Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-20
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dent; L. ". Garroutte, fourth vice president,
William Fullerton, fifth vice PRESIDENT; o. b..
Polk, sixth vice president; G. A. Atkinson,
secretary; John Gillespie treasurer. A com
mittee on bylaws for the league was ap-
pointed, as follows: Messrs. Clark, Eaton
and Root, and the following platform was
adopted as the platform of the league:
First-We regard the saloon as the COM
mon and malignant foe of civllation and
humanity, and as a public enemy it ought to
be abolished.
Second-We hail with satisfaction the
rapid growth of the anti-saloon republicans
of the state.
Third-Recognizing the practical difficulty
of temperance legislation and enforcement,
we unite on the broad ground of active hos
tility to.the saloon, without debating methods
of procedure. The people have the right and
should have the opportunity of deciding how
and when the saloons shall be suppressed.
Flfth-As members of the republican party
we are proud of its glorious past, rejoice
in its present vigor, and have an abid-
ing confidence that it will prove to
for the destruction of the saloon as
it was for the overthrow of slavery. The
saloon is moral slavery.
5. Speaking for an overwhelming majority
of republican voters and good citizens, we
ask the national republican convention TO in
corporate in their platform a declaration of
hostility to the saloon.
6. We invite the active cooperation Of all
iiichto VI tSinpSi I'LL vi Ihls pan VI CuLl-
paign.
CITY BRIEFS.
The warden of the penitentiary notified the
sheriff this morning that he had a crazy man
at that institution who had wandered there
during the night before. He described him
as a man about fifty years of age, plainly
dressed, with the fingers missing from one of
his hands. Inquiry at the asylum ELECTED
the information that no one was missing
there and the crazy man evidently a
stranger, Later in the day the man was
sent to the city by the warden, and this af-
ternoon the insanity board is inGuiring into
his case. His name is Reed and his home is
evidently at Wilkesbarre, Pa, although he
has a ticket for Leadville, Col. II is thought
that in his crazy condition he left the train
here and wandered TO the penitentiary, where
he was found.
1t is not generally understood that the con-
tract for the building of the new Lancaster
county court house calls for that building to
be enclosed the present year and to be under
roof before January l, 1889. This will push
things, and instead of simply the foundation
this year the building will be in shape to be
completed early in the coming year. IL is stated
that a railroad track will be laid as closely as
possible to the court house square, so that
the stone for the building can be handled as
expeditously as possible. 1t will require a
small army of workmen during the next six
months TO advance the building to the point
OF completion demanded in the contract. I'm
mediately upon the acceptance of the stone
work II. Will be commercially the contractor,
not later than the first of the coming month.
One of the contemplated improvements of
the year is a $3.50 o Young Mems Christian
Association building, to be erected on the lots
purchased by the association on the corner of
N and Thirteenth streets. The association
want $4,000 and then their way is clear for
the building. John X. Clark has headed a
list subscribing $1,000 of the amount, and a
dozen more subscriptions of proportionate
liberality will go far towards securing the
building. John G. Bonnell has the subscrip-
ton work in hand.
The successful bidders for paving for the
third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth
districts have sub-let the grading work and
business will open up Monday all along the
line. Public improvements viii be many
the present year.
President j. G. Mcbride, of the Nebraska
Clam Bake association, has issued the call
for the annua bake that will be held at
Shogo island, Milford, June 1, 2 aud 8. The
regalia of the order is recited TO be soft hats
and WOODEN shirts. Accommodations are re-
ported as ample, and trains leave Lincoln
morning and evening via Milford. There
will be an abundance of bait on the grounds
for all the lone fishermen who may attend.
The death losses of the Alma wreck will be
vigorously prosecuted. G.. M. Lambertson
has been engaged by the administrator of the
estate of l.. A. Towne aud wife OF Grand
Rapids, Mich, TO secure damages for their
deaths, and the travelling men will see 10 IL
that the case Of Charley Eaton. will be
vigorously handled.
A member Of the Lancaster delegation to