THE FRONTIER.
PUBLISH FT* EVERY THURSDAY By
Tus Fnomrin I*hiktinh Co.
O’NEILL, ~ NEBRASKA.
OYER THE STATE.
Box Bcttk county Is without a^lol
lar of indebtedness.
Ai'uoiia has a democratic club in
active working order.
A MiMiii.it of rabid dogs liuve been
killed at Ashland and vicinity.
This sheriff of Have county is in pos
session of the American bunk at Beat
rice.
Tim school* at Valley have been
closed during the prevalence of scarlet
fever.
Dawks county will usk for no aid and
docs not even have to organize a relief
society.
Tiik Methodists of Haskins have com
menced the erection of a church, lit
will cost about S2,r>oa
Sii.uk cases of diphtheria have again
developed in Hastings. There hus beea
one very sudden -death.
(iKx. Tiiavkk is giving here and there
throughout the state his "Recollections
oflirantund Lincoln."
Nix loaves of bread for 10 cents does
not longer prevail in Nebraska City.
Thu war has been declared off.
At Valley Elinor Rowers wns de
clared insane by the c ounty board lust
week and taken to the Norfolk asylum.
Ninkty cuses aro before the present
term of the district court of Narpy
county’ seven of them being criminal.
Jonx I’kw of Hebron cut from one
-V cottonwood tree on his farm ten cords
of stove wood, and yet tho tree was not
all consumed.
Tim Vuletine district of country re
ports n big fall of snow, eleven or
twelve inches, making the ground in
fine shape for plowing.
Tim 10-yoar-old son of M. Chapman,
a farmer living south of Nelson, had
both hands blown off by a gun which
ho didn't know was loaded.
A district Young Men's Christian
association has been organized with a
membership of eighteen. J. I). .Forbes
' of 1'onca is the president
Rkv. P. Njoiii.km of Fergus Falls.
Minn., hut located at Wakefield, .where
he will be come the pastor of theSwed
ish Evangelical Lutheran church.
Tun defalcation of ex-Treasurer Rod
well of Union township, llutler county,
.Amounting to 9350, has been settled by
his bondsmen, and Rodwell has gone to
•Ohio.
This interstate encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic will meet
At Superior May 15 to .determine it*
jilace of holding the next interstate re
union.
A. H. Siiokmakkii, a veteran of Bro
ken Bow, has received notice that his
pension has been suspended. He will
at once take steps to have it it re
stored.
W. V. Corn-offers a reward for the
• conviction of the party or parties who
I poisoned a few grey hounds at his
ranch. The dogs cost hi8h several
thousand dollars.
Tiik harness that was stolen from A.
B. Scott of l)o Witt February 5, 181)5,
■ was found iu the north part of town,
hid in a manure pile. The thieves are
. known and will be arrested.
At Shelby Mrs. June Patterson, fa
• miliarly known ns ••Grandma,” died at
the age of 89. She has resided in Polk
-county a quarter of a century, leaving
A family of respected and prosperous
.children.
Pai'I'khinm is being pretty thorough
ly discouraged in Burt county. The
•county commissioners are drawing the
line close and nearly everyone opply
ting for county aid must go to the poor
.house to receive it.
ltKroHTs were received at Beatrice of
'tho wholesale thefts of harness of all
descriptions from farmers a few miles
cast of that city last week. The thieves
were traced to Beatrice, but have not
yet been apprehended.
Ai'Hii. 1 work will commence on thi
aew opera house at Pierce. The struc
hure will be 44x90 feet, and thirty-tw<
ieetin height The seating capacity
will be 800. The Call says it is to Is
the finest opera house in northeaster!
Nebraska.
Rot Mookr, a boy of 15 years, com
mitted an act of burglary in Harvard
by entering the house of Mrs. M. W.
Wilcox by opening the door with a
false key and ransacking the place and
carrying off 913 in money he found on
the premises He 1b in jail now.
Mark, the 14-year-old son of H. L.
Miller of iloldrege, was killed while
playing around the Burlington tracks
He attempted to cross the track be
tween two carp, to which an engine
was attached. His head was cut off
and the body dragged some distance.
Kevbkn Church of Nebraska City
swore out a warrant for the arrest of
his son, Kcukcn 1). Church, charging
him with insanity. Young Church
gained some notoriety a year ago by
commencing suit against the State uni
versity for refusing to grant him a
diploma.
Mr. and Mits. \\oocs of Papillion
were in Fremont last week. Mrs.
Woods is the mother of Charles Carle
ton, who is condemned to hang on the
Sjitlt of April, for the murder of August
Oothman, and she is circulating peti
tions to be presented to the governor,
asking that the sentence be commuted
to imprisonment.
The Callaway Central l'elief commit
tee has sent out over 2,000 letters to the
newspapers of the country containing
an appeal for funds with which to pur
chase seed. The money contributed is
•to be deposited with the Omaha Na
tional bank, and will be received either
** a ff'ft or as a loan. In the latter
case the committee will undertake to
handle it the same as any other loan.
Marv Burns of Hurt county, was
pronounced insane and sent to the Nor
folk asylum last week. The young ladv
is A mute, about 20 years of age and
well educated, having attended an
Omaha school for six or eight years.
An inheritance is also due her frost a
relative in Iowa.
