Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 16, 1902, Page 7

HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WED NESDAY, APRIL 16 COMMISSIONERS ON JUNKET County Board Takes Oarriage Ride Through the Precinots. CONNOLLY AND O'KEEFFE KEEP APART ! m Beckoning ike Compete ab Drivers. Farmers and residents of the small towns pt Douglas county will have opportunity this week (o enter Into direct negotiations ‘with the county commissioners for what- ever rights or favors they may want, as the board started yesterday morning on its 8onual cross-country junket. After visiting the poor farm, fuspecting the plumbing and sampling the cook's cre- ations, théy will spend the rest of the day in McArdle and Millard precinets. Tomor- row Chicago and Waterloo will be gone over; Wednesday, Valley and’ Klkhorn, and Thursday, Jefferson, Union amd Florence. Nearer precincts will be vigited at Inter- vals Iater. The commissioners were to mee. at the poor farm and when the stragglers left the court house this morning for the roundup they were wondering what would be the arrangement of the members when | its the board is complete and starts on trip. The five commissioners are to ride n two carriages, but which three are to be together is the problem. It won't do to have O'Keeffe and Connolly within arms Pength of each other, they say, and yet meither one will stand to see the other enjoying a monopoly of the republican members’ time just at this stage of the game, when tombinations are sald to be the things that will govern. The laat re- port from the poor farm this afternoon was that O'Keeffe had taken a stand at one carriage and Connolly at another, and that they were beckoning the other members like rival cabmen. 2 Collection of Hack Taxes. As the board has no meeting until April 80, the members got together in committee of the whole Monday night and considered some minor business. They practically agreed that to accomplish the collection of back reaity tax they will not use collectors, but will put one man into the field to serve aotices on the delinquents, and then, if the response is not prompt, the board is to com- mence suit. It will call in the county at- lorney next Saturday to talk over the mat- er more fully. The Houston herd of 200 goats was an- other subject given attention at the com- mittee meeting. Houston wishes to turn them onto a strip of wooded pasture at the poor farm and; although willing to pay o small rent, he argues that thelr presence there would be desirable, as they would crop off the underbrush that is getting quite a start. One commissioner mentioned the danger of the goats killing the trees; wnother suggested that tin cans be split-and nalled about the young trunks, but Con. nolly said that the goats would simply eat those for desert. It was finally decided that the goats may be-turned in, but that the board members will keep tab on the trees and send Clerk McComb out to sit up with them nights. COUNTY COURT TO DECIDE Aldermanie Tie at South Omaha to | j used as a coal office, to cost $500. Be Recounted by Judge Vinsonhaler. John Mclntire and P. J. O'Connor - have found a way to expedite their final contest for place on the city council of South Ommha as member from the Fourth ward. They signed and filed this morniug & stipu- lation by which they are bound to submit the ballots cast at the election of April 1, to County Judge Vinsonhaler, who will re- canvass them, beginning at 10 o'clock to- morrow morning, and declare the result. Both parties consent to the jurisdiction of the court and each walves summons and process and further proceedings. The “stipulation” is somewhat unique among those filed in the court archives. It 4s drawn up on the letterheads of Frank E. Jones, “sanitary and milk inspector,” bears no names other than those of the contestants and begins with this: Whereas, As a controversy has arisen as to who is electod as councilman to the Fourth ward of the city of South Omaha t the election held therein on the first ay of April, 1902; that the matter shall 1. It 18 agreed be submitted to the county court, as in a contest. Then follow five other paragraphs requir- ing that the stipulation be the pleadings in the case, that there be an immediate hear- Ing, that the court order the ballots pro- duced In open court and count them there, that the judge “shall determine the result and promounce judgment as to who