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flfl | TO REMIT BY EXPRESS.
H H ICcnult of Che Government Declining to
KflK SJilp ut Contract Hates The Delny In
UH | Relmbunoment In Case of Loan in the
BfBJ I'o t-oHlcc Technicalities of the Iuftu-
HwH ranee Companies.
HHh ! -A- novel feature in the shipments of
jflj currency to interior points , and par-
Kfl | ticularly to the South and West * , by
HIHl local banks this fall is the great ex-
HHHf tent to which the registered mail ser-
Bfl vice is being used for that purpose ,
HLH instead of the money being shipped by
BgB express , as was formerly the general
9 custom. The reason for this is the
B I inability of the banks to secure this
B I year , through the sub-treasury , the
H I benefit of the government contract
K I urates for the expressage. As a result
B of that the banks have had to pay
B , what are known as bankers' rates to
f' | the express companies , which are two
Hj I or three times as great as the govcrn-
fl ! i § ment contract rates , or ship their
B , H money by registered mail.
fl m The course of the treasury in respect
R f | to this matter has been explained
Hi' M from time to time in the Evening Post ,
hM so far as any explanations could be ob-
Bj jig tained. Heretofore the treasury glad-
H H Iy gave to the banks tne privilege of
Hj j | | shipping currency at the government
Hf i | contract rates , or rather , shipped the
R ii currency for the banks at the govern-
P j I ment rates in return for gold deposits.
' 1 | i A- clause , however , was inserted in the
flf [ A contract with the express company
Hl ! 8 when it was last made , by which such
Hl ! ? 1 privileges should only be afforded to
B | | ! k the banks when the treasury needed
1 | ! gold. The discretion in the matter ap-
fl ] I | parently rests with the Secretary of
Hl a ! the Treasur3' . and ho has seemingly
Hfjfgij decided that the treasury does not
| { ' want gold now. Consequently the
B | I banks cannot have the benefit of the
B | 8 ! government contract rates for ex-
B | i 1 pressage , although bankers generally
Hjy seem to think it would be better for
B | S ] the treasury always to take gold when
Bi/j it can without loss. The treasury
Hji ] r , ruling , however , has not helped the
B | \ express company very much , because
tf nearly all tht country banks to whom
H11 , money is remitted , and who have to
Hlil i pay the cnst of transmission , direct
H jg ! j their New York correspondents to
H III ship thG monev , Jy registered mail , and
Bipl insure its safe delivery in one or other
mI of the companies which make a spe-
H | | cialty of that business.
Biii Tne cost of postage and insurance
HHi , ls much less than the .usual express
fll 'l ' charges at what are known as bank-
yj' ' ers' rates. Few New York bankers.
fif however " , would remit money in that
Hffj . way > unless they were directed to do
EifriJ so by their correspondents. They
Hiff If would rather ship it by express , even
Hftlifll though it cost more to do so , because
B | | js they consider it the safer way.
Hll M H money is lost by an express com-
Bifl 1 pany durinS transmission , the loss is
KilH promptly made good , whereas , bank-
B m H ers say' Ik takes a Ion5 time , and is a
H rIlIi troublesome task , to recover the
H ill > amount when the money is lost in the
Ha | mails. The government is not re-
Hfi j sponsible ; it only promises to take
Hll I greater care of a registered package ,
HII i i for wnich tne registration fee of eight
KiiM cents is charSed' ifc cannot or does
H ia I not suarantee its delivery or reim-
H 1 il bursement in case of loss. The cash-
B 1 4T ier of a Iarge national bank which
B I m ships many thousands of dollars
H | | M every day to its correspondents all
H Si i ovcr tne Unlted States , in speaking of
H Pi | this matter today , said :
H II | "The conservative banker still pre-
H m i fers to send money ° y the well-known
H i 1 express companies , but , to save ex-
H 1 i penses , since the government refuses
H i § to remit for the banks any longer at
f ' § government contract
rates , the coun-
H | ! j try banks are apparently willing to
ft I take the risk of transmission by reg-
R istered mail , with the guarantee of an
B insurance company's policy for its safe
I Kg delivery. Notwithstanding , however ,
H | the registration and insurance , the
B | rislcs of sending large sums of nioney
B ° y ma" are very great * A package of
KI ! currency which is forwarded bv the
BJ registered mail department of the pos-
Bgl tal service .has no distinctive mark in-
Rl dicating its value : a pencil receipt is
HfSj given for it just the same as for an
JH ordinary letter or package of mcr-
Hl chandise. The package of money is
H&L thrown in with packages of merchan-
Hj dlse of all sorts , and no more care is
taken of it than is
JK taken with a J-ox
{ 9 of shoes or a package of gloves. The
[ S registry clerk's receipt is not a docu-
B ment that is as well known or as sat-
WK isfantory as the reeeiDt of the rec = iv-
H | ins clerk of an express company , and
B R m case of the loss of the package , the
Bfn delay in the recovery of the money is
BwB interminable.
