Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-04-29
BEFORE THE PEOPLES BAR
Two Comrades in Arms viii Miss the May
Day Msrry-GO-ROund.
ALREADY GONE IN TO SHtRlFFs JAIL
Pair of Petty Crooks Come to Wrong
City 20 PLY Their Crafts
and Fall Into
Prison.


Before George Mitchell and his comrade-
in-arms, James Mccain, shall have been
ready to leave Omaha, strawberries will
be within reach Of the masses, that gar
den product at present being sold by the
name of asparagus will be what the die
tionary man, Mr.. Webster, says II is
namely, "a genus OF perennial plants be-
longing to the natural order liliacex"-all
the horses in town will have been clipped,
screen doors will be up. merry go-rounds
will be revolving and the precocious Office
boys will be stealing a while for the base
ball games on the pretext that their
grandmothers are I'll with appendicitis or
that they want to show their Uncle Fuller
around the town. other things which go
with the merry May days will be in the
custody Of Sheriff Mcdonald. For Satur-
day morning Police Judge Crawford SEN
fenced the men thirty days each in the
county jail, the charges having been
vagrancy.
Nor does that tell the whole story about
these soldiers Of fortune. Mitchell and Nc
Cam came to Omaha from st. Louis Fri
day before shutdown. Patroman Shields
espied the visitors and sent them into the
police station for investigation. When ar
rested Mitchell was playing the part OF a
man with badly crippled arm. The police
surgeons examined Mitchell and declared
the case TO be bogus. Accordingly the
prisoners were arraigned Saturday morn
ing before the peoples bar on vagrancy
charges
What is the matter with your arm?'
questioned the police Judge when Mitchell
pulled up his coat sleeve and brought to
view a blistered arm carefully bandaged.
"Well, Judge, I'll tell you A few days
ago l was in street car wreck at Louis
Vile. Ky. Three people were killed. Me
an me pal came to Omaha so we could
forget the experience It's up to you,
judge" responded Mitchell.
Then It was explained to the magistrate
that Mtchelrs arm had fly blsters, self
inflicted, for the purpose Of dipping the
charitably inclined. When II was pro-
posed to put the hearing of until Monday
morning, so Patrolman Shields might be
present to testify. Mitchell and Mccain
spoke up as one man that they would plead
guilty to vagrancy.
Then came the judicial procurement,
which meant that Mitchell and Mccain
will remain here until asparagus becomes
itself again and the sweet girl graduates
begin to talk new dresses to their kind
parents.
Solomon had the right bunch when he
said something about all being vanity and
that now you see Il and then you don't"
declared w. S. Ruble before the peoples
bar Saturday morning. Rube appeared
before the police judge like a man who
had been tried by fire or had stuck out
when he might have brought in a Winning
run for the home team and had his name
in the papers the next day. Ruble was
arrested Friday evening by Patrolman
Van Dusen on the charge OF having taken
unto himself an undue portion of brewed
and distilled liquors In view of the pris-
oner's sad experience the police Judge was
moved to dismiss the man with a heart
to-heart talk
Ruble said he came to Omaha with his
band uniform, which he sold, later ex-
changing the money for headaches and
heartaches He then sold his Sunday suit
OF civilian clothes for a walking suit and
the difference in legal tender The money
all went for drink and now Ruble is get
ting new start In life.
While the police recognize that every
mans home is his CASTLE yet they do not
recognize box cars as castles. They look
on box cars as the property OF common
carriers and dangerous things TO get
under when in motion
Frank, Miller was arrested Friday avan-
Ing by Patrolman Fahey for sleeping in
box car at Eighth and Farnam streets.
railroad Waterman notified the police
that Miller was wooing Morpheus in the
railroad yards. which was against the
rules OF the operating department of the
road. 1t later developed that Miller was
snoring so loudly that the Waterman $
attention was attracted from afar (Seventh
and Farnam). It further was charged
against Miller that he was maintaining
Hsnt housekeeping establishment in the
car as the authorities discovered a small
bed and cooking utensiles inside the trar.
sportable equipment. Miller was in tran.
sports OF slumber when disturbed Inas.
much as Miller showed that he was q
workingman the judge discharged him.
oscar Carlson of Council Bluffs cano
over to the metropolis Friday evening and
tried to put the lights out in the bad lands
ne started in by tramping on Miss Georgia
roster, upon whose face he left the i'm.
prints of his strong right arm. As Mis-,
roster did not take kindly to the Iowa
Idea she blew her police siren and hat
carlson moved to the temple of transgres
sors at Eleventh and Dodge streets. Wber
Drought before the police Judge Carlson
ueciared ne had no mental impressions OF
the trouble, as he knew he had beer
drunk, but could not testify further thar
that. He was fined s. and costs.
MIX Inspector Hutton has filed IN tn,
police court complaint against ]. p
Jenson' 1924 South F1ftieth street, with
selling impure cream. Jensen has not We
been brought into court. The dairymsn 1,
charged with selling cream which con
tained coloring matter known as an
natto' although a test OF the cream showed
u contained the legal per cent OF butter
rat Two weeks ago another dairyman wa
lined $40 and costs for a similar offenss
Frank f Colby. optician is now with IN,
Columbian Optical CO.. 2il So. 18th ST.
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