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fi The Valentine Democrat X'ALENTINE , NEB. I. M. RICE , Publisher TRAIN IS HELD UP ROBBERS STEAL S7.000 FROM CANADIAN PACIFIC. They Fled to the United States- Bandits Now Believed to be Safely Across the Bordei Robbery Was Planned to the Minutest Detail. A special from Winnipeg. Manitoba , says : At ! l:30 : o'clock Saturday night the Canadian Pacific westbound transconti nental express was held up by four mask ed men. The holdup occurred four and a half miles west of Mission Junction , in a wooded district. Throe of the men crawl ed over the tender of the locomotive , and at the point of revolvers ordered Engineer Scott to stop the train. They left one man to guard the engineer , the others taking the fireman with them. They com pelled the fireman to uncouple the mail and express car , the fourth standing guard over the train md Conductor War- rell. who attempted to go forward. The rubbers then had the engine and express car run several miles west. Messenger Herbert Smith at first re fused to open the car door , but on being informed that the car would be blown up with dynamite , of which they had a quantity , he complied , was disarmed and forced to open "the safe. They secured $4,000 or $5,000 in gold dust and about $1,000 in currency. The mail clerks were similarly com pelled to open the mail car , which was rifled of the contents of registered mail sacks. The engine , mail and express cars were then run to a point east of Warrich , where the robbers took to 'the woods. None of the passengers were molested. This is the first instance of train rob bery reported on the Canadian Pacific in the last twenty years. Later developments in the robbery of $7,000 from a Canadian Pacific train on Saturday night show that the robbers fled for the United States and probably are now safely across the border. The robbery was planned to the min utest detail. After having robbed the express and mail cars the robbers forced Fireman Freeman to' uncouple the en gine , and with it they started for : i point which they named two miles down the track toward Vancouver. When they approached the place the leader ordered a stdp.'The robbers clam bered off. the. leader backing away , cov ering the engineer with his revover. They crossed Frazer River and started for the international boundary by the Mt. Lehman road , a distance of eleveu. miles. They may have Jiad horses , fand could have reached American territory by day light. \ . / * N ' They leltnothing behind to give the slightest iiidWtjbn. of heiridentity. _ t / IMMENSE F& > R'Sys fON FIRE Flames > ( jireat Tracts in A San Fran'ejsc - dispatch states that /forest fires arcyw < waging in many of the principal timber sections in the north ern districts of California and in the immediate vic5nity7o" : T ' < * ty. In the Santa Cpaz Mountains the situa tion is serious M the extreme. It is be lieved the . tate park in the big basin , which r-ontains some of the finest red- . wood timber in the state , is doomed. Down the mountains to the coast lino the flames are sweeping everything before them , ranches , and property of all kinds. From Tehana , Butte. and other points up north , come reports of loss by flames , which have swept the mountains. So far no loss of human life has been reported. SAD END OF PLEASURE TRIP Eight Persons Drowned in the Del aware River , Near Bristol. The Delaware steamer Columbia , on its way from Philadelphia to Bristol , Pa. , Sunday night , crashed into a steam launch ten miles north of Philadelphia , grinding it to pieces and causing the drowning of eight of the dozen occupants of the small boat. All of the party were Philadelphians. When a point was reached near An dalusia the Columbia suddenly loomed up in the darkness. The pilot jammed his wheel to starboard , but just a mo ment too-late. The big steamer struck the launch squarely in the middle and cut it in half , throwing all of the occupants into the water. Champion Homing Pigeon. A homing pigeon owned by E. C. Kieckers , of St. Louis , won the young bird championship of North America from a field of 200. The flight was 48.2S miles , and the time of the winning bird was 1:29:55. Sioux City Stock Market. Saturday's quotations on the Sioux City stock market follow : Best heavy feeder ? . $3.50 :5.70. : Hogs. $5.25f/ / ) 5.47'X. . i , - . , . - Mystic Tie Between Cities. Wireless communication was Saturday established between Chicago and St. Louis. In the test only threc-horsi1 power masts were employed , while it is expected shortly to install twenty-horse power apparatus. Dies of Football Injuries. Blain Hoffman , aged 19 years , received such serious internal injuries in a game of football at Lykens , near Harrisbnrg , Pa. , Saturday