Show GETTING READY FOR A FIGHT i Orjjahas City Hall Resembles Resem-bles a Fort Appointing Officers and Threatens toT to-T ko Possession TomorrowOld Force has the Police Headquarters Barricaded and Guarded But Fifteen Fif-teen Men are on Patrol Duty Armed with Clubs and Revolvers Omaha Autr 12It now looks OB If a conflict is Inevitable between the Omaha police force and the A P A faction which claims authority under a recent law to appoint IL new force Last night Indications weie that a com prtAnlsu was probable but the efforts of citizens who deplore the present strife to net the A P A board to mib mlt the controversy to the Supreme Court were of no avail The A 1 A board Is appointing Its force tonight and asserts they will take possession of the city property by force Wednesday It was stuKii Hunt homily this morning that those IC time present policemen and llremen who did 1191 notify the new board by Wednesday Wednes-day mot nlng that they would hold themselves subject to Die older of the new board would receive little consideration consid-eration when the new board commenced com-menced to discharge the duties of the outdo The police headquarters resembled a barracks today The disquieting IU inure which are Hying around accord Inggto tho police Is the buds for the precautions taken In protecting the headquarters from an assault The door leading fiom the olllce Into the police court and the door leaning out Mu Jackson street from the Captains olllce have been locked and braced with timbers so that neither of them could be forced without the use of a sledgehammer This leaves but two entrances Into the olllce and colls Oce Is through the door leading nut into the court from olt Fifteenth street and the other through the door and up then the-n llow steps Into Jackson street SAil assaulting party would have to come by one of these two entrances ana when they attempt tills twenty Ijve I policemen would be on hand to re qelve them a The police are armed with their clubs and short handles such as arc used in axes and every one of them has a revolver There are only fifteen jiatr lmen doing duty In the streets of yhe city the rest of the regular day Corc and some from the dog WI 1t1I being used to protect the headquarters l Jidnteclty hall MlfT > oftc < r put Intheir tirtieat head uarters In sleeping and talking over the situation Captain Moslyn said he did l not expect any trouble but that It yas deemed advisable to keep a force about the headquarters as a protection in case an effort was made to take possession The men will be kept on guard until the commission muddle is settled The statement has been made that a quantity of arms and ammunition has been stored In the city hall as well as the police headquarters tu be used by the men This Is denied by the olllceis They say the regulation revolvers carried car-ried would be sulllclent in case lire arms were needed The force of specials has been dismissed and it is understood under-stood the men will not be reemployed unless the situation becomes more threatening The police report that there has been no disturbance of any kind and that there Is no more reason to expect an attacking party now than there was a few weeks ago As a matter mat-ter of fact Hopewells decision declares de-clares that the old commission should hold olllce until ousted by the Supreme Court |