Nebraska Newspapers

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Th* Krontirr Printibo Co.
O’NEILL, NEBRASKA.
OYER THE STATE.
A nkw paper is about lobe establish
ed at Pender.
A fi vk weeks revival season closed
last week at tlencviu
Wkst Point has a new postmaster in
in the person of August Kline.
Tiif farmers of Nuckolls county will
organize an institute at Nelson.
Yokk county has put itself on record
as opiiosod to voting seed grain bonds.
Flint at Scotia damaged the store of
& Wilcox, causing a loss of about $500.
Thikvks broke into the residence of
J. M. Hutchinson at tieneva and se
cured $<15.
Nkiihaska's now U. 8. senator, John
M. Thurston, is an ardent sportsman
with gun and rod.
Tiikiik is no question but that the
two disastrous fires in Teeumseh were
started by an incendiary.
Fiikmont will construct an electric
light plant and operate it in connec
tion with city water works
A Nt MiiKitof people in Colfax county
are leaving foi; new locations in south
western Missouri and Arizona.
Tiik second annual convention of the
Nebraska union veterans’ league will
be held in Fremont March 1st.
Fivk thousand four hundred dollnrs
of Hitchcock county’s funds were swal
lowed up In the reoent Trenton bank
failure.
Mbs. Viola F. Asiif.ii, wife of a
farmer of Hodge county, was last wuok
adjudged insane and taken to the asy
lum at Norfolk.
Miss Na.nnik Andrron, daughter of
Paul Anderson, who lives southwest of
Valparaiso, had her hands badly frozen
on her way to school.
Tint Sentinel Complains that there is
much destitution in Franklin nnd that
several families are actually suffering
from hunger and cold.
C. E. Smith, a leading dry goods
merchant of Beatrice, slipped in get
ting off a motor car, and falling vio
lently to tha pavement broke his col
lar bone.
The farmers of Nuckolls county
■ have arranged to meet at the-court
house in Nelson, Wednesday, Febru
; ary 27, for the purpose of organizing a
farmers' institute.
The 2-year-old boy of John Ware
was pulled off his bed last week by an
older child in play, and falling to the
floor, broke one of its legs, at its home
near Crab Orchard.
Perkins county now has no county
. judge. W. S. Hampton, who was ap
■ pointed to act during the absence of
Judge Littlefield, has removed to Ogal
. alia and left the office vacant.
The puffing of an engine at Nebraa
. ka City caused the horse of a farmer
named Holliday to run away and drag
the occupant of the buggy far quite a
■ distance badly injuring him.
At Norfolk a Young Men's Christian
.association has been organized .and a
free reading room will be opened it a
.sufficient amount of money can be
:caised to keep the enterprise going.
Buy home-made goods and build up
home industries, is a good policy: Far
rell'Fire Extinguisher, made by Far
rell & Co., Omaha; Morse-Coe boots and
■shoes for men, women and children.
The Grand Army post and W. R. G
•of Oxford have secured ex-Governor
John M. Thayer for a lecture engage
ment atthat place Marchs. His sub
let will be “Reminiscences of the Late
Petitions are in circulation in Pierce
oounty asking the commissioners to call
f • special election to vote on a proposi
tion to issue bonds to the amount of
*10,000 to purchase seed grain for desti
tute farmers
The commissioners of Red Willow
eounty met to consider the question of
calling, an election to vote bonds for
seed, and feed. The petition lacked two
votes of the legal requirement and no
eleotion could be called.
^Joiin A. Walters, registering from
Denver, was found suffering from poi
son .in the Windsor hotel at Omaha one
day last week. He had taken lauda
num or morphine and had made prepa
rations to shoot himself. He lived but
a few hours after swallowing the dose.
8kvkrai. weeks ago Peter Moodie,who
lives five miles north of West Point,
had UK) bushels of wheat stolen from
his granary, and the theft, it is said,
* was definitely traced to Carl Zeng and
Henry Teinken. They left the country,
but wore arrested in 8t Louis and
brought back to answer for their
t erima
at Aurora two persons in jail for
burglary were given the freedom ofttie
oorriders, and twenty minutes later
had made a bole .through the brick
wall, with .a common stove poker,
nearly large enough to crawl through.
The sherift discovered?the work just in
time and now the worthy pair occupy
steel cages
“Iiie Wood River Interests says:
Samuel Quy showed us a limb of a tree,
the side of which bad been exposed to
•.the storm of last week. It was coated
twith mud an eighth, of an inch thick
mnd appeared as if it was scorched. He
Ohinks the scorched-like appearance is
due to electricity. Only certain strips
<* timber, he informs .us, are thus af
fected.
Jacob Kobes, owning a large farm
■west of Wilber, mas instantly killed by
Burlington train Xa 91. He was
crossing the track. The engine cut
the horses loose from the buggy,
smashed the vehicle and .threw Kobes
high in the air. Whoa the trainmen
reached him he was dead, though he
was not mangled at all.
The ■Salem Interstate Chautauqua
association has secured Talmage for
two daya Other noted speakers will
also be present during the session.
