Omaha daily bee., 1897-09-19
SCHOOL LAND LAW In DOUBT
Pawnee County Parties Intend Bringing a
Test iuit.
lrAsGHoLDEFs RIGHT TO PURCHASE
Main Feature of the Ncw statute
Attacked as Unconstitutional by
the Holder of an AssIsncd
Contract.

LINCOLN, Sept. 1S.-(Special) 1.-THE con-
stltulionality Of the new school land law is
to be tested in the courts, the preliminary
steps to that end having been made by Con-
ley q Fulton, attorneys Of Pawnee City.
They will bring the case In the name Of
T. Patterson Of Pawnee county, who resides
on some school land and desires to buy It,.
Their contention will be that a man holding
lease Of land under the old law also had
the right TO buy the land from the state,
20 that so long as he holds the lease the
right to purchase cannot be taken from him
by legislative enactment The new law
provided that after July ., 1897, the sale of
school lands should cease. When the new
suit was brought to the attention OF the
land commissioner it was asccrtained that
the land held by Patterson was in another
mans name, an assignment made some
years ago not having been recorded, and
the full record will have to be made before
Patterson can 20 ahead with the suit. II
Is learned similar cases have been talked
of from other parts Of the state, but the
PaWuce parties are the first to make q de-
cidcd move towards testing the new law.
The Co-Opcrative Creamery company of
Rlverton. with a capital stock of s., 500 has
filed articles of incorporation, The stock
holders are Isaac Stephenson, T. n. Moore
and Eugene Hu-ter.
TROUBLE OVER 4 CONTRACT.
The State Printing Board held meeting
yesterday afternoon to consider the bill of
the State Journal company for the printing
OF 1000 copies of volume xix, Nebraska
State Reports The amount claimed was
sl,D24 for the printing and S17 for thirty-four
hours overtime in making corrections. The
board decided to disallOw the bill. This was
done In order to compel the Journal company
to bring suit for the collection of the claim.
and thereby prove in court whether or not
there is binding contract between the com
pany and the state for the printing of the
reports Two years ago the State Printing
Board let the contract to the Journal com
pany for the printing of eight volumes of
the supreme court reports The present
board at a meeting last spring decided that
in making such a longtime contract the old
board exceeded it's authority and a move
was made to advertise for bids. The
journal company got out an injunction to
prevent the board from advertising for bids.
The action of the board yesterday will com
pei the Journal to prove that a printing
board may make contracts that will be bind
ing in regard to work that comes up during
the administration of a future board.
The silver republican wing of the fusion
party has filed design of its emblem at the
office Of the secretary of state. 1t is a picture
of a bell with crack in one side. and the
word Liberty" printed across near the lower
design was printed is also on file 1t is a
trine over one and one-half inches in hight.
The silver republicans have not yet filed
their certificates of nomination
The supreme court bar docket containing
the assignments for the September term has
been issued The first sitting Of court will
be Tuesday, September 81 when the follow
ing cases will be called Wells against
Stcckelberg, Baird against WoOdard. Chicago
Burlington .& Quincy Railway Company
Mol. elyo n.r aiY,-t ito
Rema against State, Musser against State.
Mills against State, Musser against State,
against Moores, State eX rel BroatCh against
Moorcs, Whitney against state, State eX rel
Smyth against Magney, BARLEY against
State, Hurlburt against State, Granger
against State. KaZda against State, Johnson
against State, Fisher against State, McKin-
ley-Lanning Investment Company against
Hamer (three cases., Slobodisky against
Phoenix Insurance Company, Wainwright
against Satterfeld, Andersen against Bee
man, Hubbard against knight. Anheuses-
Busch Brewing Association against HieF,
Mckee against Baintor, Cunningham against
Walrath, Gretna State Bank against Grabow,
Lapp against Ferbracher Frey against Cur
It's, Gillian against Hayden, Ferguson against
State.
LINCOLN LOCAL NOTES.
The new long distance telephone line be-
tween Lincoln and Chicago was opened to
the public today.
At the last meeting of the city school
board the rate Of tuition FOR residents of
Lancaster county, outside of the city, was
fixed at 81 per month in the High school and
81 per month in the graded schools. The rate
will be 81 higher than this for students from
outside the county
At about noon today 1t was noticed that
the air was full Of grasshoppers, the cloud
of flying insects being so thick as to obscure
the sun for a time. None of them were
observed to light in this locality
The principals OF the different schools OF
the city have been holding meetings every
day this week, the purpose being to school
the teachers in the new systems of read
ing and arithmetic adopted by the board
this summer, and to make other prepara-
tions for the opening of the schools. which
occurs next Monday
John H. Farwell a Lincoln boy has been
appointed private secretary OF United States
Consul McGill at Tampico Mex, and will
leave for the south November /.
Miss Louise Pound, the tennis champion,
arrived home from Chicago yesterday even
ing
Church Howe has been here this week at
tending the reunion He expects to sail from
New York about october !, and will go di-
rect to Sicily to assume his duties.
Prof. II. X. Wolfe, late OF the University
of Nebraska, will lecture at the Unver-
salist church tomorrow forenoon. his subject
being Hall Gaines new book "The Chris
tiau."
BEGINNING next Monday evening there will