"ajr x-, it ifte - - ',T yr tj ' "" -w-'"ji"j DAKOTA COUNTY HERALD. Historical Society MOTTO-HI Tk Maws Was JEt H 1mm. State VOL. 20. DAKOTA CITY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 20,1912. ICO. 34. ROADS' STATEMENTS A REPORT ON BANKS. ISMAY BEFORE THE SENATE COMMITTEE !H ARN ESSi Nebraska Institutions Shown to Be In Good Condition. Wi I; If iw: I ft. flF ALL LINES SUBMIT EARNINGS AND EXPENSES. BETTERMENTS FOR OPERATION This Item of Expense In Expense Ac counts, but Board of Eliminates It In Computing Values. The NobraBka railroads have all re turned their statomnots of earnings and expenses for the year ending Do comber 31 to the State Board of As sessment as one of the items on which the board will baso the assess ments of the property for tho year. The Mason City & Fort Dodge, Illi nois Central, Wabash, Milwaukee and Santa Fo made no report of earnings, filing a statement that they owned no trackage In tho state, but operated trains over other roads. Of the roads roportlng tho Omaha Bridge and Ter minal makes tho best showing of net earnings to gross, the total revenue being $92,887.54 and the net revenue being $77,197.97, The Omaha & South ern Interurban has a small net reve nue, the Income being $33,508.65 and the net revenue being $424.50. Tho St Joseph & Grand Island and the Missouri Pacific show a deficit on Ne braska business, the former of $21, 421.90and the latter of $302,794.G4. Following Is the return of the various roads on business done In Nebraska: BURLINGTON. Passenger earnings $ 5,696,102 Freight 14.369,050 Earnings f'm other sources. 1,595,436 Total earnings $21,G60.695 Operating and other exp... 14,558,989 Net earnings $ 7,101,605 UNION PACIFIC. Pafisenger earnings $ 3,889,080 Freight earnings 12,462,902 EarnlngB f'm other sources 1,597,710 Total earnings ,.. f 17,949,699 Operating and other exp... 10,334,511 Net revenue $ 7,615.188 NORTHWESTERN. Tassenger earnings $ 1,846,178 Freight earnings 4,800,511 Other earnings 620,546 Total earnings $ 7,267,235 Operating and other exp... 5,469,482 Net revenue $ 1.797,753 MISSOURI PACIFIC. Passenger earnlnga .....$ 265,812 Freight -earnings -.V.v. 952,435 Other earnings 198.801 Total earnings $1,417,079 Operating and other exp... 1,719,874 Deficit ? 302,794 ROCK ISLAND. Passenger earnings $ 520,697 Freight earnings 927,335 Other earnings 122,637 Total earnings Operating and other exp. .$ 1,570.671 . ,1,422,541 Net revenue 5 148,129 OMAHA ItOAD. Passenger earnings $ 535,214 Freight earnings 1,292,479 Other earnings '. . 94,407 Total earnings $ 1,922,132 Operating and other e.p... 1,472,710 Net earnings $ 449,421 ST. JOSEPH & GRAND ISLAND. Tabsengor earnings $ 129,954 "Freight earnings 309,087 Other earnings ' 40,543 bocretary Boyso of the State Bank ing board has compiled the reports of tho state banks, as shown by tho re cent call. This report shows a cry strons and satisfactory condition of the banks of tho state. Tho 6tato banks report a roservo of 30 per cent., being double tho amount required by law, whllo tho national banks show a reserve of 36 per cent., and tho comblnod banks of tho state, Including state and national, an aver age roservo of 33 per cent. The state banks have increased fchree In numbor reporting during tho year and tho na tional banks havo increased ten in number during the sarao period. Tho deposits in state banks have in creased $6,429,260.97 during tho year and since tho report of December 5, 1911, they havo increased $6,464,305.71. Tho deposits in tho stato banks at this time, $80,354,728.26, Is the high water mark In tho history of tho state. Tho deposits in national banks have Increased $19,919,801.34 during m year, and since tho report of Decern ber 5, 1911, up to February 20, 1912, theso banks show nn increase In de posits of $8,199,305.83. Tho increase of deposits In all banks, both stato and national, during tho year Is $26,349,062.31, and slnco the report of December 5, 1911, the In crease amounts to $14,628,566.80. 