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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1907)
NEBRASKA NEWS OFFICIAL CANVASS BY THE STATE CANVA8SING BOARD. I , JUDGE REESE HAS 24,406 Large Figures for Regents W. C. Rogers, Socialist, to Serve 1 as Regent Till Next January. According to the compilation of the Htnlo canvassing board made recent ly, Judge Itoeso, republican candi date for judge or the supreme court, received a majority of 21,10(5 over George L, Loomls, fusion eaiidldulo. Judge Reese was nt the head of the ticket and bore the brunt of (lie polit ical conloHt. Tho regenls received larger majorities. ( M, Anderson, re publican, defeated John L. Sundcan, the fuHlon candidate, by 32.910. George C'oiiplnnd, republican candidate for re cent, defeated R. .1. Millard, the demo cratic candicute, by .'11,271. Hallway Commissioner U. T. Clarke, Jr., who Itad no opposition except from (he prohibition party, received u total of 114,094 out of a total of 203,752 east nt the election. Samuel Llchty, the prohibition candidate for railway com mlBHloner, received 14,544, but this does not represent, the straight pro hibition vote. Julian D. Graves, pro hibition enndidate for Judge or the MUpremo court, received 5,158 votes). Lucion Btobblns, socialist candidate for supreme judge, received .1,200, while John Jl. Von Steen. prohlhltlon candidate for regcul, received 5,578, J. N. Carter, socialist candidate for regent, received 1,500, and CI. C. Por ter, woclallHt enndidate for regent re ceived 4,405. W. C. Rogers, aoclallsl candidal e for rogent to nil a vacancy, received 34,. 495, an indication that fusionmts and others cast their ballots for hint, lie will roceivo a cnrllllcale of election Knowing that ho may nerve until the first week in January, Allot- that the ;two republican candidates will tuko the reins of ofllce. Decision of the Court Necessary. Secretary Clark Perkins or the rail way commission recently paid Into itho utato treasury $5)00 in rees re ceived for muking trnnsodpls iml cortlflod copies or records In hear ings filed by the commission. The nionoy cannot be drawn from the tato treasury without a .specific ap propriation according 'to the const! tulion and under the ruling of the auditor's ofllce and the treasurer's department, the money paid In by the .commission must remain In the treasury until Its disbursement ia authorized by an act or the legisla ture or by a decision of the supremo court. The money paid in will be separated, however, under the provisions of the railway commission law us a "gen oral fund for the oxpensos of the commlfmlon., Treasurer Brain is of the opinion that the fees turned in Bhould go into the general state fund, hut he hat consented, aftor consult ing tho attorney general, to keep It eparato. Tho quoBtlon of drawing uuch money from' tho treasury for the payment of expenses of the commit? filon may bocomo an important one If the $10,000 a year allowed by the leg islature for oxponaos should run Abort. The commission has paid out for extra clerk hire between $500 and $000 lit order to earn foes amounttng to $909. K many hearings are hold and transcripts are desired by par ties to complnlntrt tho $10,000 a year may not ba sulllclent to pay all ex penses, River and Harbor Delegates. Governor Sheldon has appointed C. Ii. Snundors or Omaha, John F. Tay ton of Trenton and J. C. Mooro of Mc Cook delegates to tho national river nnd harbor congress to bo held at Washington, D. 0 December 4 to G. Tho motto of this convonllon la $50,- 000,000 mutually for tho improvontont ot "dosorvlng" rivers and harbors. Govornor Sheldon attended the deep wator convention at Memphis aim if poaslblo will attond the Washington congroas. He desires to further Iho improvement of tho Mississippi. Mis- Bourl and othor rivers and hnrborn that may bo desorvitw. If tho 1m provement will help commerce and adjust railroad rates. Bad Fire Near Tecumseh. Tho lino two-story farm house of .lames Moyer, ono mile west of To cumseh. tOKethor with Its nnntont was burned to the around. The fam ily was away from homo when tho fire broke out and tho causo 1h not known. Nolghbors discovered the lire and gathorod at tho scene, hut tho flro was so far advanced that but little was aavod. GIRL MEETS HORRIBLE DEATH. Grand Island Miss Caught 'In An Elevator Shaft. Frances, the To ur-y ear-old daughter of Air. and Airs. Pool, residing on the DiililHlioin ranch, ton miles from Grand Island, was killed In a horrible manner. While at play In the yard her dress caught In tho cog wheel on it water power shafting running to an elevator. No one was about. Just as William Alaynard and William Much tier residing In the vicinity were about to