Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 31, 1916, Page 2

governmental funetiona over their respec- tive citizens and industries. REED INTERVENES The statement says The Heaver River Power company and Lauclen two cases, are by the bill of complaint of p—— |the government termed purprestures Attorney General of Nebraska Pre. | (Trespassers on the King's domain) The | M " 3 company was organized under the laws pares Petition for Filing in of Colorado abhout'the year 1907, and un the Matter. der its charter has power to construet, ———— | acquire, maintain and operate hydro elec- ENT IVES | trie plants, and ever since the vear 1008 | sTAm G nmwm has been engaged In the business of o o Staff Correspondeat.) | overating certain hydro electrc power LINCOLN, Jan I\—A.\‘[w-:‘l,rhn\(mrno\ | works néar. the town of jBeaver, in Ginteal Willls Reed, tn behalf Of the | DeAVer county, male.of ‘Utsh, and is state. Bas intervened In the cases brought | Semerating and seiling electric power By the United States Against the Beaver | f0f the operation of mines and mills | River Power company and others cover- | &hd < for the lighting of municipalities ing the right of the Iatter to the use of | AN other purposes water which it is claimed the state has a | “A part of these transmission lines, right to use. ‘vnmlullw and hydro eclectric works are The case is one of the most important | stuated within what I8 now known as that has come up for years and involves the Fillmore National Forest. The com- the right of various hydro-electric power |Pany Itself owns as a private indlvid- companies in several western atates, and | ual other land upon which it has stored the United States has brought action | water and upon which a part of Its against these companies to enjoin the | works are located. It has appropriated opsration of their plants, which are 10- | under the laws of the state of Utah cated wholly or partly within forest reser | certain waters of the Beaver river and vations, and in the first test case now |its tributaries and is applyng the water in the supreme court of the United States, | to beneficial use under the laws of entitied United States of America against | the Beavef River Power company, Luclan | L. Nunm et al., the United States in pre- | Allegntions of Company. senting the question of the equality of the slates of the union, with special ref- erenibe to the eleven states within which are still situated extensive areas of pub- lic lands. the state of Utah “It has expended upon its plant in the neighborhood _of $5,000,000 and the company alleges In its' answer that prior to the promuigation of the order cstablishing | the forest reservation, the United States government and its officers and repre- sentatives acquiesced in and encolraged the defendants to enter upon the lands and the appropriation and beneficial use Prepares Potition, Belng brought to the attention of the attorney general of this state, Mr. Reed nas preparéd for Intervention a potition sooking to protect the rights of Nebraska | of the waters, and that the forest re- and "‘l Been granted the right to ‘““;" serve was established and created: on yene. In speaking of the matter, Mr. | .., erstanding and” agreement with Read states that during the continued that disctlstons of the question in connection ‘ the complainant, the government, o ] terfe v WA SAMeation, sublle @iseuseions and | 'h° Same would riot interfere with the e iy, i o en oo | aPpropriation or beneficial use of the et o B enges ol © han been 0 | . ters; but the company admts that unfortunate tendency to confuse the issue w&'h the tssuo of the mo-called state's 1o:hth, and that In the lesues now pre- |1t has refused to comply with the rules and regulations of the Department of the Interfor or the Dopartment of Agreul- general, as braska Files for Delegate; #entéd the converse of the question Is maintained; that the merite and demerits of the Ferris and Ehields bille for the control of water and the hydro-electric Interesta which would be affected thereby #ink Into insignificance when confronted with the guestion of whether the sover- ture. The rules and regulations of the Department of the Interfor and that of the Agrioultural provide for the grant- Ing of & license in which the appropria- tors of water upon a public domain within a state, the waters belonging, of course, to the state, are called permittees; that olgn states or the nation has the juris- diction to enact them. Mr. Reed said he was filing his petition in intervention in thewe cases and would file a brief In support thereof for the purpése of maintaining the indestructi- bility of the states. He stated that the claimé of the Interior départment were #0 swoeping that they practically de- prived the individual states of govern- mental jurisdiction, not only over public lands, but also over municipalities and in no Instance shall such license be granted for a perlod longer than fifty years, and in all cases the same shall be rovocable at the will and pleasure of the officer in charge of the depart- ment; that In addition the permittee shall pay o tax to the federal government of 10 centa per horse power per annum un- num for the first year and bn Increase of 10 cents per horse power annum un- til the maximum of $1 Is reached, and other burdensome and unreasonable and unwarranted