Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-10
BRIEF CITY NEWS

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Diamonds, ndhoim, Jswslsr.
AadOiph =. swObods, Public AOoounsant
nowman, III N. 1s, Douglas shoe. ss.sO.
Pc Rourks for Quality cigars, ais s. 18th
Ranshart, Photographer. 18th & Farnam.
Dr. J. J. Foster, dentist, Continental BIN.
Equitable Life-PoIicies sight drafts at
maturity. II. ID. Nicely. manager, Omaha
Electrical wiring and Rspairs-BurSess-
Srandsn company, 1911 Howard street.
FOR Furnaces or hos water combination
heating see omaha Stove Repair Works.
i2os Douglas. Bell Tel Doug ESQ. Ind
A-se31.
Keep Your Money ana valuablea in a
'safe deposit box IN the American Safe De-
nosit vault in the Bee building. which is
absolutely Burglar and fireproof. Boxes
rent for only - a year, or u for three
months.
shipper sues Express cornpany-o w.
Butts has secured judgment In county
court for s2H against the Adams Express
company to cover damage on a shipment
OF Strawberries to the Black Hills. The
train was delayed by a washout during the
spring floods, but Judge Leslie held the
company should have known the condition
of the track and should have refused to
accept the berries.
Mig Damage suit Against Union Pacific
"A jury was empanelled In United States
court room No. 2 Friday morning to try
the case Of Gustav Heden against the
Union Pacific Railroad company for $4,000
damages. The case Is being tried before
Judge T. c. Munger, Heden was an em-
ploye OF the Union Pacific company and
the injuries complained OF were received a
year ago through his being squeezed
g. a-AN
house and switch engine at Council Bluffs,
whereby he sustained injuries that have
since made him a permanent cripple.
Judgs sluggSd By Mar He Rinsd-
Slugged by q man he had tined in his ca
pacity as justice OF the peace, c. K. Byars,
editor OF the Valley Enterprise, came to
Omaha Friday and filed a complaint
against Art Meyers. charging assault and
battery. Meyers was before Byars sew
eral days ago on q misdemeanor charge
and Byars fined him 50. Thursday Byars
went to the automobile races at Waterloo
and, he asserts, Meyers, who had threat
ened him before, Jumped onto him and dis
figured his countenance with his fists
When Byars appeared in county court to
file the charge his head was b~andaged,
Battle Between Names-Adelaide
p, Straight Leg Bush. a Ponca Indian. has
brought suit in the United States circuit
court against the United States Me-gthae.
dave Mitchell, Arthur Mitchell Me-gre-
tain Harlan, Daisy Mitchell Walker. Jesse
Cox, Mary Solomon, Amelia Dixon and
Ruth Dixon, Ponca Indians. to recover heI
inheritance rights In certain allotments OF
land on the Ponca reservation. Her petit.
ton alleges that she Is being defrauded OF
her rights, interest and a participation In
the rentals OF an Allotment Of which she
is the rightful heir of her ancestor, Tie.
Gethe-way-Eoose-turk, or something equally
un-pronounceable and unspellable.
And the Cat Came Raok--Liu Lung, {
Chinaman who jumped his bail Of 1850 II
December last. was located in 10 j
Springs. Wyo., a few days ago. brought
back to Omaha and lodged In the Douglas
county jail Thursday night by the imml
grafton authorities, Liu Lung kept tbs
United States commissioners and United
States courts fairly busy a year or two age
in determining his eligibility for deporta,
ton under the Chinese exclusion laws
After several hearings and trials an order
was secured for his deportation ana his
attorneys appealed the clse. Liu Lung was
released on $500 bond pending the appeal
and he promptly Herewith skipped out
The case went against him In the circuit
court Of appeals and so Liu Lung will hav,
to HE himself back to the dom!n.ons o.
Queen Ann.
CorOnsr's Jury verdict PormAl-Deatf
resulting from accidentally falling iron
I a scaffolding on which he was work
!, Ing was the verdict of the coroner's jur
at the inquest held Friday morning on tn
death of Thomas williams, the age
painter who was killed Thursday mornin
by falling from a scaffold while paIntin
a house at 1918 Lothrop stseet. A pos
mortem examination of the body was hel
by Coroner's Physician Lavender and dis
slosed injuries Of an unusual nature. whic
resulted in the aged painters death. ,Thre
ribs on the left side and five on the .righ
: ride were fractured, the conclusion Of tn
} TALL ripped the pericardium sac thre