Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-17
Nebraska
TELEPHONE MEN SEE BOARD
Uniform Reports Discussed to Cover
All Kinds of Business.
DEFECT IN. ANOTHER NEW LAW
Lieutenant Governors signature f.
Missing from Act ReauirinE
Adequate Telephone Service
at All DepOts.
tFrom a SAD correspondentl

LINCOLN, April 1e.-Cspecial.)-The State
Railway commission met today with a
number of telephone men to discuss a
uniform system OF reports to be made to
the commission. Tho commission had pre-
pared a tentative report, which was sub
mitted to the telephone men, who offered
several suggestions for changes. The COM
mission will shortly issue an order defining
just what shall be contained in the reports.
Those present at the meeting we're L. e
Hurtz of the Lincoln Telephone company;
f. e. Ebersole OF the Omaha Independent;
c. p. Russell, auditor of the Lincoln COM
pany; w. C. Bell OF the York Independent
company; A. S Kelley, superintendent of
the Nebraska Telephone company; w. A
Pizley. auditor OF the Nebraska company;
Lee HUFF, local manager of the Nebraska
company; Ehrles c. Deerlng, manager.
Omaha Long Distance company; C. P.
Avery Of Edgar; w. H.. Conan Of Beat
rice; p. II. Pollock of Plattsmouth.
Some More Incompetency.
Another bad bill turned up today. The
measure which provided for the railroads
to install telephones in their offices and
yardes does not contain the signature Of
the lieutenant governor. This is consid-
cred a very important omission. but it wal
NNO VI AAS CAAAAA
tee on enrolled bills or any member Of the
late lamented aggregation OF job makers.
However, the court has held in a former
case this cuts no ice IL the record of the
bills passage is straight
Admits Theft of IN
Police station third degree worn brought
an admission from Bert Brown, an erst-
while resident OF Chicago and now a
drifter. that he took the diamond ring of
Mrs. ~Thornburg from the dresser in her
room at 416 South Seventeenth street, .
Wednesday morning. Brown was arrested
Thursday night, and Friday afternoon he
confessed to having stolen the ring.
The ring was a small, gold circlet with
a brilliant diamond setting. Brown had
sold the ring to William Walworth of SIG
North Sixteenth street. who sent the ring
to the station to have it identified after III
had read the account of the theft.
Brown was arrested by officer Cressey.
Trouble in Firm.
High finance in the management of the
American Window Cleaning company. has
lead to the disruption of that concern,
according to the statement of John Bern
stein, on of the organizers, and he asks
the district court to dissolve the partner
ship, to decree a division of the property
and to allow him damages against the
other members Of the company for with
drawing more than their shares of the
profits and Withholding the share of the
plaintiff. Charles Grossman, Solomon Zieg-
er. Max Hamburg. A. Juchoff, are named
as defendants in the suit and are said to
be co-partners with the plaintiff in the
window washing business.
A. o. U. w. Meeting.
The annual meeting OF the grand lodge
of the Ancient Order of United workmen
in this state. will be held In the Auditor
ium in Lincoln, May II, next. The session
will last four days and more than 1000
members are expected. Six hundred lodges
from all parts of the state will send dele
gates to the meeing. -
The four Lincoln lodges rave chosen a
committee on entertainment and arrange
ments. The members of the committee are
H. J. Whitmore, r. A. Boehmer, E. Kersch-
Peckham, q Hoppe, F. e. Stump, IT. C.
Peate, H. Mohr. J. A. Mize and H. N.
Bushnell. The general committee has been
divided into subcommittee SO that certain
members will have charge of the various
matters that will be necessary to entertain
the big meeting. The committee has been
meeting from time to time at the CONNER
cial club rooms.
Hamilton appeals Case.
The county Of Hamilton has appealed an
interesting case to the supreme court, after
having lost out in It's own district court.
The county brought suit against Jasper B.
Cunningham, county treasurer. for inter-
est on county money deposited in banks
other than county repositories. II was al
legged that the daily balances deposited In
these banks amounted to $4,000 on the aver
age and that the treasurer made no record
of having received any interest on the
deposits.
Emergency Clause Overworked.
1t is barely possible that some one viii
attack the enforcement of some o. the
new laws which carry the emergency
clause. when it is very evident no emer-
gency existed. The new law relating to
the payment of fees by foreign corporations
carries an emergency clause. A lot of
other laws carry the emergency. Should
anyone be arrested for violating a law
which carries the emergency clause when
no real emergency existed and the violation
was through ignorance Of the existence OF
the law, attorneys say the accused would
have a defense in an attack on the emer-
gency clause of the law.