3 Labor Report In State. Labor Commissioner Guye, in a re port of labor conditions in Lincoln, sets out that 310 concerns were In spected and a number of them wero ordered to protect machinery so as to safeguard the llfo and limb of em ployes. Conditions, as a whole, were not found to bo bad. In summarizing tho wage question ho says that condi tions in Lincoln are abovo the average so far as the employment of child la bor or tho sweatshop system, but that thuro nm two concerns employing children and women which give their employes work to take home after they havo worked as many Hours in the shop as tho law permits. He points out that weakness of tho law to reach such cases, as there Is no limit to the number of hours a woman may work In her homo or the number of hours labor a rftrnt may require of a child, provided it is performed In the home. Boostrom Reports on Glanders. State Veterinarian Boostrom has re cently had to cope with a couple of outbreaks of glanders among horses. and In one Instance it was necessary tq kill ton animals belonging to Over man & Son of CrookBton, Cherry coun ty. Seiuot. those anlmls;were paid for by tho state and three were the' loss of tho owner as they had not been owned by him for a year previous to the outbreak. One other horse was killed at Crookston. and another was condemned and killed at Tekamah. Steward Gets More Pay. The stato board of public lands and buildings has decided to increase the salary of the steward at the penlten- tiary. Mont Robb, from $75 a monui to $100. Thi3 action was taken in vlow of the fact that tho wagC3 of guards Is being raised all around. Un til it was decided to pay guards $50 a month as a flat scale all around, the recehed wages as follows, twelve men received $35 a month and keep, and a few others, $40 a month and keep. ft ! i f iii'ti:'miK:'''w.fli rHIlH!?'liI MSLdsWsssssssKK-sB i !Ilfi iiRnra cINMo rmMtm&mi&Mjmmm mk&lmB&w'M I P41VH3 - i-y " -W-- n:-.K-r nsaaaaaa. :wmmmmmkm ;,? i ';--'Li- jJJLi--i.gyH-B-- -aaaaaafO&gaagaJ I SaMsBBB- B?MBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBPr&xM' V YU BBBBHrJ--jRB-BB-SBBBB-S I --------------------- I tlt-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalaEaaaaaaaaP mk':MmKM1M &2tJBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBf - BEBBBBBBBBBF - u &HPw1PVBBBBBB VBBBBBBBBSBBBBBBBBBBBBBn I (ggaBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBJPrT";Hp- n KplUH - ):K'JBVH ' xfHHMBtBBBBBBBBBBslsBB-Bll mm i . ' '' Everything in the line of I Harness -.ivd Hors Goods " I Concord Harness, $35.00 j 1 1 -1 Our Spring Stock of Harness Goods is now in, and it will be money in your pocket to get our prices first on any thing you may need in our line of Harness, Pads, Whips, Etc. VVc make a specialty of all kinds of repair work. Fredrickef (Si Son Hubbard Netbrsv J BRUCE ISMAY, managing director of tho Whlto Star line (at tho end of tho tablo with head on hand), being questioned by tho senate investigating committee at tho Waldorf Astoria. Tho committee, bonded by Sena tor William Aiden Smith of Michigan, is taking testimony concerning tho Titanic disaster. FAST TRAIN ROBBED MASKED MEN FORCE ROCK 18- LAND PA88ENGER3 TO GIVE UP VALUABLES. SPEND HALF AN HOUR IN CAR SHIPS CRASH IN FOG FREIGHTER AND LINER IN COL LISION OFF GALVE3TOR BAR. Bold Hold-Up Committed by Pslr Who Beard Cars In Bureau (III.) Yards Secure Money and Jewelry and Escape. Total earnings $ 479,587 Operating and other exp... 501,009 Deficit 21,421 All of tho .roads have included amounts expended for betterments In the figures of operating and other ex penses, but the board Is eliminating tills item in computing tho revenue. Registering Many Stallions. Th new room fitted out in the northeast corner of the state house basement now houses the Btnlllon reg istration board, which was created at the last session of the state legisla ture. The quarters have been com pletely equipped and clerks havo al ready transferred their records from the board of agriculture loom to the now room. The work of remodeling the corner of tho basement cost In tho neighborhood of $840 exclusive of tho lighting fixtures. Tho board