Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-10

1Taxes paid in Iowa.. l,sI4A9 z'lh'eoo
last year the executive council valued
the roads at figure that made the average
value s2S, ass per mile, capitalized at per
cent on their earnings the value OF the
roads would be $4,000 per mile and II the
executive council raises the value to this
figure it will place the value at ABOUT
s64 600 900 instead of S51OOO,OOO.
OppOsitiOn to Hull.
II Is given out thac there will be opposi-
ton to Congressman ]. A. T. Hull at the
next campaign and that movement Is now
ON foot to get the counties of the district
other than Polk to unite on a candidate In
onnosition to Full. In the congressional
convention the delegates from Polk county
will number seventy two and from all the
other counties ninety. 1t is claimed that
the political circumstances that have pre-
vented the county from uniting heretofore
will be absent at the next campaign Madl-
son, II II claimed, il divorced from Captain
i IJuiI ON account Of the winterSet post
mastership and Dallas county because
Judge Nichols was not made delegate to
the last national convention. The ehort TO
unite the outside counties has been mace
! before, but has always failed. AT the last
! campaign after Hull had defeated Judge
Prouty at the primaries conference OF
politicians from the other counties showed
that all were willing to unite except Dallas
| county.
| Commissioners in the East.
The capital commissioners are in the east
to secure a painter to paint eight lunettes
in the rotunda Of the state house, for which
the legislature appropriated 5000. For a
| time there was a campaign on the part OF
| the friends OF Prof. Charles Cumming, one
OF the members Of the commission, to have
| him do the work. but II was held that this
! would not be in keeping with the dignity of
the commission while he was member.
Prof Cumming was therefore given the Sc
| lection of the artist that should do the
| work and has gone east TO negotiate with
| him. The artist will not be announced till
| his return. II is expected that the next
| legislature will make an appropriation for
additional paintings in the state house and
Prof Cumming will likely be given some
of this work as his term as commissioner
will expire early next year.
Leaves for Sea Coast.
John Briar, private secretary to Governor
Cummins. will leave Monday in company
| with Mrs. Briar for a three weeks stay
on the sea coast just south Of Coney
Island. They have a cottage at that point.
Decorations Nearing Completion.
1t is announced by Foreman Phillips, in
charge of the decorators at the state house
that the decorations will be all completed
and the workmen will have left by August
l. The corridors and the rotunda are still
full Of scaffolding. The supreme court
room is nearly completed and the rotunda
and the corridors in the east and west
wings OF the building are practically COM
pleted There is still much to be done m
the north and south corridors; in fact, they
have been but barely touched 1t is claimed
that all the scaffolding in the rotunda and
the east and west corridors will have been
removed by the last OF next week, but two
weeks ago # was claimed the scaffolding
would be out by last week.