Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-27
Nebraska
BERCE Has OFFICE ITCH
Lincoln Populist-T hat-Was Would
Like to Land Just Once.
GOVERNOR OR SENATOR, wH1CHl
Run, but One Thing seems Ger
lie Stands Undecided whether to
tain, He wants TO Try
ARntn.
fFrom a staff Correspondent.)

.H'EINm u 0lAAI correspondents M
LINCOLN, Feb. 26.-Cspecial About
the busiest man in Lincoln Is George w.
BerM NEXT to Felix Newton, who is
walking delegate for the Russians, who
are taking out their first papers.
Mr. Berge just now is trying to decide
.whether TO run for the democratic noml-
rtion for senator or for governor. He
b..s friends who are urging him to do
oneaor the other and therein comes the
rub. Three times he went to bat at the
gubernatorial ball and once he swatted
II on the nose. once he was double
crossed out of It when It had been prom
ised HON on a silver platter and once a
tickle public left him at the plate. For
senator he has never been tried out.
But the shadow Of william ]. Bryan in
tervenes between him and the toBa. Even
with the nomination in his grasp his
friends say Bryan Is liable TO get into
the running and then those who start in
THE race will never get 20 finish. They
will simply have TO drop out,
SO, while reasonably sure he could hold
his own with w. II. Thompson or Gil
bert II. Hitchcock, a fight with the presi-
Dental candidate is not to his liking,
Friends have told him that Bryan will
notb Ne a candidate, but Berge Is afraid of
that eleventh hour petition 1000 or more
strong, which might be filed for Bryan
and by which he would be forced into
the race.
To secure, the nomination, Berge would
have to defeat shallenberger and Dahl
man. With the same parties in the race
a Year ago. Shallenberger came out ahead
but at that time there was no big talB
fof county option and Mr.. Bryan had not
ordained that county option should be it
So those who want Berge for governor
are insisting to him that Mr.. Bryan can
not consistently be for Shallenberger
or Dahlman, after his declaration, there
fore one good place for him to light is
behind Mr.. Berge.
Mr.. Berge is somewhat worried and
very much undecided what to do and he
wants to DO something.
Bungles Revenue Law
Many county assessors are writing tc
Secretary Henry Seymour of the STATE
Board of Assessment regarding the assess
ment " lands this year.
These inquiries have, arisen over tn
action Of the Hate democratic Legislature
in attempting to amend the r~evenueulav
without having the ability to do 1t.
Mr.. Seymour is answering the inquiries
by saying there will be no new assessmeu
Of land this year and not until 1912. Eht
part Of the law was left intact.
What the Legislature lid, however, wa
to wipe out the equallza ion of land value
in the year 1919 by adopting an amendmen
which provided that In 1911 The count,
boards should equalize the values Of land
This is to be done a year before the land
have been reassessed. Every Two year
thereafter the value of lands will be equal
ized9 THIS WI mean linlesa the next legis
latuTe sets the matter straight. that rea
estate viii be assessed every four year
onA Ayarxrt tRro uaara ffBAt vpluae will H.
equalized, but when the lassessmnt is don
there will be no equalization except tina
lone by the State Board of EQUALIZATION.
So Mr.. Seymour Is writing the count
assessors to proceed with their WORK as /
the past and pay no attention to any re
assessment of real estate this y9ar.
Ten Years for Robbery.
Charles Booten and Roy Raymond mus
serve their ten years in the penitentiar
for the robbery of Harry Miller, accordin
TO the decree of the supreme court. Thes
two men were sent up from Omaha. Bot
pleaded an alibi, but the testimony of
central girl was too much for the story c
\ the two men. A brother Of one of the me
and several acquaintances testified this
they were in Council Bluffs at 10 oclocl
an hour before the robbery. Two wome
called the men up by telephone and mad
a date with them 60 meet them at a Gel
tain street corner. The women said tina
they met the men about u o'clock, TIL
records Of central" however showed tina
the call for the men went through at Ii
a NJ. james Starry, who has p%reviousl
been held up by the men, also testifie
that he saw the men hold up Miller, pos
lively Identifying Booten and describir
Raymond closely.
Women Vote on Bonds.
tWomen entitled to vote at school ele
. lions may lawfully vote for or again
school district bonds" said the supren
court Of Nebraska.
~ Ira w. Olive started proceedings again
Nthe issuance of bonds In school district N
AZ Dawson county. owing to the fact tn
seteral women had voted on the bond
The district court held that women hs
a r4Eht to vote on school bonds and II
supreme court hold In this way.
A woman may vote at a school eleeti,
under the act OF 1881, II she has lived for
days in the district, is over p years OF as