Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-02
Nebraska
TWO CANDIDATES. PULL OUT
J. M. Alden and R. R. Smith Leave
Legislative Race.
NAY WITHDRAW UNTIL TUESDAY
Or. Hall, vice Chairman of Demo
cratic National Committee, out
of IL I'm Lancaster-JOISe
on Game warden.
tFrOm statf Correspondentl


republican candidate for representative in
the Nineteenth district, has requested the
secretary OF state to leave his name off
Of the ballot at the primary election r.
r.. Smith, republican candidate in the
Seventeenth representative district. has
done the same thing. Secretary of State
Junkin holds that candidates may with
draw until Tuesday night.
Such Is Politics.
What was described as one Of the most
forlorn sights ever seen in Lincoln was two
prominent democrats sitting on the curb
stone on M street between Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets SATURDAY afternoon. DR..
p. L. Hall was one hero and A. V. Johnson
was the other. The first named is vice
chairman Of the democratic national COM
mittee and the last named was formerly
president OF the Bryan Travelling Men
leVgue Both men had been rejected as
candidates for membership on the demo-
cratic state committee and DIR, Hall had
been refused a reelection.
AS the sun beat down hard all around
them the two old battle SCARED vtrans sat
and occasionally they talked. Once in a
while they smiled. Yet there was no gaity
In their talk and no mirth in their laugh.
They hung their heads in their hands.
They were turned down in Lancaster
county and thoroughly approve of tho
Grand Island platform. They are clear out
OF the organization. Politically they an
without homes. People passing saw them
and smiled.
Hose Too FIashy.
pair OF dove colored hose with the
letter "B'' embroidered thereon in red silk
peeking coyly over the top of Joe Boehler's
No. 10 Oxfords, not only stirred the town
OF Atkinson from foundation stone to tur-
ret. but was the indirect cause of prevent
ing Game Warden Guilis and his deputy
Joe Boehler, from making some very i'm
Bportant arrests last Sunday.
Guihs and Boeher. completely disguised
with old clothes as laborers "a most com
plete, disguise). went to Atkinson Satur-
day in response to a summons that the
game laws were being violated with i'm
punity. After supper the two strolled uI
the street and discovered an automobile
with five passengers hiking for the coun.
try for the purpose in the opinion of the
two, to kill some birds. So they concluded
to wait the return of the machine, picl
out the malefactors Just like Scotland YARD
sleuths and do the state a service.
A girl came along and gigled. Then an
other girl did the same thing and then q
third. The three girls finally got together
THAT little short one looks good to me.
said one OF the girls. Receiving no an
swering smile. the girls continued to tall
until. finally. Guilis and his bodyguarC
started UP the street. The girls followed
and finally one of them said:
Anaanrurh sFte NJ " TN Ynarfk-xS
Say, how does 1t feel to be a gam,
warden?"
That was too much for the sieuths who
thought they had so completely covered VI
their tracks.
Who said we were game wardens?" de
manded Guilis fine girl.
mr.. Fullerton said yesterday he INTENDED
TO have couple of game wardens her
and as soon as / saw those socks knew
you must be the men,"
at developed that the arrival OF the tw,
sleuths had been announced the day before
40 they hiked on up the line and made NJ
arrests at Atkinson.
Thirty-six counties have replied to tn
inquiries sent out by the State Board o
Equalization regarding the, assessment o
bank stock. or these all have followed tn
schedule prepared by the board except fiv
Hamilton, Thurston, Dodge, Douglas an,
York. The county assessor of Lancaste
explained the decrease In the valuation o
bank stock in this county by saying II wa
due to mistakes OF precinct assessors Som
OF these assessors listed the stock in tn
wrong columns, he said. The figures will b
dug out. however he SAID and the prope
valuation given to this class OF property