit- less gold flelds, when {n truth and in fact he really started out to look for Tupel (Laughter.) You are all familiar with the disaster that overtook his expedition. Later, in 1640, the gieat and adventurous di coverer, Hernando de Soto, landed his ex- pedition on the coast of Florida and finally succeeded in reaching and discovering, for the first time by a white man, Tupelo. (Laughter.) Here he stopped In the midst of the Chickasaws until attacked by them and driven west to what is pow the city of Memphis, where he discovered the great Mississippi river. The Chickasaws were then left in peace- able possession, 8o far as the white man was concerned, of this beautiful section for nearly 200 years, when, in 1735, Blenville, with his expedition, came up from Florida and d'Argtaguiette from the Illinois at- tempted to meet and take from the Chic asaws what is now Tupelo. D'Artaguiette ot there before Bienville and was defeated by the Chickasaws. He and almost all of his expell fon perished at their hands. Bien- ville arrived later and was also defeated and driven back with great loss to his ex- pedition; and now, in laying out and grading avenues and boulevards for Tupelo, the bones, spurs, weapons, epaulets, etc., of the slain of these ill-fated expeditfons are plowed up. (Laughter.) This Is something of the early history of the place about which we find so much ignorence. My colleague, General Catch- ings, told me not many days ago that some newspaper man ha ed him if there really was such a place as Tupelo. (Great laughter.) 1 do not assert that all of these historical events to which I have referred took place immediately In the town of Tupelo, but they were in that vicinity and were on ter. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY FEBRUARY 28, 1901 | fire department fund was very low and that in need of money, and while 1 was soliciting donations for these purposes Jorgensen con- tributed $125 fn May and Sherman donated $125 in September. “How about the $10 you collected from the bartender, Lawson, in September " That was for the hoepital fund “What did you do with this money you | B0t from Jorgensen, Sherman and Lawson?" “1 paid 1t into the city treasury.” ‘Did you ever pay any of this money over to Mayor Kelly, directly or indirectly?” “No, air. On cross-examination Maher was asked he had a gambling house of his own South Omaha, and he answered that he had never been In the gambling business South Omaha “You knew that Jorgensen & Sherman ran a gambling house—wide open and no- torious “No, sir ‘You knew that Berlin & Haley ran a gambling house in South Omaha?" Never knew it," declared the witness Mayor Kelly took the stand and flatly de- nied that he ever had the Interviews with Jorgensen and with Sherman that they had { told about in their testimony. He sald he never met Jorgensen until about six months ago and therefore the story that he had | talked with him about gambling privileges | last May was untrue. The mayor denled that he had ever received any money col- lected from Jorgensen & Sherman by Maher. Jorgensen came to me last October,” sald Kelly, “and told me that unless I would permit him to reopen his gambling house he would have me and Maher arrested, and | told him to go ahead and make his com- plaint in court. I wouldn't listen to his proposition to reopen the gambling estab- lishment GEORGE WASHINGTON Mid & Lusuriant Salt of Strajght and Very Dark Hair, The Father of his Country concealed a | tuxuriant suit of hair beneath his queus | wig. Many now wish the old fashion were |in vogue, to conceal thinned hair or bald- | ness. Yet no one need have thin hair nor | be bald, if he cure the dandruff that causes | both. Dandruff cannot be cured by scour- 1ng the scalp, because it is & germ disease and the germ has to be killed Herplcide kills the dandruft germ—no other hair preparation will. “Destroy the cause, you remove the effect.’ for dandruff but to kill the germ Marriage Licenses. The following marriage licenses were ls- sued yesterday by the county judge: Name and Residence. Albert Driscoll, Omaha Caroline B. St. Geyer, Omaha ... Willlam B. Shull, Alliance, Neb Grace Spencer, Galesburg, 111 Hans J. Peterson, Omaha Johanna C. Hansen, Omaha QUELE, Age. | Toots Tupelo Trumpet | ritory that we expect to have Incorporated into the city some day. To come down to & later period, those of you who kmow any- thing of the history of your country will remember the contentlons and contest that lasted for many years between the French, English and Spanish governments for the ownershi of the Mississippi territory. I am informed by those familiar with the real designs of those great nations at that time that the real motive of all of them was the ownership of Tupelo. (Great