Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-05
THE DAILY BEE-COUNCM BLUFFS, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 8, 1888.

baker. L. Jensen, a stock dealer, also
of Boomer township, complains OF Hans
Peter for selling him a wagon also mort
gagged to the same party. The accused
has been arrested and is to have a hear
ing before Justice Vaughan on the 18th
inst.
The newspaper men whose dirty it is to
sit evening after evening during the
dreary draggings of the city council pre-
ceedings have tired of sitting around ON
the w~indow-sills and leaning against the
railing, and have modestly joined in a
request for the city council to provide
a reporters table and chairs for their
accommodation. The council will doubt
less grant the request, as it has
doubles been a mere oversight on its
part.
A visit to the building where is To-
Gated the power TO the electric light, re-
veals a scene of busy business. The
dynamo is already in place, and the
lamps are being adjusted ready to put
up and let blaze. The only cause of de-
lay now is the doubt as to the engine be-
ing of sufficient power to drive the
dynamo machine. If it does not prove
strong enough another engine will have
to be provided. Despite this, there is
every reason to believe that Council
Bluffs will, within a few days, have the
light in active operation.
Chief Field yesterday arrested n man
who seemed crazy drunk and who was
driving al 80 wild a gait along
Pierce street that he would have run
off a precipice and been dashed to death
had not a dirt wagon stopped him. The
fellow was taken to the calGboose and
saved from further en%dangering his life.
1t seems strange that while n drunken
man was saved from driving recklessly
into the jaws of death, a good, sober.
Woodworking boy should BIO crushed to
death by a falling bank.
Late revelations show that one theory
concerning the robbery of Judge James
house will not stand. 1t was supposed
that the man who on the day previous,
called at the house under the pretense of
fixing the pump, was the same one who
burglarized the house, and that the
pump excuse was merely to give him a
chance to see the interior Of the house.
1t now appears that the man who called
at the house to fix the pump was an hon-
est employee of J. G. Bixby, and that be-
ing sent out to fix a pump, made n mis-
take and got into the wrong house, and
his visit had no connection with the rob-
berry in any way.
Among the bills presented at the last
city council, was one of Wright q Bald
win fer $50, for drawing up a city ordi-
nance. The council has also retained
Sapp & Lyman to look after all the city's
cases in court. 1t seems as if there was
little or no use in having a city attorney
under salary all the year round, if the
city has to get some one else to draw or
d%inances and attend to suits. There are
cases in which any city attorney may
need help, but it is generally supposed
oiiao IL oity aItoIHey GILL uTdW III oTul-
nance and attend to some of the city,
suits.
The officer in Bayliss park has been re-
lieved for the season, there being no
grass to clip, and but little to watch ex-
cept a few fallen leaves. The park po-
liceman in Fairmont park is to be re-
tanned a while, it being thought that il
will pay to keep a man at $40 a month to
watch the trespassers and prevent them
making tho trees into cord wood. The
worst loss the park aver suffered in this
respect was from the acts of a park po-
liceman, who being ordered to thin out
the trees, cut down a number of the larg-
est and best ones. If a reward was of.
fered for the detection and conviction of
any one cutting trees there, it would
probably serve the sa ne purpose in the
winter as a $40a month man, and be
much cheaper.