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The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-06-11

AMONG considerable legislation last
winter that could have been left I'M
legislated without any great harm be-
falling the body polite, was bill re-
quiring judges of the several courts to
wear gowns while officiating on the
bench, How gown can add to the
dignity and impressiveness of the court
is beyond understanding. 1t is more
apt to appeal to the risibles than the
awe of spectators, and is relic of the
dark ages, step backward in this
century of progress. The individual
who is thus compelled to parade in
public in this robe has no choice as to
material or cut, for the style and the
fabric are provided in the bill without
regard to the taste, shape or size of
the party who wears the robe. What
a sorry figure some of the members of
the bench will cut decked out in Moth
err HubbardS.
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-06-11

AS THIS paper is always peacefully
inclined, and the Riverside Argus in
sists that it is looking for no quarrel,
peace will undoubtedly reign in the
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1909-06-11

press ganl
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-08

around the police station, such men as Captain Mostyn, Lieutenant
Hayes, Desk Sergeants Havey and Marshall and others, can tell
dozens of similar occurrences in Whelan's career.
Sometimes Whelan would take risks which seemed unnecessary.
In days following the Haymarket riots and bomb-throwing cpl
sodes by the anarchists of Chicago Omaha underwent a similar scare,
although 1t missed the bloody events which have made such a mark
In Chicago history. The outburst Of public sentiment there forced
n anarchists to give Chicago a wide berth and they scattered over
the country and 1T was believed that some of them were in Omaha.
Then there came a bomb-throwing scare. Section of gas pipe, with
the ends plugged. were found by the police and o one occasion a
number OF small cartridgeshaped explosives were found in the
street.
The custom was to throw such things in the river as soon Al DOS
sible. but these small and apparently harmless bits of metal aroused
Whelan's curiosity. Against the advice of those around the station.
which was then located at Fourteenth and Davenport streets, he took
one " them to the barn for a little investigation. His plan of max
ing the Investigation was to secure a hammer and strike the alleged
bomb a hard blow. An explosion which was heard for blocks fol-
lowed The hammer was blown from Whelans hand and through
a WINDOW. The patrol horses broke their halteTs and ran panic
stricken from their stalls. The officers in the station came running
expecting to pick up a mangled body, but as the smoke cleared away
Whelan stood smiling without a scratch. He had found out what
the cartridge would do and he was satisfied.
Many Of the stories told of WheIan have a humorous turn. for he
dearly loved a practical joke, and in addition had the rare faculty
OF enjoying one even when it was played at his own expense.
Patsy Havey' now desk sergeant, out formerly much with
Whelan In outside work, has a fund of stories of humorous Incidents.
jokes played by Whelan and on Whean, and when so minded he can
spin these yarns by the hour. Havey and Sergeant Sigwart share
the enviable distinction of being the two arch conspirators who get
the blame for any practical Jokes which happen while they are
around the station.
On one occasion. about twelve years ago, when the station a
located at Thirteenth and Jackson streets, somebody. and 1t was al
ways believed these two knew more than they ever told about IL.
secured a strong electric battery which they placed in the basement
of the station. The Office was surrounded with a lattice work OF
heavy wire similar to that used at present A wire was run through
the floor and the entire cage, with the iron door, was heavily
charged with the current.
The trap was laid and the jokers lay in wait for victims whelsn
was the first man to come in. He walked around to the door and
attempted to open 1t a IS usual He got a shock which knocked him
back and gave him a turn and a surprise which dazed him He
thought someone had struck his arm with a club and the things h.
said to the men inside were forcefuo If not elegant Havey was sur
(COntinued on Page FouEl
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-08

