Nebraska Newspapers

    KCNXA7. MAY 2. 1832.
PLATTSJIOUTH SEMI -WEEKLY JOUILNAL
PAGE FIVE
KDOGK ITEMS
Mr. and Mrs. Emil Kuehn were
visiting and locking after some busi
ness n.atters at Nebraska City on
Wednesday cf last week.
Sheriff E. W. Thimgan was a vis
iter in Murdock on last Thursday,
looking after some official business
and also was a caller on a number of
Li? friends here.
Morcan Shatto. who discontinued
.ei'.ing the Trunk t iibolz gasoline and
other i roduets. is soon to have Stand
aid Oi! C"r.:rany pumps install-d and
will handle their products in the i
future.
Tlpiirv C.irten manager nf the
Farm is Grain company elevator, was !
a visitor with his mother at their!
l oin- in Havelor-k last Sunday. He j
at;..!, ris niotrr sunering from an
i: ta k e f lumbago.
Ji-h:i Bornemeier was shelling and
'.: livt vinz corn on last Thursdav to
th- Farmers elevator at Murdock. in '
this niar.r.tr getting the grain out of j present town of Ithaca. Ferry and
tht- way nrfore the rush of other farm ' Johnson ran a stage line between
work enve'iTf him. j Ashland and Wahoo. We soon had
Jnhn Lft-1 and the good wife ' the post office in our home. Our sal
were mtr to Plattsmouth on last!arv was all the cancelation, which
1
V.'etlr.' .-'a y. t ailed there to look after ; amounted to as much as $1 and over
sr-me f'lsiiuss matters for a sho""t!per month, but we did not need to
t:mn and also visiting with some of go to the post office for mail the
t! eir fri r.d.-- while in the city.
Mi:-- Mai
.a Theil. who is one- of j
t?: v- ry be st of nurses, has been over poor, but har-py and contented.
t-- the home cf Miss Maggie Stokes ! I was th:n in Lhe ministry, with
e me few miles southeast of Elm wood. a salary of $25t'.l"J per year, to keep
wh re s! e has Ik t r. caring for Miss I the family, buy books, keep up buggy
Ftokes for seme time, she being very , and horses and pay back into the Mis
ill. sionary treasury the sum of $25 (this
Msrs. Henry A. Tool. Julius A. I was not obligatory; it was a volun
Reinkt am! Herman 11. Schmidt were j tee- contribution.! The circuit was
over to Plattsmouth. where they went ; larsre. reaching into three counties
to attt n-.i the rer ut'ii. ari county con- all of Saunders, part of Butler and
vention as well as looking after some ', Lancaster. To reach my nine ap
husiness n.atters while there. From ; pointnients. I had to travel 250 miles,
Plattsmouth thfv drove on to Omaha, making about fi.uoo miles each year.
wher the
il-c; transacted business
before returning home. 'vice. Blizzards were frequent in win-
Eddie- Craig received a letter from ter. but they did not frighten. After
his s--n. Jack Ciaisr. who is in the two years at Milton, we were trans
I. S. navy and was stationed at San ferred tc Omaha, then to Madison,
I"ranc:r-?o at the time of writing to 1 next to Milford, which ended my
his father. Jack expressed himself work in hc ministry nine years in
a likirg the navy life f.rst rate. He ' all. This month also finished our
also sent 1 st wishes to his friends j forty-first year in Murdock.
