ï~~ n7 I - ---A %-.F %w v HISKY MAY BE 1. -. South Side1 USED As a CURE FOR INFLUENZA City Commissioners Vote " -Give Confiscated "Booze" to Hospitals for Use in Combating Disease. l)o you feel that old, pre-prohibi tioii feeling coniing n? Do you lung for a good stiff drink of whiskv? T1 hen,'-listen! Just call on City Health Coinnission er Manning and tell 'im you feel the "flu" coming on, and he'll give you a bottle of whi sky. Hold t, read a little farther. This is what he would do if he indcrtook to do all that four of thi city Coltuinissioners voted to let hi:n do Friday noriiing. Commissioners Zinitnan, Falconer. Butler and Ure voted to release all the liquor held impounrirl('l in the city iail, for u.e of ilndiviluals or hospitals in figh' ing the "tht."' CommIlissioners Smith, Towl and Ringer voted against it as illegal. Connis.siTier Ziiian imade a speech iii defense o. the action and even admitted that he had violated the strict letter of the law recently in procuring a little whiskv for the sick child oI a man who appealed to him. "I technically violated the law," lie exclainet. "Hcre I am. Arrest me. if you like." liut nobody arrested him and the measure was carried. But will )r. Manning give out whisk,, to individuals who complain of feeling the "flu" coming on? He will not. In loud and ringing tones he answered: "This whisky is for the tuse of hospitals only. Not a single, soli tary exception will be made in that, you may be sure. So the thirsty need not call and try to stall. There is nothing doing. F. J. Ramey Back on the Job; "Flu" Prevents Departure F. J. Ramey vho was to cave left for Camp Kearny last Monday, but whose departure was deferred on account of the "flu," is back at h' old j:b at the Wellington Inn, and will stay there until he receives further orders. When Mr. Ramey was called into the service, the Wellington Inn company presented him with a fine gold w)'ist watch, and Manager Miller furthcr showed his appreciation of lis 'services b giving him a beauti a.... 0.,. - Melady Asks Information About Fixed Ptices on Hogs The great decline in the price of hogs and the varying indifferent markets from the minimum price of which was- reported to have ee xed by an agreement between the f od administratioin and the packe s in Chica 1o, has given rise to so much dissatisfaction that Gene Melady, of the commission firm of Melady Brothers, has written Louis D. Hall, specialist in marketing live stock and meatn in th% bureau of markets in Washington, asking where to draw the line on hogs. When this agreement was re ported to-4iave been made between the food administration and the packers $18 was to be the minimum for October in Chicago for good hogs, giving the purchasers the op portunity to buy hogs at any price and calling the big end of them "common." According to reports yesterday from Chicago, good hogs sold there from $14 to $14.75, with rough grades under. This gives the hog piroducers in this territory the, impression that logs would sell on the Omaha market with the difference in freight between Omaha and Chicago, which would be 25 to 50 cents lower than the minimum agreed upon in Chicago. Mr. Melady asks that the producer be consulted in the fixing of the price if he is expedted to stay in the business of producing hogs, and that some information be sent the local market concerning the -fixed price agreed upon for the month of November, if there is to be any limit placed on the price. Dealers on the Ontaha Live Stock exchange'say the conditions in the hog situation have never been as unsatisfactory as they are at present and feel that some arrangements ought to be mdae to protect the producer. COURT HOU MACHINE V SPITE ON Democrats Ignore F Game and Tear Di Clark's Announ( as Sheriff Can The democratic cour chine has placed a b Clark's campaign car cards and is making effort to tear down Cla fast as posted. It has ary to allow candidat the court house, but in desperate state of mm crats are- ignoring all "civilized political wa Another bit of evik workings of the democ this time may be obserx in the resort to epithe "Whom the gods w, they first make mad," tion used ' a republic, cussing th situation. crats surely are mad. disorganized. I never so berated by his o, 'King' Arthut' Mullen being excoriated. They!en with mussing thing! and they see nothing ahead. That is why t at him. They are rui in circles. I don't lik< folks in distress, bu to keep from laugh situation." Last chance yesterda to correct their registi election contmissioner's election in November. was the last day for fit already registered, t names duly recorded it.t this slection. The ct office was Open it last night. Taxicabs Colid Climb -Steps al Hotel Fric South Side Brevities Mrs. Vincent Hravik of Sarpy county.. died Friday morning, October 2, in the, Lord Lister hospital of Spaitsh li Oienza. She is survived by her husband iid sev' oral children.Funeral arrangements have not been made. A. F. Stryker, secretary and traffic nianager of the Omaha Live Stock exchange, returned Friday morning from a business trip of several days to St. Paul, Minn., and Sioux City, Ia. Real Winter Weather Strikes Nebraska. as, Rn Turns IntO Snow t A taxicab, belonging ha Taxi company, sc stone steps- and lande the entrance to the Fourteenth and Harne day night when it col: other taxicab., The omah" cab w