Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 4, 1915, Page 3

— - | J | Nebraska EQUALIZING BOARD HAS FIRST SESSION Telephone Company Objects to List- ing Earnings in Connection with Assessment of Property. RATLROADS MAKE COMPARISONS | (From a Staff Correspondent’) LINCOLN, May 3.—(Special.)~The new State Board of Equalization and Assess- |the fact that its armred forces may at(low, Dr. C. P ment held its first meeting today, the board consisting of oGvernor Morehead, urer Hall, Auditor Smith and Secretary Hernecker, new members. . Telegraph combany for an endorsement of & blank form prepared by it for the use of assessors in making the assess- ment of the property of the company. Tax Commissioner Hall of the companx and President Woods appeared, and Mr. Hall explained to the board the reason for the endorsement. It appears that some party has been sending out to county assessors a form 1o be used which called for the assess- ment of all the property of the company, and theh on top of It a statement of the earnings of the company, which was added to thé assment of the property, and the total amount was used for basing taxation. Officers of the company read an opinion of the atorney general in“1913 that taking the earnings could be done only to ascertain the going yalue, and that it should not be added for assess- mept purposes. They desired the hoard to endorce the new form in order that assessors might knqw just what to do. The old form bore the endorsement of the .board, but no member of the board could remember giving any such endorse- ment, nor could the secretary find any record of such action. On motion of Treasurer Hall the mat- ter went over until the next meeting. Rallronds Restate Proposition. The board then listened to R. V. Pol- lard, tax commissioner of the Burling- ton railroad, read a report showing the unequal methods, used in the taxation of the property of the company in compari- son with other property. Mr, Pollard said that the state board in 1914 had assessed the road at $41.924 per mile. The railroad commission gives the reproduction value of the Burlington at $13,002 per mile anad the depreciated value at $36,67 per mile. The census figures of 1911 placéd the value of Inds and improvements at $L813,346,95 in 1910, The state auditor's report for the same yvear shows the land and improvements to be worth $%8,644,658, which, multiplied by five, for full value, gives $1,018,223,200, #0, according to the census, this class of property was only assessed and ‘taxed on .15 per cent of the total value. The total assessed valuation of the - state for 1910, exclusive of railroads, was 317,324,266, so that the farm lands and improvements on same represent 56.86 per cent of the total. He declared that Mr. Reed, land expert of the state Rallway | commission, placed the average value of Jand in Nebraska at $42.42 per acre. The avaerage assessed valuation was 3605, or.a full valus of $90.%5. According to Mr. Reed’s figures real estate is only as- sessed at 7131 per cent of full value. Paying Too Much Already. Taking these figures fop a basis, Mr. Pollard said that the rallroad had been paying taxes on a basis of at least $60,000 per mile, 70 . per cent of $60,00 being $42,000. The net earnings of the road in 1914, according to figures flled with the secretary of the board, were $2,419, being 5.77-per cent on the $42,000-per mile which the road is assessed and only 4.08 per cent on the actual value taxed of $60,000. per mile. The road now pays 5.0 per cent of its gross earnings and 16.47 per cent of its net ‘earnings for taxes in Nebraska. Out of these net earnings interest on dobt and dividends on stock must be pald. In concluding his remarks Mr. Pol- lard said that on the above figures the railroad should be only.taxed $30,101 per mile. He also showed. that while the miles of main M remained same taxes pald. by the railroads had gone from $785,967.66 in 1008 on gross earn- 67 per cent of the total taxes of the county. ¢ . COMMISSIONER KING. SUES ADAMS FOR DAMAGES (From a StRff Correspondent.) LINCOLN, May 3.—(Speclal Telegram.) —As & result of the public charges made egalnst City 'Commissioner King by George A. Adams, a Lincoln attorney at the Bryan 'meeting last Saturday night, J. S. Bishop, attorney for Mr. King,. this afternoon filed a suit for damages against Adams in the sum of §60,000. Mr. Adams has been Mr. Bryan's prig- cipal backer during the city campaign and his attack*upon Mr. King, who is not a candidate has caused considerable of 4 change in the Bryan sentiment. Adams charged King with trading the apointment of chief of olice to the Bur- lington railroad for certain centracts. Class Play at Doane College. CRETB, Neb., May 3.