W "For instance , a few years asjo a
WS • Southern bank ordered from its New
Bffm York correspondent S20.000 in curren-
Bs cy , the money to. be sent by registered
MB mail. The package was put , or sup-
H | peed to have been put , in a certain
B8 1 through pouch , but when the pouch
BsK I was opened in the Southern pesto c
H | in the presence of the president of the
BBS I hank , who was anxious about the ar-
SB 9 rival of the money , the package was
BB fl not there. Investierntion by the post-
B B B office authorities failed to discover its '
Bj whereabouts , and the insurance rom-
H B H pany which had issued a policy gu r-
w H anteeing its safe delivery was no more
Hi H successful , and it was a long time be-
BB H fore the bank was reimbursed for Jh
BB H loss. The inconvenience caiiFed to
B B banks by the non-receint of money on
Bn S time could not be estimated. In some
BBfi cases , as in times of panic , for in-
BBBB stance , the delay might be fraught
BBRmHB with very serious consequences. A
BBBS year or so after the loss of the money
BfifiB referred to , other missinc : articles w ° re
wfiK traced to a certain dishonest postal
9B b emploj-e. and the secret of the m's'i ' g
BKBs | money package was then solved by his
B gl confession.
BBBjfgi "On the other hand , the ex"r S3
B companies locate * rossng ? ? packages of
Bi P money or make srood the los pro pt-
Bjral ] y , without techTi'cilities or ' 'elavs.
H fflB They are responsible , and banks run
BbB ! n0 rslc { in shiPPnc : by them. Their
B n BS employees are chosen solely on th ?
H Bj | ground of ability and trustworth"es- > .
H | | M and they are therefore more lik ° ly to
BB BH ie accurate and prompt than postal
HBBB employes , who owe their n'ares pen
h h9 or less to politics , notwithstanding
B B the civil service examination. WMl- >
B itiB true that by insurlns moneyseiit
B B
by registered mail there is some guar
antee against loss by non-delivery , it
is equally true that there is consid
erable risk of loss if the insurance
company stands on technicalities.
The slightest informality in the ob
servance of the terms of an open pol
icy Issued by the insurance company
renders the policy invalid , and would
in the case of a missing package cause
the loss to fall on the consignor. The
technicalities to be observed by a re
mitting bank in sending money by
registered mail when the delivery o
the money is insured by one of the
local insurance companies are very
great compared with the simple but
safe methods of express companies ,
and unless some new regulations are
made by the postal authorities for
sending money by registered mai . l ,
conservative New York banks will cer
tainly prefer to ship by express. "
IN EARLY ILLINOIS.
The Impenetrable Blindness of One Wuc
Will Not Sec.
The character of the old Illinois
courts , in which Abraham Lincoln
practiced , was very primitive , ( says
a writer in the Century. ) In ono
casa a livery-stable horse had died
soon after bein ? returned , and the
person who had hired it was sued for
damages. The question turned largely
upon the reputation of the defendant
as a hard rider. A witness was
culled a long : , lank Westerner.
"How does Mr. So-and-So usually
ride ? " asked the lawyer. Without a
gleam of intelligence , the witness
replied : "A-straddle. Sir. " "No.
no. " said the lawyer ; • i mean , dcos
he usually walk or trot or gallop ? ' '
"Wal , " Bald the witness , apparently
searching in the depths of his memory
for facts , "when he rides a walkin'
horse , he walka when he rides a
trottin' horse , he trots , and when ho
rides a gallopin' horse , he gallops.
when " The lawyer was angry.