■Tub police jot Beatrice made a raid
on a gambling den in the central part
at the city and .succeeded in capturing
* number of well-known citizens of
sporting tendencies. The parties were
given a mid-night tearing in police
court, and wero heavily fined and the
broken up and tbo paraphernalia i
confiscated •
I A o vmj« Also 4 class is being organizea
by the management of the Young
Men’s Christian association at Fremont
to enlist the attention of small boys.
Wiiii.k Mr. Miller, an old bachelor
farmer living aUmt one mile east of
Uiiykin, was preparing supper, two un
knuwn men called at the door and
usked permission to go in and get
warm. As soon as they entered they
attacked the old man and beat him un
mercifully, leaving him unconscious.
They then ransacked the place and got
about t'O.
Cr.AKKXCB II. (11IA1IA1I, a printer, lost
his right foot while attempting toeross
in front of a train of ears on the Iturl
ington in Idncoln. lleing in a hurry
lie crawled between the cars. W hile
so doing tlie engine let up the slack
and (iruhnin's right foot was caught
between the bumpers and so badly
crushed that amputation was necessary
at the ankle joint
Tim efforts of the directors and
stockholders of tho North Platte Na
tional bans, which hus been in the
hands of a receiver for several months,
have proven unsuccessful, so far as con
cerns reorganizing and reopening the
bank. Receiver Doolittle will proceed
to close up the affairs of the bank as
soon as possible. It is thought that
depositors will be paid in full.
Owino to the heaviest pressure of tho
aid business being over, the local com
mittee at North l.oup has made public
a regulation that heaeafter no aid will
be distributed on any days other than
Tuesday and Friday, which indicates
that the more serious labors of the
committee are over for tho season, and
unless cold weather intervenes it is
hoped that the work may hereafter
be only nominal.
Fi.oiia, tho 4-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dolton, was fa
tally burned at Filley during the tem
porary absence of the child's mother.
Mrs Dobson was washing clothes and
had gone out to hang clothes on the
line, when the child's clothing caught
(ire from the stove. The child's screams
brought the mother to her rescue, but
hho was burned so badly that she died
of her injuries
II. J$. Fiikiiiik kson of Fremont, who
won a barrel of prizes in bicycle races
last year, has received a letter from
tleorgo It (iidcon, chairman of the L.
A. W. racing board, stating that tho
protest and charges against him in the
race at the Chautauqua, grounds last
June, In which he was accused of re
wwvtug n vuau uau uct'u wiur
drawn, which places him in good stand
ing in the U A. VV.
Bixby’s Book, 200 pages of rhyme by
the "Driftwood” man on the Lincoln
Journal, is before the public and is
meeting with encouraging sale. The
selections are the poet’s choicest gems
and cover a wide range of subjects,
rendering the book of absorbing inter
est to all classes of readers. One dol
lar pays the bill and insures to the per
son ordering a publication faultless in
binding, paper and contents
Probably the oldest woman in Ne
braska, certainly the oldest Indian
woman, died at her home on the
Omaha reservation last week at the age
of 115 years She was quite a relic of
ancient times and was the mother of a
noted Ponca chief. She claimed to
have known the great explorers. Lewis
and C lark, personally. It is positive
that she had in her possession pots,
urns and cooking utensils that were
used by the Indians at least seventy
three years ago.
Tine Fremont papers publish a long
article by Mr. Oxnard of the Norfolk
sugar factory, giving full instructions
as to the preparation of the ground for
tlio raising of sugar beets, and the cul
ture of the crop from the seeding to the
marketing. It will doubtless be read
with great interest in that vicinity, as
the farmers and land owners have al
ready contracted to raise several hun
dred acres of the crop for the Norfolk
factory, and others are preparing to
join the procession..
Miss Mary Bradley, aged 24 years,
was found in a comatose condition by
the side of a hedge fence by Fred Fisher
at Vcrdon as he was going to church.
She was taken to his home and every
thing done that could be for her recov
ery, but she died. The coroner's jury,
after-viewing the place and examining
witnesses, rendered a verdict that the
deceased came to her death by despon
dency, exposure and cold by lying on
the cold, wet ground all night on the
night of March 9, 1895.
Ir any further proof was needed that
Henry Hueske of this county, says a
Beatrice dispatch, was a victim of the
FI be disaster, the recoipt of a dupli
cate draft from Bremen to the widow
for money which he was bringing home
with him would establish the fact. The
Lincoln Journal learns that Hueske
only put a part of his money in the
form of a draft and that quite a large
sum was lost with him. The widow
received the draft several days ago.
The proceeds of it will aid herself and
family greatly in their distress.
The largest and most valuable load
of cobs over sold in Svtiu'hsp.
Syracuso Journal, was brought in last
week by Henry McCartney, four miles
west of Nebraska City. The load con
tained 10,5110 cots by actual count, and
was sold to the pipe factory. The stan
dard gauge requires the cobs to meas
ure one and five-eighth inches in
diameter and all but .">00 met this re
quirement Mr. McCartney realized
more for his load of cobs than three
ordinary loads of corn would bring in
the market even at present prices.
Thk Maccabees of Nebraska met in
Lincoln last week and elected officers
as follows: i’ast commander, R. ,1.
Coles, York; state commander. \Y. L.
Brown, Lincoln: lieutenant comman
der, J. E. Fitzgerald, South Omaha;
record keeper, M. J. Durkin, (irand
Island; finance keeper, A. N. Steele,
Aurora; sergeant J. \Y. Lewis, Crab
Orchard; master-at-arms, J. \V. Tan
ner, Fullerton; sentinel, M. C. Reming
ton, Antelope; Picket, Walter Hainey,
Grafton. There are seventy tents in
the state.
