Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-03
Members Will Probably Raise Bid to
Seventy Thousand.
NINETY THOUSAND APPROPRIATE.
Mrs. Pile, Through Attorney, Say
Sum is Far Too Low.
HOPE TO GET WAYNE TO ASSIST
Legislative Act Gives board DIscre-
tiOn-Trip to Northern Nebraska
on Northwest School
Soon.
CFrom Staff Correspondent


LINCOLN, Dec Especial Telegram
The state Normal board has offered
the owners Of the Wayne Normal school
$4,000 for the buildings and grounds
The offer was refused and the board ad-
journed until tomorrow morning, when 1t
is probable the offer will be raised to
$4,000.
The legislature appropriated $4,000
with which to buy the school and a COM
mittee selected by the Legislature investi-
gated the property and reported It worth
that amount and more some placing the
value as high as s15OOOO.
When the board made its offer of $6O,-
600 Mrs. Pile, the owner, plainly showed
her disappointment. Through her repre-
sentative ex-senator Bressler she said
she owed more than that on the school
and could not therefore accept the offer.
She said she was carrying insurance on
the school to the amount of $4,000.
Senator Bressler was informed that
Iprobably the town of Wayne would be
willing to contribute toward buying the
school If Mrs. Pile did not want to ac-
cept the offer made. 1t required a hard
! fight on the part of friends Of Mrs. Pile
TO get the appropriation bill through the
Legislature as other privately owned nor
NAL schools opposed It, as well as did
IOthers who desired the normal school es-
Itablished elsewhere But after a careful
inspection of the property the Legislature
appropriated $4,000 for its purchase or
so much thereof as would be necessary.
Northwest Normal Next.
The State Normal board will start out on
| its tour OF inspection of northwest Ne
braska towns January g. with the idea Of
selecting a location for the new state
I IN. -
meeting this afternoon, at which the prop
| ositions from five towns were received and
read. The towns filing applications for
the school We're Alnsworth. Crawford,
Chadron, Gordon and Alliance. Each filed
a bond to guarantee the state eighty acres
of land for the school and, in addition,
! Chadron offered a school building valued
at $4,000 now located on tract OF land
near the city limits
This proposition raised the question as to
whether the legislature intended the board
to secure just the eighty acres Of land or
whatever else 1t could In addition. Repre-
sentative Chase, the author of the bill, in
formed the board that it was the intention
Of the legislature simply to secure the
eighty acres Of land and locate the school
where 1t would best serve the interests OF
the state.
Representatives Of the various towns, ex-
cept Gordon, were present and cordially in
vted the board to inspect their PROPOSE.
tions. II. S. Jarvis and c. +. Howe spoke
for Answorth, Ira z. Tash and c. a.
, Newberry for Alliance, Senator Reynolds
for Chadron and Representative Chase foI
Cra wford.
O'Neill has as yet filed no proposition
but the secretary Of the board was in,
structed to communicate with Secretary
Graham of the defunct board and see II ht
has any other propositions filed with him
Mr.. Graham has been sending down tn,
propositions just the towns order hin
to do so. He got the Crawford proposition
to the board this morning