Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-06
BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE.
Minor scenes and Incidents sketched
on the spot.


on the spot.
The Postoffice department is posting fraud |
orders with gratifying regularity and vigor.
Between forty and fifty bogus doctors in |
New York and score in Boston have had |
their mail order business squelched Smt- !
lar action will be taken in other cities as |
soon as investigations are completed. T. |
Carl, or I. c. Carl. Station NJ, New York, |
also debarred from the use of the |
United States mails. These names were |
found to be fictitious. The person using |
them advertised that he was 80 years of |
age and that at the age of q he came into !
a large fortune, but that he lost 1t playing
the races. He thereupon set to work to de-
wise a system to beat the horses, and was
successful Through his system he recov-
cred his fortune, and being unselfsh, he
wanted to let others in on a good thing
1t cost a small sum to get in touch with the
tipster The postal officials decided that I.
Carl and r. c. Carl was one and the same
person and was operating scheme to de-
fraud. Hence the fraud order
Reece T. Boyer, who had long string OF
aliases, and who conducted speciality COM
pany at Concord, N. c., was another of to-
days victims of the fraud order division
of the Postoffice department. He advertised
that he would pay $50 cash to all persons
who would forward him pennies Of the date
of 1880. Those who bit received reply no
tifying them TO forward 10 cents for further
instructions. Then they were told to for
ward a remittance for membership in a
pretended association" and for certain
manuals OF the prices of old coins. Then
came the answer to the puzzle in the form
OF notice that the speciality company
would pay them so for 1880 pennies OF the
| 1880 date.
A few days ago fraud order stopped a
game, worked successfully by a woman
! inmate of a Nebraska asylum. Reports
to the postmaster-general show that she
| has victimized a number of men through
a matrimonial bureau by offering to marry
them, and obtained upon the strength of
such promises money, engagement rings,
dress patterns and other articles.
/ It was reported to the department that
under the laws of Nebraska the asylum
authorities had no power to intercept let
ters addressed to the woman and that they
were. therefore, unable TO prevent the
practice of a fraud. Accordingly, the post
| master general was asked to issue an order
prohibiting the woman from using the
/ mails. All letters addressed to her in the
! future relating to matrimony will be
marked with the word fraudulent" and
returned to the senders.
Some angry senators were discussing the
presidential amendment to the railroad
rate bill.
He can't do it," said one.
Cant do what?" asked another.
Cant force an amendment on US like
that"
II am reminded of a man out in my city,"
said a third, who owed the bank a large
sum of money. He kept renewing and re-
/ newing his notes, but paid none Of them.
Finally the banker sent for him and said
This thing must be stopped. You can't
have this money
" Can't have t?' shouted the man. why,
what are you talking about? I've got it, /"
Pennsylvania's senator's appear to be in a
competition to discover which one can be
the best exemplar OF the truth Of the old
/ saying EARLY to bed, early to RISE" etc.
Pensylvanians and others for that matter,
too who have recently had occasion to see
Senator Penrose, or rather to try TO see
him, in the evening have discovered that
o'clock is not too early an hour 10 ex-
pect the senior senator TO be in bed.
Senator Knox's early retiring inclinations
are we'll known Also his getting up
betimes. When Quay and Cameron were
the senators from Pennsylvania it was safe
TO ask for them up to midnight, the in
quirer being pretty sure to- find both still
abroad. They say Cameron saw more sun
rises than any man who ever lived in
Washington and Senator Quay saw a good
many.
A point Of order by Representative Prince
OF Illinois the other day uncovered
ridiculous situation in the house employees
force The question was one giving power
to the clerk to discharge janitors. Those
in charge Of the bill said that the janitors
refused 20 work during the recess Of con-
gress and that as matters now stood.
nothing could be done with them. In the
last recess il was declared. one OF the
janitors proved 10 be a thief and after
he had looted the cloak rooms set out on
a tour Of the country. Then came the
funny part He was followed. not by a
man who wished to make him disgorge,
but by the disbursing offieer, who, ao-
oording 10 law, had 90 go TO him TO pay
him his salary.
Washingtonians are deep in an effort to
J secure from congress legislation that shall
clean the city OF it's many alley accumu-
lations Of shaeks and novels the like ~
; which do not exist in any other. American
. city Bishop satterlee earnestly ,ad-
, dressed the committee and others In turn
but the congressman took the astounding
] revelations IN the manner Of men who were
hearing an Oft told tale.
} A hot shot from a member OF the As
J ISOLATED Charities finally startled them 20
attention.
I'VE are not talking about something
thousand miles away" he said. Exactly