Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-02
POINTER COMPELLED TO MOVE
Executive Has to Get Out Of His Rented
House on Short Notice,
TAKES APARTMENTS At THE LINCOLN
Board of Public Lands and Buildings
VIII Vow Proceed to Hustle
10 Purchase n Governors
=. Mansion.

LINCOLN June 1.-tspecial)-As a re-
sun OF the delay Of the Board OF Public
Lands and Buildings in purchasing q GOV.
ernors mansion, Governor Poynter was to-
uay forced to remove his family from the
mouse ne has been occupying at the corner
OF seventeenth and II streets to the Lin
coin hotel. When Governor Poynter came
70 Lincoln he leased the house owned by
Ports Wilson, prominent populst. but
about month or so ago he learned that
1t was for sale. Not wishing to be turned
out OF the house on a few days notice the
governor called on the owner and asked
that the lease be cancelled. The landlord
agreed to this upon the payment OF a GER
tain bonus, with the condition attached that
the house was to be vacated June l. Gov
ernor Poynter supposed the Board OF Public
Lands and Buildings would arrive at a
decision before today and he voluntarily
agreed to move on or before June l. Today
an effort was made to allow the governor
and his family to remain in the house for
few weeks, but the landlord was obstinate
and refused positively to make any such
concession.
Secretary OF State Porter stated this
AFTERNOON that soon as the attorney gem
eral could be present the board would get
together and make q selection from the
twenty-one houses offered the state, for
SONtIHOT 3 Inc IaCt that the gov
ernor and his family have been SO un-
tremendously turned out OF the house he
has been occupying will doubtless have a
tendency to hurry the members OF the board
UP little.
O'NeaI Gets n Certificate.
DR.. orren S. o'Neal, the eye and ear
specialist from Chicago. has at last secured
certificate allowing him to practice medi-
cine in this state, but he has been cited to
appear before the State Board of Health at
Its next regular meeting on July 6 to show
why H. should not be cancelled. 1t Is posi-
BILE that damage proceedings may be in
Btituted against certain members of the
board as an outgrowth OF the controversy
with the board and the secretaries that has
continued for the last month or more. DR..
ONeal has made four trips to Lincoln from
Chicago for the express purpose Of securing
the necessary certificate and in addition to
this expense he will have good sized
attorneys fee to pay. The certificate was
issued by the board today in compliance
with a writ of mandamus allowed by Judge
Holmes of the district court. The members
of the board at first considered the ad-
visibility of ignoring the writ and refusing
to grant the permit, but finally decided to
grant DR.. O'Neal temporary permission to
practice in Nebraska pending his hearing
July 6.
DR.. ONeal is a graduate of a number of
different colleges, but the protest against
the issuance OF the certificate was based on
the allegation that he had been guilty of
unprofessonal conduct in advertising that
he could remove cataracts from the eye
without pain and other equally impossible
operations. DR.. O'Neal filed an application
for a certificate with the state authorities
about a month ago. The secretaries of the
Gtota rJ of nrs II no;Ia 80
Lincoln, George II. Brash, B. F. drummer
of Omaha and II. B. Crummins of Seward
considered his application examined his di-
plomas and recommended that the certif-
cate be fsened. Accordingly a certificate was
made out, but Superintendent jackson,
member of the board, was notified to with
hold 1t from the physician, the charge being
made that the applicant had been guilty OF
unprofessonal conduct. When DR.. ONeal
applied for the permit about a week later
he informed that he could not have 1t.
A few days later notice was sent to the
doctor at Chicago stating that the secretaries
of the board had protested against the is
suance Of the permit and citing him to ap
pear before the board and demonstrate
whether he was deserving or not.
Attorney General Smyth was represented
at the meeting this morning by his deputy,
w. d. Oldham. Attorney Charles o.
Whedon had just finished reading the writ
Of mandamus when Mr.. Oldham entered the
room. The latter did not take very kindly
to the action.
II don't see any particular reason why
they should seek to compel us by mandamus
proceedings to issue the certificate" re-
marked Mr.. Oldham. The board has not
refused the certificate yet. It's getting
monotonous to have the fegal department
dragged around in the courts this way"
story of an Alleged Duel.
Students and other people connected with
the University OF Nebraska are very indig-
nant over the publication IN one of the local
newspapers of an article describing an al
legged duel at arms, stated to have occurred
in the rooms OF the Kappa Sigma fraternity
between a member of the organization and
young business man. The duel was de-
scribed as follows:
I'm the center of the skull -bedecked room
were the men, foils in hand and excited
watchfulness flashing from their eyes The