Teccmseh had two destructive fires
last week, entailing the loss of thou
sands of dollars. The conflagrations j
are believed to be of incendiary origin. I
J. M. Machmclek, a farmer living a
mile west of Norfolk, was assaulted by
footpads last week as he was on his
way home. One of them caught hold
of his team while Iheother sprang into
the wagon and dealt him a stunning
blow on the back of the head. When
the farmer had gathered up his senses
w found bis pocketbook goo®.
Tire Hardware etore of Meek, Skin
ner & Co. at 1’aware City has been
closed by tlie sheriff. The liabilities
are estimated at about 918,000.
Mtt. Laimuoh* of Red Willow county
introduced a bill in the legislature pro
viding that all bills introduced must
before being printed be referred to the
proper committee. Only such bills as
are recommended to pass are to be
printed at the expense of the state, ex
cept where honse or senate overrules
the committee and places a bill on the
general file.
Two oit three cases of scarlet fever
and diphtheria have been reported to
tlie board of health of York. So far
the disease has been confined to chil
dren who are under school age and has
in no way interfered with a full atten
ance at the public schools Every pre
caution is being taken by the authori
ties to keep a quarantine on all case'
as soon as reported.
At a meeting of the citizens of Ruttt
a reorganization of the central relief
committee to conform with the re
quirements of the state commission was
effected. County Commissioners How
ard Waro and Charles Hoffman, and (1.
T. liastedo and C. 11. Critchficld were
selected to fill vacancies, and the mem
bers of the old committee were unani
mously re-elected.
At the election held for the purpose
of voting bonds to aid the Co/.ad Irriga
tion company In the construction of the
ditch north of Cozad the bonds were
defeated by nineteen votes. The
amount asked for was 810,000. As the
result of the election work on the ditch
was not resumed last week, as intend
ed, and Mr. Mqlntyre, the manager,
left for Minneapolis, the eastern head
quarters of the company.
Wiuiam Green, an ex-commissioner
and prominent citizen of Jefferson
county, is lying at his home near Dil
ler, in a critical condition, as the result
of an injury he received in a runaway.
Two months ago he was seriously in
jured in a like manner, and was just
getting about again. He was out driv
ing with the same team when it ran
away the second time, throwing him
violently against a tree.
A serious stabbing affray took place
at a school house about four miles
northwest of Ashland, between two
boys, Patrick Dalton and Fred Calvert,
who are about 14 years of age. Dalton
received a cut about two inches long
and the full depth of the blade in his
left arm. It severed an artery and
came near costing Dalton his life from
loss of blood. The trouble had been of
long standing and was on account of a
girl.
n. l-uorosinox nas ocen maue to me
city of Lincoln, through the council,
by Green & Van Dynn, to buy the city
water workB for 81,109,100. This is the
total amount of the city's bonded in
debtedness. The annual interest paid
on this debt amounts to 8(13,640. The
parties agree that water will be fur
nished patrons at a price not exceeding
what they are now paying for it They
also agree to make all extensions of
water mains as required by increasing
demands.
Tub attorney, general served notice
on the Standard Oil company that fees
for inspection of the ten carloads of oil
which ex-t'hief Oil Inspector liilton had
inspected, but not collected for, should
be paid to Chief Oil Inspector Edmis
ton. This oil was inspected at Kear
ney, Grand Island, Lincoln, Hastings,
York and Omaha during the latter part
of January, and for some reason the
fees were not collected by Hilton. Uy
this move of the attorney-general the
fees, amounting to from 8100 to 8150,
will be saved to the state.
Owing to the shortage of relief sup
plies and the entire exhaustion of the
eoal, coupled with a fear of such
weather as this time of the year fre
quently brings, Haydn Strong of North
Loup, left last week for Lincoln armed
with the necessary credentials to inter
view the management of the state re
lief commission, with the design of ex
pediting the shipment of further sup
supplies to that place. The local com
mittee has been attempting to fill all
reasonable demands to the best of its
ability, but the stock on hand is get
ting quite low.
VVuat might have been a serious fire
at Ashland was averted by the heroic
action of a child only 13 years old.
During the absence of Mrs. ltoy Brush
her four small children were all alone
when a lamp was knocked off the stand
and broken. Fire was set to the sat
urated carpet and in a very few mo
ments the entire house would have been
ablaze had not tho eldest daughter
seized the lamp and threw it out the
door, and then seized a blanket and
threw it over the burning carpet and
.smothered the flames. She received a
badly cut hand and a severely burned
arm. •
ihe streets oi Shelby, says a dis
patch, were more crowded yesterday
than at any other time this year. The
town people were out enjoying the
warm weather, while those from the
country came in to partake of and wit
ness the distribution of two large wagon
loads of provision that had been sent
by the State Relief commission. It was
noticeable that very few residing in the
immediate neighborhood applied for
aid, but many a home in the rough
lands of the l'latte north of here was
made happy by the sack of flour, the
jug of molasses and the bundles of sec
ond-hand clothing.
A. F. Ai.lk.v, one of Elkhorn’s oldest
settlers, ended his life the other day
by shooting himself in the head. Mr.
