SINK THEIR SHIP
RUSSIAN TORPEDO BOAT BLOWN
UP AT CHE FOO.
IT IS DONE BY HER COMMANDER
Japanese Torpedo Boats Enter the
Harbor—No Explanation Forthcom
ing as to Why the Russians De
stroyed Their Own Craft.
i
CHE FOO—The Russians have
blown up the torpedo boat destroyer
Rastoropny.
The Russians, with the exception
of one man, left the destroyer during
the afternoon.
This last man lit fuses and blew up
the vessel. There were three dull ex
plosions, which were scarcely discern
ible 100 yards from the place where
they occurred. Almost simultaneously
the Rastoropny sunk and settled to
the bottom. A battle spar marks its
grave.
Three Japanese torpedo boat des
troyers entered the harbor this morn
ing. satisfied themselves that the Rus
eian torpedo boat destroyer, Rasto
ropny had been sunk and departed.
The correspondent of the Associat
ed Press learned authoritatively last
night that the Rastoropny carried
sealed orders providing that unless
there came a highly favorably oppor
tunity to escape the vessel should be
blown up.:
Sufficient powder for this purpose
was secreted before the destroyer left
Port Arthur.
Small charges of ordinary powder,
placed in each of the fire water tight
compartments, were exploded.
Customs officer Koenig was on
board the destroyer and the Russians
(experienced considerable difficulty in
getting him off without arousing his
suspicions. The destroyer's cutter,
manned by two men. was lying near
and the official was persuaded to take
a ride around the Rastoropny in or
der that he might see the injuries it
was alleged to have received. No
sooner had the customs officer stepped
into the cutter than a petty officer
drew his watch and urged the row
ers to make all speed away. When
the destroyer had gone down the offi
cial was taken on shore.
It is impossible to secure an ex
planation of the action of the Rus
sians, but it is believed that they were
determined not to allow a repetition
of the Ryeshitelni incident. Prior to
the destruction of the destroyer the
taotai had officially notified the Jap
anese consul that its disarmament
had been completed, the breech
blocks and ammunition having been
removed and the machinery disabled.
During the afternoon the Russian
consul officially notified the taotai
that the destroyer had been driven
toward Che Foo by a heavy sea and
that it had been decided to disarm it,
because its machinery had been dis
abled. This is looked on in some
quarters here as the throwing of a
transparent veil over the purpose of
the vessel's visit.
THE PENSION COMMISSIONER.
He Tenders His Resignation to the
President.
WASHINGTON—Commissioner of
Pensions Ware tendered his resigna
tion to the president, and it was ac
cepted. to ..ake effect January 1.
When seen Commissioner Ware re
fused to. discuss his action in any
way, except to state that the newspa
pers of the country had been “resign
ing” him for the last two years. For
at least one year, however, it has
been definitely known that Mr. Ware
would retire from his office soon after
the fall elections and return to his
home in Kansas to resume his law,
practice. It is believed here that Com
missioner Ware's action was not due
to any suggestion that the severance
of his relations with the pension
office would be agreeable to the presi
dent. On the contrary, it has been no
secret that Commissioner Ware, soon
after resuming his duties found the
duties of his offioe distasteful to him
a.nd that this distaste steadily' in
creased. There is no intimation as to
who his successor will be.
THINK IT IS UP TO NICHOLAS
Toklo’s View of Dispatches Carried
by the Rastoropny.
TOKIO—The opinion is expressed
here that the Russian torpedo boat
destroyer Rastoropny carried to Che
Foo extended dispatches explaining to
St. Petersburg the situation at Port
Arthur, the condition of the Russian
squadron, and the shortage of food
and ammunition, referring the ques
tion of further resistance to the Rus
sian government. The nature of the
Russian fire indicates a scarcity of
certain kinds of ammunition. All
prisoners taken by the Japanese tell a
story of increasing hunger. It is claim
ed that the Russian commanders are
divided on the question of contin
uing the defense.
Colorado Cases Dismissed.
CRIPPLE CREEK. Colo.—District
Attorney Trowbridge dismissed the
cases of forty-three men who had been
charged with complicity in the Inde
pendence depot explosion and the Vic
tor riot. Two of the men had been
In jail five months. The others were
out on bonds. There remain similar
charges against seventeen, including
Charles H. Moyer, president and Wil
liam D. Hayward, secretary-treasurer
of the Western Federation of Miners,
but it is doubtful if these cases will
ever be tried.