laughter.) Finally the United States, appreciating the importance of the position, took ad- vantage of their dissenslons and acquired Tupelo. (Renewed laughter.) About the year 1848 it became a matter of great concern to the great northwest to secura @ market for thefr products, so they gave aid and encouragement to the building of the northern end of what is now th Mobile & Ohio railroad. The city of Mo- bile, o the Gulf, recognizing also the great advantages of direct connectfon with Tupelo, helped along this enterprise, and the road was bullt from Mobile to Tupelo, (Laughter.) Everything went on very well until about 1861, when the south concluded to secede from the union. I am reliably informed that when Horace Greeley and others sought Mr. Lincoln and asked him to “let the way- ward sisters depart in peace” he shook his head and sald, “No; this secession takes from the Umited States Tupelo (laughter) and we will ot submit to it.” And it was to rescue to the union this town that brought on the war. (Renewed laughter ) The armies of the union were first di- rected agalnst the capital of the contederacy at Richmond, Va. but some obstructions were thrown in the way of that army at Bull Run and they were persuaded to re- turn to Washington. Another great army was then marshaled under the command of General Grant, who landed at Pittsburg Landing, on the Tennessee river, and be- gan bis operations against Tupelo. (Laugh- ter.) General Albert Sidney Johnston and my- self met General Grant's army at Shiloh (laughter) and for most of the first day we had a real good time with them and but for General Johnston being killed and me being scattered on the evening of that day there is no knowing what might have happened or how the history of this country might have been changed. (Great laughter.) Suffice It to say, I retired on Corinth and when we were there, sorely pressed, Presl- dent Davis ordered General Beauregard to fall back to Tupelo and there make a great and desperate stand for the life of the con- federacy. And it seems that Generals Grant and Halleck were so much impressed with the dogged determination of the con- federate army to defend Tupelo to the death of the last man that they turned away in other directions. (Laughter.) Later Gen- eral Sturgls started from Memphis with a well-equipped army, with a view of cap- turing Tupelo and breaking the backbone of the confederacy. But on the road down there, when he had gotten within a few miles of Tupelo, General Forrest, that great avalry commander, appreciating what the loss of Tupelo would mean to the confed- eracy, met Sturgis at Brice's Crossroads. took from him all of bis artillery and wagons, sent him back to Memphis without an organized company and with the remnant of his army in about one-fourth of the time that had been comsumed by forced marches in going down. But Mr. Lincoln seemed never to have lost sight of the importance of Tupelo to the union and he marshaled another army under that able commander, General A. J. Smith, and started them to capture Tupelo. General Stephen D. Lee and General For- Test, with their commands, were sent to ins tercept him, but in maneuvering for posi- tions General Smith got between Forrest and Lee and Tupelo and succeeded in caps turing the town, and in an effort to dis- lodge him from there the desperate and bloody battle of Harrisburg, which is in the suburbs of Tupelo. was fought, In which nobody bad any decided advantage, but Gen- eral Smith evacuated the town and went back to Memphis. But the very fact that Tupelo had fallen seems to have broken the spirit of the confederates and we never did much good after that. (Great laughter.) You will find, Mr. Chairman, in the Con- gressional lbrary a book the title of which 18 “Tupelo.” It was written by a northern Preshyterian preacher and school teacher who happened to be down in that section when the war began. I remember him very well. This book treats of his trials and tribulations about Tupelo, where he w arrested, imprisoned and would have been shot but for his timely escape from prison and, as I remember the substance, as he puts it, of bis offense was a suspiclon that 1o | Newbro's | There's no cure | (RUSADE FOR PURE MEAT Producta of Slaughter Pen Must Bear Tag of Inspecter. RIGID EXAMINATION IS TO BE MADE City Anthorities Announce That Law | tive to Impure Meat is to Be | Re | Strictly Enforced—New Order | The carcass of no animal larger than a rabbit can be sold for food in Omaba un- less it bears the tag of an inspector. On February 12 the council passed an ordi- nance making this provision. Seven daye later the mayor attached his signature and the measure went into effect. | Violators of this ordinance will be fined |mot more than $100. H. L. Ramacelottl, city