Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-21
Nebraska
BELATED FILINGS RECEIVED
Secretary of State Adds Seven More
Names to His Long List.
NEWMAN GROVE CASE APPEALED
Crawford Kennedy Takes Trip
Down 60 Pawnee 90 Sec some OF
Hts OId-Timc Friends and to
scout for votes.
cFrom a STAFF CorespondentN

CFrom a STAFF Correspondentl
LINCOLN. July O-(Special Filings
for office appeared in the mail of the
secretary OF state this morning which,
bearing postmark OF the eighteenth, In
the opinion of the secretary, were entitled
70 be listed. One, however. bearing a
date of Sunday. will have to be refused
unless the applicant can show that the
letter was mailed Saturday. This filing
was sent in by f. r. Banker OF Butte and
was for nomination for representative in
the Fitty-fourth district on both the re-
publican and progressive tickets The
others, which bore postmarks Of the
eighteenth. were accepted as follows:
H. Gordon Cross, St Edward, tprogD,
state senate Ninth district.
George G. Junkin, Smithfield, tprCS),
petition for state senate. Twenty-flrst
N. J, Weber, Crawford, (rep.), Seventy
fourth representative district
c. G. Crowell, jr., Omaha, (pro), regent
Nelson Hald, Dannebrog, (pro), secre-
Walter /. Fowle. Grand Island, cpro),
state superintendent
OTson Appeals Case.
Charles Olson Of Newman Grove has
appealed 70 the supreme court from q
judgment OF the district court of Madi-
action against the village board OF New
man Grove TO compel them to recount the
votes held in the city election on the
proposition Of license TO saloons.
Mr. Olson contends that the city voted
on the proposition for and against license
and that the vote was a tie, that the
board threw out one vote against license
thus making the election one majority
for saloons. He asked the board TO re-
count the votes and turn over the polling
books for inspection and they refused TO
do so. He also alleges that there are
several votes cast for saloons which were
cast by men who were not legal voters
and gives the names OF three OF the1p
parties.
stock Lake with Fish.
Deputy Fish Commissioner w. ].
OBrien and Deputy Game Warden Gust
Rutenbeck have returned from Curtis
where they deposited six tons OF fish in
the lake at that place Today they went
to Thayer where they will clean the lake
Of all undesirable fish and return the de-
sirable kind to the place.
McKeIvie to New York.
Lieutenant Governor g. r. McKelvie
will leave this week for a trip to New
York, Philadelphia, Boston and other
eastern points. He expects to be gone
until September L
Kennedy Ont After Votes.
Crawford Kennedy left this afternoon
| for a campaign trip through the First dis
trict in search of votes He expects to
visit some of his old friends in Pawnee
county with whom he has been ac-
quainted since the 's0s, when he first met
/ them in a republican state convention
held in ColuMbus in which Kennedy was
a delegate from Boone county.
When we attended that convention in
| Columbus the Boone county delegation
rode the fifty miles in lumber wagon
and slept in the haymow of the livery
barn because there was no room in the
hotel" said Kennedy, and II is doubtful
IL we had money enough to stay at the
hotel il there had been room."
Wants to Take John Doc.
| Governor Hodges of Kansas has asked
the governor OF Nebraska 10 return to
! that state John Doe" who is accused OF
stealing a revolver at Bellvillee and skip
ping out to Fairbury, where he is now
held by the police of the Nebraska town.
Sending After "tlAtams'
Governor Morehead has asked the gov
ernor of South Dakota to allow the
sheriff of Pierce county to bring back to
this state John Williams, who was in the
Pierece county jail on charge of steal
| ing two mules worth about $500 Williams
escaped from the jail and flew north
| across the line.
EEan's Bond Approved.
The supreme court has approved the
bond of Mitchell Egan, accused in Dawes
county OF stealing cattle and to whom
a stay of sentence was granted by the
supreme court a short time ago pending
a new trial. Walter r Kent and Charles
! F.. Dargan are the sureties on the bond.
Coleman Back Again.
T. W. Coleman, balliff OF the supreme
court has returned from a months va
cation with his family in Omaha Mr..
! Coleman spent most OF his vacation at
| a lake near that city fishing. Mr.. Cole
man is one OF the prominent nimrods of
the state house, and to use an old ex-
| preston, "A good many OF the fish he
! catches would weigh a pound" His nat
ural modesty, however, will not low
him to tell just how many.
InvestIng In Water Power Bonds.
! Senator Joseph Burns OF lincoln and
! William Richie OF the state commission
for the revision OF the school laws called
on Attorney General Martin this morning
! to secure some idea what would be nee
essary to be done 10 permit the school
! funds of the state TO be invested in bonds
of water power companies The attor-
ney general could not give them much
| announcement in the matter as the con-
/ stitution viii have TO be changed before
| the state can do anything itself in wa
1 ter power development and It will take
an act OF the legislature to allow the
/ funds 10 be invested In the manner the