Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-06
CROWDS THRONC STATE FAIR
Attendance for the Day Was In Excess Of
Forty Thousand.
GOVERNOR TAKES UP LICENSE MATTER
Asks Attorney General ~ Police Board
Has Power 60 Revoke Licenses
Prior TO Conviction of
violating the Law.
GOVERNOR TAKES UP LICENSE MATTER
trrom a stan Correspondent

(From q stan Correspondent
LINCOLN. Neb. Sept. B.--(Special Tele-
gram THE admissions to the state fair
today aggregated 42.283. OF this number
5000 were paid admissions. Admissions
><pr the entire day at the grandstand on
the race course were 1926. The largest
previous attendance was Thursday of last
year, when $4,000 entered the gates. Bryan
will speak Friday Afternoon at the amphi-
thester.
The Bryan reception, to take place In the
evening, brought many from all parts of
the state. The weather was good and
with another day or two OF good attend
ance the fair will come out $4,000 or
$4,000 ahead. This forenoon the big
amphitheater at the race course was filled
with people to see the Lincoln and Sioux
City league teams play base ball. Lin
coin won by a score of to o, and the
cheering of the spectators clearly showed
that a majority were rooters for the Ne
braska team. Late in the afternoon the
people nocked to town and lined the
streets In anticipation Of the passing of
W. J. Bryan, who was to arrive at s p. m.
The railroads ran large number of
special trains into the city during the
morning and early afternoon. Every one
OF them was loaded down. At Hastings
the Burlington agent ran out Of the regular
tickets and was using ciergyman's per-
mits at last accounts. The morning train
from there did not stop this side OF SUIT
ton because there was no room on board
for anybody else. The Northwestern
brought in 1000 persons on one train and
the same good work was done by the other
roads.
Thursday attractions at the fair are
numerous A race between guideless
wonders. four other track events and
base ball game are on the program Har-
mon, formerly Of the Lincoln Western
league team, will pitch for Fremont, and
Clarence Morse OF university base ball
fame will pitch for ], lrvard. The official
program is as follows
10 q. m.-Concert in horticultural square
by York Commercial club band.
1918 a. m.-Base ball in front of grand
stand between Fremont and Harvard:
p. m.-Trotting. 2:s5 class, purse $500;
fve-eighths mile dash. purse 800; rum
ming, one mile dash, purse 800; match
TOS sS showing driving
teams before the, grandstand; concert by
York coTmercial club band; singing by
'4-uiI hy' the man who sings to beat the
iana;' attractions on the Pike.
South Omaha saloon Licenses.
The situation in regard to the Omaha
Fire and Police board and the power Of
the governor to remove the commissioners
remains, unchanged, no complaint having
been filed with the governor. Governor
Mickey has created renewed interest In the
South Omaha case by asking Attorney
General Brown for opinion as to the
power of the board OF that town to re-
AYoke licenses OF saloon men who have not
been convicted of violating the law.
In his communication to the attorney
general, Governor Mickey quotes from
m
compiled statutes. which gives the
South Omaha board authority and makes
It the duty OF that body to revoke saloon
license whenever the person holding IT is
found guilty or transgressing statute or
ordinance. Relative to the wording of this
paragraph, the governor wishes TO have II
defined so that he may know II the power
of the board stops there. He says In his
communications:
In many instances, there Is general
\ knowledge throughout a community that
of the laws regarding the sale OF liquors
and yet IL is impossible to secure a con-
TO whether or not the members OF the
South Omaha Fire and Police commission
would be personally liable for damages In
a suit brought against them by any
licensee In case they revoked his permit
without conviction in court having been
Ana, further. desire to know Of the
said Board OF Fire AND Police commits
ing infractions of the law on the part of
a llcensee. has the board right TO retuse
the granting Of license at the beginning
who has been guilty OF law violation. but
has not been convicted of 1t.
While the opinion of the attorney gen.
erals once has not as yet been rendered.
there appears to be little question that the
south Omaha board possesses the same
mower TO revoke licenses as 1t has to issue
them. Section Is Of the Slocum law pro-
yides that The corporate authorities OF all
cities or villages shall have power to III
cense, regulate and prohibit" the sale OF
iiouor This seems to establish clearly the
right of the Are and police commission to
cancei licenses for the infringement OF the
laws or OF excise rules.
Al to the second paragraph of the gov
ernor's inquiry there appears to be no
question whatever that the Board Of Fire
ana Polfcs' Commissioners may withhold
licenses whenever they see Mt to do so. The
law confsrs arbitrary power upon It In this
regard and Its acts are held to be dis
dictionary, 20 that they are not subject
70 court review.
Phxsician's Accuser Missing.
Hattie e. Seagren OF Holdrege, the laun-
dry girl who charged DIR. d. 8. Palmer
With criminal practices, mas disappeared
She nrst testified against the physician and
later nled an afndavit denying the truth OF
her nrst statement The State Board OF
Health, which had recommended that DR..
PaImers license be revoked, still has the
case under consideration. An affdavit nicd
by another person intimates that the girl
In the case was improperly Influenced when
she retraeted her accusation. John Wyatt,
employed in a laundry, who originally
"A testified In a way to corroborate the charges
against the physician. later hled an am
davit denying his statement. He has now
nled an af1idavit saying that he was paid
80 by the defense to contradict his first
statement