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AVlint Enuh County Munt l'ny.
At the rate fixed upon by the board
of equalization the following is the
ntnount of tax charged up against
ench county in the state:
Adams $ 19,137'Jahnson $ 13,85-t
Antclopo 11.M2 Kearney 9,iX
Banner l,4SHKelth G.019
Blaine. 817 Keya Paha .. 3.KS4
Boone 13.C33 Kimball 2,859
Box Butte 3,4931 Knox 13,201
Boyd 6,621!Lancaster .... C2.971
Brown G,073'l,lncoln 11.CC8
Buffalo 20,3301 Logan 852
Burt 98.7KI Loup 657
Butler 17.4S1 MadlHon 18,319
CaHH 24.417McPhcrson ... 813
Cedar 20,S21Merrlck 13,412
Cherry 9,733Nanco 8,419
Chase l,929INemaha 18,101
Cheyenne H,G37lNuckoll8 14.G79
Clay 18,146 Otoo 29.M3
Colfax 12,607 Pawnee 10,073
Cumins 17,091(Perlclna 2,3.12
Custer ll,369,Phelps 8,576
Dakota 9,954'Plerco 11.794
Dawes 4,223Platto 18.CS1
Dawson 12,643' Polk 9.893
Deuel 5,128 ltcd Willow 7.51
Dlxfn 11,279 Richardson ... 23,962
DodRo 23,671Hlock 4.45S
Douglas U4,2631Sallno 20.G53
Dundy 2,40SISarpy 12,179
Fillmore 18,168'Snundern 26,202
Franklin 0,192 Scotta Blurt... 3,077
Frontier 3,77C;Seward 17,817
Furnas 12,20Gi3hcrldan 5,358
Gape 31,719 IShcrman .... G.49H
Garfield l,U2Sloux 1.557
Gosper 4,093Stanton 10,351
Grant l,S7HTIiayer 15,613
Greeley 5,223,Thomas 923
Hall 15,579Thurston 3.023
Hamilton 16,O04Valley 6,203
Harlan 6,759lWaHhinBton .. 17,738
Hayes 1.4S8
Hitchcock .... 0,312
Wayne 14,467
Webster 9,071
Wheeler 1,211
Holt 1S.071
Hooker 953York 19,017
Howard 9,300!
Jefferson 18,300 Total $1,131,124
The levy will produce, on the basis
of this year's assessment, $101,207
less than face of the 1001 levy.
Youthful IltirKliirM CntiRlit.
Harry Vcerhue, Samuel Hillings and
Earl Moore, all aged 11 years, and
Clint Hillings, aged nine years, were
inken before County Judge J. E.
Douglas at Plattsmouth, charged
with petit larceny. The boys forced
an entrance to the general merchan
dise store of Zuckweiier &. Lutz. Zuck
weiler was informed of the plot to
rob the store and caught the boys in
the net. The judge gave the boys
some good advice and sentenced them
to u term in the reform school at
Kearney, but suspended the sentence
during their good behavior.
Yoiiiik Hoy Kill IIIniHt'lf.
The 14-year-old son of W. H. Red
mond, living two miles north of Ken
I'snw, was found behind his father's
barn with a bullet wound in the head
and a 32-cnliber revolver lying by his
side. lie died soon after being found.
The boy was very fond of practicing
with firearms and it is thought the
shooting was accidental.
Operated by Home Oruuiiir.iitlon.
Hastings and Adams county are to
have a new telephone system opera
ted by a home organization. It is
"to be known as the Adams County
Telephone company and articles of
incorporation have already been tiled.
The plan of the company is to cover
the entire county as well as the city.
AVimor on Horse' .Strength.
A pulling match was held at Car
roll for a purse of $50 between a
horse of West- Shibbcy and one of
Adolph .Johnson's, which was decided
by the judges in favor of the latter,
but the former protested the pay
ment of the stake money nnd it will
probably go into the school fund.
