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Show DRASTIC PENALTY. A district judge in Omaha certainly gave the proprietors and owners of the Millard hotel a dose of justice which, if upheld by the supreme court, will put a stop to the sale of intoxicants in such places, even if the bootleggers continue operations. For alleged continual con-tinual violation of the state prohibition law, the court decreed that the hotel should be closed for an entire year; that the furniture be confiscated and sold and the proceeds of the sale turned into the state school fund, and that the proprietors should pay a fine of $300. The Millard was at one time the lead ing hotel of Omaha. It has 300 rooms and enjoyed a good patronage, and the closing order will entail a very heayy loss. But as the hotel has been, raided a number of times, $5000 worth of liquor having been seized upon one occasion, the proprietors evidently considered con-sidered the chance worth taking. Omaha was opposed to prohibition and it may be that the judges were expected to "wink the other eye." The judge .in this particular case, however, appears to think that law-s are enacted to be enforced by the courts. At any rate, the penalty he imposed upon the Millard Mil-lard hotel should be taken as a warning warn-ing that it is by no means safe to violate vio-late the Nebraska prohibition law, even in Omaha. |