Omaha daily bee., 1911-04-20
CFrom staff correspondent)


LINCOLN, AprG 19.-(Special)-The SUI
prerne court today denied a rehearing to
Thomas johnson, the Omaha negro who is
sen enced 90 be hanged here May 10.
Unless Governor Aldrich sees fit TO save
the man from the galiows his execution
will take place on that date
Travellers to Meet.
Fully 300 delegates are expected In the
city Friday and Saturday 10 attend the
meeting Of the Nebraska district of the
Travellers Protective association Both
the afternoon session on Friday and the
sessions Saturday will be devoted to the
consideration Of business matters and no
set addresses are scheduled for either day.
Women who attend the convention will be
entertained by a musical at the governors
mansion Saturday morning and at noon all
delegates will be guests at luncheon 10
be given In their honor Friday evening
the banquet of the association will be held
at the Dndsii hotel. Thomas II. Powers
of Omaha will speak on The Travelling
Man at Home and Abroad" at that time,
and Governor Aldrich will give his ideas
on The Travelling Mans Part in Ne
braska's Development"
Rock Island May Get Back.
According to the provisions ri >. e. IS
Secretary OF State Wait believes that the
Rock Island Railroad company will rein
state itself as a corporation in good stand
ing in the state by the payment Of a fee OF
800. This company IL one which IL con-
testing IN the federal courts the validity
of the 2.cent fare law and the Aldrich
freight reduction law. The act passed at
tina 1899 session OF the legislature required
home corporations and foreign corporations
90 pay to the state an annual occupation
tax based on the paid up capital Every
corporation falling to do this was to have
l its franchise forfeited. At the recent
Nson of the Legislature the law was amended
20 as to provide that delinquent corpora
tons or those who have failed to pay on
account Of some unavoidable circumstances
might be reinstated by paying back taxes
together with slight penalties. The secre-
tAry of state is empowered to use his dis
erection in the matter OF reinstatement. It
is said that of the $50 companies whose
franchises we're cancelled on account OF
this delinquency It is thought that fully
fifty Of them will comply with the pro-
visions OF the new law and reinstate.
New Real Estate Rules.
! According to the provisions of new set
of bylaws adopted by the local real estate
exchange. property listed with one mem
Der OF the exchange shall. upon demand
of the owner. be listed with all the mem
bers of the exchange Failure to do this
means expulsion from the exchange.
Brewster Man Wants Line.
c. X. Hall, representing citizens OF Sar
gent. has written Attorney General Grant
Martin TO ask IL there is not some means
by which the Burlington road can be com
PEELED to build a line OF road from Sar-
gent TO Brewster, The line now ends at
Sargent. Mr.. Hall says a meeting of clti-
Gems was held TO see IL something can be
done to have the road completed. He
writes that the Burlington built rosdbed
over twenty years ago from Sargent to
Brewster, but no rails or rolling stock
have been put on It. He believes the road
bed was built for the purpose of keeping
out other railroad lines. 1t Is asserted
that the roadbed runs dlagonalIy through
farms and has nearly ruined a great many
farms. Mr.. Hall said he had written TO
the State Railway commission and that
body had Informed him 1t did not have
jurisdiction over such case. As the at
torney general recently Informed tho rail-
way commission that II did not have
power to require a street car company to
build a line. he will be obliged TO say that
the same opinion applies to railroad COM
same as street car companies.
Changes I'm Auto Law.
I Several changes In the present statutes
Regulating motor vehicles and automo-
biles, were made during the recent SEES
sion of the legislature by the McArdle
bill, which passed both houses and was
approved by Governor Aldrich. The new
law which will become effective early in
July, contains the following provisions,
digested section by section.
Section l-Defines motor vehicles as
those propelled by any power other than
y muscular and excepting road rollers, trac-
4 ton engines and those run on rails OF
! tracks, Defines public highways as all
ways where the passage OF vehicles is al
lowed.
Sec LIVERY owner of such motor We
hicles shall file with the secretary of state
description OF his vehicle or vehicles and
shall pay an annual tax OF OF for motor
cycles and Sc for other motor vehicles
All police patrols and fire AUTOMOBILES