he r? and wished to be remembered tc ' The changes in fifty years are sure
all his former associates. , very great. We had very few marked
In order to cultivate the friendship j roads, only i;nf-need trails over the
of whatever fish may be in the Platte . prairie. We would drive by direction
river. A. J. Tool and Lacey McDonald ; or compass. NeigLborliness anil hos
we:e over last Thursday afternoon. : pirality were a characteristic of the
Notwithstanding the fact that they early settlers. Wealth brought inde
macle som- advances toward becom- : pmdeneo and the loss of that happi
ing b t: r a-ntmir.ted. the fish were ness and pleasures of the occasional
very shy and no strong friendships ' meetings. The friends of our first
v.-.-rc i r:;..,i. The curd weather has
not !: r. (en-liuive to good f.shing, ' the other shore very few are here,
hut th- hrys will not be frustrated in This brings a feeling of homesickness
their j. inns will return again a longing to see them. Our lifo- in
som- day. "Bettc-r luck next time" is ; Murdock has been very pleasant. Be
all we ear. say. ! ir.g the first one to settle in Mur-
Idotk, I have seen the town grow to
Hatching Eg-JJS for Sale jits present beautiful loveliness, with
We Lave the Jersey White Giants.
i
e::a ilr- hkken. These we are j wonderful trees and well kept lawns.
'Ti:,sz at ?" 'T hundred. Address and a happy, God-fearirg ar.d c on
A. D. Zaar. South Bend, for re?- ; tinted pecp!rv Its educational insti-
erva::- r:s.
ull-Zt M p:
j
Had Excellent MeetirifT
Ladi'-s Aid society of the- Mur-j
oc-k ehuM-h were e nioving a
very
fine n.-eting and also doing some
v iv gmd v. f rk on Thursday even
int of in-t v.- I-:, and were entertain
i '. by Mrs. Lr.ntr. who served a very
d'licbi'ul lunch-'. n. and where a
V ry pl-.asi
l:--ii- - a!-'
g program was had. The
n i-' yt-d the social Lour.
v Lich is al .v
tures of th-:
;ys f r.r of the main
meetings.
?":". GCC72 ' Utt Vcr Pccily
Mr-. G - ( rg; I'tt. who ha been very
s !!; -I a- th-ir goal Omaha and were
1 ''?';- l-.r ionic tin--, being troubled
w:h i-al! st' i:' s. was in a verv crit -
L u! i ondii ion
a creat deal of
last
):. Ih.r cerdition was so serious
i' her s'.n. Diller I'tt and wire
r called, and remained at her bed-
a number c;f days. Her many
i n. are hoping that she may im-
and soa b- able to be up and
w
L'j '.it attain.
Showing- Improvement
Ir- -! S-o k. "Sr.. president of the
Faim'r:- liievaU r company, of Mur
('tk. i as been kept to his home the
past fr w v.eiks with a very severe at
tach of iumbago, which has kept him
lo he could not get out of the house,
and as i'j.cle Fred says, "so he could
net b- :;ii!i. either." He is som? bet
ter at this time, however, and i3 able
to h. up a part of the time, but can
do no work as yet.
Eichard Enriniis Some Better
hard Eppings. 14-year-old son
c t ; : r
r -it
and Mrs. John Eppings, was
taken suddenly ill Monday night
with acute appendicitis, and upon ex
amination Tuesday morning by Dr.
L. D. Lee, was taken immediately to
Lincoln, where he was placed in the j
T .rrrln p-fr.rt bo;mtal and under-
went an operation immediately. He
has since been showing improvement
amd is getting along fully as well as
could be hoped for. His mother has
visited him every day and ci3 father
every night and the pleasing reports
they bring back of his continued im
provement are most gratifying to the
many friends of this bright young
lad.
Cemetery Kectog May 2nd
There will l)e a meeting of the
members cf the Wabash Cemetery as
sociation at the office of the Farmers
Grain company, of Wabash, at two
in the afternoon on May 2nd. when
the3- will lock aTter the business that
has accumplated during the past year
and als tnc election of officers of
the association. All who are in any
mann r interested in tne association
are urged to be in attendance.
