Omaha daily bee., 1885-07-09
The Railroad Commissioners Backward
in Their Work.
Faults Found With the System
Of Census Compilation.
State Boards do a Little Work That is
Free From the Taint OF Jobs
and Jobbing.
AT THE STATE CAPITOL.
GENERAL NEWS,

Mr.. Gere Is attending the assembly meet
Ing at Crete and Mr.. Cowdy Is laid NJ
with a badly cut hand, The wound wa
received during q hail storm. There are
several accidents needing investigation.
The commission have notified the rail-
roads by circular letter that they must
comply with section IL of the law, which
provides that the railroad companies skall
give immediate notice to the commits.
sloners upon the occurrence of an
accident.
The census bureau is very busy with
their work, hoping to complete 1t In time
to secure the $32, 600 which Is partly
promised on the consideration that they
comply with Instructions from Washing.
ton. 1t is not known that an appropria-
, ton has been fully made. There seems
' to be a difference between making an sp-
propiation and saying that upon the
states complying with certain require
ments they shall be entitled to such an
amount of money. 1t also seems q little
peculiar that the entire report must go to
Washington before the people of this
state can have an official knowledge of
the returns. A difference of two months
Is considerable to localities which can
profit by q liberal advertisement of their
increase. Certainly If the enumeration
has Been carefully taken 1t will give to
the state not less than Go, 900 inhsbit-
ants. All but thirty-eight of the port
folios are now in, and all but about one
hundred and fifty have been paid for.
There are now thirty-slx clerks busy
copying On them.
At a meeting Of the state beard on
Tuesday the building Of the Insane hos
pital was awarded. Mr.. King, of Brook.
Ign, Iowa, for $64, 1856 being the lowest
bidder, he was no ihed to appear with his
bond. There is little doubt but that
some of the Nebraska builders tried to
put up q scheme to scare the board into
rejecting the bids from Iowa, In order
that they might have q fat take, as they
have frequently had before, and there Ia
every reason to believe hat MIR. King
will promptly furnish the required bond
and 60 ahead with the building.
i" The board of public lands and build
ings have complied with an act of the last
legislature authorizing them to lease for
stock yards purposes 560 acreu of the land
belonging to the permanent school fund.
Said lease was completed Tuesday and
work at the Lincoln stock yards is being
pushed to an early completion.
The ~lessees of the salt lands have agreed
to give to the board an unconditional sur
render of the lease now held by them In
preference to having the attorney gen.
!, eral proceed against them to cancel the
lease and it Is understood q new organIz-
alton will be effected and make applica-
ton to the board for a lease of the front
age In compliance with the act CT last
winter. A portion Of the nallue lands will
be advertised and sold to create the fund
for improvements provided for under the
law.
John Sprecker, who for some time past
has been principal of the public schools at
Norfo X, has recently been secured as
teacher for the reform school at Kearney.
The trees in the capitol grounds are
being trimmed up In fine shape, giving
the grounds quite q respectable appear
ance.
1t begins to look as though the slate
board, which have been 80 successfully
manipulated at divers times by the rings
and jobbers In state property and apprO.
prlstionF, had swoke to new Ideas. This
is visible in the salt lands and Norfolk In
san asylum scaemes. At any rate in
these two deals, thus far, the schemes
have been frustrated by the board,
and the state will receive the
full benefit as intended by the action of
the Legislature, regardless of the Nebraska
contractors or foreign jobbers.
Luntzer, who has figured prominently
II the police court for the past several
years, and who was taken from church
Sunday morning charged with arson, had
a hearing Tuesday night before Justice
Brown, and was remsnded to jail to
swait the action Of the next grand jury,
The new street railway company have
somewhat altered their plans and are now
laying racks on Tenth street from M to
G streets, instead OF on Eleventh atreet,
1t is learned from parties just in from
the west, that five miles north of Lodge
Pole q well was bored and an abund-
ance Of good water obtained at seventy
six feet. Several other wells will imme-
dlately be pat down In that vicinity.
In the supreme court, In the case of
State ex rel. Charles L. Ressey vs.. Ell.
Babcock, auditor, In which complainant
prays the cours to issue q mandsmus ON
peiiibR tno huollOr W ibhue us WdEIdut
for $3.50 for the use of a botanical gar.
den, the court denied the writ, holding
in substance that the board of regents of
the university have no power to disburae
the moneys arising from the three
eighths mill tax, nor from rents or inter.
eat arising from sales of either the uni
yerslty or agricultural college lands,
This would seem to be rather q serious
matter to the university, and the matter
will quite likely be called to the atten-
ton of the United States attorney gen
eral.
Among the days arrivals were, T.
Weed and wife, Sutton; Z, d. Blanchard,
Seward; ID. Collins, Nebraska City; j.
A. Flemming, w. ii. Payne, Omahs;
NJ. Wolfe, Unsdills; @. McCrusp, Ssroms.
burg; O. p. Stewart, Sam Wolf,
Chicago; w. K. Haxteen, K~swanee,
ILL., r. Spencer, Burlington, Neb
the Hon. O. K. Higinbotham, Hastings;
E. Z. Whaley, Loup City; O. A. w.
Harvey, Seward George L. Park, Gin
c%innAti; John N. Carsops, Brownvllle
w. G. Albright, A. d. Schemerhorn,
Fred Metz, S. X. Feltop, Omaha; O.
M. Murdoch, Wymore; A. r. Rose,
York; M. Mitchell, Arspahoe; j. II.
Ford, Sterling, John Cox, Nebraska