Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-15
ASK THE COURT TO DECIDE
Company Appeals from the State Printing
Boards Decision.
COSTS SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS EXTRA
Litigation Grows out of Difference
of Opinion RrtWcCn Public ON
ciEIs ana Those Interested in
Doing the work.

LINCOLN, Dec 1i.-(Spccial TclcEram)-
The Woodruff Dunlap state printing troubl,
will land in the supreme court tomorrow
There was final meeting OF the state Print
ing board held this evening at the Office o
the secretary Of state. The full board was
present, consisting Of State Auditor
Moore, chairman; Treasurer BARLEY
and Secretary of State Piper. In
the competition for printing the
biennial reports of the various state OIL
cials, the Woodrur-Dunlap company was
given six out of the sixteen reports for
which bids were submitted, The rest were
! divided between Jacob North and the State
! Journal company. In comparing the average
of bids the Woodruff Dunlap company dis
| covered that on the whole lot they were 4
! triNe under the other bidders On this aC-
| count they claimed the printing OF the whole
! sixteen reports. The State Printing board,
at its last meeting refused to Concode this
| Today Judge j. H. Broadly appeared before
! the board and again urged the claims of the
! Woodruff Dunlap company. Finally he said
| he would mandamus the board to compel
| II to give his client the job. Chairman
| Moore accepted service of the writ and the
| matter goes to the court In a verbal opin-
| ion given today by Attorney General Church
! i'll, on request of the board, he holds that
under the statute the Woodruff Dunlap com
| pany has the right to claim the whole six
| teen reports
EXTRA COST TO THE STATE.
Secretary of State Piper said tonight that
should they be awarded to them IL will cost
the state $1,000 more than it would in the
division made by the board.
The supreme court will sit tomorrow for
the last time in the September term II
ic pOpgiIprad 1ilyp1y that ha of bn
legality of the guarantee bonds will be sub
mitted to this court during this weeks sit
ting Decisions are also expected in the case
of the State against Morgan, sentenced to
hang in Omaha, and also the sugar bounty
cases.
Governor H. L. Mitchell of Florida has
written Governor Holcomb informing him
that the Board of Trade of the city of Or
lando Fla. has called a National Good Roads
congress, to be held in that city, February
,, 1897. He requests Governor Holcomb to
appoint delegates from Nebraska to attend
the same. The names of such delegates are
to be forwarded to w. A. White, executive
officer of the Orlando Board of Trade.
FARMERS HAVE A COMPLAINT.
Governor Holcomb has transmitted to the
State Board Of Transportation a petition
signed by\citizens of Brock, johnson county,
Ncb., in relation to the alleged inability of
.armerS to secure cars on the Missouri Pa
2ifc railroad with which to ship their grain.
The governor requests the board to make an
investigation and secure for the complain
ants as much relief as the circumstances may
demand. The petition, signed by fourteen
citizens, is as follows, addressed to the gov
eTnor:
"Wc, the farmers in the vicinity of Brock.
are being Disseminated against by the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad. with regard to obtain
Ing cars to ship our grain. The agent here
II. Norton, does not refuse us cars. but saws
cars are scarce. At the same time he gets
cars for the elevator men here | ordered
three cars to ship my own wheat in, but
could not get them. | at the depot
every time freight train came in for four |
and half days, but received no cars. / had !
10 sell my grain to the elevator men at their !
price. is there no redress for us farmers ,
If there is. please let us know as soon as
possible. Please inform me when | can get
the desired railroad laws in regard to private
individuals ordering and obtaining cars to
ship their own grain. | am Crcdibly in
formed that the elevator men have all pooled
with Mr.. Dun of Syracuse as president and
that the commission men are threatened with
boycott II they give us track bids. Where I
viii this thing end? | own 24O acres of
land in high OF state cultivation paid for).
WILSON WAKELIEN."
Secretary DilwoIth of the Board of Trans
pOgtatiOn says that the railroad complained
Of has been requested to explain matters
Ghe same trouble has been experienced before
With other roads.
POPS ISSUE AN ADDRESS.
The executive committee of the pcDuliat
state central committee held meeting this
afternoon at the oiice of the Bureau of
Industrial Statistics, An address was issued
to the populsts of the state urging them to
send delegates to the meeting of Bimetallic
leagues to be held in Lincoln January g.
1897. The basis of repre- sentatiOn was fixed
ut three from each county and one additional
for each 1000 votes cast in the county for
w. J. Bryan.
On motion of the county attorney the
complaint against Mrs. Lucy Scott who shot
her husband, Charles Scott Was dismissed
this morning by Judge Walters. The county
attorney is satisfied that the shooting was
lone in self-defense and decided not to put
the county to the expense of trying Mrs
Scott. which would probably result in her
lcquittal This action does not bar the
county attorney from filing new complaint
should the wounded man die. His condition
his morning was somewhat improved but
it is still prCcarous.
Judge Hall has overruled the motion of
he defendants in the Moss-State journal
libel suit to quash the deposition of Edna
soidell taken at Fremont last month
Omaha People in Lincoln: At the L.indell-
George Cott, A. S. Churchill At the Lin
Irvine +. Lehman, Miss Myrtle
Coon, Miss Kate Klustch, Eyus Bsnning-
loyen.