Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-04
BRIEF CITY NEWS

Eavs Root Print II.
Thomas W. Riaokburn for congress. Adv
James g. Kinsisr for county attorney.
Radolph r. swoboda, Accountant-Auditor.
BOWMAN, III N. is. Douglas shoe. $3.50
Pa Aourfs for Quality cigars. ale O. 18TH.
Rinshart, photographer. 18th & Farnam
Equitable Ldfs, Paul Morton. president.
Policies sight drafts at maturity. II. d
Nicely. manager. Omaha.
Burgsss-Grandsn Co, now IN nav ou.r.
tiers, 1911 Howard. Gas, electric fixtures
and wiring.
railroads Observe the ~Fourtb-The gem
eral offices OF the railroad companies in
Omaha will be closed Saturday.
Keep your money ana valuablss under
your own lock and key in the American
Safe Deposit Vaults in the Bee building.
which are burglar and fireproof. Boxes
rent for - a year. or 81 for three months.
Ths Omaha Bureau Of Press Clippings,
established many years, has grown to be
the largest and most complete in the west.
Thousands OF papers read for items. Good
service guaranteed. Note address, 28O-232-
pa Bee Bldg.
BIDS to Transport Troops-Bids will be
opened Monday at 2 p. m. by Major Nc
earthly for transporting the Second bat
TALON, Sixteenth infantry, from Moore
town. s. D., to Fort Crook. The battalion
Is to arrive here fully u.
Wants Divorce, Chid ana Aiimony-Ada
Hamilton has applied for a divorce from
Roy Hamilton on grounds Of misconduct.
She wants the custody of their child and
allmony. Anna Slater has been granted
a divorce from Sam Slater in Judge
Redick's court.
Argument on the Hydrant 'Rsntals-
Arguments on the hydrant rental case was
begun in the federal court before Judge
T. c. Munger Friday morning. r. s. Hall
talking for the water company and John
l.. Webster for the city and the Water
board. Several days will be consumed in
argument before the case is finally sub
mitted.
Lobeok VIII GO After the Eagle-Comp
troller c! o.. Lobeck left Friday for spald-
ing in Greeley county. where he will be the
official plucker of the tail feathers from
the American eagle In a big Fourth OF July
celebration. The comptroller will not 20
70 Denver from Spalding, but will return to
Omaha on Monday and may allow the
deputy comptroller. Fred IL. Cosgrove, to
yo"to the convention.
Postoffice Quarterly Remittanoes-The
first quarterly remittance from all post
offices of all classes in the state of Ne
braska was received at the Omaha post
office Friday and amounted to between
G5,OOO and $4,000. This is under the new
order of the Postoffice department which
went into effect July 1. All remittances
must be either in cash or in Omaha ex-
ahange. New York drafts are not accepted.
Thousand Dollars for wrist-Martha
Bernidina Olsen has begun suit in district
court against the Omaha Bottling COM
pany, Gustave and Reinhard Pony for
1900, holding them responsible for the dis
location of her wrist last December. She
says they allow the water from their lot
at lila South Tenth street to run over the
sidewalk. The day she was injured she
says the water had frozen and the Ice was
concealed by a thin coating of snow. She
slipped on this ice and fell.
Pay Wanted in Lien OF elegram-F
ure to deliver promptly a telegram sent
to New York is the basis OF a suit for
S'OS15O brought by the c. b.. Nash COM
pany against the Western Union telegram
company. The petition says the plaintiff
sent a message to Shearson, HammiIl G.
Co. of New York ordering them to sell 800
shares Of American Smelling and Refin-
ing stock at 6sh. The telegram was sent
January 80, but was not delivered until
February 8, the petition says. February
| the price Of the stock was ssh, but by the
third 1t had declined TO 62h, causing a loss
OF the amount sued for.
Wife Makes Serious CharRe-Jennie M
Olson has filed a petition for divorce from
&dward Olson, asserting he kept her prac-
tically a prisoner in the home of her
parents and threatened her and her parents
with injury so many times she cannot re-
cite them all. When she married him she
says she was an inexperienced girl of IL
and believed him when he said he would
provide her a home. He failed to do this
she asserts. and they had to go to live
with her parents at Calhoun While there
he objected TO her seeing any Of her old
friends or associating with anyone but
him. she says. She says his threats against
her caused scenes in public. Once she as
serts her mother had TO flee from home at
1 O'Clock in the morning to avoid him.
Warrants for wesds-Dr. r. w. Con.
nell, commissioner Of health, will swear out
warrants for the arrest of all property
owners, whose property includes any weeds
on Farnam street between Sixteenth and
torty-second streets, and on Thirty-eishth
street between Farnam and Cunning
- .0"'"sioHer uoes not agree
with the members OF the police weed de-
TALL who said they could find no weeds
and says there are plenty in the city. He
swears out the warrants against property
owners on Farnam and Thirty eighth
streets because they are the better able 10
pay court costs, he says. Perry Miller the
official weed cutter, spent Thursday cut-
ting The obnoxious growth near the rest
dence Of Mayor Dahlman, and saws ba
was stung severely by a number OF p~olitieaI
bees.
h Big JuIS sale