Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-11-17
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matter Of knocking out the biennial re-
port of the state board of irrigation. JUST
at this time this report is more import
ant than heretofore because OF II" I'M
| mense amount of money that the itderau
| government intends to spend IN this
| state in irrigation projects. In SON" OF
| the states the government has requested
| that irrigation boards be appointed where
they are not known. in order to assist
| with the work Considerable money has
been spent in securing the data for the
report and unless the printing board re-
| sends its action this data viii find 4 rest
ing place in the pigeon holes of the Office
/ Should the board remain Obdurair. how
ever. the next legislature will BE- c:illeG
upon to take some action. for the report
| means much to the western counties OF
the state. The report would make about
| 300 pages. In the meantime the labor
| bureau will publish bulletin and 49, Soon
| as that is off the press it will publish
| biennial report containing much "a the
same matter and much infOmatiu:: that
could be secured in the report Of IL" aud
| itOr. But il is the fault of the Ia " gov
erning the printing OF reports r,orr than
it is the fault of the state printing board
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\ little dark red bull calf to III" value
of S1O'' is caiising Jacob Crockfo..!, Of
Mcpherson County, lots of trouble. Ac-
cording to the decision of a jury IN the
Mcpherson district court CrockfoTd. with
Freddie Cogger. appropriated this little
dark red bull calf to their own use with
out the aid or consent Of the owner. +.
II. Fowlcs When FOWIcS found out
about it he had them both arrested
CrOckford asked for Il separate trial unc
he was tried on two charges. one for
grand larceny and the other for receiving
stolen property. On the first charge he
was sentenced 10 the pCnitentiary for one
year, though on the second charge he
was found not guilty. His attorneys
claim the judge was in error when he
allowed the second Indictment To stand
and be submitted to the jury, * there
was no evidence to substantiate it. anC
for that reason they have asked tho su-
preme court to give Jacob second rnn
for his money.
The establishment of a school At tine
state penitentiary seems now TO be as
suIed and before many months have
passed The convicts viii have been Ell
rolled as students. Secretary John Da-
Wis of the state board of charities and
corrections, who has been working NJ
sentiment for the school. stated recently
that a meeting of the Interested parties
would be held Nov. - ard plans for the
school finally adopted The cells will be
lighted with electric lights and the con
victs will be allowed to study at night
The c1nvicts who are capable of teaching
VIII be pressed into service as instruct
Ors The penitentiary already has Il H.
brary of 1,2O0 volumes and the number
will be increased along with the starting
Of he school,
he gas company at Lincoln has IN
amuck with public sentiment once iuorc.
by violating the agreement entered into
some months ago that it would cut - {
rate for gas to 81 20 per 1000 cubic feet
The agreement was to take effect Oct. /.
and the bills have begun to come around
to gas users, who find to their aSt0nish-
ment that they will be required to pay
the old rate of $50 unless they send il
their money before the 9th of the month.
The result has been that u popular upris-
ing among the several thousand users Of
gas is threatened, and citizens are al
ready threatening to order their meters
out.
At the close of business Nov. The
money in the permanent school fund re-
manning uninvested was just So. 900 less
that it was tie previous day. when
Treasurer MOrtensen made his monthly
statement At that time there UaS SIC
1916 in the fund. Nov. > =" bought
$4,000 worth OF Saunders County bonds.
which leaves the money Of this faad az
most as it was at the first Of the mo.
when 1t contained not n cent invest,
The report of State Treasurer Morten-
sen, filed with Auditor Weston Tuesday
evening, shows that he has on hand in all
funds 1927, 1861, of which amount
S2to,949.93 belongs to the temporary
school fund and only $iG.1S7.46 belong.
to the permanent school fund. At the
beginning Of the month he had on hand
in all funds S233. O19j2: received during
the month. $223,S1643; paid out. Sl29
1894
Miss Alice Mae Houston, of Lincoln
was appointed assistant state librarian
by the supreme court. Miss Houston
was employed as a stenOgra pher by the
last legislature. The list of applicants
was large. The position pays 5000
year salary.
The water collections for October. inst
now turned into the city treasury.
amounted TO S11.71O12. the largest
amount ever collected i'll any one month
More than 81 ,OCO of this was for waite,
rentals. During the last month 4 sre-
;ial effort was made to collect back
rentals and this has accounted for tb.
arge increase over previous months.
State Treasurer Mortensen has isSuaf
| call for 100000 worth of Warmly
numbered from 104343 to 1O5O4G. 7
are to be delivered Nov. IL
The Nebraska football team Nov
lpOn its return from Minnesota. receiroa
he wplcoOa of vic.ore S.,Ie.. =,