VI IN Omdhd AOPOh RNNS ANSSs ANNANN
tive service as a member of the department and was
placed on the pension provided for those who have served
tWenty-one years.
Mr.. whelan first became a member of the force in 1882. when
Omaha was far from being the metropolitan city it is today. He has
seen the town grow and has kept pace with it and his acquaintance
ship has been a wide as that of any man who lives in Omaha.
AS a police officer his career has been out of the ordinary, even
on a force which boasts some OF the most clever and astutec criminal
catchers in the United States. They are criminoogists in a prac-
tical sense. They spin no fine theories, but they know the ways of
law-breakers through long years of dealing with them, and they get
results The records of the Omaha police force, In respect to the
number Of important catches made will compare favorably with that
of any city in the United States. regardless OF size, and it has been
among such men as these that Whelan has stood out, recognized as
one Of those who could be depended on in any emergency.
Mr. Whelan has a number Of characteristics which made him a
success al an officer of the law. First of all has been his absolute
fearIessness. During all the years he has been dealing with law
breakers. some of them the most desperate and reckless criminals of
the country, never once has there been a time when he gave the
slightest inclination that he thought of danger to himself or paused
to consider whether o r not he should take the risk that presented
itself.
Another trait which he has always exhibited has been good judg-
ment and tact. which. combined with his courage. has made him the
emcient omcer he has been.
These two characteristics have made him respected and to this
there has been added the further fact of his fund of Irish humOr and
unfainng good nature which has made him loved of all who know
Mr.. whelan has been brave. sometimes to the point of seeming
foohardiness. He would go into places where many another man
would we'll hesitate. Many years ago Pat Horrtgan wal county
gary and was also known to be one OF the most desperate house
breakers and "stck-up" men in the country. Taking advantage OF
escaped. a hurry call was sent to the police station for help in cap
turing him and Whelan and Dempsey were sent out They traced
Jones TO a house belonging to a hack driver named Parker, located
in what is now the wholesale section OF the city. The house was
searched without success, when II occurred to Whelan to go through
the garrett. This had no window and absolutely dark. 1t was
before the day of the electric fash light, which has done so~much to
aid the ohcers in Just such cases. and all whelan could depend o.
for light was the matches he had in his pockets.
Added to this handicap was the further fact that I'm the struggle
atJhe Jail Horrigan had lost his revolver. and 1t was thought that
Jones had secured possession Of it and had 1t IN his person. Here
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-08

= HEN the grey stone building Of the First German
Presbyterian church is completed at Twentieth and
NJ Willis avenue 1t will present to the world an appear
ance Of stable and dignihed beauty. Very few Of the
people who pass 1t will fail to notice It a a handsome
edifce, but almost no one will realize that 1t will be in fact an
architectural anomaly, a new building built Of junk. 1t will represent
what a few earnest and hard working men can accomplish under
the leadership Of a preacher with an inspiration. Rev. Julius F.
Schwartz determined when he first came to Omaha three years ago
that his congregation should have a new church. The fact that the
members numbered only sixty and the whole property of the corpora
ton was about IS 900 troubled him not at all. and he began to build
a church with IS much faith as If he had the riches of Solomon.
His plan was to gather everywhere, whenever he could, all the old
but strong timbers, all the iron junk available for structural use,
all the loose and irregular stone and all the generally discarded
building materials that could be found In Omaha, and from them
to build a church. 1t was not to be a mean and ugly house Of
worship. but a well equipped, well arranged, ample meeting place
for his people. He has now extended it to include a eleven-room
house for his own family, and the whole property would have cost
$4,000 II 1t had been built by contract AS built by Rev. Mr..
Schwartz and his fellow laborers it will cost less than $4,000. The
other $4,000 has been saved to his people by the perseverance,.
energy and ingenuity of the pastor.
The first charge that Mr.. Schwartz took when he left the theo-
logical seminary was at Connersvile, Ind. For six years he remained
there. and was called to Omaha three years ago OIL a recommendation
from me of his instructors in the theological school.
At that time. two and one-half years ago, the First German
Presbyterian was in the frame church in which they ar still holding
services at SIS North Eighteenth street. AS soon as the new pastor
came he announced that the church was too small and in the wrong
location. Most of the members live north of Cunning street, and
he wished the church to be nearer to. them. To build a church
with a membership of sixty seemed out of the question, to all but
the pastor. He thought he knew q way, and he set about it with
almost no support, at first, from the others.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-08

He bought some old lead from the lodge for $3.50 and sold it for
SIS to a junk dealer.
All winter long he has been haunting the repair gangs about
the streets, visiting stone yards and junk heaps and adding to the
pile of materials that is being made into a building by his men.
One of his biggest and most profitable finds was a pair Of iron pillars
in excellent condition which he bought from the street railway COM
pany for their price as old iron. The street railway company also
furnished him with the most novel use of old material in the whole
building, which is the making of rafters out Of old steel rails. The
rails are more than strong enough and were bought for the price
OF junk. "
The church, which consists of a basement, with a beautiful
fireplace, and an auditorium which will seat 800. measures 44x73
feet. The roof extends back over the parsonage, making it a full
three stories high, with one room in the attic. The house part is
R4x50 feet in ground dimensions and has eleven fine rooms.
On the front of the church will be a tower which will be just
as high and substantial as 1t can be made from what is left of the
stone after the rest of the structure is finished.
The plans for all of it were sketched by Rev. Mr.. Schwartz
and made exact by an architect. There are no specifications in use.
The plans re followed not by getting material to fit them, but by
conforming them as nearly as possible to material that can be
cheaply bought.
The church probably will be done by Thanksgiving. The work
goes slowly, because Mr.. Schwartz cannot afford to put on a large
force of men. He has ten now and they make progress, but twice
as many could be put to work if funds were available. His foreman,
Fred Slather, is a German stonemason. The wages of the men are
the one debt which Mr.. Schwartz does not intend to neglect, and
his men are paid every Saturday as If they were working for a
wealthy contractor who had thousands to back his operations. To
do this the builder has had to rely upon the kindness of his other
creditors, who have helped the cause by not pressing their claims.
The $4,000 that has already been put into the work was
gathered mostly from the contributions Of friends all over the
country. Other pastors have taken up benefit collections, a friend
in Indiana sent 5000, and the congregation has contributed far
beyond what might be expected from their means. Mr.. Schwartz
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-08