"I want to know what gait the
defendant usually takes , fapt or slow. "
"Wal"said the witness , "whon his
company rides fast he rides fast , and
when his company rides slow , ho rides
slow. " "I want to know , sir. " the
lawyer said , very much exasperated ,
and very stern now. "how Mr. So-and-
So rides when ho is alone. " "Well"
said the witness more slowly and
meditatively than ever , "when he
was alone , I wa'n't along and I don't
know. " The laugh at the questioner
ended the cross-examination.
What Mor Aunt Could Do.
A four-year-old miss , who is at
present visiting an aunt on Staten
Island , has been as good as spoiled by
her parents , at least that is the
opinion of her relatives.
Ever since she began to breathe in
the salt air of the lower bay she has
seemed incorrigible. Mischief of
every kind and degree has been laid
at her door and all sorts of punish
ment threatened , without apparently
changing her course.
The culmination was reached the
other evening with some piece of
daring effrontery , and when the little
one had been put to bed. Aunt Mary
started in to have a long talk over her
misdeeds , beginning something like
this :
"Don't you feel how naughty Kate
has been to-day ? [ t makes us all
very sorry. I don't know what I'd
better do" - . .
"I guess you'd better let me go to
sleep. " came from beneath the bed
clothes and Aunt Mary has not been
able to look the child in the face
without laughing yet. jS' ew York
Advertiser.
Not a. Compliment.
Senator Palmer tells this story on
himself : "Whilo I was exercising
some military authority in Kentucky
during the late war. I received a let
ter from a distinguished jurist Ho
was a former chief-justice of the state.
He wrote mo to inquire as to his
rights under certain circumstances.
I replied that I could not venture testate
state the law of the case to a jurist of
so much distinction. Uo answered
me by saying that if it were a question
of the divine law. or of natural law ,
or of statute law. or of municipal law.
he never would th'ck of consulting
me. but that as m&rtia1 law was the
will of the general commanding it
seemed proper to ask me. I realized
the force of the rebuke The judge
d.d not by any means intend to pay
me a compliment. " Argonaut.
Too Nni irt 1'or Oliollcy.
• Girls know too much now-a-days. "
"What makes you say that ? "
"i ou remember when I asked Miss
Brown to copy mo some verses ? In
reality I only wanted her handwriting
to read her character by. "
-Well ? "
• • Well here are the ver.e" . but
she ' s copied them on the typewriter. "
Brooklyn Life.
According to 'I Iicosophj- .
According to the "Socrot Doctrine , "
we are now living in the Kali 1 uga.
the last of the four ages and it began
nearly 5.000 yearo ago. with the death
of Krishna , B C. 3102. The first
minor cycle of the Kali Yuga will end
in the years 18D7-98.
Lol C.tl ioi ! i > IliIl'r.
• • Watah is a good thing. " re
marked Colonel Bludd of Kentucky.
" \ \ all. maybe so. " replied conserv
ative Major Bowie
• • It is truly sah. " continued the
colonel. "Kain makes cawn. sah , an'
cawn makes whisky. " Life.
Moll JTMITTC'I.
Cloverton "You wouldn't think I
had had that dress suit § ight yeara
would you ? "
1/as-ha.way 'Oh. I don't know ,
oldlnan. You eon 't have occasion to
wear it very often. "
Coo I Investment.
Boggs That watch has been a
mighty good investment
lOfTgs How so ?
Bogg.s1 no. er let anyone have it
yet who didn't get twelve per cent a
month out of it. JSow York Herald.
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HOW THE FREE TRADE MACHINE WORKS ,
JOHN BULL IS MAD.
HE BITTERLY COMPLAINS OF
DECREASING TRADE.
Increasing toss of Trade Grows Oat of
American Aggressiveness In the
Meantime Oar Shop * and Factories
Show Signs of Prosperity.
This week we reproduce several ar
ticles from British trade papers which
relate to our own industrial affairs.
