Omaha daily bee., 1897-06-26
STATE PRINTING CONTRACT
Board Finally Awards Part of the Work to
Woodruff Dunlap Company.
SUPREME COURT RtcoGN'z.D At LAST
Division Made of the Job and the
work PnrceIcd out Among the
Lowest Bidders
Each Kind.

LINCOLN, June 25--tspec.aLJ-Whcn the
supreme court rendered its decision in the
Woodrun-Dunlap printing case. ava ding the
contestants the right to do that part of the
state printing for which they had put in the
lowest bid, the State Printing board con-
cludcd to recognize the judgment Of the
court without waiting for a writ Of man
damus. The attorney general at once COM
merced to draw up a contract for the Wood
run Dunlap company to sgn 10 accordance
with the bid originally made by tnat com
pauy. Then come disagreement arose among
the members Of the board and the matter
was allowed to stand until today. when the
auditor secretary of state and deputy at.
torney general got together and decided to
have the contract drawn at once, and Deputy
Attorney General Smith drew up the neces-
cary papers tais afternoon. The Wood uf-
Dunlap company at last got the contract for
which they have fought in three courts.
The case had It's origin when In bidding for
the printing Of state supplies ana number
of departmental reports Jacob North & Co.
bid lowest Oh the whole amount, while on
part OF the work the Woodruff Dunlap com
pany was lowest. The latter n.m brought
suit to obtain the contract on that part Of
the work for which 1t had put In the lowest
bid and is at last successful 1t is under.
TODD that Mr. MosCrvG. one OF the members
OF the State Printing board, does not favor
the drawing OF the contract which was or
dercl today, but as he was absent from the
city today. his reasons could not be learned.
The state bank Of Dewitt was incor-
pordted today. Ii has capital stock Of So
600. The ncorpuratOIs are Theodore II. NIL
ler r.. Il. Butler, G. W. Kibble, O. b. An
derson and Robert Thomas The list of OF
ficers Of the new institution is not yet fled.
Land Commissioner Wolfe is at Greeley
whore bp yyil M n
auction number Of school land leases,
which have been forfeited.
Notarics public Commissioned today are:
Theodore Wolfe, Creston; Harry +. Bush.
Holdregc; c. +. Andeisbery, Minden.
A pamphlet giving the state laws providing
for inspection Of oils has been issued by j.
ii. Edmlston, chief inspector The printing
was done in an Office owned by one Of the
deputy inspectors and the contract was not
let by the State Printing Board.
LINCOLN LOCAL NOTES.
Charles Thomas, lG-yC ar old boy residing
at 1045 North Seventeenth street fell from
bicycle this morning and broke his left
arm.
Evangelist Culls is holding revival meet
ings in a big tent which has been set
up on the High school grounds. The meet
ings are attracting large crowds. a chorus
led by Mre p " NJ. Raymond is one of
the features
Jules Lumbard sang at an entertainment
at Lincoln Normal this evening
The county commissioners ATE setting as
board of equalization and a number of peo-
pie appeared today and protested against
their assessment. among them being Il. E.
Brown, X. e. Moore, f. Z. Johnson of the
Columbia National bank and II. s. Burnhan,
OF the American Exchange bank. The board
meets again tomorrow.
Tho Fire and Police commission war Is
still on. Another meeting was held today
and the commission decided to retain Night
Captain Otto and Detective Rouzhan
These two were notified and concluded to ac-
cept commissions under the new board. 1t
is understood that most of the force i,
slated for removal, and that another de.
mand will be made tomorrow for posses
sion of the Police department
The county teachers institute closed today
after a successful session.
Omaha people at the hotels; At the Lin
dell-Charles Jewell, Ed Fairchild p. d.
Quick, j. G. Lumbard. At the Lincoln
j. M. Tompkins