Mrs. Stoessel Sends Appeal.
ST. PETERSBURG—Mr. Perloff,
the millionaire merchant of Moscow,
has received a pathetic letter from
Madame Stoessel, wife of General
Stoessel, dated Port Arthur, October
24, appealing to the rich Muscovites
for money to assist the helpless
wounded defenders of the fortress,
some of whom have lo6t both arms,
others either an arm or a leg, some of
them being blind and others suffer
ing from wounds in the spine, ana
who will be cripples for life. There
are very many such unfortunates.
STILL HOLDS OUT,
Beleaguered Garrison at Port Arthur
Intact.
ST. PETERSBURG—Rejoicing over
the undaunted spirit displayed by Ge»
eral Stoessel in his telegram of con
gratulations to Emperor Nicholas on
the anniversary of his accesion to tha
throne and officially announcing the
failure of General Nogi’s nine-day at
tempt to present Port Arthur to tha
mikado as a birthday gift is tempered
by private information that the gal
lan commander of the garrison has
been wounded.
General otoessel was struck in the
head by a splinter from a shell while
he was personally directing the re
pulse of a particularly desperate as
sault, but fortunately the wound is not
serious and General Stoessel has not
oeen obliged to relinquish command.
General Stoessel is regarded as the
heart and soul of the defense and hia
death or disability would cause him to
reliquish command would be regarded
as an irremediable misfortune.
Otner information sent by General
Stoessel which has not been divulged
for strategic reasons, it is stated, by
the war office, is by no means unfa
vorable. While the garrison is now
hemmed in. in the citadel itself, not
one of the main forts has been taken.
Thee garrison has been provisioned,
fresh ammunition has arrived and
that the defense can be successfully
j that the defense ca nbe successfully
maintained until the arrival of Vic«
: Admiral Rojestvensky's squadron.
General Stoessel, in his dispatch to
Emperor Nicholas, reports . the re
pulse of a Japanese attack October 26
on the north tront of Port Arthur. The
Russian losses were 480 killed and
wounded. Ail the attacks November 3,
the uay the anniversary of the emper
or’s ascension to the throne was cele
brated. were repulsed.
General Kourpatkin reports that in
an ambuscade November 15. near Sin
, chinpu. thiriv-two Japanese dragoons
were killed or wounded.
The text of General Stoessel’s dis
' patches of October 28 is as follows:
"We have the honor to report to
your majesty that the Japanese bom
I banted very vigorously October 25 our
forts and entrenchments north and
northeast. The following day they also
attacked one of the forts on the north
! si .e. but our heavy artillery and
shrapnel fire dispersed their reserves
and the assault was repulsed. Our
; loses were one officer and about sev
I entv men killed and 400 wounded.
Engineer Captain Sakharoff, former
; lv governor of Port Dalny, died Octo
| ber 27 of typhus fever.
It is difficult to single out individ
uals for special mention among tne
: heroic defenders.”
HATES TO SEE COCKRELL GO,
Former Secretary Root Regrets Sena*
tor's Defeat.
WASHINGTON—Ex-Secretary Root
arrived from New York to attend the
ceremonies 01 the unveiling of the
statue of Frederick the Great. Speak
ing of the -recent election Mr. Root
paid a tribute to Senator Cockrell of
Missouri.
“I suppose.” he said, "that the re
publican legislature of Missouri is
bound to send a republican to the
United States senate, but I would be
pleased if partisanship could be for
gotten long enough to retain in the
public service a men who is as de
serving as Senator Cockrell. His long
experience, his ability, his industry
and attention to business, his high
sense of public duty and his standing
as a citizen makes him an invaluable
public oiricial. No man will be a great
er loss to the public service than Sen
ator Cockrell. As a republican op
posed to him in politics I can say that
L sincerely regret that the govern
ment is to lose a man like Senator
Cockrell.”
ATTITUDE OF THE SOUTH.
It is One of Friendliness Toward the
President.
WASHINGTON—Colonel John S.
Masby received a few months ago a
letter from Judge Roulhac of Birming
ham. Ala., commenting on the attitude
of the southern people toward the
president personally. Colonel Mosby
sent the letter to Oyster Bay, as he
thought the sentiment expressed in if
by a confederate veteran would be
gratifying to the president. He re
ceived a reply which he did not pub
lish during the campaign, as he felt
that the president’s motives in writ
ing the letter would be misconstrued.
