The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-02

OMAHA. Aug. LIN view of the dis
turbed condition of affairs in the city at
noon today, the mayor issued the follow
ing proclamation:
by virtue of the authority vested in
me by the charter for the metropolitan
police, which designates the mayor as
chief executive officer and CONSERVATION
Of the peace throughout the city, all per-
sons are hereby warned against acts of
violence or unlawful assemblages tending
to provoke turbulence or create disturb
ance
Without trenching upon the rights of
individual citizens to peacefully pursue
their vocation, deem it my duty, in view
or possible outbreaks, to impress upon all
GOOD citizens the necessity of deSisting
from any demonstration that is liable to
bring about a breach of the peace, and to
that end instructions have feen issued
TO the chief of police to dispense unlawful
gatherings on the public thoroughfares,
especially in the vicinity of public build
lngs. GEO. NJ BEMIS. Mayor"
mayor Bemis when asked what prompt
ed him to issue the riot proclamation
sald IL was merely precautionary meas
ure. adopted to prevent trouble He said
nothing had occurred in the shape of a
dlsorderly act or demonstration so far
on the streets, but from what he had
read in the newspapers he believed it
was necessary to put the people on their
guard against probable trouble
am here 20 enforce the laws of Ne
braska and that l propose to do de-
clared Chief of Police White, when asked
why he mad reserve force at police
headquarters and the official police alarm
operators guarded.
There has been great deal of infiam-
matory talk upon the streets and there
nave been infiammatory articles printed
and in the event of trouble I want men
on hand to suppress it. i do not antici-
pate any trouble. but if there should be-
and 1 did not have the men to suppress
the law, / should he condemned by the
public and rightly too. AS regards the
guarding of the police alarm Office it is
guarded because 1 do not mean to have
there. 1t is the only means we have for
communicating with the men on beats
and do not mean that any one who has
no right there, shall be there
The doors of the lire and police opera
tors room were barred and braced on the
inside with timbers.
following dispatch this morning:
CHICAGO, Aug: I've can furnish
breakers in your city at moments no
(Signed) ]. W. DIXON.
No explanation of the dispatch couIG lie
made by those who would naturally be
in a position to know regarding its au-
thenticity and meaning. During the day
there were no assemblages of persons On
any of the streets. The conflict of author
ity. if it occurs az ALL will take place
after the formal legal demand has been
made by the incoming board for recogn1-
ton at the hands of the police depart
ment.
The governor refuses TO meet with At
torney General Churchill and Commits
sioner Russell this afternoon for the pur-
pose of appointing the police commits
sioners. stating that he did .lot care to
precipitate trouble. Churchill and Russell
declared that if the governor refused to
meet with them tomorrow they would ap-
point the commission and let them use
force to secure possession of the police
building