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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (July 5, 1907)
NEBRASKA NEWS BANKS OF THE STATE MAKE A SPLENDID SHOWING. DEPOSITS ARE ATJGH.TIDE A Material Increase, and TlmetGood A General Resume of the Week's Important Happenings, An Increase of $11,0:18,000 In de posits In Btato banks In the past year la the high water ninrk as shown by (ho report of the stato banking board for tho quarter ending May 25. It HhowH.a total of $65,302,409 In deposits and $62,943,388 In loaiiH. Tho reserve is 34 per cent, while the Inw requires only 15 per cent. The increase in deposits since May J'J, 1900, which Ih the nearest date available for coinparlson with a year ago, Is $11,938,000, while loans and discounts have grown $8,548,000 In the sumo porlod. A growth of 35 In tho number of banks and $759,000 In the a mount of capital stock has been reg islorcd within the annum. There are now 002 state banks In Nebraska with a combined capital slightly In excess of $10,000,000. The best previous statements over made by the Nefrniska banks was on February 25, last. Since then the capl tal has increased by $315,000, the de posits by $1,700,000 and the loans by $409,000. . In addition to the exhibit furnished by tho "foregoing figures, the good con dition of the state banks is further in dicated by the item of surplus, which runs a littlo over $2,000,000. Below Is tho table of statistics corn idled at tho office of the state bank ing board from tho latest roports of tho 002 institutions operating under Its supervision: RESOURCES. Loans and discounts. .. .$52,943,388.00 Overdrafts 532,043.81 Rouds, stocks, securities, etc 1,065,135.09 Due from national," stute " s and private banks nnd bankers 18,743,995.13 Banking house, furniture and fixtures 1,933,979.61 Other real estate 192,344.63 Current expenses and hixos paid 580,028.72 'Premiums on U. S. and .other uonds alid securl- '"'ties "... 0,090.42 Other assets . '. 64.068.51 Cash 3,324,273.93 , , , Total ....$79,485,947.85 LIABILITIES. Capital Block paid in. . .$10,013,140.00 Surplus fund... 2,000,255.79 Undivided profits 2,037,138.52 Dividends unpaid 5,198.04 Oenoral, deposits 65,302,409.86 Notes and bills redla- counted 21,648.14 Bills payablo 100,157.50 Total $79,485,947.85 Reservo 34 per cent Legal requirement, ....... 15 per cont abe Found In Outhouse. The other day the little son of John Muni, residing in the eastern part of Grand Island, was about to go into an outhouse, he discovered u little Infant. Ho ran Into the house and frantically told about the discovery. Investiga tion by the parents substantiated the report of the boy. It was believed "that the infant was dead. The chief of police Was hastily summoned, aud upon- finding the little ono made a closer Inspection, ascertaining that the babe vWas alive nnd well aud pull ing away lustily at a nipple adjusted to a bottlo. It was warmly blanketed, but was Immediately taken Into tho house and carod for undor the direc tion of tho police until u home could be found for It. A woman's tracks lead through the garden and it Is ap parent that the child was left thore early In the morning. The officers have no clue. bo far, but expect soon to ascertain to whom the child really belongs. u Run Over by a Cultivator. ...Olaf Wlndraw, a farmer living south ast of Silver XJroek, wob seriously 'In jHfeln the cornfield. While he was kktaiag'ktg team to a cultivator, the horses became frightened and ran way, breaking two of his ribs, bMly Injuring one of his lungs nnd r'uaalng a cultivator shovel into bla thigh. crtv Bladen Is to have a few more new brick buildings this year. L. E. Spencer has broke, ground and commenced .work oa a aew brick Just north of the general store of J. Kropp, The build- III 1. ....U.l - . Jit rl 1 1. r"m i( v i " : . V r f et - w. st :.4sS' HIS FOOT CUT OFF. Harry Harpster Caught in a Dough Mixer. Harry Harpstor, a young baker em ployed at Gus WIssIer'B bakery at 423 South Elovonth street, Lincoln, nccl dently caught his foot in tho coga of a dough mixer nnd it was severed from the leg Just "abovo the anklo, Tho machlno was run by electricity and it was while he was trying to turn on the power preparatory to mixing his evening's batch of dough that his trousers became 'entangled in the cog wheels ut tho end of tho mixer and drew his leg between them, cutting his fc6t off. A doctor was summoned at once and upon his arrival tho young man was taken Immediately to St. Elizabeth's hospital, whore his leg waj dressed. Crop Prospects In Jefferson. If the present weather continues farmers expect tho wheat harvest to begin In Jefferson county within a very few days. The prospects wero never belter for a big yield of wheat of good quality. John P. Thiessen, representative from that district, who lives at Janscn, says that most of tho fields In his neighborhood, and in fact practically nil the wheat he has ex amined, will run close to twenty-flvo bushels to the acre on an average. Ho docs not consider the outlook for an oat crop vory promising, but believes if the, present conditions continue the corn ylold win bo big. Mr. Thiessen Is considered "an authority on agricul tural