has "been working undor pressure slnco the new law went into effect. Jobners to Co-Operate. The Jobbers of Omaha have assured Pood Commissioner Hansen that they tvIU co-operate wlth'hlm In every pos sible way to stop the shipping into the state of Impure and mlsbranded food products. Prof. Not to Be Dismissed. Prof, J. H. Powers of the stato unl verslty faculty Is not to be dismissed -as a result of a severe punishment administered partly In public to his 18-year-old daughter, HUdegarde. Strausvllle Wants Depot. J. H. Dietrich and twenty-live othei residents of Strausvllle, Richardson county havo petitioned tho rallwnj commission to compel tho Missouri Pacific1 Railroad company to erect and maintain a depot at that point. Favor Board of Control. The Nebraska Medical society has gone on record as favoring the consti tutional amendment for a board of control for state institutions, on the theory that it will work for better management and also for economy. Road Testing Machine. Tor tho purpose of surveying the state of Nebraska to find out tho qUal itj of native materials for road con struction, a complete outfit for road construction, a complete outfit for road testing has been ordered by tho engineering college of tho university, The machinery will arrive somo time in September and w 111 probably bo put Immediately in service. Mollno, 111., April 23. Boarding the Golden State Limited on tho Rock Is land road at Bureau, 111., last Sunday, two masked bandits robbed every pas senger on the sleeper "Nottingham" and then pulled the air rope to signal the engineer to stop. The engineer disregarded the sig nal, and one robber then shot a hole through the air brake hoso at tho end of the car, thereby setting the emer gency brakes, and they left the train. Headed by the sheriff of Bureau coun ty, a posse is in pursultr and every farmer In that section of the state Is on the lookout Qno of tho most daring robberies In the history of train holdups, the aft fair Is especially striking In that the highwaymen robbed occupants of only one car, though there woro several other Pullman sleepers on tho train. One robber reached Into every berth, snapped on the electric light and personally examined tho effects of the passengers lost the latter, In handing out his or her valuables, might suddenly produce a gun. Less than half nn hour sufficed to complete the roundup of that car, and then, forcing passengers and porter into a smoking compartment at one end of tho car, tho robbers ordered tho portorN to stop the train. Ho explained that the only way he could do so would bo to pull the sig nal rope, and when ordorod to do It he grabbed tho rope and gave it threo lusty pulls. Tho train was speeding along five miles from Sheffield on its way to Mo llno, and tho engineer either failed to understand the signal or refused to obey It, for on went the train. Then the robbers displayed the one clue which may lead to their Identity and capture. Whllo one mounted guard over tho victims tho "other opened tho door, leaned down at the coupling with tho next car, took care ful aim, and with one shot cut the air brake hose. This Instantly throw tho emergency brakes and the train began to Jolt along at tho sudden stoppage. Quickly as It had slowed down to almost a stop, tho robbers leaped off the train and disappeared In the dark ness. This, together with tho fact that they knew the location of the air brake hoBo and what would happen if a holo were shot in it, led railroad of ficials to bollovo that tho robbors arc either railroad employes or have been Two Deckhands Killed and 170 Other Persons Are put In Peril by Accfdent. Galveston, Tex., April 23. Hidden from each other in a dense fog the steamship Denver of tho Mallory line and tho El Sud of1 tho Southern Pa cific Steamship company were in col lision about fifteen miles from tho Bolivar light at the entrance to Gal veston Harbor. F$r a Uino it was feared that the El Sud, which is a freight steamship, Trould Din Two lives were lost, those of deck hands who were knocked overboard, and one