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VOLUME XVIII
DAKOTA CITY, NEB., FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1910.
NUMBER 20
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LAM PH ERE TOLD ALL
ckimixof i us. (ii xxDss liu:d
. iiKh)m: ins dkath.
Convicted Slayer of Woiniin mid '1 hreo
Children Declares They Mot Death
by Accident. Alllifiiiith lie Hail
Chloroformed Them.
Jn a copyrighted, story Thursday the
Louis POst-Dlspatch publishes what
Is claimed to lo the confession of Kay
Lamphere, whn died n lew days ago In
the Indiana penitentiary at Michigan
City, while serving a sentence for set
ting tire to the home of Mrs. Hello
dullness, near Laporte, Ind. It Is
known that the Rev. Dr. E. A. St hell,
formerly of Laporte, heard Lam
phere's confession.
The confession shows that Mrs.
. Gunnoss and three children were
ehloroformed !y Lamphere, who was
robbing the house with a woman ac
complice; that Jennie Olson was not
killed by Mrs. OunnesH; that the
chloroform used by Lamphere was
purt of thftt bought lor Mrs. ; unties
to kill throe men. one of whom wan
Andrew llelgeleiii. the others probably
Ole Hudshcrg and Tonnes Peterson
I Jen, and that one of these men, prol
nbly Lion, was tin- third husband of
Mrs. Ounness.
""It establishes the fait, doubted by
thousands, that Mrs. Cannes Ls leHl.
The adult body found in the smoking
ruins of the dullness farm house was
the body or Mrs. Hello Ounness. She
was In the deep sleep that chloroform
Induces when the smoke crept up
through the crevices and smothered
her. She died as she lay ticeping. with
the head oT her little bo pillowed on
her breast and her arm about his neck,
the pledge of protection she was pow
erless to give.
STicN;l.l'.i HY iu i!i;i.i;s.
Servants Awakened, but Are I liable to
Offer Kcsistuin-c.
A young woman known as Sarah
Hreymer. a nurse in the employment
of Mr. and Mrs. Karnes Compton, was
strangled to death by burglars Thnrs
day in her bed In the Compton man
sion at Mlllbrook. X. T.
The house was robbed of a quantity
of silverware. The burglary and mur
der took place while Mr. and Mrs.
Compton wen- in New York City and
the house was in the care of servants.
It was learned Thursday that the mur
dered woman was the wife of Clarence
Morse, of Togas, Mo.
The nurse and a small daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Compton occupied a
sleeping piazza on the upper Moor.
Other servants in another part of the
.house Were awakened by the burglars,
but were unable to offer any resist
ance. After the burglars had departed
servants found the body of the nurse
in her bed with marks on her throat,
indicating that she had been stran
gled. The little Compton girl had not
been awakened by the struggle.
Hanker to Prison.
One to live years In state prison was
the sentence given Hubert I. Mulr,
of New Haven, Conn., late treasurer
of the Peoples Hank and Trust com
pany, on his plea of guilty Thursday
of having converted to his own use
$106, 000 worth of the bank's securi
ties. Holdup Man Killed.
Uernard Scickowski. an alleged
holdup man, wan shot and killed by
Policeman Frank Madden In Chicago
Thursday. Sdckowskl and four com
panions are said to have attempted to
hold up a pedestrian and when Mad
den appeared they attempted to es
cape. Seek to Avert Scandal.
The royal family, with the exception
nf Princess lionise, daughter of the
late King Ijcopold, have arranged to
everything possible to avert law
suits and scandal in connection with
the distribution of Leopold's fortune.
Kuvoi-s Piiichot's Policy.
Prof. IJenry 8. Graves, of Yale, new
ly appointed national forester, Thurs
day expressed himself in favor of the
policy pursued by Mr. Pinehot as chief
of the forestry service. So far as he
knew there would be no reorganiza
tion of the service.
Fire at art-early hour Friday morn
In; almost destroyed the six-story
building occupied by the Chicago Haw
Hide company. The loss is estimated
at $300,000.
Sioux City Mvc Stock .Market.
Thursday's quotations on the Sioux
City live stock market follow:
beVves, $5.50. Top hogs, $K.45.
Top
Traniw Hum to Death.
Five unidentified trumps were burn
d to death in a wreck on the Chicago.
