Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-10
Nebraska
ALLIANCE GETS NEW SCHOOL?
Persistent RumOr in Lincoln Normal
Board Has Decided.
NO CONFIRMATION OBTAINED
OTein Making Strenuous Effort 20
Pull Down Persimmon-NO Court
Opinions Rendered This
Week.
Nebraska
NO CONFIRMATION OBTAINED


CFrom a staff Correspondent)
LINCOLN, Dec. 9--(Special) originating |
at source that cannot now be traced is
a story going the rounds that Alliance Is
going to get the new normal school and
that this was settled during the legisla-
ture providing the new normal board bill
then pending did not pass. Treasurer Brian
said he had no idea where the new normal
school would be located and could not say
which town he would favor until he had
looked over the propositions made by the
various towns. Secretary Ludden denied
that he had ever heard that Alliance was
to get the school through any deal made
during the time the bill was pending, OF at
any time since then. He, like Mr.. Brian.
said the school would be located In the
town that the board thought would be the
best location for the school,
Nov that the time is fast approaching
when the board is to start out on its tour
of inspection Of towns in northwest Ne
braska, the interest in the location of the
school is becoming intense.
Information has been received that
oNeill has submitted proposition for the
school to the new board and that Secretary
Graham Of that defeunct organization still
had the papers in the case and these would
be ordered sent to the regular board. Oscar
Snyder and r. r. Dickson of O'Neill are
said to be working overtime for O'Nein
and the propositions prepared by the Holt
county people will shortly be on file with
the regular board. They are claiming that
O'Neill would serve more people than many
Of the towns wanting the school,
Alliance, Chadron, Crawford, Ainsworth,
Gordon and the other towns which want
the school offer the same kind Of argu-
ments however, SO 1t will take a personal
inspection of the board to decide which il
entitled to IL. The board will start out the
first week in January on its trip of In
spection.
| No Opinions This Week.
| 1t is very probable that the supreme court
win hand down no decisions at the sitting
this week The court is very anxious to
clean up much business at this time as
possible. in order to carry few cases over
into the new docket TO be made up January
15. For that reason the time of the court
at the session this week win be devoted
largely to passing on motions for rehear-
ings.
Objects to Cigarette Smoking.
Attorney General Thompson has received
a letter from a school teacher at Schuyler
the public smoking of cigarettes. This
teacher writes that such occupation ruins
the health Of the person working at it, and
also that Of those who have to sit next to
him or be with him during the operation.
j The writer alsn aske the attorney general
to favor the enactment OF law which will
prohibit the marriage Of persons who
4 smoke cigarettes. At Schuyler, he said,
package Of cigarette papers Is given away
with each scent package OF tobacco The
legal department of state has the informa~
tion given IT under consideration
4 Democrats Beg ola Clothes.
j The democratic administration. now
that it is up against deficiency in prac-
tically all of the state institutions, or at
least a majority of them, has started a
campaign of retrechment
From some of the institutions there has
gone forth an appeal to relatives OF in
mates for help, either financial or for
old clothes. or anything that can be used
in order to save the institution from a
deficiency.
The matter of this appeal for old clothes
has been heard by members of the State
Board of Public Lands and Buildings
and II Is very probable some action will
be taken by the board. These members
have no objection to relatives who are
able paying the way of their unfortu-
mates in a state institution, but they do
object to an indiscriminate begging Of
old clothes for the wards of the state.
It is not improbable that the board will
take some action in the matter.
Walden Case Appealed.
The Bankers Life association OF Des
, Moines has appealed from a decision of
the Phelps county district court, in which
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for the amount of life insurance policy
held by her husband in that company. II
was alleged by the company that DR..
Walden, the husband had taken his own
life within five years OF the date OF the
policy, which rendered the policy void. The
doctor was found dead in his office and
by his side was a glass. In which it was
alleged there had been poison. On the table
there were two letters bidding his wife
goodbye and telling her he had taken tho
poison At the coroners inquest the jury
held the doctor had committed suicide
At the trial the two letters could not Dt
located and neither could the verdict oi
the coroner's jury. Witnesses testified t
having read tine letter and one man swor,
that they had been written by the doctor
This witness was attacked on his reputa
: ton and therefore II was not proven con
clusively that the doctor had killed himself
as there was doubt Of the Identity OF hi.
hand writing.
TripDed ON His Name, Maybe.
William Jennings Bryan Geilus, 9-year.
old son Of the deputy game warden, fell or
the Ice and broke his arm yesterday. The
little fellow was on his road to schoo
when the accident occurred. He kept OF
his way and took his seat in the schoo
, room and remained there until the teacher
noticed something wrong with him. Their
he was sent home.
MslIOr Home from Des Moinea.
w. r. Mellor has returned from De,
Moines, where he went to deliver an ad.
dress before the tsate Board Of Agricul
ture on sJate fairs and exposltions. Mr.
Mellor went to eds Moines from Chicago