Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-10
ACCEPT NORMAL BUILDING
Action Taken After a Stormy Meeting Of
the State Board.
DEDUCTION MADE FROM CONTRACT PRICE
7ity Council Considers Ordinances
Reducing street Railway Fares
and I'm other ways Gets
After Company.
DEDUCTION MADE FROM CONTRACT PR
Iron a San CorresnondentN

LINCOLN, April 9.-(Special Telegram.)-
After a tumultuous meeting lasting until
midnight the State Normal board accepted
the Kearney Normal school after first de-
1ucting $500 from the last payment Of 5000
que the contractors, Knuteson e. Isdell.
Architect Berlinghof reported to the
board that the building had not come up to
the specifications in that the color of the
stone was not uniform and some of the
blocks were not in line with the majority
of the blocks. After a long debate in
which Mortensen and McBrien were not in
favor OF accepting the building and Gregg
leading the debate to accept It. Mortensen
finally moved the compromise of holding
out $500 from the contractors Berlnghof
reported the contractors had done their
work all right and the blame should be
placed on the Kearney company which
manufactured the stone.
Ludden, Mortensen, McBren, Majors and
Gregg attended the meeting.
Trouble for street Railway.
The city council tonight went after the
Lincoln Traction company in approved
style and every ordinance introduced was
a poke at the company one seeks to take
from the company its right to do CONNER
cial heating and lighting: others were as
follows Keep the tracks clean, refusing
permission to tear up Nineteenth street to
lay, tracks, to make President Scudder
put down a walk around a lot he recently
bought repair tracks all over the city.
sell six tickets for % cents. thirteen for
30 cents and twenty-six for 81; furnish com
Portable cars and more Of them; all corpo-
rations to be taxed 81 each for every pole
owned in the city and the poles must be of
iron.
santa Fe statement short.
re wi into
Nebraska at Superior for a distance OF
about two miles, filed a report Of its prop
erty with the secretary of the State Board
of Assessment this morning.
The report shows the road owns two box
cars. valued at s2e6; one furniture car, val
ued at S1s1, and one coal car, valued at S113
and that these constitute its property in
Nebraska. The road makes no report of its
earnings in this state, but gives the fol-
lowing as the financial statement of its
system:
Gross earnings. t45, sos s96 %
Operating expenses.........'''''.. e. OOO 5s4 .sO
Dividends declared ...s...,......''. biso,SlO.VO
The Santa Fe system has a capital stock
OF $2ss, $4,000, of which 1888 $4,000 is paid
up. The market value February 2s was:
Common stock, sS%deOb, and preferred
lo21k The total Indebtedness of the system
is $2s4. s24,5Oo
Examiners want more Money
In his report of the condition of the state
banks for the year ending November 8,
1906, copies of which have just been re-
ceived from the printers, Secretary Royce
Of the State Banking board recommends to
the legislature that more money be al
lowed the examiners for travelling expenses,
as without passes the sum now appropri-
ated is not sufficient by half. Mr.. Royce
also recommends that banks be required to
pay fee for more than one examination
during efI6A year which is now the law.
Tax Case Tuesday.
Unless the Burlington again asks for a
continuance the taking of testimony in the
railroad tax Injunction suit will begin
Tuesday afternoon in the senate chamber
or the supreme court room. The hearing
has been put on on three different occa-
sions. but this time Attorney General
Brown said II looked like a go.
The attorney general will place on the
witness stand only the members of the
State Board Of Assessment for the year
1906 and an expert. He will use this testi'
mony, together with the. opinion written
by Judge Munger. to make up his case. II
is not known how many witnesses the rail
roads will put on the stand.
Just when the taking. of evidence in the
grain cases win start is not known now
will not return from Kansas until this
evening. and until he gets back and is con
suited no date will be set for the hearing.
DennisOn Succeeds sutton.
Judge Sutton of Omaha, who was ap-
pointed by Governor Mickey to be one OF
the delegates to the National Charity con
ference TO be held in Philadelphia, has
notified the governor he will be unable tC
attend. In his place he recommended thai
e. F. Dennison be appointed. Governor
Mickey acted upon the recommendation
and Mr.. Dennison will receive his com
mission shortly. He is superintendent OF
the boys department of the Young Mems
Christian association at Omaha
Sherins DisIi<es Ruling.
The sheriffs out in the state are object
ing seriously TO the ruling Of the attorney
general that receipts must accompan!
vouchers filed for railroad fare. One sheriff
wrote in that he would take what he coulC
get, as he was at the mercy OF the auditor
We said in his letter he had agreed I,
serve summons for the railroad compan!
in return for transportation and therefore
he thought, he earned all the transporta
ton he received. Last year he said he hat
served summons. witch, IL paid for. woul,
have netted him SS7 OF the railroads