Hock Island and Pacific railroad, ten
miles eaBt of Wlster, ok la., Thurs
day night.
Holland for Permanent Court.
A dispatch to the London Pally
Telegraph from The Hague says that
Holland will strongly support the
American proposal for a permanently
sitting- court of arbitration.
SHIP A TOTAL WHKCK.
Thirty-One; Live Said to Ho Iiost on
the Czar inn, "
The Southern Pacific Railway com
pany s steamer Czarina, which left
Marshfleld, Ore., Wednesday for Ban
Francisco, lies a total wreck on the
north spit of the Coos bny bar, and
31 lives are believed to have been lost.
Only one member of the crew, J. C. H.
Kentzell, first, assistant engineer,
reached shore alive. The steamer left
port in a gale. Tremendous seas were
breaking over the bar as the Czarina
attempted to pass Into the ocean.
Those on the shore who had gnthered
to watch the departure of the boat
were suddenly startled to see the Czar
ina sweeping toward the north spit.
Her engines apparently had been dis
abled. The heavy seas seemed almost
to envelop the steamer, nnd she drift
ed rapidly on the spit at a point about
two miles above the Jetty.
C, J. Mills, manager of the steam
ship company, whose son was on
board the vessel, was compelled to
stand Idly by and see man after man
washed overboard, fin rough was the
sea that all efforts of the life saving
crew to launch a boat were In vain.
Attempts to shoot a life line across the
Vessel also fulled. The distance was
too great.
As darkness fell only a few of the
crew were still seen to he dinging to
the wreck.
Th Czarina carried a crew of nine
officers and twenty-one men.
roisoN roi7M ix stomach.
Chs Hun Suspicious Aspects Which
Hare Not Hccn Cleared Pp.
The stomach of W. H. Nioderhol-
man, or Helman. of Terre Haute, lnd.,
contained 53 grains of pntasium cyan
ide, according to a chemist's report
submitted to the coroner's jury.
As Helman rmist have died ten min
utes after he swallowed this poison
the coroner will Immediately recom
mend that the charge of murder
against Kftio Scllsborry and Henry
Corcoran, hold by the police of New
Orleans, lie dismissed.
Helman, who was found dead In his
room at a hotel at Terre Haute, lnd.,
left a note saying Kl'fie Sellsbury had
poisoned him.
The prosecutor, despite the coro
ner's decision, refused to recall his
deputy, who had left for New Or
leari's with warrants for the Sellsber-
ry woman and Corcoran. He said
that the case has several suspicious
ispects which he desired to clear up.
WOKSKTHAN TI1F. GALLOWS.
Judge- WairlN Man to He Haunted by
Walls of Ha by He Killed.
Judge . A. Crow, of the circuit
court of St. Clair county, 111., Wednes
day sentenced James Pullman, mur
derer of his 1 -month-old child, to live
rather than die, so that he might suf
fer a lifetime haunted by the wails of
the dying Infant.
' "I will not sentenc e Pullman to the
gallows," said the Judge, "but to the
penitentiary lor life. It will be pun
ishment more terrible than death for
him to hear daily the cries of his mur
dered child. His crime was the most
atrocious 1 have ever heard of. Ife
stamped the lire out of the child with
his heel."
Pullman had pleaded guilty. Ho
killed the child after he and its moth
er had failed to lind a home for it.
DKAL OX HY I.AWSOV.
Host on Man Plans to Take (her Hur
ley Tobacco Company.
That a $50,000,000 tobacco manu
facturing concern, to take over the en
tire holdings 'of the Hurley Tobacco
society, is to be formed by Thomas
W. Liiwboii, of ISoston, and his asso
ciates, was announced by W. W. Dn
vles, of Louisville, Lawson's attorney,
after the departure of the latter from
that city-Wednesday, at the end of a
series of conferences with executive
officers of the Hurley society.
Mr. Davie said s deal for the Luw
son corporation to take over the Hur
ley crop, amounting to 11 8,00(1,000
pounds, had been virtually sgreed up
on. '4irt1iipuikcN In Vlah.
Numerous earth shocks have oc
.urred at Itichfield. i:tah, Monday and
Tuesday. Monday window panes were
broken and schools were dismissed to
Insure the safety of the pupils. The
last disturbance occurred Tuesday
morning. Slight quake are very com
mon there, but those of this week
were so violent as to cause general
alarm. They were confined to a small
trea, however.
