Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-14
LICENSE PROTEST HEARING
Excise Board Declines to Listen to Circula-
ton Testimony,
ONE woRlD-HERALD CASE is OPENED UP
Elmer Thomas List f. Read and n
start Made by Attorneys ObiectinE
to Hearing a Detectives

In the matter Of the World-Herald pro-
tests against liquor licenses, the Board OF
Fire and Police Commissioners last night
absolutely refused to go into the question
of the circulation OF the daily papers. At
torney Connell was present for The Bee
with Circulation Manager Dwight Williams.
ready to prove that The Bee had a larger
circulation. Attorney Simeral and Gilbert
NJ. Hitchcock were also there, claiming
they had witnesses to prove the opposite.
Mr.. Williams was placed on the stand at
the instance OF Mr.. Slmeral ana with the
approval OF Mr.. Connell. but as soon as the
board saw the drift OF the questions put
20 the witness Mr.. spratlen and Mr..
Broatch informed the attorneys that under
no circumstances would the board listen
TO a wrangle concerning circulation.
Mr.. Connell assured the members OF the
board that before the saloon license trou-
BILE was over he expected them to hear
the question of circulation and threatened
them with a mandate OF court IL they did
not do so
Case in Question.
The case under discussion was that OF II.
q. Harm, 2O02 Vinton street, whose right
to liquor license was protested by the
world-Herald on the ground that he had
not advertised in the paper OF largest cir
culation and that he acted in bad faith by
advertising in The Evening Bee
Mr.. Harm was placed on the stand TO
testify as to his good faith. He said he
believed The Evening Bee to have the
largest circulation In the county and, al
though he had advertised in The Evening
Bee last year, he knew Of a license granted
where advertisement had been made in
Tho Evening Bee and not in the World
Herald. He had sent in his advertisement to
The Evening Bee on November "a and on
November rs had received a registered let
ter from the World Herald which he had
burned without reading. ~
Further hearing of Mr.. Harms case was
postponed until Monday night, when the
protests against Mike H. Back and Charles
Blind will be considered
Civic Federation Protests.
Elmer e. Thomas, on behalf of the Civic
Federation. appeared before the board in
protest against twenty-nine saloon keepers
and brewers, charging them with violation
of the Slocumb law. Those against whom
protests were filed are: II. n. Halter, 231s
Cunning; John Wright, los South Twelfth
Pabst Brewing company, 203 North Six
teenth, Foley & Ryan. 207 South Fifteenth
John Dahmke. 512 South Sixteenth, Metz
Bros ls0f-l623 Leavenworth; Brunnenkan
IL Danilwicz, 1923 Vinton: George Brunnen-
kant, 1925 Howard; Storz Brewing company
1557-ls29 North Sixteenth, John f. Morri
son. 15oS-l510. Harvey; Gus Petersen, 141
jackson; Charles LOTHIAN, 1924 Howard
J. NJ. and Louis Schmidt, 1902 Dodge; JetteI
Brewing company. 1924 Douglas; Willow
Springs Brewing company, Third and Hick
DRY; Brown & RUSSELL 1928 Chicago; FREQ
krug Brewing company, 10Ol-lO07 Jackson
William Miller, 400 South Thirteenth; Pete
Loeb. Az South Thirteenth; Axel w. Peter
son. s24 South Fifteenth, Henry Heating
a2i-S2s South Fourteenth; David H. Hard
ing 3i2 South Thirteenth Helmer Nielsen
81 South Sixteenth. Berch q Van Sandt. 81
South Seventeenth; Herman Schaefer. 81
South Thirteenth; Michael Mullen, 30
North Sixteenth; Carl Engellander. Isl
Dodge.
Detective Horace II. Baldwin OF the THE
Detective agency was put forward by Mr.