meat inspictor, and officers in the | employ of the heaith department will begin | a crusade against meat peddiers and die honest dealers who are known to sell for :{YHN\ the meat of diseased animals. | Must Hear the Stamps. | Every carcass or portion of a carcal | offered for sale in the city of Omaha must | bear an inspector's stamp. Under the new ordinance a mau baving diseased meat in his shop or wagon may be prosecuted. It was formerly necessary to prove a sale of meat unfit for human consumption before a conviction could be secured and tricky meat men were able to escape the law. The inspection tag of a man in the efh- ploy of the government, some state or the ity of Omaba, will be accepted as evidence that the meat is sultable for food. Bring- ing meat which does not bear such a tag into the city will be deemed a violation of the ordinance and will lay the offender Hable to prosecution Health Commissioner Coffman is to have the right to inspect all slaughter houses and persons who are about to kill {mals whose flesh will be brought to Omaba for | sale must have the animals passed upon before they are slaughtered. Where gov- ernment inspection cannot be had em- ployes of the city health department are to be called upon. It is the desire of the health commis- sioner 1o have all butchering, with the ex- | ception of that in the packing houses, done in an abbatoir, conducted by employes of the city. The inspection fee for cattle over 1 year of age Is 50 cents. The fee for | inspecting hogs, calves and sheep fs 25 | cents each. Inspectors are granted the authority to make frequent examinations of all meat | and fish markets and slaughter houses and to condemn any meat, fish or game which they may deem unsuitable for food. Private John Allen Blows Strong Blast. be entertained secret doubts as to the divine origin and right of African slavery. After the close of the war, when we had returned to our peaceful avocations, one of our brightest and most far-sighted younsg men, having in mind the great future as well as the great past of this town, settled in Tupelo and afterward became a member of this body and is now about terminating a great career of sixtesn years here. What this nation and this house owes to Tupelo for this contribution I leave for others to say. My modesty forbids my speaking of it (Laughter.) Some fifteen years ago Kansa City and Memphis, appreciatigg the fact that if they hoped to do any &ood as citl they must have direct conmection with Tupelo, bullt a railroad from Kansas City, through Memphis, to Tupelo. Birmingham, realizing that with all of its marvelous re- sources they could never be developed and properly distributed without direct rail- road connection with Tupelo, saw to it that the road was built from Birmingham to Tupelo. Mr. Chairman, during the discussion on the river and harbor bill fn this house re- cently T heard so wany statistics as to the tonnage of the various cities that were seek- ing appropriations in that bill that it stimu- lated me to inquire into the tonn Tupelo and 1 find that during last there were about 4,000,000 tons of freight passed through Tupelo. It was only the other day you saw in great headlines in all of our newspapers tbat the Southern rafl- | road had purchased the Moblle & Ohio rafl- road, running from St. Louis to Mobile, through Tupelo. The president of the Southern road was in Washington a few days later and I met him for the first time and in a conversation 1 had with him T gathered the reason for this purchase. It was that the Southern system had already about 7,000 miles of rall- road, which had cost them hundreds of mil- lions of dollars: they found this great s tem, after all this expenditure, practically useless to them, because they had no direct connection or terminal facilities at Tupelo. They therefore spent many milllons more for 900 miles of railroad that would take them into Tupelo and give them good terminal facilities there. (Great laughter.) Many of you gentlemen have never been in Tupelo. 1 hope none of you entertaln any Idea of dylng without going there. I ehould hate to have it sald of any member of this congress—for all of whom I hav such a kindly feellng—that they did not pire to visit Tupelo before they died. (Laughter.) 