The letter is as follows:
“My Dear Colonel Mosby: That is
a fine letter of Roulhac’s and I appre
ciate it. I have always been sadden
ed, rather than angered, by the at
tacks made upon me in the south. 1
am half a southerner myself and I can
say with all possible sincerity that the
interests of the south are exactly as
dear to me as the interests of tha
north. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.”
Will Land Division of Guards.
LONDON—The Daily Telegraph’s
correspondent at St. Petersbi rg as
serts that the emperor has decided to
send out the second division of in
fantry of the guards as,, soon as the
troops already called out shall have
been dispatched to Manchuria. The
guards usually are only sent to the
front when there is a monarch or a
grand duke in command. The dis
patch of these troops, the correspon
dent adds, shows the determination of
the emperor to struggle to the bitter
end.
Ali Now at a Standstill.
LONDON—The Daily Telegraph’s
St. Petersburg correspondent who,
throughout, has taken somewhat
alarmist views regarding the outcome
of the North sea dispute, in a telegram
this morning asserts that the admir
alty has gained an ascendancy which
compels the foreign office to repudiate
its agreement with Great Britain and
that Count Benckendorff, Russian
ambassador to Great Britain, will be
I made the scapegoat and probably will
be recalled. Meantime negotiations
are at a standstill.
EXTRA CONGRESS
PRESIDENT SAID TO BE FAVOR
ABLE TO THE SAME.
THE NEED OF MORE LEGISLATION
Leaders in Both Houses Opposed to
An Extra Session—Speaker Cannon
Against Any Revision of the Tar
iff.
WASHINGTON—An extra session
of congress seems to be assured for
the early spring. The president de
sires to have legislation on the stat
ute books covering a number of im
portant matters and he is not mealy
mouthed in telling his desires to his
friends. The leaders, however, in both
senate and house are opposed to an
extra session. They argue that there
will be ample time in which to pass
necessary legislation not only affect
ing the Panama canal, but tariff revi
sion, which now seems certain to come
about during the long session of the
Fifty-ninth congress which ordinarily
would begin on the first Monday of
December, 1905. The president, how
| ever, believing that legislation is de
manded for the control of the Pana
ma canal, particularly having rela
r tion to the establishment of a system
of courts and laws for the government
; of the strip, is emphatic in his declara
tion that an extraordinary session of
the Fifty-ninth congress should be
convened very shortly after the ter
mination of the Fifty-eighth congress.
Realizing the responsibilities which
- have been placed upon him by the
vote of the country President Roose
; velt, in keeping with his whole life, is
determined that his administration
! shall be notable for the accomplish
ment of results affecting the happi
| ness of the country. It is contended
I that it will be impossible to enact any
portion of the legislation now' abso
lutelv necessary at the regular session
by reason of the large problems which
confront the American people. Tariff
revision in the Philippines is demand
ed and the president, it is understood.
; will insist that the republicans shall
not shirk their responsibilities. Then
again reciprocity with Canada is
bound to occupy considerable atten
tion. but just to what extent the re
publicans will go toward bringing
about closer trade relations with our
' neighbor on the north is problemati
1 cal. One thing, however, is absolute
ly assured and that is that the tariff
revisionists will have a large follow
ing in the Fifty-ninth congress, and
! that the slogan that was heard during
| the recent campaign, “Let the friends
; of the tariff revise the tariff,” gives
promise of being insisted upon.
Speaker Cannon, who is now at
Danville. 111., resting from his labors
| on the stump, is expected to arrive in
i Washington the latter part of next
week for a consultation with the presi
| dent. The speaker's closest associates
believe that he will set his face firm
1 ly against an extra session or present
revision of the tariff.
Ge'^s Imprisonment for Life.
SIOUX CITY. la.—After being out j
sixteen hours a jury at Cherokee. Ia , I
found Harry Hartman, who shot and
killed his sweetheart, Florence Por
ter. on November 30, 1901, guilty of
murder in the first degree and fixed
the punishment at imprisonment for
life at hard labor.
Reception to Rcssa.
CORK—O'Donovan Rossa was given
a rousing reception here Sunday. He
received numerous deputations end
was tendered a banquet at night.
PLAN ANOTHER WORLD’S FAIR
Movement to Celebrate Semi-Centen- :
nlal of Close of War.
