Omaha daily bee., 1885-06-09

United States marshal, several priva'e
~vatohmen, the city msrshal and his dep
titles, and all the minute men Of the FIRE
department are to be made special police
With no salary, and the aldermen are to
be appointed as police, so that the total
regular force will reach about twenty or
more, while In case Of need the mayor
has the right to pot on special polio men.
| The roughs Who think that Council Bluffs
is q good place to Walt Oh account of the
cutting down of the regular police force,
may find themselves mistaken If they
try 1t.
The case Of G. A Walker agsinst d.
Goldstein ,me up before Judge Hon.
bricks yesterday. Walker claimed that
a bspj, which Mr.. Goldstein had in his
pawn shop had been stolen from him by
one named d Juglss, and nat he (Wslker)
had bought the instrument last Jsnuaty.
Goldctein proved that this very same
banjo had been pswned by Douglas
several times at his place, the first time
being a year and a half ago, and that 1t
could not theref re be the same instru'
ment which Walker had bought new in
January last. Tne court therefore de-
oided in favor of Goldstein.
The action of the c,unty board of sup.
e~rvisors In Gu rg down the small-pox
bills certified up BY the city council has
caused acme feeling IN the part of the
aldermen. They Q an that the handling
of the patients was first In the control o.
the c ,unty, but that the county turned
the matter over to the city, and that
after doing the best possiols in hiring
help aud securing nee. %ssaries, the county
now goes back on the bills. The council
feels that the agr,e ments made by the
city boord OF health with various indi-
viduals must In all fairness be car.
ried out. and that If the county
will not pay these persons ss agreed, the
city will be held liable, and that the
county board having put the wl1k onto
the city, should stand BY it. Some of
the aldermen are In favor of suit against
the county right away, while the more
c,nservative ones advise arbitration and
further consultation with the supervisors,
with the hope that the latter msy be per-
suaded, on learning all the facts, to meet
the bills as contracted.
The announcement that there would
be lawn dresses given away at the Peo-
pies store for al hour yesterday morn
Ing spread so like vild-tire, that leng be-
fore the hour appointed there was q great
crowd gathered there, and this kept il
creasing until the store was packed, and
the side walk and street were blocked.
The Jam was q complete denomination
that 1t pays to advertise. Many
cyuld not get into the store, and
while the crowd Inside was struggling
for bargains, the crowd outside was hav-
Ing a no less struggle, bundles of goods
being thrown out the VIVID rvs to them,
and as the hundreds of h-nds reached
frantically up in the ale, e,ger to be the
lucky grabbers of a prizs, the hundreds
of voices INDUCED in laughter, shouts and
cheers, calling q still greater crowd. The
police were sent to clear the streets, but
1t was impossible to get folks to move on
so long as they we're getting goods for
nothing, and as they all seemed good-na
tured, the police could notuse force, and 80
gave up the task aud let the crowd have
Its way until the fun was over. 1t was a
great day for the Peoples store, and one
of thu biggest ssrts of advertisements.
There were fortunately no serious mis-
haps, such as seemed to be liable in such
o great crowd of eager, pushing, jamming
men, women and children. Inside the
store the crowd was so dense that two or
three ladies tainted, but aside from this
there was little to mar ths success of
the event.