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Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-14
Court Affirms
Case from Wayne
Holds License Procedure Could Not
Be Corrected in Coart-Katle-
man Wins from Omaha.
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LINCOLN, Neb. April ~1S,-(special
Telesram.)-In the Wayne liouor case,
wherein appeal was taken from the district
court because it refused to cause the city
council of Wayne to ~reccnvene and take
evidence on the application of Peter Thorn
son for a liquor license. the supreme
court has affirmed the decision OF the
lower court. The court held that while no
license should have been granted Thomson,
yet the error could not be corrected in the
district court.
Jacob Katleman won Ills case against
the city of Omaha in which he sought to
secure an order from the court to force
the city to pay him $500 for some property
condemned tor boulevard purpose. The city
attempted to hold out some 500 by reason
OF special assessments against the property.
The property had been appraised at 5000,
the court said, and the appraisement &C
cepted by the council and the warrant
issued. The city should at that time have
claimed its lien upon the money, but having
failed to do so It must now pay the full
amount of the warrant.
In the syllabus the court said:
A freebooter otherwise qualified to syn
a petition or a liquor license is not dis
qualified because he is not personally ac-
quainted with the applicant. or does not
know that he Is a man of reputable char
acter ana standing in the community.
II a remonstrator appeals from an order
OF the excise board granting q. saloon
license, the district court Is without author
ity in that proceeding to direct said board
to ~reconvene and receive testimony thar
was offered by the demonstrators and ex-
cluded by said board.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-14
Divorce Matters
in Dodge County
Court Occupied with Them Almost to
Exclusion of Other Business
Persons Involved.

FREMONT, Neb., April 13.-CSpecial.)-
An equity term Of the district court is
being held here this week. Judge Hollen-
beck presided yesterday, and today Judge
Thomas is On the beach. Agnes Arp was
granted a decree of divorce from Henry
on the customary ground Of cruelty and
desertion. The court held the case under
advisement for some time.
The two divorce cases of Horst against
Horst and Stats against Stats, which
are of a sensational nature, are set for
trial, but it is doubtful IL the latter ever
reaches the court. An array of counsel
are ready, but neither party appears to be.
Last summer Stats brought a suit against
Louis Kreymbprg. a prominent and well-to-
do citizen, for the alleged alienation of
his wife's affections, claiming $40, 900 dam
ages. TIT defendant made Arrangement
for a vigorous defense and the plaintiff
dismissed his case, after bringing an action
against his wife for divorce on the ground
of undue intimacy with parties at Council
Bluffs and st. Joseph, Mo. While at st,
Joseph he caused her arrest on the ground
of adultery, but the case does not appear
to have even reached a hearing. Mrs.
Stats came back to Fremont and employed
attorneys, who procured an order for suit
money and filed an answer setting UP
the prominence and wealth of the parties
and the character of the charges the case
has attracted a good deal OF attention.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-14
Nebraska
Mrs. ChaS. Wooster
RenewS Her Suit
She Again Applies for Divorce from
Fusion Politician-All Efforts
to Agree Fail.

CENTRAL CITY. Neb.. April 13.-(Spe-
cial)-Dropping the charge that her hus-
band would not give her any rest because
she would not declare TO him that she loved
better than she loved God, but making
more prominent the claim that he threat
ened to commit murder II ne was compelled
to live with her any longer. Lille M.
Wooster has started another suit in the
district court OF Merrick county against
her husband, Charles Wooster. asking for
an absolute divorce and alimony.
The first suit was started several months
ago and after dragging along in the courts
and after repeated continuances had been
granted It was dismissed at an equity ses-
sion about wo weeks ago. when the plain
tiff was not ready for trial at the time
set. 1t was thought then thai a recon-
Citation between the parties would be eff
fected. Evidently all efforts in this line
have failed.
The main grounds upon which Mrs.
Wooster asks for a divorce are extreme
cruelty. She claims that only a few
months after they were married in 1881,
Wooster smashed down the door of the
room where she had fled for refuge, and
the door struck her on the head and rem
dered her unconscious. She claims on sew
eral occasions he beat her and used pro-
Jane and vulgar language toward her and
repeatedly ridiculed her belief in God and
taught their children to do the same. She
claims that she left him in 1905, because
he threatened that IL he was compelled to
live with her any longer he would commit
murder. She has since been making her
home with friends in Portland, Ore, but
claims that she has not relinquished her
residence in Merrick county. She claims
that when she married Wooster she
brought with her 81, 800 which has gone into
his property, and in her demands for ALI
mony and a division of the property she
asks that this 100 be taken into consider
alton. She claims that Wooster has real
estate to the value of 1000 and personal
property valued at 5000.
Wooster has been prominent in state
politics for a Ions time, being representa-
tive from Merrick county in the state leg
islature and at one time prominently men,
toned for fusion nominee for congressman
from the Third congressional district. He
resides at Silver Creek.
TIL case will probably be tried out at
the next regular term of the district court.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-14
Nebraska

