Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-29
REGENTS ENDORSE NO ONE
Give Out Statement in Connection
with Recent Primaries.
FAIR POLITICAL HEADQUARTERS
Both Parties Expect 60 Maintain
Them at Lincoln During EXIT
bition--COrporatIons slow
with Tax.
(From a SAD CorrespondentN


LINCOLN, Aug. S-(special) -offlcials
of the state university have not endorsed
any candidate for any office, regardless OF
the campaign that is being made by certain
candidates. member OF the Board of
Regents said
| The university is not In politics and
II will not be dragged into politics II the
| Board OF Regents can keep Il out. We
have endorsed no candidate for the legis-
lature or any other office and IL any candl-
date Is running supposedly with the back
ing OF the officials OF the institution, he is
doing so on his own responsibility and
without any authority whatever from the
regents. The university Is the school OF
the people and for the people regardless
Of politics and It desires the friendship and
support OF all parties and all men and we
] believe Il has that friendship and we are
willing to trust its future to the legislature.
without making any special effort in be-
| half of any man or set Of men,"
| In Lancaster county one candidate for
the legislature posed as the special friend
OF the state university and promised II
elected TO work for better athletic field
and large appropriations. The Board OF
Regents, however, while approaching the
| friendship OF all candidates desires IL dis
tinctly understood that 1t is not behind the
candidacy of any nominee for the lesisla-
ture in Lancaster or any other county.
Political Headquarters at Fair.
Both the republican and the democratic
state committees will have tents and head
quarters on the state fair grounds this
year, the same as last year. Lee Matthews
! has been designated to arrange for the
| democratic headquarters and Clyde Barnard
will look after the opening Of the republi-
1 FfNn
senator and for governor have been in
vlted to speak during the fair. Acceptances
have been received from Senator Burkett
and C. H. Aldrich, but Congressman Hitch
cock and Mayor Dahlman have not yet
replied to the invitations.
U. S. Naval Display at Fair.
One Of the interesting small exhibits at
the state fair, September to 8, especially
to the old soldiers, who are to be admitted
on their Grand Army button on Monday,
will be the navy exhibit in the south wing
OF Mercantile hall
The Navy department has forwarded to
! Lieutenant Commander Ivan T. Wetten-
gel for this exhibit the following:
First; The principal exhibit consists of
the Navy departments model Of the U.
placement, lO,2SS tons; speed, 1878 knots;
| armament, four thirteen-inch, eight eight
inch, four slx.tnch, twenty six-pounders,
built by the Union Iron Works, San Fran
! CISCO. Cal; first commissioned in 1896 This
an exact copy in miniature OF this famous
vessel at the time It Wade the voyage from
San Francisco to Santiago IA Cuba at the
distance of 1900 miles IN sixty-eight days,
feat that up to that time had never been
i seSond large 0G photoSrap 5sSn oP the u.
most heavily armed battieshlp in The
Dakota and the Oregon one can see
| the advance in battleship construction In
Third; Photographs y OF. the following
named vessels of the navy, Nebraska, Mis-
souri,, West Virginia. Tennessee. Brooklyn
Fourth Pictures showing the kinds and
| sizes OF shells and powder charges used
In naval guns and the manner OF testing
Fifth, Track chart OF the world show
| ing the voyages made by the United states
fleets and souadrons during the years |o'
| to 1903.
In addition to the above there will be a
number OF articles Of historic interest
which have been loaned to the exhibit by
navy men now residing in Nebraska.
Many Corporations slow Pay.
Though only five days until corporations
which have not paid their annual occupa-
ton tax become delinquent, there still re-
mains between 1000 and 1900 which have
not RENTED to the secretary Of state. Many
of the big corporations got In today and re-
ceived their permits to do business for an
other year. The Rock Island railroad has
not paid its tax for the last year yet,
though a penalty attaches to any violation
of the law. September the corporations
which have not paid are subject to PEN
atty of $40 and IL the fee is not paid by
November 30 at 4 o'clock p. m. the corpora
ton ceases to exist upon the proclamation
OF the governor.
New Bond Required. I
The Canton Bridge company, which has a
contract to construct a bridge at Valley, |
will have to give a bond other than that
written by nonresident agent. The bond
was written by an agent of the Empire
State Surety company who lives at Kansas
City, though the company has authority to
do business In this state. When objection
was raised to the bond by the association
Of bond agents in Nebraska, the company
wrote TO the state auditor that inasmuch
as both the Canton Bridge company and
the Empire State Surety company were
foreign companies. the nonresident agent
statute had nor been violated. Auditor Bar |
ton submitted the question TO Attorney Gen |
eral Thompson, who held the law had been
violated.
Railway Employees in State.
Following are the number OF railway en- |
pioyes in Nebraska, as shown In annual re- |
ports to the Nebraska State Railway COM