Omaha daily bee., 1883-12-10

however, no immediate prospect OF sell.
ing the buildings, as the sums offered are
too low for the council TO accept. The
city could probably get a higher price by
waiting until spring.
At st. Joseph's academy the silver
medal wa given on Friday to JOIN
Hughes, a boy about sixteen years Of
age. BY a strange confidence there are
in the school three boys of this name,
and stranger yet their fathers are al
named alike, Martin Hughes. The two
other boys, however, are younger than
the one who won the medal.
As predicted by THE BEE, the city
council seems in no haste to take any
action in regard to the fire alarm. The
best they could do would be to do away
with the present one, as that is of no
use, and in fact worse than none, as it is
liable to mislead the department. The
sooner something is done the better, as
under the present circumstancerthe city
is worse off than if it had none
The challangc of the Earling shooting
club has been accepted by Council Bluffs,
and a match arranged for the 22d inst. at
the driving park here. Earling is to be
represented by II. S. Crogans, Cal. CALI
son, w. w. Maysent, Al. Dickey, d. M.
Mckenzie, and f. G. Brown. Council
Bluffs is to have its reputation depend on
w. ID. Hardin, Oscar keeline, George
Brown, Bert Evans, M. f. Rohrer, and
George II. Ferguson.
Claus J~uergens had occasion to be alb
sent from the city for a few days in Mis-
souri, Valley, and when he returned he
found that his best coat and vest had dis
appeared, and his roommate, John Rem
frow, had gone also. He naturally in
ferred that his roommate had stolen
them, and as the latter had before pawn
ed goods at Mrs. Davis he suspected that
the goods had been placed there, and so
got tout a search warrant at Justice
Schurz's and found the goods there.
They had been pawned for SO.
The press in the western part of the
state seems unanimous in denouncing
the recent action of the board of educa-
ton here in denying the mission schools
the use of the building Sunday afternoons.
The Hamburg News, for instance, says:
1.-THE school board of Council Bluffs has
denied the mission Sunday schools fur
Their use of the school buildings, for the
holding of their meetings. The school
board has made a mistake. The mission
Sunday schools serve the peace and order
of the state by educating the children in
honesty and virtue, and therefore should
be admitted to the school building"
A short time ago an inquiry came
from the east concerning some Council
Bluffs city bonds, on which the interest
had not been paid. A search was made
through the records by the auditor here,
and no such numbered bonds could be
found registered here. At once the con-
clusion was jumped at by the sensational
reporters that a big forgery had been
committed, and they devoted column after
column to the imaginary fraud. 1t now
appears that the bank making the in
quiry made a little mistake. The bonds
they wanted to know about were some
issued by Council Grove, Kan.
The promise is now made, as it has
been many times before, that the Coun-
Gil Bluffs telegraph facilities wore to be
enlarged and improved. 1t is almost
they were, and while about it, it
would be well for the head officials to get
of a force so that if there is need
Of sending kilograms at night the need
could be met. AS it is now there is one
taking Associated Press dis
patches, and he cannot do other duty.
There have been many complaints in
'ther respects about the Council Bluffs
Geographic facilities. The local manage
nent is all right, but the Office should be
given better means of accommodating the
From the statement of telephone rates
given in the Labor Union it appears that
for connections with Council Bluffs, or
other points in Pottawattamie county,
the same rates are charged as for con
nections with any point in Nebraska, as
this county is under control of the Ne
braska county, and the rates are higher
than for connections with other Iowa
towns. This seems to be n double dis.
elimination against Council Bluffs. If a
merchant in Tabor desires to talk bust
ness over the river with Council Bluffs
parties, he is obliged to pay more than
for talking with any other Iowa city, and
as much as if he was talking to any point
in Nebraska. At the same time Council
Bluffs is obliged to pay ten cents addi-
tional for every time they talk with
parties across the river. 1t seems as if
Council Bluffs got the worst of it all
around.
Crumbs From Court.