Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-27
GOVERNOR TO NAME BOARD
Mayor NOsrss has Little to Bay About
Supreme Courts Ruling.
CITY IS BEING WELL GOVERNED NOW
No Occasion for Disturbing EEisting
Conditions, hut the order Has
Gone out and Will BE
OBeyed-

Mayor Moores returned Friday evening
from his western tour and was at his office
yesterday, looking through nearly q bushel
Of mail tha has accumulated in his absence.
Asked a. to what, in his opinion. would be
the effect Of the supreme courts latest
ruling, he said:
The governor will appoint the Board OF
Fire and Police Commissioners-and that's
about all I can say on the subject. Per-
sonally, Of course, I am disappointed. 1
didn't want 10 have any change made. l
thought the city was being run all right,
and I believe II IL. and l believe the pres
emit members of the board are gentlemen,
and that everything they do is for the best
interests Of the city. But the supreme
court has seen At to order = change, and
Wen have to submit to II.
cit was Tuesday evening and we were at
Salt Lake when the news reached us. 1t
is impossible for me to say how the gov
ernor received II, or whether he was
pleased or displeased. as he made no com
ments whatever upon II, and. Of course,
It would not have been In good taste for
me to have questioned him. I believe that
the governor feels kindly toward me. Our
relations on the trip were very pleasant,
but we have not discussed this matter or
even referred to IT,
'As TO the part l may take in the mat
ter, l will say that / shall be mayor OF
Oman until my term expires"
Governor Savage, with Mayor Moores aud
other members Of his staff, making a party
of thirty, left Lincoln for Seattle July 1. to
be present at the dedication Of the battle
ship Nebraska, which took place July 4
The mayor reports a very pleasant trip.
Entertained on Coast.
while In Seattle" said he, I'VE were
conducted over the battleship Oregon by
the commanding ofieer, who explained to
us the working and uses OF all the mar
velous machinery and equipment. II was a
revelation to US, as not one in the party
had ever been on board q battleship be-
fore. Thence we went to Tacoma. where
we saw a sawmill In action. Great logs six
and eight feet In diameter fairly melted
under the action of the saws. The mayor
Of Tacoma entertained US also at q clam
bake.
AT Portland we met william Coburn. ir..
an Omaha boy, who Is now chief rate clerk
Of the Oregon Short Line.
I'm the state treasury at Sacramento we
saw I, 00O.0 900 in gold, all in one heap. This
gave some slight Indication Of the great
WoalJu OF InhJ COUNTY, IL 10 certainty the
golden west. In the San Joaquin valley we
witnessed something that came close home
TO us-a threshing machine and harvester
combined. II wades into a field of stand
ing wheat. and when 1t gets through the
grain is In sacks and the sacks are tied.
ready for the market. l / hardly think these
machines would work in this country, how
ever, as the grain has to be thoroughly ripe
and the field absolutely dry, conditions
which seldom occur coincidently In Ne
braska. Another thing that interested US
there was the sprinkling Of streets and
roads with oil instead Of water. 1t is very
dry and hot there at this season of the
year and the roads are dusty, but the oil
makes q hard, compact wearing surface
that is almost a. durable as asphalt.
Covered Much Ground.
''Then there were the orange groves Of
the Los Angeles districts. We went into
one orchard Thy invitation Of the owner)
and picked and ate ripe oranges on the
trees. At Catalina island Governor Savage
and l caught q 212-pound tuna. They are
q sort Of dogfsh. not good to eat, buI
they yield large quantities Of oil. II
seems that almost everything in that coun-
try yields oil. Another diversion was tC
ride about In q glass-bottomed boat
through which we could look thirty oil
forty feet down to the bottom OF the ocear
and see the nsh, the seaweed, the moss and
wonderful coral formations. 1 thought Of
ordering one OF those boats for use In the
Missouri river.
Then we took in Mount Lowe, SAINT
Cruz. San Francisco, Salt Lake City anC
Denver and thence came home. II was
wonderful trip. We covered more GROUND
in those elk days than could hav,
been covered in sixty days had we gon,
singly, because wherever We went a gov.
ernor, = mayor or q committee OF a Boart
Of Trade was ready to take us in hand ant
show US about. We saw many wonderful
things, but when we got back to Nebraska
and saw the great oceans Of corn anC
wheat. we we're convinced that the COLDER
west was not very far ahead of US In som
respects after ALL"