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    STATEMENT
Showing Receipts, Disbursements and Bal
ances for the Six Months Beginning Jan.
6th and Ending June 30, 1910
RECEIPTS.
To amount on hand January 6,1910.$ 84,052 47
Total tax collections. 98,902 29
Stale university land collections. 1,741 36
State common school land collections. 4,838 78
State aid for schools. 3,000 00
Slate apportionment. 4,370 98
Fines and licenses. 606 00
Redemptions. 3,608 83
M iscellaneous collections county general fund. 1,147 5o
Miscellaneous collections county road fund. 33 40
Interest on deposits. 813 09
Fees. 601 50
Total... .#203,710 20
DISBURSEMENTS.
By State treasurers receipt.# 8,124 74
General fund warrants paid. 17,943 86
Bridge fund warrants paid. 5,969 64
Soldiers’ relief warrants pa d. 125 00
County judgment paid. 4,850 00
County road warrants paid. 13 90
Water bond warrants paid. 2,583 40
District school orders paid.; . 48,972 04
District school bonds and coupons paid. 1,473 00
School judgments paid . 482 70
Township warrants paid. 16,311 65
Village warrants paid. 3,045 70
Center preQinct orders paid. 84 55
Gratton railroad bonds and coupons paid. 5,512 34
Grattan judgment paid. I43 2°
Sidewalk warrants paid. 269 75
High school warrants paid. 280 22
Special road warrants paid. „ 507 37
Redemptions. 5,571 30
Salaries paid. 2,063 70
Orders of the county board paid. 10' 00
Expense and janitors salary."". **>9 23
Cash on hand. 8°U51 21
Total.#203.716 20
BALANCES.
State university land.* C88 64
State school land. 1.796 57
Consolidated state. 6,14161
Soldiers’ relief. 534 16
County judgment. 378 75
County school . 20 37
County funding. 26 97
Water bond. „ 374 28
School bond. 8,029 32
Special school. 1*1*3 96
Township . 11.677 47
O’Neill Judgment . ]17 38
Village... - *“ ”
O’Neill Railroad . 1.131 80
Grattan Railroad. *?2 28
Irrigation. 1 “
Grattan Judgment. 2”:’';
Sidewalk. 29 34
Advertising. .
County Road.•••• . 1>"I“ 5s
Redemption. of
• Railroad Sinking. 5*3
County General. i’rfi r.
County Bridge. 3,542 34
High School. 2’of?of
District School... 32, si o no
Interest on County Deposia’s. 813 09
Permanent Road. _ ’
Special emergency bridge. 3jm ot
Labor Cash. 2-4^ ®9
Miscellaneous. _____
Total.84,471 79
Orders of the County Board, Overdraft,.. * 83 43
TTpm . M62 20
Expense & janitors Salary. 469 23 2,015 86
Actual Balance. *82,455 93
AMOUNT ON HAND.
Fiist National Bank O’Neill. #1o’?22 ™
O’Neill National Bank. ™
First National Bank Stuart.. 5,500 00
First National Bank Atkinson. 5,500 00
Atkinson National Bank. 5,500 00
Fidelity Bank O’Neill. '500 00
chambers State Bank. ’U5u uo
Ewing State Bank. S’”™ Z
Inman State Bank. S’™
Page State Bank. f’iiXX XX
Emmet State Bank. Vx
Error In January report. (Sidewalk Fund)..... . 26
Total Cash.■••••,.A«Vro Vi 80,151 47
Trust Warrants not receipted for. 40 85 2’304 46
Total.,. 82,455 93
Registered General Fund Warrants, called for payment May 26,1910 but
not presented, *609 12
THE STATE OF NEBRASKA, County of Holt, fs.
I TO Harnlsh, treasurer of Holt county, Nebraska, do solemnly swear
that the foregoing statement of receipts, disbursements and balance. Is true
and correct to the best of my knowled^an^bellej.^
Subscribed in my presence and sworn ^VcTOLS.^ounty Cle;kA
D- 19l°- (beau By P. C. Kelley, Deputy.
Inman Items.
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beautiful chocolate and cream: it looks
fine.
Miss June Hancock has contracted
withdlstrictNo.il to teach the in
suing year.
Miss Lula Wilcox has been engaged
to teach the |Rolla Snell school the
coming year.
Mr. and Mrs. Clover went over to
Crofton in their car Thursday, re
turning Saturday.
There will be a county option meet
ing at the M. E Church here Thurs
day evening the 14th.