One of these refers to the "murder" of
the Welsh tin plate trade , "the first
blow having been administered by the
McKinley tariff and the mortal stroke
by the Dingley bill. " The use of these
strong terms.while acknowledging that
"the loss of the American trade is a
great disaster" under our policy i.f
protection , is hardly calculated to per
suade the Welsh workers that their
sufferings "must be accepted patient
ly. "
Another paper refers to the deter
mination of the "Yankees" "to secure
their share of the world's trade in iron
and steel. " The English iron trade
views the effects of the policy of pro
tection far differently from our free
traders , who assert that we can not
capture "the world's trade" when our
wall of protection is erected. This
"Iron Trade Circular" asserts that six
manufacturers of Pittsburg have
formed an "Export Iron and Steel
Company , " that a London agent has
been appointed , and that an effort will
be made to do business in India , Soutn
America and Japan. It is acknowl
edged that "Americans are an enter
prising body of men , " and that the ex
port company will doubtless succeed
in its enterprise. This will be no new
trade to us , because we exported up
ward of § 57,000,000 worth of iron and
steel and their manufactures last year ,
not including ore. We sent this to
every part of the world , and this val
uable export trade was rendered pos
sible by the policy of protection which
enabled us to establish and build up
our great iron and steel industries.
A third complaint comes from the
British hardware and cutlery trade ,
which deplores "the loss of our United
States trade , " which has become "one
of the most insignificant" to the Brit
ish manufacturers. The figures of their
exports of hardware and cutlery dur
ing the month of August for several
years past show why they are queru
lous :
EXPORTS OF BRITISH HARDWARE
AND CUTLERY IN THE UNITED
STATES.
August. Value.
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There was certainly a big "drop" last
August , but that can be partly ac
counted for by the heavier exports of
the preceding months. Still what is
England's loss is our gain , and our
tariff that was enacted in 1894 for the
benefit of British industries has been
repealed in favor of a tariff that pro
tects American enterprise.
The "Textile Mercury , " of Manches
ter , points out that the protection
afforded to American carpet manufac
turers , under the Dingley bill , will en
able the manufacture "of whole-piece
• Axminster and other pile carpets in the
States ; " in fact , the work is already in
progress. This , of course , will result
in a loss to the English trade that has
been supplying our markets with these
high-priced carpets , but they frankly
acknowledge that it is only the extent
of the protection afforded by the Ding
ley bill that will enable us to make
these higher grades of carpets , giving
employment to more Americans and
circulating more wages here. Hereto
fore these advantages accrued to Eng
land because this branch of our carpet
industry had not received ample pro
tection.
Another strong point , and one which
we commend to free traders in this
country , is also made by the "Textile
Mercury , " as follows :
"The commercial condition of the
United States may always be gauged
by an investigation of the exports of
its cotton manufactures. When the
country is prosperous it sends very few
abroad ; when it is impoverished the
supply is greater than the demand , and
to get rid of the same it begins to ex
port them. "
This has been very true in the past ,
not only of our manufactures of cotton ,
but of other goods. With impoverish
ment here , under free trade , our people
have not been able to buy and consume
all the goods we could make. This has
been an invariable rule , and then "the
dumping periods" began , when our
goods were shipped to any foreign mar
ket that would take them , even though
sold at a loss to our manufacturers.
Lately we seem to have "dumped" our
surplus cotton goods largely upon the
markets of Canada , China and South
America. This "dumping" process has
no doubt affected the export trade of
the cotton manufacturers of Manches
ter. Whether it will continue remains
to be seen.
A Problem to Solve.
If the United States can push its
wares into Europe , South America , the
Far East , and into our various posses
sions , while pushing out the products
of those countries by a prohibitive
scale of duties , it would be an achieve
ment the like of which we are unable
to point to in the whole history of
commerce. We are inclined to be
lieve that the feat is impossible. Fi
nancial Post , London , Eng.
We hope to prove that it is possible ,
and thereby upset another of the Cobden -
den apple carts. Before pushing our
wares in Europe , South America and
the Far East , however , we intend to
push them in our own market , and
push out from the United States the
products of those foreign countries
which have been supplanting our own
during our experiment with the British
free trade idea. Our market is more
valuable than all the foreign markets
combined , and our first object is to se
cure the best business. Subsequently
we will turn our attention to Europe ,
South America and the Far East , sup
plying them with our surplus products
through advantageous reciprocal trea
ties where possible.