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.—The first
announcement is made of a formal j
movement to hold in Chattanooga in j
1915 a world’s fair to be known as i
the semi-centennial peace jubilee ex- !
position, commenorating the end of i
the civl war. It is learned that assur
ances of aid from the government and j
various organizations have been se
cured. The following address explain- j
ing the nature of the exposition na«
been issued:
From 1861 to 1865 there was in the J
United States the greatest civil war j
the world has ever seen. Peaee be- 1
tween the states was established
April 9. 18G5. The year 1915 will be
the semi-eenter.nial anniversary of the
event.
Chattanooga is the geographical cen
ter of the scenes of the civil war.
With the great national interest that
centers here, the United States gov
ernment will no doubt contribute gen
erously to such an exposition. It has
had for years in contemplation the
erection of a peace memorial arch at
Chattanooga which is to surpass any
thing of the kind in the world. This
could be finished and dedicated in
1915.
Therefore, let us have at Chatta
nooga in the year 1915 a semi-centen
nial peace jubilee exposition, to which
the world shall be invited.
Slain in Fight at Laramie.
CHEYENNE, Wyo.—A party of
Swedes, negroes and others engaged
in a free-for-all fight at Laramie. Guns*
clubs and knives were used freely.
Charles Bussard was killed and others
were injured. Eight of the rioters
were arrested, but subsequently were
all released except Gust Johnson, a
Swede bartender whom the negroes
say fired the shot that killed Bussard.
Johnson and his Swede companions
deny the charge. William Cleve was
arrested at Cheyenne charged with the
murder.
Suspense at St. Petersburg.
ST. PETERSBURG—The suspense
engendered by the Japanese attack on
Poutiloff hill continues. This move
ment has proved unsuccessful. It
moved only to capture a Russian posi
tion, but whether it was intended to
mask activity at some other point
along the front has not yet developed.
Some correspondents give considera
tion to what they consider significant
Japanese movements on the Russian
right, and others that a Japanese
column is moving fifty or sixty miles
eastward.
THE IRRIGATION CONGRESS. '
Officer* Elected and a Number of Re
solutions Are Adopted.
EL PASO, Tex.—The national irri
gation congress adopted the report of
the committee on permanent organiza
tion. The new president, Governor Par
dee of California, took the chair and
made an address. All of the officers
recommended by the committee were
elected.
The convention adopted a resolution
thanking President Roosevelt for his
letters and for his interest in irriga
tion and approving his policy on this
subject.
Important resolutions were passed
during the closing hours. The pre
amble of one favoring a repeal of the
stone and timber act read:
“It is the sense of this congress
that thj remaining public domain
should be sacredly preserved to all
the people of the United States and
rigdly reserved for actual homeseek
ers. The congress of the United States
is commended for withdrawing 40,
000,000 acres of arid lands and 80,
000,000 acres of forest lands from en
try and the repeal of the desert land
law is urged, together with that of the
timber and stone act. commutation
tax of the homestead act and a sub
stitute is offered in the sale of stump
age.”
as a substitute or tne desert land
law it Is desired to permit individuals
as actual settlers to enter on only 160
acres.
Other resolutions adopted were
those opposing all issues of land
scrips; urging the government pur
chase of all lands in the limit of for
est reserves; favoring a non-interest
bearing loan by the government to an
irrigation fund to be used by the sec
retary of the interior and repaid un
der the provisons of the irrigation law'.
Urging a law permitting states to
organize in districts for the sale of ir
rigation lands and upon approval by
the secretary of the interior, to be
allowed to employ the engineers of
the reclamation service, and favoring
legislation to aid beet sugar culture.
Declaring that ‘ the presence of the
delegates from the sister republic of
Mexico has strengthened the bond be
tween the two countries and in appre
ciation of the cordial treatment ac
corded this congress while on Mexi
can soil, we cordially invite the repub
lic of Mexico to send a delegation to
the Portland congress.”
FIGHT TO A FINISH.
Count Cassini Says This is What Rus
sia Will Do.
WASHINGTON—"Russian will pur
sue the war in the far east to the bit
ter end, that is, until Russia has con
quered.”
These are the opening words of an
emphatic statement made at the Rus
sian embassy by Count Cassini, the
Russian ambassador.
Several times recently the ambas
sador, in the name of his government,
has categorically denied the possibil
ity of an intervention in the war, but
the recurrence of the rumors that the
powers contemplated mediation has
caused he ambassador to reiterate on
behalf of his government its position
regarding intervention or mediation
of any kind. The statement contin
ues:
I deem it my duty to reiterate what
I have so often said, that Russia will
not suspend in any case her military
operations in the far east. All ru
mors and reports regarding the pos
sible success of the direct overtures
for peace which Japan is said to have
made to Russia, and regarding the
mediation of the powers, in my opin
ion are started for the purpose of
convincing the public that the end of
the war is close at hand. In this way
it is hoped that the public may be
led to believe that the Japanese loans
offer attractive investments.