Mrs. John Kurck went to Basin,
Wyoming, Friday, for an extended
visit with her parents.
Mrs. Benj. Dikeman of Southerland,
Mo., is here caring for her danghter,
Mrs. Emery Dikeman.
Mr. and Mrs. Byron Mossman went
to Texas Wednesday, for a few weeks
visit and travel in that state.
The Epworlh League and Ladies
*
Aid will serve ice cream and cake at
the home of Geo. Klllenger Wednes
day evening.
Mr. Frank Conard has purchased a
tine span of bay horses, he paid a good
price for them, but is satisfied, and
they are dandies.
TSrs Murphy drove over from Page
Friday to meet her daughter, Mary,
who came down from O’Neill, and who
has been attending Th e Junior State
Normal there.
The Republicans of Inm in town
ship are called to attend a caucus on
the lfith of July to nominate a town
ship ticket, elect eight delegates to
attend the county convention at
O’Neill and transact any othtr busi
ness that may come before the meet
ing.
Mr. Ed Miller and Mrs. Dikeman,
who were the most seriously injured
in the Fourth of July accident are
slowly recovering from their injuries
Mrs Dikeman is still at the home of
Will Goree, where she was first taken
the night of the accident, and it will
be some time before she can go to her
home.
Young Man Hangs Himself.
Lewis Jonas, son of Mr. and Mrs. F.
Jonas, who live three miles southwest
of Atkinson, was found hanging in
the coal shed of the Tesch school
house about twelve miles northeast
of Atkinson, last Monday evening.
Young Jonas was working on the
Hale ranch, about live miles from
where the body was founo, and the
last seen of the young man was on
Wednesday evening, when in com
pany with some other young men em
ployed upon the ranch, he was In
swimming near the ranch. After the
others had returned to the house the
foreman, Myron Thornton, noticed
that young Jonas had not ret urned
and a search was made for him. When
he did not return the next day the
lake was dragged, some believing that
he might have been drowned. Search
was continued for him and Mr. Hale
and his men were going to drain the
lake Tuesday, thinking that his body
was there sunk in the mud.
About 6:30 Monday evening Mrs.
Alfs, who had been visiting at the
home of her father, went by the school
house on her return home. When she
approached the building she noticed
the horrible stench emanating there
from and going closer to the building
looked into the school house through
the windows, but seen nothing. She
went to the rear of the building to the
coal shed and looked through the win
dow and seen a mans hand. She went
home and informed her husband of
what she discovered and he went to
the building and fonnd young Jonas
hanging from a rafter in the coal
shed. Corner Wilson, Sheriff Grady
and County Attorney Whelan were
notified and they left for the school
house about 6:30 Tuesday morning.
Shortly after the arrival of the of
ficers upon the scene the body was cut
down and Dr. Wilson said it was one
of the most grewsome sights he had
ever seen. The young man was sup
posed to have hung himself Thursday
morning and the body was in an ad
vanced state of decomposition. He
had taken a piece of baling wire from
the stove pipe and fastened It around
a rafter and then made a noose and
placed it around his neck. Being then
unable to reach the rafter he brought
pieces of stone that were used for
steps at the front door around to the
coal shed and got on them and fasten
ed the wire to the rafter and then
stepped off. nis feet were hanging
down the side of the steps and he
could have stepped upon them at any
time before strangulation. Coroner
Wilson empaneled a jury who viewed
the remains and found that the young
man committed suicide by hanging
and that the crime was committed
probably on Thursday morning. The
coroners jury was composed of: John
Alfs, Jr., F. S. Wright, Fred Seibert,
ft. L. Arbutnot, Henry Alfs and
Henry Hennings.
There is no question in the minds
of the friends of the young man or his
employers but that he was insane as
he had been acting queerly since the
Fourth, and there i3 insanity in the
family, two of his brothers having
bsen inmates of the insane asylum,
one dying theie a little over a year
ago. No other reason can be assign
ed for tlie act except an unbalanced
mind.
A Good Showing.
Following is a statemhht of the bus
iness transacted at the Unitee States
land office for the quarter year ending
June 30, 1910:
No- Kind of Entry. Area Amount
1 Pulbio sale, general laws 79.72 $ 398.60
16 Public ” Kinkaid laws 2080.86 4081.38
2 Commuted homestead Ent, 200.00 250.00
7 Commissions on suspended
“PoncaSioux” Corn’d, entries 27.38
3 Excess homestead entries 23.25
l “Omaha Indian” final Pay’t 147.88 1922.44
“Omaha Indian” final Pav’t Int. 181 55
5 Homestead entries general
laws 440 00 41.00
57 Homestead entries Kinkaid
law” 23982.19 938 00
24 Final homestead proofs
general laws 3419.21 85.45
82 Final homestead proofs,
“Kinkaid law” 36657.33 328.00
TestimonK fees in all cases
other than contests 240.65
Testimony fees in contests 188.27
Total.$8705.98
MISCELLANEOUS.