1 extend you a' an invitation 10 come and promise.you a royal welcome. Come and go with me on College hill some evening and see one of our Tupelo sunsets (Laughter.) Come and see one of our southern, sil- very, Tupelo moons! T think it is the only place in the south where we have the same beautiful moons we had before the war. (Laughter.) I bave often been asked about the size of Tupelo. I confess I have not been able to get the exact figures from the last census. The tabulating machines do not seem to have been able to work it out vet; but I can say, Mr. Chalrman, that by sufficlently extending the corporate limits of our town we can accommodate a pop tion larger than the city of London. (Laughter.) The truth is that our lands about Tupelo have been so valuable for agricultural purposes that we have not ylelded them up for bullding a city as rap- idly as we should have dome. (Laughter.) I can say, Mr. Chairman, that while there are larger places than Tupelo, 1 do not think there is any other place just exactly like It. Tupelo is very near, if not exactly, in the center of the world. The horizon seems about the same distance in every di- rection. (Laughter.) The sun, when doing business on regular schedule, comes right over the town and sometimes gives us a hot time {n the old town. It is a great place for the investment of capital, where it will be welcomed and protected. Come early, gen- tlemen, and avold the rush! This, Mr. Chairman, is a proposition to establish there a fish hatchery. We have the ideal place for a fish hatchery. Why, sir, fish will travel over land for miles to get into the water we have at Tupelo. Thousands and millions of unborn fish are clamoring to this congress today for an op- portunity to be hatched at the Tupelo hatchery. (Loud laughter.) Now, Mr. Chairman, I only wish to say in conclusion that 1f there is & member here who wishes to have his name connected by future generations with that of Judas Iscar- fot and Benedict Arnold, if he wishes to have himself and his posterity polnted at with scorn, if he desires to be desplsed by men and shunned by women, let him vote against this amendment and he.will secure all this infamous notoriety. (Loud laugh- ter and applause.) | Twenty-fourth street pavement | repair fund may be aided to some extent. { Trainor contends that his experience South Omaha News 1900000000 00 70000000 Nearly if not all of the paved streets iu the city are In an extremely filthy condl tion. This condition exists notwithstand- ing the fact that the street department has spent more momey in the last fivo months than for any whole year in the his tory of the city. The records show that from August 10, 1900, up to February 1 of the present year $5,200 has been spent in the street department. Of this large amount expended there should, however, be de ducted about $1,000 for the repairs to the Even with this deduction the amount is still in ex- cess of the entire amount expended in any previous year. When it became apparent that Twenty-fourth street would have to be repaired an effort was made to have an item for these repairs inserted in the ap- propriation bill, but objection was raised to this and so the street repair and judg- ment funds were assessed for this work The $1,000 from the amount already spent represents mostly claims for labor, as the bulk of the material used in the repairs was paid out of the judgment fund At the present rate of expenditures 1t is costing the city about $500 & month to main- tain the street department, and vet with all this, the paved streets in the business portion of the city are in a decidedly flthy condition. From February 1 of last year until the time the annual appropriation was made the expenditures in the street department amounted to a little over. $5,000. This cov- erad a perlod of six months 1t will thus be seen that at the present rate of expenditures, $600 a month, it will cost $3,600 to keep up the streets until the next appropriation is available. \When work commences in the spring on the unpaved streets and washouts are of daily occurs rence It is estimated that the expepse will amount to at least $1,000 a month. Unless the utmost economy is exercised there wiil be an overlap in this fund of from $5,000 to $7,000. An effort is to be made to secure all moneys possible from the county road fund and in this way it {s thought that the strect The funds already spent do not include sidewalk repairs except possibly in a few instances where the cost of repairs was triv Tax Comm jioner Candidates. Figuring on the probability that a tax commissioner is to be elected in the spring several candidates have already announced themselves, Among the republicans Pat- rick Trainor is the most prominent. Mr. in municipal affairs will greatly assist him in the work of assessing taxes In case he is elected. The democrats huve a man who is sald to be the best that ever came, and that 1s Ed Johnston, councilman from the Fourth ward. Johnston probably knows more about municipal affairs than any of the present city offictals and his friends assert that he would make a first-cl missioner. It 1s understood, however, that Johnston will not make any fight for the office, alleging that he does not want it. Several other