Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-23
Nebraska
AUTOMOBILES VERSUS DOGS
whiz Wagons Run CANNES Close Race
for Popularity,
SULLIVAN AND GOOD ACCEPT
Each Makes Oath that He e. Both .
Populist and = DemOcrat-New-
branch Also n BI-Party
Man.

From a Staff Correspondent
LINCOLN. July 2a%SpeciaL)-The auto
mobile may out-distance the horse and
take his place in the affection Of the drlv-
ing public, but IL will have to go some
to get ahead of the Nebraska dog. Ac-
cordins to the reports OF county assessors
now on file with the state Board Of As
sessment the dog is much more Of q IA
vorite than the automobile. save in one
county. Down in old Pawnee, close to
Missouri. the has caught up
with the dog. The nberty-lovtng people
Of that prosperous county own, according
TO their county assessor, seventeen dogs
aud seventeen automobiles. That Is the
only county in the state where the dog and
the Automobile are running neck and neck.
Up in Rock county the dog and the
automobile are close rivals for the Affec-
tlon Of the people, because the assessor re-
ports so worth of automobiles and $50
worth OF dogs. Just how many dogs $40
will buy in Rock county is not known by
the state board, but the assessor reports
one automobile. Douglas county people
also give evidence of caring about as much
for dogs as they do for automobiles, for the
assessor reported 446 automobiles and 49,
dogs, Lancaster county refuses to do away
with mans best friend" for there was re-
turned Alb dogs, against 2n automobiles.
Lancaster tops the state with its dogs,
even it's biggest city is dry. And yet last
year when the city was wet Lancaster
county sported 4,495 dogs Of various breeds
and understanding.
But to clear. the dog from the charge OF
being In favor Of a wet town, it is only
necessary to say that automobiles have in
creased in Lancaster from 178 last year
to it's present number, 241. 1t is probably
true that dog owners have exchanged them
for machines.
Saline county's dog population has In
creased from 1856 to 2GOl, which makes it
the second largest dog county in Nebraska.
Its automobiles have also increased from
eighteen TO thirty.
Thomas county reported S176 worth of
automobiles and $40 worth of dogs, but just
how much this amount Of money will buy
of either commodity in Thomas county the
board has no idea. Morrill, county, the
youngest county in the state, has seven
automobiles, but lines up with 526 dogs.
Cherry county only has two automobiles,
but It has la dogs. Colfax county has
S2.6l5 worth of automobiles and 1874 dogs.
In most Of the counties the doggie is
worth IS, or rather 1t is valued at that by
the assessor, while the ranges
from $50 up to $175.
incidentally the board is very much put
out because so many assessors have neg
lected 70 follow the plain letter Of the
schedules furnished them, and some OF the
assessors may yet be jerked up for an
explanation Several of the officials have
neglected to put in the number OF animals
Oh commodity, though the schedules pro.
vide a place for this Information. Others
have reduced real estate without saying
why, when real estate was valued last year
for four years.
Sullivan aud Good Accept.
John u sullivan and b. +. Good have
filed their aoceptances today of the nomi-
nations for supreme judges, as candidates
Of both the populist and democratic parties.
Judge sullivan made oath that he is a DEM
ocrat. and affiliates with the democratic
-arty, and then he subscribed to a second
oath that he affiliates with the popullst
party. Judge Good takes oath that he is
a democrat, and swears also that he affili-
ates with the popullst party. James r.
Dean swears that he affiliates with the
democratic and peoples independent
parties and he expects to get on both
party ballots with that statement. Harvey
Newbranch has sworn that he is a demo-
crat, and affiliates with that party, but to-
day he telephoned down that he would
also swear that he affiliated with the pop
ulIst party in order to get on that ticket
also. The democratic party and the popu-
list party will hold separate state conven-
tions here next Tuesday and promulgate
two separate platforms, as they did last
year.
Harvest Hands stiI Scarce.