Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-26
Nebraska
POLICE GET BUSY
Chasing Illicit Liquor and Gay wO.
men Makes Them Hump.
STATE HOUSE LAWN Uttered
Movement Suggested by nr. Bessey
20 Have Nebraska-Made Goods
Put TO the Front by Proper
Labelling.
CFrom a Staff correspondent

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LINCOLN, May &-(Special.)-The police
are making a vallent effort to clean up
Lincoln and make OF It such a place that
parents will not be afraid to send their
c~hildpen here to the State university. Yes
terday four drunks were arrested, accord
ing to a local paper, in five minutes, and
last night a resort was raided and two
women and q man were arrested.
Janitors at the state house have com
planned that the lawn is so covered with
broken beer and whisky bottles that they
have great difficulty in moving the grass
without running their machines.
The police for q long time have been try
ing to prevent prostitution in the blocks
down town and recently where raids have
been made l nthe business part OF town
liquor and Der have been found and the
police have some evidence tina in at least
one instance this was being offered for
sale.
Because OF the fact that Lincoln is a
university town where boys and girls are
sent to school from all parts of the state,
the police realize that IL is up to them to
KEEP 1t as clean as possible morally, but the
record of arrests shows that the town is
about like it has been for a number OF
years. The police force is small and 1t is
having great difficulty just now in trying
to prevent the sale of beer and whisky.
Under the rules of the excise board It is
illegal for a druggist to compound a medi-
cine in which whisky is one of the in
gradients. 1t is illegal under these rules
for a physician to give pwhisky to a pa
tent.
Preventing the illegal sale Of liquor and
driving prostitution out of blocks and
places where It has flourished for so many
years is proving a big task for the police,
though they are buckling down to 1t hard.
Wants a Nebraska Label.
In a letter to Deputy Commissioner of
Labor Maupin, DIR. Charles E. Bessey of
the University of Nebraska makes a sug-
gestion that will be of interest to Ne
~braskans. Or. Beesey suggests that ut all
future fairs, state and county, the ex-
hioitors of goods manufactured in Ne
brasks make the fact known by attaching
Made in Nebraska" cards to all such ex-
hibits. He says that this custom is fol-
lowed at all of the fairs held In the Do
minion of Canada and believes that it
could be followed to great advantage in
Nebraska.
DR.. Beesey was lead to make this sug-
gestion by learning from the last biennial
report of the bureau OF labor and indus
trial statistics that Nebraska is not wholly
an agricultural state. The report shows
that Nebraska manufacturing institutions
turned out S151 900, 900 worth of finished
products in 1908. a large proportion Of
which was made up from raw material
furnished in Nebraska. Nine million dol
lars were paid in wages to the workers
in these manufacturing institutions. and to
| this anorm0lIQ NJ ua roll ShaYld ha adJad
the wage paid to workers in other h
strictly manufacturing plants-fallroad men,
printers. pressmen and other skilled work
men. The total wage roll would doubtless
exceed 100000.
"Eebraska's place in the agricultural
world is well known and absolutely sure"
said Deputy Commissions Maupin today.
why not proceed now to let the world
know that we are progressing along other
lines of productive endeavorT'
Some Pets Peter Out.
Felix Newton is booked for slaughter.
The basket is ready for his head just as
soon as the governor can get around to
apply the ak. Newton is the bookkeeper
at the Lincoln insane asylum. He won
his job by the sweat of his brow on cleo
tion day and before. Though he may
have spent his time working against the
interest of his state, he certainly was
faithful to democracy and democracy's
candidate. But Felix Newton, the little
Russian who lead his people out of the
beet fields into democracy's camp, has no
longer a standin with the powers that be.
That he worked hard at his job there is
no doubt and It was hard work for him.
In keeping his account he used beads with
which to add and no mistakes nave been
found in his vouchers.
Just why Felix Newton is to be let out
Governor Mulienberger has not announced,
but It was thought at one time, he sym
pathized with Miss McGinnis, who was the
first to be fired at the institution. Their
Felix had no account of a car of coal
which the coal company said It had de-
livered at the asylum. Felix refused 10
sign the voucher so the company could
get Its money. Then Felix had trouble
with the other employees at the asylum
over social functions out there. On one
recent occasion there appeared a sign on
the walls of the main corridor inviting all
employees to participate in a dance at the
institution except the ~bookkeeper."
But Governor Mullenberger is not going
TO permit little Felix to have TO go bacI