Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-30
MASTERING OUT CUARDSMEN
TeOumseh Company in Second Regiment
Has Lost Interest in Soldier Life.
CATHEDRAL COMPANY INCORPORATES
Organization Designed to Have CHARGE
of Construction Of New Ediaee
for the Omaha Catholic
Diocese.
tFrom a star correspondent.)

CFrom a STAFF Correspondent)
LINCOLN, Oct. DISQUALIFICATION
General L. W. Colby today issued an order
mastering out Company l, Second regi-
ment, Nebraska National guard, stationed
at Tecumseh. Captain Bennett, now book
keeper in the state auditors of1ce, re-
signed several months ago. Captain Will
liam H. Ray resigned last week. leaving
the company in command Of First Lieu
tenant Clearance A. Kessler. The company
was ordered to elect a new captain and
did try to do so, but no one could be found
who would accept the ONCE. The company
has been going down ever since the last
encampment and General Colby decided to
muster it out. II the Willard Rifles Of
Omaha were in proper condition it is be-
lieved they would be assigned to the Sec
ond regiment to fill the vacancy. The Mil
lard Rifles are still unassigned.
Carl Hewitt, sergeant major Of the First
regiment. has been discharged.
Cathedral Board Incorporates.
The Roman Catholic Cathedral Building
board, an association Of the Roman Catholic
denomination organized to erect a cathed-
raj for the diocese at Omaha, has filed arti-
cles Of Incorporation with the secretary Of
state. The board held a meeting October
20 at the residence of Right Rev. Bishop
Scannell and decided to incorporate under
the state laws. The board Of directors,
chosen to serve for a term Of one year,
/ comprises Right Rev. Bishop Richard Scan
nell, Very Rev. A.. NJ. Colaneri. Count John
A. Creighton. Messrs. C. J. smyth, Frank
Murphy, F. A. Nash, Frank Burnley, T. G.
Byrne and T. j. Mahoney.
The Campaign Livens Up.
No public meetings have been held in
Lincoln so far in the interest Of any Of
the candidates for ONCE, but the next six
days will furnish some fireworks. Next
Friday evening w. H. Thompson and H.. H.
Hanks will speak at the Auditorium. and
Monday evening j. H. Mickey and Congress
man Burkett will make addresses at the
same place. The republicans are prepar-
ing to make it a big affair and to end the
campaign with a big blaze.
The following circular was mailed out Of
Lincoln today on letterheads of the Ne
braska Anti Saloon league:
LINCOLN. Neb., October, 19O2.-To the
Voters of Nebraska: The coming election
Is one of vital Importance and is reaching
in it's moral effect on the state. The Whole
sale Liquor Dealers and Brewers associa-
ton are aggressive in the contest. They
demand the defeat of John II. Mickey for
governor. II Mickey Is defeated the liquor
interest will be enthroned in the state house
and become the controlling power behind
the chief executive. The Los Blotter. a pa
per published in Omaha, makes the follow
Ing statement: mo one can blame the sa-
loon keepers and liberal element for oppos-
ing old Mickey" This is a contest between
those who would yield the control of the
state to the wholesale liquor dealers and
those who are in favor of law enforcement
and sobriety.
The liquor dealers have given out their
determination to change the Slocumb law
so as to meet their approval. The election
of member of the coming legislature is of
vast Importance. Investigate your candi-
dates and we beg you to see to 1t that we
have a governor and a legislature who will
not be dictated to by the Liquor Dealers
REV. g.. B. CAIRNS. Pr. D.,
State Superintendent.
THOMAS DARNELL.
Superintendent Legal Department.
REV. J. w. HILTON. NJ. A,
]. NJ. GUILE,
Attorney-at-Law, Lincoln, Treasurer.
Brother: We must not allow the saloons
and Brewers. association, to possess the
briefly and good citizenship, GUILE.
Pythian Statehood Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Pythian Sis
terhood of Nebraska began this morning in
Castle hall. The entire day was taken up
with routine matters, reading of report and
the like. The election Of officers occurs to-
morrow.
An appeal was fled today by Walter W.
Parker from the ten-year sentence imposed
upon him by the district court of Boyd
county for assaulting Peter Hansen. a
neighbor, with a revolver. The appellant
relies principally upon the error he says
the court committed in permitting A. H.
Tingle, the prosecuting attorney, to make
scathing references to him.
Must Serve His stunt.
The supreme court at it's last sitting
affirmed the decision of the district court
of Rock county finding George Weigreffe
guilty OF cattle stealing. The action of the
superior court was not made public until
today, as some difnculty was experienced in
finding the convicted man, VIII had been
out on bail.
The defense was largely technical. A
heifer was the property stolen and it was
asserted that the nonconsent OF one Of the
owners was not proven. The animal was
owned by two men and the state put but
one of them on the stand to prove that the
taking was without consent.
witnesses Skip Out.
Governor savage's complaint against
Harry Harris, a carpenter, charged with
smugglinA opium into the state p~eniten-
tiary, is likely to go by the board, because
two of the witnesses necessary to COM
plete the chain of evidence, have disap-
peared. The missing men are ex-conyiots.
short-term men, whose time has expired
since the case was first brought and who
have promptly disappeared. They called
on Harris attorney and limited that some
transportation and money would place them
far, far away. He says he turned them
down with scorn, but they have gone any
way.
The prosecution has had the effect of
stopping the underground railway from
working for a time. Usually 1t has been
dificult to stop this. because there is good
profit in it for the men engaged In the trait
&c. The usual method employed is TO hire
some convict who has the freedom OF the
grounds to pass the opium bends money
along to the man on the outside. who will
make the purchase. Both of the middle
men take toll and II is not unusual for
a convict TO get but so cents worth Of
the drug out Of the 50 he starts going.
Sometimes a guard or some other employee
has been employed as the go-between, and
one man was recently discharged because
Of a strong suspicion that he was engineer
ing a deal 10 furnish the c~onvicts with
whatever they desire.