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The News-Herald PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA. Enlem) at th poitoffic at Flttmmit. Cans Coonly. Nebraska, a acvond-clau mail matter. A. L. Tidd, Editor. R. O. Watters, Manager. .KATES OF SUBSCRIPTION On Tear in Advanc. h Mentha .$1.50 . .75 TELEPHONES Flattsmoutb No. 85 Nebraska No. 85 A MALICIOUS LIAR. The motion for a change of venue was filed late Saturday evening by Mr. Gering and alleges that owing to the bias and prejudice existing in the county, and the number of mur ders which has taken place it would be impossible for Ossenkop to get a fair and impartial trial. This mo tion id supported by thirteen affi davits headed by Mr. Gering's which in addition to reciting the state ments of the motion attaches and makes a of his affidavit, articles clipped from the World-Herald and the Lincoln Star detailing at length the several affrays which have taken place in the county since last September. An additional affi davit which is depending upon to have weight with the court is that of A. L. Tidd who states that dur ing his candidacy for county attor ney last fall he visited many people and talked with them that he con siders that such bias and prejudice exists as would prevent the defend ant having a fair trial. -Journal. The above item appeared in the I'lattsmouth Journal of February 1. The portion which refers to myself is a malicious lie. My affidavit says there was much prejudice and bitter feeling againt Oflscnkop, and a strong belief that he is guilty. There is no opinion expressed as to whether or not he might have a fair trial. The Journal wilfully and maliciously lied. A. L. Tidd. The Journal seems to have a severe attack of gopherphobia. Our doctors should give this matter prompt study. Don't waste your energy. Energy is worth money. Apply your energy in the right way, and it will make money for you. SAFE AND SANE BANKING LAW "On October 21, 1907, in the confus ion and dismay of panic week, Governor j Hughes apjointed, as Superintendent of the State Banking Department, Mr. Clark Williams, the young vice-presi dent of one of the newer trust compan ies of New York City. Mr. Williams has now made his annual report cover ing the notable year of wise banking reform, which has brought the State laws aad regulations governing banks to a perfection that makes them a model for other commonwealths. A very large part of the credit for this achiev ment is due to the quiet and indefati gable Superintendent. That the result is of more than local importance is shown in the one fact that banks organ ized under the State of New York have one-fifth of the entire banking resources of the Union. Of the twenty bills suggested by Superintendent Williams and passed by the legislature, some of the most important are those increas ing the le?al reserve for State banks in Manhattan from 15 to 25 per cent., and requiring that the trust companies carry all of their 15 per cent in reserve in cash. State banks are prohibited from owning more than 10 per cent of the capitial stock of other banks, thus effectually preventing the "'chain-bank ing" methods which did so much to make the unstable situation of October 1907. The department has, moreover, inaugurated an ingenious and thorough method of credit reporting, by which large borrowers of every bank are reported by the examiners to the New fork office for card indexing, ex amination, and comparison, a method which will make it more difficult for rash financiers to get dangerously "spread out" to the detriment of lend ing institutions. One of the most grateful reforms of the year is the vesting of bank receivership control, in the state depatment, instead of receiver appointed by the court, -an arrange mentwhich hnd resulted in a situation little less than scandalous. In the one failing institution Superintendent Wil liams was called on to handle, the Home Bank of Brooklyn, -the salary cost was $056 and the term of receiver ship forty-two days. In nine other receiverships last year, handled under the old method, the fees ranged from $20,500 to $80,000 and the term from five to seven months." Review of Reviews. -1 ADVANCES REASONS 1$kmh E. G. B6VEY $. SON Congressman Pollard Defines His Position on Important Matter of Forest Work. Secretary Whitten has received a long letter from Congressman E. M. Pollard telling why he has opposed cer tain bills appropriating money for for est reserve work. If T If V t His reason is that r t t t r y r bills opposed have uniformly provided for the appropriation of moneys with out restriction as to their use or man ner of expenditure in this work. The congressman points out that fifteen or twenty years ago many northern capit alists went south and purchased large tracts of land for the hardwood timber to be found thereon. They paid from ten cents to one uollar an acre for large tracts of this land. They remov ed the timber making great sums over and above the cost of the land in clear profits, and now that the timber has been removed they desire to sell the land to the government at prices rang ing from two hundred to three hundred per cent above the original cost. He opposes appropriations that will make this possible. 