provisions. After the de- fondants in the cases fleld their amended answer, the government moved to strike the same, and in deference to a decision of the United States circuit court of appe Bighth circuit, within which the distriot of Utah is situnted, entitled the public service industries within the state that they deprived the state of the power to permit, require or restrain actlon on the part of vast industries within a state; the states permanently Value of the natural re. United States of America againet the Utah Power & Light compuny, fi‘no- tion was granted ahd an appesl Cleanest, Merriest Show the Uniteq Stat ipon what amounts to an agroesd statement of facts So great has become the Interest in this litigation that the states of Colo- | rado, Utah, Idaho, Nevada and Oregon have intervened through thefr attorneys has now the state of Personally for Hughes| (From a LINCOLN, Ing a Hughes Staff Correspondent.) Jan. 30.—(Special.)—~Express- personal preference for Justice for the republican nomination for the presidency, but at the same time Ing to ablde by the desires of re- licans of the distrct as shown in preferential vote at the primary, J. tiled for the national re- P the Reld Green of Lincoln ha position of delegate to the publican convention from the First dis- trict and his those lines. He declared he believes that the presi- dentinl primary preference s manda- tory, at least morally if not legally, but after ft has been shown that there is ne chance to land the cholce of the peo- ple of his district, he believes it right for the delegate to use his best Judg- ment after a sufficient number of bal- lots has decided that the cholce of the primary cannot secure the necessary ma- Jority. Mr. Green has been secretary of the Lancaster county republican county com- mittee and !s now its chalrman. He has been one of the live members of the Lin- coln Republican club and is one of the best known young republicans in this vicinity. He says he has not quarrel to pick with anybody over anything that has past and s for a get-together spirit that will mean a republican victory all along the line Treasurer Cropsey's Showing Finest of All FAIRBURY, Neb., Jan. 30.—(Special) ~F. A. Stech, state examiner of the Ne- braska county treasurers’ office, com- pleted auditing the books of D. B. Crop- wsey, treasurer of Jefferson, last night, and asserted that Mr. Cropsey had the best showing on the lu4 tax of any treasurer in Nebraska. He sald that loss than three-fourths of 1 per cent nf the 1914 tax was outstanding, which was something very unusual. A portion of this tax was levied against a Rock Island section gang that has since left the country. The last time the treasurer's office was exam- ined by a state examiner was July 8§ 1915, and since that time taxes have been collected amounting to $139,663.16 and the disbursements for the same pe- rlod were $146,006.13. makes statement along Woman's Club Entertains. AVOCA, Neb., Jan. 30.—(Special)—The annual banquet of the Avoca Woman's club when the members entertain their husbends was held at the L. J. Mar- quardt home on Wednesday evening, January 9. A threglcourse dinner was served. About forty-five were present. Read Beq Want. Ads It payst Ever Offered in Burlesque #Don Bar THE CUTE LITTLE BILLIKEN JESTER. TEMPLE QUARTETTE -——— OMAHA MO Nebraska Farley Enters Race For Delegate to G.0.P. Convention AURORA, Neb., Jan. .—(Special.) Petitions asking that the name of Wil llam 1. Farley of Aurora be placed on tho republican ballot as a candidate for delegate to the national convention at Chicago in June were circulated here | Baturday for the first time. ‘Similar pe- titions will be circulated throughout the counties of the Fourth congressional district, which Mr. Farley desires to represent Mr. Farley will make an active can- vass of the district. He is well known throughout this part of the state, having represented Hamilton county in the state legislature during the winter of 1907, It was during his term of office as representative that the many reform mensures of the legislature of 1907 were enacted and Mr. Farley was a leader in that session. He took an advanced stand on the question of passes, reduction of rates, direct primary and other matters which came before that session of the logislature. Peter Jansen, of Beatrice, is also a candidate for delegate from this dis- trict Much Rain Results In Big Crop of Corn STELLA, Neb., Jan. M. —(Special )~ ‘That rain and a bumper corn crop go together is shown when it is stated that the rainfall for 1916 beat all records for southeastern Nebtaska and that the 1918 eorn crop was the best in this part of the state for many years. Many farmers report that they raised more corn in 1915 than at any time since they have been farming. yielded average was from forty to sixty bushels, and a number of farmers raised as high as a hundred bushels to the acre Fow farmers ralsed corn that less than thirty bushels, the The most remarkable feature of 1915 was the three feet of rain that fell in the five months including May, June, July, August and September. This was the growing perlod for the year, which also included the harvest time and the haymaking. Nearly all the summer activities on either helped out or delayed by the farm were this which exceeded the total The entire rainfall was a great rainfall, for the year. trifle over fifty inches or more than four feet. Otoe County Man Found Dead. AVOCA, Neb., Jan. 30.