Rrn. Bhay of the Presbyterian church
at Aurora, started east last week. Ho
is chairman for the relief department
for the presbytery and his time is very
much occupied with that work. His
committee has distributed thousands
of dollars, mostly in western counties.
No moiik applications by the farmers
of York county for relief in the way of
grain for seed and feed will be consid
ered. ns the limit has arrived. The i
number of applications received, as iig- |
ured up by Relief Agent Smith, are 237. j
Of this 56,256 bushels were' oats and j
10,694 corn. If all applications now on '
hand are accepted, the cost to the coun- (
ty will not bo over £7,000.
NEBRASKA ASSEMBLY
A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS IN
BOTH HOUSES.
Many mils Now n^lof Pushed Through
—Insurance Matters—T be Irrigation
Measure—IIllls Recommended for
Passage—An Appropriation for Unfits
Ished Buildings—The Sugar licet In*
dustrj—Seed for Nebraska's Drouth
Stricken—Miscellaneous Matter*
The Nebraska Assembly*
Sfnattl— In the Semite on tlio 11th several
remonstrances against the passage of the
1>1U to permanently locate the state fair at
Lincoln, and two or three against tlio
amendment to the .oleomargarine bill were
read. M-nate tile ;9, which permits co-ope
rative mutual- Insurance companies to
charge a policy fee on policies Issued, was
passed. 1 louse roll fwO, providing that
county officers may invest In seed and feed
grain surplus precinct bond funds.left on
band aft* r bonds are paid off, was passed
with ttie emergency clause. Senator lialin’s
anti-cigarette bill, senate tile Hi*), which
provides that no one shall manufacture,
sell, keep for sale, or give away cigarettes
or the material from which they are made,
was taken up renater Akers brought
in a ragged little bootblack. who
stood up in the aisle and puffed at
a cigarette. The senator said he intro
duced the boy as an ob ject lesson. Chair
man l aid well ordered tne sergeant
at-arms to “Take the 11. tie fellow
outside whore he can have a good smoke.”
Without disposing of the bill the committee
arose and asked leave to sit again. The re
port was adopted by the senate. Senate Ale
M, Watson's bill to comptelelegrnph compa
nies >o charge a uniform rate between all
points In the state, was taken up and then
referred to the judiciary committee. Sen
ator Pope moved that it bo referred to the
committee on miscellaneous corporations,
but accepted the amendment of Senator
W at soil, making the reference to the judi
ciary committee. House roll 102, Moltt’s
bill providing for a state board of educa
tion, was taken up. Bee of Furnas moved
t * recommend the Indefinite postponement
of the Dill. Mc.NItt opposed the motion, and
it was defeated by one vote. Then followed
a long discussion of the bill, finally result
ing in the adoption of amotion to recom
mend the bill for indefinite postponement. !
House roll 108 was considered. This is by ;
Johnson of Douglas and authorizes the ap- !
pointment of special counsel in civil cases
in counties having more that7^,000 popula
tion. The committee agreed to report pro
gress and ask leave to sit again.
House.—The house on the llt.h, after re
cess, went Into committee of the whole with
Harrison in the chair, to consider bills on
general file. House rolls Nos. 55, 10 and :,98,
stock yards bills, were recommended for In
definite postponement. '1 he committees
substitute for McNltt’s bill, house roll No.
lit!, to establish a btate Board of Educatioh
and to define Its powers and duties, was
then taken up, it having been agreed that it
should follow consideration of the stock
Eoned. House roll No. 430, to regulate all
iuds of public printing, and provide fora
supervisor of printing at an annual salary
of §1.500, was recommended for passage.
House roll No. 80, by 1'erkins, providing for
the destruction of the Russian thistle, was
amended out of existence and so perforated
with allusions to buffalo burs and.ox-cycd
daisies that It became worthless as an in
telligent measure. House roll 1311. by Allan,
was then reached. Ricketts moved that
wlieu the committee arose it recommended
the bill back for passage, and Howard moved
to amend by indefinitely postponing the
same. Rhodes wanted to know if this bill
was not one to remove the appointing power
of Police and Fire commissioners from the
governor. Ricketts repled and explained
the provisions of the measusc. Howard said
he had been informed that the bill had been
drawn in tiie direct interest of the Ameri
can Protegtivc association. He did not
know this to be a fact, but had been told so.
Tlio vote then recurred on Howard's amend
ment, which fell by tlio wayside by a big
majority and Ktckett's motion to recom
mend its passage prevailed by a corres
i onding vote.
Senate.—Several matters of more or less
moment to the state occupied the attention
of the senate on the 12th. After receiving a
number of reports from standing commit
tees the senate took up several pieces of un
tin ished business and completed them. The
governor’s message returning the change of
venue bill without his approval was read,
and McKesson’s motion to pass ihe bill, tlie
governor’s veto notwithstanding, was made
a special order for 11 o’clock tomorrow. The
senate went into committee of the whole to
consider the $200,0 ti relief bill. The bill as
it passed the bouse appropriated $ 0.000 to
be disbursed for supplies, especially seoci
grain, by the State Relief commission.
