Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-07
BRIEF CITY NEWS

ninehart, photographer. 18th g. Farnam.
DIT. souHup, dentist, moved to Paxton blk.
Pants 70 order. IS up; coats and pants
$40 up. MacCarthy-w Wilson, 500 S. l6th.
Rsady Monsy-t1oO TO $1,000. Nebraska
Saw. and Loan Assn. Board Of Trade bldg.
Rquitahls Life, Paul Morton. president.
Policies sight drafts at maturity. II. D.
Nicely, manager, Omaha
Confesues watch stea1ing-George Allen,
charged with stealing a watch from Charles
&. Johnson. pleaded guilty before Judge
Sears to petit larceny and was sentenced
to thirty days in the county jail.
Funeral Of sophia X. EaSfnsr-Funeral
services for Sophia X. Heffner. who died
Friday at her home, i1i4 North Twenty
fourth street, were held Saturday at ? p.
m, in Dodder's chapel. Interment was in
Forest Lawn.
BLOW on the HEAD valued at One Thou
sand-Joseph Setback of South Omaha de-
clares John M%iodowski damaged him to the
amount of 81, 600 when he hit him over the
head with some heavy intrument. He de-
ciAres his skull was fractured, requiring
an operation. He has begun suit for the
amount in county court.
missouri Pacific sued for S~so,ooo-ozra
Castle has brought suit in the United
States circuit court for $4,000 damages
against the Missouri Pacific Railway COM
pany. Castle lost his right leg at Auburn,
Neb., by being run down by a freight en-
CINE while he was in the employ Of the
railroad company as a brakeman on Octo-
Der 2 1907.
MO Disguisss VIII do-Because Officer
Woolridse disguised himself with a set OF
alfalfa whiskers and assumed a lame and
forlorn appearance when re asked Joseph
Yosks to sell him liquor on Sunday, May
81, the saloon keeper was discharged in
police court Saturday. Voska also said his
boy had sold the liquor without his con-
sent.
BaIbaoh o Haesdorn sell out-The Weir
company, wood workers and sash and door
makers, have bought the plant OF Balbach
& HaRedorn at Forty-fifth and lizard
streets. near the Belt line railroad. The
plant consists OF several buildings and a
warehouse for material. 1t was sold at a
sacrifice by F. A. Brogan, who was the
attorney for the firm, which failed some
time ago.
Governor TO Address Mutss-The grad
uation exercises at the Nebraska Institute
for the Deaf and Dumb will be held in the
chapel in the institution, Forty-fifth and
Boulevard streets, Monday evening at s
O'Clock. Governor Sheldon will deliver
} the address, which will be interpreted to
the mutes by means OF finger translation.
The graduation exercises will be open to
the public.
Picnic Of Pionsers June 27-The Douglas
County Association of the Nebraska Pho
neers will hold a picnic June q. A meet
Ing Of the general committee on arrange
ments has been called by Augustus Lock
l ner for Monday at 2 p. m. in the public
library. The general Memorial day COM
mittee VIII meet Monday at 8 p. m. TO
. settle up affairs In connection with the
Memorial day celebration.
Auction sales Of wool-E. S. Leonard,
secretary and treasurer OF the Iowa Sheep
/. Breeders association, has written to the
/ Omaha Wool and Storage company that
at the next meeting of the association the
3 wool warehouse and auction sales propo-
, sition at Omaha will be one of the chief
topics under discussion. Mr.. Leonard says
personally that he Is much interested In
I the Omaha market and will be one. of its
supporters, first by shipping his 1908 clip
! to the market and second by advising his
friends to do the same.
Care for Own nsane-Doug county
hereafter will have to care for five OF its
insane patients now in the asylum at Lin.
/ NSAAAf ~ u A1NNCA AtA w Oi6-
trict Clerk Smith from Superintendent Hay
? Of the asylum. superintendent Hay says
the Board OF Public Lands and Buildings
has ordered the discharge of a number oil
chronic patients at the asylum because OF
the crowded condition of the Institution
and among them were five from Douglas
county. He asked that provision be made
; to care for them in the Douglas county
hospital. The matter will be taken up BY
, the insanity commission.
Mckinley Club to Convention-A meet
ing OF the Mckinley club was held at noon
Saturday at the Commercial club to ar.
range for attending the national repub-
4 lican convention. The Northwestern was
. selected as the official route for the club
Z A hustling committee was appointed con.
sisting of Isidor ziegler, Frank Crawford
g r. T. Holder, II. T. Leavitt, Charles Eos.
q ter, Oliver Erwin, DIR. Henry, A. Foster
. Charles Mcdonald, Harry Zimman, Victor
q McLucas. ]. c.. Paneoast Of South Omaha,
e J. Laverty and B.. F. Thomas. The clut
: will meet again at the Commercial club al
r 1890 Wednesday.
o Client sues Real Estate FIRM DIR
d Charles o. Robinson has started suit in dis
trict court against the O'Keefe Real Estate
company for s5.OTs, charging he got tn,
IS worst OF a real estate deal by which h,
disposed OF l,eS acres OF Kimball county
6 land. He says In the petition he listed tn,
land with the company with the provision
he was TO receive IS an acre net for 1t
Later he says Mr.. o'Keefe advised him tn,
land was not worth more than "a an acr,
and he executed a transfer at that price
Now he says he has learned one section
OF the land was sold to e V. Lewis foI
81 an acre and the rest at a price he ha
u not been able to find out.
Anonymous Appeal for Chnd-Mog!
Bernstein is 1 nreceipt Of an Anonymous
,r letter offering to pay him 500 II he wi
b. secure and return Ruth wilkins, a llttl
n girl I years old taken from the streets
short time ago by the probation officer
and placed in a home. The letter wa
er shown to Judge Estelle and Prosecute
Daniel. but they advised that nothing b
d, done regarding II. The letter is signed b.
a. l.. A., Attorney-at-Law. General Delivery
to Omaha" and the writer says: III 70
IN don't want TO bother with this, destroy
N and above all say nothing about it to any
v one" The letter went on TO state that