“Russia can no more admit of in
terference than Great Britain could in
the Transvaal; than could the United
States in her war with Spain. Where
the prestige of a country is at stake
all other considerations are and must
be put as-ide. Some people may think
that financial difficulties will influence
Russia to end hostilities. Such an
opinion is based upon the false as
sumpt on of Russia’s financial resourc
es. There is no doubt whatever that
Fausia. whose annual income exceeds
$1,000,000,000, cannot be influenced in
her attitude toward the outcome of
the war by the amount of war expen
ditures. It is not altogether out of
the question that Russia, who did not
expect war, should in the moment
when she has mobilized her army and
is sending corps after corps in fight
ing readiness to the far east sudden
ly call a halt to hostilities, particu
larly after she has for nearly a year,
without any difficulty or recourse to
extraordinary measures, been able to
carry all the extra expense?
“It is not within my scope to com
ment upon the new Japanese loan.
That is an affair for the bankers and
for the public, who are able to de
cide what advantages or disadvan
tages the investment offers. But there
can be no necessity for comment upon
Russia's credit.’’
Port Arthur Attack Resumed.
CHE FOO—The general attack on
Port Arthur was resumed November
18 and 19, according to the report of
persons arriving here Sunday from
Port Dalny. They say the Japanese
are so secretive that it is difficult in
Dalny to learn the true facts. Even
the officers detailed to work at the
base do not know what their comrades
at the front are doing. November 1G
a particularly heavy explosion shook
every ship lying at Dalny. The ex
plosion was ascribed to the blowing
up of land mines or a magazine.
Cummins is Still for Revision.
WASHINGTON — Governor Cum
mins of Iowa and Governor Van Sant
of Minnesota arrived here Sunday.
Governor Cummins said his visit here
at this time was in connection with
a dispute which had arisen between
the Shiloh park commission and the
Iowa state commission in reference to
the location of monuments and in
scriptions thereon to Iowa regiments.
The governor will call on the presi
dent Monday. Replying to a question
he said the president and the whole
country knew hia tariff viewa.
BLOW UP ARSENAL
RUSSIAN SUPPLY DEPOT AT
PORT ARTHUR DESTROYED.
STOESSELREPORTS JAP REPULSE
Japanese* Are Widening Their Saps
and Moving Their Guns Forward—
Czar Receives an Encouraging Re
port from Beleaguered City.
TOKIO—A telegram from Moji re
ports the destruction of another Rus
sian arsenal and magazine at Port
Arthur.
The Japanese discovered,1t is said,
the location of the arsenal and cen
tered their artillery fire upon it. Af
ter dropping 200 shells in the locality
they succeeded in blowing it up.
The Japanese are widening their
saps and are using them to move their
guns forward.
The Russians continue their spirit
ed sorties, using hand grenades in
their attacks upon the saps.
ST. PETERSBURG—General Stoes
sel has telegraphed to Emperor Nich
olas that Port Arthur can hold out
several months.
Newspapers devote long articles to
praise of Lieutenant General Stoessel
and the heroic garrison at Port Arthur
and to a general endorsement of the
movement started at Kieff for a na
tional subscription in behalf of the
families of the killed and surviving
defenders.
A dispatch from Lieutenant General
Sakharoff. dated Friday, says that
during the night the Japanese attack
ed the Russian position in front of
Poutiloff hill, but were repulsed.
America is likely to profit, both di
rectly and indirectly, from the exe
cution of the large naval program
which Russia is now elaborating. The
vital importance of the sea power has
been Russia's bitterest lesson of the
war, and the government is fully de
termined that ihe maintenance of the
empire’s position will be impossible
without adequate sea power.
Should there be disaster to Vice Ad
miral Rojestvensky’s squadron it
would not only necessitate the entire
rebuilding of the navy, but to increase
its strength.
