Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 2, 1902, Page 10

e —————— 10 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1Y02 CHAIRMAN GOSS IS CONTRARY Says Ho Will Not Acoept Filings of Oongressional Dejegatiens. HIS PECULIAR CONSTRUCTION OF ORDERS Makes Fine Distinetion by Which He Accepts Judie ¥ilings, but Re- Jects Thowe of Congressional Delegation Tickets. Chairman Goss of the republican county committee, in fssuing his amended call for the primary election of September 19, has omitted from the filings ta be made with the county committee the candidates for fdelegates to the congressional convention. The amended call eays: ooThe hames of all candidates for delegates the county and judicial conventions to ga laced on the official primary ballot must Bied with {he sécretary of the committes with a fee of §2 for each candidate not Jater than 13 o'clock, Tuesday, September When asked why he had not included the congressional convention in this clause of tho amended call, Chairman Goss said that the action ‘taken by the county committee last Saturday did not require him to change the arrangement for fling congressional flelegations already agreed upon by the sub- committée of five and the congressional committee. “1 have nothing to do with the filing of congresglonal delegations,” said the chair- man, ‘“They must po filed with the con- gressional committee in accordance ~with the call issued by that committee.” “Suppose that anyone offers to file con- gressional delegations with you as chair- man of the county committee, will you ac- cept the ilsts?” “No,” replied Mr. Goss. “The proper place to file the congressional delegations s with the congressional committee, and we will only accept them on the certificate of the ehairtan of that committee. If any- one offers to file congressional delegations with me his money won't be good. “How, then, are the congressional tickets to get on the official ballot for the county primaries?” “I suppose the tickets will be certified to the county committee by the congressional committee, which will accept the filings.” “Did you not understand the resolution adopted by the county committee last Sat- urday to mean that the county committee would supervise the election of delegates to the congressional ‘convention the same it would those to the judicial conven- tion?” “I understand that the resolution pro- vides for the election of the congressional delegates at the same primaries, but there 18 nothing in tho resolution to require the county committee to take the fil{ngs of con- fonal delegations from any other source than the congressional committee.” Despite Mr. Goss' pecullar construction of the meaning of the resolution adopted by the county committee last Saturday he will be asked to accept the filings of congres- slonal’ delegations in the usual way, and if he refusés to do so some means will be adopted to compel his compliance with' the plain instructions of the committee. The resolutions adopted by the committee Sat- grday ih reference to the judicial and con- gressional conventions say: olved, By the republican’ county cen- tral committee of Douglas county that the of this committee for the primaries to id, in 3214 Douglas county on ¥riday, or the election ot hn unn pri v ) Judicial |m, That at the republican county ‘called by this committee at its vious session for Friday, September 19, , there be elect paia primaries by republican votePs: 0f thiL county 13 egates to rnpn-ene this county In’ a congressional convention. Mr, Goss makes a very fine distinction in construing the meaning of these two peso- Iptlons, for iIn the case of the fudicial canvention he to accept the fillngs ot tions, whereas In the case of the congressional conventjon he proposes to re- Joct them. In other words, he holds that it is proper or the county committee to accept the ings of judicial delegations, but that con- gresalonal delegations must be filed with the congressional committee. The county committee is to meet again on September 16 for the purpose of prepar~ ing the form of the official ballots for the primaries, but in the meanwhile it is mot at all probable that three of the four con- gressional ocandid will file thelr dele- gations with Mr. Mercer's campalgn man- ager, to be scrutinized by him and no one else and to be accompinied by & $50 con- tributton’ to the Mercer eampaign fund. \, Wl ey “The “officlal primary ballote will be printed the way We want them or we will break. away trom the county committee and hold our own congressional primary in_our own way,” exclaimed W. F. Gur- ley while he was still suffering from the excltement of Saturday’s meeting of the county committee. . ‘“The ballots will be prepared by th ‘¢ounty commiittee in compliance with the requirements of the law,” calmly rematked E. 