Omaha daily bee., 1912-06-08
Nebraska.
PATTERSON APPEALS CASE
Shallenberger Appointee Seeks Coin
for Services Not Rendered.
MAGGI GOES TO CONVENTION
Lincoln Man Gets Appointment as
Assistant Serseant-at-Arms for
National Meeting at
Chicago.
(From a Staff Correspondent


LINCOLN. June 7.-(special) )-SamueI
Patterson, who was appointed secretary
OF the banking board by Ex-Governor
Shallenberger and never had a chance
to serve, has appealed from a decision
Of the district court of Lancaster county,
wherein he filed suit to compel the state
auditor to pay him 5000 for two years
salary as clerk Of the board, and now
asks the supreme court to listen to his
tale of woe.
The case was tried in district court Of
Lancaster county and that court found
that the present secretary, Ed Royse,
had been filling the office as defacto or
dejure during the time that plaintiff
claimed salary under the law and that
therefore Mr.. Patterson had nothing
coming to him, consequently he asks the
supreme court to look into the matter.
Maggi to See Convention.
Ed G. Maggi, he of the pardoning
board, is exhibiting an appointment as
assistant Sergeant-at- arms Of the ma
ti2nal republican convention, done in
silver and gold and blue ribbons. The ap-
pointment was made on the recommended
ton Of Secretary William Hayward and
will entitle the holder to see all the fun
all the time and no one dare say him
ndy. The governor may have to take
peep from skylight on the roof or
broken window on the side, but the little
gold and silver done in blue ribbon
appointment will fix things for his ap-
pointee. Is it possible that Mr.. Maggi has
been Taft man all the time, nowith-
standing his close association with the
governor and John o. Yeiser?
Chairs by Prison Labor.
Donald McEwan of Chicago is here
comforting with the Board of Public
Lands and Buildings and getting little
more information regarding the estab-
lishment of chair manufactary at the
the, penitentiary and what will be re-
quired. 1t is the intention now, should the
company decide to locate, to incorporate
under the laws of the state of Nebraska
before beginning operations.
Special Rate Granted.
The railway commission has notified
its application for special rate to all
commercial telegraph companies to han
die business partly telephone and partly
telegraph will be granted. Under the
terms Of the agreement if a telephone
message is 10 cents or less the telephone
company will keep all of the charge and
retain 80 per cent if the telephone charge
is from Is to 20 cents; 70 per cent if the
charge is from 20 to 25 cents, and 60 per
cent If the chareg is 80 cents or more
The telephone company will handle busi-
ness of this kind only when other busi-
ness is out of the way.
The Oconto Telephone company will be
allowed to increase it's rates for business
phones from $1.50 month to 81, and the
switching rates on farm phones from 20
to 80 cents. "-i% .'n~
Kearney, will have the same freight
rate bais as Grand Island and Hastings
over the Burlington road on hides and
tallow in less than carload lots.
kanert Seeks New Trial.
The case Of Fred Kanert, a Grand Is
land business man, who was convicted Of
statutory assault on Mary Waddick, a
14-year-old girl, was up for hearing before
the supreme court today. Kanert was
found guilty in the Hall county district
court and sentenced to term of seven
Years in the penitentiary. He appealed
to the supreme court. One of the reasons
for an appeal fas that testimony was
allowed showing that kanerts wife died
last September in Macon, Ill.,, and that he
did not attend the funeral, which testi-
mony prejudiced the jury and was not
proper evidence He sets forth again that
the court room was filled during the trial
with men and women who were allowed
to laugh and sneer at the evidence and
that such acts prejudiced and influenced
the jury against him.
Two Big Bridges.
State Engineer Price has returned from
Wahoo, where contract was let for the
construction of two bridges by the state,
one at North Bend for $5S,0O0 and the
other at Fremont for $59,072 Stupp Bros.
of st. Louis were the successful bidders
on both bridges.
No Waterway Through Grade.
Assistant Engineer c. H. Gerber Of the
railway commission has reported ad-
versely on the application Of the Burling-
ton railway to reconstruct waterway
under their tracks at the end Of the Ere
mont bridge. During the floods this
spring a hole was made in the grade by
the use Of dynamite. but land owners in
terested claim that less danger will re-