Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-03
PRINTING BID IS REJECTED
Journals Figures on Supreme Court Reports
Would Leave State in Hole.
SEVERAL OTHER CONTRACTS AWARDED
small FIRMS who Were Low Bidders
File Bond and say They Have
Made Arrangements 20
Garry the work.



LINCOLN. May 2.-(SpeciaL) 1.-THE State
Printing board this morning rejected the
bid Of the State Journal company for re-
printing the state supreme court reports.
whose bid was 81 cents a page on the
work, the lowest bid Of any of the big
printers, whom the board believes had
entered into a combine to raise the price
Of state printing. The board announced II
rejected the Journal bid because 1t would
have cost the state in the neighborhood
OF $500 more than the books could have
been sold for. as the sale price is fixed by
law. New bids will be asked for on the
printing
J. L. Clahn, L. ]. Howard and the HAM
mond Printing company, whose bids were
the lowest for printing the state reports,
published Sunday, were awarded their
contracts and will at once file bonds equal
to the value Of the work to be done
Clahin, whom the big printers thought and
believed could not I'LL his contract, told the
board today that he had received several
offers of assistance and would have no
trouble in delivering the work according to
contract.
Whether any proceedings will be started
against the big printers remains yet to be
determined. Members of the board con-
suited with Deputy Attorney General
Thompson this morning and were advised
they could reject all of the bids, but the
matter of criminal prosecution was not
discussed. The small work. such as sta
tionery for the various Offices and supplies.
was pretty we'll divided up among the
several firms.
Political Talk in state.
Or. Raines of Red Cloud a member Of
the republican state committee, is here
"a oR
cal society Dr. Raines said very little
politics being discussed out in his
country, but IT was his opinion the county
convention of Webster county would en-
dorse no one for United States senator.
The matter, however is being discussed
very little. he said.
Word was received today from Clay
county that the farmers of that and ad.
Joining counties, Webster, Nuckolls,
Adams and others, were uniting into Il
political combination to vote against any
corporation candidate for any office. The
report said fully 1000 farmers had
tered into an agreement to vote against
any candidate, no matter what ticket he
IS on, who is in any way connected with
a railroad corporation, who has the
railroad faint. While the circulator Of
the report did not know who at the
head of the new organization, which is
not unlike the old farmers alliance. it is
believed around here that Representative
Caldwell may have something to do with
1t. as he made the statement some months
:. ago that the republicans of Clay county
would vote for no republican nominee who
had railroad sympathies. Just how much
further the new organization is going to
extend is not known here.
Exposition Commission Meets.
Nebraska's jamestown exposition COM
mission is preparing to get busy to sec
whether Nebraska is going to have an
exhibit at the southern exposition. With
the exception of Rome Miller the mem
bers met with the governor yesterday and
cnnvassed the situation and decided 10
lcok up information regarding the charac-
ter OF the exhibits and to see whether IL
would be a paying investment for Ne
braska to do anything. The commission
has no money and is going rather slow.
The officers OF the commission are. c. Z.
Burnham, chairman; Rome Miller, vice
chairman s. c. Bassett, secretary, and
c. II. Rudge, treasurer.
Guard TO Honor Boyd.
Governor Mickey today, through
Adjutant General Culver, issued the fol-
lowing order to the companies of the Ne
tional Guard, relative to the death of
former Governor Boyd
1t is with regret that the commander
in-chief announces the death of ex-Gov-
ernor Boyd, which occurred at Omaha,
April 80 1906 at the age of ~ years.
The funeral will take place at Omaha
al p. m May 8. 1906.
the enterprislng frontiersmen of our
state, and broad minded official.
The nags at all public buildings will be
lowered at half stan on May 3, the day
OF the funeral, and the armories OF the
National Guard will be draped in mourn
ing for thirty days.
Medical Association Meeting.
Most of the doctors attending the State
Medical association meeting attended the
ball game this afternoon and consequent,
several OF the papers on the program had
to be continued until tomorrow's session
Tonight the doctors attended banquet al
the Iindell.
The program today consisted Of papers
by the following: A. c. Stokes of Omaha
]. s. Welch OF Lincoln. John p. Lord o.
Omaha and j. w. Orr of Lincoln. who
talked of the work done at the orthopedi