a team at a livery barn, but never returned
the horses. The sheriff was notified and
the team was found tied to a hitching rack
at verdon. from which place he had taken
the train for Oklahoma, where his father
lives. After reaching Kansas City he de-
cided to return to Dawson, which he did.
to be met by the sheriff with a warrant
and taken to the county jail. His father
came here to see What could be done for
his son, but after hearing the facts in
the case decided to leave the boy to his
fate, and returned home. Rowland will
probably be turned over to the Bankers
association to deal with as 1t sees fit.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-14

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Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-14

FRANZ ISLAND, Neb., April 13.-(Spe-
cial)-Mrs. Dick Steinbeck, widow of a
farmer who passed away about a year ago
in q temporary arberation of mind, wan
dered away from the home of relatives
during the night and was not found until
twelve hours later, when the deputy sheriff
discovered the woman In the underbrush
along Wood river. Her clothing was wet
and torn and she was suffering intensely
from the exposure. She had evidently been
In the river, which, however, is shallow
at most places. The woman is receiving
the best of attention at the hospital in this
city.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-14
Local Record.

OFFICE or THE WEATHER BUREAU,
Oe MAnA a A5rn pr Is;IGlitf1Si e GeSEpa % tenn if5
the corresponding day OF the last three
years: 1909. 1905. 1907. 1906.
Maximum tsmper9tgre - s. 5 q 80
Mean temperature ......, ~ 81 % As
Precipitation ...".,'.-..,,. 90 GO 90 40
Temperature and precipitation departures
from the normal at Omaha since March l..
and compared with the last two years:
Normal temperature 40
deficiency TOT lne uaN ....+.............. Z
Total deficiency since March 1........... 81
Normal precipitation .............. 10 inch
Deficiency for the day ........... 10 inch
Precipitation since March l......1.@ inches
Deficiency since March i.........1.4 6 inches
Deficiency for cor. period. 1908. e. ..1.S3 inches
Deficiency for cor. period. 1907. =. ..1.S6 inches
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-14
Youas Man Left to IA. Fate.

FALLS CITY, Neb., April 1a-CspeciaI)-
Sheriff Fenton has in charge the man
who was charged two years ago with forg-
Ing checks on many banks in this section
Of the state. He gave his name as Frank
Rowland and until lately has been farming
west of Stella. He has been married since
the check trouble. After having a sale two
weeks ago he went TO Dawson and hired
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-14
Thrown from Horse
Under Car Wheels
Irwin Wilds of Chappell Seriously
Injured from Riding Broncho
Too Near Train.

CHAPPELL, Neb., April I3.-(Special)-
One OF the worst accidents in this vicinity
for years happened yesterday near Tur-
ner Wild's place, four miles west of town,
TO his son, Irwin Wild, who was riding
a broncho. At that time a freight train
was passing their place and young Wild
rode the animal up toward the train, when
1t began bucking and threw him off next
TO the moving train. which cut off one Of
his hands and badly mutilated his head,
tearing the flesh and making seventeen
scalp wounds, Up to noon today he had
not regained consciousness. The attending
physician thinks he will recover, as the
skull has no fractures. Young Wild ls
about ls years Of age and one OF the best
liked boys i'm the community.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-14
Narrow Escape of Two women.