leave the place they huw something while being twirled around the shaft lug so rapidly that thoy could not dls linguish what If was. The attention (ft Mr. Pool was called lo It, the shafting wan stopped and the reniuins of Iho little girl were taken from the machinery. Tho cog wheel had caught the dress near the neck and Iho poor little one'ji feet In constant ly hiltlng tin ground, only eighteen Inchon from Iho shafting hud worn grooves In Iho soil. The neck was broken, both amis and one of tho lower limbs wore broken and the lit tie feet almost worn away by constant ly being hurled against tho soil, it Is believed that the unfortunate child was In tho shutting fully ten minutes. Death or at lensl unconsciousness Is believed to have been almost InBtnn taueous, ARRESTED, TAKES OWN LIFE. North Platte Man a Suicide in the County Jail. Mark Schrader committed suicide at the Lincoln county jail, North Platte, by takl;ig strychnine. Air. .Schrader for some time had boon In the real estate business but was not successful. Recently ho was arrested on the charge of having forged a check on which ho borrowed $30 at Lamb's grocery store. He was bound over lo the district court. While vainly endeavoring to secure bond ho purchased the poison and secreted It. otnoln secreted It. The unfortunate man was of an excellent family and was about thirty years of ago. Following Iho coroner's Inquest the body was taken to Candy for Interment. GRINDS POWDER IN MILL. Nebraska City Boy Does It, and Is Still Alive. Harry Itcdfleld, an olghleon-ycar-old son of Mrs. Charles Hcdlleld, Nebraska City, lost his loft hand and came neat being killed. Ho was making powder and grinding tho chlorate of potash In a coffee mill, whon It exploded, tearing off his hand, blowing up the table and wrecking that portion of tho family home. The boy experimented before and did not know tho danger Incident to handling things of this kind. The physicians were com pelled to umputnto (he arm at tho elbow and may havo to cut It off at tho shoulder. Ho Ib badly burned on that sldo of tho body and cut in a number of places. Ho will survive. Land Appraisement. Land Commissioner II. M. Eaton has returned from Iloyd county where ho lookod after the ro-appralsement of state land ordered re-appraised by tho board of public landB and buildings for the purpose of salo to the persons who squatted thereon before tho land was opon to settlontont. Tito new price sot by tho county officers rangos front $20 to $25. Tho appraisement which the state board refused to ap prove ranged from ?7 to $15. Land Commissioner Baton had contended that the laid was worth rrom $20 to $32. The settlers do not like to pay the price set by the appraisers, but It Is believed the deal will go through and tho state will sell on twonly year payments, 5 per cent Interest, which is tho htgal rate. The land will be sold by tho slate under a special act of the legislature, tho validity qr wltlch some attorneys doubt. Pay for Third Regiment Officers. Adjutant Clenernl Schwa rz 1ms re ceived notice front U. p. Hurper, audi tor or the war department, that $5,. 2S8.81 has been allowed ns pay for tho Hold olllcers, staff, band and com pany oillcors of the Third Nebraska infantry for service prior to the mus ter into tho United States sorvice In the Spahlsh-Anierlcan war. Some claims havo been disallowed, but tho names or tho oillcors whoso claims woro reduced or disallowed will not bo known until It is received from Washington. Tho oillcors ns a rulo havo asked for no pay, alloglng that they rocolved full pay for their serv ices, but ntto.rnoys pushed tho claims through a court of claims at Wash Ingtnn, After a Fire or Wind how you need tho money. Frionds may sympathize hut if you want a co'mpany wltlch pays cash try tho Farntors and Merchants Ins. Co., os-. labllshed since 18S5. Over a million dollars already paid to patrons. CZAR NICK "I WISH I COULD INDUCE YOU TO 3TAY1" BANKS READY TO RESUME Clearing House Certificates Are Be ing Retired in Chicago. All But Two Out of 1,000 Banks In terrogated Announce Themselves Prepared to Pay Currency. Chicago. The first stop towards retiring the clearing house certifi cates issued la this city was taken Wednesday when the executive com mittee of tho Chicago clearing house ordered dostroyed $25,000 worth of certificates that have been paid back to the clearing house. David It. For gan, president ot tho National City bank, announced this action at the weekly dinner of the Chicago Associ ation of Commerce and added that the procedure will be continued daily "un til tho entire Issue Is paid back and normal conditions restored." "Wo have received answers from 1,000 of tho banks questioned regard ing