Allen was in his 72d year, and for sev
eral weeks past he had been bedridden
with an attack of pneumonia. He was
in the last stages of the disease and
his dissolution was a question of but a
week or so, at the furthest.
It has developed that Carl Roth who
lost his life in the sinking of the steam
ship Elbe, was not the Carl Roth who
resided at Holdrege. Mr. Roth of Hol
dregie is still missing, but the man who
went down with the Elbe was a resi
dent at Hungary, and was bound for
Philadelphia.
U.YLES6 the governor intercedes,
Harry Hill, the Cass county murderer,
will be executed March 1st. Hill’s
counsel and friends are endeavoring to
secure a commutation to life imprison
ment, bnt advices received from Lin
coln are to the effect that the govAnor
has made no move in the matter, it
being the usual practice to seek the
views of the members of the supreme
court and the trial judge, and as the
governor has made no request of the
judges mentioned, it is generally pre
sumed that he is disposed to let the
death sentence stand. The commuta
tion of the prisoner's sentence would
be accepted with considerable regret
by the people of Cass county.
STATE LEGISLATUBE.
RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS IN
BOTH HOUSES.
Some Mcaiarea that Have Been Fatted
and Othert that are In a Fair 8tate of
Advancement—Text of the Oleomar*
marine BUI Under Contlderatlon—The
Netalon Half Gone, bat Measures Still
Being Introduced—Miscellaneous Mat
ter In Both Houses.
The Nebraska Assembly.
House.—In the house on the 18th the clerk
road a numerously signed petition from
; Omaha against the oleomargarine bill.
There wore a number of such petitions
signed by numbers ranging from one to 500.
Hoyd and Holt counties baa petitions asking
for the appropriat ion of money for the pros
ecution of the alleged murderers of liarrett
Hcott. Nebraska women were represented
in a petition asking that the word “male'*
be stricken from the constitution. Howard
sent ut> a resolution demanding that the
committee on resolutions at once report the
resolutions Introduced a few weeks since,
retlecting on the character of Robertson of
Holt, and insinuating that he was connected
with the Holt county vigilantes. The reso
lution was tabled. The following bills on
third reading were disposed of:
Relating to assessments by boards of
county commissioners. The bill was passed.
House roll No. 210, the committee’s substi
tute for Harry's bill to provide five libra
ries for district schools wont over. The
1 hoii'.e then wont into committee of the
whole to consider bills on file, with Hat rlson
in the chair. The following bills w» re dis
posed of: House roll No. Z\7, by Timme,
providing for the naming of the hospital for
the insane at Norfolk, and relating to the
care and protection of the inmates, prac
tically taking ltout of the handsof the board
of public lands and buildings, and placing
it in the hands of trustees, was recomittca.
The committee's substitute for house roll
No. 15, by Grltilth, providing for the attend
ance of school children at schools nearer
their homes than the houses In their own
districts was reported back with the recom
mendation that it pass with amendments.
i'OUHornll No. 14.T ny Ashby, relating to a
revision of the election law and a simplifica
tion of ballots, was indefinitely postponed.
House roil No. 31, by Uobiuson, providing
for a rate of 7 per cent on county, city, town
or other municipal warrants, was recom
mended for passage.
oRNAJCt—in uie senate on uic iym me
forenoon was devoted to routine work. The
judiciary committee presented favorable
reports on the following bills: Senate file
No. 239. by Hitchcock, for an act providing
that a judge pro tern of the county court
may be selected from the lawyers of said
county when the regular judge shall be
sick, absent, interested in or has been coun
sel in the case, or otherwise disqualified.
Senate filq No. 2 .7, by Watson, making Judg
es of the supreme and district courts ineli
gible to other offices. Senate file No. 20K, by
Hitchcock, prohibiting the undervaluation
of property by assessors and the State
Hoard of Equalization. Senate file No. 203,
by Caldwell, providing for the appointment
of a Judge protein In judicial districts of
Nebraska. The committee on finance,
ways and means recommended the
the passage of senate file No. 2.1 ,
amending the law relating to the registra
tion of precinct bonds in the office of the
auditor of public accounts. Also senate tile
No. 236, amending the law relating to the
registration of school district bonds in the
office of the auditor of public accounts. A
number of bills were introduced and read
the first time. Akers’ irrigation bill was
then taken up and read at length for the first
time and passe*', after which the senate
took a rocess till 2 o’clock. The bill giving
the state university a special levy of H mill
on every dollar of real and personal prop
erty in the state was passed. Akers offered
a resolution directing the appointment of a
committee of three to investigate the re
port that W. H. Webb, one of Oil Inspect
or Edmiston’s bondsmen, had been receiv
ing aid from the State Relief commission.
Campbell offered an amendment providing
that the committee should also inquire into
the sufficiency of the official bond given by
the state treasurer. The amendment was
accepted without a dissenting vote.