Akers ottered an amendment which ho
claimed would give the governor the right
to appoint a new commission, and in sup
port of his amendment he related in detail
many of the complaints that had come to
him of the incapacity of the present com
mission. Aker’s amendment was shut
oft by Me Koeby, who offered a sub
stitute for the entire bill Thesubstltuto ap
propriates $200,000 to be divided among the
co'- ntles of the drouth stricken district, no
one county to rocelve more than $i,U00. The
amount to be given to each county Is to be
determined by the State Relief commission
and disbursed by the state treasurer to the
county bonrds. This bill was, after some
amendment, agreed to and ordered engross
ed for third reading. The railroad commit
tee reported Dale’s an ti-pass bill with the
recommendation that it bo placed on gen
crul tile. Dale moved that the rules be sus
pended and the bill ordered engrossed for a
third leading. The motion was defeated by
a vote of 9 to 9, after which the senate ad
journed.
House.- In the house on the 12th. the hour
having arrived for the special order of the
day, consideration of the general appropri
ation bills, the house went Into committee
of the whole, with Speaker Richards in the
chair, as chairman. Une of the bills, house
roll G31, the salary list, was then taken up
and considered. The salary list of the gov
ernor’s office was recommended without
change. On reaching the adjutant gener
al s office Howard moved to strike the office
out of existence and voted for it alone. Jen
ness moved to restore the office of deputv
labor commissioner, which had been dropped
by the committee on ways and means, to
gether with the salaries, $1,5 ?o per annum
for the deputy and $1,000 for a clerk. The
amendment was carried. The appropria
tion of $5,000 for the biennum was made and
the labor bureau restored to its Dosltion on
iuv binary u.^i. i ue onico or tne secretary
of state was reached, and a stenographer
added at a salary of Sl.tOO for the bieunutn.
An assignment clerk was added to the office
of the commissioner of public lands and
buildings at a -alary of Sl.txo. The salary
of the stenographer of the supreme court
was raised from &> 0 to $000. The
clerk of the banking board was given
an assistant at a salary of #».OjO per annum.
No change was made in the list of the In
dustrial school at Kearney unlilthe attend
ing physician was reached, when his salary
was raised from to $KX) on motion of
be lucked ants. The salary list of the Insti
tute for the Blind at Nebraska t ity was in
creased from SH.VTl to S16.S0 •. Chapman
offered an amendment that the committee’s
report recommending hut one secretary of
the Hoard of Transportation be amended to
Include three secretaries at each per
annum, or a total appropriation of $12,000 for
the biennium, t hapman’samendmentcar
rlE?’ i ♦A*.set»°«nd ?ss.i1stan.t physician was
added t. the Lincoln Hospital for the Insane
at a salary of Si.20 • per annum. The appro
priation for the university at Lincoln rec
V.n'Tne,bK,d by the commiteto was $1.5,u0u.
1 his was amended to$11*0,2115 on a showing
by Munger that this was money to be drawn
from the university temporary and not
front the general fund of the state. Barry
moved that the stenographer dropped in
the governor s office by the report of the
committee, at a salary of $l,20u. be restored
which motion prevailed. Judd moved ati
amendment to the list of the Industrial
School at Ceueva that a family manager
and two teachers be added at a salary of
*■«> per annum, which prevailed. The nil!
hou>e roil No. 631. was then recommended
for p stage, and the committee rose and re
ported, and the report was adopted.
Senate.—In the senate on the 1 ,th there
was a large amount of routine busines.no
less than forty-one being disposed of. Most
of these were indefinitely postponed, while
the rest were placed on general file. Hol
brook endeavored to bring the beet
sugar bill to the front by moving that it be
made a special order fora o’clock tomorrow
afternoon, beveral senators objected, as
bFri!°R ,hat th*y weie not yet ready to give
the hill the i areful consideration its impor
tnnee deserves. The motion was voted
uowu by the application of the two-thirds
»ule. The vote stood 19 to Jl. although it
was announced as 19 tola by the secretary.
; Under the rule of tho senate It requires
a two-thirds majority to take a bill from
its pl <c6 on generul file and Advance It.
The senate then in a summary manner pro
ceeded to dispatch the bill repealing the
valued poliov insurance law. The matter
came up with a report from the judiciary
committee recommending that senate file
No. 12!, by Trane, be placed on general file.
Sioan and TeiTt pointed out the fact that
j the bill practically repealed the valued
policy law and urged its indefinite post
ponement A motion to that effect was car
ried by a viva voce vote without a dissent
ing voice. The senate then went into the
committee of the whole upon the considera
tion of Watson’s blit to abolish capital pun
ishment in Nebraska. Tending an agree
ment on the bill the senate took a recess
until 2 o’clock. Afte%reccss the sena o fin
ished the debate on the bill and ordered it
engrossed for third reading. The senate
then finished the day with a long discussion
of the relief bill appropriating $200,009 for
the relief of the drouth sufferers. The sen
ate finally agreed to the bill and at 5: 0 ad
journed.
House.—Consideration of the general ap
propriation bill, providing for expenses of
the state departments and institutions, oc
cupied the principal portion of the time In
the house on the 13th. The total amount of
increase In appropriations provided for by
the-committee of the whole, outside of the
Lincoln Hospital for the Insane, so fur dur
ing the dav is $y,175 above the appropriation
for If#;. The amount given the JLlucoin
asylum in i893 was $12 ,300. The amount
recommended today up to the hour the com
mittee arose was $191,500, a reduction of 12 ',
800. Tills would leave the net total decrease,
so far us the appropriation bill has been
considered, $U,t>25 fr< m the appropriations
for 189. biennium. Governor Holcomb sent
in a message referring to the Nehraska
Dakota boundary line. The adjutant
general was then ullowed $500 for
office expenses and the National Guard
$30,000. an increase of $ 0 In office expenses
over 1893. Howard tried to reduce the
guard Item to $10,000 and then to $20,000.
for the office expenses of the superintend
ent of public instruction the appropriation
•of 1893 was $9,925. The present bill originally
appropriated $9,8;,o. 1 his was amended and
so recommended for passage, by adding
$1,0'jo for an .extra clerk. The bill goes to
the senate carrying an appropriation for
this office of $1 an increase over 1893 of
?925. The present bill recommended for of
fice expenses of the attorney general $1,6 <0.
