Omaha daily bee., 1912-07-05
FEW OFFICIALS ON Jobs
Fourth of July Taken as Holiday at
State House.
STATE MILITIA TO WYOMING
Adjutant General Receives Message
that Money Will BE Available
for Army Maneuvers at
Pole Mountain.
(From a Staff CORRESPONDENT J


| LINCOLN, July 4.-(Special) )-Offices
at the statehouse this morning as a gen.
eral thing are deserted. However, Land
Commissioner Cowles was taking ad-
vantage of the silence to go over some
of the bids sent in for supplies for state
| institutions for the coming quarter. He
was busDy engaged on the soap sched-
ule and showed some of the bids and
the weights and percentages of the diff
ferent bars submitted. The heaviest
pound bar of soap only weighed nine
and one-half ounces. and from that they
| ran down to about six. ounces. The best
bar cntained little over n per cent of
/, soap. AS the state buys the soap by the
pound instead of the bar, it makes little
difference
Deputy Secretary of State Marsh was
looking after the first delivery of mail
and some other minor matters. Bond
Clerk Lawrence was on the job in the
auditors office for a short time and
Secretary Mellor of the agricultural
board was grinding off grist of poetry
in his department. The assistant adtu-
while, while the stenographer of the pure
food department was wrestling with a
big bunch of letters Deputy Attorney
General Ayers was also busy, but out
side Of that the offices in the statehouse
were closed tight.
Hansen to Seattle.
Food Commissioner Hansen and State
Chemist Redfern leave this evening to
attend the national pure food congress in
Seattle, where both gentlemen will ap-
pear on the program.
Guard to Go West.
The adjutant generals office received
a telegram last night that the war ap-
portionment bill had passed both houses
and that in all probability tine state guard
would now participate in the maneuvers
at Pole Mountain in Wyoming, Pcepara-
tions will &c begun at once to get ready
to move the guard at the proper time.
Insargent WoOdmen Meet.
The lnsu1gent Woodmen ot Lancaster
county organized last night and elected
+. F. Priest of Lincoln president, E. P.
Malone of Havelock vice president and
A. w. Lewis Of Havelock secretary.
No New Trial Granted.
Judge 7. c. Munger Wednesday over
ruled motion for a new trial in the
case of J. S. Rohde against Ralph A.
Duff of Nebraska City. Rohde brought
suit for $4,000 against Duff, who was the
owner of an auto garage at Nebraska
City. He was injured by falling down an
elevator shaft to the cellar Of the build
ing after he had asked for and received
directions to the toilet roo min the back
of the garage. He alleged the garage
owner was negligent In not having the
door leading to the shaft labeled. The
case was recently tried before Judge
Munger who ruled for an instructed YER
dict.
Indian Woman at Prison.
A full-blooded Indian woman, Nancy |
Wells, was received at the penitentiary |
Wednesday morning. She is under SEN |
tence of from one to ten years for man
slaughter. She broke down completely |
and was heartbroken when first taken |
into the prison, but after being turned |
over to the matron she became more
calm. he new prisoner is only q years /
Told and is unmarried. She was con-
victed of killing her newborn baoe, hay-
ing thrown 1t into an open-a!r vault.
where it remained for about twenry-fcIr
hours. Its cries attracted the attention
Of passersby and 1t was taken out. but
died within few hours. Miss Wells is
from Thurston county, and she is the
only Indian woman now at ne prison al
though there are several Indian men
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