Omaha daily bee., 1890-11-22
MINOR MENTION.

N, \, l.. 70.
Council Bluffs Lumber Co, coal.
The city council at the special session on
Thursday night elected Alderman Everett TO
succeed his father as one of the trustees Of
the public library.
The mayor has appointed John Burke,
formerly deputy city clerk, as res ular
patrolman, and he has been assigned to night
patrol duty on Washington avenue.
A young couple, Gustave A. Satzke and
Annie Same, stepped into the clerks office
yesterday afternoon and secured license.
Justice Barnett CHANGED to be sitting there
waiting to be called as "a witness in the court
above, and he improved the waiting
moments by tying the knot right there.
The next state tournament of the Firemen's
association is to be held at Cedar Rapids in
June. j. j.. Temp'etOn, the ex-chief of Coun.
ell Bluffs, has been chosen superintendent OF
the hose company contests. 1t has been de-
clded that the next winter meeting OF the
association will be held in Council Bluffs.
Last night Chief Cary received letter
from one N. L. Gregg of Parkville, Mo, ask
ing for information concerning one w. l..
sherman, for whom he had endorsed draft.
AS the initials and the methods used are the
same as in the case Of the confidence game
recently PLAYED on w s. Haynes, it is be.
lieved it is the same party.
An old Indian who has been going around
the city for the past two or three months sell
ing various articles has quit the business and
pulled out for the west. Yesterday morning
he announced that the Messiah had ordered
him to put on his "holy Shirt and go and
dance, and he obeycd. He visited Fearons
grocery during the forenoon dressed in his
"holy shirt' with his face claborately
streaked with read pant and announced that
he was done working for n living and had
enough to keep him until the Messiah came.
He took the Union Pacific train for the west.
There were eight full-blOoded Indians on
the Northwestern train from the north yes
terday morning. They were a father and his
sons coming from Minnesota and going south.
They were dressed in citizens clothes and
the old man appeared to be very intelligent
fellow. He talked freely to the passengers,
and told them he was taking his sons out of
the way of harm, that they had heard of the
promised Messiah and were very much affected
by the news of his coming, and were about
half inclined to go to Dakota and Join the
ghost dances. He said he had fought in
several campaigns with the whites and knew
their strength and the futility of the Indians
nope that they could overcome them, and to
prevent his sons getting into trouble he was
taking them away from temptation.
AT the last special meeting of the city coun-
Gil new rule was adopted that will do a
great deal toward breaking the intermina able
tedium OF the meeting proceedings and ma
terially shorten the sessions Hereafter all
petitions and communications will be referred
at once to the proper committees without
reading in full, the clerk only reading the
Capu0nS. heretofore these communications
have been read before the council, and after
being discussed have been referred to the
committees. Not one petition or communica-
ton in n hundred has ever been disposed of
by the council without reference to the ap-
propriate committee, and sessions have been
prolonged for hours that might have
been terminated in one hour if this kind of
useless discussion had been dispensed with.
The examination and discussion of this sort
of business is properly committee work, and
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attend to It without consuming the time of
the council