Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-29

nothing to say when called upon to speak.
The fact that the County Board OF Equal
ization had knocked on 100000 from the
valuation Of real estate has not been talked
about very much by the people OF Lincoln,
In fact was not generally known. The
board stood pat or its increase.
Insurance Man Forfeita Bond.
A clever arrest made yesterday evening
by Constable Bnyou enriched the county
Of Lancaster 500 this morning and Incl
dentally made A T. Rector, alleged to be
the gent for the Underwriters Of Chicago.
postpone trip to the coast for few
hours and caused him to jump the town
between suns, forfeiting his bond Rector
was arrested on a Pullman car just as
he was leaving Lincoln. on a charge Of
doing an insurance business for a firm
which had not been granted license TO
do business In Nebraska Insurance Deputy
Pierce heard the man was In town late
yesterday afternoon, consulted with the
attorney general and then had County At
torney Tyrrell swear out the warrant. BY
this time H. lacked only a few minutes
until train time and Pierce knew Rector
was heading west He described the man
TO Bilyou, the constable, and the latter
hustled TO the train and grabbed his man.
Mr.. Pierce stood in the background
block away, and when he saw the officer
and prisoner coming up the street kept
out Of sight 80 ne wouldn't have to iden-
tify the man. or for some other reason.
Rector promptly put up a bond for 400
signed by Walter Davis and this morning
when ne WIS to appear before Justice Ste
vens he was not in town He had secured
Davis by a check for 800. Mr.. Pierce
claims the company Rector represents has
shared several contracts for insurance
| ranging from $4,000 up, consequently he
was very anxious to prosecute the case.
The bond given by Rector was forfeited.
Contractors Are All Busy.
Only one bid was received by the State
Normal board for the construction Of the
library building at the Peru Normal school,
! so the board today rejected this bid, which
was made by Joseph Sparks OF St Joseph.
/ and then decided that instead Of adver-
| Using in the newspapers for bids 1t would
have the secretary write to a number of
| contractors and ask for bids. II will be
understood that the time of receiving bids
has been extended until August Is. A
| number of contractors with whom the
| members Of the board talked said they
were too busy to undertake the erection
of the building at this time. Consequently
the contractors will be given to under
stand that It will not be necessary to com
plete the building until next August.
The matter of the lapsing of the appro'
priatIons August 81 is causing the board
some worry and today the members re-
ouested an opinion from the attorney gen
eral about the matter.
Janke Gets New Trial.
Warden Beemer went to Alliance thi
morning with Janke, whose sentence to {
life term in the penitentiary was reversed
by the supreme court recently, and tn
man was given a new trial. The cour
held there was no evidence upon whicl
to convict Janke. He was sentenced 70
a murder on the testimony Of a man VIII
claimed to have been an accomplish.
Peru Wants New DOrLAitOry.
Its a ten-to-one shot that the next legis
; lature will be called upon for an appropria
ton to build an additional dormitory a
the Peru normal school. Superintendent
, Crabtree and Tom Majors, members o
the normal board, have been telling tn
board they needed such addition 70
} some time, and today Superintendent
r Thomas of the Kearney normal said h
, had received a halle dozen letters fror
people in the district rghtfully covere