'He declares that owners of such lands have hired experts to go about the country to work up sentiment, and that this sentiment ha9 been corn batted by the committee on agriculture ever since he has been a number of it. Congressman Pollard declares the committee on agriculture is in favor of some action hy the government which will conaerve our forest resources and that such a bill will come shortly and and be approved by the committee. The committee has had some difficulty in the past in getting together on de tails in this matter But Mr. Pollard is sure that the scheme can be worked on in a way that will protect the public interests in every way. Discussing the matter and the way in which sentiment has been worked up for bills that have come before the com mittee Mr. Pollard speaks plainly and intimates that the Commerical club has not heard all there is to hear on the subject. -State Journal. We shall make a prediction, if Mr. Bryan's bank gurantee law is passed by the legislature, that I'lattsmouth will have three national banks. Are you planning to do more busi ness this year than you did in 190S? If you are. not, why not? The bus'ness can be gotten if you only go after it. Are you planning to increase your bank account? If not, why not? You can do it, if you will. NOW, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT? How to meet the competition of the catalogue houses is a question which local dealers can afford to give some attention. We would suggest to the local dealers to procure a recent copy of one of these catalogues. Study it so far as it pertains to your line of goods. It shouldn't take much effort to re peal the primary law. If a few mem-1 bers of the legislature would arise ml Roman Catholic. . Growth ol Churches Dr. H. K. Carroll, of New York, gives the following statistics of the leading churches of the United States. The gain in 1908 was smaller than in 1907. The protestant gains were 571, 443 in 1907 and 421,804 last year, a drop of nearly a third. The Roman Catholics increased 298,813 last year. Despite the church union movement the number of denominations continue to grow. There are 155 now as compared with 143 nineteen years ago, six new ones being born last year. Among these is a dissenting Christian science church I which cleaves to the doctrine of divine healing, but denies that Mrs. Eddy has any special revelation in connection therewith. The largest single denomin ations, according to Dr. Carrol are the ! following: 1 I It f ? ? t ? ? ? ? ? t t t ? t t f f ? t ? ? ? ? t ? f ? ? ? ? ? ? 4 Special Offerings at a Large Discount We are invoicing and working hard every min ute of the time, nevertheless we are going to give a few specials this and next week; this discount ought to mean something to you because you can buy the specials here advertised for much less than actual value. 33i0 Furs 33 25 Blankets 25 0 We will sell any fur in Any blanket in the the house regardless of house 10-4, 11-4 and cost at 1-3 off. Nothing 12-4 goes at discount of reserved. 25 per cent. Fleeced Wrappers Broken Lot of Underwear A nice lot of dark This is a .f ane t0 wrappers. Worth $1.25 save mm l Je ha to $1 50. Yours at. ... . 7 . Good assort- y-c ment now. Yours at.. 19c per garment mmmmmmmmmmmnmmmmmmnmmmmnmmmmmmmmmmmmmimwmmam (HBMnHBaMaim.M.Mii.MBiiB 33 0 Fancy China 33 V 33 io LamPs 33 !o All our salad bowls, Here is an opportunity sugar and cream sets, to Set one of our fancy vases, salt and pepper Parlor lamps at less sets, fancy cake plates than you will ever buy and others go at 1-3 tliem again. Come and off the actual value. look at them, if you do you will buy. their places and present themselves as Methodist Episcopal . . Rantist (Knuiht. examples of what the primary law japtist (Co!ored) gives us, there would be a strong senti- Methodist (South) ment against the primary method of j Presbyterian (North). making nominations. Beatrice Sun. Senator Banning is after the squir rels and Representative Bates is after the gophers. Why not turn these pets over to the committee of the "hole." Weeping Water Republican. Communicants. ... 12,094.650 3,112,448 2,054,301 1,864,877 1.749,899 1.278,259 1,274.725 Al.L persons who are interested in C.J.. l . . . oluuJr vne cnaracceroi goods advertised ! the advancement of I'lattsmouth should 4kn- . ..... I u.c prepare 10 meet it. If you are join the Commercial Club. Don't wait namwng a better grade of goods pre pare yourself to convince your custom- to be solicited. Go to the Bank of Cass County and give your name to Mr. Ray The International opium conference, arranged by the United States with the co-operation of China to convene at Shanghai January 1, 1909, was post poned on account of the death of their majesties, the empress dowager and emperor of China, and convenes Feb ruary 1, 1909. The conference is now in session. China, Japan, Great Bri- eot your receipt and become an active i member. ers of the difference in the goods. The I Patterson, Treasurer of the club, and writer knows of some merchants in this city, who are now prepared to compete with any of the catalogue houses and save money for their cur- tomers, and doubtless there are others. It is an easy matter to do. Oi r mer chant can sell just as cheap as catalogue houses can. Disiciples of Christ Baptist (North) 1.1S7.G56 Protestant Episcopal 884,553 African Methodist 858,323 Congregationalists 721,553 Lutheran Synodical Conference. 672, 049 African Methodist Zion 588,106 Lutheran General Council ... 447,118 Latter-Day Saints (Mormon).. 350,000 Reformed (German) 289,328 Lutheran General Synod. . 