—(Special)—The class of 1915 entertained with the annual senfor evening program Saturday evens ing. The invitations included the resi- dent trustees, the faculty, the junior class and ‘other friends of the seniors. The play represented life at Doane in the year 3915, and was a humorous com- parison of the present day with the con- ditions as the class imagined them after "0 years. After the play the class re- ceived their guests in the parior at Gay- lord hall. Among the out-of-town gpes were Mr. and Mrs. J. 8 Rough and M. and Mrs. B. Wolph of Nehawka, Misses Bthel and Mary McReynolds of Fair- field, Mrs. H. Bross of Lincoln, Miss Clara Holmes of Lincoln and Mrs. H. D, Reed of 'Weeping Water. GRAND ISLAND, Neb., May 3j—(Spe- jal.)—A burglary featured by more than the usual daring took place in this eity last night, when the jewelry atore of the Carey-Nietfeldt company was en- tered and robbed of about $40 worth of watches and diamonds. The store is but & block from the police station snd in the very heart of the business section. Tt is iocated on a corner and both streets ure always well {lluminated. The stolen goods is comprised of watches and §15| diamond ringh, the larger articles, though wors valuable, not being touched, 'HOLLAND READY FOR WAL ing. 1t was furthermope contended that) soveral of the signers of the petition | had no legal right to sign a saloon pet! I Formidable Army in Training and |ton. some of them having no property | Ready to Move in Case Its | Territory Should Be Invaded. 1 —_— ;NAST DEFENSE IS STRONG, TOO (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) AMSTERDAM, Holland, April 22 | | and others Are alleged to have trans-| forred property in & conspiracy to put| in & saloon. The bBoard adjourned hear ing ¢l next Friday. Notea from BEATRICE, Neb, Mrs. Rachel Lahmon, an old resident of | | Holland is keeping in training ® formid- | Beatrice, died suddenly at her home here { |able army and a small but efficlent fleet, imot o be despised when taken in con- | junction with its powerful coast defenses, W8S & prominent member of the Woman's to be prepared for the eventuality of |Rellef Corps, the Eastern Star and the \s | Rebeknhs, having to defend itselt in case it {threatened from any side during | great Buropean war. The nation to a man is fully aware of the [uy moment be called upor to strike a'|Saturday at a local mspital Saturday evening, aged M years. Paralysis was the cause of death. £he Congressman C. E. Timberlake of Sterling, Colo., who was brought to this city the other day by his brother-in- Fall, was operated upon While his blow to maintain its neutrality, and the |condition is serious it is thought he will Land Commissioner Beckman, old mem- |statesmen forming the government know |recover. i o bers, and Secretary of State Pool, Treas- that this necessity may arise with terri- | May, the little daughter of My~ and ble suddenness. Mra. T. 8. Smith of Filley, died at a The Dutch land forcee. in times of peace | hospital here Saturday of typhoid fever. The first businese transacted was an |almost insignificant in numbers as com- |The child's mother died of the same dls- application of the Lincoln Telephone and |pared with the millions of men compos- {ease in July, 1914 {Ing the continental armies of the great {powers, have since their mobilization at |the beginning of the war been auxmented {by the calling up of reserves until they |now total over 20,00 men. Altogether {sevefiteen yearly classes of troops, aver- |aging about 1500 men for each year {from 180 to 1915 inclusive, have been called to the colors. Seven of the classes, composed of the younger men, beldng to |the landweer, and the other ten to the militia. Since August the meh have been constantly exercisdd and they have now reached a condition of preparedness and [fitness such as never has been in the Duteh army. Formation of Army. The army, as it at Pprese is organ- ized, comprises first ‘the field army of approximately 9000 men; second, the troops forming the city garrisons wher- ever they might be most required, The fleld army, which would bear the burden of resisting any attack on Dutch tertitory, is not divided into army corps, but.is formed into four divisions, each composed of forces of all arms—cavalry, Infantry, artiilery, engineers and trans- port—and these ocoupy strateglo pointa. The garrison troops occupy the larger clties and forts and would not be called on to take the field. The surplus army