House.—In the house on the 19th the oleo
margarine bill came up. Burch moved that
the rules be suspended and the house pro
ceed with the order of bills on second read
ing. Robinson objected to going out of the
regular order. He said that as the friends
of the bill had a majority In its favor they
should not be afraid to take up the regular
order. Senate file 78 had not been read the
second time, and as the special order was
consideration of house roll 168 and senate
tile 78, identical in language, the latter could
not be considered In committee of the whole
until It had been read twice. The reading
continued until senate file 78 had been
reached. Then Harrison moved that the
house go into committee of the whole on
house roll 168 and senate tile 78. The motion
Srevalled and Harrison went into the chair.
long and animated discussion followed,
participated in by many members. A num
ber of amendments were offered, but all
were rejected. To shut off the amendments
Munger appealed from the decision of the
chair, who had ruled that all amendments
were In order, and the chair was not sus
tained by a vote of 43 to 28. The vote then
recurred on the motion to report t he bill for
passage and It prevailed. The committee
then rose and reported. Benedict moved
that the report of the committee be not con
curred in, and that the bill be indefinitely
postponed. Ho called for the ayes and nays
and Ricketts asked for the call of the house.
The call of the house showed but two mem
bers absent—Cramb and Barry. Further
proceedings under the call were dispensed
with, and at 5:45 the decisive vote was taken
on the motion to indefinitely postpone the
bill. It was lost by 15 ayes and 81 nays. Ab
sent and not voting: Cramb Barry and Rob
inson. The motion to adopt the report of
the committee recommending the bill for
passage was then adopted and the house
adjourned.
cuihaiei iii \uv seiuue un nit* mu noyes
from tho committee on education, presented
favorablo reports on senate flies Nos. 66 and
241, and they were placed on general file
Senate file No. 761s the bill repealing tho
state and county depository law, and its
consideration provoked a discussion which
filled the galleries and the lobbies with a
crowd of interested hearers. Pope moved
that when the committe rise it report the
bill back to the senate with the recommend
ation that it pass. The senate considered
the fish and game bill, which had been loft
from yesterday. The bill is entitled "An
Act for the Protection, Preservation and
Propagation of Birds, Fishes and Wild An
imals, and to Prevent the KUltug of
the Same During Certain Seasons."
The bill was amended in a few minor
Particulars and recommended for passage.
enate file No. 67, by Pope, making a slight
change ih the law regulating the fees per
mitted county sheriffs was recommended
for passage. One of the most important
bills considered during the afternoon was
recommended for passage with little consid
eration. It was senate file No. 42, by Wat
son, and it provides that hereafter in Ne
braska no person shall be admitted to prac
tice law unless he has prcv.ously been ad
mitted to the bar by the order of the su
preme court or of two judges, the proposed
law, however, not applying to persons
already admitted under the present law.
benator Dale's bill, No. 47, was next recom
mended for passage. It authorizes school
districts with less ban fi.OOO assessed valu
ation to levy a higher rate for school pur
poses, and provides that such s hool <iis
trlcts may at tho annual meeting in any
year determine by a majority vote of the
electors present to Increase the number of
mills on the dollar of the assessed valua
tion, but the total number of mills shall not
exceed thirty-five to any one year.
House.—In the bouse on the 20th ten min
utes of time was devoted to the petitions
and memorials. A majority of the petitions
were favorable to the oleo and consent bills
Reports of standing committees were next
in order. The following mea-ures were dis
posed of: House rolls Nos. 272, 481, (> 371
364, 153, 4s9, 286 and 429 were recommended
for Indefinite postponement. House rolls
Nos. 453, 246, 399. 375i 391, 30', 26s. 382 and 203
were resubmitted to the committees. Re
ports of stanoing commutes were resumed
in the afternoon, and the following disposed
of: A memorial addressed to congress en
dorsing the civil service as carried out by a
succession of presidential administrations
was tabled on motion of Hunger. A resolu
tion in the shape of a memorial endorsing
the concurrent resolution pending in con
gress prohibiting discrimination in regard
to sex In the matter of the elective fran
chise was also tabled by the decisive vote of
61 to 31, the roll call having been called for.
House rolls Nos. 433 and 120 were recom
mended for passage and house rolls Nos.
147, 283 and 37u indefinitely postponed. Tho
memorial favoring the donation of Fort1
Omaha to Nebraska for the purpose of a
J • • Ani '
military school was adopted1-, AmOher mo
morlal endorsing the bill for ^amendment
to i he constitute
w tu.iaw.uJoD providing for legalizing
the maximum rate law as it now stands was
adopted.
Senate.—In the senate on the 21st the
joint resolution for a memorial to congress
praying for the passage of a bill to pension
ex-soldiers who were confined In rebel pris
ons, was recommended to pass. The com
mittee took up and recommended to pass
Graham's bill, providing for the counties
paying for the clothing of inmates of the
state institute for the feeble minded by ad
vancing W() per year for each Inmate sent
from the county. Senator t russ' bill, re
lating to the manner o/ building and maln
ing county roads In counties not under
township organization, was also recom
mended to pass. The following bills were
read the first time. Senate file 324, bv Pope
<by request), to amend section 5801, of chap
ter 20, of the compiled statutes of 1HQ1, and
repeal the section so amended. The bill
makes It unlawful to rent real or personal
property for an immoral or illegal
purpose, and provides a penalty. To
license street cars propelled by elec
tricity or otherwise operated within the
limits of all metropolitan cities in Nebras
ka, and to provide a punishment for its vio
lation; for an act to submit to the electors
of the staie a proposition to relocate the
seat of government and to locate the same
at the city of Hastings, in Adams county.
