Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-10-16


of those which we're cut out. For in
stance automobiles, which have heretofore
been listed with bicycles, have been given
a separate line. There is also a line for
cream separators and one for saddles and
harness
Freshman President Ducted.
Student circles at Nebraska university
we're wrought up today over one of the
liveliest class scraps in the history of the
institution. The turmoil resulted from the
annual election of a president OF the
freshmen class, in which +. j. Heskett of
Lincoln was the victor over George Wal
lace of Omaha. 1t has been the custom
for years at the university for the sopoho-
mores to either break up the freshmen
election or to heap some indignity upon
the "freshies" in order that the latter may
not put on patrician airs.
Chancellor Andrews heard OF the im-
pending row and made a personal appeal to
Samuel Rinaker, president Of the "sophs,"
to urge his classmates to let the freshmen
proceed in peace Rinaker gave the de-
sired pledge, but 1t was without avail, for
| the freshmen had no sooner adjourned their
| meeting when the sophomores captured
Heskett and loaded him into a delivery
wagon. mad drive followed through the
| streets to the Thompson fountain, eight
| court decreed that Heskett should be given
a ducking A squad of freshmen appeared
upon the scene at that juncture. but they
were routed and four of their party taken
captive. The ceremony of immersion fol-
| lowed in due form, Heskett and his four
classmates emerging from the ice bath
with the water streaming from their
| clothes
The police had sought to prevent any
demonstration, three uniformed men being
dispatched to the university to stand guard,
| but the sophomores outwitted the officers
and proceeded with the ducking while the
guardians Of the law were patrollng the
university grounds and had lulled them
selves into the belief that they had the
situation well in hand.
| Husband and wife Drug Fiends.
| After once procuring his release on
! habeas corpus from the Lincoln stae
hospital. where he was confined dipso-
! maniac patient. Leroy Craig of Mitchell.
Scotts Blur county, has been returned to
| the institution a charge similar to the
| first one His wife has been brought here
with him this time. It is alleged that
both have become addicted to the use OF
morphine and cocaine. Craig has been at
| Denver and taken the Kelley cure since
| his former incarceration, but II did not
| remove his craving for drugs. He is a
| practicing physician. The couple have no
| children.
| After Omaha Man.
| The presence OF fifteen witnesses from
| Council Bluffs at the federal grand Jury
| session in Lincoln this week has given
| rise to a rumor that an indictment is pond
| ing against C. T. Stewart, a wealthy resi-
dent Of Council Bluffs, who is a member
of the Wholesale grocery firm OF Stewart
Bros. at Omaha, in connection with al
legged land frauds in Mcpherson county,
Neb. Stewart is heavily interested in cat
tie raising. and in addition to large ranch
has for a number OF years been pasturing
| herds on part of the public domain which
was fenced in for the purpose. The, wit
nesses from Council Bluffs, It is reported
are men who went to Mcpherson county
at Stewards request, took up homesteads
| within his grazing area and shortly after
ward assigned their claims to him. The
rumors OF an indictment to be returned
against Stewart have been so persistent
that his lawyer from Council Bluffs, EN-
NETT FINLEY, is in Lincoln to investigate the
matter.
Besides the Stewart matter the grand
jury is also investigating the charge that
Wellker. a Council Bluffs meat dealer Is
SuspitAOH vi having dClSu stew
arts agent in the alleged fraudulent
entries. The specific charge is that he
secured claimants to go to Mcpherson
county to settle on the land. Nearly NJ
teen citizens of Council Bluffs are now 81
Lincoln to testify before the jury Mos
of them say they made the trip to Nc
Pherson county, filed on government land
and afterwards sold their interests Il
Stewart.
Dies sitting In Chair.
; Sitting in an upright position in chair
a knife Tightly grasped in his right han,
S and a pail OF potatoes lying at his feet
: the lifeless body Of John Lefferdnk O
| Sprague was found today. Foul play we
q at first suspected, but later DEVELOPMENT
convinced the investigators that the ma
had died Of heart failure,
suit to Dust Gss Company.
The Lincoln city council tonight adopte
e the report OF a committee declaring IN
. Lincoln Gas company without a franchis,
d and instructed the city attorney to besi
d suit of custer. The gas company is capital
e lied at $s,75o.0Oo 1t is owned by what
r known as the Mcmillan syndicate OF Ne,
4 York. II. L. Doherty OF Denver is IN
a president.