Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-17
CHURCH HOWE HAD A REASON
Why He Remained Away From the
State Convention.
GOT THE ADAMS COUNTY BONDS.
A Hardened Case of COon-The School
Boards Monthly M~eeting-Pro-
jected Buildings for this
Summer-Brief5.
GOT THE ADAMS COUNTY BONDS.
LINCOLN BUREAU OF THE OMAHA BEE,
1929 L STREET,

LINCOLN, May 49,
Judge Field to-day rendered his decision in
the injunction case brought by Barnes, the
b. & M. right-of-way man at Hastings,
against the bonds voted by Adams county to
1ne Missouri Pacific. The decision of Judge
Field was that the grounds upon which an
injunction was asked was not well taken. He
therefore dissolved the temporary injunction
and dismissed the suit at the plaintiff IS cost.
Church Howe was on the ground represent
ing the Missouri Pacific, and Immediately
the injunction was dissolved the auditor APP
proved and registered the bonds and the
board of public lands and buildings purchased
them for an Investment for moneys in the
permanent school fund. 1t was late in the
day when all the proceedings and trans
actions were completed and Church Howe
was loaded with checks for $4,000, the cash
received for the bonds.
'This is why / was not at the state conven-
oion," remarked Mr.. Howe to a group of re-
turning delegates en- route westward. chad
this case Oh hand and l was after bonds in
stead of ofice, therefore my business was
eight here,'' and the representative of the
Missouri'Paciic shuffled his bundle of checks
ann mentally compared his position
with his old and lifelong friend
Tom Majors position after Charley Greene
had placed HIM in nomination for permanent
CHAIRMAN and the convention had elected the
other fellow by reclamation,
A Lancaster county man who witnessed
the proceedings at both the Ashland and
state conventions declared to-day that the
ultorlor design of Charley Greene in his eff
forts to make Tom Majors chairman of the
Omaha convention was to punish Church
Howe for not supporting Greene at Ashland
And see how successful he was" contin-
ued the unknown delegate, as he re-read the
proceedings of the state convention.
HARDENED CASE.
Before County Judge Stewart today Elder
Howe, the city missionary, brought COM
plant against IA twelve-year-old colored girl,
asking that she be sent to the reform school.
lie stated the hardened character that the
girl appeared TO be, and the officers produced
the girl in court with a colored woman, who
claimed 10 be her mother. The questions in
the case showed that the girl, Amy Melon by
name, had no parents, both being dead, and
prostitute despite her youthful years.
She stopped for q while with a sister,
who ran a low dive, and after the
sister left the city she became an innate of a
number OF places OF like character. The
woman that was with the girl in court pro-
fessed that she was a reformer; that the
child was hers and she wanted to keep her
and would bring her up IN a respectable man
ner. The Judge, however, took no account
OF the tale, and promptly the girl
te the reform school, The sheriff went To
Kearney with her on the afternoon train.
soaoo BOARD MEETING.
The school board held its regular meeting
this morning for the mouth Of May. Presi-
don't Gregory submitted the following stand
Ing committees for the year:
Tinance-Cox, Bell and Gregory.
Teachers, Organizations aud Salaries--El-
liott, Chaplin and Gregory.
BUILDINGS and Greunas-Wallingt0rd, Ssa-
berg and Cox,
Textbooks and Course Of Study Gregory,
Elliott and Reeves.