when the opposing play ers piled upon him , that death resulted. SAFELY AT MUKDEN. Ruusian Army Made Retreat in Good Order. It is established that die Russian army is safely at Mukden and that the letreat ( i was accomplished in good order , in spite of the harassing Japanese , sodden roads and the fact that Gen. Kuropatkin was hampered by more than 12,000 Avounded. There is nothing yet to indicate the exact whereabouts of the three Japanese armies. When last heard from Kuroki's forces were on the Russian left flank and steadily pushing northward , but Viceroy Alexicff reports that railroad and tele graph communication between Mukden and Harbin is uninterrupted. ( Jen. Sakharoff reports that there was no fighting during Thursday , and while the outposts arc still in contact they are not exchanging shots. ' A detailed list of Russian losses is promised , and it is said that these losses will approximate 20,000 as against 30,000 for the Japanese. It is ollicially reported that Ivuropatkin has not been wounded. It seems to be definitely established that Field Marshal Oyama's tired troops abandoned Wednesday the attempt to head off ( Jen. Kuropatkin , whose army lias arrived safely at Mukden after frightful experiences in floundering through mud and mire over the Manchurian roads. . Some diescriptions of the scenes along the line of retreat are almost incredible. A BAD WRECK. Train Goes Through a Trestle in South Carolina. A iocal passenger train on the Seaboard Air Line crashed through a trestle at Ca- tawba Junction , S. C. , early Thursday. Four women passengers and three train men were killed , and thirty-five persons injured. The train consisted of an engine , five coaches and a sleeper. A freight train which followed the passenger train plunged in on top of the wrecked train. The train had crossed a bridge over Catawba River and was on the trestle , when the trestle fell in. The train , with the exception of the Pullman car , fell twenty-five feet to the ground. A lig'it freight , following close behind the pass enger train , struck the Pullman , and all fell over on to t he wreck , the engine of the freight and box cars piling up on the Pullman. All the injured , sixteen of whom wero negro laborers , were from the southern states. It will take about two days to clear the track and repair the trestle. INNOCENT MAN IMPRISONED A Strange Case of Mistaken Identity in England. Home Secretary Ackers-Douglas , at London , Eng. , has appointed a commis sion to inquire into the circumstances of the convictions of Adolph Beck , who was convicted in 1890 , served out a sentence of seven years , and who was again ar rested and convicted , but was granted a ' free pardon" when it developed that it had been conclusively proven that both his convictions were founded on cases of mistaken identity. The government has offered Beck as compensation the sum of $10,000 , which he refused , on the ground that it was not sufficient. In both instances Beck was charged with obtaining money and jewelry from women tinder false pretenses. SPECIAL GRAND JURY CALLED Alabama Jud < je Orders Investiga tion of a L/ynching. At HuntsvilleAla. . . Judge Speake ordered a special grand jury to convene i at once to investigate the lynching of the negroap ! ! ' . < Wednesday nigltt. There is no truth in the report that several militiamen were shot during the exciting events which culminated in the lynching of the negro , ( 'apt. Hay , in charge of 'the militia , denies that his men gave Avay before the mob. He says the negro sprang out of the window and ran right into the hands of the mob. There was then no use in guarding the jail further. Apple Crop Very Reports of the apple crop received at New York by large dealers indicate that the American yield will be about 30 per cent , larger than last year and 14 per cent , above the average for the last ten jears. New York state is among the largest apple producers in the east. 1C is estimated that its crop will be 17 per cent , larger than that of last year. Russians Force Chinese to Work. Chinese reports at Shanghai are to the effect that thousands of Chinese are be ing forced to construct eartnworks at Tiding , where fJon. Kuropatkin will make his next stand. _ i A Sensational Report. Advices from Las Palmas , Canary Isl- inds , state : Fishermen report three Russian cruisers coaling from the Ger man steamer Valesia at Cape Juby , off the coast of Morocco. Boor Hero on Divorce Suit. Gen. Ben J. Viljoen , the Boer Avar vet- ran. who was sued by Mrs. Yiljoen for divorce , denies the charge of failure to support. He says he and his wife sepa rated because of dissimilar tastes. Kqualizm ; ; Cattle Rates. Traffic officials of the western roads vere in session at Chicago Thursday ar