candidates are in the field, but they are not being seriously considered at this time. From past experience It is inferred that the packers will take a hand in the selec- tion of a tax commissioner and endeavor to elect @ man suitable to all of the corpora- tions. Prisoners ape. Two prisoners got away from Speclal Of- ficer Wolfe at the rock pile yesterday. One was Frank Betts, who was sentenced Mon- day to work thirty days for stealing an overcoat. While Officer Wolfe was in a | car throwing out some chunks of rock Betts | managed to break the chaln which held him and made a break for liberty. At last ac- counts he was still runping. The other prisoner was only on for a day or two and | was sent to bring a pall of water. His memory is evidently bad, as he forgot to return. Factory May Move, The beet sugar and syrup refinery at Thirty-sixth and M streets will more than Iikely be moved to more commodious quar- ters in the spring. There is some talk of bullding additions to the present plant, but « majority of the stockholders appear to favor a removal from the city. If the latter Instantly Rheumatism, Neural Women's Sutfering, Nervous Tens! })-Indllwl] alleviated ine always relieves my pai 1 fatigus It 40, | cated in a by drug lly in 25 and e ik s emalsfp B a2, o y 2-cent stamp. ORANGEINE CHEMICAL CO. Chicage, 111. R&G NEVER STRETCH willing to resort to any makeshift to meet the conditions. The moderately straight R & G No. 197 was and is the corset of comfort with the es sence of style, in straight enough for the prevailing vogue and curved enough to conform to healthful anatomical lines. In 1900 we were unsble to lly meet the demand for straight-front goods and un- At present, however, considerable additions to our factory facilities enable us to keep the trade supplied with real straight-front corsets at retail prices from $1.00 to $2.50, numbers. a corset to fit every figure. R & G C nd also our 397, 197, Empire and other popular "There are over seventy styles and sizes of R & G Corsets— orsets are the corsets that do not streich, Every haitbreadth of stretch is taken out of the goods by means of steam-heated iron forms. ‘This gives a permanency to the right shape and form that will sta; in it until the last day you wear it. Every R & G Corset is sold with the understanding that it must give satisfaction to the wearer, or the dealer will supply your dealer hasn’t i you are supplied with what you want R & G CORSET CO. 363 BROADWAY ' proposition provails the factory will be lo- district where more sugar beets For several months past agents of this company have been golug about e country in this vicinity trylog to make contracts with farmers for sugar beets, but the total acreage contracted for will, it s etated, not warrant the rebuilding of the plant as proposed are raised win er Located, A few days ago mention was made in The Bee of a communication received by City Clerk Shrigley from George Esser of St Helena, Neb., inquiring about his xon, Will In respomse to this notice Mrs. John Stein- bruner, who lives at 165 South Twenty- fitth street, called at the clerk's office ye terday and stated that Will Esser formerly occupled one of her houses in this city. Some time ago he moved to Omaha and Mre. Steinbruner asserts that she met Esser on the streets there than a month ago. Clerk Shrigley will write Ess and inform him of the statements Mrs. Steinbruner. Missionary Missionary Mathews has been requested to give his lecture on “Wonders of Congo Land'" at the Presbyterian church in Belle- viue on Friday evening, March 1. The pro- ceeds of the lecture will go toward paying the incidental expenses of the mission now maintained at Twenty-fifth and O streets, Mr. Mathews is doing good work here and daily poor people are fed at the misslon and clothing supplied as far as possible less Lecture, Republican Club This evening the members of the Young Men's Republican club of South Omaha will meet in the council chamber for the pur- pose of reorganizing. Officers will be elected for a year, and every member is urged to be present. Of the prominent of- fices to be filled Henry C. Murphy is being talked of for president and George Fran- clsco for secretary. Magic Clty Gossip. The King's Daughters will meet Mrs. D. L. Holmes instead of with Towle, as first announced Peter Quinn, a clerk at the South Omaha postoffice. is undergoing treatment at the rresbyterian hospital in Omaha. Knoxall couneil the Royal will initiate about n domen ¢ Masonic hall on F A meeting of t with Mrs. Arcanum ndidates at & Ward Republican club has been r this evening at ns' hall, Twenty-elghth and R streets. The and Ladles of Security will hold a special meeting Saturday evening in the Singer block, Twenty-fourth and N streets, Paul av. colored, has