Ilnlmicp In School Fund,
The monthly statement of Auditor
Weston shows that there were ap
proximately $2G3,000 of permanent
fcchool funds uninvested on the Inst
day of June. The receipts during the
month of July were $125,000 and the
investments $202,000. The total bal
ance of funds was $513,0SI.
Made Sure of Dentil.
Frank Prebble, a Bohemian farmer,
who resided near Odell, in Gage coun
ty, committed suicide by hanging.
He provided himself with a revolver
nnd n piece of rope and proceeded to
a field. Here he shot himself in the
left temple. This not proving fatal,
he hung himself.
Found HIn Hotly In n Pond.
Joseph W. Smith, a young nnd
prosperous farmer of Shclton, was
found drowned in his fish pond near
his house. He had disrobed and gone
into the water, apparently to bathe,
and was found by a neighbor a cou
ple of hours after having been last
seen.
Storm Ciiiinpn Fire n Oninhii.
During a severe electrical storm
at Omaha Saturday night lightning
struck the flag pole on 1 lie roof of
the Oninhii Milling company, ran
down through the roof and set the
building on fire, entailing a loss of
about $20,000.
tin pro ill) iv IIh Telephone Sywtcm.
The Farmers' Home Telephone
company, of Shelton, has purchase d
u switchboard to accommodate 100
telephones, 100 feet of cubic and 60
new telephones.
43. A. 11. Iteunlon nt IliintlnK.
The department officials of tho
Grand Army of the llopublic are bus
ily engaged preparing for the next
annual reunion, which will be held in
Hastings from September 8 to 13, in
clusive, the week following the state
fair. Among the men expected to
take part in the speaking programme
are: Gov. Cummins nnd Department
Commander John Limit, of Iowa;
Chaplain Jesse Cole, Marshnlltown,
In.; H. It. Hutehins, Des Moines; John
M. Jnnunry, Dell liapids, S. 1).; Gov.
Savage, J. II. Mickey and all members
of the Nebraska congressional dele
gation. One day will be named in
honor of the governors nnd guberna
torial candidates, for both Gov. Cum
mins and Gov, Snvage, with tho re
publican candidates in Nebraska and
Kansas, Mickey and Bailey, will be
present on the same day. There will
also be a congressional day, on which
the prominent places on the pro
gramme will be Silled by senators and
congressmen. One of the most not
able men on the programme is John
W. January, who has the distinction
of having amputated both his feet
while confined in Andersonville
prison. He did this to cheek n dis
ease contracted while held as a prisoner.
DeleKiitcN to St. I'nul Conrc,
Mayor Winnett, of Lincoln, hns ap
pointed the following delegates to
the Transmississlppi eomereial con
gress, to be held nt St. Paul August
19: M. Weil, C. II. Cornell, II. M.
Bushnell, William Lawlor and John
Dorgan. Gov. Savage has selected the
following to represent the state:
Joseph Larbnch, Fnirbury; N. D.
Jnckson, Ncligh; S. J. Alexander, Lin
coln; P. H. Schwab, Sutton; J. II.
Arends, Syracuse; H. M. BuBhnell,
Lincoln; II. T. Shumwny, Wakefield;
Joseph Hayden, Omaha; Mel Uhl,
Omalin; YV. J. Broach, Omaha; A. T.
Cully, Loup City; C. Nicholai, Sar
gent. l'ny Hcnrly for Hnllroiul.
The city of Lincoln has paid ap
proximately $90,000 more in interest
on railroad aid bonds than it has re
ceived in taxes from the railroads.
Last year the city paid $9,380 in in
terest on these bonds, while the
rnilroads paid only $987.55 in taxes.
There are now $170,000 of railroad
bonds outstanding, which draw five
per cent interest. Of this amount
$50,000 was voted for the Elkhorn,
$50,000 for the Bock Island and $70,
000 for the Elkhorn. Besides these
there are upward of $00,000 railroad
refunding bonds.
Ilcntrico Mechanic Knjoy Outing.