L. Iveitzel Tells of Early Days
ri!ty years ago. this month, we
tame to Nebraska. Our first home
was hall way between Ashland and
Wahoo: the place was called "Milton
Fcst Office." four miles south of the i
j stage delivered it every day. The
ecu n try
then was new. the people
Rain or shine, I never missed a ser-
yars have nearly all passed over to i
its fine and comfortable homes, its
tution is the pride of its patrons. Hav-
inc had a great share in starting the
-town, I tak- a great pride in stating
that there is no town of its size- to
compare with Murdock.
Dan Skinner Passes Away
Dan Skinner. 77. who has b:en t
making his homo at Chappell for a
number of years and a great uncle of!
ylVii Eddie Craig, passed away at his,
ja?f. iiom;- in the we-ste-rn part of the ;
fea-.state last week.
His funeral vi
held at Lincoln last Sunday. Mr. 1
and Mrs. Craig went over to the fun-;
Ural and stopped at Alvo. where they 1
picked up Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Friend. '
taking them along. The funeral was I
: held in Lincoln and ititernient made;
' in the Alvo cemetery. Mr. Skinner
leaves to mourn his departure Mrs.
i Ada Mick, of Chappell. and another
' sister, at Lincoln; also thre sons.
De Ibcrt and Arthur Skinner, of Alvo,
and Alba Skinner, of Eagle. The wife
passed away some seventeen years ago
;and was buried in the Alvo cemetery.
Mr. Skinner was born in Illinois in
and came to Nebraska nearly
fifty years ago.
Scnicr Class Sees Omaha
Last Thursday was selected by the
.Senior class of the Murdock high
school as their "Sneak Day" and also
sponsored by the superintendent and
aDo Rev. H. R. Knosp. pastor of the
Evangelical church.
The trip to Omaha was one well
worth wniie ana was greauy enjoyen i
bv the class who will ever remember
the trip as a rortion of their school
year which is now closing.
4-H Club Keets.
Four Square club met Monday
evenirg, April 25th. The lesson on
Lamp Shade making was ably pre-
sented by tts project leader, Mrs.
A. J. Teal. An extra meeting tor
election of officers will be held ilcn-
day evening. May 2nd at the Mur
dock school house at 7:00.
Training meeting for project lead
ers in this vicinity was held Friday.
April 22nd, at the? home of Mrs.
Henry A. Tool.
Polly Sure Get a C) acker
The play of the Murdock Senior
high school class was entitled "Folly
Wants a Cracker" end was presented
on last Thursday night to a large
audience of the patrons of the school
and citizens. The plot of the play was
carried well and showed close study
by those who took part and also very
careful tutoring by their instructors.
The following is the
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Jeffr-ry Wayne, with a terrible
temper Elmer St hlaphoff
Marir Pratt-Wayne, his second
wife Evelyn Kuehn
Mary Wayne, his daughter
Wilma Knosp
Thomas Livingstone Pratt. Mrs.
Wayne's son Donald Rieckman
Lucy Neville, a stranded actress
Kariette Lawton
Nora, Wayne's housekeeper
Martha Oehlerking
Inspector Doran Jee Marshall
Scene: A living room in Jeff
rey Wayne's home.
Act 1 : An afternoon in Oc
tober. Act 2: The same. Fifteen
minutes later.
PHILIPPINE BILL SET EACH
Washington. Friends of Philip
pine independent e showed their
stiongth i:: the senate but made' no
prog! ess. A motion by Chairman
Bingham of the territories commit
tee to take up the ilawes-Cutting
fifteen -vv till which has been sub
stituted for the eighth-ear independ
ence measure passed by the hou.e
v is appro v -i 39 to 29. The bill came
up. however, under a limitation of
time and this period expired with
out even a word of deflate on inde
pendence. The legislation is back
on the calendar just where it was
before. Beeaus? of the jammed leg
islative calender in the reuate and
the approaching drive for adjourn
ment, se-riou? doubt is held by lead
ers whether a vote will con.e before
the December session. Srr.atcr Ccpe
land. an opponent of the measure,
occupied the entire- time of debate
on it with a discussion oi health
problems and national parks.