ranging to place Omaha on a parity with Kansas City in regard to through cattle rates. Body of Salesman Recovered. The body of Max W. Hurtig , a trav- jling salesman from New York , who , with four other men , was drowned dur ing a storm on Lake Erie Saturday night , was recovered near Edge water Park , Cleveland , 0. j . Von iPIehve's Successor. The appointment of Prince Sviatopolk- Mirsky as minister of the interior in suc cession to the late M. Plohve , was ga zetted in the ofllcial messenger at St. Pe- tersburc Friday morning. y STRIKE CALLED OFF. Butcher "Workmen Ready to Go , Back to Work. The strike of the Butcher Workmen's unions , which has demoralized the meat packing industry throughtout the country for the last two months , was officially declared off Thursday night by President Michael J. Donnelly , of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of America , at Chicago. Thursday morning Mr. Donnelly tele graphed the members of the national executive committee asking their consent to the announcement of the end of the strike , and having received favorable an swers from all he declared that the strike of the members of his organization would end at midnight. l The strike of the members of the af filiate'1 unions at the stock yards who quit wt rk in sympathy with the butchers will ollicially be declared off at a meet ing of the conference board of the allied trades. This was jiccided upon at a meeting of the central body of the al lied trades , held Thursday night. The general body was at first in favor of continuing the strike , but Mr. Donnelly , who was present , announced that the men were defeated , and that in order to save his union from being entirely dis rupted he would order his men to return to work in the morning , no matter what course might be taken by other unions. As the other unions had no grievances , but had gone on strike to aid the butch ers , there was nothing left for them but to follow the lead of Mr. Donnelly , and they , too , decided to call off the strike as far as they were concerned. When the packers were notified that it had been decided to end the strike they announced that they would give places as far as possible to the skilled men , but it was stated at the same time that many of these men would be unable to secure their old places , as in many cases the work was being performed in a satisfac tory manner * by men who had been se cured since the commencement of the strike. It is expected that the majority of un skilled men will be unable to secure their old places again. It was a question of wage scale for this class of men that brought about the strike , the packers re fusing tb sign an agreement with any class other than skilled workmen. A DOUBLE WRECK. "Flyer" Hits the Derailed Cars ol a Freight Train. Two persons were killed and nineteen injured , four of them seriously , in a collision between a Rock Island passen ger train and cars of a freight traiu which had been derailed near Tiskilwa 111. . Wednesday night. The freight was running on the east- bound track , when the air hose burst , and in an unexplained manner caused a number of cars to pile up on several of the box cars covering the westbound track upon which the passenger was run ning. The fast train struck the wrecked freight cars and the locomotive , baggage car , smoker and chair car were derailed and seriously damaged. One of the sleep ing cars left the rails , but was only slightly damaged. A relief train was immediately made up and all passengers wore taken caro of as soon as possible. CHURCH'S EDICT TO LYNCHERS Methodists IVhoTook Part in Lynch ing Must Confess or Rosign. The Methodist Episcopal church has passed resolutions unanimously calling upon every participant in the lynching of Reed a-id Cato at Statesboro , ( la. , last month to resign membership in the church unless "a public confession of wrong be made with expression of peni tence and contrition. " The resolutions denounce the burning of the negroes in very strong language and state that the church wishes to be put on record as unalterably opposed to mob violence , calling it "a shameless vio lation of law. " Deserts Bride ; Falls in Bay. The elopement and marriage of Melissa Simpson of Accomac county , Ya. , and John Edward Galloway , Elkton , Md. , had an exciting sequel at Baltimore , Md. , when the bride of two days saw her husband fall overboard at the Chesa peake railway wharf in his efforts to run away from her. The young man was pulled out of the water , but escaped in the excitement. Two Killed in Obio Wreck. A Wheeling and Lake Erie freight train struck a loaded hay wagon near Chagrin Falls , O. Three cars and a ca boose were thrown from the track. Con ductor Gregory , of Canton , and Henry Porter , a