been arrested for selling tickets to a bogus fight. The plaint” against him ts to be signed by Markeson brothers. Bostwick, cashier of the South Omaha National bank, writes from Naples that he 18 enjoying his trip through 1taly and that he is greatly tmproved in health, James Golden died yesterday at St Joseph's hospital. His * home = was at Twenty-ninth and R streets. The remains will be forwarded to Nebraska City today for interment A committee of the councll will meet with the county commissioners this after- noon to arrange the detalls for a settle- ment for money due the county for the feeding of clty prisoners, Bucklen's Arnlea Salve Has world-wide fame for marvellous cures. It surpasses any other salve, lotion, oint- ment or balm for cuts, coras, burns, bolls, sores, felons, ulcers, tetter, malt rheum, fever sores, chapped hands. skin eruptions: infallible for piles. Cure guaramteed. Only 25¢ at Kubn & Co. You Know Us— We've been in business in Omaba & quar- ter of a century and you've mever known of our misrepresenting anything—You know by this time that when we tell you we have the best woman's $3 shae in the world that we have it—You are asked to look at these wonderful values—genuine vici kid and light weight calf in ten distinct lasts from the extreme masculine to the slender woman- ish—any of tlem. Drexel Shoe Co., for the Asking te Shoe H. FARNAM STREBT. these only $3—We guaranteo a new one free of cost. 1f_ send us his name and we will see that NEW YORK GUARDING THE NEGRO'S LIFE Fifty Policsmen Burround Indianapolis Jail with Bheriffs io Reserve. DOROTHY ~ DARTER IDENTIFIES REED Is Frightened signs of Lynching, but Repeats Her Charge After the Crowd Has With- drawn. Feb. Dorothy Dar< negro, “Doc” Reed, brought here from Newcastle this after- noon, as her assailant. Last Thursday | afternoon on the streets of Irvington she was assaulted and beaten into fusensibil- ity. She Is yet lu a dangerous conditlon. The negro was brought here handcuffed to an officer. The party was met at & sub- urban station by a dozen policemen and detectives, with Superintendent Quigley at their head, and, followed by a patrol wagon full of policemen, the negro was driven to the Darter home, two miles from Irvington, an Indianapolis suburb. The girl identified the negro, then, seeing the crowd of sev- eral hundred that had gathered around the house, wavered and said sho was uncertain Later, when the negro and officers had left, she ktated that she positively identi- fled the man, but feared to gay 5o when he was there, fearing the crowd would hang him in their yard. All Omicers Gath When the news reached here that Reed had been identified there was intense ex- citement throughout the city. A hasty con. sultation between the governor, adjutant general, sheriff and superintendent of po- lice was called and the companies of the National Guard hero were placed under or- ders to be ready at a moment’s notice to quell a mob. One hundred stands of arms were taken from the state armory to the county jail and seventy-five deputy sher- iffs were at once sworn. In addition to | this, fitty policemen are on guard in every street in the vicinity of the jall and every- one Is stopped from approaching. This method of avolding trouble will continue through the night Thousands of people began gathering on the downtown streets carly this evenlng and groups of men appeared on every cors ner near the jail, which Is across the street from the city police station. Stern orders to disperse, however, separated them. The negro was greatly frightensd and kept im« ploring the officers In the fail to save him. The jail Is a new structure of stone and will withstand an sttack. INDIANAPOLIS, ter identified the Had to Congquer or Die, “I was just about gone," writes Mrs. Rosa Richardson of Laurel Springs, N, O, * had consumption so bad that the best doc- tors sald 1 could not live more than a month, but I began to use Dr. King's New Discovery and was wholly cured by seven bottles and am now stout ond well.” It's an unrivaled life-saver In consumption, pneumonia, la grippe and bronchits; in- fallible for coughs, colds, asthma, hay fever, croup or whooping cough. Guaran- teed bottles 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles tree at Kuhn & Co.'s drug store, t is up to Siegel— To demonstrate to the Omaha people the beauties «nd qualities of the Mandolin—and he undoubtedly will do so Monday night, Feb. 25, at the concert given by the Omaba Mandolin Kountze church—Mr, mandolinist, plays the Regal-—-We carry a orchestra, Memorial Slegel, the world's greatest tull line of this and other-high class makes ~—Buy a ticket at our store, hear the con- cert, be <onvinced that you must huve waundolin, A. HOSPE, Nsoaad At 613 Doagless