The Eclipse of 1804.
The Passinp of the Shadow.
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American Silks to the Front.
Our imports of silk manufactures last
month were much below the value of
similar imports in the month of Sep
tember in the three previous years un
der the free trade Wilson bill , showing
that the Dingley protective tariff is
operating to the benefit of the Ameri
can manufacturers of silk goods. The
import values were as follows :
September.
1894 ? 2,251,390
1895 2,245,554
1896 1,491,846
1897 1,156,534
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Loss of Tin Plato Trade.
A contemporary in a very plaintive
tone wants to know what South
Wales will do with Its plates when the
the American trade has gone. "Wo
have been asking this question , or va
riations of it , for any number of years
past , but have never yet had a prac
tical response , " it writes , "and we
scarcely hope for one at this late stage
of the melancholy history we might
almost say suicide of the Welsh tin
plate trade. " The term suicide Is rath
er uncalled for. If the trade is ended
by American action we should rather
call it murder the first blow having
been administered by the McKinley
tariff and the mortal stroke by the
Dingley bill. The Welsh makers
could not help this , and it is nut their
fault if the American works , brand
new In all their appointments , turn
out plates a little cheaper than the
Welsh mills. Besides , the Americans
get their tin bars cheaper. With all
this it is surprising that the Welsh
men can make any struggle at all. Yet
they are doing so , and dispatched 21 , -
021 tons abroad last month against
20,726 tons in the same month last
year , which does not look like throw
ing up the sponge. Of course , the loss
of the American trade is a great dis
aster , but it came in the natural order
of things , and must be accepted pa
tiently. "Hardware , Metals and Ma
chinery , " London , September 16 , 1897.
Canada's Fiscal Policy.
Before Premier Laurier returned
from Great Britain to Canada he was
the guest of the Cobden Club , which
presented him with the club's gold
medal as a token of its appreciation of
his successful efforts to advance free-
trade between Great Britain and Cana
da , and to point out the course that all
other colonial governments of the Im
perial Confederation might adopt. In
a very complimentary speech Lord
Farrer presented the medal , and re
ferring to the Cobden Club's attitude
toward events following upon Cana
da's action , he said :
You do not ask us to abate one jot
of our free-trade principles ; you ask
for no preferential treatment ; you
make yourself as large a step in the
direction of free-trade as your present
circumstances will permit , and you de
sire to treat the rest of the world as
you are now treating us. We , on our
part , hail your offer , and meet it by
removing , not by imposing a restric
tion. We desire not less trade with
Germany and Belgium , but more trade
with you ; and while we shall oppose
with all our power any attempt to
close our markets against these or any
other foreign countries , we shall view
with delight our increased freedom of
trade/whether it be a trade between the
nations who compose the British Em
pire or a trade between those nations
and foreign countries.
The "Worst mistake.
The Review of Reviews has leanings '
toward free trade , but even its free
trade leanings were not sufficient to
make it defend that piece of patchwork
that tool of trusts the Wilson-Gor
man law. In its August number il
says :
"One of the worst mistakes the coun
try had made in many years was the
permission it gave to the Democratic
party to tear up the McKinley tariff
and substitute for it a haphazard meas
ure which , in the nature of the case ,
could not be expected to remain in
force for more than from two to four
years. "
The American people showed con
clusively last November that they had
no sympathy with the free trade lean
ings , but they all agree with the Re
view of Reviews in saying that "one of
the worst mistakes the country had
made in many years was the permis
sion it gave to the Democratic party to
tear up the McKinley tariff. " In fact ,
they are quite agreed that it was net
only "one of the worst mistakes" but
quite the worst mistake we ever made.
Japanese Load Pencils.
The Japan Vveekly Times says that
there is a constantly increasing demand
for lead pencils in Japan , the supply
being mostly drawn from Europe or
America. These manufactured in Ja
pan are inferior in quality. Lead pen
cil making in that country is generally
carried on by small establishments ,
and the companies devoted to the man
ufacture of the pencil are few in num
ber. The inferiority of the Japanese
pencil is due to the fact that the black
lead , obtained chiefly from the Hokur-
iku district , falls in quality far below
the foreign product. As to the wood ,
Hokkaido and other places produce an
excellent supply. Some of the com
panies in Osaka are said to have suc
ceeded in manufacturing good pencils
with black lead imported from Amer
ica , and a considerable number of the
pencils have already been exported to
Hongkong , Bombay and other ports
of the east.
