Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-08
START IN ON ASSESSMENT
Northwestern Asked About Twsnty-Thres
Million Dollars in Securities.
DIFFERENT ROADS ASK ADM TO Be HEARD
Representative of Great NOrthern's
o'Nein Line willing TO stand
ASSIGNMENT Made on the
Line Last Year.
tFrom a star correspondentl

tFrOm a STAN correspondent
LINCOLN, May 7.--Cspecial.)- annual
meeting Of the State Board Of Assessment
began this morning in the once Of Gov
ernor Mickey with all members present
except Auditor searle. who will not return
to the city until about the middle of the
week Only two railroads were represented,
the Chicago. st. Paul Minneapolis &
Omaha, by T. A. Poleys. and the Great
Northern, by Charles Hayden. though at
the afternoon session r. ]. Clancy OF the
Union Pacific and r. d. Pollard, tax COM
missioner Of the Burlington, showed up and
asked for later dates at which to address
the board
State Treasurer Peter Mortensen intro
duced the following resolution asking for
information from the Northwestern re-
garding securities owned by the road and
not heretofore returned to the board. The
resolution was seconded by Secretary of
State Galusha and was adopted unani-
mously:
Whereas, The sworn statement furnished
this board by the Chicago & Northwestern
Railway company, In comparison with it's
forty-siXth annual report for 1906 would
seem to indicate that sundry obligations
aggregating about 100000. were omitted
from said statement. Therefore be il
Resolved, That the secretary of this
board be and is hereby directed to notify
appear before this board at its earliest
convenience and show cause, IL any why
SAID ooigstions should not be reported to
just and fair valuation OF said company's
| property in this state.
Unless the officials Of the Northwestern
can explain the apparent discrepancy to the
satisfaction of the board 1t ia not unlikely
an effort will be made to add this amount
| TO the valuation of this road for several
board are not sure whether this can be
| done.
Mr.. Polleys asked that he be allowed 20
address the board on the day the North
western road is called upon, and this date
will be set as soon as the officials notify
/ the secretary when they can answer the
| Mortensen resolution.
Old Assessment satisfac Glory.
Mr.. Hayden immensely pleased the
board by saying he did not expect a de-
| crease in his road from Sioux City to
! ONeill, but he desired ii left where it now
is, at $4,000 a mile. Some members of
| the board intimated they thought this
| road could stand a reduction in comparl-
son with the earnings of some of the
other roads, but Mr. Hayden very gener-
ously told the board the road had enjoyed
very prosperous times during the last
two years and the officials were satisfied
! the property was now assessed at about
the same rate as other property along its
! line. He asked, however, that the ex-
tension from Sioux City to Ashland be
treated this year as property with little
value, trains were not yet running, ex-
ccpt at the terminals, the roads had
not yet been Joined. Eaton suggested
| that Mr.. Hayden bring in a report of the
] cost Of the right-of-way and of all the
| money invested by the corporation, which
| he thought would be a fair valuation of
| the property. Hayden agreed to do this
! and Governor Mickey thanked him fc.
| not asking a decrease in the other branch
of the road.
Representatives of the Union Pacific
and the Rock Island will be heard May
IL, and of the Burlington and st. Joe
& Grand Island, May is. Mr.. Clancy and
Mr. Pollard left for Topeka tonight to APP
pear before the Kansas board tomorrow.
r. b. Windhnm for Trustee.
Governor Mickey this afternoon appointed
r. b. Windham OF Plattsmouth a member
Of the board of trustees to look after the
School for the Deaf and Dumb at Omaha
and the Institute for the Blind at Ne
! braska City. Frank w. Haller of Omaha
| was resppointed a member of the Library
commission.
! Inebriate Law AEsaiIed.
John schwarting of Antelope county, con-
fined in the insane hospital at Lincoln be-
cause it is alleged he is an inebriate, has
filed an application in the supreme court
to get out under habeas corpus proceedings.
He asserts the law is unconstitutional be-
cause it deprives a person of his liberty
without a trial by jury.
Norfolk Asylum Troubles.
While Governor Mickey will not say
! whether he has or not, Il is understood
he has asked for the resignation of Dr.
Nicholson OF the Norfolk asylum and the
fate Of Superintendent Alden hangs in the
balance. For some time complaints have
been coming to the governor that the in
stitution was not being conducted just as