Tho Dempster employes at Heat
rice held their annual picnic on the
ehautauqua grounds. At ten o'clock
a pnrade passed through the princi
pal streets, in which appeared a large
number of fine fionts, including wind
mills, gasoline engines and different
kinds of machinery manufactured by
this concern. A basket picnic was
served on the grounds from 12 until
2 and the remainder of the afternoon
was devoted to field sports. .
I'niniililvt to IIooiii ftchi'iiMkn.
The manuscript of the Homcseek
ers' Bulletin, prepared under the di
rection of the Department of Labor
and Industrial Statistics, has been
given to the printer and the books
are expected to be ready for delivery
a month later. The volume will con
sist of about 200 pages and will treat
a wide range of subjects, all touch
ing upon the resources and advant
ages of the state.
T)oiIk County Miu'Ikhkc Kccord.
The following is the mortgage
record of Dodge county for the
month of July: Chattel mortgages
filed, GO, amount, $15,498.3S; released,
22, amount, $12,513.44; farm mort
gages recorded, 10; amount, $02,040.
01; released, 20, amount, $04,881.81;
town and city mortgages recorded,
30; amount $10,370.70; relenscd, 13;
amount, $13,155.00.
FiiNloniHtM Xomlnutc Ticket.
The democratic and populist county
conventions were held at the court
house in Blair, and fused on a county
ticket. L. K. Davis, populist, was
nominated for clerk of district court;
Fred Fchtencnmp, democrat, was
nominated for representative; Vic
tor Ilogau, democrat, was nominated
for county attorney.
.Stnte Fair AVI II lie n "Illu: One."
0
ItepnrtH from Lincoln and over the
state are that the coming fair will
be a "big one" in all respects. Space
in nil departments is now at a prem
ium. The great livestock sales on
the grounds bid fair to be without
precedence, cither in number or qual
ity. Omnliii 31 ii it for TreiiNiirer,
A. L. Sheetz, of Omaha, was elect
ed treasurer of the International
Federation of Commercial Travelers'
organization in convention at Otta
wa Beach, Mich.
A HEART-TO-IIEART TALK.
Three ltullrniid l'renldotitn Listen to Farm
ers In the Jlle lleiitl Country mill Alnke
Many Kxpliiimtlou.
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 5. Thrco
railway presidents, In response to n
petition from tho leading farmers
of the Big Bend country, assembled
nt the county sent of Lincoln county
to henr their case, plead their own
Interests and render urgument. They
were James J. Hill, president of tho
Great Northern nnd tho Northern
Securities company; President C. S.
Mellen, of the Northern Pacific, nnd
President A. L. Mohler, of tho Ore
gon Bailrond & Navigation lines of
tho Hnrriman system. With them
were n group of lesser ruilrond nota
bles. Public addresses wcro deliv
ered by the three presidents. Then
adjournment wns taken to tho nr
mory, where an old-fashioned coun
try dinner wns served to the railway
guests and visitors from tho sur
rounding country.
All this was prcliminnry to tho
real conference of tho day. VarlouB
counties and districts hnd sent dele
gates to the convention nnd after
dinner these delegates reassembled
in the convention hall nnd through
their spokesmen laid their wishes
before tho ruilrond presidents.
Mr. Hill was the only president
speaking nt this conference. He an
swered many questions from time to
time, offered numerous voluntary ex
planations of matters thnt seemed
nil wrong to the farmers and repeut
cdly asked tho farmers to speak out
their beliefs mid convictions.
Grain rntcs will be reduced from
nil points in eastern Washington and
the reduction will tnke plnce in time
to benefit tho farmers on this year's
crop.
CONVICTED AN INNOCENT MAN
A Dying IMim Confesses to Kllllinr III Son
Another Mnn In tho I'enltun-
tlury for the Deed.
Denver, Col., Aug. 5. On his death
bed William Thompson, of Vilas,
Baca' county, has confessed that ho
killed his son, Benjamin, aged 13, and
thnt Zeb Nicholson, who wns con
victed of having murdered the boy
nnd is serving n sentence of ten to 20
years in the penitentiary, is entirely
innocent. A petition for Nicholson's
pardon was filed with tho state board
of pardons yesterday. From docu
ments accompanying the petition It
appears that Nicholson got into a
fight on the range in Februnry, 1901,
nnd that while they were engaged
in a hand-to-hand struggle u gun in
Thompson's hands was discharged.
