Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-19
Wife of Farmer, Recently Elected Justice Of Peace
Rules That Only She and Hubby Are "Squires,"
After Little Son Insists to Be One of the
"Squires", Too. :
"Squires" Too.

/ ana foSter5r Ag0uglaS, 40 keep tnem
out Of parliamentary tangies.
Speaker Daily, TOO, is very efficient,
and is helping the house to find it
self.
Among the men who are show
ing marked ability in debate and
parliamentary practice are Miller.
Washington; Behrens, Cunning; Nc
Leod, Colfax; Mcclellan, Hall; Nc
Laughlin, Hall, and the two Greens,
Barton and ]. Reid, Lancaster.
Osterman, Merrick, democratic
leader, is 1evel-headed member, of
great ability and despite being the
minority representative, has consid-
cradle influence.
Schmidt, Saunders, non-partisan
spokesman in the house, is more of a
conservative than it was imagined
he would be and so far his talks on
the floor have been listened to with
respect.
Members from the southeastern
part ofsthe state are chuckling over
curioiis.a situation that exists at
Peru. Itisconstantly called to their
attention wien. they see Col. Tom
Majors and Ellis Good in the lobby
of the Lindell'hotel.
Majors andt Good are leaders in
their respective republican factions
in Peru. -
Recently the democratic postmas-
fer Of Perm was removed and both
the Majors and the Good factions
have candidates for the vacancy. The
candidates, like the leaders, are re-
publicans.
The peculiar thing is that in
democratic presidential administra-
ton the local democrats of Peru
have no voice in the choice and their
democratic candidate does not seem
to stand a ghost of a show. The two
republican factions seem to have
captured the ears of Postmaster
General Burleson and he is deaf to
democratic pleas.
Representative George A. Bird
sail of Thayer county, is very much
puzzled over. a communication he
received from a constituent, H.
Schabaker, pastor of the Lutheran
church. at Friedensan, near Hebron.
The clergyman wrote in regard to
the bills which deal with the Amer
icanization of the parochial schools
to the effect: "We have a parochial
school, but. not a German school,
for. all secular branches are taught
and have been taught for over 20
years, in the American language.
80 fat, SO good" was the COM
ment 81 Birdsall, "but this is what
gets my goat. The reverend gem
rt1eman~ also writes: The German
language lis only used for instruc-
ton in English"
''Ife has either let the cat out of
the bag or he has committed an
Irish bull by Teutonic processes OF
thought
One Of the last official acts q
former SGovernor Neville, who is
now luxhriating in the ttopic breezes
of Florida, with his family, was to
commute the indeterininate sentence
of Lemuel -Goldsberry, one, of the
oldest and most interesting con-
victs in the state penitentiary.
GoIdsberry, who is eighty, was a
civil war veteran and had served
term in the Kansas penitentiary for
manslaughter. About sixteen years
ago the anti-horse thief association,
Of Butler county, Missouri, sent its
detectives to Nemaha county, in this
state, where Goldsberry had located
and they found that he was receiv-
ing herds of horses stolen from Mis-
souri, and Kansas by the largest and
best organized gang of horse thieves
which ever operated in that section.
Through thesinflueRce Of the But
Ter county men, a. confederate of
.Goldsberry, named White, was par
doned from the Missouri peniten-
itiafy so he could give evidence for
the stale IN the trial in Nemaha
county.
Goldsberfy was convicted of hav-
ing received stolen property with
guilty knowledge and was one of the
first men in the state to have been
successfully prosecuted under the
conspiracy act provided for in the
present statutes.
II is this same statute that Berka,
Of Douglas county, seeks to have
made effective in its application to
auto stealing in order that automo-
bile thieves can be more successfully
prosecuted. Applied to horse steal
ing it broke up the last big organized
gang that ever operated in the
states of Kansas, Missouri and Ne
braska.