s elected,” & certificate of election as soon as the judge pronounces judgment and the party to whom the certificate is issued shall take his seat, but the other party shall have the right to appeal.” Judge Vinsonhaler, remembering his weeks of weary wogk with the recount in the Unitt-Miller contest, smiled rather feebly when the attorneys for the two a pirants brought the matter before him this moraing, but agreed to begin the hearing at 10 o'clock Wednesday proceeding is pursuant to the ad Judge Keysor, given Monday, when Judge refused to grant a temporary injunc- every housekeeper used GOLD Chicago. Bosion, and that the city clerk “shall issue morning. This of the tion preventing Cfty Clerk Samuel C. Shrig- ley from citing Mcintire to appear and draw lots with O'Connord who had, the can- vassing board reported, tied bim in the race for councilman. The judge told McIntire. that the matter might as well be decided one way or the pther, as there could be no final contest proceedings until one became the Incumbent and the other the contestor After arranging to make the recount Judge Vinsonhaler issued an order direct- ing City Clerk Shrigley to appear today 1 at 10 o'clock and to bring into court with him “all ballots which were cast in each and every election precinct Have You Trave on the Black Diamond Express? Have you enjoyed its comforts and the beauties of i the scenery along its route? If not, then you have missed an entrancing experience and should supply the omlission when you next go east. It rups between Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia Mortrlity Statisties. The following births and death have been reported at office of the Board of Health during the twenty-four hours end- | ing Tuesday noon Death—Mary A. Childs, 215 Ames avenue, | aged 76 years Births—Emii Schipright, 36 North Nine- teenth street. boy: O. C. Olsen, Sixtesn'h and Manderson streets, girl LOCAL BREVITIES. John D. Helner of Germantown, a_ear- genter. has filed appiication fn thé United tates district court to be declared bank- rypt of 330, Judge Hutel the He lists debts of $3,539.30 and assets Read has granted Rosalie inson divorce from Charles M round of non-sypport. They married at Portage, Wis., June 2, and have three children. | ! | The new mail pouch racks are being in- | | D. on were 1878, stalied in the postoffice, and when they ar ready for use the Omaha office will been equipped with the most modern pliances for handling the malls. The f{njunction sult of Dr. Whinnery ainst the trustees of the Omaha Dental college has been dismissed in the district court and the trustees are now free to employ such Instructors as they may de- sire at that institution The paving contractors started work yes- terday at Twenty-fourth and Spaulding Streets, Twenty-fourth street, south to Lake, will be paved rapidly, it being the Intention of the contractors to complete the paving as =oon as possible, so that other work may be done this year. The case In which the gasoline permit in an insurance pollcy figured resulted in the plaintiff securing a verdict for $300 and | interest. ~The plaintiff was Mrs. M. A. Beebe of 2606 8. Mary's avenue, who lo her household goods in a fire, and the d fendant was an insurance company of Lin- coln. The mother of Vetu M. B. Scott asks the custody of the child, fearing that John W., the father, Intends to take the girl to California. The father secured a divorce on ‘the groand of cruelty November 13, 1900, and Mrs. Bcott married 8. W. Forney. May 20, 191, her present home being 2619 Franklin street John Glibert, convicted of selling Maquor to the Indians’at the January term of the federal court, was released by Judge Mun- ger in February because he was subject to eplleptic spaems. One day last week, in #uch a spasm, he fell between the cars near Pender and was killed. His term in jall would not have expired at the time of his death Mrs. Bettie Hale, widow of Wililam E. Hale, has commenced suit In county court gainiat the Bunkers Union of the World to colleet hav $1000 on her husband's insurance policy. He died September 22 last, and she alleges that she has notified the company and asked settiement, but that the compan has 8o far neglected to give her any satis- taction. Buliding _permits have been granted as follows: To E E. Hunticy, to build at 1330 South Thirty-first street a frame dwell- ing to cost $3,500; to Eva Elliott, to