'J. Cornish, to whom Mr. Gurley had directed his exclamation, The threat of the Itnorltu to flock by themselves and hold a primary elec- tion all of their own and In their own peculiar way does not disturb anv of the LT slecp well enough at night, And the blamedest appetite _ Ever mortal man possessed,” 's farmer is th Jnl ced in ml:..';:t:ir m%y- udmm fails, there is a loss of nutrition which other congressional candidates. As a mat- ter of fact the oppoments of Mr. Mercer would be only too glad to diepose of {Neir contest so -,-ny In the event of the Mercer people carrying out their threat to hold separate primaries there would be elected two sets of delegates in Douglas county, and one set, that eleoted contrary fo the provistons of the law, would be illegal. There would be two congressional conventions, one composed of the Doug- las county delegates slected illegally and the other composed of the delegates elec- ted legally in Douglas, Sarpy and Wash- ington counties. There is little doubt as to, which convention would be declared the legal one by the courts. It has been remarked with some sense of humor that the repiblican city commit- tee, for the first time within the memory of man, has not-been required this year to provide for the nomination of a candi- date for police judge. Whether Judge Gordon will ask the democrats to run him again this year ‘has not been asoertained as yet. CROWDS BIG AT KRUG PARK. Big Snengerfest Tonight—Ragtime To- .morrow. The figures of Sunday, when the season’s record for big eummer resort attendance was smashed, were closely approached by the throrgs that celebrated Labor day at this resort. Basket pienics galore, visitors from the surrounding towns, the Labor day enthusiasts and the regular summer resort patron, for whom the park is always the popular rendezvous, made the scene one of animation and enthusiastically applauded the varied program. The big Saengerfest will be held tonight. Fifty volces selected from the Omaha Or- pheus, the Omaha Plattdoutcherverein and the South Side Maennerchor will form the cholir that will render the concert com- memoratltg the battle of Sedan. Huster's entire band will play the accompaniment 16r several of the numbers. A big crowd is expected tomorrow, as the ragtime concert is the feature, The Pennsylvania Special—The Penn- sylvania Limited And four more fast trains run daily Chi- cago to New York via Pennsylvania Short Lines. The Special leaves Chicago Utlon station 12 noon, the limited at 5:30 p. m, Other through trains for New York at 10:06 a. m., 12:05 noon, 3 p. m. and 11:45 p. m. For schedyles and particulars ap- ply to H. R. Dering, A. G. P. Agt., 248 South Clark street, Chicago. Exceedingly low rate, Omaha to Hot Springs, South Dakota. August 30 to Bep- tember 10, 1902, $14.50, Omaha to Hot Springs and return via Northwestern- line. Ticket office 1401 Farnam street. Eighth Ward Republican club meeting Tuesday evening, September 2, at Wulf Hall, Twenty-second and Cuming street. Congressman D. Mercer will address - the meeting. . J. ANDERSEN, President. Publish your legal notices 1n The Weekly Bee. Telephone 288, NEW RULE OF CIRCUIT COURT Requires Advance Notice in Writing . Chief Clerk Thummel of the United States circuit court has just received from Washington the following rule, adopted by the court on Saturday, August 30. The new ruling is a deviation from any pre- vious procedure im this court and will be of interest to attorneys. It reads: rdered that hereafter on or before ten days prlor to the t day of every term, notice. In writing shall be flled with the clerk b 1 either party or their attorney uses then ndlll. on lno law #i urt, If