Far from DiscouraBln .
"The free trade organs are fond of
comparing the tariff receipts of the.
first sixty days of the Dingley law
with the first sixty days of the Wilson
law well knowing that special condi
tions operated in favor of the Wilson
bill before its passage , and while tbi
Dingley law was pending. " Doyie. : -
town , Pa. , Intelligencer , October 2 ,
1897.
Allowing for the disadvantages un
der which the Dingley bill suffer ? * ! ,
during the first sixty days of its en
actment , a comparison of its result ?
with those of the Wilson bill during Its
first two months' incubation , is fr.r
from discouraging to the friends of
protection. It will be found else ,
• where.
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RESULT IN NEBRASKA J 1
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SULLIVAN'S PLURALITY WILL H
BE ABOUT 13,000. H
H
Full ItotnrnH From All bat Five Counties
and Kearney the B
In the State Custer
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Only Important Ones Yet t > • Hear
Voted M
Kepurtlnjr
From How Those
For Supreme Judge. M
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Nebraska Supreme Jndfroshlp. j
Returns from eJghty-fivo countlos f M
all but five in the state says the Lin- m
coin Journal , put Sullivan's plurality M
at 12,183. Custer and Kearney are the m
only counties of importance unreported - H
ed , and these are expected to increase H
Sullivan's plurality. The final figures , m
it is thought , will not be far from 13 , - M
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Counties. pfla t/ Sun , a H
Adams J. r / 3 \Jj \ * f M
Antelope 8 . 3 l. ] | S
Blaine C > 5J H
Boone 1,0.3 1.21a < H
I5ox Butte 4 W C H
jL OVi " * " . Jr. * k
Kurt U'G ! 1.1K > H
Butler 1.2M l. 0 : { H
Buffalo l.CU.I'l B
Brown • ' ' } > * ? ! i H
Chase 211 > s B
Cass - ' .aiO 2,270 M
Cherry K8 ISO M
C < > dar l.Wt < 1.3-1- - H
Clay 1.101 1.8J7 H
Coliax ( maj. ) • > • > " m
Cuming ' > ° -F 1.5-'i ' H
Cheyenne * ! 75 4 ! > 0 H
Custer ( maj. ) . _ . . 6 0 M
Dakota ! > 71 Kl'J H
Dawson 1 . ! * - [ ) L'I- : , - H
Deuel 27u'J |
Dodce i.7 : : < ; 2.w.s H
Dawes Ctt 81U H
Dixon 001 l.DVJ . , * H
Douglas O.'HC ' 7,0 < 7 H
Dundy 217 i. > 2 J H
Fillnioro 1.K4 1.K0 H
Franklin 7f.l l.J-lti H
Frontier 7i : ! Ml H
Furnas 1.0'M lr i > i H
Garfield l&l 201 J H
Gosper S2 W > .5 ' H
Greeley 37. . 7S5 H
Grant ( maj. ) H H
Gage 2.SG0 2.i0 : i H
Hayes 225 2 H
Hooker 7 t > M
Howard 712 1.101 H
Hall 1'iH ' l.i > l H
Hamilton I,2i9 l.Vt ; M
Harlan 717 1,0-Jt ; M
Hitchcock 402 J t m M
Holt ( maj. ) alO H
Jefferson V-23 l.a.T7 H
Johnson J.SOi l.I.lfi H
Kearney 777 l.HS M
Keith 207 ZU HH
Keya Taha 211 : :02 : M
Kimball 01 40 M
TCnnv ' ' ' - > 1 IiTi H
Lancaster 5 , 7 4VS 1
Lincoln 1.07 : ' . 1.107 M
iMiIson ] L' ' 2 | > 1.5M H
Merrick bT 7 0 > 1 H
N-inrv. ft'l rV2 H
Nemaha 1.340 1.7G ) M
Nuckolls I.Z'Si l.l.V ) H
Otoe 1.S77 2.2-10 H
Pawnee 1,210 1.111 H
Pierce -10 iuT j H
Perkins 110 21 : : H
Polk r 8 1.T4X | H
Phelps 781 1,00 > ; H
PIatt < > 1.03T. 2.fO ) H
Red Willow S01 W H
Rock ' ' - rt 23L H
Richardson 2.107 2.4 Z H
Saline l. 23 l,70.t H
Sarpy soi tor J M
Saunders 1,725 2 , . * Vli > J l
Sheridan < 0l • 733 B
Sherman . . . 423 7f l
Sioux W 175
Seward 1.4. .8 l.MB