1 he amount allowed for traveling expenses,
$'*0. was stricken out. leaving a total appro- !
pelation of $1,100, or $20j above the biennium
appropriation of 1893. For expenses of the 1
office of the commissioner of public lands i
and buildings the bill as it came from the
ways and means committee provided for
$2,300 The sum offcioOof this was for new
carpets and furniture. Harrison tried to
raise this amount to $ 50, but the committee
wouldn’t have it that way. The total ap
propriation for 1893 was but $1,900. The gen
eral appropriation bill has made no provis
ion for the office expense's of the la bor com
missioner, as nothing had been provided for
this office In the salary list considered yes
terday, an amendment was moved and car
ried appropriating $2,001 for the biennium,
an increase of $1,000 over the appropriation
of 1893. ^
Senate.—In the senate on the 14th the
anti-cigarette bill came up. Tlie house
measure was substituted and recommended
for passage. Senate filo No. 114, by Hitch
V.WVFY, lu nuiciiu AOI.'UUU UI Ulti V,OUC OI
Civil proceedure, was recommended for
passage. The senate, while in committee of
whole, took legislative cognizance of
the dog. Senate file No. 146, by Kathbun,
provides that the dog shall be included in
the list of domestic animals recognized by
the statutes and provides further that If
anyone shall maliciously kill a dog valued
at *35 or more he shall bo subject to impris
onment In the state penitentiary not less
than one year nor more than three years
f* the dog is worth less than $35, the person
killing It shall be lined not less than 5> nor
more than 5100, or imprisoned In the county
jail not more than three months, or both
line and imprisonment at the discretion of
the court. The bill also provides severe
penalties for the crime of poisoning dogs
Willi intent to kill them. The senate, after
some debate, agreed to the bill and It was
ordered engrossed for third reading. It was
amended for passage. Stewart declared the
bill one of the most iniquitous pieces of leg
islation attempted at the present session.
The senate, he said, had frequently made
itself ridiculous, but never more so than in
attempting to pass this measure. Ho had
had four valuable horses killed in ten years
by dogs which were not worth a square
meal, lie declared that 999 dogs out of every
•Out) ought to be killed anyway. Among
the bills also considered in committo ■ of
the whole during the afternoon and recom
mended for passage were the ones prohibit
ing the display of brass knuckles, slung
shots, billies and loaded canes In shop win
dows, the one prohibiting bucket shops and
gambling in grain, and the house bill en
abling cities of the lirst and second class to
Issue bonds for tlie purpose of purchasing
or erecting electric light plants or water
works systems.
House.—In the house on the 14th the gen
eral appropriation bill was completed in
committee of the whole and, with the salary
bill, which has already been engrossed for
a third reading is ready for action by the
senate. The total net increase In the bill
over the appropriations of 1893 Is 517,890.
This includes the penitentiary appropria
tion, which is tills session smaller by S26,23o
than in the 1893 biennium appropriation.
Without counting the penitentiary matter,
which two years ago contained quite an
amount for repars of buildings, the net In
crease is #44,135 over the 1893 appropriation.
The greater portion of this increase is for
pew additions to and repairs of state Insti
tutions. The Industrial home at Milford
was first In line among unconslderod items.
The 1893 appropriation for this institution
was 519,750. The new bill provides for $20,
£00, and the items were unchanged by
amendment. There was appropriated for
the Home for the Friendless at Lincoln for
the t iennum of 1893, &8,1<C0. The new bill
goes to the senate carrying only 527,000. The
legislature of 189i appropriated 5133,600 to
the Asylum for Incurables at Hastings.
The present ways and means committee re
commended f 14i *,00 - for the biennium. The
Hospital for the Insane at Norfolk was
given 575, 00 in 1891. The committee’s bill
provided this session for 576,030. The Insti
tute for the Deaf at Omaha, asked for 550,
^5* The appropriation of 1893 gave it'but
129, <4, but the bulk of the increase was for
pending deficiencies, some of which were
overlooked two years ago. The penitentiary
asked for $r>3,700. The 1893 appropriation
The bill goes to the senate for
wA ne DU1 y°es to the senate for
5102,<00, a decrease of 526,235. The following
miscellaneous appropriations were also re
commended by the committee: Suppor
. h * - ---- Supportof
Mate 1 oultry association, $2,000; expenses
of state Historical society, 52,000; expenses
of state presidential electors in 1896, 5 00;
for state sinking fund for reimbursing the
fund for same amount tied up in the Cap
ital National bank. $180,101.75: resetting and
repairing cupitoi uouers, S3.000, expenses of
examining count.wtreasurer’s offices, $3,000;
for printing reports of the btatc Board of
Agriculture, Si.iOO: printing reports of State
Horticultural Society, $i,00j.