HOGS FOE SALE
Ch enter White and Hampshire Gilts
and Boars. Prices reasonable. Gilts
loaned on shares te reliable parties.
Wiemers Hog Farms, Diller, Ntbr.
If you want to seTi anything,
try a Journal Want-fid. The cost
is small.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
In the County Court of Cass coun
ty. Nebraska.
In the matter of the estate of Wil
liam D. Coleman, deceased.
Notice of Administration.
All persons interested in said es
tate are hereby notified that a peti
tioti has been filed in said court al
leging that said decease-d died hav
ing r.o laT will and nsiarnt-::t and
praying for administration upon his
'state and feir such e ther and further
orders and proceedings in the prem
i s as mry he required by the s!at
utes in such cases made and provid: d
te the end that said estate and ail
things pertaining thereto may be
finally settb-d and detern.in' d. and
thai a hearing will be had on spid
petition before said Court on thf
27th day of May. A. I). 11.12. and
that if they fail to appear at said
Court on said 27th day of May. A. D.
19'2. at te n o'clo' h a. in., to contest
the said petition, the Court may
grant the same- and grant adminis
tration of said estate to N. I). Talvott
or some1 other suitable person and
pro-c d to a settlement thereof.
Dnt-d this 27th dav of April. A.
D. is:; 2.
A. II. Dl'XP.FRY,
Sealt m2-"v County Judge.
ORDER OF HEARING
and Net ice1 on Petition for Set
tlement of Account
In tfie County Court of Cass coun
ty, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, Cass county, ss.
To all persons interested in the es
tate of Eita Perry Barker, deceased:
On leading the petition of Bern ice
Kiser, administratrix, praying a final
rctt lenient and allowance of her ac
count filed in this Court on the 2Sth
day cf April, 1D22. and for final as
signment of the residue of said es
tate and for her discharge a3 Admin
istratrix thereof
It is hereby ordered that you and
ell persons interested in said matter
may, and do, appear at the County
Court to be held in and for said
county, on the 27th day cf May. A.
D. 1D32. at ten o'clock a. m.. to show
cause, if any there be, why the pray
er of the petitioner should not be
granted, and that notice of the pen
dency of said petition and the hear
ing thereof be given to all persons in
terested in said matter by publishing
a ccpy cf this order in the Platts
mouth Journal, a semi-weekly news
paper printed in said county, for three
successive week3 prior to said day of
hearing.
In witness whereof, I have here
unto set my hand aad the seal of
said Court this 26th dav of April, A.
D. 1932.
A. II . DUXBURY.
(Seal) m2-2w County Judge.
Farm Pros
pects in the
ICth District
Federal Reserve Bank -Report on
Karch Prices and Crop
Conditions.
Kansas City. The March index of
farm prices, as reported by the Unit
ed States department of agriculture,
stood at 61 percent of the 1109-1914
average as compared to 00 percent
in February. The index showa prices
pr.id for commodities purchased by
farmers at 21 percent above the
1909-1914 levels, and thr. relative
purchasing power of the farm dollar
at 51 as compared to the 19U9-1914
average of 100.
A larger acreage of mo t spring
sown crops than harvested last year
is indicated by the Mur: h 1 seeding
intentions of Tenth district farmers.
Crop prospects in the eaet'-rn half of
the district are good but the west
ern half needs moisture. Spring work
was delayed by the Moich storms,
and farm operations are two to three
weeks late and spring planting back
ward. Freezing temperatures neces
sitated some replanting of early sown
oats, clover and potatoes, and reduc
ed fruit prospects materially. Farm
wages and cash rentals are material
ly lower than last year and there is
an over supply of farm labor.
High winds and low temperatures
in March, coupled with a deficiency
of soil moisture in tho western part
of the wheat belt, reduced winter
wheat prospects in this district. On
the basis of the April 1 condition.