I' n k now II Aii-liip filed.
An unknown airship passed over
Chattanooga. Tcnn.. at a great alti
tude, Thursday. The chugging of the
Hiiglne could be heard. A dispatch
from lluntsvlllc, Ala., ald the air
ihlp passed over that city. The mil
hine came out of the northwest.
ToM'ka l Chosen.
A committee appointed by the gen
eral assembly of the Presbyterian
church, In session at Dos .Moines, la.,
Thursday selec ted Topeka, Kan., for
the national convention of the Young
People's union of that church. The
lates were set for August :i to 7.
Death Claims .cn. HIiihIcs.
tlen. ltufus N. Ithodes, president
ind editor of the lilrmlnghum, Ala.,
N'ews, and a director of the Associated
fress, died Wednesday at his home
n Birmingham, Ala., of Hrlght's dis-
ase and arterial trouble.
Three persons, two of them ehlld
en, were burned to death in a lire
vhich destroyed several of the smaller
ulldlngs on the Jamestown exposition
grounds Wfrdnesduy
FITZUKRALD C'lfOs. MA Y Oft,
Bonton Voters Name) Him Vnilor the
"Plan."
lloston Tuesday, in the first party
less election held under a new char
ter, chose former Mayor John F. FiU
gerald to again 1111 the mayor's chair,
this time for a four-year term, giving
him 46,968 votes and n plurality of
1.223 over his nearest opponent,
James J. Storrow, banker, former
president of the chamber of com
merce and former jChnlrmnn of the
board of education.
The tnot remnrkable feature of the
election' to many was the small vote
of 1,783 given to .the present mayor,
George A. Hibbard, who received 38,
000 votes two years ago, being elected
on a "reform" ticket over Fitzgerald.
Mr. Fitzgerald was elected In splto
of the fact that not one of he dally
newspapers of ho city advocated his
election. He based his campaign on
a plea for vindication, his previous
term having been conspicuous for tho
exposure by the finance committee c.i
graft among a number of his sublrd!
nates in the city hall, I.Ike Mr. Stnr
row, he ls a democrat In national pol
itics nnd has been a demoernt alsc
heretofore in local politics
Under the provisions of the new
charter the ballots bore no party des
ignations, but only the candidates
names and street addresses.
Mr. Storrow, who resigned the pres
idency of the chamber of commerc
to enter the campaign, made a deter
mined fight to gain the chief execu
tlveshlp of tho city, promising the clt
izens a progressive husiness adminis
tration. The campaign was probably the
costliest ever waged In Hoston. Page
after page In the newspapers was
bought for . signed advertisements
lauding the various candidates, and
the city was plastered with posters.
Scores of halls were hired for rallies
and expensive headquarters were
maintained hy the leading candidates
In each of the 25 wards.
Celebrations by Fitzgerald adher
ents were held Tuesday night In many
sections of the city, and the head
quarters of the "little general" on
School street, next door to the city
hall, was a center of rejoicing, which
extended . to thousands of enthusiastic
supporters In the street until a late
hour.
The city went for license hy n ma
jority or 27,122. Ijist year the major
ity for license wns 11,988.
GIUL STHIKLUtS HXXD.
VYIien Officers Come to Aid of Nonun
ion Girls They Are Hombarded.
Fourteen girls, striking shirt waist
makers of Philadelphia, were held in
ball Tuesday on charges arising out
of disturbances Monday night In the
neighborhood of factories which are
being operated with non-union work
ers. Several were charged with in
citing to riot. ,
When policemen came to the aid of
the non-union girls they were bom
barded with snow balls and other mis
siles by the strikers. Details of police
men were sent to all of the factories
Tuesday and any of the girls at work
who ask for protection will lie escort
ed home tonight.
Miss Fannie Travis Cochran, a so
ciety girl, who was acting as a strike
picket Monday, was arrested. She
was detained at a station house for a
short time and then released.
SOI.DIKIt TO HIO H(.l:i.
Charles O'Neill I oil lid t.uilly of Mur
der of Minnie ScliurlKtra.
Charles O'Neill, a private in the
Fourteenth United States infantry, on
trial Tor the murder of Minnie Shur
bora at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., July
20 last, was found guilty of murder in
the first degree by a Jury in the fed
eral court In Kansas City, Kan., Tues
day, and his punishment fixed by
Judge Pollock at death by hanging.