Senate file 325, by Pope—To provide for the
incorporation, and to regulate the powers
and duties of trust companies, renate file
:rj«, by Pope—To authorize executors and
administrators to bring actions for injury
to real estate of their decedents, benate file
327. by Noyes -To amend section 2, of chap
ter 50, of the compiled statutes of 181*3, enti
tled, “Liquors.” Tor a joint resolution,
I proposing un amendment to the constitu
tion of the state, adding anew section to
article 12. relative to the charters of cities,
and providing that all amendments to such
charters shall bo ratified by the voters of
the city.
House.—In the house on the 21st senate
file No. 78, the oleomargarine bill, was read
the third time and put upon its passage.
Benedict moved that the bill be recommit
ted for the purpose of amending its provi
sions. His amendment was that it be refer
red back for changes In’its provisions to pre
vent oleo from being sold outside of the
state. Harrison made the point of order
that the amendment was offered In commit
tee of the whole and was not now admis
sible. Benedict argued that his present
amendment was entirely new in substance
and Intent. The yeas and nays were called
for on Benedict’s motion to recommit The
motion to recommit was lost, by BO to 35. A
call of the house was then demanded by
Johnson of Douglas. The absentees were
(’ramb, Sutton of Douglas, Hairgrove, Tim
me and Rhodes. Crumb, Hairgrove and
Tirnme were excused. On motion of Pick
etts further proceedings under the call of
the house was dispensed with, and the call
of the roll followed with passage of the bill
by a vote of 82 yeas to nays. House roll No.
232, relating to physicians’ certificates in
cases of insane persons, was passed.
House roll No. 31, by Robinson, which pro
vides that all state, county, town or other
municipal warrants shall draw interest at
the rate of 7 per cent, was passed with the
emergency slause. The committee’s substi
tute for house roll No. 15, by Griffith, pro
viding that children living in one district
may attend school nearer to them in anoth
er district, was passed with a long list, of
amendments and the emergency clause.
The committee’s substitute for house roll
No. 210, by Barry, was then put upon its pas
sage. This measure provides’for free public
libraries In school districts. It failed to
pass with the emergency clause, but passed
finally by the constitutional vote of 53 to 42.
House roll No. 2rt, by Burch, providing for a
readjustment of the salaries of county at
torneys, was passed by a vote of 85 to 4.
House roll No. 80, by Kaup, providing for
printing 100 ballots for every fifty voters,
was passed.
Seed Grain Bill.
The house has passed the bill to provide
for purchasing seed grain on time and to
create a lien on the crops grown from the
same. The bill was introduced by Repre
sentative Judd of Boone county by request
On its face it is a bill designed entirely for
the benefit of the destitute farmers in the
drouth stricken districts of the state, and it
seems to meet the exigencies of the present
crisis In some of the agricultural counties
of the state. It prescribes the form of a
“special seed grain note,” which gives the
man who sells the seed a lieu upon the crop
of grata raised therefrom, and it provides
for severe penalties for the violation of any
part of the act. It provides, for instance,
that when the “special seed grain note” is
filed iu the proper county office in the
county in which the grain is to be sown the
owner of the note shall thereby be vested
with all the rights of the holder of a chattel
mortgage upon the crops grown from such
seed, and the same shall be a first lien upou
such crops, whether they are growing, ma
tured or gathered and stored.
The passage of this bill by the house calls
out some interesting information concern
ing the methods of certain firms and indi
viduals who are taking advantage of the
present distress in Nebraska toenrich them
selves at the expense of the farmers. For
the purpose of illustration the following let
ter will serve. It is written upon a letter
head, upon which is printed the words: “W.
A. Morton & Co., Dealers and Loaners of
Pure Northern Seed Wheats.” The full text
of the letter is us follows, the name of the
party to whom it is addressed alone being
suppressed:
Edgar, Neb., Jan. 8.—Gentlemen: land
some of my friends have been engaged in a
little business enterprise in Western Kan
sas and Nebraska and Eastern Colorado,
and not being strong enough to carry on
the business on a scale sufficiently large to
make it available as a paying investment
and thinking you wouldoe interested in
seeing the country seeded, thought it advis
able to lay the plan before you.
I make contracts to furnish seed wheat to
good farmers under contracts (sample en
closed), and as compensation am to have
one-third of all grain raised therefrom, de
livered at a designated railroad station.
The contracts are made through local banks
and only the reliable, hard-working, honest
farmers are taken. I have contracts for
about 80,000 bushels of wheat, and can mate
rially increase that amountif I can interest
capital to take hold of the matter.
1 would turn over all contracts I have and
attend to distributing seed and collecting
and shipping our share of grain for an
agreed share of the one-third we get. If the
weather should prove unseasonable no seed
to De furnished. Very truly,
w. A. Morton.