farmer , who were in the ca boose , were killed. Foretells Death and Expires. With the prediction that he was about to die still upon his lips J. D. Under wood , general manager of the Rogers Wheel Company , at Lebanon , Ky. , drop ped dead Thursday. Mr. I'nderwood , who was 55 years old , was apparently In good health. Splendid Geyser in Activity. A telegram has been received from Yellowstone National park announcing that Splendid geyser , at the up'per basin , which has been lying dormant for four years , has been playing regularly every three hours since 10 a. in. Wednesday. Kills Wife and Suicides. Rather than pay his wife , from whom he had been separated , $7 a week as or dered by the court , Joseph Regnet , a porter employed in the wholesale store of Marshall Field & Co. , Chicago , shot and killed her and then committed suicide. Two Lives Lost. At Bakensfield , Gal. , lire broke out in the engine house of the fire department and destroyed two blocks in the central part of the city. The loss is $250,000. Two fatalities resulted from the fire. STATE OF NEBRASKA NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON- DENSED FORM. Body Has Been Identified Floater Near Dakota City that of Ed Wa- sem Probably Murdered at Yaiik- ton Last Seen Alive July 28. A Dakota City special says : J. C. \Vasem. real estate dealer at WOOMSOCK- et , S. D. , and Win. U. Wasein , banker at Ilariisburg , S. D. . brothers , in com pany with Coroner B. F. Sawyer and Dr. B. J. Leahy , of Jackson , exhumed the body of the tloater which was found iu the Missouri River about a quarter of a mile south of Dakota City on Aug. 13 , and was buried in the cemetery in Dako ta City , and the twoVasems identified ttie body as being that of their brother , Ed Wasein. of Yankton , S. D. The body was naked when found , but was identified by the two men by a scar on the hand made a number of years ago by a buzz saw , one short index linger , the teeth and the general appearance throughout. Dr. Leahy made a postmortem exami nation and found that the man had suf fered a fracture of the skull below the right ear , and believes he met death by being slugged. The body was reinterred in the cemetery in a private plot. The finding and identifying of. the body will in all probability lead to some ar rests , as the two men are determined to know who it was killed their brother and put his nude body in the Missouri River with the hopes that their crime would forever remain a secret. Ed Wasem was employed in the brick yard at Yankton , and in company with the foreman of the yards went into Yankton on the evening of July Ii8 last , which was the last day of registration on the Rosebud agency lands , to see the crowds and the excitement incident to the closing of the registration. The two men went into a saloon about 10 o'clock in the evening. Wasein was leaning on the bar watching the people , when he was hit a blow from behind which felled him to the floor , whether dead or uncon scious no one seems to know. The two bartenders at work in the building drag ged him into the back room and left him. and that is the last truce that could be found of him until his body washed ashore in the Missouri River at Dakota City about ten days later. The man with Wasem at the saloon was afraid of his life and left his friend at the mercy of the grafters , and he not appearing for work the next day. report ed the occurrence to his brother , J. C. Wasem. of Woonsocket , S. D. , who at once started an investigation , visiting Yankton and conferring with the chief of police at that place. The two barten ders claimed to Wasem that some time after they had pulled the body in the back room they went out to see it and the body was gone. GIRL'S ASSAILANT ARRESTED. ConiVsaes to Sheriff Bauinari ands Now in Penitentiary. A Fremont special says : Howard Rai- ley was arrested at East End Wednes day evening on suspicion of being rhe man who assaulted Pearl Olson. Thurs day niorninir he confessed to Sheriff Bau- maii and during the noon hour was hur riedly taken to the county judge's ollice through tlie back door of the jail and the court house , waived preliminary ex amination and was bound over to the district court and was taken in the af ternoon to Lincoln for safe keeping. It was not till after 3 o'clock that the knowledge of his arrest leaked out and at that time he was outside of the county. Horse Gets Busy With Hcelr. Ralph Bennett , son of Dr. Bennett , o' Kearney , was kicked bv a horse ; nid three of his ribs v- i.io ni. A few moments later Kenneth Leitch was kicked by the same horse and had quite a gash cut over his left eye. Young. Ben nett was driving the animal when it be came fractious , something getting wrong with the harness. Pleaded Not Guilty. William