Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-10
Nebraska
COL. c. E. TANNING IN DANCER
Resignation from Governors staff Not
Yet Accepted.
roURT-MART1AI MAY RESULT
Fact He Gait vines Enemy was on
Charge May initiate Against
Him-sugsr Beet Ez-
p~erfmemts.
From a STAFF Correspondent,


LINCOLN, NeN., April 9-(special)-The
resignation of Colonel Charles e Tanning
has been received by Commander-in-chic
s~hallenberger OF the Nebraskn militia. IL
has not yet been accepted and It 10 prob
able Colonel flaming will be refused an
honorable discharge. Instead. he is liable
to be court-msrtialed and .drummed out of
camp II not sent to the military prison for
a number Of campaigns.
The colonel rendered his resignation
when bis chief was under fire and in
grave danger and for that reason II has
beer held by military authorities he is not
entitled to an honorable discharge. He
cult when the enemy was charging. Ha
quit when the chief needed strong friends
to pull him out of the hole into which he
put himself.
To quit and take up arms against his
own commander is considered high treason
and the governors friends have urged him
TO call a court-martial to investigate the
reasons for the resignation Of Nolonel
Tanning. 1t is possible the colonel was
afraid to face the enemies the governor
has made and II that is true the charge
against him will be cowardice.
Experiment with sugar Beets.
Nebraska will very shortly begin to ex-
pertinent with sugar beets, the Board of
Public Lands and Buildings at the earnest
solicitation of Governor S~hallenberger hav-
ing signed a contract to cultivate 100
acres of beets, to be sold TO a contracting
firm. TIL state will be out about $500 for
the seed to start with. The governor antic-
ipated 1t would require about eighteen
convicts to attend to the cultivation of the
beets, On paper the governor has figured
an immense profit to the state.
Warden Smith, however. Is very much op-
posed to the experiment and he is salts
fled the state will lose money. In the
first place private parties have failed to
make money out Of the sugar beet business
and several factories in Nebraska have
been shut down. The convicts, members of
the board believe, are not capable of work.
ing the beets successfully and believe that
there are too many risks for the state to
enter into the business. But the governor
insisted and got his way. The seeds will
be sown next month.
seward Bonds Missing.
The owners of $4,000 Seward county court
house bonds are trying to get the state au-
ditor TO record duplicate bonds because this
little batch cannot be located. The bonds
were kent in a bank, but somehow they
cannot be found, so Attorney Cary and the
county attorney of Seward county told at
the state house today. The lawyers said the
owners of the bonds we're willing TO put
up security that the county would suffer
no loss were the bonds duplicated. The
auditor has made no decision in the case.
Litigation Over Lawyers Fee.
The case of p. A. Wells, executor of the
will of John +. Johnson, against Herman
" CtnChran WAS ar0,,ad Ia tbo ,.ou-z
court this morning, Lysle Abbott appearing
for the executor and A. D. Churchill for
the defendant. Cochran, a lawyer. john
son was the owner OF some land in Frontier
county which was exchanged for lots In
South Omaha owned by Samuel Hawver.
1t is charged Cochran acted as attorney
for both parties and collected a fee from
both parties. When 1t was discovered he
had been paid 500 by johnson when he was
TO get, so It was alleged. only the addi-
tional amount over a certain sum which
the South Omaha property would bring,
the executor brought suit for the return
OF the $500. The case was tried twice In the
lower court of Douglas county and the
last time the plaintiff, Wells, received a
verdict, which was set aside by the court.
Wells brought the case to the supreme
court.
New Building for Fair Grounds.
The state fair board will at once let the
contract and begin the construction OF its
live stock and Judging coliseum. The board
will build only one half OF the structure
at this time, having received an approprla-
ton OF only $4,000. One end of the structure
will be boarded up so that the half building
may be used this fail. When completed the
building will be 2O0xS50 feet and will seat
1850 people. The stock ring will be 1aOx27O.
There will be standing room for 1000 people.
The half building will cost Sc. 1000 and
when completed the entire cost will be
tIl6yO
Magnus Flaws OF Chicago will be pre-
siding judge of the speed ring and w. T..
MacCreary of Hastings will be the starter.
Court Case Tomorrow.
The case to test the legality of the
appointments to the supreme bench by
Governor sheldon will be argued tomorrow
In the supreme court before Judges Reese
Barnes and Letton. The Lewiston will
hinge on the right OF the state canvas
sing board 10 canvass the vote cast for
the constitutional amendment proyiding
for seven members of the supreme court.
Judge Dean, whose place is being con-
tested by Judge w, ID. Oldham, filed his
answer today in which he insists that the
legislature has no right to canvass the