Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-05
CONVICT LABOR CONTRACT
Broom Company to Continue as Now
Until lyme Seventeen.
MUST PAY MORE THEN OR QUIZ
Attorney General Thompson Makes n
Ruling on the Assessment of
Notes and MORT
cages.
trrom a sad correspondentl

From a staff Correspondent)
LINCOLN. June 4.-CSpeciaI)-Th State
Board Of Public Lands and Buildings this
morning decided to permit the Lee Broom
and buster company to use convict labor
until June II at 80 cents a convict per day.
After that date The labor is to be paid
for at a rate OF IS cents a day for each
convict. This notice was served on c. r.
Lee. manager Of the company. so that he
would know he is expected to vacate the
penitentiary by June II unless he agrees
TO accept the convicts at the higher rate
of pay. The action Of the board was re-
ported to Governor Sheldon. who approved
It..
The Lee company objected strenuously
yesterday to paying a higher rate for the
convicts and Mr.. Lee said he would recon-
mend to the next legislature that the state
install some kind Of manufacturing plant
and use the convicts itself. This" he
said. will show the people that little
none Is made out Of convict labor. The
state will never be satisfied. however, until
II has tried the experiment Of using the
convicts and the quicker this is tried the
better ! will be satisfied"
While he said he had several offers from
other prisons TO use their convlcts. Mr.. Lee
said n he finally concluded to quit the
pehiAehttdEN HeIe ne Hopeu 10 quit prison
labor entirely.
Constituting Relief Clause.
The words physical inability to work"
in the policy of the Burlington relief de-
partment, means. according to the supreme
court. physical inability to do the work
the member was engaged in at the time
he was injured. and not merely ability to
work at some other business for a less
salary. The decision in which this occurs
r. In the case of Hattie Keith, adminis-
tratrlx Of the estate of Cant Keith, against
the Burlington railroad, the plaintiff being
awarded a verdict for s6SS. 20, the amount
sued for. Cant Keith was injured shortly
after Joining the Burlington relief depart
ment, while working as a switchman. For
the period of fifty-two weeks he was paid
$50 a day. and then payments stopped,
Keith having secured a position as bar
tender in his brothers saloon. Four years
after the accident he died. The court al
lowed him 70 cents a day until his death.
latter the first fifty-two weeks. The court
said the evidence showed Keith was unfit
to work in tile saloon regularly, owing to
his injuries, holding. also that the fact that
work for less pay given to an injured
member by relatives does not relieve tile
railroad from responsibility to pay the
insurance.
River Too Quick for Courts.
The supreme court has admitted its juris-
dictlon cannot keep up with the Changes &
the Big Muddy and therefore John R)ber
who sought to have title to land on ~
banks quietcd in him will have to go to tn,
Iowa. courts, for the last reports wera Il
the effect the farm was now camping or
that side of the river. The land was settled
back in 1855, when the pioneer thought h
was getting located in Washington c5un y
Nebraska, and patent was sued for it IT
1860. During the civil war the river got &c
iloppips about and finally settled down or
top Of the farm. Accretions attached L
The eastnInfh hank and The farmer walked uI
one mcrning over in Iowa. In 1878 the rive
'ooka sudden notion to go over into low;
tself and II cut a new channel leaving tn
arm in question high and dry, between tn
river on the east and the old channel o.
Nthe west. The court holds that in case
OF that kind where the changes IN In
river are sudden and not gradual, tn
boundary of the state remains in the oil
channel and does not follow the new rive
as in the case OF a gradual change.
Board Cen Control Licenses.
An excise board has authority mot onl
% regulate the number Of saloons in a town
Or city. but to have supervision over thei