Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-12-15
Names of Persons Violating Law win
Be Jotted Down.
GENERAL TEST WILL THEN COME
City Divided Into Six Parts and
Police AppOrtiOned.
MUCH INQUIRY. OVER DETAILS
People Keep Omcers Busy Askinm
How Far They May Go anI
Not BE Caught IN
the Act. ...'...

For hours Saturday the police captains
handed out advice over the telephones to
those anxious inquirers who desired to
know what they could do Sunday when the
department is to enforce the Sunday clos
ing law. To sum up the advice OF the cap
tains II was:
do as you please as you do in regard u
obeying every other law"
Citizens attempted to get bills Of excep-
tion through. but the captains who did not
want to advise anyone, simply told those
who had special reasons, that the "just and
beneficent law is no respector OF persons"
Grocers wanted to keep open side door.
others entered the plea that they sold milk
to a large number Of people and felt they
should supply their customers on Sunday
as we'll any other day.
81 am now supplying milk to families
where there are many sick babies" tele-
phoned north side grocer.
How many sick babies did you say you
were feeding?" asked Captain Mostyn
sixteen" replied the anxious shop
keeper
Feed the Babies.
Well, you feed those sixteen babies their
milk Sunday morning, but remember that
sick babies do not need cigars. sardines or
brick cheese and II we catch you selling
dhgNHiHb Bul Ulllk TOT lUe SICK Dhulths you
come down" replied the captain.
Signs appeared In many Of the tobacco
stores and at the news-stands early satur-
day morning. They said: CLOSED tomor-
row-take something along now" Others
said: mo place TO go except to church
and home" One hotel bar has Nothing
to eat, nothing to drink and also nothing
to do. In Omaha tomorrow-do II now
Hackmen were told by the police they
must not appear on the streets Sunday
nor at the regular stands, while the bag
gageman who attempts to move a trunk
or haul anything across the city will bO
marked FOR slaughter with the street car
conductors, newsboys mixers OF fiS-furies
at the drug stores, newspaper reporters
and others.
| Whether the sherihts once will take q
hand and grab the officers Of the police de-
partment, who drive patrol wagons ana
walk their beats. was a matter OF COM
lecture all day Saturday and 1t was in~
timated around headquarters that tho
jails may be full OF policemen before SUM-
daY evening. e,--
Uncle SANS Men May Work On
one class Of workmen the police, brave
as they are supposed to be, and really ara,
will not molest. That is your Uncle Sam
uers mail men.
The screen wagon men will haul the
mall to and from the trains as they were
wont to do in the halyoon days before the
wave Of reform struck the city amidshipa.
The clerks will sort the mail and distribute
It, rendering unto Peter the mail that is
Peters and unto Paul that mail that Is
Paul's. Other clerks will hand the mail
out at the windows and other clerks will
do the things pertaining to their once that
they are paid for doing and they will snap
their fingers in the bluecoats face, with
the assurance Of one who knows where he
Is "at."
Interfering with the United States mail
is an oftense that no self-respecting police
man would be guilty Of
A plan was adopted by Mayor Dahlman
and Chief of Police Donahue of having the
city divided into six districts and policemen
apportioned to lake names of persons they
deem to be vlolators of the law, but not TO
make arrests. There will be a sort OF cast
ing OF lots and picking the winners the
morning after to decide on the victims for
prosecution in the. wholesale test to be
made of the law.