Omaha daily bee., 1896-06-19

visit, though at present the Indian trouble
west have drawn away most of the troops.
CITY GOVERNMENT IN 1871.
II our traveller should have happened in a
the council rooms in Hellman's block som
evening when the council was in session, h
would have found advising that body a
mayor Smith S. Caldwell, one of the LEADING
bankers and most prominent citizens. II
front of him he would have seen ranged a
councilmen E. A. Allen and w. J. McKelligal
from the First ward, G. w. Homan and j. S
Gibson from the Second ward, Henry Luheni
and John Campbell from the Third ward
John A. Horbach and Byron Reed from thu
Fourth ward, James Creighton and ]. B
Bartlett from the Fifth ward, and George
Smith and Thomas Martin from the Sixth
ward. The other city officers were: c. L
Bristol, city clerk; John Steen, treasurer
John r. Porter, police judge; Andrew Rose
water, city engineer; Jerry Dee, street com
missioner, and G. w. Grafton, gas inspector
At the head of the police department was
William G. Hollins, city marshal and chief
assisted by Rodney butcher, captain; A. p
Saunders, lieutenant; G. p. Paulsen, turnkey
and three policemen appointed from each
ward, making a total of eighteen men in the
entire force.
The fire department was still a volunteer
organization. Steamer Omaha, No. /, organ
lied July 10, 1866, was housed. together
with the Pioneer Hook and Ladder COM
pany, on the southwest corner of Sixteenth
and Farnam. where the Board of Trade
building now stands. Fire King, No. 2,
organized September IA, 1868, was housed
on the east side of Tenth street, between
Farnam and Douglas, where No. 2 engine
house is still located. Durant Engine and
Hose company No. l, organized February /,
1869, then, as now, constituted the special
fire service of the Union Pacific car shops.
COUNTY AND FEDERAL OFFICERS.
Wandering into the somber, square. brick
court house that had been erected on the
northeast corner of Sixteenth and Farnam
stl Cets, our traveller would have found
George b. Lake conducting the district court.
with George Armstrong as his clerk. The
other county officers who were supposed TO
make their headquarters in the building
were Henry Eicke, w. A. Purchase and
Il. II. Sherwood, commissioners; Thomas
Swcbe, clerk; w. j. Hahn. treasurer; Louis
Won Froben, surveyor; Or. j. C. Denise,
physician; John c., Gown, prosecutors; f..
Estabrook, attorney; Jacob Gish, coroner;
Henry Grebe, sheriff Jeremiah Benin, super
intendent of schools, and l.. b, Gibson,
probate judge.
The United States postofice was located
ON Douglas, below Fourteenth street. and
was presided over by J. H.. Kellom as post
master. By the time The Bee had been we'll
started Postmaster KellOm had given way
TO Postmaster Joel Griffin, who was soon
forced TO retire by the exposures of this
paper. The postofiice was advertised to be
ol.en from S a. m. to s p, m. daily. except
Sunday, when II was opeu from 8 to 10 a.
m. The mails arrived and departed daily,
except Sunday. No mails were due Sunday
afternoon or Monday forenoon and no de-
p~artures Saturday afternoon or Sunday fore
noon. And the postotiice patronizing public
was specially Informed that way stations
on the Chicago a. Northwestern and the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroads
were supplied by railway mail clerks on
the morning trains.
The other names on the list OF United
states officers located in Omaha in 1871
we're: Hon. John f. Dillon. Judge OF the
circuit court; Hon. Elmer S, Dundy. Judge
OF the district court; Watson Is. Smith.
clerk of the circuit and district courts;
Silas A. Strickland. United States attorney;
Thomas J. Majors, internal revenue assessor
Charles X. Coutant, assistant internal
revenue assessor; Joseph e. Lancaster. in