Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1908-09-06
STRINGENT LIQUOR RULES
Tragedies of Friday Night Cause
Excise Board to Wake Up.
NO LIQUOR INTO HOTEL ROOMS
Inquest shows One Case TO BE Suicide
and in the other the Man who
Does the Shooting Pleads
Self-Defense.
o LIQUOR INTO HOTEL ROOMS
1rrom . staft correspondentl

LINCOLN Sept. 5. (SpeciaL) =
Shocked by the two tragic deaths in Lin
coin last night and inspired by the belief
that the I o'clock closing rule is not
promoting morality rapidly as its
friends believed. the Excise board will
meet Monday for the purpose OF adopt
ing more stringent rules governing the
liquor business.
since the saloons are compelled to close
at o'clock each evening 1t has been the
practice of persons who desire a drink
to buy the same before that hour and,
II living at hotel, having the same sent
to their rooms. The board intends to at
tempt to put a stop to that and 1t is now
figuring on making a rule whereby liquor
cannot be AIKEN to rooms at hotels.
Just how 1t can prevent a person from
taking his beer to his room the board has
not yet announced, but by overawing the
hotelkeepers the board expects to ma
terially lessen the practice.
Those who opposed the o'clock clos
ing rule are pointing to the two tragic
deaths last night as an effect of the rule,
sthe parties implicated in both deaths
were drinking, and in the case Of the
Savoy hotel death the liquor had been
taken to the room before the closing
hour. These people contend the o'clock
I
liquor, but on the other hand it has in
creased 1t and has promoted drinking
Inauests mt Lincoln.
The coroner's inquest over the remains
of Ted Farmhouse whose body was found
in the Savoy hotel last night with bull
let ole through the heart, was held this
afternoon at 3 o'clock. The stories of the
two girls and the man who were with
/ 10 H.. Nut, 81 ff,..I
have been compared by the police and
are believed to be correct. Grace Groves,
the young woman with Farmhouse, de-
clared. he had repeatedly stated he was
short in his accounts with the Gooch
Brokerage company at Adams. Neb., to
the amount of $3.50. and he intended to
kill himself to keep out of the peniten-
! tiary. While the woman was hunting for
his gun to prevent suicide, he shot him
| self as he lay on the bed.
| w. a. Wiley, who killed Joe Watkins
hack driver. last night today declared
he did not know he had killed the man.
He insisted that Watkins took the revolver
from his holster, and in the struggle TO
retain it the revolver was discharged and
, Wiley ran away, ignorant Of it's effect.
At the official canvass Of the voters in
: ANaiNoS'St NouAtSt "nSIe Ine county Op-
ton and personal rights leagues made
| such a bitter fight for the legislative
ticket, it developed that e. p. Brown. can
didate for senator on the county option
ticket in the republican primaries has been
nominated over c. o. Whedon personal
| rights candidate. by six votes. Three out
OF five representatives nominated are for
county option. They are Cyrus Black. f.
w. Brown, W. ]. Blystone, w. A. Green
and Mr.. Foso
Conference on CertIhcatIOn.
A most important conference on matters
pertaining to certifcation Of teachers was
held IN the office OF the state superin-
tendent Thursday afternoon, September 8
1905. Representatives were present from all
institutions I'm the state authorized by law
to grant state teachers certificates, with
the exception Of Doane college. Presi-
dent Perry was unable TO attend. but sent
letter to the conference containing som,
present At this conference: Dear
Charles Fordyce. OF the Teachers College
Of the University Of Nebraska; President
]. w. crabtree, Peru state normal: Pres
ident A. o. Thomas Kearney state nor
NAL; Prof WIN. c. T. Adams. of the de
partment Of education OF Beilevue college
Prof J. A. Beattie. department Of educa
tion. Cotner university; Rev. FIR NJ. ]
O'Connel vice president Creighton uni
versity; President J. p Jensen OF Dams
college. Blair; President W. II. ClemInons