prospects In this neighborhood, Alliance Times Celebrates. The Semi-Weekly Times was twenty years old last week and Editor H. J, Ellis gave considerable space to his tory of the paper as woll as Alliance Tho Times Is the oldest paper In tho county, having been established In Nonparlel, then the county seat of Box Butte county, by Harry B. Fctz, the outfit having' been freighted across tho country from Hay Springs. Tho coming of tho Burlington made It ap parent that Nonparlel would never have a railroad and tho. Times was moved to Grand Lake, which was a temporary town just east of the pres ent town of Alliance. Tho present editor became conriected with the pa per In 1888 as foreman and associate editor and in 1902, when the big flro changed the map of Alliance, he bo came sole owner. Bad Fire at Fremont. By a fire at Fremont the "annex" to Gumpert'a department store, consist ing of tho bake shops and storage rooms; was damaged to tho extent of $5,000. Mr. Gumport had just un loaded two carloads of sugar Into the warehouse. There were six hundred Backs of the product In the building, Immediately .under the roof, whore tho flro raged hottest. All of the sugar was damaged,-entailing a. loss alone of nearly $3,000. Thinks Line Will Be Built. Hon. A. A. Kearney of Stanton was In Columbus recently and said that preliminaries with roferenco to tho newly projected line of railway from Yankton to Gulveston have progressed sufficiently so that It may bo stated with reasonable certainty tho road will be built. Tho route has been thor oughly canvassod and Investigated aud tho people along the line have ex hibited great Interest. Alleged Burglars Sentenced. D. M. Morgan and George Conroy, who, after separate trials, wore found guilty of burglariously entering tho farm home of Meyer Hanson near Friend and stealing ji quantity of wearing apparel and other articles while tho family wore at church, wero sentenced by J.udge Hurd at Wilber to throo years each at hard labor in the penitentiary. Bad Storm at 'Geneva. Roports of the Btorm near Geneva ure coming In slowly on account of tho crippled condition of the telephone linos, Scoros of windmills wore wrecked and Bmall buildings turned over. Many larger buildings wero moved off foundations. The wind did some damage to crops In the north eastern part of Fillmore county. All Tickets Sold. It has been announced that tho management of the Wahoo Chautau qua which will begin July 9 had sold all the season tickets guaranteed by the Commercial club of Wahoo and that overy, detail was being looked after to make the program a success. Costly Blaze In Print Shop. A flro In tho Dally Press office, Ne braska City, Injured the plant to tho extent of $1,2.00. It was covered by Insurance. Tho paper had just boon sold by E. A. Brown, for years tho owner, but possession had not been I turned over. CAPITALCITYCHAT RAILROAD AUDITORS CONFER WITH COMMISSION, AS TO FORM OF REPORT Are Willing to Conform to Commis sion's Request as Near as They Can, But Unable to Do So In Some Things. Auditors Discuss Report. Representatives of tho auditing de partment of the various railroads do ing busjhess in Nebraska mot with tho state railway commission last week nnd discussed tho form of the annual - report to be filed with the commission. In several respects the report, as outlined in tho commission law is different from tho report usu ally made by tho railroads. The dis cussion was entirely Informal and some of the Information called for in the law the railroad men said they would not be able to give in full un der their present system of bookkeep ing. They all agreod, however, to do the best they could and In tho event the information was not as complete as demanded by tho law, a satisfactory explanation would be all that Is neces sary. Ono of the Items the railroad men objected to was the filing of an Itemized statement of the salaries paid to the officers. In the first place they wanted a ruling on who were consid ered railroad officers and it was agreod that the list should include tho general officers and those officers who were directly concerned with the Ne braska business of the roads. The railroad mou said they would furnish this information to the best of their ability. The commission gave the railroad men to understand It had no authority to change the law and therefore tho annual report would have to conform to the state law, notwithstanding some of the information asked for may be superfluous. Among the railroad men present were L. A. Roblnsqn, Lyman Sholes, George MacRae and A.. Stick ling of the Omaha, J. O. Clifford and S. F. Miller of tho Northwestern, H. J. Stirling, Edsoh Rich and R. J. Clancy of the Union Pacific, J. O. Phll- llppl, A. R. Talbot, H. B. Btblngton and Bailey Waggoner of the Missouri Pacific. Oil Inspector Allen Reports. State Oil Inspector A. B. Allen has completed his first report. It Is for the month of May and shows that the receipts of his department aggregated $2,160.45, Including $207.65 received from his predecessor In office. The expenses of the department wero $801.59. Mr. Allen paid to tho state treasurer $588.86 and has .on hand a balance of $800. He Intends to retain a balance