build Forty-first and Hamliton streets a frame gtore bullding to cost $60; to the Unlon Fuel company, to build at’ Twentieth and Hickory streets a frame structure to be John J. Morrison of 84 Jefferson street, Albany, N. Y., has written to Chief of Police Donahue for {nformation concerning the whereabouts of Jamew Morrison. The last time his relatives saw him James was headsd for Californis, In 1849, and at thut tme he had dark curly hair and a falr complexion. He 18 thought to be in Omaha, and would be 74 years of age. The county clerk's force is thinking of contracting for a large sign to be sus- pended from the court house front, warn- ng sportsmen that the clerk’s office, like all the others, closes at 1 o'clock Satur- days. Every Baturday, they say, just as they have locked up or are about to, there will arrive a bunch of gunners who wish to take out hunting licenses in prepara- tion for a Sunday hunt. Mrs. J. R. Hughes, who employed three means in an attempt to destroy herself at her home, 1664 Sherman avenue, is to be taken in charge by the sheriff on an in- sanity warrant, and probably will be sent to Lincoln. At'present she is at the police station. Mrs. Mary Hanson, who Is also mentally affiicted, and who' has been in the county jail for two weeks, will be taken to the asylum Wednesday’ M. D. Karr, president of the city council, and R. B. Carter, building inspector, are telling conflicting ' stories of their recent | bunt up the Platte river. Mr. Karr said: “I was the first man of the p to_shoot a goose, but it fell In Carter he claimed it. arty hold a postmortem on the bird, e found it had been killed by No. 6 the kind 1 was using. Carter was | No. 1 shot. I got the party's this before we left Gretna.' A. Driver, a “medallion artist” of Peorta, 1lL, has written to Mayor Moores, inclos} his' photograph and busin ing that he would like of the mayor's matrimonial bureau. am Jolly, kind-hearted and successful,” he 1 am making §20 a month. and ily double the sum if [ had a Wwould take an interest in my " The photograph is that of a e young man of the blond type, and shows the subject as wearing a mono- cle and sputted vest. Judge Vinsonhaler will wait two week: before sending Roy Swanson to the in- dustrial school and will not do so then if the lad becomes more obedlent and better behaved. He is the boy whom his tather prenounced incorrigible and ask to have confined. The judge had the fam- fly in court yesterday and after hearing the tale of each member concluded that the juvenile might yet be redeemed and so has ‘continued the case two weeks, in the meantime arranging with the f with the boy's teacher in school for daily reports of whereabouts and deportment. DUST It Muitiplies — your pleasures; Divides — your efforts; Sultraots—from your cares; Addes— to your life, Made THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY, v % St Louia.—Makers of OVAL FAIRY SOKP. OHI0 KIDNAPING MYSTERY Onse of Little Margaret Taylor Excites Muoh Local Interest. STOLEN BY HER FATHER'S RELATIVES Aversion to the Mother Seems the Mo« tive for m Crime that Has At- tracted m Great Deal of Attention. The people of Ohlo are concerned just at present with the aftermath of a kidnaping ease which for sensational features is the parallel of the Cudahy abduction. The child was stolen four years ago, but fresh inter- est is injected Into the affair by the con- viction, sentencing and reprieve of two of the guilty parties, which events have fol- lowed each other in quick succession within the last few days. The whereabouts of the child and of the principal abduetor is still A& mystery. All three of the conapirators are women, relatives of their infant vietim Varlous woman's clubs of the state have taken the matter up and made martyrs of the convicts, and the question now upper- most in the public mind is: “Will the Board of Pardons, in consequence, set them free?” Margaret, the 2-year-old daughter of Al- bert Vinton Taylor and his young wife Mary of Fernbank, 0., was kidnaped August 3, 1898, by her aunt, Clara Taylor, of the same village. It fa supposed that the woman took the child first to Peoria, 111, and afterward to New York City, but this is only con- jecture, as no one, unless it be the two convicts, has seen or heard of them since that day. When the At the time of the abduction the parents of the child were in Bellevue, Ky., where the mother was ill, as a