The crime was committed on the
government reservation and therefore
tlie Kansas custom of not inflicting
capital punishment does not apply.
The murder grew out of the jeal
ousy of O'Neill In his love for Miss
Scharbora, a servant in the household
ofi'apt. Charles Murphy.
President Talt Wednesday appoint
ed Henry S. Graves, director of the
Yule forest school, as chief forester of
the United States to succeed Gilford
Pinehot. He also appointed Albert V.
Potter, at present si ting forester, as
associate forester.
Itig Che In llolioken.
The factory of the Oriental Mail
Mux company, in lloboken, N. J., was
destroyed last night by fire, with an
intimated loss of $210,000. The fire
was ii bAlliant spectacle from the New
York, side of the Hudson.
Stcuiner Is Hefloalcd.
""The Hamburg-American steamer
Prinz .1 oachim, which struck on a reef
while attempting to get out of the
harbor of Kingston, Jamaica, Sunday,
was lloated Tuesday and proceeded.
shot from Ambush,
.lames Middictou, a farmer and prin
cipal witness in a night rider case set
for trial in Mobile, Ala.. Monday wus
shot from ambush Sunday nlht and
killed.
Provide Millions for Army.
Carrying an appropriation of $96,
200,000 for the maintenance of the
army for the fiscal year of 1911, the
army appropriation bill pussed the
house Tuesday by a vote of 183 to 106.
pension Mm. Cleveland.
A pension of $5,000 a year is du
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, according to
precedent, and Secretary Hoot Tues
day presented the senate a bill mak
ing the grant.
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NEBRASKA
News of tho Week
' in Concise Form
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chadhox tarrs the xokmaIj.
fitate Hoard Decides to Give It to
Dawes County.
Chndron gets the new normal school.
The normal board in executive session
nt Lincoln Saturday afternoon selected
the Iawes county town on the fif
teenth ballot.
On different ballots each
tvn re-
celved three voles, which
highest number that town
wns the
received.
Tho votes were all cast under tho Aus
tralian ballot system and each town
competing for the school on various
ballots received some votes. On tho
fourteenth ballot Chadron received
five votes and then the location was
made unanimous.
Chadron agreed to donate to the
state eighty acres of land adjoining
tho town, and which runs back into
tho buttes, nnd according to Treasurer
Brian is an Ideal locution for the
school. In the center of the tract Is
the Chadron academy, an institution
conducted by tho Congregational
church. This building wilt be donated
to the state, though tho board said
this was no inducement to the selec
tion of Chadron for tho school. Chad
ron Is on tho Northwestern railroad,
and Is In tho extreme northwestern
county of the etate. The state appro
priated $35,000 for the school.
WOMAX XOT ELIGIBLE?
Test Case in XcbruHka Will He Car
ried to Supreme Court.
P. B. Quibblo, county treasurer of
Cherry county, has refused to turn
over the office to Miss Gertrude Jor
dan, who was elected to be treasurer
In last fall's election, on the ground
that a. woman is not eligible to hold
a county office, and the case will bo
carried to tho supreme court at once,
this being tho first test as to whether
a woman is eligible to hold a county
office under tho constitution of the
state of Nebraska.
The supreme court Saturday gave
leave to docket tho case of Jordan
against Quibble from Cherry county to
settle whether a woman elected treas
urer of Cherry county may Ipiold tho
office. Tho nnswer day ls setVor Ban
uary 31.
WARXEK IS HEAPITHXTED.
Dakota City Man to Hold Federal Mur-
slialsliip.
Dispatches from Washington state
that Senators Uurkett and Ilrown have
recommended F. S. Howell, of Omaha,
to succeed District Attorney Goss.
United States Marshal W. P. War
ner, of Dakota City, has been recom
mended for reappointment.
Hoy Struck In Sled.
Samuel Hchrcns, aged 13, was mys
teriously attacked in a bobsled Wed
nesday night and lert bleeding and
unconscious In the outskirts of Hast
ings. Ho was on his way home from
tho Young Men's Christian association
when a bobsled party hailed him at a
street crossing and ask him if he
wanted a ride. The unsuspecting boy
climbed Into the vehicle and a mo
ment later he was violently Btruclc. He
cannot give a description of tho occu
pants of tho bobsled.
