Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
COUNCIL BLUFFS
BROWN is IN TOWN AGAIN
Brings Petition for Nineteen Liquor
IniunOtiOn' Along with Him.
sTllL SILENT REGARDING HIS MOTIVE
Someone Evidently Working with
Him who is FamiIi1r with Con-
ditiOns and Various Re-
treatment Resorts.
Browns in town.

Browns in town.
While none Of the registers Of the local
hotels bore his autograph ]. Brown, at
torney-at-law and dealer in real estate, not
to mention hard knocks TO the local saloon
keepers. returned TO Council Bluffs yester-
day. He was not long in the city before
he made his return known by a visit to
the Office of Sheriff Canning. There he filed
nineteen more original notices of liquor in
junction suits, fourteen Of which are against
saloon men and I'VE against keepers Of al
legged houses Of III fame. The defendants
named in the notices Of suit filed yesterday
are:
Gerdes & swassing, South Main street;
William FfaT, South Main street; Charles
South Main street; John Mergen, South
Main street; ]. ID. Wilson John Under
West Broadway Hansen & Nielsen, corner
rich. Goodrich hotel, Broadway and Eighth
street; Charles F. Davis Broadway and
Northwestern tracks; ". T. Fry near
Broadway; o. X. Harden, Broadway and
Twenty-hrst street; c. GeIse Sc Son, Broad
KIe h hote south Main streets T. Greeh
& ]. X. Nielsen, East Omaha; Frances d.
Webster, 151 West Broadway; Nellie
jessie WHniiams, SO west Broadway; Bessie
Donley, IL North Main street: Leila Con-
nelly, 31s West Broadway.
AcNns nut IhlkH NOT.
When Mr.. Brown left Council Bluffs last
Saturday evening and crossed the river to
Omaha, from where, It is said, he took
the train for Lincoln. the saloonmen COM
menced to breathe more easily, as they
believed they had seen the last of him.
But that they counted their chicks before
the eggs were Matched was proven
when the mysterious stranger from
Kansas returned unheralded to the city
yesterday armed with another big batch
of injunction suits against saloons and
other places where 1t is alleged liquor Is
sold contrary to the provisions Of the Iowa
mulct law.
Mr.. Brown, when seen yesterday after
noon in the little office room over Il Pearl
street, was not any more communicative
| than when on his first visit here. IT said
l was coming back and here am" is about
all the information he was willing to vouch-
safe To questions as what his motive
was in waging crusade against the liquor
dealers, Mr. Brown had no answer.
When Mr.. Brown first made his appear
ance In Council Bluffs and filed the first
| batch of injunction suit notices, II waS
suspected that he was acting for OF in con.
| junction with local parties. That this was
the case Mr.. Brown practically admitted
to certain saloonkeeper who called upor
him to inquire why he had begun sui
against him. The character of certain
OF the places against which notices of sui
were filed yesterday indicates that persons
acquainted with local conditions must hav,
given Mr.. Brown the names, as five o.
the defendants named in the notices fileS
yesterday are not on the list of saloons
paying license to the city or county.
With the batch filed yesterday the mum
Der OF Injunction suits brought by ]. Brown
attorney for j. Brown, plaintiff. amount Il
thirty-six. The seventeen notices filed b,
Mr.. Brown prior to his departure las
Saturday have all been served by tn
sheriff