Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-30
Nebraska
CITY CAMPAIGN GETS WARN
Issue is Between Six O'clock Closing
and Absolute Dryness.
DEGREE OF ONOR FIGHT ENDS
Mrs. Wayne CIeaver IL secure In the
Position of Grand chief
of Honor Of the
order.
(From a staff correspondents

From a Staff Correspondent
LINCOLN, April 29.-(special)-The city
campaign is warming up to the point
where the advocates Of no license are hold
ing nightly meetings upon the streets.
while the advocates of the $50 o'clock
closing law appear to be conducting a quiet
/ campaign, with the evident hope that the
State Journal will save the town from
prohibition. The Journal blows hot for
prohibition when there is no campaign on
in Lincoln and looks through different
glasses when there is, and when It car
ries three columns of notices OF applica-
tons for liquor licenses. as it is doing
now.
Previous to the opening Of the campaign
the Journal. with a great flourish of trum-
pets, announced that no longer would it
permit its columns to be polluted with an
advertisement from a liquor dealer. Then
its adherents in various churches met and
passed resolutions endorsing the high and
noble stand taken by the paper.
Now the journal is carrying nearly three
columns of notices of the application for
liquor licenses and for some reason the
matter seems to have been overlooked and
the sheet has escaped censure from the
people who recently endorsd 1t for its
stand.
The two candidates for mayor seem to
stand for the same thing, insofar as the
sale of liquor is concerned, though Malone
has made It clear that he is for the $50
law, while Love stands for any legislation
the people endorse.
Degree of Honor Fight Settled.
The bitter fight between Mary A. Lstky
and Wayne Clesver over the position of
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gree OF Honor, Ancient Order of United
Workmen. appears to nave been settled
in favor of Mrs. Cleaver by the dismissal
Mrs. Latky's suit in district court. When
Mrs. Latky moved for the dismissal of the
suit Thursday morning, which she insti-
tuted to GUST Mrs. Cleaver and have her
self declared grand chief of honor. her &C
ton was generally construed as a throwing
up of the sponge on her part.
Mrs. Latky held the position Of grand
chief for many years and was leader Of
the faction that controlled the affairs Of
the Nebraska grand lodge during that time.
At the annual meeting of the lodge last
spring the contest between the two factions
was so close that it was only after sew
erai ballots that Mrs. Cleaver was declared
elected by a majority of one vote. The
election was contested by Mrs. Latky on
the ground that the vote cast by DR.. ]. c..
Mosshart, former grand medical examiner,
was unlawful, She claimed that DR.. Moss
hart had no right to vote and that without
that vote Mrs. Cleaver was not elected and
the plaintiff as incumbent was entitled to
hold over. The defendant showed that II.
NJ. Warning, who voted for Mrs. Latky,
has exactly the same qualifica lions as DR..
Mosshsrt.
Fall Fails to sober Him.
As a street car of the interurban line
rounded the corner at Twenty-second and
Y streets yesterday evening a man who
was standing on the rear step was thrown
from the car and dashed over the bridge
into the creek.
The conductor was inside taking up fares
and he did ont notice the man fall. There
were no passengers on the rear platform
and no one saw him thrown from the
car.
Late in the evening the police station
was called up by some one living in the
neighborhood and it was said that there
was a dead man lying in the creek. The
water as it passed over the body was
streaked with blood and it was feared that
the man had met with foul play.
When the police patrol reached the spot
teNh ANAIDN1 u y AIN IL NAAo ~
the Lincoln police, was found, dead to the
world, btu abel to survive as soon as he
recovered from the stupor of a protracted
souse.
Thursday morning Liebee was fined s10
and costs by Judge Riser for inebriation.
This is the second fine of this size that has
been imposed in the last week for drunken
ness, the first being that of Buck
Owens.
Trouble Among HOrsemen,
Tn race horse men of the Lincoln Road.
ster club have carried their controversy
over two sets of prize track harness to the
, district court. WILDER w. Towle and John
Shriner, two member of the club, claim
to have won the two sets of harness ano
to have complied with all the conditions
imposed by the club in the competition
The officers of the club declare that tbs
prizes we're never properly competed foi
and that the harness belongs to the club
Towle and Shrlner swore out a writ Of
replevin and got possession of the harness
In justice court the judgment was in favol
of the members of the club and they re
covered the harness and l cent damages
Towle and shriner have appealed to tn,
district court.
The suit is said to have badly disrupted
the racing club. At the trial i'm iustic,
court the plaintiffs we're accused Of bac
faith in bringing the suit and they mad,
counter allegations Of attempts on the par
OF the club to repudiate its obligations
The members OF the club that are ~actlvel,
opposing the suit are Addison Meese, JOIN
l.. Woodwork, Dennis NJ. Callahan, J. II