Additions to Iucking Plant.
The Cudahy packing plant in South
Omaha ls to be increased and im
provea uy tne erection or rour new
buildings, two of which are to bo
started at once. Construction will
soon begin on a, five-story of lice build
lng and a new hog nbattoir of four
stories. The buildings will be built ab
solutely fireproof and embodying the
latest features evolved by architectural
and engineering science.
Once GiM-dcy's Office Hoy.
II. I. Kelly, editor of the Holding
Times, died lit Fremont, aged 79 years.
For nearly forty years be had been
actively in the newspaper business,
most of the time in Nebraska. He
began his newspaper career in New
York City, and was at one time Horace
Greeley's ol lice boy.
luiborcr Fatally Itiirnwl.
Krhaini Skukicie, a Greek laborer
employed as member of a construction
gang, was probably fatally burned at
Seward. lie lighted the lire In the
stove in the bunk car with kerosene.
The can exploded, scattering burning
oil over his clothing and the car.
l'iglit for Postiiuc-lci'.
There are two aspirants in Hl.iir for
tho postmastership, W. J. Conk, the
present postmaster, and J. F. White,
present county treasurer. Cook has
served twelve years as postmaster.
Xew Pi-cm AiviiM'lalioii.
Kditors of six of tho seven papers
published In the county met In Kew
urd and formed the Seward County
Press association.
May Drop Corn Show.
Omaha may not have another. Na
tional Corn exposition. The last expo
sition did not pay out because of un
favorable weather conditions which
greatly Impaired the gate receipts and
at the same time added to the cost of
operating; the exposition, if the at
tendance in 1909 had equaled that of
1908 the exposition would huve been
a ftaanclal success, tut the cold and
stormy weather cut the receipts to
ens-fourth less than the vi-nr before.
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STATE NEWS lb
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STATE VS. II MlltY JOYCE.
Alleged Hadar Hank Hobhor Will He
Tried in February.
The first term of court for tho Ninth
judicial district for the new year will
be held at Pierce on the 7th of Feb
ruary. Several Important cases will
be tried nt this term, tho most im
portant being that of the stato vs.
Harry Joyce, who is now in thto county
Jail charged with burglnting the
Farmers' State bank nt Hadar last
January. Joyce I supposed to be an
accomplice of James Morrison, who
was convicted of this clime in thw'No
vember term of court and sentenced
by Judge Welch to the penitentiary nt
Lincoln for a term of thirty years at
hard labor. The evidence In tho Mor
rison trial was entirely circumstantial,
but the state wove so strong a chain
about the accused that no one had any
doubt of his guilt. '
Anollter case of Importance that
will come up nt this term of court
will be that in which thu Nye, Schnei
der, Foeler company, a corporation
engaged in tho grain business at Ha
dar, Is accused of discriminating In
prices nnd violating the nnti-trust law
of the state. .
XIXETF.EX STI'llEXTM SPSI'KX DED
Committee Takes .Measures to EnforT
Studious Habits.
Nineteen students sixteen boys and
thee girls have been suspended from
ths University of Nebraska because of
delinquency.
These nineteen students, with a few
others, were placed on the probation
list before tho Christmas holidays
when they began slipping behind In
their studies, but since their period of
trial began they have failed to im
prove their work, nnd accordingly
they were dropped from tho university
rolls last week.
This action in dropping the delin
quents was taken by the committee
o fthe senate, having supervision over
the failures nnd conditions, and it will
prevent tho suspended students from
again registering in the university un
til nfter the close of the present se.
tnestcr. .. . .
CAXXOT PELIYKIt HFFIt.
XcbinskH Supreme Court Uphold
Lincoln's Excise Hoard.
The supremo court of Nebraska has
filed an opinion upholding the rule of
the cxclachnni-d of Lincoln against tha
delivery of liciuor In Lincoln bv com
mon carriers, except nt their stated
places of business.
A sunnrlian drayman delivered a
ease of beer in Lincoln, which Is
"dry." He was arrested, the city claim
ing that he could not deliver the boor
except ut the regular business place
of his firm. This decision confines ex
press and freight shipments to the ex
press of lice nnd freight houses. Tho
consignee must call In person for his
goods.
James IVrrler Itobhcd.