While some of the contracts will
he placed abroad, owing to the limited'
facilities of Russian yards (and it is
expected that at least one big ship
will be constructed in America) the
admiralty's plans will be directed to
wards ultimate divorce from depend
ence upon foreign ship builders by the
organization at home of vast ship
building, armor plate, ordnance and
kindred industries. For this purpose
it is realized, however, that foreign
builders and specialists must be at
tracted, and some alluring prospects
are likely to present themselves. Vick
ers’ Sons & Maxim and Armstrong,
Whitworth & Co., limited, of England,
have already made advances, but ow
ing to the anti-Russian sentiment the
British firms are not meeting with a
very cordial reception. The disposi
tion is to turn towards France, Ger
many and the Vnited States, and a
great plant at Libau or on the banks
of the Neva, directed by American
brains.
NEW FACES iN SENATE.
Will Be a Number of Them When
That Body Meets March 4.
WASHINGTON—There will be a
number of new faces in the United
States senate when that body meets
in extraordinary session at noon on
March 4. next. Of the thirty senators
whose terms expire with the close of 1
the legislative day of March 3, 1905. i
a great many wi?i be re-elected. But
at least ten will be succeeded by new
men, and in addition Senator Fair
banks, elected vice president, will re
tire to make way for another. There
are not less than ten aspirants for
the seat to be thus vacated, includ
ing Congressman Landis and Gover
nor Durbin. But Harry New. for many
years a leading republican of Indiana
and a son of John C. New, former
treasurer of the United States, has
announced his candidacy and it is be
lieved here that he is likely to give
all the rest a very lively hustle for
the honor.
MOBILIZING THE RESERVES.
Men of St. Petersburg District Are
Called to the Colors.
ST. PETERSBURG—Emperor Nich
olas will leave for the Caucasus on
December 3 to bid farewell to the Cau
casion cavalry.
The mobilization of reservists of St.
Petersburg, it is said, will be an
nounced next week. While the reser
vists of the province, in which St.
Petersburg is included, were called to
the colors some time ago, the actual
mobilization of the Russian capital has
been postponed as long as possible.
It is reported on apparently good
authority that the meetings of the
zemstvos, which was schedule for to
day, has been postponed.
McKinley Fund Completed.
CHICAGO — Announcement was
made of the completion of the fund
of $600,000 for the erection of a na
tional monument to the late President
McKinley. Alexander H. Reveh, chair
man of the Illinois auxiliary of the
McKinley national memorial associa
tion, in a report submitted to the state
committee stated that $50,000, the pro
portion allotted to Illinois, had been
raised. In New York next Tuesday, the
national trustees of the association
will meet and adopt a design for the
monument.
American Ship at San Domingo.
SAN DOMINGO—The United States
cruiser Detroit arrived here from
Monte Cristi, bringing the American
financial agent, John T. Abbott, who is
supervising the collection of customs
duties there in accordance with the
agreement resulting from the claims
of the Santo Domingo Improvement
company of New York against the
government of San Domingo. The De
troit reports that the German cruiser
Panther is at Monte Cristi. The Ger
man minister is expected to arrive
here shortly.
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
BUILDING AND LOAN REPORTS.
Associations in Nebraska Shown to Be
in Prosperous Condition.
LINCOLN.—Secretary Royce of the
state banking board has received from
the printer his report of the condition
of the building and loan associations
of the state for the year ending June
30. The report indicates a prosperous
condition of the associations and a
very gratifying growth. At the time
the report was made there were sixty
associations doing business in the
state, an increase of three over last
year. The total resources of the as
sociations reporting are 36.217.350.40,
being an increase of $873,921.02 over
the assets of the fifty-five associations
reporting last year. By comparison
important items are found to have
been increased and diminished during
the year as follows:
Loans, increase .$893,059.01
Stock loans, increase . 71,642.92
Real estate, decrease. 9,488.94
Furniture and stationery, in
crease . 2,548.11
Cash, decrease . 16,660.24
Delinquencies, decrease . 4.030.85
Expense sand taxes, increase 6^172.25
Other assets, increase . 16.924.65
Running stock, increase .... 647.405.21
Full paid stock, increase.... 103.128 *7
Reserve fund, increase . 41.862.29
Undivded profits, increase... 32,253.59
The receipts and expenditures of the
associations during the year ending
June 30. 1904, were $4,469,832.87. In
other words, these associations did a
business of nearly $4,500,000 at an ex
pense for salaries of $54,161.47 and
other expenses of $39,705, or a frac
tion over 2 per cent.
Of the $5,493.71S.S7 in first mort
gage loans, only the small sum of
$147,110 are in the delinquent class
and but $36,821 in process of fore
closure.