resumption or cash payments," said Mr. Forgan. "Just 1)98 or them jlecluro themselves ready Tor such re sumption at once. The other two asked for a little longer time, but merely for tho purpose of ascertain ing It the timo is ripe for such a move. Tho answers come from all sections of tho South, Middle West and Northwest. About 0,000 letters were sent out and answers are com Ing In by the hundreds every day." New Orleans, La. It was an nounced at the New Orleans Clearing house Wednesday that all banks here will resume cash payments just ns soon as New York does. Clearing house returns show that New Orleans banks havo cash balances on deposit in Now York amounting to more than $2,500,000. HITS TREASURY HARD. Receivers and Attorney for Uncle Sam Oil Company Want $30,000 From Company's Fund. Topoka, Kun. Judgo Z. T. Huzen, special referee In bankruptcy In the case of the Uncle Sam Oil company, has been asked to pay out of tlie funds of the company $30,000 as fees for officials connected with tho six months' receivership. The hill Ig di vided as follows: Fees for attorneys pf petitioning creditors, $15,000; fees for Receiver ,T. C. O. Morse, $10,000; fees for attornoy for tho receiver, Chas. Williams, $5,000. Expenses of $2,300 have already been allowed tho receiver and his attornoy. 11. H. Tucker, Jr., former secretary and manager and one of tho principal stockholders In the rojuvlnated com pany is strenuously opposing the al lowing of these amounts. Ho stated Wednesday that the sums asked are oxcosslvely largo and that plans were on foot by the stockholders of tho company to have a congressional In vestigation of tho rccolvors and attor neys nction. Judgo Ifnzon will prob ably pass on tho claims Friday. Weston a Winner. Chicago. Edward P. Weston ended his trip of 1,234 miles from Portland, Mo., at the Federal building hero at 12:15 p. m., Wednesday. Ho loft Portland, October 29, at 5 p. in., thus making his traveling tlnto, exclusive of Sundays, 24 days, 19 hours and 15 'miuutts. Won tou did not walk on Sunday.s. Ho broke his record or 40 years ago by one (lay, thrpe hours and 2i minutes. J'Tln former time tvas T w 22 hours and 1!) Minutes SHOULD BELONG TO PUBLIC. Gov. Denecn of Illinois Says Water Power Developed by Canal Should be Owned by the State. Springfield, 111. Cov. Doneen Tues day 'sent to the legislature a message relating to tho conservation of water power as Incident to construction at public expense of the proposed deep waterways from the great lakes to the Gulf of Mexico., involving an expendi ture of $20,000,000. The message said that In order to secure approval by the people of a constitutional amend ment authorizing such expenditure it is essential that the water power, de veloped by the expenditure of $20,- 000,000, should bo owned and con-, trolled by the state so that the state may be recouped for Its expenditures and a fund created for further devel opment and extension of the Interna tional waterway system and that the development should not be unneces sarily complicated by questions of private ownership. A Cactus Without Thorns. Washington. The United States National museum Fas placed on exhi bition as a specimen a "leaf" of a thoruless castus developed by Luther Hurbank of California. The perfect ing of a cactus without thorns means the providing of a valuable forage plant which will grow as well in arid as in moist regions. Tho flattened stent of this novel growth, often er roneously called a 'leaf," is in some of tho best specimens nearly three feet long, a foot wide and three inch es thick and its surface is very simi lar to that of a watermelon. Forty-nine Children Kidnaped. San Antonio, Tex. A special to the Express from Mexico City says: The police of this city are actively at work on ono of tho biggest kidnaping cases that they havo ever had. It is evident that for tho last two months an organized gang of kidnapers has been operating in this city. Forty nine children, 22 boys and 27 girls, have been stolon front their homes. What Is done. with them or who might be taking them away and by what means, is not known. The ages of the children varies between two and 12 years. Orientals Also Adopt "High Fiancee.' Los Angeles, Cal. Chan Chow Youatt, Chlneso woman, is alleged to havo disappeared from Chinatown with a sunt aggregating $30,000, repre senting capital Invested in the "Chinese Women's Deposit Syndi cate," which she formed. It Is alleged that the women Interested are wealthy residents of tho Chlneso quarter, meanwhile posing as a hair dresser. Failuro to pay promised dividends, It Is said, resulted In the discovery that she was missing. Standard Takes Less OH. Tulsa, Ok. Tho Standard Oil com pany lias notified oil producers that horeaftor pipe lino runs will not bo more than 70,000 dally. This is cut ting runs almost in half. The com pany has also laid off 300 tank build ors In this neighborhood, nnd officials say that instead of five tanks a weok thoy will only construct four Links a month. 