Amount of unofficial money
Received $776.75
Amount of unofficial money
applied or returned 653.23
109 Notices to make final proof filed.
23 Relinquishments filed.
9 Protests against final proofs.
160 Five year notice of expiration.
20 Entries reported for cancellation.
831 Miscellaneous letters answered.
95 Official letters received and attended to.
126 Contest Cases, initiated.
19 Contest cases tried.
IHSBURSMKNTS.
Register and Receiver.$1500.00
Clerk. 225.00
Office rental. 90.00
P.O.Box rental.75
Repairing Typewriter. 10.00
Total.$1825.75
(, A few years ago flying
machines were hardly
thought of, nor was
in summer. ~ Now Scott's
Emulsion is as much a sum*
mer as a winter remedy.
Science did it. ah PraCTi.i,
RAILROAD TRACKS.
If You Must Follow Tham, Walk Out
side, Not Between Them.
Two men, one young and the other
grizzled with middle age, were walk
ing beside the railroad track In a Bos
ton suburb on their way to the nearest
station. The younger stepped between
the rails. "Better walk here,” he ad
vised. “It’s better walking."
"No,” replied the older man. "I never
walk on the railroad track." “But
we’re facing the direction from which
trains come.” persisted the other. "It's
safe." “My son,” said the middle
aged man, "I was a railroad engineer
for more than twenty years, and If I
learned one thing from the poor chaps
I’ve seen picked up it was not to walk
on a railroad track when there is a
possibility of walking anywhere else,
if the law stopped all trains running
on Sunday and this was Sunday I
wouldn't do It. It’s the fellow tbnt’s
sure he’s taking nil the precautions
that gets killed."
Hero was a man who knew about
railroads from intimate conection with
them. Ills advice was the advice of a
man who knew. Every railroad man
of experience will say the same ns he.
In England the tracks are private prop
erty, and nobody is allowed to walk
upon them, so accidents are rare. Here
hardly a day passes that wo do not
read of men killed while making a
thoroughfare of the railroad right of
way. And usually it is noted that
they were on the "safe” side of the
track, became confused by the ap
proach of two trains and stepped in
V* VUV VI VUV VlllUla
Occasionally something Is to be gain
ed In distance by taking to the rail
road instead of the public highway.
The man who feels that he must do
this will be wise always to walk be
side the track and never on it. It
may not be quite as good walking, but
he Is not likely to suffer regrets In a
hospital.—Boston Traveler.
The Coffee Shrub.
As a rule, the coffee shrub first flow
ers in its third year and then bears
only a small crop of fruit. The fifth
year Is usually the time of the first
considerable yield. In Java three gath
erings are made annually, called the
"early," the "chief" and the "after
crop.” but ouly the second Is of great
importance. The flower enjoys but a
very ephemeral existence, as the set
tling of the fruit generally takes place
within twenty-four hours, and the pet
als wither and fall off utmost imme
diately. A coffee estate In full flower
is a very beautiful sight, but Its glory
is very soon past.—Westminster Ga
zette.
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Will Run This
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| 100 Miles Per Week.
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! Lragmore i
■
A Practical Lesion In the Art *
of Husband Winning •
By GWCNDOLIN ADAMS >
_ *
Copyright, 1910, by American Press
Association. < •
* ••
The central figure In these complica
tions Is Itoscoe Curtiss. If this were
n play ibe heroine would be—well. I
would be the heroine. There wouldn’t
be any hero; that Is, unless Itoscoe
would be considered such, but he Isn’t.
He’s simply an objective point like the
king In chess. A character the theater
people would call the heavy worann
the woman who makes all the trouble
—Is Kate Carpenter. The reason she
has made all the trouble is that she
wants the same man I want. We both
want Itoscoe.
There! I think I have stated the
case just as it is.
Itoscoe is Intellectual. He stood high
Id his class In college and took a lot
of honors—whatever that may be—but
I don't love him for his learning. I
love him for himself. That Is. I don’t
exactly know what I love him for. I
only know that I love him.