second child had been born to her. Little Margaret was per- mitted to go to Fernbank to visit her grandmother, Mrs. Francis L. Taylor, and her two aunts, Frances and Clara. One day Francee took her to the woods adjoining the village for an outing, and returning late in the afternoon was met by Clara, who received the child from Frances and took her away. On the witness stand Frances admitted this, but denied all knowledge as to the whereabouts of either her sister of her niece. She knew only, she sald, that Clara had a pass to Peoria, Ill. Since then she has received one letter from New York City which “was in Clara's handwriting”” and was signed “X Y. Z2.” The motive for the crime seems to be a little obscure. The convicts say they took the child away because the mother abused it. Another, and the more popular theory, is that the purpose was to extort money from the parents. It is sald that the three women objected to Albert Taylor's marriage, and that this is at the bottom of the trouble. The case presents many interesting and unusual phases. It is taken for granted that, considering all the newspaper public ity the affair has received, Clara mui know of her mother's and sister's convic- tion, yet she atill persists in secreting the child, though by producing it she could save them from prison. The father, in order to recover his loved one, and epare the life of his wife, who is slowly dying of grief, 18 willing to see his mother and sister consigned to the penitentiary. The woman's clubs, instead of feeling compas- ejon for the mother in her anguish, lavish all their sympathy upon the two conviets. Both Women Up in Years. The grandmother of the kidnaped child ie 80 years old, and the aunt is 50. Both have been sentenced to one year, and their reprieve is good for sixty days. It fs said that the two women have male relatives in Cleveland who have a strong political influence with Governor Nash. The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune has started a fund to assist in prosecuting the search for the chilld, and is making an m- usual effort to crystalize public sympathy into action. SAVES PENNIES FOR HIS DOG Colored Boy Fixes Cateher Ca “Elepha. Crime Was Committed. it So No Dogx Take His Rastus Peterkins i an absurdly small colored boy of the Third ward, and “Ele- phant” is his esteemed black-and-tan dog, 80 called in ironical referefice to its size, which is inconsiderabec. Rastus sells p pers for a living. Yesterday morning, accom- panied by Elephant, he entered the city clerk’'s office and dumped on the counter the copper contents of & worn leather wal- let. “Today ls the day the dog ketcher begins to ketch dogs, ain’t {t? He was told that he had been correctly informed. ““Wall, mistah, I want to git a tag fer ma dog El'fant,” he said, lifting the beast to a position beside the pile of colni “A very laudable ambition, 8am Simonson. The task of counting the pennles was slow and laborious, but it had to be done the second time, becavse there seemed to be a deficlency of 1 cent. “Is this all the mopey you've got?" was asked. “Dat's every soo markee I got, and I've been savin' ‘em fer a month.” The clerk made good the deficiency and Rastus went away happy, assuring Elephant that “dey haint no dog ketcher livin' dar lay bands on yo mow."” SUES KAUFMANN'S BONDSMEN Traders' I said Clerk mce Company Action to Recover Alleged Shorta, Attorneys for the Traders' Insurance company of Chicago filed a petition this morning praying the district court for judg- ment against Charles Kaufmann for $1,492.95 and against Charles Metz and August G Stephan for $1,000. Kaufmann w arrested a week ago and is to be prosecuted on a charge of embez- slement, the specific complaint being that he bas falled to turn in money collected for the company while acting as its agent. In this suit to recover the lnsurance people sllege that Metz and Stephan went on the bond executed by Kaufmann April 13, 1901 and that each bound himself, his heirs and admiplatrators In the sum of $1,000, but that they have peglected to make good the short: although notified of its existence when Kaufmann's agency was discontinued January 23. HIGH SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS Will Faver Laying of Con- The building and property committee of the Boarfl of Education will mext Monday recommend to the board the adoption of a resolution requiriug the laying of