Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-09
LUMBER MEN KICK
Discrimination in Favor Of Lincoln in
Rates Alleged.
FOUR COMPANIES ARE JOINED
state superintendent J.. L.. McBrIen
writes otOe County superin-
d on shortage Of
Teachers.
CFrom a staff Correspondent

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has been filed with the Railway commis-
sion by wholesale lumber dealers of Omaha
against four railroad companies. alleging
discrimination in favor Of Lincoln and
against Omaha In the matter Of lumber
rates to points in the state. The COM
piainants are the Chicago Lumber COM
psny, Bradford Kennedy Lumber company.
g. N. Deitz, Updike Lumber and Coal
company, II. F. Cady Lumber company.
Bowman Kranz and George A. Hoagland.
The defendant railroads are the Burlington,
Union Pacific, Rock Island and North
western. The defendants have fifteen days
in which to file answer. after which the
Railway commission will set a date for the
hearing.
The petition sets out that Omaha and
Lincoln secure their lumber supply from
mills the rate from which is equal. To
some points in Nebraska the rate from
Omaha and Lincoln are equal, but TO other
points the rate from Omaha is from 0S
10 255 cents per 100 pounds higher than
from Lincoln.
The two cities nave the same rate to
points In Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and
South Dakota.
Seeks to Dismiss Appeal.
The legal department Of state has filed
a motion and brief with the supreme court
asking that the appeal of DR.. J. T.
Mathews be dismissed. DR.. Mathews was
charged with a criminal operation and after
a hearing his license to practice medicine
was ordered revoked by the State Board
OF Health. This decision was sustained by
the district court of Lancaster county and
DR.. Mathews then appealed to the supreme
court.
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OF Nebraska City, State Superintendent j.
L. McBrien says:
According to press dispatches, there seems
to be a shortage of teachers in Otoe county
In an official letter to county superintend.
ents dated July Is, 1908, we asked those
notify us and requested those who have
teachers to spare to report also, so that we
could adjust the supply to the demand
Having received no request from you foI
teachers nor no report from you that YOU
have teachers to spare. have taken Il
for granted that your supply is about equa
to the demand. However, only a few days
ago An OtOe county teacher was In the Of
flee making inquiry for schools In need Of
teachers. IL you are actually in need OF
teachers we shall be pleased to help you
out after every qualified teacher in Oto'
county has a school.
About two years ago a press dispatch
was sent out from Falls City. saying tina
Richardson county was fifty-two teachers
short for that year and bewailing the situa
ton with tears. The day this report wa!
sent out from Falls City there were tire,
teachers from Richardson county on thei
way home from summer Dormals, whit
called at our office on the search 70
schools, and about the same time severa
teachers from Richardson county were ap
plying for schools in Nemaha county. Oh
September / OF that year Superintendent
oliver of Richardson county wrote us a
follows: "All our schools are filled will
we'll qualified, up-to-date, consecrate'
teachers. We have had applications from
Canada and almost every state east Of us
We could have supplied the schools Of TIVE
such counties with well qualified teachers
for not less than 800 applications were re
ceiVed."
/ have hesitated to turn such a flood o
application on you by giving any furthc
publicity to the press report of a shortag
Of teachers in Otoe county. But a pres
instant seems to question my statemen
that there are plenty of well qualifie'
teachers In Nebraska. We are ready I
make rood our promise to find well quail
fled teachers for all school districts in Ne
braska that are willing to pay reasonabl
wages and will provide proper b0ardin
accommodations. You will recall, no doub'
the case of a certain school district boar
in Knox county that endeavored to hav
the county superintendent revoke the teach
er's certificate for failing to carry out he
was that Nowhere in the district could sh
find q boarding place. superintendent
Murphy wisely and justly decided In fave
OF the teacher. A school district that wi
not pay a reasonable salary and Will nc
furnish it's teacher with proper boarutn
accommodations has no just cause to CON
plain for not having a teacher.