Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-28
PAPERS ARE TO PROVE Up
Police Board TO Hear Protests from News
papers Next Monday.
BROATcH THREATENS SODA FOUNTAINS
Suddenly Awnkens 60 the secret of
Their Prosperity and Proposes
TO Make Them Take out
saloon Licenses.

1t is presumed that next Monday evening
will witness a showing of hands by the
daily papers Of the city in the matter Of
| publishing notices Of applications for liquor
licenses. because at Friday nights meeting
Of the Board Of Fire and Police Commits
sioners that evening was determined upon
/ as the time for hearings on the protests
hled by two rival sheets against granting
| licenses to fifteen Of those who had adver-
| tised in The Bee alone.
Ten Of these were prot ssted against by
both the World Herald and News, three by
| the News alone and two by the World
| Herald alone. The protests made simply
the general claim that the papers Cling
them had each the largest circulation in
| Douglas county Of any paper printed in
| that county.
None but License Matters.
The board devoted it's entire session 20
liquor license matters. 1t overruled the old
protests against the granting OF licenses to
Henry Rohln for his place at 800 North
Sixteenth street and to N. V. Halter Co.
OF 1902 Douglas street, granting the apph-
cations Of both other licenses were
granted Charles Sorenson, Washington hall;
Pabst Brewing company, 203 North Six
teenth; M. Mullen, 301 North Sixteenth:
Minna Wirth, S24 South Tenth; Jacob NJ.
Krug, Twenty fourth and Hickory; Nat
Brown, 311 South Fourteenth William J..
Magee, 1902 Douglas, and Frank Barker 6t3
South Thirteenth.
The granting OF Barker's license leaves a
distinct impression in the mind Of Frank
II. Mathis that he is working against heavy
odds, for he applied for license to sell liquor
at 611 South Thirteenth, directly across the
all n l,.Iro
1t is understood that the main trouble
lay in the fact that Mathis was trying
to break into the charmed circle with the
amber suds OF a Lacrosse company and
that home industry was buttlng him back
at every point. He filed a petition with
thirty-two signers or two more than the
law requires Home industry whispered
things in the ears Of four Of the sgners
and they withdrew. Mathis filed four new
names; home industry again whispered and
hve withdrew. Mathis filed three new
names; again home industry made a few
sub rosa remarks and two withdrew At
the same time there was filed a protest
signed by twenty Of the abstemious and in
dignant residents Of that prohibition dis
trict, who could tolerate the existence Of
no institutions OF iniquity IN their neigh
borhood-that is, none except Barker's.
Then Mathis gave up the ghost and the
board had 1t duly entered upon it's books
that his application was refused because he
had rot a sufficient number Of signers on
his petition and further, that 1t was pro-
tested.
Soda Fountain Revelations.
After one of the seances IN the dark room
Friday evening Medium w j. Broatch whis-
pered the news that the board had seen a
great light and is about to do things to the
soda fountain men. From the realms Of the
occult had come a divulgence that there is
more in sherry Zip than shows ON it's face,
and the spirits had commanded the board to
let the totally unsuspecting and dense pub
lie know Of this by requiring the fippist,
or the man who pays his salary and the
bill for laundering his pale vests, the same
$1,000 license that is required of those who
sell fips under a more common name and
disguise not the naked liquor.
This plan. however, is still the exclusive
property Of the magicians of the board and
the genii Of Spiritland. Il hasn't been put
onto paper and was not discussed during
the few moments that the wonder weayers
were visible to the max ed eve Friday night.
1t is told that there are ffty-hYe drug
gists and other soda fountain proprietors
VIM are sehlhB drinks containing spirit
uous liquors over their counters, but paying
only the $40 druggists permit instead of
the $1,000 saloonist's license. The United
States government charges both $25, making
no distinction. II is understood that as
soon as convenient Medium Broatch will
lead the other magieians around to each of
these ffty-fve dispensaries and ascertain
by the only sure method Just what truth
there is in this shocking and entirely new
discovery OF his.