WYMoRE. Neb., April 1a-Cspecial)-
Whiel driving home from church last even
ing Mrs. II. e. Tucker and her daughter
Cleo escaped serious injury by a narrow
margin. They live across Indian creek and
it was while on the bridge across the
stream that the horse became frightened
al a pool of water on the planks. The ami
NAL backed the buggy off the bridge and
down a twenty-foot embankment. The girl
jumped from the buggy in time 10 save
herself. but Mrs. Tucker and the horse
went into the creek. some young men
going to their homes in the country hap
pened to be near and saved Mrs. Tucker
from drowning, and also rescued the horse.
Mrs. Tucker, aside from a few minor
bruises was uninjured.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-14

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Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-14
Reports from stations nj 2 r. NJ,

L A. WELSH, Local Forecastet.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-14
The w Gather

FOR OMAHA-PossibIy showers.
FOR NEBRASkA-Increasing cloudiness,
with rain i'm north portion.
FOR COMMISSIONERS.
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calm eye, surveying it. measuring it's
height, numbering its doors, trying it's
windows. Harry was beside her again.
He was Juggling frantically at the win
dow. 1t resisted. She saw his hand
trembling while he wrestled with it.
Then it went shrieking up and he
leaned out.
What do you want?" he called out,
and. though he used no name, Flora
saw he knew with whom he was speak
ing. The Chinaman stood immobile,
lifting his round, white face, whose
mouth seemed to cape a little. Harry
leaned far out and lowered his voice.
Go away, Joe! Don't come her e,
never come here!" There was a culver
in his voice, Anger or apprehension, or
both, whatever his passion was, for
the moment it overwhelmed him, and
as the Chinaman stood unmoved, un-
moving, at his commands, Harry
turned sharp from the window and
dashed out of the room. Flora heard
him running. running down the stairs.
She hung there GREATNESS, waiting to
see him meet the m~otionless figure; but
while she looked and waited that
iioiiOJItSS lSuIt SutlutllN LOOK lie. 1t
moved, it turned. it fitted, it mixed
with shadows, became a shadow; and
then there was nothing there.
Nothing was there when Harry burst
out of the garden door and stood star
ing in the empty oval. How distracted,
how violent he looked, baked of his
prey, He was stalking the garden,
beating the bushes, walking up and
down. All at once he stopped and
raised a white, baffied face to her win
dow. She shrank away. She was in
peril of Harry now. He knew her no
longer innocent. She had held the ring
against him in the face of the fact he
had told her 1t was stolen. And he
must guess her motive. He must sus-
pect her now.
In her turn she ran, up and up a
twisted side stair, shortest passage to
her own rooms. At least lock and key
could keep her safe for the next few
hours, After that she must think of
something else.
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still flung out with the hands open as
argument had left them, seemed to her
frightened eyes all ready for her, ready
with his last argument. his strength.
Once before she had feared herself
face to face with the same threat in the
eyes and body of another man, but
here. her only fear was lest Harry
should get the sapphire away from her.
His doing so would dash down no ideal
of him. 1t was mere physical terror
that made her tremble and raise her
hand to her breast. Instantly she saw
how she betrayed the sapphire again.
He had taken hold of her wrist, and,
twist as she might, he held it, horribly
gentle.
She pressed back against the glass
until she felt it hard behind her.
Harry she whispered, 'if you care
anything. if you eve want me for
yours, you'll take your hands away"
She meant it; she was sincere in that
moment, for all she shrank from him.
Her body and mind would not have
been too great a price to give him for
the sapphire.
But these HI seemed to set aside as
trivial. These he expected as a matter
of course; he was going to have that
other thing. too-the thing she had
chung to as a man clings to life; and
now, parting from, she would give
up not without a struggle as sharp as
that with which the body gives up
breath. She wrestled. He seemed all
hands. He put aside her struggles, her
pleadings, as if they were thistle-down
Then all at once she felt his arm
around her neck. She couldn't move
her body. She could only turn her head
from his hot breath. For a moment he
held her, and yet another moment; and
then, terrified at what this strange i'm
mobility might mean, she raised her
eyes and saw he was not looking at her.
Though he held her fast he was not
conscious of her. Straight over her
head he looked, through the window
and down INTO the garden. Her eyes
followed. 1t lay beneath, the wonder
of It's morning aspect all blanched and
dim. She saw the silhouette of rose
in black on the sky She saw
the flowers n pushes all one dull tone.
But in the midst of them the oval of
the path shone white; n there, as in
the afternoon, standing, looking up
ward, was the dark figure of a man.
Her heart gave a great leap. Just so
she'd been summoned once before hat
day, but what Internal freak had
him Jack to repeat that dan
gerous sally, and brought him finally
into his enemy's grasp? She tried to
make a gesture to warn him, and just
there Harry released her, dropped her
so that she half fell upon the window
seat, and made a dash across the room
for the light. In a m they were
in darkness. In a moment. to Flora
pressed against the window, the garden
sprang clear. and on the formless figure
below the face appeared, white in the
starlight lokins up. She cried out In
wonder. 1t was not Kerr. 1t was the
blue-eyed Chinaman.
After her haunted drive. after her
after Shima's search, he was
there. sti,l inexorably there; small
by the great facade of the
mousse, but looking up at Il with his
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CHAPTER Xxx.