any an n? desire to hnvo mea duri jolned under the state statute prior to the first day of the term. Motions for continuafice in any case no- ticed far trial, 'l\% evidence in support thereof, must be fled with the clerk on or before the first of the term, excepting in cases where cause for the continu- ance is brought to the knowledge of the party subsequent to the {ommencement of the term. A party having noticed a case for trial will not be heard on a motion for a continuance, excepting for cause discov- ered after the filing of the notice for trial. The clerk shall the cases noti d for trial in the order in which they app on the appearance docket, five cases Inx assigned for each , commencing on the first Wednesday of ti wise ordered by the court. ner, but will not be assigned by t for ‘any particular date. At the Slose of the Jury work t uity cases noticed for trial 1] assigned and heard by the court ln the order in 'blv:h they appear on the The clerk shall Pere | m\i hlve printed & docket or "calendar of 50 noticed, with assignments foe A na mail a copy of such docket or calendar to each of the attorneys having causes so assigned. POLICE OFFICER INJURED Schneckenburger is Knocked Down and Bruised by Runaway ' Team, In endeavoring to stop a runaway team on South Thirteenth. street at 12 o'clock, Police OMcer M. Schneckenburger was knocked down by the horses and paintully injured. The team was hitched to a farm wagon and went east on Pacific street to Thirteenth, where they turned south. The officer was near Thirteenth and Plerce streets. He grabbed one of the horses by the bridle and was dragged for several yards, when the bridle broke and he fell to the ground. The horse then ran oyer him, striking him on the left leg and Neither was broken, though both were bruised and cut. Schneckenburger was taken to the police station in the patrol wagon and his wounds attended by the police surgeon. The team was lost to sight on South Thirteenth street. No one was in the wagon and it is not known who owns the tea: WOMEN AS HONORARY GUESTS At the Commereial club yesterday moon the Monday club held forth with a “Ladies* day” luncheon. In addition to the mascu- line members of the club, many women were present as honorary guests, covers being 1aid for forty. J. H. Taylor acted as toastmaster - and first Judge W. W. Slabaugh responded to the theme, “‘Our Ladles.”” To this Mrs. . W. Garloch made happy response. Other toasts were “Our Field and Foro by G. W. Garloch; “The Monday Club,” by Rev, H. G. Hill, and “Our Coming Con- vention,” by Rev. W. T, Hilten. 'y Statistios. m lo“e-ln. Nl‘(bl l.nl deaths were re- :.‘ld he Board of Heall lh- fony—dtit hours ending lou- l{h‘!hfi—Wlll\n McCrann, 808 North Seven- th street, boy: Alfred Nordan, ‘enth Kavan streets, J. Fury, .&un—fl‘lg.:nnl 5‘% Wirt street, tle, 4617 Far: a ward Crum, = 2103 ROCK ISLAND'S NEW ENCINES | [EIBRANPE Embroideries at 25¢ { A blg purchase of all the embroideries and Ipsertings in all the greatest widths from a New York importer of embroideries, we are able to announce a Oompany Places Order for Twe Hundred and Twenty-Five, LARGEST LOCOMOTIVE ORDER ON RECORD | Equipment of Engines Increased Thi Year by Four Hundred and Twenty/Four Because of Increase in Busin “The largest order for locomotives ever placed by any railroad has just been placed by the Rock Island,” said C. A. Rutherford, divisfon agent for Nebraska of the Rock Island, who has just returned from an ofi- cfal trip to Chicago. “Our road has or- dered the construction of 2256 locomotives,” be sald. One hundred and twenty-five of these new engines are to be of the consolidated class, sixty-five of the medium Pacific type, twelve-wheelers, and thirty-five of the larg- est Pacific type, also twelve-wheelers. It Is understood the Baldwin Locomotive works gets its share of this order. The work on these engines s to be rushed with all pos- sible dispatch, as they are wanted for serv- ice at the earliest possible date. “The demand for these engines is due to the enormous increase in the volume of the Rock Island's business,” said Mr. Ruther- ford. “Our business, freight and passenger, is progressing with remarkable strides, and the progress is so steady and constant that it