For a year he sought for a suitable location, and finally pur-
chased the lot the new church is o n for $1,000. When he bought
this tract the fund which he drew from amounted to $7. His first
move was to sell the old church for 1850. AS soon as the lot was
paid for he shouldered a spade and replacing his ministerial dignity
with a grim and effective energy he began to dig. The first thing
that a church needed was a foundation. He had no money, but he
could make the foundation himself. and that would be one step
toward it.
That was last November. He asked for contributions from
friends outside of Omaha, and waited for his own people to con-
tribute voluntarily. The dollars came slowly, but they came with
sufficient steadiness to assure him that ne could make a few pur-
chases for a start. While walking on Douglas street one day he
saw that in repairing the street the old curbs were being taken up.
These are good stone blocks" said the pastorbuilder, and he bar
gained with the contractor to take them off his hands. That stone
went into the foundation.
His next lot Of material came when the wall that supported
the yard of the old Rosewater residence on Douglas street was to
be torn down. Men hired by Mr.. Schwartz did the work and the
brick and stone was taken out and put into the walls that were
gradually rising on the church site. Some of his congregation began
to contribute two or three days work with teams in gathering
material.
The south steps from the old high school building followed
and these made the water table" on both sides of the church part
Of the building. The parsonage end wal being added to from the
stone that could be picked up around stone yards for small expenses
and converted into suitable blocks.
An opportunity came to the builders when the driveway was
constructed leading down to the Union station on the north side.
Here was bought $1,000 feet Of lumber that had been used in
scafolding and a carload Of fine red sandstone was purchased for
$40. When, a few weeks later. a contractor offered Mr.. Schwartz
$40 for that same carload Of red stone because he needed it to fill
a contract in a hurry, the minister gave up his material and added
$50 clear to the fund. This was the only enterprise for profit that
was entered into for the benefit of the cause, except a little deal in
lead pipe which the minister had with a prominent fraternaI order.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-08
Long Service on Omaha Police Rewarded by Honorable Retirement

was a situation which might we'll give pause to the bravest man, for
the advantage was all on the side of the crook who was crouched in
q corner OF the garrett and who could see and hear the officer before
the latter could possibly locate him. But none of these things
moved Whelan. If the man was there he was going to get him. He
climbed through a little opening and into the dark garrett and com
menced the search for Jones. Fortunately for Whelan, Jones did
not have the revolver, else the officer might never have lived to enjoy
the well earned retirement which is now his. but he did not know
this then, although he did know that Jones would not hesitate to kill
II 1t would aid his escape.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-08

By the light of a pickering match he found Jones in a corner of
the dark, hot, stuny garnet and he made a Jump for him. The gar
ret had no floor, there being only the timbers which supported the
lath and plaster ceiling of the room below. The men clnched and
fought and rolled over until they broke through the ceiling and both
fell, still clnched and fighting, into the room below, where Sergeant
Dempsey Joined in the fray and Jones was quickly subdued and led
back to jail. He was afterward tried and was sentenced to fifteen
years in the penitentiary.
This affair with Jones wa but an incident in the days work with
WheIan. Such things happened many times, and the od-tmers
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-08