Senate.—In the senate on the 15th the
final vote on Watson’s bill to abolish the
death penalty In Nebraska came during the
forenoon and the measure was given the re
quired constitutional sauction of seventeen
votes and no more. The bill not only abol
ishes capital punishment, but adds to the
present law’ two provisions which recite
that “if any person shall aid, abet or pro
cure any other person to commit any felony,
every person so offending shail. upon con
viction thereof, be imprisoned in the state
penitentiary for any time between the re
spective periods for which the principal of
fenders could be imprisoned for the princi
pal offense: or, if such principal offender
would on conviction bo Impris- ned for life,
then such aider, abettor or procurer shall
be imprisoned for life, the same as the prin
cipal offender would be.” The following
provision is also added: If any person shall
purposely and of deliberate and premedi
tated malice, or in the perpetration or at
tempt to perpetrate any rape, arson, rob
bery or burglary, or by administering poi
son, or causing the same to be? done, kill an
other; or if anyjjerson, by wilful and cor
rupt perjury, or subornation of the
same, shall purposely procure the con
viction of murder in the first degree
of airy innocent person, every person so
offending shall be deemed guilty of murder
in the first degree and upon conviction
thereof shail be imprisoned in the peniten
tiary during life. The first thing the senate
did after the r.oon recess was to pass the
RlcKeeby substitute for the house re ief
bill, appropriating £200,000 out of the si ate
treasury with which to purchase grain for
seed ana feed for destitute farmers in the
urolith stricken district of the state. The
bill passed by a vote of 59 to 1. with two
senators absent. On the original roll call
cross. Hitchcock, Lindsay. Moan and >teu
fer voted no. But after the roil call had
teen completed all these senators changed
tneir votes to the affirmative except i ross.
ino bill that has passed th? senate has oc
^asionycl more feeling than this measure.
Ane bill as it was passed by the house, ap
propriated $20u,tfi0 to be expended by the
i-taie Belief commission The commission
was authorised to reserve 94,000 of that sum
for •expenses. This bill passed the bouse,
but the opposition was strong to prevent
the addition of tho emergency clause. The
substitute provides that ?.:OJ,OtX) shall be
taken from the state treasury and distrib
uted among the several counties In the
drouth district. No county is to receive
more than 94,000. The State Relief commis
sion has no part In the distribution of the
funds, but it is authorized to designate the
amount that each county shall receive.
Housjs.— In theihouse on the 15th house
roll No. 651, the salary division of the gen
eral appropriation hill, was put upon its
passage tho first thing, and passed. Boder
mati, In explaining his negative vote, said
that the amount of $2,OOJ per annum voted
to tlio governor’s private secretary was
plainly unconstitutional. For this reason
! he declined to support the measure, and a
number of populists were with him. The
j vote on final passage of tho bill was 7* to 15.
i Other bills were passed as follows. House
j roil No. 283, by McNitt, to provide for free
I attendance at public High schools. House
i roll No. 491, by Cole, td authorize the com
| mis.siouers of Hitchcock county to apply
j $3.000of the fund known as the Culbertson
j irrigating and water power bond funds to
; the payment, on the bonds maturing Janu
i ary 1, lsM. House roll No. 8, by Jones, to
j authorize the organization of mutual plate
: glass insurance companies. House roll No.
! 214, by Robinson, to provide for the relief of
j Maurice Lee, authorizing the Hoard of Pub*
i lie Lands and buildings to issue to him a
j contract for land. House roll No. 358, by
> .lenkins, to regulate stock yards and pro
| vide punishment for violations of the
, provisions thereof, 58 to 9. House roll
[ No. 1*9, by Allen, to provldo for the
appointment of fire and police commis
sioners in Omaha, was, after a call of the
house and continued disorder, put upon Its
passage, and failed to pass witu the emer
gency clause, by a vote of 28 to only 00, two
less than the required number. The bill
was then put upon Its passage without the
clause and passed. House roll 264, by Har
rison, providing that claims against cities
of the first class having less than 25,000
and more than 8,000 inhabitants shall be
presented in writing with a full account of
the items verified was then passed. The
governor announced that he had signed
house roll No. 27, providing for fine and im
prisonment of persons unlawfully wearing
the fireman’s national Dutton: No. 5.‘>0, au
tnorizing county commissioners to use the
surplus of precinct bond funds for the pur
pose of procuring seed grain, and senate file
No, 15, making it the duty of district courts
to appoint a competent number of bailiffs to
wait on the grand jury, with an allowance
of $2 per day. _
Concerning Our State Institutions.
Senator Tefft for the senate committee on
public lands and buildings made a report of
the result of the trip of Investigation to tho
state Institutions. The report generally
commends the management of the Institu
tions and. after specially noting the condi
tion of each in detail, concludes as follows:
•‘In our inspection of the public buildings
we were Impressed with the idea that it
would be for the best Interests of tho state
that a general superintendent of repairs,
charged with the duties of making and su
perintending and making repairs and erec
tion of buildings, be appointed. With the
superintendent of repairs and erection
recommended, the carpenters at the various
lnatltnHnno tn At c ... 1 . l. _.
where necessary in teaching the inmates
the trade. Your committee is not in favor
generally of increasing the officers of the
state, especially at this juncture, but the
officer would cost little money, ana intelli
gent supervision is an item of first impor
tance.
‘•Without indulging in criticisms of past
methods, your committee recommends that
in contracts made in the future the idea
should be prominent that the supplies con
tracted for should be obtained at the very
lowest, obtainable price. The state Is a
lar>. e consumer and wholesale prices should
be obtained whenever possible.
