Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-06-06
Nebraska
CURTIS PEOPLE ARE WAITING
State Board May Have Pick of Farms
for School.
EPPERS0N FILES FOR JUDGE
County Attorney English Calls Up
Law Department Of state to say
Cleanup OF Red Light Dis-
trict IL Nearly Done.
lFrom a staff corrcsnondent.l

NfTom starr correspondent
LINCOLN, June B.-(special)-A delega-
ton of Curtis business men. headed by
II. A Butler secretary Of the Commercial
club OF that city, visited the Board Of
Public Lands and Buildings today to in
vite that body TO make an early investiga-
ton OF two or three sites which they wish
20 submit for the location Of the new agri-
cultural school which that city recently
won. The board will go TO Kearney on
Monday and intends TO travel from there
to the Frontier county town the following
day.
A. {. EpDersOn Files.
Ambrose c. Epperson Of Clay Center.
prominent central Nebraska barrister. and
Tor four years a supreme court commits
sioner filed papers with Secretary Of state
Wait today requesting that his name be
placed on the republican primary ballot
as a candidate for the republican nomina-
ton for Judge of the supreme court. At
torney Epperson recently received the
unanimous endorsement Of the Clay County
Bar association and his friends assert
that he will be one Of the most active men
In the race. Mr.. Epperson's filing makes
the sixth, all being republicans.
Two Years for Morrison.
Frank Morrison of Omaha who was in
NAStSa ny u kThHu jury on the charge OF
sending obscene matter through the mails
was brought before the federal court here
today and after pleading guilty was SEN
fenced to two years at hard labor in the
FEDERAL prison at Leavenworth, Kan Nor
r1son had been corresponding for some time
with Tecumseh girl and the exchange Of
letters between the two. according to the
Indictment, had been unusually spicy. Ar
irving home one Saturday night with a
pocketful of such letters and fearing TO
take them home lest a curious wife would
lind them in his pockets he enclosed them
In new envelopes and mailed them to him
SER At a town which he would visit the
next week. This led to the detection of
the matter and was the cause of his in
dictment by the grand jury.
NebrasISnns Going to Ames.
j. e. Cobbey OF Beatrice, E. ]. Hainer
and Mr.. and Mrs. M. l. Aitken OF this CITY
all prominent Nebraskans, will attend the
reunion of the class OF 1873 OF Iowa State
college, which is to be held at Ames this
week. II is expected that of the graduating
class Of that year. which had member
ship Of twenty, that three-fourths of that
number viii attend the reunion.
Cadets Leave for Camp.
Nearly 400 hundred members of the cadet
regiment of the state university left here
this afternoon bound for Beatrice where
they will go into camp for a week. The
return will be made next Monday, this
years encampment being two DAYS longer
than any previous one held. Colonel C. ].
kremer In In command of the camp.
Injunction Against Bank.
An alternative writ of mandamus com
manding Mayor Armstrong and the city
council to forthwith close the open area
way In the public sidewalk which IL in the
nature of a broad stairway leading to the
basement OF the new eght-story First Ma
tionel bank building, was granted In dis
trict court this morning by Judge Stewart
upon the application of James c. McNerny.
The respondents in the matter are required
20 comply with the order by June 10 or
appear and show cause why they should
not do 30.
ExtradRtiOn for PiceirelIi.
Enrico Piceireln has been extradited by
Governor Aldrtch at the request of acting
Governor Ackermann Of New Jersey. He
will be Vken from Omaha TO Newark, in
that sts,e. where he will be tried on the
charge OF subornation of perjury. 1t is
alleged that the Italian attempted 70 in
duce a witness, Frank p. Brex, to testify
falsely betore grand jury wherein Rafello
Mercuro. alias Mike Jacob, was charged
with conducting q disorderly house. II is
alleged that Pice1relh gave the witness $40
TO testify that the accused did not keep a
disorderly house. Tho offense is alleged
to have been committed last December.
Young AIdrich at Work.
George Aldrich. son of the governor, has
commenced work in his fathers office in
the place Of A. A Hustled, recording clerk,
who has been I'll for some time past
Young Aldrtch will hold the positi until
Mr.. Hustled u able to return to his duties
or until fall. when he will enter the state
university.
English Says Works Done.
Governor Aldrich's edict against houses
OF I'll repute in Omaha is TO be enforced
to the letter and spirit Of tho law accord
ing 10 County Attorney English. The
Douglas county attorney called up Attor-
ney General Grant Martin this afternoon
and told him that he had about cleared
out the reservation
The county attorney said that all of the
houses had moved within the past forty
eight houra He said that he intended 70