'Financial and political ren sons are given for this stop. An Exclusion Act for Canada. Ottawa, Ont. Ralph Smith, M. P., British Columbia, wlU niovo in parlia ment legislation similar to the Chlnpso exclusion act to prevent an influx of all Oriental immigration into I Canada. NAVY'S GOAL COSTS MORE Over Half a Million Tons Bought During Year. Were Estimates for the Next 12 Months Show Expense Will Be $1,000,000 Greater. Washington. More than 500,000 Ions of coal were bought for naval use during the fiscal year, according to the annual report of Rear Admiral C. Cowles, chief of tho equipment bu reau. The exact figifres were 598,011 tons costing, including transportation, $2,553,400, an average of $4.28 a ton. Of this total, only 04,425. tons wore purchased by ships chiefly abroad, at an averago cost of $7.25 tho ton. In both cases the coal cost more than during the previous year. Progress In wireless telegraphy con; tinned to bo marked. Sites havo been selected for six stations in tho Philip pines, but their erection has been postponed pending the development of a system especially adapted to tropi cal work. The estimates for tho next fiscal year show a considerable increase under the itejtt of coal and transpor tation, therefore, the appropriation which this year was $4,150,000 while tho estimate for next year is $5,000, 000. Admiral Cowles Justifies this In crease by pointing to the increased number of ships In commission; the Increased size of ships; the increased number of purposes to which the ap propriation is applied, increasod first cost of coal at tidewater and in creased freight rates. Curtis Wants Them Prosecuted. Washington. Senators Teller, of Colorado, and Curtis, of Kansas, made an earnest recommendation to the president Friday that prosecutions be commenced at once in behalf of cer tain members of the Indian tribe in Oklahoma known as the Kicking Klckapoo. An investigation just completed by these senators leads them to bellevo that the Indians hnve boon robbed of land to the value of $250,000 by syndicates oporating in Oklahoma. Banks Get Them All. Washington. Treasury officials re fuse absolutely to make any statement as to how many of the new 3 per cent treasury certificates have been allotted but the best estimate obtain able is that the amount is approxi mately $30,000,000. Tho withdrawal of the offer for the sale of treasury certificates precludes the possibility of any of thorn being allotted to pri vate Individuals or to banks other than those desiring to take out cir culation based on them. Subscriptions Closed. Washington. Owing to tho large amount of subscriptions received, the secretary of tho treasury late Wed nesday announced that the subscrip tion to the 3 per cent certificates of indebtedness of the act of June 13, 1898, invited by the circular of No vember 18, 1907, is closed and that no subscription received after tho close of business November 27 will be considered. Organized Labor Opposing Cannon. Washington. Copies of a proclama tion addressed "To All Organized Labor" and designed to defeat tho election of Joseph G. Cannon ns speak er of the house of representative in the GOth congress, has been sent to tho Trades unions in every section of the country. The proclamation is signed by Samuel Gompers, prosldent and attested by other olllcers of tho American Federation of Labor. Mrs. Taft Again III. Millbury, Mass. Mrs. Louise M. Taft, mother of tho secretary of war, Is again seriously ill here. Mrs. Taft was stricken in October, her illneqs being due to gall stones, and for a tlnto her condition was critical. Re cently she was believed to bo well on tho way to recovery, but has now suffered a rolapse. . Miners Will Get the Cash. Des Moines, Iowa. Aftor numerous separate meetings of tho coal oper ators and miners in this district, an arrangement was effected for tho pay ment of all mine payrolls In full and the 3,000 or more miners who went out Saturday will return to work Wednes day. They will bo paid, as thoy de manded, In full with actual cash. Woolen Mill Resumes. Madison, Me. Tho mills of tho Madison Woolen company, which wero shut down last Saturday, will bo run ning full time Monday, according to an official announcement made Thursday. Two hundred hands arc employed. Canadian Parliament Opens. Ottawa, Canada. Tho Dominion parliament was opened Thursday by Lord Grey. . The occasion was marked with the usual ceremonial.
