Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-07-07
Nebraska
NEW POWER PLANT
FOR STATE PRISON
Board of Control Lets Contract for
Installation of One of
Large Size,
BLAIR COMPANY FIGHTS BONDS
trrom a staff correspondentl

CFrom a Staff Correspondent
LINCOLN, July 6.-(Special.)-A new
power plant will be placed in the state
penitentiary, the Board OF Control having
let a contract for the installation of a
plant costing S25,OCo.
There will be three big boilers OF go
horsepower each and three of the latest
type engines Of 100 kilowatt generators.
Pole lines will be extended to the state
hospital and It is the intention OF the
board to furnish power and light from
the plant to all the institutions of the
state in Lincoln and also to the state
house and governors mansion. They think
they will be able to cut the cost Of light
and power about half what 1t has for
merly cost the state.
Blair Firm stiII Fighting.
Notwithstanding the attorney general
and state auditor have both pronounced
the bond issue of the city of Blair for a
municipal lighting plant good, the Ne
braska Gas and Electric company, which
runs a plant in Blair, appeared before the
governor this morning for a hearing, de-
claring that the bonds voted by the city
were not good. The company was rep
resented by F. e. Edgerton, formerly as
sistant attorney general
The company was given until Friday
20 prepare briefs end submit them The
city Of Blair was represented in the
hearing by City Attorney Charles Doll
mig Potato Crop in sight.
Reports to the state Board Of Control
from the superintendents of the state in
stitutlons which run farms in connec-
ton indicate that there will be a large
crop OF potatoes at each institution.
The board is confident that there will
he more than enough to supply all OF the
institutions OF the state and that 1t will
not be necessary to purchase potatoes
for any of them, in fact, there will be
a large number of bushels to dispose OF.
Idaho Bonds Paid.
State Treasurer Hall has received no
tice that the payment of the state OF
Idaho Of the bonds which were held by
the state through the New York agency
has been made in the amount of SSSO,6OO
Interest on the same amounted to S,UO
The treasurer says that there will be
ways to invest the money without any
trouble In other bonds.
Guard Camp at Crete.
The state encampment of the Fifth
hegiment of the Nebraska guard will bt
held at Crete instead Of Hastings, Ad
5utant General Hall having discovered
that the country around Crete is betteI
adapted for the drills and marches o.
the troops than around Hastings, wher'
the ground is comparatively level. Hill
and valleys give the guard a better op
portUnity OF naneu~ering. The encamp
Inent VIII be held August 10 to Is. Thu
Fourth regiment win meet near Fremont
August 10 10 Ia
Violation of Quarantine.
State Health Officer Case has been in
formed that q certain physician in Ne
sbraska CttN who is treating scarle
fever cases which ere under quarantine
Is allowing the patients to come to hi
office for treatment instead of observ
Ing the quarantine laws, Dr. Case lef
today to Investigate the charges.
Omaha Man WEEDS.
Geohge H. Messing, aged %. of Onaws
Ia, and Katherine B. Clarke. aged "a
of the same place. were given a Ncens
to wed here yesterday.
John Fl Langford OF Omaha, aged 8
and Celia ~ Myers OF University Place
aged 81, were also given a license to wed