Omaha daily bee., 1915-09-21
Nebraska
RTDGELL TO SUE
STATE TREASURER
Fire Commissioner Retains Lawyer
and Will Seek to Impose Penal
ties Upon Hall.
oUTGRowTH OF DEMOS ROW
fFnm a staff Corresnondent

CFrom a starr correspondent
LINCOLN, Sept. 2O.-(special)- lit is
understood that Fire Commissioner Rid
CELL will bring suit against state Treas
urer George Hall to force the treasurer
60 pay the penalties alleged to be due
because Of his failure to pay warrants Of
the fire commission when funds were in
the treasury for that purpose;
Instead OF having the attorney general
of the state prosecute the cases It is
understood that Ridgell has retained q,
J. Hainer.
The statutes provide that in case the
state treasurer refuses to cash warrants
when there is money to do so he is sub
1ect to an action for the payment OF
four times the amount of the warrants
and also subject to a fine of $780, one
half to go to the one bringing the suit
and the other half to the school district
in which the case is brought.
Faulty Index Cause.
The treasurer refused TO pay the war
rants because he was under the i'm
preston that it required a specific appro-
priation for the fire commission to draw
the funds. later finding that on account
Of the failure of the session laws to in
dex the provision, the act of its appro-
days ago when Hall then offered to cash
the warrants and Ridgell refused.
The suit is the result of the peculiar
brand of harmony which exists between
state house officials of the democratic
faith and the suit cannot be said to be
friendly" suit in any particular.
Commission Gets Under Way.
The new supreme court commission
held its first session this morning in
the senate chamber. The court consists
of w. C. Parriott. who acts as the head
of the commission, Grant G. Martin and
c. o. McGirr Judge Parriott was for
morally a member of the lower house,
of the legislature at the last session
Judge Martin was former attorney gem
eral of the state and Judge McGirr was
county attorney of Gage county. Miss
Mayer of Beatrice is the court stenog-
rapher and Paul Eaton. of the state
library, acts as clerk of the court.
The first case before them was an ap-
peal in a divorce case from Adams
county, Ondra against Ondra, covering
the allowance of alimony and six attor-
news are interested in the case. Corey
and Good for the appellants and Tibbets'
Morey. Fuller and Tibbets for the other
side.
The regular supreme court also began
its first sitting, Judge Hamer of Kearney,
who has been Ill for about year, sat IN
d. the cases. The Judge is feeling pretty
well, considering his long illness and
hopes to be able to attend to his duties
regularity.
lightning struck the dairy building last
NIGHT at the state fair grounds and partly
demolished the west end. The poultry
building next to 1t was damaged some
what, but luckily no fire was started
and the damage can be fixed without
great cost.
state Game Warden Rutenbeck OF
Nebraska and State Game Warden Hin
sha. of Iowa have come to satistac-
tory agreement over hunting at carter
lake and Lake Manawa. Heretofore there
has been much trouble over just how faf
Nebraska and Iowa hunters could go
when hunting in either OF the lakes, the
line between the two states being some-
where on the waters of the two lakes.
Tho matter has been arranged so that
Nebraska licenses will be good on all or
Carter lake and the Iowa licenses good
on all Of Lake Manawa. This makes the
present bed of the river the dividing
:!ne.
The State Live Stock Sanitary board
has issued an order that all cars and
other receptacles for shipping live stock
coming from Illinois must be thoroughly
dlsinfected before they can come into
Nebraska.
1t is understood that the state railway
commission has no funds with which to
prosecute the Missouri Pacific passen-
ger rate cases in the federal court. It
has been the intention of the commission
to hire a special attorney. but lack OF
funds will not allow them to do this,
and it is understood that the matter has
been put up to the attorney general to
prosecute.