The Columbus journal., 1910-05-11

Cass following In the order named
The total apple shipments freighD
during the year were $4,000 bushels.
State House Briefs.
William A. Cole has interviewed IN
the matter Of the train service COM
plant against the Burlington which
is to be heard at Red Cloud. May II.
by the railway commission. He de-
sires q train to start from Hast
ings In the morning to run to Red
Cloud.
The assessed or one-fifth value Of
railroad terminals in Omaha and other
towns Of Douglas county. excluding
South Omaha. as returned by the coun.
ty assessor to the state board of equal
ization this year is $2.3SS.214. Last
year the same terminals were valued
at $2.36?.419.
A carload OF hogs was shipped from
from the Lincoln asylum last week.
bringing to the institution s1.39106
This is the fourth car marketed by
the asylum since last fall. the price
per hundred being respectively $50.
IS. 1920 and sS25 and the total re-
ceipts will be about $500.
Washington county bonds to the
amount Of $4,000 were registered
Tuesday at the state auditors Office.
The bonds are refunding bonds to take
the place Of per cent bonds held by
the state. The old bonds were due
April 1. but the county of Washington
did not get the bonds In shape to re-
fund till April IS. The state may
claim interest from April I
J. A. Robertson Of Glen. Sioux coun-
ty. has filed with the secretary OF
state a petition signed by twenty-five
electors asking that his namo be
placed on the primary ballot as q
democratic candidate for representa-
tive from the Fifty-third district He
has fled a receipt from the county
treasurer showing that he has paid
fee of SO. but has not filed an afi-
davit OF acceptance.
State Auditor Barton. unless en-
joined In court. will pay the claim OF
Secretary L. p. Ludden OF the state
normal board at the rate OF SIS .
month. The auditor has been waiting
for an opinion of the attorney general.
He has received an opinion written by
Grant Martin. deputy attorney gen.
eral. holding that the auditor would
be justified in approving Mr.. Lud'
den's vouchers unlses restrained BY
an order of court.
Warden Smith appeared before the
board of public lands and buildings
and obtained leave from that board to
buy $50 tons Of coal In Omaha and
smaller amounts from Lincoln deal
ers. The board met to devise ways
and means to get coal for the peni.
Tertiary. It Is the only state institu-
ton that Is short Of coal on account
of coal strikes. The contract made
by the state some months ago Is con.
ditioned on there being no strikes.
Therefore the state has to buy Its coal
in the open market.
The board Of public lands and build.
ings contemplates buying electric light
for the Kearney industrial school for
boys from a private company at Kear.
ney rather than pay coal bills and
hire an engineer. The private COM
pany has offered to sell light to the
state for cents kilowatt- The state
Is now buying light for the girls in
dustrial school at Geneva. At the
penitentiary. where the state Is
obliged to maintain big power plant.
It is said the cost Of production is
cents a kilowatt. The penitentiary
supplies light for itself. the state and
house grounds, the home for the
friendless and the governors resi-
dence.
The railway commission has granted
leave to the Bell telephone company
to reduce its rates in South Omaha
20 meet competition Of the independ.
ent company which the Bell company
sought to keep out of South Omaha.
The Burt county telephone company
has been given leave to reduce rates
at Oakland. Tekamah and Lyons.
The election OF Lucius r. Hammond
to the ofsce OF first lieutenant Of the
Fremont signal corps has been ap-
proved by the governor as commander
in chief OF the Nebraska national
guard.
The American Express company.
which recently obtained control Of the
Pacific Express company. has changed
one Of the rules enforced by the Pa
cific company. The American Express
company has notified the state railway
commission that it will ship all con
signments over the Union Pacific line
that dips down into Colorado at Jules
burg as state shipments and will en-
force the Sibley rate law on that line
Of railroad. The Pacific company re
fused to do this on the ground that
such shipments we're interstate tranc