James F. Ferrler. who camo to Ash
land from Louisville several months
ago and em bared in the livery busl
ness, later selling out and engaging
in tho restaurant business, was the
victim of a burglar Tuesday night.
When he awoke in the morning ho
found that a pillow, in which he had
placed $U'0 in bills, was ribbed open
ii nd the contents strewn ubout tha
floor, but the money was gone.
I'lrsl White Woman Settler.
Mrs. Matliisla Hartelt, the first
white woman to settle In Harlan coun
ty, Nebraska, in 1S70, and for twenty
j ears before that a resident of Fort
Madison, Wis., died at the home of
her son. Herman Hartelt, near Mount
Hope, Spokane county, Wash., 77
years of age.
In.-tallallon of Telephones.
The railway commission has Issued
an order against the .Missouri Pacific
railroad company to install a tele
phone of the I'lattsmouth Telenhona
company in lis ol'llces at Murray and
Nehnwka bijore January 21 or by
January "JO show cause why this has
not been done.
Court Makes Money.
County Judge Leslie has turned over
to the Douglas county treasurer the
sum of $r.,100 as the last net proceeds
of the ol'lli e of the county Judge. This
office lias cleared $8,000 In the two
vi nr term above all expenses, includ
ing salaries for the two years, amount.
ing to $l!l.l!).!l:'.
Illncn l-ails lo Suicide.
Despondent over continued illnost
mil the f,n t that his wife has hud to
work to support him and their little
boy, Sunfurd C. I limit. 28 years old
killed himself at his homo in Omaha
by shooting.
Walks llurctoot In Snow.
A walk through the snow with Wh
shoes off. and one foot even hare, wus
tho act of a drunken mun at Grand
Island, it is feared thut he will I,...
one foot. The other foot
the sock, did not fare as budly.
Pi-cutout Citizens Shiver.
The government thermometer droo
ped to 19 below Ht Fremont Thursday
rooming, which Is the lowest noln
reuched In five years.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
Dakota City. Neb., Jan. 10, 1910.
The hoard met to conclude their set
tlement with U10 county treasurer.
Present, John Klerk, chitlrmani-Nelsou
Feauto. Kd Morgan, nnd W. L. Koss,
county cleark. -
The KOttletnent shows that on July
1. IflOfl, thero was a bnlanco on hand
of $:S1.71.95. The total collections
since July 1. 1000. are $ari,!31.79. The
credits ns shown by vouchers are $17,:
810.73, leaving a balance on hand .Inn
nary 6. 1010, of $4.1.084.01. -
Hoard adjourned,
Dakota City. Nob. Jan. 11.1010.
The bonril ol county coniinisHloners
met In regular Houston. Present, Nel
son Feauto, chairman; Ed Morgan, and
Thos. Long, and W. L, Ross, county
clerk. .
The following bonds were approved
by the board:
Sam Thorn, road overseer district
No. 0.
Hans Honnlckson, road overseer dis
trict No. 20.
Ueorge Jensen, road overseer dis
tilct No. 76.
M. J. Hynes, road overseer district
No. 8,
Oco. O. Warner, road overseer dis
trict No. 1.
Martin Hogh, road overseer district
No. IK.
H. 11. Grlbhle, Justice of the pence,
Hubbard precinct.
W. W. Kenlnger, Justice of the peace,
Pigeon precinct.
J. II. Smith, Justice of the peace St.
Johns precinct.
a. II. Funk, Justice of the pence Cov
ington precinct.
J. P. Meredith, Justice of the ponce
Covington precinct.
Mary V. Qulnn, county Huperlntcncl-
etit
II. F
clnct.
Caln, assessor Hubbard pre-
M. nencoin, assessor Summit
cnicl.
pre-
Win. Hlermnnn, deputy sheriff.
Lewis Goodsell. constable Omadt
precinct.
The following named banks were
chosen ns county depositories, said
banks to pay 2 per cent interest per
annum. All banks required to furnish
surety bonds.
Homer State bank. Homer.
Security State bank, Homer.
Hubbard Stato hank, Hubbard.
KiirmerB State bank, Emerson.
First. National bank, Emerson.
Hank or South Sioux City.
Hank of Dakota County, Jackson.
Tho Hank of Dakota City was chosen
as a depository for checking on, with
out Interest on deposits. Jtond to be
furt.Uhed.
Tho following bonds, of banks chosen
as county depositories were approved
by tho board.