ID 7 five O'Clock in the morning she
Id was already moving softly to and
fro. so softly as o to rouse the
sleeping Marrika. BY seven her light
est bag was packed, herself was bathed,
brushed, dressed even to hat and
gloves, and standing at her window
with all the listening alert look of one
in a ~waiting-room expecting a train.
But all her household was still un-
stirring when at last she went, soft
step after step, down the broad and
polished stair and across the empty
hall She went quiet, direct, deter
mined, not at all as she had fled on her
other perilous enterprise only yester-
day. She shut the outer door after her
without a sound and with great re-
lief breathed in the fresh and family
smoky air of morning.
She walked quickly. The windows
of her house still overlooked her, and
her greatest terror was that some
voice, some appearance, out of that
house, might m her return. The
street was nearly empty. a maid
AEEI| |.A|0 MM"
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Copyright, 1908.
The Bobbs-M Merrill Company.
CONTINUED From Yesterday

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"I?' That left him staring. What
have I to do with it?"
At this she gave him a long look.
at was through you he ever had the
chance of seeing me. l mean the blue
Syed Chinaman. He has followed me
6 all the evening. He followed me here
Ito the very door" Flora's array of
facts fell so fast, so hard, so pointed,
that for a moment they held him
speechless in the middle of the room.
Any fleeing suspicion she might have
had of his completely in the China
mans pursuit vanished. He showed
plain bewilderment. For a moment he
was more at sea than herself. The
next she saw the shadow of a thought
so disturbing that it sharpened his
ruddy face to harshness. He stepped
toward her. What did he say to
you?' He doomed directly above here,
threatening.
Nothing. He didn't say anything.
But | know lie followed me quite to the
kouse, for l saw his shadow all tlfe way
down the hill
Harry still breathed quickly. Where
how did he come across you?"
: She'd been prepared for that question.
! ~ was driving down Suffer street and
he saw me at the carriage window,
Harry stood tense, poised, catching
everything as she tossed it off; then, as
II all at once he felt the full weight of
the burden. Lord" he said, and let
himself down heavily into a chair. 1t
was plain in his helpless stare that he
knew exactly what it all meant. Lay
ing her hands on the high chair-arms,
leaning down so that she could look in
to his face, Flora made her thrust.
"Wha do you think he wants?'' she
gently asked. 1t was as if she would
coax it out of him. His answer was
correspondingly low and soft.
Its that damned ring,"
She heard her secret fear spoken
aloud with such assurance that she
waited. certain at the next moment
Harry's voice would people the silence
with all the facts that had so far es-
capped her. But when, after a
of looking before him he did speak, he
went back to the beginning, which they
both knew.
you know he didn't want to part
with it in the first place"
Yves, yes; but he did" Flora insisted.
"WeI," he answered quickly, but
that was before" he caught hln-
self and went on with a scarcely per-
ceptible break: He may have had a
better offer for it since"
He couldn't have put it more mildly,
and yet that temperate phrase brought
back to her in a flash a windy night
full of raucous voices and he great
figures in the paper that had covered
half a page-the reward for the Crew
Idol. Could it be that-that sum so
overwhelming to human caution n
human decency which Harry had
Nloaked by his grudging phrase some
better offer?' What else could he
mean? And what else could the blue
eyed Chinaman mean by his strange
pursuit OF her?
some one must have wanted 1t aw-
fully Flora tried again, Keeping step
with his mild admlssion.
