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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
2
The article surveys a broad set of 1917 policy shifts and wartime issues. It notes a push for a 2 percent coin option, relaxed potato quarantine with Canada, farm loan bank sites, and rail demurrage rules. It covers Congress reconvening, food cost controls, cattle disease diagnoses, and international conflicts affecting trade and transport.
Nebraska lawmakers review the 1907 anti pass law and rail reports. The Nebraska rail commission seeks detailed monthly pass data and clarifications on exemptions. Penalties for unlawful passes range from 100 to 1000 dollars per offense with per trip offenses possible. Exemptions include officers, bona fide employees and immediate family dependents, guardians of livestock and certain service workers.
W G Ure treasurer of Douglas county and his bondsmen will be sued by the state of Nebraska likely in the supreme court at Lincoln to recover 3800 dollars in interest at ten percent on state funds he held back from April 1915 to February 1916. The case may decide whether other county treasurers who failed to remit monthly since last February can be pursued for penalties and if Ure is found liable the treasury could gain thousands from delinquent officials.
The University teams with eight victories in ten over five years face Nebraska on Wednesday evening December 18. Debaters from Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa Illinois Kansas will meet in Lincoln and Lawrence to discuss the incompatibility of submarine warfare on commerce with neutral rights and laws of nations concerning noncombatant enemies.
Lawmakers favor a new state house that would include space for the historical society and the mammoth state library. The group argues all state departments should be housed under one roof in the capitol project.
The text suggests the constitutional convention question will face difficulty in the upcoming legislature and that the fate of the prohibition amendment could be jeopardized if it is approved.
Land Commissioner Beckman travels to Fairbury to inspect a Blue River location where a state aid bridge will span the widened river channel.
Counties in Nebraska owe the state a total of 46785.78 for the care of insane patients per the auditor W H Smith report. The balance due has been reduced from 96000 since audits began. Gage and Stanton counties have refused payment, with a supreme court suit pending. Saunders county has paid 10833.49, Burt 2003.31, Boone 5272.22, leaving several counties still owing. Over two years, Auditor Smith has collected 32197.17 from counties.
Nebraska's state treasury holds 247000 in the general fund as of end of November, with total cash across all funds at 1289000. The general fund typically sinks in November and December, and Treasurer Hall had expected as little as 100000 to remain, but now projects the balance staying near 200000 until new tax remittances arrive from counties.
Nebraska officials report three drilling prospects in Cass Furnas and Dawes counties with early indications of oil. State lawmakers will be asked to extend a pipe line to eastern Nebraska from Wyoming. a prior commission study on feasibility will be updated for the coming session.
Edgar Howard lieutenant governor elect and Columbus Telegram editor spoke to university journalism students about editor duties and opportunities. He warned that city papers serve powerful interests through public service control while urging country editors to maintain independence.
Dr. Carroll Fox, the federal physician who assessed Nebraska’s health Conditions last year, has issued broad recommendations. The medical profession largely backs his proposals as lawmakers prepare a comprehensive public health law re enactment in the upcoming legislative session.
Seven of the writers who helped draft Nebraska's constitution will attend a banquet Saturday night December 30 in Omaha. Names include O. A. Abbott Grand Island A G Kendall San Bernardino Cal John Lee Webster Omaha James W Dawes Ottumwa Ia Isaac Powers Jr Norfolk ex Chief Justice M B Reese Lincoln and A M Walling David Guy. Governor elect Neville also announces appointments W S Ridgell Alliance re appointed state fire commissioner H F Requartte York re appointed deputy fire commissioner J H Presson Omaha re appointed recording clerk George Koster Niobrara named game warden to replace Gust Ruetenbeck Seward William Wood Lincoln chosen caretaker of the governor s mansion.
Dr A W Miller of Omaha sent to Wauneta to examine stock on the Robertson farm and nearby holdings. He is a government stock inspector, with State Veterinarian Anderson expressing confidence in his professional ability. Miller’s cautious report ends with the opinion that foot and mouth disease is improbable at Wauneta.
A new publication named Ziho Daily News will be printed in Denver and circulated in Scottsbluff with a proposed biweekly schedule and a large local readership from over 500 Japanese families in the North Platte valley.
The Fourth Nebraska National Guard regiment now at Llano Grande Texas on border duty is ordered home. They will arrive December 18 at Ashland Nebraska where quarters are prepared. Adjutant General Phil Hall said Colonel Eberly at Llano Grande received War Department orders to move the unit to Fort Crook for acclimation and then to the Ashland rifle range for disbanding.
Berlin reports that central powers have seized Bucharest and about 50 000 square miles of Romanian territory, roughly half the kingdom, stretching from Transylvanian Alps to the Danube and into Dobrudja. Ploiești captured, giving invaders the last western railroad and the line to Jassy where Bucharest now lies.
Delegates from across the nation attend the first anti-suffrage convention in Washington. Speakers urge women to serve the country in other fields and oppose a federal suffrage amendment. Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge and Elihu Root, via Miss Alice Hill Chittenden, condemn federal women’s voting rights as contrary to American institutions.
Oscar McDaniel prosecuting attorney of Buchanan county was acquitted by a jury in the criminal court here on the charge of murdering his wife Mrs Harriet Moss McDaniel. She was beaten and died a few hours after being found in her bedroom about midnight July 14.
New York reports the central federation labor union with a membership of 800,000 in the metropolitan district passed resolutions urging President Wilson to do all in his power to arrange an armistice between the warring European powers before Christmas and called on all U S unions to follow suit.
The commercial agent of the Imperial Russian embassy charges that steamships blown up in Archangel were destroyed by bombs placed in cargoes at Bush Terminal Co piers in New York, causing millions of dollars in munitions damage.
In Los Angeles a guard was pepper sprayed as a robber stole $20,000 from an express wagon in a busy district. An empty canvas money sack and a hat were found in an alley five blocks from the scene. The thief escaped with the gold and currency during transfer to a bank as bystanders watched.
Experiments with an eight hour day in Nickel Plate railroad yards at Cleveland boosted individual switchman efficiency by more than ten percent, testified James D. Monihan, general yardmaster, to the arbitration board. He said the speed up during the trial stemmed largely from the men’s desire for a permanent eight hour day.
United States ambassador James Gerard sails to Berlin aboard the Frederick VIII carrying President Wilson's views on submarine warfare and Belgian deportations for presentation to the German government. He says no peace plan is carried. He also takes 100000 marks raised in a Thanksgiving appeal to aid Berlin widows, orphans, and war sufferers.
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