Tenth district prodection wiil be Si
percent short of last year's record
crop and 29 percent below the 1I;24
lh'ZS average. The reduction in
storks of wheat remaining on farms
in this district was somewhat great
er during March than last year or
the averace of the part five years.
A market decrease in shipments
of stocker and feeder livestock to the
country, a 16 percent decrease in the
number of cattie on feed in eleven
corn btdt stales on April 1 as com
pared to a year ago, the unusually
light movement of cattle from the
southwest to northern grass, indica
tions for a smaller spring pig crop
and a smaller spring lamb crop than
last year, short feed supplies in the
range areas, and continued low prices
for beef. pork, mutton, characterize
the livestock situation.
Milk and egg production as of
April 1 was estimated by the United
Stales department of agriculture as
somewhat less than a year ago. Re
ceipts of eggs, poultry, and fresh but
ter, at four large consuming centers
in the United States during March,
were smaller than in March, 1931.
April 1 United States' cold storage
holdings of all meats, egg. butter,
and cheese were below the five year
average for that daTe.
Receipts of wheat at Tenth dis
trict markets declined sharply in
March and corn and oats continued
to arriv? in abnormally small quan
tities. All grain prices were slight
ly lower for the month and substan
tially lower than a year earlier.
Fiour prices declined but millfed-
prices increased somewhat.
KDTKESOTA 15 FOE HOOVER
St. Paul.- President Hoover is vir
tually assured of twenty-five addi
tional delegates favorable? to his nom
ination when Minnesota republicans
ni'-et Satu:day for their second stale
convent ion to select its delegation to
the Chicago convention in June. A
dispute over prohibition Friday night
promised the principal conflict com
ing before the delegates who a
month ago, meeting to select candi
dates for state -office, adopted a reso
lution endorsing the president's ad
minTstration. At four of nine dis
trict conventions resolutions have
been adopted this week urging a ref
erendum on priliibilion. Sponsors
will seek to have the state adopt a
similar proposal villi organized "dry
group.j" prepared to resist.
PAYAED PAIE SENTENCED
Alliance. Louis Rhodes, twenty
six, and Mrs. Estelle Worthington,
forty-five, both of Bayard, were sen
tenced to eight years each in the
Etate penitentiary by District Judge
E. L. Mej-er here for assault with
intent to wound.
They were convicted recently of
assaulting and cutting Miss Rachel
Weston, fifty, proprietress of a
hotel here, on the night of last Jan.
9. The pair will be started for Lin
coln at once in custody of county
ofl'icial3 for entrance in prison.
Miss Weston was beaten into un
consciousness and cut severely about
the fact and head by the jagged
edges of a broeken crockery pitcher.
She had just showed Rhodes to 9
room, she testified.
WOMAN SEEKS IOWA OFTICE
Des Moines. Mrs. Miriam P.
Johnson, who has carried the culture
of Bryn Mawr'a exclusive collegiate
halls to an Iowa homestead, launch
ed a "heart to heart" appeal to the
rural women of the state to place
her in the state house as secretary
of agriculture. Mrs. Johnson, moth
er of three children and wife of a
farmer has, as she put it in an i .tcr
view, "weathered the heart-ren Jing
tortures of agricultural revertc,,"
and has stepped out to invade that
department of state politics until
low sacred to the masculine sex. No
other woman has sought the agricul
tural portfolio in Iowa state govern
ment. Roosevelt Has
Won 267 of the
498 Delegates
Uninstrceted and Unclaimed Vote
Totals 112 Joseph I. France
Claims 78 Delegates.
Washington. April 26. To date,
the two parties have selected 966
delegates to their national conven
tions in June.
Of these, the republicans have
chosen 470 and the democrats 496.
The republican delegates are in
structed, pledged and claimed as fol
lows: Hoover, 44S; Norris. 11; in
doubt, 11. Out of there Joseph I.
Trance of Maryland claims 7S.
