Omaha daily bee., 1909-10-28
Nebraska
SHARPE CONTROLS TRACTION
Asserted He Has Enough Stock and
Procies to Gust Mcdonald.
CONTEST HAS BEEN SPIRITED
Preparations Beinb Made for a Large
Industrial Exhibit at the Forth
Coming state Teacher As
sOcintion MeetinE.
CFrom a staff Correspondent)

NFrom n STAN COrreSpondent.)
LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 6~.-Ospecial Tele-
gram)-It Is reported here on seemingly
the best Of authority that w, e, Sharpe
has won his fight for control of the Lin
coin Traction company. John Mcdonald
has been president and the controlling fac
tor. Some time ago It was rumored that
Sharpe aspired to be president and to d.
EAet the affairs Of the company, and ever
since there has been a spirited contest to
secure stock and proxies for the election,
which is to be held November I6. Those
on the inside now assert that Sharpe has
won. There has been considerable feeling
engendered In the controversy.
II Judge Jacob Fawcett had never been
a blacksmith he never would have received
a letter he got this morning. From this
he has concluded one Of his best Invest
ments was the work he did at the forge
many years ago. The letter was from
L. A. Williams, sheriff for six years Of
Sherman county, a candidate for ~re-elec-
ton. Following Is an excerpt from It:
II knew you at st. Rose, Wis, when you
were running a blacksmith shop. You
have probably forgotten me, but you did
blacksmith work for me there. 1 am an
admirer of you" As Mr.. Williams is still
an admirer Of Judge JFawcstt he is bow
using the letter as proof hat he was a
good blacksmith.
The Kendali-Smith company Of Lincoln
has filed a complaint against the 3urling-
ton railroad. with the state railway COM
mission because It has seen fit to change
it's switching rate Of S a car from Wood
lawn to 2 cents per 100 pounds. This COM
psny has a machinery mandatory at
Woodlawn, and for thirty-three years It
says in its complaint the Burlington gave
It a switching rate Of S q car, But re-
Gently It changed this rate to 2 cents per
100 pounds, and this rate is too high. The
company under its implied agreement with
the railroad invested $4,000 in its plant
at Woodlawn, and II cannot DO a profit
able business, It alleges, under the higher
freight rate.
It is against the law for a telephone sup
ply house to give as a premium to those
local telephone companies who buy their
supplies from It with coupons good for
so much talk over the long distance tele-
phones. C.. M. Bartlett Of the Fairb'ry
Telephone company sent the State Rail
way commission a proposition from the
Swedish American Supply company at
Chicago, offering these coupons to the
Fairbury firm. The commission held this
would permit Of discrimination and, there
fore, could not be permitted in Nebraska.
The State Teachers association. which
convenes in, Lincoln November 1, and s,
will be largely Industrial. An exhibition
of industrial work which has been done by
the public schools and higher institions Of
the state will be made at this time. State
Superintendent 3. Co. Bishop will have
charge OF this exhibition, which Will be
held at the City Auditorium, from Novem-
Der 2 to I, inclusive. Mr.. Bishop, during
his four years as deputy state superintend-
ent, made a national reputation along this
line, organizing. as he did, for the boys
and girls OF the entire state classes in
agriculture and domestic science. Mr..
Bishop, in speaking Of the exhibit, says
that It will consist of manual training, do
nestle science, agriculture and Industrial
geography.
superintendent Bishop has sent out to all
Of the schools of the state a special circu-
lar giving the regulations and rules, and
also the different classes Of material to be
exhibited. Already a great number Of
schools nave signified their intention of
maxim gan exhibit.
Nebraska is about to get another rail-
road, running from Beloit, Kan, to hear
ney. c.. Hildreth, a banker of Franklin
county, has written 10 the secretary OF
state that the road has come to the Ne
braska line and that the surveyors will
shortly be at work in this state. Mr.. Hill
dreth asked that copies OF the corporation
laws be sent to him.
The attorney general will go to Omaha
November S to c-ross-examine witnesses in
the injunction suit brought by the rail-
roads of Nebraska to knock out the rail-
road legislation enacted by the legislature
of 1907. Mr.. Thompson is working hard to
be is a position to put in all Of his own ev-
idence at this session.
The Western Union Telegraph company
has appealed to the supreme court the case
wherein It was fined in the Lancaster
county court for failing to file Its report
with tho State Railway commission and
for changing a rate without first secur-
ing permission from the commission. The
company alleges that the law does not
place it under the Jurisdiction Of the COM
mission.
In a wreck on the Burlington road near