First National bunk of Kmerson.
Hubbard State bank of Hubbard.
Hank of Dakota County, Jackson,
l ank of South Sioux city.
Homer State bnnk, Homer.
if' The Dakota Countv Record Is award.
ed Vie contract tTJi- furnishing the let
ter heads, envelopes, scratch pads, le
gal blanks, printing ballots.
Dnkota County Herald awarded the
contract for printing bar dockets.
North Nebraska Kagle awarded the
contract for county printing, publish
ing delinquent tax list, commissioners
prut t-emngs, rona notices, treasurer s
statements, etc.
Hid of John .1. llnchert was accepted
for the rent of poor farm, nnd tho
hoarding of the paupers. v
County clerk Is ordered to correct
the personal assessment of Alfred
Chnllie for the year 1009, erroneously
assessed.
The following reports of county of
ficers were approved by the board:
Quarterly report of D. C. Stinson.
county Judge for quarter ending De
cember 3i, 1909:
Received during October $ C7.70
Received during November 112.40
Received during December.... 148. H5
Total $318.7
Subscribed and sworn to before tleo,
Wllklns. clerk of tho district court.
btateinent of foes collected In tho
office of county clerk for the yeur end
ing Jnnuary &. 1910:
Total fees collected
for recording, etc.$2,217..r0
Credit by salary... $l,fi00.00
Credit by clerk hire 720.00
Total $2,220.00
subscribed and sworn to before Geo,
IlkliiB, clerk of district court.
Statement of fees collected In the
offico of tho clerk of district court for
(be quarter ending December 31, 1909:
roes collected In October. .. .$203.06
Fees collected In November... 49.20
Fees collected In December.. .liLUfi
Total fees collected for
fourth quarter $291.91
Subscribed and sworn to before D.
C. Slinson, county Judge.
Statement of feeii collected in the of
fice of clerk of dlntrict court for I he
year ending December 31, 1909:
pees collected in quarter end
ing March 31 S 134.88
Fees collected In quarter end
ing Juno 30 344. on
Fees collected In quarter end
ing September 30 231.30
Fees collected In quarter end
ing December 31 291.91
Total fees collected for yeur
ending December 31 $1,002.14
Subscribed and nworn to before D
C. Stlnson, county Judge.
1 he following estimates uere made
for expenses in the various funds for
the year 1910:
County general fund $20,000.00
County bridge fund 12,000.00
County road fund 10.000.00
Road district Indebtedness.. 8,000.00
Railroad bond sinking fund. 8.000.00
Railroad bond Interest fund. 4,000.00
A list of sixty names for Jury for the?
next term of court was selected by tho
bourd.
The following claims were allowed
on the county general fund:
J. McAllister fourth quarter
salary $175.00
P. Rockwell, reward paid for
capture of llrlce and Cullen 100.00
11. Honderson, salary as com
missioner 26.00
T. D. Curtis. Justice cost in
Cunningham case 9 b?
Dan Purdy, Justice cost in Cun
ningham case
5.30
6.40
L. J. Goodsell, cost In Cunning
ham case
N. R. Bmlth, cost In Cunning-
nam case 3.00
John H. Ream, supplies , 2.26
John H. Ream, publishing com
missioner proceedings, etc.. 120.00
George Wllklns, salary and
transcript fifi.OO
Klopp & llnrtlett Co., supplies 57.30
Nebraska Institute feeble mind
ed, care of Joyce and Bayers 152.17.
William Hlarniann, Ralary 40.00
.1; P. Rockwell, Bnlary 91. 6B
John Sierk, salary 62.60
w. L. Rorh, Ralary, freight, etc. 129.30
Sophia Hlarniann, boarding
paupers (10. 00
Dnkota City Pharmacy, nidse.. 6.25
II.' C. Lindsay, fee in case of
Ochander 10.00
The following claims were allowed
on the county road fund:
A. H. Andersen, road work ....$32.75
Charley Andersen, work 11.2f
Fred Andersen, work
n.7r
11.00
3.00
3.00
Mike Ixigue, work ....
Cbrls Chrlstensen, work
John Malum, work ....