negro deck hand of the Kl Sud was badly hurt The crash occurred about fifteen miles from tho Bolivar light For a time It war feared i tho El Sud would sink. Down at tho Jbow, El Sud raced for the shore and wad beached on Gal. veston bar. She was saved from sink- tag by her forward bulknead having withstood the in.pj(p of tho sea as tho bow plates were ripped off. There were about 100 pnBsutieY on the Denver and acrew of 70. Thore waa a -wild rush, fofcltto preservers and tho lifeboats of the vDenvcr after the crash, but Capt Charles P. Staples and First Officer Lamb auccecded in quieting tho excited men. MOORS (N MUTINY KILL FRENCH OFFICERS AND CITIZENS IN MOROCCAN CITY OF FEZ. PARADE HEADS ON PIKES Massacre One Hundred Jews Mur der Telegraph Operators While on Duty Paris Hears Distressing News False Rumor Starts Trouble. ROADS ARE RULED BY STEEL Stanley Body Asserts U. 8. Corpora tion Has Control of More Than 55 Per Cent. Washington, April 23. Directors of tho United, States Steol corporation, through stock ownership and plaecs upon tho directorates of tho great railways systems of the United States, havo a controlling voice In nearly 55 per cont. of tho railroads of the coun try, according to a satlstlcal study prepared for tho Stanley Steol trust investigating committee of the houso. Tho total value of tho railroads is fixed at approximately $18,000,000,000. and of that tho Steel corporation affil iations are said to control more than $10,000,000,000. The 23 directors of the Steol cor poration also sit on boards of direc tors of banks, insurance companies, expreBB companion and various other industrial corporations, with an aggre gate capitalization of $7,388,099,416. New Banks Authorized. Two now banks wero authorized to commence business, as follows: North Loup State bank of North Loup, Neb., capital, $20,000; E. J. Andrews, W. H. Schultz and C. O. Earnest, incorpo rators. Loma State bank of Lomn, Butler county, capital stock, $10,000. No Date for Argument. No date has yet been fixed for argu ment on tho conflicting water right claims of Coad and Boss, tho testi mony on which was heard somo time ago by tho Stato Board of Irrigation. It was originally set for April 12, but on that date a contlnuanco was asked for, to a date to be determined later. There has been no move since ttK fix a date and those who havo been watching the current of events havo concluded that a compromise 1b being engineered for settling conflicting claims. Fares to Haveloek. The State Railway commission has set April 27 as the date for hearing the streot railway case Involving tho fares to Haveloek, Tho traction com pany wants a straight 5-cent faro In stead of the present six for 25-cent rate. The Water Power Fight. A protest against tho granting of water power rights on tho Loup river to H. O. Babcock of Columbus was filed with Stato Engineer Price here by A. C. Koenlg of Omaha. The lat ter eets out in his protest that tho Ilabcock filing was not complete, in so far as its requirements wero concern ed, and that not all of tho provisions of tho law have been met by tho Co lumbus man. The filing of tho protest follows an energetic effort on tho part of several big concerns to get control of advantageous water power sites RIVER STEAMER GOES DOWN Twenty Passengers Are Rescued But Much Live Stock Drowned In the Mississippi. Natchez, Miss., April 23. Tho steamer Concordia struck a Bnag in a flooded cotton flold thirty-one miles south of hero Sunday and sank In ton feet of water. Throe hundred head of live stock wero lost, but tho twenty passengers, all flood refugees, escaped. Tho water did not reach tho cabin. Of tho live stock there were two hundred cattle, sixty mules and forty horses, a totnl value of $10,000 Governor Dlx 8alls for Europe. New York, April 23. Governor Dlx of New York and Mrs. Dlx sailed Sat urday on the Lapland for Paris, whoro they will meet Mrs. DIx's sister, Mrs. Curtis Douglass. They plan to tour Hollund and Germany ere returning. "MY RCSARY" AUTHOR DIES Robert Cameron Rogers, Literary Genius, Succumbs In California