Nicholson was accused of murder and
his conviction, it is said, was secured
on perjured testimony. It is nlleged
that Thompson wanted to put Nich
olson out of the way because h had
knowledge of two murders said to
have been committed by Thompson
in Knnsas. Thompson hns nlready
served about a year of his term.
IT IS NON-PARTISAN.
Dndor Kccont Itullng nt Hnpromo Court
Gov. Hinuco, of NeliriiKkn, Appoint New
Police lloiird fur Umuhii.
Omnhn, Neb,, Aug. 5. Gov. Savage
late yesterday afternoon appointed
n new police board for tho city of
Omaha. The appointments are made
under a recent ruling of tho supreme
court, declaring thnt the appointivo
power is vested in the governor.
Those appointed are: William J.
Broatch nnd Joseph W. Thomns, re
publicans, und Carl C. Wright and L.
W. Spratlan, democrats. All are rep
resentative citizens. Brontch was
twice mayor of tho city, Thomas is
n bank cashier, Wright is a prominent
member of tho Douglns county bar
nnd Spratlan was until recently n
bank cashier. Tho board is mnde
non-pnrtisan under the law, which
requires that the members bo equally
divided between both parties.
A Double Suicide.
Arkansns City, Kan., Aug. 5. Bur
den, a settlement in the northeast
part of Cowley county, is excited
over a double suicide. Tho bodies of
John W. Kirby nnd wife were found
in bed at home, three miles north of
Burden, by neighbors. Both hnd bul
let holes through their head, while a
revolver with two empty chnmbcra
was found lying on the brenst of
Kirby.
Cadet' niimlMu! for HhzIiie Indorsed.
Washington, Aug. 5. President
Booscvelt yesterday returned tho pa
pers in tho case of Alexander G. Pen
dleton, Jr., to the war department
with an indorsement confirming the
sentence of dismissal. Pendleton wns
u first class cadet at West Poiiit and
wns found guilty of hozing. Ho was
appointed from Arizona.
Made Clilff Itahbl of tho Uulled Ntutii.
Philadelphia, Aug. 5. Bernard L.
Levinthal, for 11 years chief rabbi oi
the orthodox Jews of Philadelphia,
has been appointed to succeed Chief
Babbl Jacob Joseph, of New York
as the head of orthodox Jews in the
United Stntes. Tho position was
made vacant by ItabbI Joseph's re
cent death.
CARRIED ON A STRETCHER.
Mr, Steyn, Former I'resldrut or OruiiRo
Freu.Stnto, Arrived nt Houlhuiiipton 8it-
urdiir in nn ICnfechled Condition.
London, Aug. 4. Former President
Steyn, of tho Ornngo Freo State, ar
rived at Southampton Saturday, with
his family, on tho steamer Cnrisbrook
Castle. He wag met by Messrs.
Fischer, Wcssels and Des Bruyn, tho
former Boer delegates. Ho will go to
Tho Hague, where Former President
Kruger will go from Utrecht to meet
him to-day.
Mr. Steyn was too ill to bear tho
journey to London although n spe
clal saloon carriage had been at
tached to tho regular boat train for
him. Ills physicians would not allow
him to be interviewed by tho press,
but Mr. Steyn sent word that ho
wished to express his thanks for tho
kindness extended to him by tho
British authorities sinco tho surren
der nnd for tho euro given him dur
ing the voyage. Tho former presi
dent wns removed on n stretcher to
the Dutch stenmer Batnvler III, which
was moored close to the Carisbroolc
Castle. Ho will bo landed at tho
Hook of Holland nnd conveyed In nn
ambulance to tho cottngo reserved
for him near Tho Hague.
GEN. JACOB SMITH SPEAKS.
Ho Touches on HI Forced Ilotlre'innut
nnd Say He Did Wlutt Ho Thought
Wns night.
