Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-21
Nebraska
STATE SELLS SOME BONDS
Premiums Offered on Paper Of Ala
bama and Calf rnia.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH POTTS ACT
j. J. HaIliEan of North Platte De-
tends Position OF Cattle Men in
Garden County-GOvernor
AldrIch Returns.
fFrom a staff Correspondent ,


LINCOLN. April 2O.-(special.) Bids on
a. portion o. fthe 100000 worth Of bonds
held as an investment in the permanent
school fund of the state and offered for
sale under the provisions of the Potts re-
investment measure which was enacted
into a law at the recent session Of the
state legislature. were opened today ana
were rejected with the exception of bids
on Alabama and California state bonds.
The legislature desired that these state
bonds should be sold in order that the
state might reinvest in the bonds Of NUM-
cipahties. drainage districts. school dis
tricts and counties. all home securities II
is said that close to 100000 worth Of such
bonds are now waiting purchase by the
state.
or he 100000 worth Of the bonds Of
ather states which we're offered for sale
today, and which were to be sold at par
with accrued interest. bids on only one
fourth that amount were made to the
board Of ed0cational lands and buildings,
which was conducting the sale. The single
bid accepted that on the Alabama state
bonds was at a premium of $500. These
bonds bear per cent interest and are
due July L 1856
All members of the State board we're
present at the sale with the exception Of
Governor Aldrich. The bids were opened
In executive session and the results were
announced later to the assembled bidders
or their representatives. OF the ten firms
who made bids. however, II is said only
five had agents present. Six bids were re-
ceived, IT. As understood. on tho 800 900
worth OF Alabarna bonds. two on 100000
worth Of Minnesota bonds. one each on S9O-
900 worth of delaware, S2s 900 of Idaho and
$4,000 worth Of North Carolina bonds and
two BIDS on 1900 worth of Tennessee bonds.
Later In the day 1925, 900 worth Of California
bonds were sold at a 1850 premium to a
Chicago firm.
Halligan for Kinkaiders.
THE contentious between the cattlemen
and KinlSaideFsi OF Garden county, which
are now being so widely aired, are based
on two different surveys which vary from
each other By considerable distance The
first or original survey is taken by the
cattlemen as the, deciding line, while the
later one, made a number of years after
ward, is accepted by the Kinkaiders."
Such is the assertioniof ]. ]. HalIigan of
North Platte, aSwell-lxnown attorney, who
has lived in that section OF the state for
the last twepty-six years and who is IA
miliar with the entire history of the
trouble.
when the first entries were made in
that part Of tho country the men picked
their quarter-section of land in forties so
that they escaped the sand hills and got
the more fertile valley land. II turned
out that the new survey finally lined the
corners up about eighty rods off the first
survey, but this worked no hardship On the
men who had come there first because
their claims as fenced out were to be re-
tathed by them just, as IL the survey had
tailed to foot with their claims. Then
too, old settlers who had come in were still
able to follow out their claims by aid of
the township lines which had been better
set by the surveyors on the original survey
than had the different section corners
KinkAiders Come In.
Then the Kinkaiders came in From
the first they took the lines as established
by the new survey and began choosing
homesteads In accordance with the new
mile corners. The result was that the old
homesteaders. these men who are now
called the cattlemen and who are reported
as being on the aggressive in the matter.
were thrown out of their holdings and their
Claims, according to the new way of reck
oning' were 'out Of plumb you might say
Just eighty rods. In most OF the cases
that threw the older settlers upon the
ridges Of sand hills and took from them the
fertile valleys which they had been work
ing for years past,
Rights OF First Settlers
This Kinkaiders have been the agRres-
sors in the matter" said the North Platte
man. and the men who worked there for
years before the Kinkaid act was thought
OF had to bear the brunt OF all these twist
ing or the lines in spite of the fact that
the secretary OF the interior had said that
their original claims were TO be protected
The Ktnkaiders claim that the new s,,r-
vsy should determine all boundary lines
while such men Yeast and Ballenesr
and others who have been there longer are
unwilling to let the newcomers. file on land
they have been working all that time. wbiIa
they themselves must be thrown up on the
ridges
The cattlemens desire to protect wha.
has been theirs is no more than any one IN
their places would do. It seems TO me -
continued Mr.. HaIligan.
The kinkaiders carried the matter far
enough 10 secure the indictment of Yeast
Hubbel, Balienger and several others ON
the strength of a WORKOUT law which was
used 70 operate against such Organization
- the hu-hluN Khan and which sought to
deprive citizens Of the United States from
certain rights granted them. These man
win be tried at North Platte in Nav ana
there will undoubtedly be excitement Ealors
~ that time
Gumpert Has Express Kick.
most unusual complaint Directing to
rates charged by express companies has
been received by the state Railway COM
mission. The man who filed It is H. Gus
Gpmpert OF Fremont, who contends that
express companies doing business in the
state base their charges on pound rates
instead OF fractions OF Apound. He calls
attention OF the commission 20 the fact
that the state fixes a net >tVelght for food
stuffs and for other weights and measures
and yasserts that express companies are
allowed to charge for full pounds whether
they are such or not.
Mandate in johnson Case.
The supreme court this morning sent a
mandate to Warden Delahunuty OF the