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Show 1 J RQSEWATER IN TROUBLE. i I Although tho columns of the Asso-I Asso-I elated Press have had very little to sav nbout It, It Is nevertheless the fact ' that Edward Rosewater, owner and ' I editor of tho Omaha Bee, Is In deep I water is In dire distress. Mrs. Lillian I Alcoe a bright, bonny, buxom, beautl-I beautl-I I!,! blonde-haired, blue-eyed, baby-1 baby-1 faced matron, and her better half, were I stopping at tho Murray Hotel In I Omaha. The pair had come to Omaha I to do some business. Incidentally, it I J may ho said they did do some; that I they secured ?250 from Ilosowator. 1 jirs Algoo sent to Rosewater to come 1 to se0 her, at tho room, as she wanted 1 to consult him about renting space for i a peanut stand and general candy emporium em-porium in tho corridor of tho magniii-cent magniii-cent Boo building at 10th and Farnam. Rosewater went to Room 89 to see about the matter, because Rosewater never overlooks a chanco to talto in the coin. Mrs. Algoo, dear girl that sho Is, pulled down tho window blind so that tho sun wouldn't blind tho eyes of either, and shut tho door to keep out the inaulsltivo. Tho above constellation represents what happened. No matter what it was; let it bo said that the next sceno was tho entrance of tho irate husband, who demanded to know what' Rosewater was doing thoro. Rosewater endeavored to explain that ho was endeavoring to rent a peanut stand, but hubby Algoe would not 11s- Iten to It; declaredyho was no peanut merchant, and so far as ho know, his wife had never been In tho peanut business since their wedding. Ho do-tm do-tm sired to know why In blazes tho bus!-' bus!-' ncss was not transacted down in the parlor, and asked a lot of pertinent ' questions, to tho evident terror or Rosewater, who coughed up the sum ! mentioned. Later Mr. Rosewater wont after his money, which Algoo admitted having spent for tho necessities and luxuries of existence, but ho gavo Rosewater his note for the amount. Then Rosewater had him and his wife arrested for levying blackmail. At tho trial it was brought out in ovldenco that Rosewater had met tho lady before; that ho loaned her a dol- !lar to buy overshoes for her llttlo tootsies, toot-sies, and that at various times ho had assisted her financially. At this- writing we don't know what tho result Is. But wo stand for Rose-water. Rose-water. We do not believe ho wont to tho room of tho lady for immoral purposes, pur-poses, as has been wickedly suggested. Wo think ho went there to rent a peanut pea-nut stand and that tho entire nffair Is an attempt to extort money from him. The Bee says so, and wo bollovo tho Bee. Wo know Rosewater personally. Twenty years ago wo might have thought thero was some truth in th? allegations, because that was tho time-when time-when Rosewater was in his prime. His face was ruddy and his step elastic. His hearing was even kittenish. But during tho last score of years ho ha3 been traveling down tho other sldo of tho hill of llfo and has had other matters mat-ters to think of. Wo bollovo Rosewater Rosewa-ter could provo an alibi; or at least a synonym for an alibi; that ho could demonstrate by tho testimony of expert ex-pert physicians that ho could not havo been guilty. Had Victor been tho chap who was trying to ease tho slto of the j peanut stand, matters would havo been different, because Victor is a follow I with a record and is young. This Is surely a conspiracy, and wo deprecate tho attempt to extort money from this aged, vonorablo and Infirm old man. Tho Algoes ought to bo sent to jail. |