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Il have no right to think about it at
all" she said.
We'll, there is" Flora insisted.
There's a great deal more. l am sorry
[ should have told YOU, but / was afraid.
L don't know why l was afraid of you,
except that in this matter I've grown
afraid of every one. It's true that there
may be people going down-at least, a
person. But il isn't, as / let you think
it, a house party at all. It's for some
thing. something that 1 can't dc any
other way-something." she had a sud
den fash of insight. that. if l could tell
You, o would believe in, too"
Mrs. Herrick's look had faded to a
mere concentrated attention. you mean
that there is something you wish TO do
for whoever is gong DOWN."
"Oh, something I must do Flora in
sisted.
Mrs. Herrick considered a moment.
why can't he do it for himself?'
she threw out suddenly.
1t made Flora start, but she met it
CALAMITY. Because he won't l shall
nave to make him."
Ito Be Continued on Mouday.)
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Harry covered her with an impress.
sive stare. There's something queer
about that ring" he nodded to her. He
was going to tell her at last! Sht
gazed at him in expectation, but pres
emily she realized that nothing more
was coming. He had stopped at the
beginning. She tried to urge him on
Queer, what do you mean?" She
was sfeigning surprise.
He looked at her cautiously. 'sWhy
you must have noticed it yourself wher
we were at the shop. And now, tonight
his having followed you.''
She could see him hesitate. choosing
his words. She knew we'll enough hel
own fear of saying too much-but
What was Harry afraid of? Did he
suspect her feeling for Kerr? Was
thai why he was holding back, leav-
ing out, giving her the small. expur-
gated version of what he knew. SHE
tried again, making it palmer.
you think the ring is something he
ought not to have had; something that
belongs somewhere else?"
He looked away from her, around the
room, as If to pick up his answer from
some of the corners. well, anyway,
it's lucky we waited about that set
ting he said with quick irrelevance.
IF you're going to be annoyed in this
way you'd better let me have it,"
Why hadn't she thought of that! It
was what any man might say, after
hearing such a story as hers, yet it was
the last thing she had thought of, and
the last thing she wanted.
"Oh, leave it with me-" she quavered,
"at least till you're sure!"
"Oh. mol" He gave his head a quick,
decided shake. "If something should
come out you wouldn't want to be
mixed up in t.
"Then why not give it back to the
Chinaman?'' she tried him.
"Oh, that's Ridiculous He was in
a passion. His d~arkening eyes, his
swelling nostrils, his aspect so out of
proportion to her mild and almost play
full suggestion, frightened her. He
saw it and instantly his mood dropped
to mere irritation. "Oh, Flora, don't
make a scene about it,. This thing has
been on my mind for days-the thought
that o had the ring. 1 was afraid /
had nc business to let you have it in
the first place, and what you've old me
tonight has clean knocked me out l
don't know what I'm saying. Come
let me have it; and if there's anything
queer about the business, at least we'll
get it cleared up"
But, smiling. she retreated before
=
why, Flora" he argued, half laugh
ing, but still with hat dry end of irri-
tation in his voice, what on earth do
you want to keep the thing for?"
BY this time she backed against the
window and faced him.. why, it's my
engagement ring"
He looked at her. She couldn't tell
whether he was readiest to laugh or
You gave it to me for that" she
pleaded. why shouldn't l keep it, un-
til you give me a real reason for giving
it up? If you really know anything,
why don't you tell me?" She was sure
she had him there; but he burst out at
last:
We'll, for a fact. l know it is stoleni"
He leaned toward her; and his arms,
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