Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-25
BROWN COMES FROM KANSAS
Saloon Crusader Vouchsafes No Other
Information Concerning himself
CONSIDERS THAT THIS is SUFFICIENT
who the Local Parties Are that Are
working with Him I'm Injunction
Proceedings Not Apparent
as Yet.

Just say am from Kansas; that Will
be sufficient" replied J. Brown, VINO
within a week OF hanging out his single
as dealer in law and real estate, has be
gun a crusade against the saloons OF Coun-
Gil Bluffs, In answer to a question yes
terday as TO where he came from.
Mr. Brown, who let the saloonmen know
he was I'm town Wednesday by hling
original notices of injunction suits against
five saloons in this city and one In Neola'
followed II up yesterday by handing eleven
more notices of similar suits TO Sheriff
Canning. The saloonmen named In the
now hatch Of Injunction suits are: Charles
Moldamer I'D sherlock's place.. Pearl
street; A. LOTHIAN, Broadway; Neumayer
q Mergen Neumayer hotel; James Mithen
Broadway; John Merger, Main street; O.
w. Moore. Lower Broadway; T. ]. Griffin
Broadway; Seth May, Broadway ana Bry-
ant street; Mrs. Anna Karrer, Treynor;
Joseph Wolff, Underwood II. A Jegge
Nicola.
From the notices filed yesterday II Is APP
narent that Mr.. Brown of Kansas does not
intend to play any favorites, but Is after
the country saloOnkeeper as well as those
In the city.
Mr., Brown, when interviewed yesterday
was not prepared to be very communi-
cative While declining to say who they
were, he intimated that one and possibly
two other men were associated with him
in the crusade against the saloons He
said in Kansas he had been In many a
saloon fight, but usually on the defense
and that he probably had not prosecuted
more than six or seven saloon cases in his
/ life.
As to where Mr. Brown was admitted TO
the bar or as to his authority to practice
at the bar in Iowa, Mr.. Brown was not
Offering any information yesterday. Il
have done no business in Iowa before this,
| although I have been here on more than
| one occasion before now. They have been
after me for sometime, and now am here.
| In my visits around the saloons l was &C
| companied by citizen of Council BUNS,
| he eaid but no information was forthcom-
ing as to who they" were or who the
, citizen was who pointed out the saloons to
| him.
| A visit yesterday to Mr. Browns office
! disclosed the fact that his visible Law
| library consisted of a copy Of the Iowa
code which reposed on the desk open al
the sections of the mulct law. While nc
! typewriter was in sight, all of the notices
filed with the sheriff are nicely prepared
on a typewriter and Indicate that the per
son VINO drew lneHl up 10 pulto
with the provisions of the Iowa mulct law
A few days before Mr.. Brown fled his
first batch of notices with Sheriff Can
ming a stranger appeared at the office
OF II. V. Battey, clerk OF the district court
and asked for fifty original notices. 1t Is
supposed that he was one of the persons
associated with the attorney from Kansa.
in the saloon crusade.
Browns in town" and who's Brown
could be heard in almost any saloon in the
city yesterday Needless to say the saloon
men are asking one another What nextT'
New Cases of Smallpox.
Louis Younkerman. fireman in the Wick
ham block on Broadway, and Guy Water
man, former fireman at the same place
were sent to the detention hospital yester
day suffering from smallpox There ar
now a number of cases Of the disease II
the city, eight members Of the Bellevill'
family on Twenty-eighth street and Avenue
b being under quarantine. The city de
tention hospital, which is known as tn
. Hotel Grady" owing to the fact that Dal
OGrady, an immune, and his wife, are II
charge of the place. now has six patient
suffering with smallpox.