San Frnncisco, Aug. -1. Gen. Jncob
II. Smith, who recently returned
from Manila, in speaking of his
forced retirement from tho nrmy,
snid: "It was an unwcleomo sur
prise to me. I naturally supposed
that I would recelvo n reprimand as
a result of the verdict of tho court
martial, but nothing more. I have
always tried to do my duty In n con
scientious manner. I am n soldier
and take what is coming to mo. It
is not for me to say whether I de
serve it or not. I huve done what I
thought wns right and nm ready to
settle down in quiet.'
SEVERE STORM IN IOWA.
Crop Diitimged Cniiltlrnhly In l'ottn-
wuttiimlo nnd Ciinh Counties An Klo-
Mitor Destroyed by Lightning.
Council Bluffs, la., Aug. 4. A sc
vore storm which pnBscd over south
western Iowa nt nn early hour yes
terday morning did considerable
damage to cropB in the eastern part
of Pottawattamie and western Cass
county. A strip of country several
miles wide was visited by hail nnd
tho corn crop was entirely ruined.
At Avoen lightning struck nn elevntor
belonging to the Des Moines Elovu
tor company and it was destroyed.
Tho loss is cstimntcd at $50,000 on
the building and tho grain that it
contained.
PACKING COMBINATION.
Lender Decide It IIh (Joint No lrur That
It la Untile to I)luinhlu
Any Further.
Chicago, Aug. 4. The announce
ment of the lacking combine is like
ly to be made during the present
month. The leaders have decided
thnt the combination has gone so
far that It is useless to further dls
scmblo and now udinit that there Is
something doing. The gauntlet has
been thrown down by tho packers to
the Kansas City Stock Yards com
pany. It is said hero that tho com
bine has secured options on n tract
of land on the north side of tho Mis
souri river, nnd, unless the Knnsns
City Stock Yards company scIIb out
to the merged compnny there, new
yards will be built there.
Itepiililloui Cniiipiilgn Toxt-lliiolc Out.
Washington, Aug. 4. -Tho repub
lican text-book for tho campaign of
1902 hns been issued by tho repub
lican congressional committee. The
book, which Is in pamphlet form,
containing 380 pages, makes liberal
quotations from the speeches of both
McKInley and Roosevelt nnd also ex
tracts from their messages to con
gress in spport of the republican
doctrine. The book reviews tho rec
ord of the republican party from its
beginning to tho present time.
Nejtroe Deprived of ltepresentfitlon,
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 4. At a
meeting of the state republican ex
ecutive committee Saturday n reso
lution was adopted which, it is
claimed, will practically deprive the
negroes of representation In the
party. The effect of this will be ta
make the republican party in Ala
bama a white man's party, as undei
the new constitution of Alabama the
negroes are practically all disfran
chised, Ilnllle l. Wuggonnr Noinliiiited.
Atchison, Knn Aug. 4. In the
democratic and populist county con
vention hero Saturday Bailie P. Wag
gener was nominated for representa
tive by acclamation. When his name
was presented tliero was great up
plauso from the 250 delegates aud
the spectators.
VISITED BY EARTHQUAKE.
Town nf Los Alnniu, Cnl Wrecked Krery
llrlck Itulldlin; In the 1'lnco Destroyed
or Itndly l)HtiiiKed.
Loa Alamos, Col., Aug. 1. -The
most Buvore carthqunko in tho his
tory of this place occurred nt 1:20
Thursday morning. It is not possi
ble yot to estimate, tho damage, but
it Is very heavy. No lives aro known
to bo lost, though there were many
narrow 'escapes. Every brick build
ing in tho town was destroyed or
badly wrecked. In nearly every
house windows wero broken. 'Tho
Presbyterian church, n largo brick
structure, was razed to tho ground
ns was tho general store of W. S.
WIckenben, also a brick building.