Democratic delegates are instruct
ed, pledged and claimed as follows:
Roosevelt. 267; Lewi:?. r.S; Reed,
36; Murray. 23; uninstructed and
unclaimed, 112.
Republican allocations by states
are:
Hoover instructed and pledged:
Florida
Georgia
Iowa
Louisiana
Missouri
New Hampshire
North Dakota
Colorado
Delaware
South Carolina
Hawaii
Oklahoma
16
. 16
. 21
12
. 33
11
9x
. 15
9
6
O
Total
Hoover claimed:
Connecticut
Illinois
Maine
Nebraska
New York
North Carolina
Virginia
Wisconsin
.200
19
50x
13
17x
97
11
25
1C
Total 24S
Norris pledged:
Wisconsin, 11.
In doubt: New Mexico, 9; North
Dakota. 2x.
x Joseph I. France claims these.
Democratic allocations by states
and candidates are:
Roosevelt instructed and pledged:
Michigan 3S
Nebraska 16
Georgia 2S
Iowa 26
Kentucky 26
Maine 12
Minnesota 24
New Hampshire S
New York 2
North Dakota 9
Washington 16
Wisconsin 26
Total
Roosevelt claimed:
Arkansas
Philippines
Porto Rico
Canal Zone
131
. IS
6
. 6
. 6
Total 36
Levis pledged: Illinois. 58.
Reed instructed: Missouri. 36.
Murray instructed and pledged:
Oklahoma. 22; North Dakota, 1.
In doubt: New York, 92; Louis
iana, 20.
GEEEN SEEKS SHORTER DAY
Washington. Increasing indus
trial unemployment "at the peak of
the usual spring bu3y season" was
reported by President Green of the
American Federation of Labor. "This
new rise is of the greatest signifi
cance," he said. "We cannot count
on any improvement from industrial
gain in the near future but we may
be faced with a growing unemploy
ment problem. Obviously we have
yet failed to turn the tide toward
economic recovery. Only by puttins
people Lack to work to create wealth
and earn their livings can we put
industry on a Etable foundation.
"It is no longer possible to meet
unemployment by relief measures
alone. Cities are reporting the fail
ure of funds. There is only one way
to give men enough work to keep
body and soul together and at the
same time stimulate buying; divide
work time among those who need
work by shortening work hours."
SEED C0EN FOE SALE
Good Yellow Dent seed corn. See
F. E. Scott. rn2-2sw
Journal Want-Atfs cost only a
few cents and get real result I
Chick Starting Mash
at $1.40 Pep Cw
Made with Equity Mash-Maker Concentrate
GET FULL INFORMATION FROM
A. G. BACH . Plattsmouth, Nebr.
A. 0. AULT - Ceder Creek, Nebr.
GERMAN VETERAN IS HOME
Berlin. Paul Schwartz, a German
army veteran, who was forgotten
for twelve years during which he
was a French prisoner of wr.r at
De vil's Island, came back to Germany
once more to enjoy freedom. IJorn
in Corsica of German parents, he
was taken to Alsace-Lorraine by his
family when Ktill an infant, and
when the war started be joined the
German army, doing service until
the armistice. In 1919 Schwartz
went to Kiel to join hi.-; mother, v ho
had moved th re after his lather
died. Kiel was in French hands then
and. because Schwartz had no trav
eling papers, he v. as arrested.
When it was discovered that he
was a native of Corsica, the French
charged him with high treason, for
Corsica is French and the French
law claims as citizens all children
of the second generation born on na
tional territory. Schwartz was court
martial'.ed and sent to Devil's Island.
For years he was forgotten. Then
someone? told the foreign office about
him. and the French commuted hi
sentence.
TEL? TO KENTUCKY DELAYED
New Yoik. The American Civil
Liberties Union announced that it
had postponed until May 12 a trip
to Kentucky to investigate conditions
in coal f.e-las there. A delegation
headed by Arthur Garfield Hays, the
union's lawyer, was to have left New
York Thursday afternoon. The post
ponement was occasioned by the re
fusal of Federela District Judge A. M.
