Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-29
Nebraska
IS ORDON GETS OfFIC1
supreme Court Holds She Nay Be
County Treasurer.
INCUMBENT HELD TO OFFICE
Inspector for Updilre Grain Company
FINDS wheat Damaged Not
90 Exceed Ten Per
Cent.
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Crronn a staff Correspondent)
LINCOLN, March 2g-(special)-The su-
prrms court holds IN the case OF Gertrude
Jordon Of Cherry county that woman Is
eligible 70 the office OF county treasurer
in the state Of Nebraska Miss Jordon is
% years OF age and has been deputy county
treasurer for seven years. She was elected
county treasurer Of Cherry county last fall
rceiving Us votes. or a majority Of 2i2 over
her opponsnt. Ernest B. Quible- She quail
fled for the office and Mr. ouible refused
70 turn the records over to her. alleging
that a-county treasurer must be an elector
Of the eounty and mat ss Miss Jordon II
not an elector within the meaning Of the
constitution ahe was not entitled TO the
office. afiss Jordon filed an Application for
a writ OF mandamus 20 compel him 70 turn
over 70 her the books and records OF the
office and the writ was allowed. Judge
Fawcett filed a dissenting opinion.
wheat Not Badly Damaged.
An agent OF the Updike Grain company
after a careful inspection OF the wheat
fields in the territory covered by the COM
pany has reported that altogether there
has not been damaged more than 10 per
cent OF the crop He was unable % find
4 any evidence Of farmers plowing their
wheat but on the other hand ii overed
they seemed very well pleased ~ith the
prospects.
Russell Junkin. graduate OF the university
agricultural farm. has write to his
father. Secretary Of Sta'e Junkir hat the
wheat in Gosper county is Son~ well,
and there Is little OF il da'~~ =. Jun
kin wrote that some OF tho WI looked
dead or badly damaged, but an vestiga-
tion OF the roots convinced him that It
viii come out all right A rain within the
next ten days, he wrote. would insure a
good crop.
Injunction Hearing Postponed.
The hearing on the application OF the
Commercial club OF Alliance to restrain the
State Normal board from locating the new
normal school at Chadron has been post
poned until Wednesday. The hearing was
set for this afternoon but owing to the
absence OF N. X. Griggs the hearing went
over.
F. NJ. Hall and Judge Critics appeared
for the city OF Chadron. while c. c. Flans-
burg appeared for the Commercial club of
Alliance. Deputy Attorney General Grant
Martin appeared for the normal board and
filed with the court an affidavit for Luther
affidavit Mr.. Ludden set out the action Of
the board IN locating the school and show
ing under what authority It acted.
Hunting Automobile Owner.
Mrs. II. D. Happy. 10 North Seventeenth
street. Council Bluffs. was at the office of
the secretary OF state this morning looking
for the name OF the owner OF automobile
No l.625. Nebraska. This automobile, Mrs
Happy said. ran over her 13-year-old son
last September in Council Bluffs and broke
2 hss leg above the knee ana injured hirn
internally.
The records In. the office Of the secretary
OF state show that this number was issued
to Mrs. w. d. Godfrey Of Omaha In 1907.
but no tax having been paid since then on
the number IL has been cancelled. II the
number is being used the law is being vio-
lated The machine described by Mrs.
Happy does not agree with the description
Of the machine for which the license was
Miner Raises Lumber.
Jess Miner OF Friend called on the gov
ernor this morning to show him pictures
Of forest which he planted thirty years
ago and from acre OF which he recently
cut 16000 feet OF lumber. He also had pic
lures OF his house and several barns which
were constructed OF lumber from his forest
Back TO Prison.
Jennie Geiger, who was sentenced to the
penitentiary for thirty-nine years for MUIR
der and who was recently transferred to the
Lincoln insane asylum, has been returned
to the prison. DR. Woodland pronounced the
woman cured. Recently she escaped from
the asylum. but was captured within
twenty-four hours
Ask for ReheaFins.
& The WeIls-Abbott-N -NIeman company of
BSahuyIer is not satisfied with the decision
OF the railway commission. which was that
ths Union Pacific and the Burlington need
nt put in transfer switch at that place,
siblhah ana Raft have filed a motion for
fehearing OF the case, alleging that the
commission erred In its decision and that
they have further evidence which they de-
sire TO introduce. The motion for the argu-
msRt for the rehsaring has been set for
April 7.
OBJeet 10 SugEestiOn.
The announcement OF the Burlington tha
I intended to give better train service OF
As Oxford n astings line by putting on
new train, to leave oxford in the morning
50 70 Hastings and return In the evening
lna created a storm of protests. Tn,
Pathway commission has received petitions
from Riverton, Cowies and Red Cloud oh
iefrns to this manner OF settling the con
trayerag. The petitioners desire the trail
to leave Hastings in the morning and re
turn in the afternoon. This would be {,
the benefit OF those who desire to visi
the county seat OF Webster county.
BurIInEton Cuts wires.
The York Telephone company has dle,
a complaint with the Railway commission
against the Burlington because that roas
orderea the eutting OF wires at Grand Is
land. These wires. pass over the Burling
ton tracks and wires The Burlington de
Tended It's action. so the commission AN
Eounced. By saying the telephone eompan,
20 the statutes and had made no agreemen
!. With 4 before putting up the wires
The Union Pacific. Burlington, North
had not secured ia right-of-way aeeordin,
INDIGESTION. GAS