Stanton C2S .70 1
Scotts Bluff 21.S VJ < : H
Thayer 1.210 LISO H
Thomas 42 Jai M
Thurston rT" aK- H
Valley KM S H
"Washington 1.173 1.210 M
Wayne > 51 'Ml H
Webster 1.0S2 1.2:5 . H
Whf-eler 77 l l - H
York 1.707 1.75' m | H
Totals 8-1.M8 0R.51 : ; * WJ M
Stnt 5 University T.ctur < -s. j H
Mr. Andrew Rosewater , a member M
of the American Society of Civil Engineers - M
gineers , now City Engineer of Omaha , M
has consented to deliver five lectures M
upon the subject of "Municipal Engi- fl
neering" before the Civil Engineering fl
Club of the university. The first lee- fl
ture of the series will be given on next ' fl
Monday evening. The subj ect will be jfl
treated under the following heads : 'jfl
"City Surveys and Grade Systems , " M
"Drainage and Sewerage of Cities. " fl
"Pavements and Their Maintenance" M
"Water Supply and Fire Protection. " | H
"The Engineer as a Factor in Municipal - H
ipal Government. " While the lectures fl
are to be addressed primarily to the fl
students of civil engineering , every _ H
one of them will treat of certain 4 |
points that are of great interest to B
every student of municipal problems. \ |
flood to Look A t. H
Wo cannot look too often at the rsc- |
ord of Nebraska this year. The final |
report of the crop product of the H
state is staggering in its magnitude. JH
Hero are the figures : M
Wheat , bushels , 32,9C7,73G ; corn- H
237.907,904 ; oats , 71.23i.7C9 ; rye , 6,39V
343 ; potatoes , 9,87fi,321 ; barley , 2,987. -
876 ; flax seed , 296.8S1 ; hay , tons , 4 , -
981,733 ; sugar beets , tons. 190.(180 ; fl
chicory , tons , 0,722. The report plac = s H
this value upon the products , computed - H
ted at values on the local market : H
Farm products , § 99,370,905.21 ; dairy J fl
products , S9.43S.000 ; egg , $2,250,000 ; fl
poultry , $7,507,245 ; live stock , S61.S90. - fl
fl
Father Mioots Ilis L ttle Son. * H
About 7 o'clock last evening , says a |
Unadi'la dispatch , Ralph Van Horn , a H
farmer , 30 years of age , shot and fatally - |
tally wounded his 3-year-old son , M
Clarence , and then committed sTuicide |
by shotoing himself , the bullet Iodg- |
ing in the brain. The cause was fam- M
ily troubles. The child will die from H
the wounds inflicted. H
Richard J. B. Waldley. a well known M
young man of Nebraska City , has mys- j H
teriously disappeared. He was married * |
Monday in Omaha to Miss Kittio Felt- |
houser , also of Nebraska City , and ar- j H
rived with her on the afternoon train. H
He placed his wife in a hack , remark j H
ing that he would ride up town on the H
street car. There is no trace of him < > H
since that time. l l
Convicted Men "entonrp < l. |
Wilber dispatch : Before adjournment - _ H
ment of district court yesterday Judge 4 H
Hastings gave sentence in criminal H
cases as follows : Joseph Richards , of I H
DeWitt , assault , fine of $100 and to j H
pay costs of prosecution : Herbert Perkins - , |
kins , of Friend , bastardy , ordered to > • 1
pay for maintenance of child of Helen - 1
Milton , $2,000 , in monthly Install- " H
ments of $12.50 , and to pay costs of * * H
prosecution. Whitney Stotta. statu- \ H
too- assault at Crete , three years in H
the penitentiary. fl
A fine new mill la being buUt at H
Harvard. fl