concrete alks on the High school grounds and upon Dodge street, south of those groynds The committee finlshed the grading of the grounds, earth having been removed from the southeast corner. where it stood higher than the water table of the new buflding, and also from the space between the mew and old buildings. If the board approves the expenditure of the money work will be started on the walks week There is still trouble over the of the furnaces under the bollers at bulldings. An inspection was n last week and It was found that while the doors of the furnace were redhot it was impossible to secure suficient heat {n some of the new rooms for the comfort of the inmates. BEGIN ON BRICK PAVEMENT First draft the de one day Brick L Years Goe in Omaha in Two on Twenty- The first paving brick lald in Omaba in two years was laid yesterday on North Twenty-fourth etreet at the intersection of Spaulding. From this point there will be a stretch of one mile of such pavement, ex- tending southward on Twenty-fourth street Two gangs, one employed by the city and one by the street rallway company, aggre- gating 180 men, are at work on the improve- ment. Besides this pavement another half mile of brick on Emmet etreet is under confract Things were “doing™ in brick circles terday. During the forenoon fourteen sam- ples of different makes of paving brick were brought into the city engineer's office from the foundry, where they had been put through a ‘“‘rattler” to test their staying qualities. The ‘“‘rattler” s a crucial test for & paving brick. It s & big fron eylin- der, something like a churn, and is made to revolve by means of a crank. The bricks, after being labeled, are all thrown in together and the churn is given 1,500 revolutions at the rate of thirty per minute; the bricks are jostled ahd thumped about at a furious rate. The operator then re- moves the cover and looks in, and finds some of the bricks are sharp-cornered, as firm as when they entered: some are worn away as by a gradual erosion; some are chipped and nicked and some are literally pulverized. It !s a case of the survival of the fittest. In this examination the Purington block, made at Galesburg, Il., came out at the head of the class, showing only 9.64 per cent loss. The greatest loss by abrasion was 22 per cent, sustained by a brick made in St. Joseph, Mo. The sample bricks are kept locked in a cabinet to prevent their belng carried away by agents of the unfortunate manufacturs ers. WORK ON THE AUDITORIUM Contract for the Construction of the dation About to Be At the meeting of the building and grounds committee of the Auditorium com- pany Monday night it was reported that preliminary arrangements having been sat- isfactorily made, the contract for the con- struction of the foundation would be signed today or tomorrow and that the committee would immediately advertise for bids for the construction of the steel work. It is expected that the bids will average about $38,000, but figures have been made $1,000 less by an Omaha contractor. “Every member of the committee was present except C. H. Pickens,” said Presi- dent Samborn. “It was the unanimous wish of the members that the steél would be on the ground in time for the contract for the walls to be let upon the completion of the foundation, so that there would be no de- lay in the work. Mr. Hamann, the con- tractor, will have 105 days In which to complete his contract, and as the bids for steel will be opened Msy 12, there will be little trouble’in this @irection. If tbe work is done as we expedt/ we willispend on the bulldlng complete froni $180,000 to $200,000. We expect to ralsé $25,000 of this by subscription in addition to what we now have on hand, and the balance will come from the stock contest. Ths of this common stock will greatly increase the value of the preferred stock, so that there is now no excuse for failure to suhscribe. There are twenty-five or thirty persoms to see who are expected to subscribe compara- tively large amounts. DROPS DEAD AT HIS WORK James R. Crandall Expires Suddenly at His Bench in Union Pacific Shops. James R. Crandall, foreman of the drill pr of the Union Pacific shops, dled sud- denly yesterday while at work at his bench in the shop. Mr. Crandall went to work at 7 o'clock, as was his custom, and an hour later suddenly dropped over un- conscious. He was carried to a Pullman car in the shed and & physiclan