Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-11-25
Nebraska
SECRETARY SEYMOUR DEAD
Clerk Of State Board Of Equalization
Expires of Heart Trouble.
FOUND PAINTING ON STREET
Long In Employ of state, where
for Five Years He Handed Fiwures
of Assessment of Nebraska
Property.
fFrom I. starr Cor,.snona.n,

(From . Staff Correspondent
LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. A-(Special Tel
egrarn)-Henry Seymour. secretary Of
the State Board Of Assessment, died sud
denly at his home In this city at 1870
o'lcock this morning
Death was caused from heart failure,
according TO DR.. ]. e. sward. his physi-
clan. who was with him from the time
ne found him on street in the down
town district until he died
with Captain J. l. Paul OF st Paul.
Dr. Sward was walking down the street,
when they discovered Mr.. Seymour lean
ing against a post, evidently in consider
able pain. He asked them to take him
nome and after doing so DR.. Sward dis
covered that his heart action was very
weak. He gave him a small injection OF
strychnine, but 1t was of no avail and
ne died soon after.
Mrs. Seymour was visiting at the home
of her sister in waverly and reached
home early this morning after her hus-
band had died. They have a con IN
Duluth. Besides the widow and son he
leaves a brother. Victor Seymour. dep
uty clerk OF the supreme court
ola State House EmplOys.
Mr.. Seymour had been connected with
the state house for several years, having
heen with the insurance department.,
then bookkeeper in the state auditor 3
office and on June 1, 1909. was appointed
to his present position as secretary Of
the State Board of Assessment to fill the
vacancy caused by the killing OF Christ
Schaveland by an automobile. He was
we'll known over the state and was In
great. demand at meetings of county as
SCISSORS. The tax commission las week
recommended him unanimously for reap
pointment as secretary of the Board of
Assessment and the same was filed with
the governor only day or so ago. Ar
rangements for the funeral will be made
later.
Child Send to Geneva.
Three children, Fenza, aged Il; Ieona,
9, and Verona, 8 years of age, daughters
of Mrs Jessie Bilyue, have been com
mitted to the Geneva school for girls, &C
cording TO copy of the commitment re-
ceived by the state auditors office from
the clerk of the district court of Wash
ington county.
Mrs. Bilyue has been travelling around
the country in a covered wagon with
Charles Schroeder and ON reaching Wash
ington county the children, with another
named Marldd, aged 8 years, were taken
from them by the authorities, the younger
one being held by the sheriff of Wash
inEton county, subject to the order OF
the court.
Marble Calls ON Governor.
H. p. Marble. assistant superintendent
OF the Menominee Indian school In Wis
consin and n former well known news
paper man in Nebraska. having owned
and operated the Humboldt Leader fol
about fifteen years. called on Governor
Morchead this morning to pay his re
spects TO his old neighbor. Mr.. Marble
is spending his vacation visiting his OLD
heunts in Nebraska.
MOrehead on Deck Again.
Governor Morehead returned home this
morning from his vacation trip 10 Elk.
co,sior Springs Mo-. where he went tc
cst ape the swarms of job hunters which
had infested his office as soon as 1t be-
came known that Nebraska had gone
democratic. He was accompanied on the
trip by Food Commissioner Hartman, who
won't along as bodyguard and returned
also this morning. The governor dlscov.
cred, however, that his absence. as usual
had made the democratic "neaft grow
fonder." and plenty of the faithful were
waiting to communicate their hearts de
sires into his more or less willing ear.