Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-26
BIG RECEPTION FOR BRYAN
Lincoln Business Men Plan 10 Make Non
paTtitsu Demonstration.
DELEGATION EXPECTED FROM OMAHA
Mayor Brown orders Citisens TO Clean
I'd All Rubbish In order 20 Pre-
Vent Fires from Tee of
-trecrackers.
DELEGATION EXPECTED FROM OMAHA
lrrom a stan corEespondentO

(From STAN Correspondent
LINCOLN, June 25.-(speciaD-Linc
business men today held a meeting at the
Commercial club rooms and decided to
name an executive committee to extend
an enthusiastic welcome to w. j. Bryan
The motion to make the reception nom
partisan in character and extensive in
program was carried unanimously. mo-
ton calling for the appointment of a com
mittee OF ten representative business men.
with Mayor Brown as chairman and Pres
ident J. r. Miller as member. was also
carried unanimously. Some Of the bus
mess men thought that the executive
committee should consist of the directors
OF the Commercial club and the mayor
and city council, but the smaller commit
tee idea failed.
The mass meeting was called TO order
by President J. e. Miller of the CONNER
cial club. F. f. Edgerton was elected
secretary In discussing the reception,
Mayor Brown declared that he expected
to see more people in Lincoln than have
ever been here before.
Il was talking TO Mayor Dahlman OF
Omaha recently and he told me that the
metropolis will send trsinloads of Ne
oraskans to Lincoln on the day of our
reception He said that the reception by
Omaha will be but a local AFFAIR and will
not interfere with that given in Lincoln In
the least In St. Louis the people told
me that they considered the reception at
Lincoln should rightfully be the greatest
extended. They promised me that many
visitors from Missouri would be here
Mayor Brown said that Mr. Bryan
would reach New York about August -
and the time of his arrival in Lincoln
will depend upon the number Of receptions
he has between that city and Lincoln. He
thought the reception might well be held
September l6.
we ought to make this reception
great big AFFAIR" said George J. Woods.
when called upon for an expression OF
opinion I'VE ought to send invitations
to people all over the country and they
will come If they are invited, too. 1t
doesn't make any difference about . mans
political holdings in this affair. We give
the reception because we know the man
and we like him"
F. NJ. Hall, c.. II. Rudge, NJ. W. Fol-
som. o. w. Webster, A. r. Talbot, w. E.
Sharp and J. c. seacrest also made short
addresses Several of the business men
thought that Il would be a good plan to
hold the reception during fair week. but
the majority opposed this.
order to Clean ID.
Mayor Brown has requested everybody
In Lincoln to clean up the rubbish in their
back yards, along the sidewalks and in
their Easements before the small boy starts
In on his hrecrackers July 4. Insurance
Deputy Pierce has looked up the statistics
and has found a great majority OF the fires
started on July in the cities have had
their origin In the small frecracker. These
small crackers are set OF by the small
10, - Of. har, nm
the sidewalk near a basement window and
the rest is ensy. Only few OF the fires are
caused by the cannon crackers the stalls
tics show. though majority Of the deaths
are caused by thfs noisy invention.
Cane tor General Culver.
Adjutant General Culver received today
q handsome gold-headed cane. the gift OF
members OF the old First Wisconsin
regiment OF which the general was
a member. Inscribed on the head of
the cane is the following: Presented to
General ]. II. Culver by F. c. Putnam, J.
g. GretEer, II. Corby. Thomas Bryant. on
his sixty-frst birthday. First Wisconsin
regiment. June TO- o. General Culver en-
tertained his comrades AZ a camping party
at Milford on that date.
Hearing In Mathews Case.
DR.. ]. I. Mathews of Omaha had another
inning before the board OF secretaries OF
the state board OF health this afternoon In
the case wherein the board recommended
his certificate be revoked on the charge Of
having performed an illegal operation and
most OF the time was put In by John Yeiser
attorney for Mathews. demanding that Ger
tain records be brought in from the Bailey
sanItarium, upon which witnesses had baseC
their statements that DR.. Bailey was II
Lincoln at about the time the operation OF
Edith Short was supposed to have beeI
performed In Omaha.
The board refused Yeiser's request u
have the record brought in and the at
torney had TO be content by examining
Miss Shirley, a bookkeeper at the santa
rum. who swore DR.. Bailey was not IL
Omaha at the time in question. DIR. ]. E
Summers testified Miss Short had come 4
his ONCE and advised him OF her eondl
ton and had told him she intended to hav