summoned. Before lils arrival Crandall was dead. The body was removed to the rooms of the coroner. Mr. Crandall was T4 years of age and had been in the employ of the Union Pacific Rallroad company for thirty years. He re- sided at 1141 North Seventeenth street with & son, James Crandall, and a daughter, M Hawk, bis wife having dled about a year a Railway Notes and Person: The Elkhorn reports a light rain over the entire system east of Long Pine, Neb. C. A Schroyer. superintendent of the eur department of the Chicago & Northwest- ern rallway at Chicago, 18 In Omaha H_J. Slifer, superintendent of the lowa division of the Chicago & Northwestern railway, with headquarters at Boone, la., is in Omaha. General Manager Bidwell of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley raiiroad wen to (.‘hk‘l%) last night. He was accompa. nied by 'eter Whitne: town site agent, and J. A. Kuhn, general freight agent of the same road.’ Business connected with the permanent location of the new Verdi- ris extension takes them to Chicage & Northwestern headquarters On May 4 the Burlington will put on two new local Nebraska trains which are con- tinuations of trains between Omaha and Lincoln now in service One will leave Hastings, Neb., at 7 a. m. and arrive in Omaha at 11:55'a. m. The other will leave Lincoln at 6:10, connecting with No. 3 out of here, which arrives in Lincoln at 5:45 B M ahd will arrive in Hastings at 9 p. m oth will make all local stops, President Burt of the Union Pacific way left Omaha Monday night on a special train on an inspection tour of the system. He was accompanied by General Manager Dickinson, Superintendent of Motive Power Higgins, Superintendent of Transportation Buckingham, Chief Engineer Berry, Di- vislon Superintendent Baxter and Superin- tendent leuel of the Colorado division They will be gone several days. A host of nges in the operating partment of the Chicago & Northwes: way are announced in ecirculars Chicago headquarters ~ which Omaha yesterday. 8. M Eraden is made superintendent of the Galena division, vice W. E. Morse, resigned E. G. 8chevenell is ‘made superintendent of the 1 & M division, vice 8. M. Braden, promoted. W D, Beck is made assistant superintendent of the lowa division at Hoone, vice E. G Bchevenell, promoted. W. M. Wells is made assistant superintendent at Chicago, vice W. Beck, transferred E. A Kellogg_formerly assistant superintendent of the Towa division at Boone and recently chief clerk in the office of General Man- ager Gardner, is made superintendent of parlor and dining car service. Mr. Kellogg 1 was also formerly tralnmaster at Counci Blufrs PERSONALJ’@AGRAPHS. (Edward Ray of Carthage eity G. W. Wattles Is in which will occupy Bishop Scann rail- the east two weeks I is In Columbus, where he is holding a conference of that deanery of the Catholic church. From Columbus he will go to Grand Isiand for the same pur- vose. on a trip Will H. Atles of Fort Madison, la., was yesterd visitin, Younty Cieme Miier and Mra M oun! Clerl ler A . e Al his ofice force, Both af Whom' Do hes in lows years ago. Mg, is in the | «[NEW BOOKS AND NACAZINES | The Century Oompany Publishes a New Book by Josiah Flint. NOVEL STORY OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON “The Master of Caxton,” a Southern est Pabl ral Religlous t Out. tion of Scribners. Books J Mr. J. F. 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The language, while offering no great diM- culties, gives an acquaintance with col- loquial German which is most helpful. The notes furnish all needed help and the vo- cabulary is complete, affording explanations of constructions and idioms. The Scribners have arranged with Presi- dent Hadley and the board of overseers at Yale university for the yearly publica- tion in book form of the Yale lectures on the “Responsibilities of Cltizenship.” The first volume, recelved this week, consists of the lectures by Justice Brewer of the United States supreme court, om ‘“Amerl- can Citizenship.” In a book of much pith and interest, he defines the gemeral rights and duties of a citizen, leaving later lec- turers, as he explaing, to develop particu- lar obligations as they may see fit. Among the topics he touches upon in a wise and witty way are the obligations of taxpayer: of jurors, of fathers and mothers of fam- ilies, of politicians and offceholders. 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