will be impossible to accommodate our customers longer without greatly increased tacilities.” As a matter of fact the Rock Island had ordered 200 new locomotives this year prior to this latest order, so that when these engines are in service the equipment will havs been enlarged to the number of 425 engines. While of course these engines are needed because of the increase in the vol- um of business it is a fact that the Rock Island's recent acquisitions of new lines are in s6me measure responsible for this gigan- tic increase in traffic. Some days ago The Bee printed a story on the unusual number of locomotive pur- chases being made by the various roads over the country. Since that time other roads have sent in orders and it is now given out In rallroad circles that the en- gine makers of the country are at least #ix months behind in the efforts to supply their enormous demands. Besides those published the Wabash, Chicago Great West- ern, Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pa- cific and several other smaller lines have placed orders for large numbers of loco- motives within the last few days. The Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific wants twenty-four from the Baldwin peo- ple and seventeen from the American Lo- comotive company and the other orders are dividend about in the same way. Gould May Visit Omaha. George J. Gould, president of the Mis- sourl Pacific, who {s out west, making his annual tour of his road, may be in Omaha within a few days on his itinerary. Mr. Gould 1s authority for the statement that the central branch wil: be extended west to Denver, thereby cutting off more than i%0 miles Detween Chicago and Denver and proportionately shortening the distance be~ tween St. Louls and Colorado. This extension will give the Missourt Pa- eific practically two tracks west of the Missouri river to Denver and will serve to reduce the time between Chicago and the east and Colorado points and the Pacific coast about three hours and also with pro- posed cntoffs from Missourl to K points will lessen the schedule between St. Louls and the south to the wes Haney Mack from Pac Bdwin Haney, stationmaster at the Union pot, and family returned Sunday from Californis, Mrp. Haney went out about thres weeks to bring his family back after a prolonged stay on the coast. Dur- ing his absonce Mr. Haney made a com- plete trip up and down the Pacific seaboard from Los Angeles to Vancouver, visiting adjacent polnts of interest, such as the Catalina islands to the south and others to the north. He says the cities and towns of the Golden West are all crowded and everybody is rushing in- their endeavor to accommodate their visitors, the tourists from the east and middle west. The rallroads observed Labor day by giv- ing their office employes a half day off. The Union Pacific, Burlington and Elkhorn headquarters and the city ticket offices closed at noon and the freight houses were closed for the entire day. W. J. Ladd, traveling auditor for the Rock Island, with offices at Kansas City, was in Omaha yesterday checking up the change in city passenger agents whereby J. §, Me- Nally, who goes to Oklahoma City to ac- cept a higher position, 1s succeeded by R. C. Butler of Waterloo, Ia. £00 0006000000000 29 .Specinl Sale Next 106 Days of fine Stanhopes, Runabouts, ete. Small stock but good makes. 25 per cent discount for cash only. Here Is your chance to get a good job at a “low price. Wm. Pfeiffer 27th and Leavenworth, PO PPPO PRIDOC OO 0@ EaACR O ROTROR JORFOL- O OO RO GO0 000 The Cooling Influence of a Glass of Beer on & hot day capnot be overestimated, es- peciully when it is a glass of pure and lnvigorating Metz beet. It is without a rival fn flavor, palatableness and deliclous- ness, and is a bracer that will keep up your strength during summer’s depressing beat. No one should be without a case of Mets beer in the house. Metz Bros. Brewmg Co., Teleph ha. Or Jacob No\l- yei A‘L c‘n Neumayer | Watch 50c and 75¢ very speclal selling. This lat includes Ni nsook, 60c to The a yard-—on bargain squares, *20c-on bargain squares at, a yare mbridge, and Hamburg embrolderies, suitable for corset covers and skirts up to 18 inches wide, worth from All medium widths of embroideries and |~urxlnn—.n nna quAIlty nainsook and cambridge, embroideries and inserting to match, at. 20c Laces at 3xc Yard. 1,000 pleces of All kinds of jaces, including torchons, valensctennes chantillas, silk laces, in all widthe—~over 100 styles—many worth 3 Watch OQur Windows the finest embrolderies made. Swiss, at . .18¢ 150 pleces of highest grade black silks. net black taffeta, worth $1.00, at 59 21-in. Bonnet Bluck Taffeta, 59¢ 24-in, Bonmet A1 Boiled Taffcta at 75¢. 