Bermingham , who is under ar rest at Nebraska City charged with rob bing the school house in district No. 5S , was taken before Judge Timblin. where lie was given a hearing. He pleaded not iruilty and was bound over to the district court. His bond was fixed at $500 , which he could not furnish and went to fail. Accident in Basket Ball Gam- . At Pawnee City Thursday evening the College Girls' Club gave an exhibition basket ball Bailie in the opera house. During the game Miss Helen Lipp , in a scramble for the ball , fell , fracturing one j of tahe bones in her leg. While practic ing in Hie opera house Wednesday Miss Elva Sly , one of the university's first team players , fell and broke ner arm. Wonld-Be Suicide Fights Rescuers A German farm hand named Beachly Burthouser , employed by Gus Thimgan , near South Bend , attempted to drown himself in Salt Creek. He was discov ered by members of the steel gang who were working nearby. They went to his rescue , but the demented man fought like a tiger , and it took the strength of four men to subdue and handcuff him. Drops Dead at Telephone. John 1 * . Anderson , for the past eigh teen years a groeeryman of Beatrice , dropped dead in his store at 5 o'clock Monday evening. He had stepped back to the rear ot the room to use the tele phone , when he suddenly dropped to the floor and expired. Bold Thclt of a Horse. A valuable horse , belonging to Dr. P. II. Selter. wa < stolen boldly from a picnic grove at Norfolk. Hounds are tracing it. Young Has a Bad Name Jim Young , the negro driver who shot two men at the state fair grounds at Lincoln last week , is well known in Fre mont , which has been his headquarters more or less for the past ten years , ile has a bad reputation. liiquor License Refused. The county board of commissioners re fused to issiua liquor license at Thurs- ton. StrongCo. . . of Bancroft , win. Vogt , of Fender , and Rasmuss Jenson , a fanner near Thurston" were theappli cant ? A HUMAN TORCH. Nebraska AVonian Attempts to Cre- iimte Herself. As the result of a quarrel with her hus band. Mrs. Henry Toler. of Butte. poured kerosene over her clothing and set fire to it. Her husband tried to extinguish the flames and received burns which resulted in his death in a few hours. Mrs. Toler's condition is critical , ajid the doctors say she cannot recover. Bel ondying Mr. Toler refused to say how himself or his wife were burned , but aft > r his death hisAvife said that they wery quarreling , and she threw a toma to can at him. It enraged Toler , and he- said he would kill her. She then went into another room , saturated her clothing with coal oi ! and then struck a match and set iiie to it. She then ran into th - room whore her husband was. with her clothing a mass of flames. lie imme diately tore all her clothing from her , and in so doing was fatally burned him self. In order to put out the fire on himself Toler jumped into a UO-foot cistern. He was rescued , by neighbors who had been alarmed. \ * Toler wars insanely jealous of his wife , and they had frequent and tierce quar rels. NURSE CAUGHT UNDER TRAIN Alice Muliiie , of Cozad , Loses Both Legs Belo\v the Knees. Miss Alice Maline , a professional nurse , whose home is twelve miles north west of Cozad. and who has been nurs ing two typhoid fever patients in Lexing ton , concluded she would go home for a short rest. Train No. 5. which stops at Cozad , is due at Lexington at 1'2l > o'clock a. in. When Miss Maline ar rived at the depot yards a freight train was on the side track between her and the depot. Train No. 3 , which does not stop at Coxad , was at the depot. Mis taking this for her train. Miss Maline crawled under the freight train. Just as she did so the train pulled up to open tiie crossing. Miss Maline was caught under the wheels and terribly mangled , requiring the amputation of both limbs below the knees. She was removed to a hospital in Omaha. Very little hopes are entertained of her recovery. CHILD BRUTALLY ASSAULTED Left Bound and Gained in a Kieiii , Where She is Found. Anna Ole on. 10 years old. and small for her age. was the victim of a brutal assault at Fiemont about 7 o'clock Mon day evening. Her assailant is a man \ \ lu > has bee ? ! around town for a week , and is supposed to have left for Omaha on a late tiai'i in the evening. His name is not known. The child was found about S o'clock in a corn field , where she had been left by the brute , gagged and bound hand and foot. She had succeeded in working her mouth free ard was crying for her moth er , a washerwoman , who lives about flirtblocks distant from the scone of the outrage. Her condition is serious. CARNIVAL AT NELIGH. Plenty of Entertainment is Provided for the Crowds. Thur > day was the second day of the third