George Mongar, work
.75
Michael Hynes, work 6.00
James Casey, work 3.00
John P. Walsh, work 3. 00
Dennis Heenan, work 1.50
John Heennn, work 1.60
John Rush, work 6.00
llnrney McConnelly, work 9.00
John Tromper, work -6.00
ChrlB Jensen, work 4.fi0
Kmll Hlnz, work 3.00
Peder Nichols, work 6.00
lOd Frlcken, work 7.00
Geo. O. Warner, work 32.00
The following claims were allowed
on the road district fund:
Luther Helkes, road work dis
trict No. 19 ...$ 5.00
P. J. Gill, road work dlntrict -
No. 7 g.00
J. C. Pnderhlll, road work dls-.
trlct No. 8 2.00
M. J. Ileacom, road work dis- -
trlct No. 18 400
R. O. Hllenmn, road work dis
trict No. 19 35.00
Cli.is Fey, road work district
No. 17 3.50
ChrlB Miller, road work district
No. 17 3.0
Prico Pros, repairing road grad- -
or, district No. 18 2.00
Roy Armour, road work district
No. 9 4.50
Renio & Green, repairing grader ;
district No. 9 ,9.15
E. H. Loomls, road work district
io. 6 35.00
Frank Loomls, rond work district
No. 6 17.50
William Rockwell, rond work
district No. 6 '. 3.50
Ld G5et8ch, rond work district
No. 1
Phillip Van Cleve, road work
district No. 1
3.50
8.75
Ed Frlcken, road work district
No. 9 -
.8.75
Hoard adjourned to meet January 20.
1910.
W. L. ROSS,
County Clerk.
TBAVL IN RHODESIA.
',JT!M.'' M,0 it irr'it Tyi?e
of Wittt'unx A r H r( u I -cf . '
The method of transportation In ex
tremely slow", ns the oxen do not avor
ftge much more limn two miles an
hour. With it wiigon nnd a good span
of oxen one can m anywhere, whether
there Ih a road or not.
The hills me pretty .-teop and the
wiigoiiH are fitted with a bruko which
Is worked from the rear of tho wagon.
In going down the steeper Mils this
brake Is screwed up tight, so that, the
wheels do not revolva at all. The
wagon then slides down the hll, with
ninny bumps.
As the wngotM are not made with
any springs, It Is not exactly a com
fortable sort of traveling, but there is.
nothing that u goo.l healthy boy en-
Joys more than u trip by ox wagon.
As the heat In (ho middle of the day
Is often Intense, It Is the cu.-tt.oni on
long Journeys to "outspun;" that 1.4 to
say, to unhitch the oxen by the side
of the rond dining tho middle of the
day and to resume the Journey at
nlEht, especially when the moon t.t
shining.
The typical lioer wagon is covered
at the rear with a cnnva.s tent, and
here the family tide nnd sleep by
night, a writer in the Springfield
(.Mass.) Republican says. There Is
usually a spring bed in the wagon,
made of leather thongs stretched over
.1 wooden frame. Traveling by ox wng
m Is culled by the Iloers trekking
and henr-n thut term cninft,to mean in
South Africa any kind of travel.
The first "Hettlers in (ho country
came from the Transvaal by wngon,
and they settled ut Sulsbitry. There
are a lew road bridges, and the
h( renins nil have to be forded. An the
bunks are generally pretty steep, it is
not an uncommon sight to see a wagon
stalled In attempting to climb out of
the river bed.
In u case like that unother span of
oxen Is attached, and sometimes it is
even necessary to use three complete
spans to npt the wauon out.
Mutlll-lcllt.
The attractive young lady who bad
written "urgent" on her card was
shown Into tho consulting room of Sir
Cboppham Fyne, head of tho famous
surgical hospital in SplintHhire, Kn
K la 11 (I
'And what ls the mutter with you?"
aid tho great man.
"I wish," she answered, "to become
nurse in this Institution."
The surgeon tapped a thoughtful
tooth with his lancet. "First one ques
tion: Have you hud any previous ex
perience?"
She dazzled him with a reassuring
mile.
Experience?" she cried. "I should
Just think so. Two of my brothers
play foot-ball, another has tried to
cross the channel In an aeroplane ol
his own muke, mother is a suffragette
and father keeps a motor car."
Om of the A Initiators.
Stranger What do you do with the
vast swarms or immlurunts that land
on your shores every year?
Prominent tlotliainiie We don't
huve anny throuble, nor, in ussimyUt
in' thlm.
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