Affecting: Loan Companies.
The debate on house roll No. 375, Intro
duced by Hairgrove, developed the fact that
a number of farmers who had mortgaged
their farms and then paid the money into
the hands of alleged agents had been out
rageously swindled by the said agents and
had lost their money through suspension of
these men. The loan companies east had
refused to acknowledge them as responsible
agents and had compelled the mortgagors
to pay the amounts of their mortgages
twice. The bill, which was ordered to the
general file, although adversely reported
by the committee, provides that all loan
companies, foreign and domestic, shall,
upon taking mortgages on Nebraska prop
erty, designate in the papers some responsi
ble agency or depositor where such money
may be safely paid without loss to the mort
gagee. Two measures which were fought
bitterly by banker members of the
house were recommended for passage
by good majorities. One of them Is
house roll No 208, which provides that all
state banks shall Keep a list of the actual
shareholders of the bank ready at all times
for the inspection of depositors. It was ar
§ued on the floor that depositors, as a rule,
epended as much on the reliability of the
supposed shareholders as upon anything
else. Davies claimed on the floor that banks
had published statements using the names
of presidents, or alleged presidents, who,
when the bank f.-iiled, had been found not
to have owned a dollar’s worth of stock for
a year previous to the suspension. Another
one was Munger’s bill, house roll No. 482, in
troduced by request. It was recomended
for passage. It provides: That the stock
holders In any state bank organized
„ ----- --„- under
the nrovisions of the statutes of Nebraska
shall be deemed and considered as partners
and liable as such for all debts of such
hank.
Limiting Legislative Employes.
Mr. Judd has & bill, advanced to second
reading, which is in the lines of economy, :
and similar in certain respects to house roil
No. 229, by Jones, which limits the number!
of senate employes to fifty and house to
sixty-one. Judd’s measure is still more
drastic in its limitations. It is house roll !
No. 559, and limits the number of senate ein- 1
ployes to forty and those in the house to !
fifty. Judd says that the Minnesota legisla
ture, which is larger than that of Nebraska,
has less than hair as many employes as are
now drawing pay on the rolls of the legisla
ture of this state.
All Bill* Unit Boon bo In.
[legislature, says an Omaha Bee dis
. lias already ran through two-thirds
of thelnumber of days allotted to it by law.
If it
terml
,eets next Monday with the firm de
ation to sit six days in each week,
it wiillcomplete the legal sixtieth day on
Marches. Many of the newer members are
of the dipinion that the w»>rk of the session
can be completed within the legal limit, but
■v a few doubting ones,
n importance must come the appro
i bills. These must originate in and
rough the house before the senate
otticial coflnizanee of them. These
hleh must pass if the legislature
_r__ every other bill, have not yet
Eeen^roijorted from the committee on ways
and meains. Representative Crow of Omaha,
chairmap of that committee, says that the
bills will, be ready for introduction Monday
or Tuesd ay. If they are not introduced by
Tuesday they can only be sent to the house
by the governor in a special message, as the
chief executive alone Is empowered to
introduce bills after the fortieth day has
passed. *
There a^re two large appropriation bills to
be introduced by the ways and means com
mittee. These bills will call for a total ex
penditure of about $2,00',00 >. If anything,
the total amount will exceed $2,000,000. It is,
in the judgment of many of the older mem
bers, practically Impossible to pass these
bills inside of twenty days. In the first
place, both bills will have to be considered
line by line in the house. They will be con
sidered in the same tedious manner in the
senate. Every item of the several hundred
proposed expenditures will be fought over
inch by inch. The friends of each state offi
cer ana of each state Institution will fight
vigorously to either increase the amount
given them by the ways and means commit
tee. The same fight will be made in the
senate, but not to so great an extent, as
there are many good reasons for the belief
that the unwieldy republican majority of
the upper house will arrive at its conclu
clusions much more readily. Twenty days
will hardly suffice for the two houses to get
together on the two appropriation bills.
Relief Supplies About Gone.
There was a meeting of the state relief
commission on the 22d, for the purpose of
considering the future conduct of business
and to receive reports as to what has al
ready been d ne. All the members of the
commission except i)r. Duryea and McClay
were present. The reports showed that, ex
cept a few barrels of molasses and small
quantites of other supplies, there is nothing
to distribute There are requests for sup
plies, though, and to meet these demands
the commission decided to purchase with
such money as is available from the legisla
tive appropriation and sen d out to the
i counties where needed. It was ordered by
the board of commissioners that all pur
i chases should be made after proposals
! have been asked for, and only sealed
bids are to bo considered. The preference
in making purchases will be given to Ne
braska manufacturers, price and quality
; being equal. All purchases are to be made
and bids received by a purchasing commit
tee. which was named for that purpose.
This committee is composed of W. N. Nason,
S. B. Thompson and J. \V. Hartley. Several
| bids to furnisii, liominy, oatmeal and rice
have been received, but these were not
opened, as other bids are expected.
