Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-12
FOR CAMPAIGN
Republican State Committee TO Meet in
Lincoln Tuesday, May 20.
FINES RUN HIGH ON ADVERTISING MAN
Governor Mickey Expects to Take Up
Omaha Police Board Matters
a. soon as strike f.
Over.
Trom a star correspondentl

over.
From a Stan Correspondent
LINCOLN, May n.-CSpeciaL)-The Re
publican state COMMITTEES has been called
TO meet at the Linderl hotel in Lincoln
on Tuesday. May Is, 1908, at s O'Clock D. m,
for the purpose Of fixing the time and place
Of holding the next state convention, APP
portioning delegates and ~transacting gen
eral business. The state convention will
nominate a candidate for supreme Judge
and two candidates for regents Of the state
university.
Fines Pile Up.
r. II. Cone, who represents an eastern
coffee concern. in an attempt to show the
people OF Lincoln that his coffee was the
best on the market has subjected himself
TO fines a~ggregating $4,000. To do all this
Mr.. Cone got up bright and early on sew
eral mornings and plastered most of the
poles around town with his advertisements.
The City Improvement society swooped
down on Mr.. Cone and dragged him into
court, where the police judge informed him
that by his own confession he was subject
TO fines in the amount stated. Inasmuch
as Mr.. Cone agreed to hustle these signs
down about as fast as he hustled them up
and promised never TO do II again. he was
given until Wednesday TO do it. II It isn't
done then Mr.. Cone will either have to pay
up or sleep It out II the society elects to
force the prosecution.
Police Board Next.
The man who is to take the place OF G. G.
Wright. shortly to resign from member
ship on the Omaha police board, is not
worrying the governor very much at this
time. But as soon as the laor question is
~ HE bonAa 4hFo mill Doraa IN aud tho
man will be named. Another question, that
probably would have received assertion at
the hands Of the governor is the action OF
members of the Omaha police board in
using the members of the police depart
ment during the recent Omaha municipal
election. Before the strike the governor
was much concerned in the matter and in
a conversation he showed plainly that he
was much interested IN the reports of the
actions of members OF the board. 1t would
not be surprising TO many II. after the
labor strike is settled. Governor Mickey
takes a hand In the Omaha police board
affairs with q view to making the police
department what It was intended to be in
stead of a political club.
wants BiII Itemized.
Because he failed to itemize his bill OF
$500 for the execution Of Gottlieb Neigen-
find, Warden Beemer has been requested
10 do so by the Board Of Public Lands and
Buildings, and the bill is held up in the
meantime. Tho statement turned into the
fbbSrd by Mr.. Beemer is for $500 and it is
itemized this way:
Scaffold $50. 90
Expenses. George Stryker:
Hotel 5.g0
BAKERY OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. a.60
Three dai 5 work Observation-Disclosures. 5000
Railroad fare $50
Total sos. so
This. leaves Of the total bill $196. 20 and
nothing to indicate what It was used for,
who got IL or anything about 1t. The claim
was before the board at the last meeting
and il was cent back that the amount could
be itemized.
Statistics OF schools.
The discussion of the erection of a new
Rarmal school and the efforts being made
w various towns throughout the western
portion of the state to secure Its location,
recalls the fact that Nebraska stands at
the head OF the states in educational mat
ters in that 1t has the lowest per cent Of
illiteracy. These excerpts from the report
of the state superintendent may show a
reason for this. The report shows that
Nebraska had at the end of the scholastic
year. July u. 1902, s,s1s schools. OF these
$500 we're frame; brick. S27: stone, 26; log,
121; sod. 4S6. and iron. 3, In 1901 there were
464 sod school houses IN the state out of a
total OF 6,7T3. Many OF these houses were
well finished. nearly all ioored and plas-
tered and many finished around the doors
kand windows on the inside. The iron school
VNhouse is in Johnson county, about five
SNniles from Tecumseh. and II Is said to be
one Of the best country school houses in
the state.
Male teachers last year were paid $685.
$685. and the females drew in salary 50. 207.-
3m.s2. which is not considered so bad. There
were employed 1852 male teachers and 7.767
females. The pupils between 5 and II years
OF age numbered S75. $40. The money avail
able for school purposes was 81, $500, 27. Sc,
land of this sum there remains on hand
EN4ss91L
Plenty of Water for Irrigation.
Secretary Dobson OF the State Board OF
Irrigation has just returned from a trim 10
the irrigated portions OF the state and
brings with him the report that the pros
pect for irrigation this year is brighter
than ever before. He reports that con-
siderable new land has been placed in Gull
tivation and the crops in good condition.
The irrigated country 7 passed through
seemed to be in the best of condition. -
said Mr.. Dobson this morning. The flow
In the streams is even above the normal
and the bitches are all carrying a good
supply Of water. In fact 1 think that In
some cases too much water Is allowed to
iow through the bitches. I saw alfalfa
fields that seemed to be suffering from too
much water in spots
This difhculty win be overcome when
the measuring boxes provided for in a re-
cent law are installed In the bitches, since
this will enable the under secretaries in the
field to determine just how much water
each person is entitled to.
There win be a good many application
for permits for irrigation works this year
continued Mr.. Dobson. Most of them
however. will be for the construction OF
e~mbankments across dry runs and canyons
in order to store mood water. The normal
flow OF the streams has been fully appro,
priated as a general rule and this ten,