Kate Carpenter is a college graduate
too. She's the only girl I am afraid
of. When we three are together, Ros
eoe and Kate and I. she always intro
duces subjects I don't know anything
about. That’s a way she has of mak
doesn't like to talk “booky,” as he
calls it. and tries to stop her, but she
won’t be stopped. Not that she pre
fers to talk booky; she only wants to
show her superiority over me.
I'm uot such a fool but that I can
see that Kate always turns the con
versation on to subjects she knows
something about, and when Roseoe
gets on to a subject of which she is
ignorant she keeps mum. It occurred
to me to listen when they were talk
lng, notice the subjects she avoids,
make a list of them and study them.
And so I did. I found out that history
doesn’t Interest her. Nor does science.
She smatters over social questions,
professes herself theoretically a Social
ist and all that.
During the spring months I devoted
myself to study. All the members of
this play, as I call it, are friends—at
least the families are—and we meet
every season at the summer cottage
of one or the other for a house party.
This year we are at our country home.
In March, April, May and June 1 stuff
ed myself like a Christmas turkey with
history. 1 studied up to the last min
ute before leaving town, and when 1
reached Marston. our place, 1 tell you
1 knew a lot. I’d rend a whole volume
of the history of England.
I didn’t let on wbat I knew. 1 just
laid low for Kate when she got on her
high horse before Roseoe. I didn’t
have to wait long. The day after we
alt arrived we three were sitting on
the porch, Roseoe smoking, Kate do
ing fancy work, I lolling in the ham
mock. Kate got on to votes for wom
en and cited certain conditions away
back in Greece or Egypt or some other
benighted country in support of the
position she took.
“I’ve always considered." I butted
in. “Lady Jane Grey to be the legiti
mate sovereign of England.”
Both Roseoe and Kate looked at me.
astonished, then glanced at each other.
Then Kate went on about the women
of othpr times. Notwithstanding her
contemptuous glance 1 was not to be
put down.
“Why don’t they Include Oliver
Cromwell in the list of British sov
ereigns?” 1 remarked casually. “lie
was a king really, If not in name. At
any rate, he was a ruler.”
You should have seen the amazed
sneer Kate gave me. But this time
she deigned to notice wbat I said.
"Cromwell was a regicide.”
That scooped me. I didn’t know
what n was nnv mnrp than
what a camel or leopard feeds on.
But I didn't let on how ignorant 1 was.
I just looked as if I knew all about it
Kate took up her old subject again,
and I did some thinking. She seemed
to know more than I did about Crom
well and regicides and all that. How
would it do for me to invent a char
acter? I concluded to try it.
“Do you think.” I asked, “that the
hanging of Cragmore at Tyburn was
t just and proper thing to do?”
That caused both Roscoe and Kate
to sit up and take notice. They looked
at each other for a moment sort of
quizzically; then Kate said to Roscoe:
“One of Jeffries’ victims, wasn’t he?”
“Never heard of him,” Roscoe re
plied.
“1 think he was a Monmouth con
spirator,” Kate protested. She would
not deign to ask me about him. She
had too great a contempt for my ig
norance and too high an opinion of her
own knowledge.
"Who was he. Lulu?” asked Roscoe.
“I’m surprised,” I said, “that Kate
doesn’t know who he was.”
She was the maddest girl you ever
saw. Her face was red as a beet, and
she made her fingers fly at her work.
"I’m not here cramming for an ex
amination.” she snapped.
I was so encouraged by the success
of my scheme that I thought I’d go
on a little further.
"Well. 1 don’t mind telling you who
Cragmore was. since you don’t know,”
1 said good naturedly. “One can’t re
member all the minor characters. I
was interested in him because he was
one of the men who helped Lord Darn
ley, husband of Mary, queen of Scots,
to murder her lover Rlzzlo at Holy
rood palace."
If Cragmore was a surprise, this con
necting him with that assassination
was the bursting of a bomb. I hadn’t
read about this Darnley-Rlzzlo busi
ness at all. When we were In Scot
land last year I went through Holy
rood palace and heard the story from
a guide.
I think that by this time Roscoe had
got on to what I was about. At any
rate, I saw the corner of his mouth
quirk up, and he was looklug far out
on the landscape with his bat pulled
down over his forehead. He did not
say a word. I was sure he was wall
ing for Kate to get tangled np some
more. At any rate, he let her do the
talking.
“I thought,” she said, "the murder
of Rlzzlo was a mystery—that there
was no certainty about the identity of
the assassin.”