The auditing committee reported that
bills and vouchers covering $21,3ril.94 have
been audited and allowed. Of this amount
$2,460.76 was for supplies purchased, $17,704.64
for transportation, $400.65 for sending sup
plies into counties, $398.90 for salaries and
$387.99 for office expenses. The commission
ordered a requisition made for $20,000 of the
fund appropriated by the legislature.
There had been previously withdrawn $10,
000. This le ives $20 000 of the appropria
tion still remaining with which to make the
purchases and pay transportation charges.
Investigating Standing of Bondsmen. i
Oil Inspector Ed mis ton has addressed tht j
following to the senate committee appointed !
to investigate his bondsmen, accused of
having drawn relief:
To toe Honorable Committee of the Sen- j
ate of the State of Nebraska, Appointed for
the Purpose of Investigating the Official I
Honds of J. H. Edmiston and J. S. Bartley,
Present State Oil inspector and State Treas- !
urer, Respectively: Gentlemen—Whereas,
the honorable senate has taken cognizance
of the alledged insufficiency of the bonds of
the parties named, and has appointed your
honorable committee, without any official
notice to either principal or bond>men;
therefore, in order to protect the tax payers
of the state from the cost of a proposed jun
keting tour, to carry out the politital ambi
tions of a removed official, I hereby offer an
additional bond to be filed with the secre
tary of state, making my bond good in a
total sum of $40,000, while the law provides
only $30,000. I would further suggest that
should my bonds, after the acceptance of
the one now presented, be deemed at any
time insufficient, I stand ready to turn sn
additional security for any amount. While
I cannot approve of the measures inspired
by partisan rancor or to vent personal
spleen, I am sure the people of the state will
thoroughly appreciate any effort of the
senate to protect their interests by requir
ing public officials to furnish bonds of un
doubted worth. I desire to meet the com
mittee in any demands it may make and
will gladly furnish bonds in any amount it
may indicate. Respectfully,
J. H. Edmiston.
Co-operative Insurance.
The house insurance committee is consid
ering house roll 223, providing for co-opera
tive life insurance companies. There is
some objection made to section 7 of the bill
and it is proposed to strike out this section
and Insert the following;
“No corporation nor assessment organiza
tion operating under this act shall i>sue any
certificate of membership or policy to any
person under the age of 15 or over the age of
u5, nor unless the beneficiary under such
certificate shall be of the estate of the per
son insured in some one who has an insura
ble Interest in his or her life, nor shall any
certificate or policy be assigned without the
consent of the beneficiary named in the pol
icy or certificate, nor shall any such corpo
ration or association Issue any endowment
nr other form of certificate or policy prom
ising any definite sum at any stated time
prior to death, but nothing herein shall be
construed so as to prevent such corpora
tion or association from paying equitable
surrender values or payment in certain
contingencies of disability.”
. It is proposed to amend by inserting In
the fifth line, after the words “paid agents
in soliciting business,” the following.
“And it shall t o the duty of the auditor to
examine the plans and modus operand! of
all the assessment associations seeking ad
mission or authority to transact business in
this state and he, the auditor, shall be the
judge as to whether such association is a se
cret .fraternal organization in fact, or
whether it shall be governed by this act.”
bill is being vigorously opposed by
the old line companies, who fear Its results
to their business.
To Release the State Treasury.
Senator Pope introduced a hill yesterday,
says the Lincoln Journal, to release the
state treasury from loss caused by sus
pended state depositories. It recites the
loss of $241,36!.83, but the plan of relief seems
to simply be the transfer of that sum to
the funds that sustained loss. Where the
money is to come from is not stated. The
state treasurer and auditor may settle the
transfer to suit themselves by taking what
ever funds are available and crediting it to
the four impaired funds. Januarv 21, 1893,
the C apital National bank collapsed with
301.83 of state funds on deposit. The
Buffalo County National bank of Kearney
taiied October 11, 1894, with $5,0 0 on deposit.
i5®;„uJl®8 Pn. deposit were: General fund,
fo~.41b.69; sinking fund, $80,101.75; temporary
school fund, $5,00); live stock indemnity
fun $4,843.:.9: total, $241,361.03.
As no part of these amounts have been re
covered to the state, notwithstanding ti e
Tact that proof of the claims were duly filed,
the mu provides that the state treasurer Is
empowered to credit $241,361.83 to the above
funds in the amounts iost, and if any of said
iunds are recovered by receivers, dividends
or otherwise, they shall be credited propor
tionately. Tim auditor is authoi ized to co
operate with the state treasurer in charging
and crediting as specified.
Will Tackle Silver.
In the senate the standing committee to
which it had been referred, reported the
joint resolution, senate tile 216, with the rec
ommendation that it be placed on general
nornim*. xiie resolution protesting
11 j demonetization of silver and
making gold the exclusive money of final
K.|^r”ent, a*}d legalizing gold contracts.
also protests against the is
ernment* more bon<*s by the general gov
^l01? by the committee and the
tw.P.V° of iiie rePort will bring the resolu
for discussion In its regular order
nUV*£ommifteeof th® whole during the
next two or three weeks.