2S0.978 United Brethren .... ; 279.846 Presbyterian (South) 268,733 Have you any money on deposit in one of the state banks of this city? In f It has been fully demonstrated din ing the first twenty days of Mr. Bryan's democratic legislature, that they are owned and controlled mind, body, sou', breeches and "mit" by the breweries. The editor of the Shelton Clipper makes the unkindest cut of all. He in case of a crop failure in the western i q(lire8 whftt those mcmber8 of the part of this state and consequently a j iegisature no cannot write intend to crop of bank failures out there, do you ! do wilh the 8n0Wance of fiftt.en cent8 want your banker here to take a part of your deposit to pay such losses? That is what bunk guarantee means, in a nut-shell. for postage money. Burying Cables In River Bed. It seems odd that telegraph and telephone companies should lie forced It was a well known fact during tlel ,0 ry ,he "ed ' iarse river, yet tins uecanie necessary campaign last fall that all of the rail roai corporations supported Railway Commissioner Cowgill. It is now well known that he is a very commrn and . . ... . . wn, me united btates, France, Ger-1 ordinary "railroad tool." The dc mo many and Holland originally were in- j cratic legislature is now making raj id vited to participate and in December j strides toward demonstrating the fact an invitation was extended to Turkey, j that it a'so is wearing the ' railrotd Turkey's participation widens the scope ' corporation collar." There is now no of the conference and maker, it general, j doubt bi t BnaVs democratic legitla The purpose of this conference is to ! tare has tr.e "r.vlroad corportion collnr cjrb the opium habit. A bill is pend-' on." The legislature wants to tie the tu places alonK (he Ohio during the recent drought. The river was so low that boys could and did play ball In the very channel bed. and the exposure left the telephone cables entirely unprotected. To avoid a, repetition of the Incident, therefore, the companies have dug trenches In the river bed. In which the cables have ben securely covered. Marine Journal. OLDHAM WANTS TO BE JUDGE. W. D. Oldham of Kearney, who was appointed by Governor Shallenberger to take the place offered to Judge Hol comb on the supreme bench, asked leve of the supreme court yesterday' to file a suit in that court to test his j right to the office to which he has been appointed. Alleging that the act of 1877 which gave the legislature power , to canvass the vote on constitutional amendments, Mr. Oldham claims he is ; the rightful holder of the oflice and not i James R. Dean of Broken Bow, who was appointed by Governor Sheldon fol lowing the canvass of the vote by the canvassing board, which body is by law required to receive returns from the various counties. Mr. Oldham alleges a that all of the laws passed siuce 1S77 which were intended to give the state canvassing board power to canvass amendments are null and void. The motion for leave to file and docket was fded yesterday with the court by Joel W. West of Omaha, attorney for Mr. Oldham. It was accompanied by a waiver of Oldham's right to file the suit in district court. Judge Dean bad not filed a similar waiver last night and the court will not pass on the motion for leave to file a waiver, if it is nec essary, in any event it is understood that his action will not delay the case as such suits have the preference over others and are advanced by a rule of court. The complainant, by waiving his right to begin suit in the district court, expects to get a speedy decision. If the suit were commenced in the lower j court a final decision by the supreme I court might not be obtained till the one ' year term, which is in question nears i aii end. -Lincoln Journal. I I 1 TT 7-T- r 'V Business Men Eat here to their own great sat isfaction and profit. Our lunch from 11:30 to 1:30 meets most want3 of the man who looks for easily and quickly digested food tastily prepared and at a price not prohibitive to one of ordinary means. Plenty of variety. Glad to see you any c'ay. DR. A. P. BARNES V. S. 21 MUmr,! jut. nm """r71n,TTI(; For Hot Fire Get Eg enber-ger'sCoal! Sure satisfaction every time you light a fire if on top of the kindling is ebony fuel from our yards. It's heat and light giving and slate-free when it leaves the mines, screened and cleaned again here and served to you full weight and with celerity of delivery. Order any way that suits you. Both telephones. J. V. EGENBERGER Undue Exposure. Ailolphus I say, (lean boy, they toll me ('holly cauelit unite u cold dnnt. nig in congress to prohibit the impcrta-, railway c mnrssicn hand nr.d foot by cherknow. tim except f. r medical purposes. It is! giving "Corpo-ation-tool" Cowgill as Augustus Yes. ho went without his ..... ... .. riirysunineimiiii one nay last weeK. much author.ty as both the othc r com- j n.uadelphla Public Ledger. to be hoped that much good may result Why should the banks of this city le I made responsible for the debts of ir.- j secure banks in the western part of j this state? Why not pass a law to require the farmers o;' the eastern part i of the state to bear a share of the loss ; of the farmers in thy western part of the state in case of n crop failure out then? The proposition is as broad as j REMEMBER THE GREAT CLEARING SALE now going on at our store. Below we quote many saving prices for the buyer. Buy now and be wise Radiant home, former price $45 now 00 Sapphire Hird Coal Stove, formey price $42.50, now.... 30 00 German heater, soft or hard coal, former price $29.00. . .Jio ro Splendid Oak, nicely trimmed, former price $14.50 9 r)0 Gem Star Light Wood Stove former price $15.00 () 05 Round Oak, former price $10.00, now j.j r)0 H. L. ASEMISSEN & SON Y ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? f t ? ? y r T T f t t ? f f t t t t f y y f t y ? ? f ? ? ? 3 from the action of this conference, Imissioners. it is long.