“It may be,” remarked Roscoe. "that
Lula has got hold of some recent de
velopments which I have not been
made aware of.”
“H’m!” sneered Kate. “More likely
she got this Cragmore mixed up with
the wrong event Seems to me I've
beard the name mentioned somewhere
In English or Scotch history.”
1 Just smothered her with kindness.
“Why, so you have,” I said In a sweet,
soft voice. “How ridiculous of me:
He was one of the Scottish chiefs who
went with King James when be pro
ceeded to London to assume the sov
ereignty of England. Now you re
member. don’t you?"
“I think 1 do.” said Kate its If she
were trying to recall something.
There was a perceptible broadening
of the smile on Roscoe's lips. “We've
had enough of history,” he said. “I-et's
talk tennis awhile. I bought me a new
racket before leaving the city. It’s a
dandv."
Kate rose and, taking ber work with
ber, went Into tbe bouse. Maybe I
didn’t feel pretty good. I knew what
she’d do. She'd ransack every book la
the house trying to And out who Crag
more was. All I feared was that sbe
would And somebody of that name.
But 1 didn’t care. I'd say that wasn’t
tbe Craginore 1 meant.
However, I’d only hnlf won the bat
tle. But It was tbe biggest half. If 1
could put my rival out of the light on
her favorite ground, learning. I thought
1 could snare Itoscoe. I’m not one of
those girls to quarrel with a rival.
When a man sees two girls fighting
over blm be gets disgusted with both.
There’s where 1 got ahead of Kate.
She showed tbat sbe was miffed be
cause I knew who Cragmore was and
she didn’t. I think I played that very
foxy.
“Lulu,’’ said Roscoe when she bad
gone, “you should be ashamed of your
self.” He gave me an amused and a
pleasant look that showed he wasn’t
ashamed of me.
“Why so?" I asked.
“You don’t know any more about his
tory than a newly hatched chicken.”
I was ready for, him. I’d been prac
ticing looking hurt before a mirror,
and I flatter myself I’d got it down
to a flne point I made blm think 1
was going to burst Into tears. 1 pre
tended to try to say something, but
couldn’t, I was so heartbroken.
“Why, Lulu! Don’t take a fellow
seriously.”
“You are very unkind,” I moaned.
"Unkind? Why so?”
“You who know so much to snub a
poor Ignorant g-g-girl"— 1 could go
no further for rising tears.
“My dear little girl.” he said, rising
and taking a seat by me in tbe ham
mock, “I’m awfully sorry If I’ve hurt
your feelings.”
“Becnuse I’ve not been to college as
you and Kate have you do nothing
but try to put me down.”
“I try to put you down?”
“Yes. I simply tried to take part In
some of your and Kate’s conversations
tbat I’m constantly left out of and you
combine to snub me.”
He rested his bead on tbe hammock
back of me. I didn’t propose tbat it
should remain there, so 1 turned away
from him, put my handkerchief to my
face and was shaken by sobs.
Tbat did it He put his arm around
my waist.
Before I let him go I had him kiss
ing my tears away (I was awfully
afraid he’d notice there weren’t any
tears), and If It hadn’t been for Kate
cuujjuK uuth. usieuuuijr xur a uuuk
she'd left I would have had It all my
own way and settled. Xou should have
seeD her when she saw Roscoe sitting
by me in the hammock.
“Excuse me,” she said; "I didn't
mean to intrude. I presume Lulu is
whispering in your ear who this Crag,
more was."
Roscoe looked at her sort of angry.
I wished she’d say something more
that was disagreeable. I would have
egged her on to do so, but that would
hove given me away also. So I held
my peace, and when she had gone into
the house I said softly:
“Tou mustn’t mind what a girl says
when she is angry. Kate is lovely. I
wish I was as good as she is.”
“And knew as much. She’s always
booky.”
The bell rang for lunch, and. knowing
that he wasn’t in a mood to go any
further then. I put matters off for a
more convenient season. I felt pretty
sure that since I had Induced him to
put his arm around my waist and kiss
away tears that wouldn’t flow I’d be
smart enough to do the rest of it.
This Is the way I managed it. I
didn't act at all as If there was noth
ing between us. On the contrary. I
assumed that there was a great deal
between us. I pretended to be em
barrassed whenever we met. cast down
my eyes, started whenever he spoke
to me and acted always as though the
slightest harsh word from him would
throw me into convulsive sobbing.
I am engaged to Boacoe.