J. Cochran to grant the delegation
a healing on Friday morning in
Richmond or Marysville, Ky., on an
application for a federal injunction
to restrain authorities from inter
fering with the investigation by the
union's representatives.
Judge Cochran informed the
union that he would grant its dele
gation a hearing in London, Ky., on
the morning of May 12. The dele
gation, which besides Hays includes
Dudley Field Malone, international
lawyer, probably will leave New
York on May 10, the union head
quarters said.
EXTORTIONER STRIKES GIRL
Wood River. Offivers here are
searching for a young man who last
Friday afternoon struck Clia Burns,
student at the Grand Island busi
ness college, and threatened the life
of Thomas Wagoner, young farmer
near here, if J200 va: not left at
a road corner by that night.
The man came to the rear door at
the home of Dr. R. L. Green, where
Miss Burns was staying, and asked
if she was Miss Burns. When she re
plied, she was. the man struck her
on the face and pulled her hair, at
the same time threatening Wagoner.
The girl attempted to call Mrs.
Green, but she was attending a
church across the street.
Produced Felt
fete mMmSk r iJm
Dr. A. W.CofTman, of the" Mellon Institute laboratories in Pittsburgh,
Pa., is shown as he demonstrated the new malleable metal that is
covered with felt, which can be treated to-m3ke it resistant to fire or
any corrosive element. Dr. CofTman has developed the coating, which
opens a world of commercial possibilities By the use of alloys the
h&berto alien m&teriuis are made an integral port of the steel, on cs.
- - or' both tides.
Taxicab Com
petition is a Big
Issue in Omaha
Private Conference Concerns the
Railway Commission's
Jurisdiction.
Jurisdiction of th state railway
commission to fix a minimum fare of
taxicab companies was the subject
of a private conference in the rail
way ermmission rooms Tuesday in
which the railway commissioners and
representative s of the Yellow Cab A:
Bagcage company and the Dmaha A:
Council Bluffs Street Railway com
pany participated. Attorney General
Soronsen and his a:srstant. Hugh La
Master, were present. Pres. John
M. Shannahan of the street railway
compan.- attended. The street rail
way and the Yellow Cab company
were represented by Attorney J. A.
C. Kennedy of Omaha. Bob Smith,
clerk of the district court of Doug
las county was present as a repre
sentative of riders of street cars.
The discussion tc 'ched upon the
legislative act of 19 the Osterman
law which prohibits the railway com
mission fiom fixing minimum rates
for common carriers. The Yellow
Cab company and the Omaha Street
Railway company, the latter as in
tervcr.orst. join in asking the commis
sion to fix a minimum charge for
taxicab companies on the ground
that a Wichita cab company expects
to enlist local cab drivers in Omaha
in a system which includes ten cent
fare for a long distance, a charge
which it is alleged will work to the
detriment of other cab companies,
the street railway company and the
public. The two companies alleged
that unless a minimum fare is fixed
by the railway commission disas
trous competition and loss will re
sult in Omaha. They allege the
statute prohibiting a minimum fare
is unconstitutional and void.
Attorney General Sorrnscn and As
sirtant Hugh McMaster will appear
before the railway conimisr-ion Thurs
day when the Yellow rail request for
a minimum fare will be called for
hearing.
AUEIT CITY BOOKS
Frnm Thursday's Dally
The auditors representing the
Charles R. Warr-?n Co., public ac
countants, of Lincoln, were here
Wednesday and toiay making the an
nual audit of the books of the var
ious city official:;. It is hoped to
have the audit completed by Sat
urday when the officers will take
over their duties. The auditing is
being conducted by C. R. Warren
and Glenn Mooberry and v.Lo are
experts in their line.
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