The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899, May 30, 1889, Image 4
The Sioux County Journal. Published every Thursday. o Subscription Price, $2.00 W. E. Pattrrson . Editor and Prop. Entered at the postoffioe at Harrwoa as second class niatUer. Cook Coaaty Corruption. An investigation of affairs at the Cook county, Illinois, insane asylum reveals the fact that Chicago and Cook county are still blessed with a few(?) unsavory rascals. It will be remembered tiiat on !y a few years ago several of the County Commissioners, together with the keep er of the county poor house and other interested parties, were sentenced to the penitentiary for a misapplication of county funds. One preferred Canada and was allowed to go there by a bribed sheriff. A story more sickening or hor rible than the one which comes from the Cook county insane assylum could hard ly be outdone by Andersonville itself. Dr. Clevsnger, a former attendant at the asylum, was recently on the witness stand and told the following plausible story: "In 1886," said the doctor, "the physi cians who secured bodies at the asylum for dissection at the Rush medical col lege toid me that the bodies were so covered with vermin that they had to be scorched before being placed on the dis secting table. Once in 1885 I heard screams of pain, and running from my office found two attendants standing over a patient who was bleeding pro fusely. I knew there was no use making any complaint, as these attendants were supported by the influence of the county board. Soon after they refused to obey my orders. They secreted bodies on which I desired to hold a post mortem examination and I could not get them for two or three days after they were buried. I publislied a statement and the following night one of the attendants abused me. A few minutes later a shot was fired down stairs. The bullet crash' ed tlirough the door and lodged in my book case.1 Soon after the doctor resigned. "What is the matter with the institu tion now?" asked the attorney. ' "It is under the influence of boodlerism. It is in a bad place, on unsalubrious ground. Thers should be two new buildings, one for male and one for fe jnale patients. Then the county board should be kicked out and the asylum put into the hands of a state commiss ion.'' , Dr. Cleveoger told how boodlerism had prevented an investigation. Even ministers of the .gospel wen afraid of the boodiers who occupied seats in their churches. He said there has been re peated testimony that vermin abounded in the wards and Dr. Kohier, an assist ant physician, found maggots in the wounds of neglected patients in 1884. Bedbugs would torture the patients un der their straight jackets and rats would mutilate the bodies of those who had died unattended through the night, and male attendants were usually appointed by the county commissioners for their lighting abilities at the polls at election tune. The brawls, drunkenness, oaths. incessant alarms, pistol shootings, im morality, stealing, etc., exerted a very depressing influence upon decant offi cials and caused them to waste much of their energy in keeping out of the rows. The county board's financial reports were falsified and confused in a variety of ways, and often the expression, "Gen eral expenses,' would cover $1,000 or more of unaccounted for bills. Every thing was done to make an apparent showing of external cleanliness, but the whitewashing and the flowers and well kept lawn constitute the place but a whited sepulchre. Interest in Flax. WASBQTOTOir, May 23. Since the re cent publication in these dispatches of a letter by the assistant secretary of agri culture respecting the existence of a ma chine that will take flax fibre from the stock without wetting, the mail of the agricultural department has been bur dened with letters on the subject, show ing national interest One of the letters received was from a manufacturer in the northwest, woo has invested nearly $100,000 in the business of flax manu facturing. The writer says he has made two trips to Ireland and Belgium and has seen the operations of the machine inferred to and confirms all that is claimed. He further agrees with the original writer that the country is on the verge of a great revolution in the production and manufacture of flax. Considerable interest is shown in corres pondence in the success of the experi ment of growing flax more abundantly as a solution of the difficulties and bur dsns which it m said are forced upon the farmers of the northwest by the twine trust The department is considering, ia connection with the lax question, ths whole subject of the growth of fi brous plants, especially ramie, hemp and j ate. Stats Journal Ths editor k now building a bouse on the claim he recently purchased of Wm. j Christsnssn and will be ready in a abort jatee to negotiate with good looking young ladlea who an matrimonially in clined. No applications will be enter- lataed until further notice. Fur 1"1, and Home, Md Kath lead. Contributions by the Woman's Chris tian Temper Tnion. Tlre w ill be a meeting of the Wo man's Christian Temperance Union at the school house on Wednesday, June 5th, at 4 o'c lock P. M. The report of the Lwa State Temper ance Alliance sliowg that eighty-three counties reported the prohibitory law