Omaha daily bee., 1882-09-16
A BAD PLACE.
The Alleged DiSOriGrly Conduct
Near the Fair Grounds.
The Place a Paudemonium of
Revelry and Crime.
A General Review OF the Criminal
Situation.
A BAD PLACE.

Thus far state fair week has seemed to
pass off in a remarkably quiet and peace
full manner. Nothing whatever has been
said of any prevalence of lawlessness or
disorder, aud it would naturally be in
ferred that the twenty.eight police 10 the
city and forty on the fair grounds were
preserving the peace to perfection. All
has not been so lovely as one might think.
The fact is that, beginning with last
Sunday, there have been from sixteen TO
twenty arrests q day, mostly for into1ica-
ton and disorderly conduct. While there
has been no serious outbreak at the fair
grounds, IL is said that Satan runs riot
there at night, aud that after dark and un.
til dawn the SPACE outside the ground de-
serves to supplant Cheyenne in the right
to the title of
HE'LL on WHEELS.
EThursday, IL is reported, n man was
robbed of q big roll of money AZ one Of the
institutions near the main entrance. A
witness who saw q v oman tax the money
from his pocket tells the story. He says
that the man was afterwards stopped and
taken back into the brush, or cornfield and
left until yesterday when a soldier who
passed by gave him a suit of undercloth-
ing in which he started for town. The
same informant says there were over fifty
fights Thursday and that the scene was
perfectly i~ndescribable. The revelry was
kept up until / o'clock yesterday and
the place teipg outside the jurisdiction of
the police nothing was done to stop it.
THE COLOR LINE.
On Tuesday evening a colored man went
into one of the dining halls and paid for
his supper. AZ he sat down at the table a
man who has some horses on exhibition at
the fair took often e at it and with the re-
mark that he would teach the black B. of
n b. to sit Hown at the same table with
him, hurled a teacup at the man, striking
him on the head and intlicting some
terrible wounds. He Immediately
left the booth with q companion. The col
ored walters a moment later Issued forth
from the hall like an avenging host, each
armed with n carving knife, and were
about to annihilate the horse man when the
police intetfered and quelled the disturb.
ance by taking the OBJECT of their wrath
under arrest. He was subsequently re-
leased for some reason.
Later on some of the walters got out on q
spree, and going TO one of the places out
side where liquor ia sold, ''braced up" and
then refused to pay for their liquor. The
proprietor having taken all he would stand
in abuse and insult, drew a revolver and
first drove the mob out and then COM
PEELED them,
Al THE PISTOLS MuZzLE,
to come back into his place and pay up
their bill.
Six bootblacks were arrested for stealing
fruit on the grounds ami Judge heneke
will hold them in custody until after the
fair.
SUPPRESSED SENSATIONS.
There have been several outrageous rob-
berries during the week, the details CT
which have been suppressed for various
easUns. After day light yesterday some
man went through one of the priucipl
hotels, and got a good haul, one man losing
$50 and his gold watch.
At another hotel several pockets were
picked and others On the outbound trains
Thursday.
POLICE COURT.
In the police court yesterday there
was o goodly company gathered.g
Geo. Reed, arrested as a vagrant. was
discharged on account of sickness.
There were two disturbers of the peace,
one of whom paid and one was di. charged.
OF the five plain drunks three were COM
mitted, one paid and one was discharged.
@. b. Rockbud WAS arrested for smash
ing in the door Of the Il. p. paymaster's
Office with his fist, the charge against him
being the malicious destruction Of property
to the amount of S25. He will be tried to.
day.
Frank Novatkey was arrested for as.
s~aulting and beating the wife of Joseph
Varno, and his trial wa set for 10 a. IN.
Monday.
THE RoUSD.UP THURSDAY
included four Slocumbs, of whom one paid,
one was committed, and two were dis.
charged.
Two men paid the usual fine for disturb
ing the peace.
Two men arrested as Migrants were dis.
charged.
Two men were arrested in the act OF car
rying away lumber from Louis Bradford's
yard.
Two men were arrested fox assault and
battery, but the mar they licked refused
to prosecute them.
A western cattle dealer was arrested for
carrying concealed weapons. but AZ he ex-
planned that his business required the car
rying of large sums of money, and that he
needed the weapon for self.protectior, he
was discharged.
Six DRINKS were landed in Jail between
0 o'clock and noon.
Woman's True Friend.
A friend In need ia n friend indeed This