Omaha daily bee., 1885-03-31
this afternoon, and this evening will give
q dance and supper.

this afternoon, and this evening will give
q dance and supper.
This Ia my last week. Govern your
self accordingly. Call at once and SO ure
GODS cheap while you can. II. E. SEA.
MAN.
Justice Schurz yesterday performed the
ceremony which made Hans Clawson and
ohristlana Thompson happy. They are
both from York township, end the cere.
mony was performed at the Creston
house.
The BEE job rooms have just 'run of
invitations for a masquerade to take place
on Wednesday evening, April 8, at the
roller skating rink. Last year on a like
occasion the rink was crowded, and 1t no
doubt will be again this time.
If anyone has any doubts about Coun-
Gil Bluffs going ahead, he should take q
drive about the city, in the residence
portions, and surprise himself by seeing
the new buildings. Council Bluffs has
quite q building boom started already,
this early in the season.
j. l.. De Bsvoise, tho union ticket
agent, yesterday waltzed into THE BEE
office with one of the "Great Rock
Island" railway maps. He said: "THE
BEE Is last but not least in getting one Of
these" but j. l.. has had a new girl baby
at his house lately, 30 THE BEE forgives
his negligence.
About 400 names of voters have been
secured to the petition asking the mayor
to clote the saloons. The signers pledge
themselves to help the mayor carry the
prohibition Law into effect. Its expect
ed that some opposition petitions will be
started, and by the time the mayor re-
turns from bis southern trip be will have
the opinions of q good many citizens to
consider. In the meantime the petitions
will be referred to a council committee to
take under advisement.
The police yesterday notified Capt.
Hayes, who used to be on tho force him
self, to leave the city within t%wenty-four
hours or be arrested as a vagrant. Hayes
feels outraged by such an order, and pro-
poses to make q fight In the courts. He
says that the mayor put him oa as a
special, but that Chief Skinner obi 5cted,
and would not have it, and that the whole
cause Of the trouble Is that he knows
some unpleasant facte about some of the
police force.
Perry Lyon, who was arrested Satur-
day for forging Raymond SC osmpbell's
nam to a check for $40, had his exsniu-
alton before Judge Aylesvorth yesterday
and was held to await the action of the
grand jury, bail being fixed at $500.
Unable to give it, he went to Jail. He
seems to offer no very clear defense to
the charges, or any very satisfactory rea.
sons for getting into the scrape. BE
has been in the employ of Raymond &
Campbell for several years and has
always borne a good character.
VIM. 81. Lyon & Co., of New York,
who claim to be creditors of James Port
erfeld to the extent Of about 5000, have
got a temporary Injunction restraining
the Council Bluffs Savings bank from
proceeding with the sale of thu stock,
under the chattel mortgage held by the
bank. The petition avows that the
mortgage was gl9en to the bank by MIR.
Porterfield with the agreement that 1t
should not be recorded, 30 that the mort
gage was not known to these creditors,
and they sold him goods supposing he
wat all right, whereas If they had known
of the mortgage, as they would have done
had it been put on record, they would not
have given him credit.