“The burden of supporting our various In
stitutions Is large enough upon the taxpay
ers at the best, and should be lightened in
every conceivable way consistent with good
supplies and good service. In the item for
instance, in these institutions the state con
sumes 22,344 tons, and purchasing thus
largely the state should have the same ben
efit as other purchasers of like amounts.
“i our committee would strongly recom
mend a uniform system of bookkeeping as
far as possible, insisting that ali book
keepers keep their books brought down
practically to date and not be allowed to let
them run several months behind.
“Pay rolls should be often scrutinized and
made as near uniform, taking into consid
eration the charcter of service, and re
trenchment insisted on wherever possible.
In a few words, business should only be con
sidered In the management of the institu
tions.
“In regard to the cash funds of the vari
ous Instit utions of the state your committee
recommends that the board of public lands
and buildings should consider these funds
as being applicable for the legitimate uses
of.the various institutions more especially
in the way of extraordinary repairs and
supplying extraordinary demands of the in
stitutions, and recommends that they form
ulate some system of rules by which the
vouchers will show the purpose for which
these funds were expended, which vouchers
shall be carefully scrutinized and approved
by the board.
“Your committee has considered the
question of abolishing the name of the asy
lum for the incurable Insane at Hastings
and placing the three institutions for the
care of the Insane on the same basis and
recommend that the same be done.’*
The Russian Thistle Bill.
The senate has recommended passage of
the above bill as drawn by the interstate
conference at St, Paul, Minn., on February
14. This conference was held between dele
gates from the legislatures of Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota
and South Dakota, the delegates from this
state being Senator Stewart and Represen
tative Lamborn. Several bills had been in
troduced covering the subject, but the con
ference bill was substituted for them all.
The bill makes It the duty of every person
or corporation who shall be the occupant
of any real estate in Nebraska to cut down
and destroy all Russian thistles growing
thereon or in the highways adjoining the
same so often as to prevent their going to
seed. It is made the duty of the county
clerk of any county wherein is growing any
Russian thistles to annually puolislk
in a newspaper of general circulation,
commencing the first week in June
of each year, notifying all occupants
and owners of land in such county
to destroy such thistle forthwith. If the
parties so notified neglect or refuse to de
stroy the thistles it Is made the duty of the
road overseer of each road district in the
county to destroy them at the expense of
the party, persons or corporations so neg
lecting. The road overseer is rennirefl
unnuaiiy present to the county board a
statement Riving the description of each
tPv«c\.°»r p£r<^Fi °* tend upon or adjoining
which he shall have destroyed Russian this
tles and the amoum of charge to each tract,
and said amounts shall be placed on the tax
list and become a lien on such lands, to be
collected as other taxes on the same. If any
person shall knowingly dispose of any grass
or other seed in which there is mixed the
seed of the Russian thistle he shall be fined
U.> for each and every offense, and shall al
so do liable for all damages resulting from
me sowing of such seed, the damages to be
recovered in an action at law.
Report on the Penitentiary.
The chairman of the special penitentiary
investigating committee, Wait, reported as
follows:
Your committee appointed to Investigate
newspaper reports as to cruelty and inhu
man treatment of inmates of the state peni
tentiary finds that such reports originated
irom statements made by three ex-convicts
named * rank Jones, whose real name is A.
i ' i’ rank Kennedy and Peter llec
That the affidavits made by said ex
convicts to Governor tdlas A. Holcomb,
cn rgmg cruel and Inhuman treatment and
F®ne Si,?1^management, a copy of which is
herewith submitted, have since been sub
stituted by a counter affidavit, herewith
submitted, setting forth that the statements
there made were false in every particular,
and ti at they were induced to make these
»»5Hrncnts,by1nil aspirant for the office of
warden anti nis friends for a money consid
eration. ^ our committee is not empowered
by the terms of the resolution to send for
persons and papers and incur expense in the
investigation, and therefore submit wheth
er in the opinion of the house the investiga
tion should be further prosecuted. A care
rui reading of the charges made by these
ex-prisoners will reveal the fact that the
contract system of prison labor in vogue at
penitentiary is largely responsible
for the continual charges and counter
charges of illtreatment to inmates, and not
because of the inhumanity of Worden
Beemer and his officers. Your committee is
of the opinion that the management should
ie. ? as ter as possible from pollti
c&i influence, whichcannot be accomplished
while managed under the contract system.
Vrtn^Poli.,.
i hnnao j ^”1
The house made good*'
with ftfcA __* 800<J Pit
with the general apjj!
ways and mean, commoT*1
port considerably reduc*?
some cases cutting 0m "J
C»*.'k *hlD* altogether W^'
of the whole sot fairly ^
to restore these, lnm^t
original flgure8 of
made on the bills in ts
but in most every “»!**,*>!
tV hen the Industrial !1'1-''
reached a motim, “°»e
reached 1 motion »», ia~'«,
salary of tlmsuperinH' l«|
recommended by th« lrnd“n‘h
KnnnuuiH <« .r Commits
Kaup said it was t?„,coni»'i2
raising salaries. Thu 6k10 <
his feet. He said tbu!,oaf
manded It should ha» kH‘
Kaup thought f wot
uiauueu 11 8nou 1(1 have »,
Kaup thought so too bm^ ■
It was better late thin nie,,ll<
increase over the ?om5,Ter lj
matter of salaries Is
nlum. 8 tA.'ij u
nlum.
fcsasysgs:
Tbehrst move madeawfc',!,:
ary life to the Bureau^! !
tics, the deputy labor0™
assistant. Sixthousands'?)*^
prlated for thlspSS"1^ (51
febor comm.ss«ttJ
SaOO for expenses per anm, 1
mene clerk was then alE“ :
eWu^l^raTa^S'j
gJt^uPfeme court U'
®900 and ih^ two bailiffs
eiac*?‘ assistant clerk si.'
clerk of the banking boarder
at a sa'aty of Jl.KOper annum
The heavy majority anu
grove s bill, house roll No ir
valued policy law, 83too i?1
less are any further attenim
assault so popular arneaS
law has become. The bill fi
back as long as possible,
something might eventuate?'
