Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-10

and San Francisco have one divorce for
every four marriages. He charged that
drunkenness is responsible. He stated that
In Germany. which has the highest divorce
rate Of any continental country. the rate
was l52 TO the 1000 inhabitants, while In
the United States last year the rate was
ss7.
The courts OF chicago granted i.soo d.
vorces last year while Canada granted but
sixty-nine in thirty-siH years" he said.
Cell for warrants.
State Treasurer Mortensen has issued a
call for $4,000 state general fund warrants
running up to and including number l2S,567.
for August IS. This call brings the redemp-
tion UP to warrants issued February 1s,
1904
OmciaIs Go to Coast.
Secretary Of State Galusha with Mrs.
Galusha and family will leave today for a
trip to Portland and other western points.
They will be gone for three or four weeks.
In few days Land Commissioner Eaton
will start on the same trip. Rev. J. II.
Presson, the commandant at Milford, with
Mrs. Presson will leave this afternoon
with the party Of the secretary of state
Representative c. w. Haley Of Webster
county will start for the exposition I'm a
few days, and Governor Mickey is sched-
uled to leave August II. Secretary John
Davis OF the State Board Of Charities has
just returned from the coast after an eN-
tended trip in the interests OF the national
prison congress. Miss Edna Bullock Of
the state library commission has just ar
rived in Lincoln on her return from the
coast Deputy Auditor Cook came back
several weeks ago.
RObbinE school Fund.
Half the value Of the school lands is
lost to the state through local graft or
rather favoriusm," said Land Commits
soner Eaton today. NO, half won't spell
It. 1t is more than that. The appraisers
will give the state the worst end of the
bargain every time. You cannot safeguard
against it either and that fact constitutes
one of the greatest problems with which
we are confronted In this department"
In every part of the state where the state
stil has school lands a large fraction of
the value is lost, he says. because OF the
fact that the county commissioners who
appraise It in the first INSTANCE invariably
place the land at a figure below it's real
value in order 20 favor the buyer. He
says that there is an evident desire to de-
fraud the state school fund Of the true
value in the interest of the individual. They
do not scruple to act in that manner be-
cause they are required to use their best
judgment and they always allow that
| faculty to side with the Individual, as
against the state. During his term, and
that of his predecessor, George NJ. Follmer
| the appraisements were in many instances
subjected to review and new appraisers
were chosen from the freeholders with the
result that large sum was saved to the
school fund, although II was not what II
would have been II the land had been ap-
praised at its full value.
Under the conditions which prevail Eaton
regards this practical fraud on the school
fund one of the greatest problems with
which he has to contend. He has found
that the local people who appraise land
have apparently no conscience which would
intervene in behalf of the general interests
OF the schools Of the state.
| Despondent Youth Takes Poison,
Earl Doggett, % years old, a waiter. de
| spondent because his sweetheart refused t
| marry him. took four ounces of laudanun
on the streets tonight. The physicians sa!
he will die. After taking the poison h'
met the girl. Belle Baldwin, and told he
what he had done. and she took him t
physicians office.