27«inch Pure Dye Bonnet Taf- feta, at 874c. molre, 69c New French Plaids, and broche patterns. 62c, 75c, Extra Special Bonnet Black Silks Every plece has the stamp of Bonnet woven in selvege. Black Moire Velour Antique at 69c and $1.00 A very large assortment of 24-inch and 27-inch black especially adapted for raglans and Monte Carlo coats and separate skirts. The designs are all new lnd entirely different from the old fashioned moire. Special price 69c and $1.00. Extremely bandsome French Plaids and Taffetas and Loulsine, new swell Satin, Barred Plaids and Tartan Plaide. silks. The celebrated Bonnet, Lyons 21-inch Bon- 86-in Bonnet Taffeta at $1.25, 24.in. Bonnet Black Peau de Soie, at $1.00, 27-in. Bonnet Raglan Peau de Seie, at $1.50, worth it. 1.00 75¢, 98c and $1.50 Special— 98c, $1.50 able centers.” and white flaked cloths, at . : $1.65 Worsteds at $1.25 Black and white Scotch Worsteds—""The craze of the fashion; ‘We sell the $1.65 ;l‘lds of these handsome blacx l Panama Cloths $1.00 These fine goods in all the rich fall colors and mix-$1 tures, New York prices $1.50, we will sell a few, yd School Suits for Boys, at $2.50 Today “The Nebraska” opens up a new lot of children’s school suits at $2.50. They are made of the finest chev- fots and cassimeres, cut in the latest two button double- breasted style, also in Norfolks. for school wear—strong and sturdy, yet neat and stylish. They are just the thing School Shoes for Boys. We've a special section devoted to the sale of chil- dren’s shoes. growing feet comfortably. shoes” for boys are the best that ever came out of a shoe tactory. They are made of genuine veal calf stock, the most durable leather known, the seams are sewed with four rows of stitching. The soles are pin quilted. These shoes were never offered for less than $2.00, and they're Our salespeople are experts in fitting Our “indestructible school OUR PRICE 18— 13% to 2, $1.50 2Y to 6, $1.65 TARTAN STRIPES—Fine walstings, creations of the coronation teativities, .l..‘750 Coronation per yard new manish tweed cloth— The biack and coloring of the our price day. 54-in wide tweeds—a NEW WAISTINGS— very latest out— City, Des Mol a like size—1re now Watch Our Windows {BRANREL; Watch Our s Windows trying rubber OMAHA EELE One of the best equipped of the Keeley sywtem of institutes, thy only Keeley Institute in Nebraska. Cures Drunkenmess. Cured Drug Users. Booklet free. Address aii isilops t= 784 & INSTITUTE lome Treatment for Tobacco Habit, cost 88 16th and Chici THE ONLY DIFFERENGCE botween the Big trust corporations of this country, such as the steel trust, beef trust, sugar trust, etc., (which are gradually, but surely crushing out the smaller industries— at the expense of the laboring people) and the drug trust_is that the drug trust has NOT the VOLUME OF MONE which the monster corporations have. i it that the people of Council Bluffs, Sloux. nes and many other places of | FOR DRUG STORE Simply because there Is no dru those placea who has t to A The combine &nd mind his own business. Some people think—and some drugi o make them thinkethat this is_only on PATENT ALLS; If you think so—bring us your pre- scriptions and get our prices on any drug or_surgical instrument, tru 00ds or anything else which a dru store should rfi;ve and YOUR PlAINT BILL. OPEN ALL NIGHT. SCHAEFER'S behind it Why aying FULL PRICES COMMODITIES? ists are fim MEDICINE CU WORRIED WOME should use Pen-Tan-Got Disks—and they will be regular to a day. No uncertainty, no_ anxlous walting, no lIIDDf bul healthy functions re y ll'lllll- A specifio, tor pal nlu ful periods harmless, _certal CUTAR ‘o end 33 for one box Pen: postpai, Illlll Drug Ce., Cor. 10th , suspensory, 4 BEE WHAT, THE US FIGURE ON CUT PRICE DRUG STORE Sts.,, Omaba, Ne! A SKIN OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER Dl. T. FELIX GOURAUD'S ORIENTAL CREAM, OR MAGICAL BEAUTIFIER. moves Tan, Pimples, reckles, Moth Patches, Rash and Skin dis- ) case, and every , blemish on beauty, and defles detec- tion, It has stood the test o4 metic will doit. Xo other cos- is properly mad Accept no counter- teit of similar ame. Dr. L. A. Sayre sald to & la dy of the haut-ton (a_patient): As you ladles will use them, I recom. mlnl GOURAUD‘B CREAM' as t lln.ll harmtul of all the Skin preparations.” For sale by all Druggists an Fancy Goods Dealers and Euro) TR, 1 HOPKINS, H op'r, 87 Great Jones 8t., N. Y. A Boys Drexel Special This time it's & boys’ shoe—and it Is a speclal—speclal uppers—speclal soles —and especially made for u cate anywhere of these s! made with good, heavy grain calf up- pers—with sall cloth linings—and extra heavy rock oak sole leather soles— with the new, wide extension edge—in the full, round toe that give the feet a chance to grow without cramping— such a shoe as boys should wear this fall—boys’ sizes 214 to 5, $2.50, youths' 18% to 32, $2.25; little gents' 10 to 13, $2.00, Drexel Shos Co., Omaba's Up-to-date Shos Ho 1419 FARNAM STREET, fatis o deatroy crav. or which etanof ‘Giton 1n say Yiquié patient; tasteicas; 81 ¢ Ures Co.. Omana. Netw WITE DOVE OURE nover e “Im'lllnll Wiedk Sherman & McCoune! WHBN YOU BUY A You are not paying for CHROMOS, SCHEME 5, FREE DEALS, ETC,, bus for FINE QUALITY HAVANA TOBACCO. EQUAL to IMPORTED CIGARS, ¥ R RICE MERCANTILE ClGAR CO.,, Meaf, Bt Louls. Unlon Made | power of the state, and therefore could not be within the po ued Under Authority of the Rallroads of Nebr: WAYS OF TAXATION ARE PECULIAR Slipshod, Haphazard Fashion of Making Assessments Has Been in Vogue Forty O0dd Years. How Long Must This Demoralizing Condition of Affairs Continue to Exist in Nebraska ? In the preceding bulletins we have shown that there was a general disposition on the part of assessors throughout the state to nssess the value of property in their separate counties at 10 per cent, or possibly less, of its value, and in this re- duction in assessment the railroads only desired that their assessments should be made on the same basis as other prop- erty. In support of this form of argument we have been ably seconded by the facts and figures presented and the argument made at Lincoln by the Omaha Real Bstate Exchange in their presentation of their case asking for & reduction in the levy for state purposes in Douglas county. Mr. McIntosh, in his argument before the board, ably pre~ sented this feature which the railroads wish to make plain. In his remarks at the opening of the proceedings he states, atter making the assertion that Douglas county farm asse ments have been higher in proportion than those of other counties, which is & fact, he says: “That being true, it is a matter of right on the part of the taxpayers of Douglas county that the levy should be so adjusted as to equalize the taxes as between the different counties of the state, and, whereas, in our petitfon which is on flle here, we claim the disparity is the between & one-sixth and a one-tenth—our pet! up be- fore we were as well advised of the A Are now, and If we were making other allegations would say the disparity is between about a one-fifth -fifteenth, and I am not sure but what we ought to these figures in our petition.” After introducing testimony aonnm.corr of the pqm. taken, that the farm property in Douglas'county was as- sessed higher in proportion than other property ghrough the state, in his remarks to the board, he states the following: “We have gone along in the state of Nebraska now for some forty 0odd years, taxing property, or not taxing it, in about as slipshod, haphazard fashion as one could possibly invent, if he sat down to evolve something thoroughly ridiculous In respect to taxing, out of his own mind.. * * * It is not within the r of the board, to make one plece of property valued at $1,000 pay one fota more tax than another plece of the value of $1,000. * * * Now, from what I have been able to learn of this con- stitution and this revenue law in this state,'In my opinion our constitution eould not be improved in its revenue features, and our revenue law {s as gopd & one as any state has. The trouble, if this board please, with the state of Nebraska In this revenue law is not about the law, but about the fool way in which we Statement 8howing Twen than Ten Per Cent of Any ASSESSMENT IN 1902. Improved Unimproved Statistics Per Acre. Per Acre. Por Acre. Boone $2.66 $2.36 $30 to $50 Buffalo . 