Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-18

enormous demand for water for irrigation
purposes IN Colorado and Wyoming. II is
not an unusual occurrence for the South
Platte In Nebraska TO be dry for months
at a time In summer. Irrigation I'm Colo
RADIO is always attributed as the cause,
but records kept for years before irrigation
was tried In Colorado show that the stream
ran dry every summer for at least a month.
Innkeepers ms Insurers.
Is an innkeeper the insurer Of the safety
OF his guests? This Is the question raised
in a brief just filed in the supreme court In
a case where Michael +. Clancy sues the
proprietors Of the Barker hotel at Omaha
for injuries inflicted upon his 6-year-old
son by a porter or bellboy. The evidence
shows that on the evening of January Is,
1902, Lacey. the porter. was playing a har-
monica in his room. The music attracted
the little Clancy boy, who had been playing
about the corridors. When the boy entered
Lacey stopped playing, and in a spirit Of
sport picked up a revolver and said: See
here, young fellow, il you touch anything
this is what you will get" The gun was
accidentally discharged, the bullet striking
the boy and injuring him severely.
The district court instructed a verdict for
the defendants. but the plaintiff appealed.
The defendants rely upon the claim that
they are not liable because at the time of
the accident Lacey was not performing any
duty for them for which he was employed.
They insist that porter or bellboy cannot
be said to be in charge OF the hotel or the
guests in the sense in which the porter or
conductor of a sleeping car is in charge.
and that only ordinary care of his guests is
all that is required of him.
Another claim of the plaintiff is that
Lacey was sitting in his room waiting for
call to duty and that in presenting the pis-
| tol he was performing the duty Of protect
ing the masters goods from the onslaugbts
Of the 6-year-old. The defendants insist
that bellboys are not on duty while I'm
their rooms and that IT was the porter's
own goods, not those of his master he was
protecting
Looking After Normal.
Senator Frank Dean of Holdrege was at
the state house today making INQUIRIES
concerning the status of the contest for
the location Of the new normal school so
that Holdrege may get into It with as
much vim as possible. He says that a
meeting was held in that city few even
ings since at which preliminary organiza-
uon was effected looking to the institution
OF fight for the new school Holdrege is
1
mails said to be the one that has the
largest attendance of any of the five
Junior schools in the state, upon which
favorable showing for the popularity of
| normal school work friends of the CITY
expect to lay great stress
The aspirants for the normal school that
are now actively pushing their claims are
| Ainsworth. Alliance, Aurora Broken Bow.
Central City. Hastings, Holdrege Kear-
ney, North Platte and Ord. Friends of
| each city profess the utmost confidence
that their favorite will land the prize.
| From this time on the rivalry will he
more pronounced, as the law will go into
enect July 9. after which it will be neces-
sary to advertise for bids for the location.
| Two applications for suspensions of
| criminal sentences were presented to the
| supreme court today and taken under ad-
Visement. One of them is an application
| by Raymond Smith of Sheridan county for
n stay of execution of sentence and a writ
OF habeas corpus directed against the
| sheriff Of Sheridan county and the warden
Of the penitenuary requiring them to admit
him to bail his own recognizance.
Smith is under sentence of one year in
| the penitentiary, imposed June in Sher-
ldan county, on conviction for burglary
| with Intent to commit assault
The other case is that Soney Ford rom
| victed in Cherry county the 4th inst and
| sentenced to seven years for assault with
intent to kill. He asks for suspension of
sentence pending hearing of his motion for
| q new trial
Thomas W. Moore, William Robert
Moore. Edward B. Moore, Frank c. Rich
ards and Henry P. Kaufman have filed
articles of Incorporation of the Moore
Bros. company of Omaha, with an au-
thorized capital of $1,000, to conduct a liv-
cry stable and stock business