Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-10
BRIEF CITY NEWS
Hsvs Root Print II

0as' Eiso. Fixtures, sur-ess-drsrden
Aunmhge sale--A rummage sale will
De held Wednesday Thursday and FRI
Gay at BOIL South Twentieth street
It Costs Money TO Flirt-David L.
Pyles, Sol5 Chicago avenue, was fined SIS
and costs for assaulting Max seilon sat
urday evening. Pyles told the court that
seilon had insulted his wife and mother
by flirting with them.
School Esooms Punigate5-on account
OF diphtheria four rooms in the Colon
biA school building were closed Monday
to allow the Board of Health to fumi-
gate. The rooms will be opened for study
and recitatons Tuesday morning
Keat off at high sehool-owing to de-
feots in the heating apparatus at the
high school the students we're dismissed
Monday morning at 1880. Notice was also
given out that afternoon pupils would not
be required to attend. school viii con
tinue as usual Tuesday.
FORTUNE Seeker Home Agaiu-Ben Tel.
penner the 15-year-old boy who o.sap-
pesred from his home at Seventeenth and
webster streets over two weeks ago. was
located in Iowa Saturday and returned TO
HIS npult Nlbnuhg ulOAHlhH' Nv VIZ SaAN
he had left TO make his fortune.
Deprived Of His Authority - Charles
Mcclure, the Union Pacific special off
Ger who engaged in a duel with Officer
Barta Sunday night on Douglas street.
was discharged in police court Monday
morning BY order OF the court his com
mission and gun were taken away from
him.
PioHpooket Bound ovsr-sam Majors
oolored was bound over to the district
court In the sum of $500 Monday morning
by Judge Crawford on charge of lar
oeny from the person. Majors is alleged
to have picked the pocket OF Richard
Humka of Dunlap, Ia, of SIS Saturday
night
Agents Arc In Demana-Commission
Guild of the Commercial club has re-
quests from several eastern manufactur-
ers to find them men to act as their
agents In Omaha AS an agency might
result in the establishment of local
office and a sales force Mr.. Guild will
try to find agents for them.
Not Dead; Only rrunk-An urgent cal
came to the police station at ~ o'clock
Monday morning from the Hub hotel that
a man had dropped dead. When the Off
GERS arrived at the hotel the dead man
had without assistance risen and walked
away. He was later found in a saloon
on Tenth street and arrested for being
drunk His name is James Duncan.
Schools to Close poors-Miss Edit
Lathrop, president of the Nebraska state
Teachers association. which will meet
here November 8, and 10, has written
10 the publicity bureau of the CONNER
cial club that the public schools of Schuy'
Ter, Neigh, South Omaha, Auburn. West
Point, Edgar and Havelock will close
during the convention to allow all teach
ers to attend.
Barnard Pheasants Costly-Tony Ma
loney and Don Franco went hunting for
rabbits Sunday morning Packing re"
boxes of shells into grip they hleo
themselves to a spot about ten YARDS
from the detention home and waited for
rabbits. The cottontails failed to appear
SO the feathered family came in for their
share of the shot. Both men were ar
rested They were fined 81 and costs
= each in police court Monday morning
and their guns taken away from them
Four Thousand Cattle Mechanically
H R Norris assistant state veterinarian
announced Monday that cattle along tn
Big Papio have been vaccinated agains
anthrax and there is little possibility o
further spread Of the disease. About AOO
cattle have been vaccinated. Dead cattl
are being buried under lime and four fee
of earth or burned. There is no DANCE
now said DR.. Morris. and there VII
be none If the farmers continue to tax
the precautions they are now taking"
Mother Wants Hsr son-Mrs. Clar
ence Parsons of Sioux Falls. 5. D.
started a habeas corpus action in distric
court Monday to secure the relase
her 6-year- old son, william Henry Arm
old, known as Harry Duncan, from tn
st. James orphan asylum Alter tn
boys father died. some years ago. Mrs
Parsons married a man named Arnold
who left her. Unable to provide HON
for the child, she placed him In the asy
lum. Recently she married Parsons. The
have a good home. she says, and sh
wants the child. but the authorities OF tn
ASYLUM claim she surrendered him I
them, she says. and will not give him UP
Judge Day issued a writ commanding tn
asylum authorities to produce the chill
in court for a hearing october II.