SMOOTH ALBERT
Ka-Caavlet, Bank^-J
OoottMto,
Omasa, Neb., ptb, J
and .low. people »*
velopments which
Albert Whipple,
banker, merchant and „
tor of Crawford and V?
fugitive from justice, ,
left in the lurch forti5lm
and Albert B. Whipple '!?
to the Fort Madison
December, 1886,1ft,
rrCoinmir—
f* Co*n> Iowa. At that 1
though a young man, goj
attention by the rapid?!
he grasped business pJJ
was slated for an„J
with the oompanv, wi„.
scheme, involving the <1
vast number of the comil
was traced to him. He
in disposing of a large qau
arrested and sent to
tentiary. 1,1
A young woman of Coin
desperately in love with u
the sympathies of Comm
burn and others so that u
ceded with Governor u
hiB pardon. He went Wes
leased and vowed neve,
While in prison Whipple
shorthand, and upon his,
cured a place with an n
and later became a clerk to
master. He was stationed,
agent of the government >
Wyoming, and finally .ot
tracts at Fort Robinson I
a store at Crawford and «
nis, and later a bank.
One day his bank at Cn
entered and robbed, ho t
£3,000. His stenographer
sent on an errand aad it]
alone at the time of thea
bery. Some one passing ]
smothered cries and tout
locked in the vault from
stenographer soon releu.
was thought impossible ]
have locked himself in m
Grable, the banker, invest]
found a fine wire leadinj
which Whipple had been
throw the bolts One t
learned he was about toll
ford and went to the bank
and compelled Whipple I
stock, paying cash thereto
GOULD CHILDREN GUI
Kidnapping of George'i Bon I
Anna Goald Weddlaj; Arrup
New Yobk, Feb. 21.-The Si
that George Gould's two liB
Kingdon and Jay, are not
out of the house without
guard. Mr. Gould hasreis
Here that a plot ha9 been hit
nap his eldest son, Kingda
object of the proposed kidni
not indicated by the luk
Gould’s possession, but it h I
that if the plot were suets
boy would be held for ns
description of the would-bt I
pers is in Mr. Gould's posses
there is a young woman ink
who is sure she could recoj
of them if she should see him
Mr. and Mrs. George God
come here from Lakewood u
ed preparations for the mi
Miss Anna Gould to Count d#
lane. It is announced that*
ding has been set for Marcel
ceremony will be performed!
bishop Corrigan and by ft
Paxton. The double eeresn
be out of deference to the Ml
is a member of the Catholic!
Miss Kittie Cameron, Miss #
ery and Miss Richardson are 1
be the choice of Miss Gould sh
her bridesmaid,'
Conimnptlres Ordered to tin M
Cincinnati, Ohio, Feh ft
R. Amick, the eminent com
specialist of this city, hast™*
tional sensation by his decidw
tion to the order of th» hospiw
ities to send 100 consumpw*
smallpox pest house. His "?
in the institution convinces»
is unjustifiable and brutsl^.
through his attorneys, ei
and in the Cincinnati TritM'J
a formidable array of scien
against the contagion theory
sumption which covers rfla'
with ridicule. A hot news?*
troversy is the result. 1
Chemical company, compw*J
Dr. Amick’s remedies, b b ,
to physicians, consumptives
plicants, extra copies of
containing explanatory e
theory.
LIVE STOCK AND PBODCCl
ISII
Quotations from New ^
Louis. Omaha and *
OMAHA s
Butter-Creamery separator - );
Butter—Fair to good countrj 9
Eggs—Fresh „.16.
Honey—Per ©...•• — ••»"* # 5’
Chickens—Dressed, per' 3511
Lemons-Choice Messlnas... ^
Oranges—Horidas, per Do -v
Potatoes.1 ®
Beans—Navy, hand-plckea, 9tJ
Hay—Upland, per ton.15
Onions—Per bbl.. lt>
Carrots—Per bbl.... 13
Parsnips—Per bbl. IjJ
Beets—Per bbl....11W
Cranberrries—Jerseys , ?
Hogs—Mixed packing. 3»
ogs—Heavy weights.;0i
and feeoen».,.
ogs—Heavy weights ;
eeves—Stockers and feeders,
+ . . .. .. 1
1CC*CS—flu
leef Steers
lulls...
trgs...
“ 1 61 1
' *!
rgs..'.*.i» (l
llves- -.V*. - ..J -- 1
lives....
Bers—Fair to good.
.. .
sifers...
sterns...... ...
eep—Choice natives^
leat-No. 2. spring
rn—Per bu.
,ts—1 er bu.
JM
s® 5
■Mi
*
■.
i.1 »'
5...^
,^Packers and mixed.3 $ •
tie—Com. steers to ex.3 ,) ^
or to choice.
new yob£
eat. No. 2. red winter.
n—No. 2.
a—No. . .
.
» ?
- si.
5.1 {
«5
\i\
‘at—No 2 red, cash.
i—Per bu.
s-MUed packing
1 a—Native steers.. ... „
I^Mlxednatives....^,.
iat—No. 2 hard. * S
1—No. 2
■no. .... JV
—Stockers and feed®^' 4# ‘
-Mixed packers.