—(Special.)—John Slefken, aged 62 yoars, was found dead at his home near Berlin, Wednesday night, by his son-in-law, H. Witt, and B. Lyesmier, a nelghbor. He is supposed to have committed suicide, as it was found that one of his wrists had been cut with a razor, severing an artery. Mrs. Stefken dled In June, and he has lived alone since her death. He had resided in that vieinity for twenty years. The body was taken to Syracuse for inter- ment. Two sons and two daughters sur- vive him. U | i - NORTON AND NOBLE—— IDEALIZING YOUTH, GRAC A Veritable Fusillade of Violent Jollity Supported by a Wonderful Cast ELSA BOSTEL—————MAE MACK———CARRIE OOOPER BEAUTY CHORUS OF AMERICAN MAIDS AND DYNAMIO ANIMATION. BEALTY TELL WHY PEACE MISSION FAILED Returning Members of Expedition Their Reasons for Disaster. Give COME BACK ON ROTTERDAM NEW YORK, Jan. 30 nal explosion, probably caused by an exploding mine, English Deal and Falmouth on its way from New York to Rotterdam, according to officers of the Rotterdam, a sis- ter ship, which arrived here tonight. The Rotterdam was at Falmouth at the time the Ryndam met with its the | accident and the officers of former vessel sald they were in- formed that a mine undoubtedly caused the explosion. Three mem- | bers of the Ryndam engine room force were killed and several were hurt. The Ryndam was able | to make its way to Gravesend. Have Views Already. Sixty-Seven members of the Ford peace | expedition came home on the Rotterdam Most of them had prepared statements on the expedition and | these statements were distributed among of their views the newspapermen, ‘who boarded steamer at quarantine. “Autocratic leadershi success that attended their enterprise. State Senator Helen Robinson of Den- ideas ver, Colo,, asserted that ‘“certain fostered by lemaers of the party and which they attempted to impose on the dele- gation created discord.’ Although the mission did not measure up to its ideal, she said, “It helped to mobilize the idea of peace in four Buropean neutral na- tions and showed those people that the United States 18 not as they have been led to belleve a buzzard nation.” Mrs. Inez Milholland left Points Out Blunder. Herman Bernsteln, the author, an members of the party party in giving credit to for undertaking the mission. While at Falmouth, Austrian the British authorities To Throw Off Colds and Pre- vent Grip. Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. It destroys germs, acts as a tonic and laxative, and helps to keep the system in & heaithy condition. There is only one E. W. GROVES' “BROMO QUININE.” signature on box. c.—Advertisement. An exter- disabled the Hol- | 1and-America liner Ryndam, coast somewhere between off the in- | jured, but none of the passengers the | was blamed by most of the voyagers, for the lack of 'LOOTERS WORK BEHIND FLOODS; DAM GOES OUT (Continued from Page One.) with the sons scquainted was estimated persons occupled each of these, although those housing crientals held a larger number. Many of these are belleved to have had time to escape, although it has been impossible to check in any way asainst the known residents of the valley. The estimate of fifty dead is considered conservative. Lieutenant W Rradiey, command- ing Hull, reported today that he had been unable to find any tracc w. the destroyer | of six persons sald to have been carried | out to sea on a ranch house, but it was | rumored that they had been taken off in & small boat Reports that the town | lower Calitornia had drowned out, seemed to be confirmed to- day and it was sald that nothing much of Tijuana, | plant which cost? it was given out by its butlers, $200,000. With clearing skies it is hoped that tho Sweetwater dam, in another little valley | north of the Otay river, would hold out. | A large force of workmen continued their | efforts to make it solid. | The mayor of San Luis Rey headed a | committee of townsmen and ranchers en- indications were that military ald would | not be needed there. SKIN TROUBLE valley must | have stood in the path of the flood. It | that from four to five | | will end grippe misery {or nose running | dullness, feverishness, sore throat, snees- been pretty well | ~— was left of the brand new ranch track | | gaged in relief work in thelr valley and | DISFIGURED FAGE | Went All Over Hands. Red and Burning, Bolssevain, who the expedition at Stockholm, de- clared that while the motive and inten- tion of the mission was sincere, it was a failure, because it was an “autocratic rather than a democratic organization.” ‘who also left the party at Stockholm, sald, important blunder was made when “were virually forced in a humilating manner to sign a pledge declaring their opposition to Presi- dent Wilson's policy of national defense,’” He joined with the other members of the Henry Ford the German and passengers on the Rotterdam were subjected to a rigid examination by Could Not Put Hands in Water, HEALED D BY CUTICURA SOAPAND OINTMENT —_— “My skin began to get rough and peeling. 1t went all over my face and hands and on my neck, and every time I would wash I took some skin off. My skin was very red and burning and T had to scratch and my face was disigured. 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