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Show OMAHA HOTEL CLOSED FOR SELLING LIQUOR Millard, With 300 Eooms, May Not Bo Opened for a Year; Furniture Confiscated. OMAHA, Jan. 27. For alleged continual con-tinual violations of the etate prohibition law, Jurlge Day. In district court, yesterday yester-day signed a decree closing the 300-room Millard hotel In Omaha for an entire year. The furniture and fixtures of tho Millard were ordered confiscated and sold, tlie proceeds from the sale to be given to thn school fund. A fine of S:0o was laid atrnlnat the proprietors of the hotel, t'nder the terms of the court order the building cannot he ued for any purpose wh.-iiever for one year. Before the construction of two new hotels a few years ago, the Millard was the best known hotel in the Blato of Nebraska. Ne-braska. Since the prohibition law went Into effect last May the Millard has been raided a number of times and lienors found each time. One raid resulted In the discovery and confiscation of $S0u0 worm of whisicy. , The closing order runs against all guest rooms, the main lobby and basement. The kitchen and cafe were exeini ted from the eloping order. The' closing of the Millard hotel la tho first case of its kind under the prohibition prohibi-tion law, and Is said to be one of the most drastic penalties ever assessed for violation of any stale liquor law. Tho owner of the building. Rome Miller, will appeal to the uuni-emo court |