Omaha daily bee., 1888-08-21
PLEASURES OF MIDSUMMER.
Blumtes Enjoying Themselves at
Spirit Lake and OkobojL
OPENING A NEW CHURCH ORGAN
A Hickman Kicks AT Being
Fined For Fighting Dogs-A Mad
Buli-Interesting Police
Cases-Personals.
Blumtes at

tions. and is attracting many who would
otherwise visit Spirit Lake and Lake Okoboii,
yet there are not "a few from this vicinity
who find delight in these two lakes.
L. Ii. Odell has just returned from Oko-
boil, and reports a capital time there. He
found himself not among strangers by any
means. There was quite a sprinkling OF
Bluffs and Omaha representatives.
/. n. Flickinger and FANNY are enjoying a
season there. Flickinger mas rugged one OF
the fleetest sailboats on the lake, and has
christened 1t zone Sheet in the Wind" He
thinks of bringing his boat back and placing
it on the bosom of Manawa so soon as he has
tired of holding the championship OF Lake
Okoboji.
Wells Cook is stopping at the Orleans. He
goes over to Okoboii regularly every other
day. He is always satisfied with one fish, and
having taken that he hastens back to the
Orleans.
Joe Shea Is known as the luckiest fisher
mar this season. Only one man, the guide,
Inman, who takes the boats out, begins to
get such strings as Shea. Shea holds a line
in each hand and keeps pulling in first one
and then the other. When he gets a bite he
turns his attention to that one line, leaving
the other twisted around his leg, and he is
busy most of the time. He pulled out Il pike
the other day which weighed nearly eight
pounds. 1t was sent down to his father here
Us a SuIlIblt VI NhaU liz DiiS Ni Wv 'hSh
they get started. The catch nearly pulled
Joe out of the boat. 1t Topped about in the
boat like a young whale. Odell, who was IN
the boat with him, had to knife it while Shea
sat down on it 10 keep it quiet to the death.
Shea and Odell, mostly Shea, caught sixty
pounds Saturday afternoon.
c. A. Starr is enjoying himself mostly by
shooting ut marks with a target gun. He
spends hours throwing beer bottles into the
lake, and then cracking them with his little
r,,n ~ 10 tnukinD a Dnn1 record in his
speciality.
Harry Hawarth and family nave been en-
ioying themselves, too. Harry brought in
seventy-five pounds of fish, and as he couldn't
ship them, the train having gone, he parted
with them for 75 cents, the market having
been glutted by the presence of so many art
full fishers.
The Omaha camp is an attractive one to
all. The Dubuque and Keokuk visitors
seem especially charmed with the society
they find there, and are daily callers. Euchre
parties and hops mako every evening a
| merry one with the Omahas and their friends.
A larger number of new cottages are going
| up this season than ever before. While Du-
buQue and Keokuk are flirting with the Oma-
has ,Des Moines is bent on a more material
rivalry. The Des Moines folks are at Civ
EMS point. Each camp IS trying to outshine
the other. Omaha puts down a few more
yards of sod, and Immediately Des Moines
puts down a few yards more. Each I'M
provement is followed by a similar and lit
tie larger one by the other. Asa result both
camps are becoming very attractive, Ihey
are sodded clear to the waters edge, the
lawns being very pleasing.
| Three new cottages are going up at the
Omaha camp. There is also fine bathing
there. Des Moines points with pride to a
half doZeu new cottages, and holds its lots
from $3.50 to 1900.
The Manawa steamboats, have a bonanza,
| as compared with those on Okoboji or Spirit
lake. AT Manawa it is considered that %
| cents to cross the little lake and back is
cheap, and the boatmen grumble If they are
| not loaded so as to bring in several dollars
| each trip. At Okoboii SO cents covers the cost
for the round trip, stopping at all points, and
taking about three hours. The average
number of passengers is not over eight, and
when there are four passengers the steam
boatmen seem pretty we'll satisfied. Some of
a steamer the other day for the
afternoon. The boat carries about
s~everty-five. The boys got the boat
for s., and then invited their friends to fill
it. The excursion included all the points
around the lakes, and lasted from early in
| the afternoon to 8 o'clock in the evening.
| One little boat about half the size of the G.
f. Mayne is used in towing out row boats
for the fishingparties. The little tow boat is
a flyer and it costs only so cents to have
YOUR boat towed out three miles and 50 cents
more to have it towed in at night. Manawa
boatmcn would 70 crazy with these low
rates.
There was q sailing race one day last
week, in which Omaha, as usual, captured
the cup. The course was six miles and re,
turn and was sailed in an hour and forty
minutes.
Most of the season has been wet and
lowry but the visitors are holding on in the
expectation of a change each day for the
better. The cool, cloudy weather has hat
it's advantages, though, as it has made the
fishing better than for five years past.
The Bluffs visitors miss the beach with
which Manawa is favored. At Okoboji there
is no such beach. The bathers have to weai
heavy sandals, or else have their feet torn by
the rocks. There is but one bathing house
and that has but twelve rooms. The larges
and the average is from four to ten a day
The water is clear as crystal, and cool, and 1
Manawa's sandy beach could only be addel
it would be complete.
ID. b. Lyons, of Des Moines, who also ha
an office in Omaha, is one of those happily
constituted individuals who are especial,
adapted to making themselves and everybod,
about them have a good time. He Is a spe
cial favorite with the ladies, and when in hi
kuickerbockers, and arrayed in his summe
toggery, he is quite impressive. Many
young lady has sighed with disappointment
on learning that he Is a husband already, an
q model one. He is constantly suggesting
some delightful scheme for the crowd to sc
cure enjoyment, and the merry-makers dc
pend upon him greatly. AS an expression o
their appreciation of his services in maxim
it jolly TOR everybody, the ladies, the othe
day, wove for himla wreath, and crownin
him with this insisted on his responding in
speech. Among all circles one hears tn
query "Where's ID. b.. ~ and all seem to fee
that in order to have a real good time, h
must be the leader in the fun.