made a house to house campaign of four days down in Riley, Kan,
and raised 5000 in that way. One of the church trustees. who de-
clared when the project was begun that he would not do anything
to aid it, has already given 500, and others have given 500 and
5000 contributions. Churches have promised contributions that will
probably average $5 each and several hundred dollars more is
expected from that source.
"If l just had $4,000 more l could finish It," says the minister,
and he seems not to lack faith that the $1,000 will come as 1t is
needed.
The biggest addition to the fund that has come so far was the
$4,000 got from selling the old parsonage, which the pastor advised
as soon as he saw the possibility Of making a home for himself as
a part of the new building. 1t is believed that enough more can
easily be raised to put on a roof so that services an be held in
the basement, and after that the money will come in faster. In
the meantime the minister is watching everywhere for anything
that will make his church more commodious or his home more
attractive.
1.-The reason for my doing all this" said Rev. Mr.. Schwartz, as
he laid aside the tools with which he was helping the workmen, us
that 1 believe that right here is the best field for work among the
Germans that there is in all the northwest. My life occupation is
missionary work among my German people, and the only reason
why I want to stay here and put up this big church for my small
congregation is because from here can reach so many Germans I
was born an American. but came from German parents, and am
thoroughly German in thought and feeling. When I decided to
become a minister 1 saw that the greatest need was among my own
people, so I studied at a German seminary. My position makes It
possible for me to reach many who ar in need of help, and many
who are strangers, and I want to stay here and make my work
effective in helping the German citizens in this country"
1t is because of this sincere desire to be of help to HIS church
that Mr.. Schwartz has labored with his hands and brain to build
the new church. 1t has arisen out Of what seemed to be insurmount-
able difficulties. Not only the cornerstone. but every stone in It was
once refused by the builders, but when 1t is finished there will be no
fault found with its smooth grey walls, its modern equipment ano
its generous dimensions.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-08-08

pom the first day of August, 1909, Michael Whelan. sergeant
Of the Omaha metropolitan police force, retired from &C
tive service as a member Of the department and was
placed on the pension provided for those who have served
..-,,, ono ,.ar,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-07
Saloon Men
Ignore Excise
Board Elected
Hope Supreme Court Will Reverse
Redick Decision and Put
Their Ticket In.

The Anti-Saloon league refuses to con-
cede the election of the republican nominees
for the Board of Fire and Police Commits
sion, and Harry A. Stone. secretary. says
the league will push its case in the su-
preme court in the hope that the decision
of Judge Redick of the district court will be
reversed.
The league holds that there were no
vacancies To be filled when the committees
of the two parties chose men as candidates
for the excise board on the ground that
vacancies existed on the tickets and that
they were filling these vacancies.
W have consulted a number of lawyers
and they all tell us that the court can not
do otherwise than reverse the decision of
the lower court said Mr.. stone. IF the
supreme court does do this, then our can
didates will be declared elected. for they
received more votes than any of the other
petition candidates. Lawyers tell us that
another election would not be necessary in
the event the supreme court rules as we
have every reason TO believe it will"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-07
CENTER OF HUMAN
LIFE-ALL ELSE SECONDARY

The success which has followed l.. +.
Cooper during the past year with his new
preparation, Cooper's New Discovery, Is
unparalleled. Cooper mas a novel theory.
He believes that the human stomach Is
directly responsible for most disease. To
quote his own words from an Interview
upon his arrival in an eastern city: The
the m is working properly. 70 be
sure, there ere diseases of a v~irulent
nature, such as cancer. tuberculosis. Ola
betes, etc, which are organic, and are
not traceable to the stomach, but even
fevers can, in nine cases out of ten. be
stomach. All of this half-sick. nervous
exhaustion that is now so common, is
caused by stomachic. conditions. and Il il
because my remedy will and does regulate
the stomach that ! am meeting With such
success.
ITO sum the matter up--a sound diges-
tive apparatus that is doing it's full DUTY,
getting every particle of vitality out of
all food by transferring it to the bowels
in a perfectly digested state-this above
all else brings health"
The following unsolicited endorsement
comes from ]. L. Turk. living at $40 Lo-
Gust street. Vincennes, Ind. Mr.. Turk is
well known throughout the Ohio and MIS-
sissippi valleys. He is now siXty-eight
years of age, and claims mis- general
health is better than for some time past.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-07
YOU TROUBLED WITH CHRONIC AILMENTS?
" SO, you haven't called on the Austro- american Doctors

More and more people of Omaha, Nebraska,
and surrounding states are learning that the
Austro-American treatment is the most sue
cessful in the world for those suffering with
rheumatism, Goitre, Epilepsy. Gall Stones.
Diseases of the Liver. Kidneys, Stomach,
Blood. Chronic and Nervous Diseases of Men
and Women. etc. Since the Austro-American
Doctors have established their Omaha office
they have treated and cured hundreds of
seemingly hopeless cases, many of which had
been pronounced incurable by ordinary physi-
clans methods. DR.. Milen. the diagnostician
at the head of the Austro-American Doctors,
sees all patients personally, and frankly tells
them whether or not they can be cured. II
the patient is incurable the doctor frankly
states that nothing can be done, and the case
is not accepted. Following is one of the testi-
monials which these physicians are constantly
receiving from grateful patients whom they
have treated and cured:
Or Mllen. the American Doctor:
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bronchial trouble and my headache. | feel al
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sl2 South 18th St. Council Bluffs. la.
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