Tho shock seemed to have a spiral
motion. Goods wcro hurled from tho
shelves of stores nnd piled in tho mld
dlo of tho rooms. Even such heavy
articles as desks wero thrown,
about. Not a chimney is Jeft stand
ing In tho town. All brick walls aro
badly damaged, but frame Btructurca
generally escaped serious Injury. In
tho drugstores not a single bottlo
escaped, and Kohn's saloon was flood
ed with liquor from broken bottles.
Tho whole town was arotiHcd and
peoplo fled from their homes to tho
streets In a panic. There have been
several light shocks sinco July 27
when tho first heavy shock occurred.
But thnt of this morning exceeded
in violence anything yot experienced.
It lasted 30 seconds and threw peoplo
from their beds. Loa Alamos la a
town of about 000 Inhabitants in San
ta Barbara county.
Tho latest advices received nt noon
slate that tho enrth continues to
tremble at intcrvnls of .about nn
hour nnd a half. Tho Bhocks nro
followed by loud reports as from
cannon. Tho Cnreaga country for
miles around Los Alamos sufTered,
but tho shocks wcro not as heavy
us at tho latter plnce.
TRACEY BOBS UP AGAIN.
Tli Fucltlvn Despnrudo Now In Knitera
Washington, U'vll-Aruioil mid In
(loud llrulth.
Spokane, Wnsh., Aug. 2. Harry
Trncey, the fugitive desperado, is
now in eastern Washington, un
wounded, In good health, nrmed with
four guns and 200 rounds of ammuni
tion, provisioned for flvo days and
equipped with two horses. Trncey
crossed tho Columbia river at five
o'clock Thursday morning and is
now supposed to bo headed toward
the Idaho line. Trncey declared that
ho wants to hold up a bank or rob
nn express car. Ho says that ho has
promised to give tho sum of $5,000
within one year to tho parties who
helped him escape from tho Oregon
penitentiary. Ho in making his way
to tho "nolo in the Willi" country iii
Wyoming. When there ho declares
he will bo a thief among thieves, und
thinks ho will be Bafe. Trncey spent
Wednesday at a ranch of W. A. San
ders, six miles below Wenacheo, on
the Columbia river. Ho crossed tho
Columbia ut a ferry 18 miles below
Wenachce.
Tho outlaw denied that ho had
been wounded und declared ho had
gained 15 or 20 pounds since escap
ing from tho .penitentiary. Two or
thrco smnll posses are reported to
have started out from Big Bond
towns to seek Trncey.
A Flniil Certificate Ordered for Mr. Wood.
Guthrie, Ok., Aug. 2. Information
from Wnshington to tho government
lnnd office at Lawton orders tho au
thorities to issuo n final certificate
to Mrs. James It. Wood, tho widow
of tho winner of tho famous No. 1
claim when tho Kiowa nnd Comnncho
country was opened to settlement.
Her contests for tho possession of
this famous homestead is now closed
forever In her favor. Sho has de
manded $20,000 damages for tho
'Frisco crossing her claim.
Ml Alien liny Noon to He Married.
Washington, Aug. 2. Tho mar
riage of Miss Alico Hay to James
W. Wndsworth, Jr., will take placo
on September 30 at Tho Fells, New
bury, N. II., the country home of tho
secretnry of stnto and Mrs. nay.
Only tho family and u few Intimate
friends will bo present. After a
Bhort wedding journay the young
peoplo will go to Gencsco, N. Y., for
tho rest of the autumn.
A Yonnu Farmer' Double Crime.
Junction City, Kan., Aug. 2. A
double tragedy occurred nt Wake
field, a small town 24 miles north of
this city, yesterday morning. A
wealthy young farmer named Do
Young shot his wife nnd then him
self. There Is hopo that tho woman
will recover, but De Young will die.
No cause for the tragedy is given.
Hwuin for Thirteen Hour.
Dover, Aug. 2. Holbein, who start
ed ut six o'clock Thursday night from
Capo Gris-Ncz, France, to swim across
tho English chnnnel to Dover, wns
obliged, after n plucky effort, in sight
of his goal, to abandon the attempt
owing to unfavorablo conditions. Ho
was subsequently landed here. Hol
bein was in tho water 13 hours und
was beuten by the strong tide.
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