There are 174,022 shares of stock in
force, which is an increase of 20.598
shares over the number in force at the
date of the last report.
There are 23,499 shareholders, of
which number 660 are minors.
The associations made 2,322 mort
gage loans during the year, of which
lumber 1.061 were made for building
purposes and 1.246 for payment of
‘homestead mortgages.”
COUNTIES IN DEBT TO STATE.
Enough Old Taxes Uncollected to
Wipe Out Entire State Debt.
LINCOLN.—Deputy Auditor Anthes
is preparing the report of the auditor
for the biennium, and the report will
show that if all the counties In the
state that are delinquent would pay up
the state debt would be wiped out and
forgotten in little less than no time.
Thirty counties owe the state $742,
706.27, some of which money has been
due since 1859. The remainder of the
report of delinquent counties is still
in the hands of the printer and the
amount is more than $2,000,000. It is
expected that a good portion of this
will be collected under the workings
of the scavenger tax law. The counties
that have been received from the
printer are delinquent as follows :
Hayes .
Hitchcock
Holt .
Hooker ...
Howard ...
Jefferson . .
Johnson
Kearney ..
Keith .
Keya Paha
Kimball .. .
Knox .
Lancast* r .
Lincoln .. .
1^0pan .
2c»u p .
Madison ...
McPherson
Merrick . ..
Nance .
Nemaha ...
Nuckolls ...
Dtoe .
Pawnee ...
Perkins ...
Phelps .... ,
Pierce .
Platte .
Polk.
*ed Willow
$ 6.144.91
18.034.49
50,336.69
825.93
16.193.56
25,108.23
23.943.S4
12.527.97
7.098.91
7.004.994
3.480.60
20.982.40
106,845.24
21.567.07
7.241.77
3,109.02
24.577.60
2.0S6.33
36.500.17
13,909.30
31.990.77
20.543.90
69.346.49
30.275.14
7.173.23
28.546.78
25.423.47
30.215.82
13,907.86
12,162.84
Champion Cornhusker.
BENNINGTON.—This little town
has come to the front with the cham
pion cornhusker. J. Miller is the man,
and there are plenty of people here
who wrill put up money that he can
defeat all comers. During the past
week, without any exertion, Miller
has been husking and cribbing 120
bushels per day, working nine hours.
By pulling out a little, it is believed
Miller can husk 150 bushels per day.
W. H. Reed is Dead.
LINCOLN—Colonel W. H. Reed, a
veteran naval officer of the civil war
and pioneer citizen, died here at the
Windsor hotel. He declared just be
fore he retired that he never felt bet
ter in his life. He was found dead in
the morning.
W. B. Rose Keeps His Place.
LINCOLN.—W. B. Rose has been
selected for assistant attorney gen
eral and has accepted the appoint
ment. He has held the position for
the last four years. Fred Miller will
be deputy secretary of state.
Estimates of State’s Expenses.
State officers and the heads of de
partments are busy these days figuring
out the estimate of what will be re
quired to run the house and the
state institutions during the next bien
nium, in order to ask the legislature
for the wherewithal to do it. So far
only a few of the have com
pleted their estimates and filed them
with the auditor. So far the amount
each office will ask for is about the
same as that asked for twd years ago.
The office of the state superintendent
will ask for $1,000 more.
Fred Miller Appointed.
LINCOLN.—Secretary of State Ga
lusha has announced that Fred Miller
of Richardson county will continue to
be deputy secretary. Other announce
ments will be made by Mr. Galusha
in a few days. William B. Rose has
been reappointed as assistant attorney
general, and Miss Nannie Canning
will continue her work as stenogra
pher in the attorney general's office.
The present office forces under Gov
ernor Mickey and State Treasurer
Mortensen will remain unchanged, at
least for the present.
THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA.
West Point’s new passenger depot
is now ready for occupancy.
The electric lights have been turn
ed on in the village of Lynch.
The Jacob Golden commission
house at Geneva was closed by credit^
ors.
Prof. Hornberger, well known
throughout the state, in an education
al way, died recently at Lincoln.
Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Swan of
Plattsmouth, celebrated their fifteenth
wedding anniversary a few days ago
The school truant officer proposi
tion was lost in Dodge county, the
vote against it being about two-thirds.
The Johnson ranch, situated in
Liberty precinct, Pawnee county, con
sisting of 1,329 acres, was sold to
A. J. Weaver and J. H. Moorehead for
$55,000 cash.