2.08 119 30 te 40 Burt ... 6.562 5.02 60 to 76 Butler 3.56 has 40t 50 Dawes . 0.70 0.57 20to 85 Fillmore ERTY 181 Wto 45 - Greeley 2.45 1.61 25 to 40 Kearney . 2.06 121 25 to 86 Kimball 244 30 to 65 Knox 2.68 30 to 45 Loup . 1.83 2 to 30 Merrick 3.00 40to 650 Nance 2.271 35 to 50 Platte 3.01 40to 65 Polk 318 35 to 50 Red Willow 1.58 . 0to 45 Richardcon 6.65 60to 75 4.09 3.65 40to 70 4.06 60 to 76 4.63 45to 55 426 40to 50 With the lhowln‘ given above and the argumen levy on lands in Douglas County from § 2-8 in 1900 to have been administering the law. Assessors go out and either don’t look at the property, or copy off old valuations and bring sments that are perfectly absurd, and everybody kmows * * The board has no choice; the board must equalize ssment after you have determined the facts. It doesn't make any differencd whether it 1s something you want to do or not. It is & right which the property owner has and which he has a right to be protected in, and in which it is the board's duty to protect him. 8o that, whether it is an agreeable thing or not, a convenient thing or not, if you find that omg property owner whose property is worth $1,000 is assess: it $100 and another who is worth the same sum ‘is assessed at $166, you must equalize, and If you equalize by varying the rate of the levy, and the levy is 8 on the one whose assessment is $100, you cannot make it more than about 5, whatever fraction it is, to make the result of the tax the same on the tw. Further on in his argument for the lower tax levy in Doug- las county, and caliing the attention of the board to its powers to regulate this unequal form of taxing, by changing the rate of levy, he says. ““This is the firet time that the powers of this board have been invoked for that purpose, and gow the opportunity rests with you to show the people of Nebraska that the plan that they have so long worked successfully, they cannot continue to work. As soon @ county sees that by making a low as- sessment, its levy s correspondingly higher, then that induce- ment to juggle with the assessment will be largely taken away.” In addition to'the argument presented by Mr. McIntosh and Mr. Shields along these lines, they presented three expert wit- nesses (Mr. F. H, Myers, Mr, F. J. Fitsgerald and Mr. Thos, F. Boyd) in regard to the value of farm property in Nebraska, who testified under oath &s to their bellef of the value of land in various countles suggested to them, and in addition & great many afMdavits from local real estate men In various counties were presented and used in evidence. The Btate Labor Cem: missioner was also placed on the stand and certified to the cor- rectness of the report made by him, which had been compiled from estimates sent him by the surveyors of the differeat soun- ties of the State as to the value of lands. We have tabulated below these returns from twenty-one counties, which show the extraordinarily low waluation placed on farms in comparison with these estimates from differemt sources. The estimates of the witnesses, it must be remem- bered, represent the value of all of the land of the county, both improved and unimproved. The assessed value here shown fis for 1903: -one Counties in which the Assessment Value of Lands s Less ‘alue that Can Be Placed on Them by Conscientious Appralsers. VALUE LAND RETURNED FOR County Surveyor's Estimate for State SWORN TESTIMONY PRESENTED, Fitzgerald, $21.50 Boyd. $27.50 AMmdavits, 27.50 26.00 50.00 46.00 55.00 45.00 62.60 46.00 presented, the State Board of Equalization very properly reduced the mill % mills the present year, nearly cutting their charge for taxes for state purposes in two, and as the farmers of Douglas County for the present year have been returned as of value of §17.29, it can be seen that this reduction was but fair. 1IF DOUGLAS COUNTY RECEIVES BENEFIT OF EQUALIZATION, IS IT WRONG TO EQUALIZE RAILROAD VALUES? A