Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-07
Nebraska
R&OLLEDS AGAINST CHIEF
Attorney General Thomson Files Suit
Against Donahue.
BCyARD MEMBERS NOT INCLUDED
Attorney General Holds Enforcement
of Daylight Law Rests Upon the
Mayor and Not Upon Board
of Commissioners.
6RD MEMBERS NOT INCLUDED
CFrom a sod correspondentl

(F'rom n Staff Correspondent
LINCOLN, Aug. 6.--Cspeclal)-The at
torney general did not file a suit for
the custer Of the three members of the
police board for the reason that he is not
satisfied that he can proceed against these
members. SO far he has found nothing
in the statute that indicates that the
Board of Fire and Police commissioners is
responsible for the enforcement Of the law.
The rules Of the police board put this duty
upon the chief OF police.
1t is alleged that scouts acting for Gov
ernor shallenberger have secured evidence
that Mayor Dahlman has known OF VIOLA
lions Of the liquor laws, but so far no com
plant has been filed with him against the
mayor He received letter this morning
that the mayor knew of violations Of the
liduor law by a Polish club on lower Wal
nut street
Allegations Made.
Mr.. Thompson alleges in his petition that
Intoxicating liquors are being sold illegally
in houses OF prostitution. in clubs and In
saloons; that Chief Donahue refuses to en-
force the laws OF the state OF Nebraska
against the unlawful sale o. intoxicating
liquors and against houses of prostitution
and by reason of derilection Of duty as
chief Of police, Chief Donahue has forfeited
his right 10 hold that afflce and should be
Cremoved therefrod.
1t is alleged I'm the petition that intoxi-
eating liquors We're, and ara being sold al
several places between the hours OF y
m and O'Clock a. m, Of each day oil
the week. Sunday included, with the ful
knowledge OF the chief of police.
The places designated in the petition arr
as follows; City hotter, Dolly Green wv
South Tenth street. above MasterSOn
coffee house 315 South Eleventh street
upstairs 1872 Douglas street. MIS- "a
Moran 1923 Douglas street; l2ls Douglai
street; Roth's Chill Parlor, upstairs Dam
man Clue 214 South Fifteenth ST. eei, up
stare where large mum bers Of men wer!
ROM and going to and from the cluD,
HS South Thirteenth street; Ninth ware
club Twenty ninth and Cunning stleete
colored saloon, the Midway, Capital avenu,
and Twelfth street. 1417 Douglas; owl clup
100 South sixteenth street, upstairs CIul
Rooms southeast corner sixteenth an
Leavenworth, basement; MecheuuCs 0iu i,
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth %
Douglas; G13 South Fourteenth street, blz1
South Tenth street, 14l0 Jackson street
Italian grocer, Seventh and Pierce stree, :
Mrs. Bourke, Tenth and Davenporto SUI n ee.n
Chilli parlor over Aleyette saloon, lbA DOUG
las; Big 4 saloon Ninth and Dougla
etreets.: PIG South Fourteenth street. up
stairs; 100 North Ninth street; s2 DodB
street. Twenty ninth and Cunning streets
1890 Capital avenue. , =,
aeaes that under the rules of the Boar
pf Fire and Police Commissioners 1t is tn
duty of the chief of police to see that tn
laws Of the state of Nebraska and ord
nances of Omaha are duly enforced and
A diligently enforce the laws relating 10 IN
sale OF LIQUOR and gambling OF all kind
.