a success and benefit Seventy-three re ported decrease in crime varying from twenty to sixty per cent, a decrease of twenty-five per cent in number of con victs in state prison, and that over one half of the jails have been empty the last year. The State Treasurer of Iowa has re deemed $415,000 of outstanding war rants within the past six weeks, thus reducing the floating indebtedness of the state to less than ?T3,000, all of which will be wiped out by Junuary 1st 1890. The prosperous condition of Iowa's ex chequer is in marked contract to the fi nancial embarrassment of several neigh boring high license states. The second annual report of the Com mivsioner of Labor shows that in 1889 there were 64,349 convicts in the United States, or one to every 300 persons em ployed in mechanical, agriculture or mining pursuits. Of these Illinois and Massachusetts, under license fur nished respectively 3,306 and 4,591; while Iowa and Maine under prohibition furnished respectively 1,110 and 279.. Philips Brooks says: "If we could sweep intemperance out of the country there would be hardly poverty enough left to give healthy exercise to the cliar itable impulses," Boggy Items. Mr. Brumbo has returned from Dawes county to his claim near War Bonnet and brought quite a bunch of cattle with him composed chiefly of cows and calves. Still they come. Mr. Cassel and Son and families arrived in the valley the first of the week from Buffalo county, seeking land. Mrs. Conley has returned to her claim in the valley. She arrived the 26th. Miss Eliza Armstrong had a birthday party recently. Several of the young ladies called on her and passed the day with music by violin and organ with vo cal accompaniment, and finished up by a splendid dinner. Mr. Kendall intends to shut down his mill for a week or two. Look outl We will hear of him in the hills next Mr. Storey has broke some twenty acres of land for corn. When his best girl comes they will have some roasting ears. Estraj Notice. Taken up by me at my residence on sec 32, Tp. 33, R. 55, on May 1st, 1889; two dark bay geldings. One branded with diamond on left hip, and the other with L O, Q L, and H, on left hip, and S with a horizontal P over it on left shoulder. Each supposed to be about 10 years old. 35 L. RlCKASO. Contest Notice. U. S. Land Office, Chadron.Neb. ) April 6, 1889. f Complaint No. 1471 having been entered at this office by Charles L. Tubbs against Henry G. F. Junker for failure to comply with law as to Timber-Culture entry No. 5334 dated March 8th, 1886, upon the northwest quarter of section 27, town ship 31, range 56, in Sioux county, Neb raska, with a view to the cancellation of said entry; contestant alleging that the said claimant has failed to cultivate any part of said tract during the third year after entry, and that he has failed to plant either trees, seeds or cuttings upon said tract during the third year after entry, and has failed to cure the defects up to the date of initiating this contest, the said parties are hereby summoned to appear at this office on the 10th day of June, 1889, at 10 o'clock A. M. to re spond and furnish testimony concerning said alleged failure. Testimony of witnesses will be taken before C C. Jameson, Clerk of the Out Court, at his office in Harrison, Nebras ka, on the 3rd day of June, 1889, at le o clock A. II. Albert W. Cutis, Receiver. L. O. HULL, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. HARBISON, - "ZK GEORGE WALKER, ATTORNEY-AT-LA V. Will practice before all ooi'r- -A the United States land office. Business entrusted to my care will re ceive prompt attention. HARBISON, NEB. M. BRUCK, boot & shoe maker. FIRST CLASS GOODS At SEASONABLE PRICES. Firat doer north of Bank of Harrison. Th3 C2it8r Shop. First door south of the court bouse. E. L. GALPIN, Proprietor. Bert you can gat a clean share, a first class hair cut or a WAU e CtLD BATH TP? II V run JUD)J&J&3 Jones Hi Verity, "WHO'S IN 'The Wrong Pew' ON" IaTHHIB!. Harrison, ueDrasI 99 Our enemies may tell you tell you that this is "the wrong pew" but the linn of Conley, Reidy & Pollard Are Here to Stay and do A STRAIGHT FORWARD HONORABLE BUSINESS. We would respectfully call the attention of the public to the fact that we are prepared to make farm loans in OT SIOUX, DAWES and BOX BUTTE COUNTIES Jti The Most Liberal Terms. -FOR HARDWARE, FUHMTl STOVES. TINWARE, BARBED-WIRE - And a Big - Stock and Lowest Pri -GOTO Griswold & Marstelle: Thi it (he time to buy barbed wire CHEAP . We have justrereJ LOAD and it will pay you to buy it now. Yours for business. Go to The Restaurant When you want p i E S CBCCCTCFN A R O B A O I R U K E O A N BOLT EAKCDAAI8 8 D I K I CRT, , E E E C H S R 8 O i 8 Or a Square Meal for 25 cts H. . PRIDDY Prop. Final proof money advanced Without Extra Charge. Land Office business will receive SPECIAL ATTENTION Contests Initiated, PROSECUTED or DEFENDED. Land filings made and a general law business transacted. We oiTr you the advantage of several years successful practice before the United States Land Office. Will also do A Locating Business. Collections made on all accessible points. Abstracts carefully com piled. Do your business Where Business is Done! OFFICE ON MAIN STREET Harrison, Nebraska. C. H. 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