Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-06-08
FRAT BROTHERS IN TROUBLE
Wesleyan Students Accused of Raid.
ing Hen Roost for Everett
Dinner.
MAY BE END OF THE SOCIETY
trrom a stnff Correspondent


LINCOLN. June 7.--tspccial. members
of the Everett society. the male fraternity
at the Wesleyan university at University
Place will probably be without a fra
ternity house at the beginning OF the next
term OF school all because some OF the
members carrying out the inherited love
OF their Methodist fathers for yellow
leg chicken. went out the other night and
raided q hen roost and appropriated sew
eral of tho birds and proceeded to par
ticipate in n feast at the fraternity house
The serious part of the whole affair lies
IN the fact that the fraternity sponsor
was invited In 20 dinner and asked a
blessing on the fruit OF the nights raid.
Now he Ia giving the boys another kind
OF blessing and the result Is that several
OF the fraternity men have postponed
going homo for a week until the Wes-
leyan board holds n meeting and investi-
gates the trouble.
The boys were unfortunate In that they
cut off the heads OF the chickens at the
roost and a trail Of blood was followed
Go the back door OF the fraternity house.
80 that the evidence appears conclusive
that the appetite for chicken was their
undoing. The result Ia an official edict to
abolish the fraternity house, 30 It Is said.
DrOOmc Buys Paper.
Word has been received by friends OF
Representative Frank Broome OF Alliance,
who served In the last legislature. that
he has bought the Alliance News and will
again take up newspaper work. Mr.
Broome has been connected with the
newspaper business In Alliance for many
years and. like a lot OF other scribes,
cannot break off the habtl
Paved Roads Into Lincoln.
Extension OF paving which win be OF
interest 20 good roads boosters IL liable
to take place In Lincoln this summer.
petitions being out for the extension OF
the road which now runs about a mile
west of the city on o street TO Capital
Reach. five miles farther west. 10 the
town OF Emerald. Property owners along
the proposed district are said 20 be en-
thusiastio over the proposition. which
should insure It's construction. The paw
ing will he OF brick. eighteen feet wide.
Another petition IL out TO pave East D
street from Wyuka cemetery. a mile and
a quarter farther east. which will make
a continuous line east and vest on o
street about ten miles.
Much building LA sight.
The prospect for much building M the
capital city this year appears to be good.
Building permits issued in May exceeded
by $500 600 those for May last year, while
this month one permit has been granted
for extensive improvements TO the old
Burr block. now the Security Mutual
Building, at Twelfth and o streets. in the
amount OF $4,000 During the repairs
the Central National bank. Of which DIR.
p. L, Hall is president, will take up
temporary quarters few doors east OF
the present location.
Grand Jury Probe In LOuD.
Judge Hanna, one Of the judges of the
Eleventh Judicial district. has notified
Attorney General Reed that . special
term Of court has been called and
grand jury summoned to inquire Into
the death OF Roy Fox. shot and killed
by Benjamin Galbraith last November.
After an investigation by r. q. Hawxby.
under direction OF Attorney General
Reed. the latter has come TO the conclu-
sion that the killing of Fox was I'M
iustlfiabie The county attorney had
not been very anxious to prosecute the
case and the county officials did not
httHi 10 Whnt 10 DodI inc expense OF
trial The murder occurred in Loup
county
Alimony n Real Claim.
In little more than a month the new
law punishing husbands who refuse 20
pay court judgments for the support OF
their children will go into effect The
bill bears the emergency clause in the
title but does not carry it in the body.
80 that 1t does not go into effect until
three months after it's approval by the
sovernor. II first provided a penalty
for failure of husbands to pay alimony
to wives divorced when the courts had
made the order but that part was
stricken out and the bill only applied
TO children when passed.
The bill provides for a Jail punishment
Of from three 10 elk months, but is
somewhat OF a negative nature because
Of the wording which stipulates that
failure to pay without good cause
shall work the penalty. The bill was
passed Ia the house but killed In the
senate. Afterwards, IL was revived in
tho senate because Of personal work on
the part Of a Lincoln woman whose hus-