Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-18
ASSESSMENT HANGING FIR E
Auditor searls Out of City and Galusha
Fails to Attend Meeting,
MICKEY AND RoRTENsEN LOSE PATIENCE
Plenty of Rainfall in All Parts of the
State for Growing Crops, west
ern Portion Receiving More
Than Usual.
CFrom a star Correspondent

state board of assessment held no
meeting today and consequently ac-
complshed nothing except that
Governor Mickey and Treasurer
Mortensen have about concluded to adopt
some drastic measures by which the ma
jority members of the board will be COM
PEELED to attend the meetings and vote
on the assessment OF the railroads.
It was Auditor searle today who was
out of the city. He was at the state
house this morning, but before the meet
ing was called at o'clock he left. GAL
usha was in his office. but did not at
tend the meeting. Land Commissioner
Eaton was present. but as three men,
bers cannot do business unless they are
unanimous these three could accomplish
nothing.
Upon coming into the governors Of
fee Mr.. Eaton was greeted with this SAL
utation by Governor Mickey:
This board has fooled long enough over
this assessment and It is time now to do
something. AS chairman of this board
1 have accommodated members when they
had work to do in their Offices. but the
time has now come when this assess
ment must be neglected no longer You
Will have to neglect your other work until
we finish with this assessment"
Eaton expressed himself as being will
ing to\do something just soon as the
board could get together, but as Searle
was out OF town the board could do moth
ing Then the three entered into a gen.
eral discussion, neither the governor nor
Mr.. Mortensen attempting to conceal
their impatience at the way the major
ity Of the board has been acting.
Only Two Present in Afternoon.
This board will be in session all day
anyhow and we must finish this work at
once" said the governor as he adjourned
the board for noon. The board was in
session this afternoon. but only the gov
ernor and Mr.. Mortensen were present
and most of their discussion was about
way to compel the attendance of the ma
jority members.
All members OF the board had agreed
to be present yesterday, but as Eaton
was not in town Searle refused to go to
vote on the assessments. Incidentally
1t is not improbable that the Burlington
Will finally be assessed at its old figures,
but as the members don't know for sure
what they will do, it is impossible for
anyone else to tell or to make a safe
prediction at this time.
Assessor Harry Reed was here from
Omaha this morning asking the advice of
the board regarding the assessment of
IidleIHdlS uHueT tne rullnR OF the board.
Mr.. Reed has assessed fraternals in
Omaha, but he told the board that the
county board would in all probability cut
them out. He was instructed to go into
court at once If the county board knocked
out his assessment
Insurance Company Files Answer.
The Insurance Company of North Amer
lea, which has been in the supreme court
for number of months fighting the collec-
tion of taxes on its gross receipts, filed an
amended answer to the states allegation
this morning. The answer attacks the
constitutionality of the section of the new
revenue law which provides for per cent
taxation on its gross receipts
Lots of Rainfall.
According to the report of rainfall in
Nebraska for the month of May sent out
by the government and received by Secre-
tary Dobson of the State Board of Irriga-
tion today, there will be little need of his
| office working overtime on the irrigation
project this summer. Rainfall in the east
ern sections of the state was ten inches
while in the western section, which has
| heretofore been dry, the rainfall was from
four to six inches. Representative Cald-
| well of Clay county, who was here on
business today, said the rainfall had been
/ 50 HedNy III part OI LHe SldIe IIlaI In6
growth Of corn had been greatly retarded.
! Representative Haley of Webster county
said he had been compelled to replant
most of his corn because 1t had been
washed out.
| No More Lincoln Park.
| An announcement has been made through
a sign tackled on a building at the corner
of Tenth and o streets that Lincoln park
4, haa IN nd
will be allowed to enter there this summer.
This takes from Lincoln its last hope of
keeping cool 1t is stated that the owners
| Of the park came to this conclusion after
| the street railway company had refused to
cart the people out there at half price or
| to make any contribution toward fixing UP
the park. Last summer the Lincoln Trac-
ton company did land Office business by
| advertising to take suffocating public to
this park pay their admission fee and cart
them back TO town for the price Of a dime
providing tickets were purchased before
leaving Tenth and streets Many per-
sons calling for tickets several days in
succession were Informed that the company
was Just out, which necessitated the pay,
ment of the old price, 20 cents.
Cleaning out the Blocks.
After many spasmodic spells of reform
and alleged efforts TO rid the blocks OF
Lincoln of disreputable characters and L
raise the business section of the town L
a standard of morality demanded of
university town, the police have finall!
brought TO trial a number of the alleged
offenders Today and yesterday In polio,
court Mrs. Gertrude Love occupied tn,
board. She runs a rooming house owe
the corner of Tenth and p streets, opposit
the postofice. in the same block occupie,
by the State Journal company. The cas-
was not concluded this evening.
Brown Selects Metcalfe.
Richard L. Metcalfe was today selected
chairman of the democratic congressional
comittee of this district by Mayor Brown
the democratic nominee. Mr.. Brown an,
Mr.. Metcalfe held a consultation this after
noon and intend to get into the fight a
once.
New Fixtures for Vaults.
A contract was let this afternoon by Ian
Commissioner Eaton by permission of tn
State Board Of Public Lands and Build
ings to the State Journal company to plac
steel fixtures in the vault in the land com
F missioner's once. the price TO be s2S29. g
This pays only for the fixtures. The tots
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