After zn Operation, Santa Barbara, Cal.. April 23. Rob ert Camoron Rogers, a Utorary genius, author of "My Rosary" and tho dedicatory ode to the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo, dlod Sunday fol lowing an operation for appondlclUs. Rogers Is survived by a widow, three sons and two stepsons. Ho waH born in Buffalo, N. Y., in 18G2, being a son of S. S. Rogers, a law partner of Grover Cleveland. ROOSEVELT LEADING, 3 TO 1 Colonel Has More Votes In Nebraska Than Both Taft and La Follette. American Sentenced to Death. Lethbrldge, Alta, April 23. James Carlson, who murdered a companion near Castor, Alberta, was sentenced hero last Saturday to be banged June 19. He caino to Lethbrldge from Montana. Lincoln, Nob., April 22. Corrected tabulations of tho Nebraska presiden tial preference voto. Including roturns from 880 precincts, give Roosevelt 31,242; Taft, 10,092; I A Follotto, 10, 279; Clark, 14,031; Harmon, 11,241; WIlBon, 9,800. It Is believed that this Includes 80 per cont of tho voto of tho stato. Foz. April 24. Friday at midday tho revolt of tho populace and the Moorish soldiery began, after .a dele gation of native troops had obtained admission to the palace and com plained to tho sultan of the new mili tary regulations in connecUon with tho French protectorate. As the military delegaUon came out from the plac tin soldiers compos ing it Beized and killed a French cap tain. This was the signal for general pillage nnd massacre throughout city. The native soldiers, pushed on by nhrlpklng Moorish fromen, rushed throiiKh the streets of the city slaying all the French they could land "Bd In citing tho population to violence by the false cry of ""tho 8ultaritiaavi8 oner of the French, and must be lib erated." Tho French telegraphers were at tacked by a howling crowd and mado a heroic stand, defending their offlco for four hours, In tho meantime send ing messages to headquarters at Tan gier. Finally the offlco was broken In to, tho telegraphers killed, and their bodies mutilated and burned. The heads of all the Europeans slain by tho native troops were pa raded through tho streetB on pikes. The Ficnch legation Bent out roller squads of troops and brought in mnny foreigners, and afterwards tho French artillery opened fire on tho rebels, who were grouped in tho northern qunrtor. Paris. April 24. After four days of anxiety here due to lack of news from Fez, whoie the populaco and Moorish Boldlers mutinied some days ago and attacked all foreigners, somo account of the trouble reached here Tuesday. It Is known 15 French officers and 40 soldiers wero killed in the fight ing, whllo 13 civilians, all of them French citizens, woro massacred In their homos or In tho streets. Be sides these four French officers and 70 soldiers wero wounded and 100 Jews slnln and a largo numbor wound ed and mutilated. A delegation of native troops had an audience with tho sultan to com plain about tho new military regula tions of tho French. Upon leaving tho palace IW captured and killed a French captain. Then a general attack on tho city began, and native troopB, urged to fury by screaming women, stormed through the Hlreets, killing all tho French they met and pillaging every where. The mutineers roused the people by declaring the oultan was a prisoner and must be sot froo. The French telegraphers sent the alarm to Tan aler and held their office for four hours, but woro finally overcomo and slain. Tho legation guards at length restored ordor. Tho absence of dispatches from Fes led to the belief that the uprising has, assumed serious proportions and that the French troopa were In danger of, losing control of tho situation. Dis patches which wero raeagor reported 500 rebels killed in a desperate strug glo and tho imprisonment of 2,000 more. All of tho European residents woro gathered in tho sultan's palace, whoro French troops, aided by rein forcements from tho barracks at WeBt Meklnese, were on guard. aBTf aJ j i Ibfaftan&r is a moral dvnamo s maeaxine devoted ex " . 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