Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-01
LIQUOR LICENSES GRANTED
Police Board 0vsrrules News Protests and
Issues the Documents.
PROTESTANT FAILS TO MAKE ITS CASE
hilbert ". Hitchcock Has Busy Time
DOdginR the Point, but Board
Finally Lets Hin Out
of the Hole.

At It's afternoon and night sittings yes
terday the Board OF Fire and Police Com
missinners granted 129 liquor licenses to
salosnkeepers and twelve permits to drug
gists. or the licenses more than fifty we're
TO the Metz Brewing company. its members
or tts representatives. There still remain
10 be acted upon about 100 applications, Of
which seventy-one are those protested b.
|. J. Dunn. and which will be disposed Of
this afternoon at 2 O'Clock. probably by a
ruling in one test case. The rest Of the 100
await the expiration Of the necessary two
weeks notice. In the afternoon the lack
of good faith protest Of the Daily News,
by Mel Uhl. was tested in the case Of Hans
Kruse. a Bee advertiser. and the twenty-five
applications dependent 1pon that case we're
allowed. At night the Sherman-McConnel
application was made a similar test for The
Bee. and the six applications dependent
upon It we're allowed.
The hearing In this latter case was the
most interesting feature OF the days pro-
ceedings. and was notable for the ambi-
tious side-stepping Of the publisher Of the
Morning World Herald. which sells for Is
cents per week. and OF the Evening World
Herald, which sells for 10 cents per week;
and for the perpetual objecting OF his at
torney. James n. McCulloch, to any ques-
bNAo lANVAhAAk a ~ VI tue hCAuhi
circulation Of the two editions.
Testimony I'm the Case.
Attorney simerai. for The Bee, called Roy
Parker. advertising solicitor; G. r. Wright,
collector. and Charles r. Sherman, presi.
dent Of the sherman-McConnel drug firm,
with whom they had had conversations rel
alive to the publication Of the firms APP
plication for license.
A. Nu~N-A- AZ 49, -
had said, last Friday. that he took his no.
lice to the world-Herald with the under
standing that the granting Of the license
was guaranteed. Mr.. Wright testified that
December 10 Mr.. Sherman had told him he
had advertised previously in The EVENING
Bee; had no reason to believe is clrcula-
tion had decreased during the year; had no
proof Of the circulation Of the world-Her-
aid, and did not at that time know what
the firm would do.
Mr.. Sherman verified the principal state
ments OF the previous Witnesses; said he
had gone later to Mr.. Hitchcock Of the
World Herald for proof; had been shown
the statement Of Circulation Manager w.
G. Crourse to the effect that the Daily
World Herald had a circulation Of about
10000; that he thought this a sufficient in.
vestigation. though he knew that one edI.
tion OF the world-Herald was labeled
Morning and another Evening and had
never seen any publication labeled Daily
World Herald"
HItchcOck's Circulation.
Publisher Hitchcock took the stand for
has publication and testified that the Daily
world-Herald consists Of all editions pub.
lished on any week day; that it doesn't
make any difference whether a man takes
this mornings. this rooms or tonight's edl-
tion. he gets the same news, editorial and
advertising matter.
His cross7examination by Attorney Sim.
eral was as follows;
Q.-Do you count the street sales in with
your circulation total7 Ayes.
os1How many dc they average per day7
.Q-How many at news and hotel stands?
Q.-AboIt how many7 Al decline to
o.-In what edition does tie market re-
port appear A.-The bulk of 1t in the
.Q.-When do the Board OF Trade and
breviated report In the evening and more
fully in the morning.
Q.-You get the bulk Of your news serv-
graphic news, yes.
Q.-You have two contracts with the
one for the night edition. don't youYNA"
We have no contract at all.
Q.-1ou pay for two services2 Awe
pay In a lump sum each week.
Q.-Does the Morning Worid-Herald or
the Evening World-Herald have the larger
circulation? Al decline TO answer which.
On suggestion OF Broatch Of the board the
question was made to read which Of the
editions had the larger circulation. Hitch
cocks attorney objected and Hitchcock.
upon the objection being overruled, declined
to answer.
what He Doesn't Know.
Q.-Do the same persons take the Morn
ing W~orld-Herald and the Evening World
Herald? Ave have no subscribers to
the Morning World-Herald" or the
Evening World-Herald."
This provoked a general laugh and the
witness fastened to try to explain that he
meant all were in the name Of the Daily
world-Herald.
Q.-What about the volume numbers on
your editions? Al don't know. That's
q freak OF the composing room l pay no
attention TO.
Q.-Is II. then, a freak Of the composing
room that your morning paper Is labeled
as In Its thirty-fourth year and your even
ing paper as In its eighteenth year? Al
don't know.
Q-You made a contract with the county
TO publish the tax list In lust one edition,
didn't you? AYES, we did make that ex-
ception. | believe
The Bee rested its case and on motion