for the purpose of paying tho salaries and expenses of deputy Inspectors the first of each month. The salaries are due the first of each month and as the fees of tho office cannot be collected until about the middle of the month, Mr. Allen will keep a balance on hand and not com pel the deputies to wait for two weeks for what Is due 'them. Objects of Reducing Rates. The Lincoln Traction Company, which tho city of Lincoln is attempting to make sell six tlckots for 25 cents has filed Its answer with tho State Railway commission, saying, to en force such a demand would be confis catory. The. citizens Street Railway company mentioned, by the city as having a lower rate, the traction com pany says, Is operated at a loss -and its officers have announced publicly it does not Intend to operate a street car system for gain, but expect to sell Its road to tho city when It gets It com ploted. Tho traction company says also, it Is selling tickets now cheaper than 90 per cent of the street railway companies iln the country covering anything like the same territory. Lane in Lincoln. Tho attorney genoral has notified District Attorney Goss that the salary of Assistant District Attorney A. W. Lane from July 1 will be increased from $1,500 to $2,000 per year and that Mr. Lane's official domiclje will be at Lincoln. This Is mado neces sary by the new judicial district law, which provides for a division of tho Nebraska federal district, and it ,ls necessary that the assistant district attorney should have his office in Liu coin to be in closer touch with the federal business in that part of the district. He will come to Omaha only when the volume of business here may be such As to require his presence to assist the district attorney. Railroads Pay Grain Dealers. The elevation charge which rail roads pay to terminal grain elevators and which Norrls Brown alleged In his suit against the Nebraska grain dealers' association was an Indirect way of paying a rebate to the big ele vators, Is still being paid according to schedules or rates received by tho state railway commission. The schedules were forwarded by the In terstate commerce commission. The tariffs of tho Burlington road show that company allows elevators three fourths of a cent per hundred. For merly only Omaha and South Omaha were the towns favored by an eleva tion charge. In the suit of tho stato against the grain dealers in the su preme court It was charged that this piactlce was unlawful. One of the new Burlington tariffs allows the elevation rebate only to Omaha, Council Bluffs, Kansas City and Rulo, tho last named point being a small station on the Missouri river in Richardsbn county, where the Bur lington has a bridge. It has been ef fective since Juno 19. Another tariff, which does not go into force until July 19, will extend the same privilege to Lincoln, St. Joseph, Atchison, Leavenworth, Nebraska City, Fremont nnd Missouri Valley. . The Northwestern road has taken similar action by announcing a three fourths cent elevation allowance at Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs, effective Juno 20, and grant ing the same concession to Fremont and Missouri Valley after July 18. In line with this course the news that the Rock Island will allow one-half cent on grain handled at Omaha, South Omaha or Council Bluffs, but not elsewhere. Banks Will Accept State Funds. State Treasurer Brian says ho has enough applications from banks on file to provide for all tho state.funds that ho is likely to have during the year. His notice that state depositories must pay tho state 3 per cent interest in stead of 2 per cent after July:l has caused all of the Omaha depositories to refuse to keep the funds at tho now rate. The First National bank Is the only depository in Lincoln that has refused. The depositories at Hastings and Fremont do not Intend to pay the advanced rate of Interest. Notwithstanding this action on the part of several strong banks, the treas urer has enough applications on file to satisfy him. The board of state officers that approves bonds of depos itories will not approve any new bonds before the first of July. The action of banks refusing to nay 3 per cent Interest on state deposits is greatly In contrast to the practices in former years when banks were glad to get the money at any price. During recent years the banks have shown thatthey cared very little about hanfflng state funds, but still the state, has .never been at a loss to find enough banks to take care of the funds. Next year an amendment will be submitted to the constitution provid ing for an enlarged field, of Investment of state funds, including any Invest ment tho legislature may see fit to ap prove. Charge of Discrimination. The Hastings Independent Tele phone company has complained against the Nebraska Telephone com pany to tho state railway commission, accusing it of discriminating in the rates charged in that town. Manager Lyman wrote the commission that the Nebraska company, in defiance of the orders of the commission, was furnish ing telephones to ministers at reduced rates and to the city library free of charge. Mr. Lyman desired to know if the commission had notified the Ne braska company