Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-05-03
Nebraska
EASY ACCESS TO
BOOKS OF ROAD
Railway Commission Receives Letter
Indicating Missouri Pacific Is
Willing.
BEATRICE INSTITUTE PAYS IN
LION a slaff correspondent.l


LINCOLN, May 2,-(speclal 1.-THE rail-
way commission will have no trouble In
gaining access to the books and records
Of the Missouri Pacific Railroad company,
according to q letter received by tho state
commission from J. A. G. Kennedy gem
oral solicitor for that road
The controversy came up over The at
tempt Of Commissioner Hall ana Rate
CLERK Powell 70 secure access 10 the booka
nj Falls city recently and were denied
The privilege
The matter was taken up With Omnla
headquarters, with the result That Mr.
kennedy informs the commission that Ill
They need to do Il 10 notify headdunrtcra
/. whenever they want assistance q mat
Kind and the order will be sent out u
allow the commission 10 80 over The
records,
Officers school mt sparta.
Adjutant General Hail has been notified
that the date and place for holding the
Officers school and fiei dhoa1tal camp
has been changed and the Officers viii
90 10 Sparta, Wis, for their instruction,
The former some time in June aad the
latter IN August.
Tho military board Of the Nebraska Ma
tonal Guard Will meet Wednesday morn
ing NJ headquarters in the state house
for tho purpose OF taking up matters
relative to the summer encampment,
which viii be held at Fort Robinson some
time In the fall
Beatrice Funds Ia Treasury.
state Treasurer Hall this morning re-
colved remittance Of $4,000 from the
BoAtrico home for the feeble minded,
Thls sum IL received from the different
counties having children In the school
and IL credited TO the clothing account
Heretofore the Institution superintendent
has kept the funds in o bank at Beatrice.
but after The Bee some time ago raised
tho question Of the Legality Of such action,
the Board Of Control made an order that
the fund should be placed In the state
treasury as the law required.
Lord Comes 10 Omaha.
Cecil Lord, for many years connected
with the Lincoln Daily Star and day rep
rosontative OF the American Press naso-
citation. has severed his connection with
that paper and gone to Omaha, whore he
viii have charge Of the publicity depart
tnent Of tho Nebraska Telephone cont
pany. Mr.. Lord was on eof the live young
newspaper men Of the state capital.
stark HnDts for Heirs.
Judge W. Il. Stark Of Aurora was nj
the state house this morning on business,
From here he goes TO Boston, whore he
Will seek evidence regarding the heirs Of
Alden =. Nichols, who recently died In
Aurora and formerly lived In Maasaehu-
sotts, Attorney General Reed Ia cndcayor=
ing TO have this estate escheat 10 the
state for want OF heirs, but General Stark
II Of The opinion there are heirs and
sinks he can locate them, Nichols
served In tho civil war and afterwards
came west, living IN different states. The
estate amounts TO about 1900
state warrants Issued.
According TO the report of State Auditor
smith. there wcro 1895 warrants Issued by
the auditors office during the month Of
April, amounting TO s27s,9770G This Is the
smallest amount issued since the first
Of the year. the amount in January being
i2ss,l9l in February. En,ssi, and in
March, t3so;206. the total for the four
months being si,60s. e5s.22. The same
,s,a,.th. - fatE amounted a, ri Q20 gqg n