0'TJtUIn'nK oresent opinion
evident now that the voiced
ueneies has been heard w
Halrgrove, the introducer i
the bill, found himself at 7k.
waws, and voted for indefit
ment or the apparently v<
my rfm1^^ b^Plaming his'
I did not believe that the
consent to a full and lair fa
bill which certainly hassntwS
merits could be pkeserveTj
modified, or completely dont t
committee of the whole by aI
I observe a disposition inihe
this bill no show for life !
shall vote for its Indefinite
POSlM
Rejection of the Relic|
The senate by rejecting tbcrtfc
passed by the house and sufcstla
an entirely new bill, has surroula
uatlon with complications shifil
to defeat the object In passing tk*
house bill provided for the spiral
$200,000, to be used for the purdal
grain and for the payment oltnfif
such seed as might be donitdlj
states. The senate basrejectedti
money, but providing that ltd
vided among the counties tbitl
After It is divided the money iiil
by the counties in the purchwj
grain which is in turn to be sold toil
era upon any terms that the coal
decide to offer. When the motty!
back by the farmers it is to be tafl
the state treasury again. |
The debate in the senate assaul
gry phase. Senator McKeeby,siiMfl
bill, charged that a combination!!
formed between senators onthtl!
members of the State Kelief com!
defeat the bill, lie said that the m
by the house was a measure dry!
the Ludden commission for the J
securing to itself $4,0n0 intheujl
ries. It had been lobbied through!!
by the Ludden commission. The ■
commission has undertaken tog!
original bill through tin* seuattl
that a substitute had been prs#!
proposed to take away from them!
mission the $1,000, the Ludden coo!
under the leadership of l.udden ij
bad undertaken to defeat the m
Senator McKeeby grew vigorously*
in denouncing what he termed tbti
commission. 1
Secretary Ludden stood near a]
leading from the lobby to the sew!
ber, and McKeeby faced him w+
he did not hesitate to charge liitoj
face with a desire to thwart the «
the measure rather than toforessuj
given the State Kelief
original bill. Ue said he hadastwj
ters and complaints against Lutwj
hign, and he would have these cm
read or printed if necessary to prowl
capacity of the state commission. I
Senator McKesson of Lancadfffl
led the fight against the senate sj*
He said that the senate stood real*
aoterized the substitute as a pie«*
work. During his addressbecretarjj
sat beside his desk, and when w
a new bill.
Aimed at the Grata
It required but a few minute* o*
ate to agree to recommend for
ator Caldwell’s bill to *upS-,
shops and gambling in stocks,
granu juries iuuw»v»— . tuepiu
---- --- violations of lu
report upon all vi
of this act. t . Kin provis
The first section of * "V. r*oo.;
it shall be unlawful
ation, association or copa
ation, association oi thi<stai«
or cause to be kept within^ larf
et shop, office or store or otn ^ pre,
in Is conducted or P^i^Lhare* ^ ,1.x
buying or selling of the si a f ^
bonds of any corporation^ r0ot|,er titf
uonus oi uiijr , rtr otnr1
cot. on, grain, provisions?. w;!|jc
either on margins or otntr vjDj
cnuci uh *u«*p».nsy\ ,llt^ nayic*..
Intention of receiving n 1 ,< ;:;■
property so bought, ul .
property so uuns.... • isr**
property so sold, or wh*- re g(,|ltn£ oi
permitted the buyingXentlicP'i
property on margin, or »n n n«
property uu ■“■'1'Mr rilT’eriD’f '■
log any such property. or J teojw.
same, does not actually »«
same, uues «un "V
the same If purchased,
same if sold, and the ^
places Is hereby prohibiten
of *
Vetoed by the a,;s
Governor Holcomb dec " f0l
Governor rtotcou, “ ban_e
ifflclal signature to use e w
,111 so anxiously desired to'
iesof the Holt countyc** ,, t
eged murderers of 1';“" ^j.lj lie-,
o the senate a message " ,i,e w j:
ength his reasons for''h' J throb
aeasure, which was crowdt k„0,as ,
louses under expedien.. that * j
,te tile No. 3fl». It l>r"v‘„untye<'>
ny criminal trial 'n a‘.-a|i tile un.
ae attorney g«;neraI s! ca„»
■ral sue ‘ -ca,‘
o the effect that tthe ** tne c°u°!.'oS'
air and impartial trial in^ l,e«'a ,gi
ho offense is allegcti ^^d prej^V: i
no uuciibd at* . .,nd P1*®-*.iii ’
ed, because of the bi.i| a ,he h'J i;
iihabitants of tl.o .o ‘"^ut *>i
hall proceed no. *“