as it had his com pany regarding the charges to be made. He said he had written the commission regarding allowing minis ters to have telephones at reduced rates and the commission told him to follow the law, which doeB not permit fhls. His company raised tho rates, he said, and the ministers ordered its 'phones taken out and are using the Nebraska 'phones at the reduced rates. The commission will investigate the matter. M. P. Joins In. The Missouri Pacific railroad hag joined with the Union Pacific and the Rock Island in attacking the authority of the state courts In the injunction suits of the stato to compel these rail roads to observe tho laws enacted by the last legislature imposing a 2-cent passenger rate, and establishing a maximum freight rate subject to the action and change of the railroad com mission created by tho same legisla ture. The Missouri Pacific came Into the federal court and filed a transcript of the proceedings before the supremo court to date, an answer to the suit filed by the attorney general .In tho state court, and a cross-bill in which the legislative acts are attacked aud an injunction asked for restraining the state from enforcing the enactments. SITUATION GRAVE ICE AND GARBAGE MEN IN NEW YORK ON A STRIKE. DISEASE EPIDEMIC FEARED Health Department Using Its Great Resources to Meet the Emer gency But it Cannot' Do Much Needed Work. New York is. experiencing nn Im pressive demonstration 'as to what ox tent the comfort of the millions is dependent upon the handful, compara tively, of citizens ordinarily engaged in collecting garbage and delivering Ice. Two thousand garbage collectors and an equal number of Ice wagon drivers" are on strike and the ,clty Is In peril of an epidemic of disease. The garbage situation is the moro serious and unless speedily remedied tho pos sibilities of evil are startling. Tho health department which upon direc tion of Mayor McClellan assumed re sponsibility with the street cleaning department proved unequal to the emergency, Is exhausting its almost unlimited resources, but the best that Dr. Darling could promise was that 300 men would be at work the first of the month. Such a force will make little headway as 755 carts are re quired to remove each day's accumu lation and the work is six days behind. Tho 'great obstacle encountered by the department is the deep rooted sentiment among men who work for wages that one may not honorably take the place of a striker. Thousands of men, enough to many times to fill the vacant places, are to be found without work but will not under tho conditions presented ac cept employment. Three dollars a day, board and permanent employ ment Is offered but has attracted few. The health department took hold Juno 28 and since has used its police powers vigorously and Its emergency fund of $85,000 without stint, but so far has been unable to meet conditions effectually. FRANCIS MURPHY IS DEAD. Noted Temperance Orator Died Sun day at Los Angeles. Francis Murphy, the temperance lecturer, died at Los Angeles, Cal., Sunday. - In early life Murphy conducted a saloon in Pittsburg. He professed re ligion when he was thirty-five years old and at once became a temperance" lecturer. Murphy became famous during a three months.' gospel aud temperance campaign which he and Moody held' in (Ihinnern in- 1887. The 'Principal meetings wero conducted In Farweii hall, but thirty other smaller meetings. iirn,-a linlfl tn lllffpVAIlf nflVts flf tllO city at the same time. About 20,000 persons signed the temperance pledge. The 'blue ribbon movement" was istarted by Murphy thlrty-slx years ago while In tho state of Maine. It is estimated that since that time about twelve million persons have worn tho blue ribbon after having taken this pledge: "I promise, God helping me, to ab stain from all intoxicating beverages and will endeavor to help, others ab stain." Brought Steamer to Port. Tho steamship Calmette from Ha vana arrived at Port Eads, La., with the steamer Fort Morgan (Nor.) in tow having fallen in with her 150 miles oft' South Pass at 3 -a. m. on June 29 with about twelve feet of water In her engine and fire room, caused by a Kingston valve being opened In some unaccountable man ner, her port rail being awash. 'Longshoremen Struck. The 'longshoremen oh tho docks of the Cunard company struck when the Bteamer Umbrla from Liverpool docked. Tho men demanded 60 cents an hour for 'Sunday work, which was promptly refused. Stewards of the vessel, with tho help of non-union men, removed the baggage of the pas sengers after considerable delay. To Hold For Dollar Wheat Members of the American society of equity, composed pT. farmers, met at many of tho county seats in south ern Indiana and pledged themselves to hold their crop of wheat this year until they are paid one dollar a bushel for It. Receipts of Gold Lower. There is a slight decrease in the amount of gold received at the United States assay office, Helena, Mont., for the fiscal year ending June 30 and an increase in the silver. Gold received was $2,052,046.67, stlvor $59,131.04, The total receipts for Juno were $110, 758.22,. of which $108,581.55 was In gold. Chateau county was the bannoi producer last month,