is distributed all over the country in training depots, where the meh are con- tinually drilled in field work, digging trenches, erecting wire entanglements, shooting and carrying out long ' route marches, Besides the resistance to an invader of- fered by the fleld army, Holland pos- sesses what is regarded as fts. most val- uable defensive aséet in the shape of a system of inundation, detalls of which are kept strictly secret. It is known, however, that large tracts of territory can in a short time be covered with water 1o a considerable depth by the plercing of the dikes protecting the low- lying country from encroachment by the sem, for a great part of liolland lies below sea level, Should the fleld army be defeated in its encounters with an invader, it would retire behind the first line of water de- fence, after resisting long enough for the l::::n:w‘hw become etfective. In the e enemy ming the - ficulties of the nwmmu n :x::. first zone, the fleld' army would retire behind the egcond water-line enclosing the larger citles, Wwhich it would then de- the Great, A ' invasion ‘of Holland, u‘:cou,a as y.:ti Ing said: “It fs. no-use in attempt~ i8g' to ' march ‘my, ‘six-foot ':’uun into @ country covered ‘with seven feet of ‘water.”" This difficulty still exists and makes it z -:mut; undertaking for any army o u f rRys g conquest of Holland from As to its naval defences, Hollana makes, Do pretensions to be among the first- class powers. The bluejackets rank gpmong the best in the world and they have the traditions of centuries behind them, but the vessels which they man are amall and would have very little chance in an en- counter with the heavy ships of the bigger nations. The most powerful of the Dutch vessels, De Zezen Procinclen, displaces only 653 tons, and there are five others of about 5,000 tons each, all of them with & speod of ubout sixteen knots. Some of them are fiftesn years old. Coast de- feuse vessels, protecting cruisers, sun- boats, destroyers and torpedo tpats, some of them modern, others old, mbke up the rest of the fleet, which, however, pos- submarines bullt within the and a strong movement has been started to accelerate the con-' struction of & Jarge number of these craft Ly Coast defence in Holland 1s very power- ful, many 2 centimeter guns being in position at all vital points, while exten- sive mine flelds protect the ports and river mouths and the coast is well sup- plied with torpedo stations from which the projectile can be launohed against any approaching veasels. ANNUAL LICENSE FIGHT STARTS IN RUSHVILLE RUSHVILLE, Neb.,, May 3.—(Special.)— The annual battle royal for the purpose of putting in saloons in Rushville opened up Saturday, when a remonstrance was filed and brought before the Board of ‘Trustees and presented by Judge Crites of Chadron. In the remonstrance it was alleged that Perry Thompson, the appli- cant, was not ‘a fit and proper person to run a saloon, he having been convicted of gambling, and sentence is still hang- Sure Way to Get Rid of Dandruff There s one sure way that never fals to remove dandruff completely and that s to dissolve it. This destroys it en- tirely. To do this#just get about four ounces of plain, ordinary Hquid arvom; apply it at’night when retiring; use enough to moisten the scalp and rub it in gently with the finger tips. By morning, most if not all, of your dandruff will be gone, and three or four more apphcations will completely dis- isolve and entirely destroy every single DIAMOND JOE’S MISER TRAITS Sonne¥ About Hard Times, Plle Stowed Away. but Just before “Diamond Joe" Costen of New York died he had complatned to friends about hard times and told of hav- ing to borrow money. This was several weeks ago, but the same friends have learned that he was by no means on the verge of penury, as he had told them. A fortune in gems and money belonging to him has already been found. Costen died in the New York hos- pital twenty-four hours after being re- moved from his .rooms in the Breslin| hotel. Two of the long, deep steel drawers of | the safe in the Breslin were. always used by Costen, who occasionally added to the little packets which nearly filled both, of them at the time of his death. He was very taciturn, but in the months Just preceding his death spoke frequently of hard times, told of large insurance pre- miume to pay, for which he had to borrow the maney, and seemed to fesl that he was in financial straits. The final attack of his last ilness caused his physicians to order Costen to be removed to the hospital. 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