Thieves entered the hardware store
of D. H. Stout at Julian and took a
large number of knives, razors and
revolvers. They broke open the money
drawer, but found nothing therein.
J. C. Williams, deliveryman for
Zuckweiler & Lutz, Plattsmouth, had
a close call from being kicked to
death by a horse. Several of his ribs
were fractured and he was otherwise
injured.
Wm. Balfour and Tver Johnson, two
Omaha hunters, were drowned in
Goose lake, twenty-five miles from
O’Neill, while in search of game.
Their bodies, after much search, were
i recovered.
ouenu .uuunae reiurnea 10 tuaus
mouth from Des Moines, bringing
with him two buggies, one horse and
harness, which was stolen from H. P.
Sturn and L. W. Ingwerser. who re
side near Neliawka. in Cass county.
The property was stolen last spring.
A letter has been received by Gov
ernor Mickey from Mrs. Lillie Belle
Meyer of St. Louis, asking for infor
mation in regard to the whereabouts
of her father, E. J. Hanuock. whom
she has not seen for twenty years. She
says that Mr. Hanock is somewhere in
Nebraska.
The "Sit Still'’ society is the latest
of the many organizations in Lincoln.
The members are all masculine and
its object is to obtain larger cars and
better street car service In general
for the city. The society hopes to at
tain its object by sitting still—that is,
each member will keep his seat in
the car instead of surrendering it to a
a woman.
The authorities of Battle Creek
place are looking for a man who gave
his name as James McClan and pro
fessed to be a hunter from Omaha,
and who is known to have driven
away with a load of guns and boxes
stolen from Morse's hardware store
in that place, and who told the driver
he was going to steal James Gilles
pie’s daughter from her home fifteen
miles south.
John B. Boese, who shot and killed
his son during a family quarrel some
time ago and who has been in jail
i since, was arraigned in the county
court at Nebraska City and pleaded
not guilty to the charge of murder in
the second degree. He waived pre
liminary hearing and was bound over
to the district court in the sum rtf
$2,000. Not being able to furnish bond
he was returned to jail.
Former State Treasurer Hill offer
ed State Treasurer Mortensen a cer
tified check for $3,812.40 in payment
of all that w-as due on account of
money deposited by Joseph S. Bart
ley, state treasurer, in a defunct Lin
coln savings bank. Mr. Mortensen re
fused to take the money for the rea
son that the receipt Captain Hill of
fered for him to sign was for all
money due the state from the defunct
bank, of which Captain Hill is the
receiver.
A large amount or new corn Is be
ing contracted for in Sarpy county at
35 cents per bushel.
The supreme court must decide the
constitutionality of the state law pro
■ hibiting the use of the national flag
! for advertising purposes. N. V. Hal
ter and H. V. Hayward, saloonkeepers
i of Omaha, handled a brand of beer
known as the “Stars and Stripes,’’
bore the national flag on the label.
The men were convicted of violation
of the law by the district court of
Douglas county. They have appealed
to the supreme court, claiming that
the state law is class legislation, and
so unconstitutional.
The governor of Illinois has issued
a requistion on the governor of Ne
braska for the return to the Southern
Illinois penitentiary at Chester, of
Raymond Slater, now under arrest in
Omaha. Slater was sent to the prison
on an indeterminate sentence for for
gery and escaped while on parole.
; Under the indeterminate sentence law
he was-subject to release by the state
board of pardons when he had demon
strated his reformation, but the viola
tion of the parole under the law now
| will require him to serve the maxi
i mum sentence for forgery under the
i Illinois statue, which is twenty years.
Scott Harrison of Niobrara com
mitted suicide by cutting his throat.
The tragedy occurred in a house reg
ularly occupied by two men. Cause is
not known.
A Lincoln correspondent says: “It
will not be surprising if the forth
coming message of the governor will
contain some recommendations to the
legislature that will be on the order
| of a revelation to cheap politicians
and hangers-on. And another thing, if
the legislature of Nebraska cares to
enact an anti-pass law Governor
Mickey will sign it.”
The members of the Masonic order
of Fremont are making extensive and
elaborate preparations for their fair,
which will be held December 5 to 9.
It promises to be one of the greatest
events of its kind ever attempted in
the city.
H. M. Eaton, the recently elected
state land commissioner, announces
the reappointment of RobAl Harvey
as state surveyor. This is the first ap
pointment made under the new ad
ministration. Mr. Eaton says that
other announcements will be made as
soon as decided upon.
