Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-11
SEVERAL PEDDLERS ARRESTED
Nebraska city Merchants AFTER Men
Alleged 20 BE Violating
state Laws.

| NEBRASKA CITY, Neb., June l0.--(Spe-
cial)-Fo some/ time past eight or nine
men have been peddling over this country
and delivering goods. Last evening County
Attorney W. f. Moran filed complaint
against A. e. Good, one of the men, and
he will have a hearing before Judge VII
son. He is charged with peddling without
first having secured a state license. The
merchants of this city have been quietly
securing evidence against these men and
propose to prosecute them. They come here
and bring a stock Of goods, which they
open up In a second-story room and ped
die 1t out over the county and the mer-
chants have decided to put stop to things
Of this kind.
II has been decided to have a stock show
and race meeting here on August 1926.
arrangements are being made for the is
! suance of the prize lists and a schedule for
each Of the five or six days. This meeting
will be held under the direction of the Fair
and Speed association and the Commercial
club
The Misses seelhoof and Bray we're seri-
ously injured in a runaway yesterday at
Syracuse. Their team became frightened
at a passing automobile and threw the &C.
cupants of the carriage out and the two
young women were injured.
The Nebraska City Fire department will
observe Memorial day Sunday and they
will be Joined by many of the social and
secret orders Of the city. All of the or
CARNATIONS will meet down town in the
afternoon and march TO the cemetery
headed by the band where special services
will be held, and Rev w. w. Barnes will
deliver the address.
The extreme hot winds of the last two
days have done considerable damage to
the crops in this section. The wheat and
corn crops have been badly injured and
considerable damage has been done to the
fruit crop. Some of the fruit raisers say
that already the young fruit Is dropping
from the trees. The strawberry crop has
been cut about one-half while the potato
and other crops have been seriously in
jured.
d. H. Watkins. secretary of the Ne
braska State Automobile association. will
be In this city on Tuesday evening and ar
rangements have been made for a big meet
ing OF all that are interested in the good
roads movement.
Gilbert e. Hanks, one of the large land
owners of this county, shipped in eight car
loads of goats last evening, which he will
use in clearing off some of the land he
He has tried this scheme before and IL
has always proved successful.
At a special meeting of the city council
last evening a saloon license was granted
to J. G.. Strobe. This makes twelve sa~
loon licenses that have been granted here.
The council instructed Mayor Morton to
have the police enforce the state law re-
garding the law governing the speed at
which automobiles can run as there have
been a large. number of complaints Of late.
Andrew Jingle was before Judge B. J..
Golf last evening charged with wife beat
ing and he was fined $50 and costs The
judge promised him six months in the
county jail the next time he came before
that court, he being an old offender.
Mrs. MacMurphy, one Of the inspectors
OF the Pure Food commission. has been at
work in this city for several days and
Strengthened out a number Of the business
men in the manner Of the class of goods
they we're handling and the manner Of
them. One place she required to
be cleaned up before she would complete
the inspection.