annual carnival for NelSgh. The town was beautifully decorated. A varied program was arranged for each day. On Friday there was a free for all trot for a purse of 200 and another for .SI00. and a ball game between Elgin and Clearwator. The ball game was for a purse of $50. There was a balloon as cension every day at Riverside Park. The illumination of the streets during the affair excelled anything ever seen in that part of the country. FUNERAL OF MRS. G. W. ALBEE Wayne Woman Died of Carbolic Acid Taken by .Mistake. The funeral of Mrs. G. W. Albee was lamely attended at Wayne , being held undi-r the auspices of the Royal Neigh bors. The death of Mrs. Alboo was a tragic one. OtSunday , brimr in intense pain from annld trouble , she took a quantity of carboffc acid by mistake for her usual medicine. Her suffering was terrible , but death relieved her within two hours Canning Factory is Busy. ' The Grand Island canning factory is working every possible man it can place and sweet corn is proving an excellent j crop. 175 tons being canned daily. The late sweet corn is not yet harvested and i is expected to be even a heavier yield. If this proves to be the case it is possi-j ' ble that a night force will be put on at the factory. | Injured by Explosion ' i Mary Svovoda. a domestic in the home of I' . J. Murphy , of Crab Orchard , kin dled a fire with ira oline and is now lying in a critical condition from burns upon , her face , hands and chest , caused by the explosion. She was saved from being burned to death only by the action of Mrs. Murph.v in smothering the flame- . Can of Tomatoes Kxplsules. i Mrs. C. A. Bowers met with an ex- ! tremely painful accident at Kearney and ! had a narrow escape from losing her ' sight. She was engaged in putting up to- j matoes and was sealing a gallon can , when it exploded , the boiling contents bcini : thrown into her face , burning and ' scalding her terribly. i Arrested for Selling Cocaine. j \Y. B. Sloan , a Nebraska City drug- j gist , was arrested on a warrant sworn ! out by the police charging him with sell- j ing cocaine and morphine to a woman. This is the first action taken by the police since the ordinance was passed by the city council restricting the sale of such dnms. Waterworks for Osceola. At a special election in Osceola for the bonding of the town for a system of wa ter works to cost $25.000. was voted up on. Th result was a majority in favor ' of the bonds of over four to one. "Woman Dies of Lockjaw. Wednesday aftoinoou occurred the j death of Mrs. Fred Fricke. wife .of a ! prominent farmer of Papillion. Two das ago she stepped on a rusty nail and lockjaw resulted. The deceased waa 05 years of asie. Attempts Suicidf in Jail. Frank Duffy , who hails from Grand Island , was .sirested at Kearney for car rying too much boo/.e and lodged in jail , where he beiame wild. He attempted to hang himself with a blanket tied to his cell door , but was discovered in timt. Where is the venue of the crime of ivife abandonment ? If a man goes visit ing with his wife and while away from his residence abandons the woman , is ho- < \ to be prosecuted at the place where the- couple sojourned , or in the county of' their residence ? These are the questions- which Edward M. Cuthbertson. now un der sentence of six mouths in the Doug las County jail , wants to have answered by the supreme court in the hope that it will hold that the abandonment is a crime at the place visited. At the date- lixcd in the information as the time of' the abandonment , Cuthbertson , who had. been employed by a railway contractor was at Chadron , where he was visited by his wife , and on that day the couple quar reled and he left her , going to Missouri. . The question now is , where did he aban don the wife ? Was it at Chadron or was it at Omaha , where the couple hadT resided before he went to Chadron ? * * * His interference on behalf of the Win- iiebago Indians , whom he says are being.- robbed by unscrupulous speculators , lias- got Rev. Father Joseph Schell , of Ho mer , into justice court as defendant- Complainants are Charles , Thomas and George Ash ford , bankers and general merchants at Homer. The case is in the nature of a test. Father Schell recentIy called the Indians together in council , and secured their indorsement of a plaii whereby an auditing committee should ; handle the Indians' money , paying it out only to those to whom it was really owing. Father Schell was at once made- the agent of the Indians to do this. He- ' refuses to pay bills until they are iteni- ixed , and only then when the charges are- reasonable. In the case now in court the Ashfords claim that George Rice Hill owes them $109 and that Father Scheli is preventing its collection. * * * The good work of the Nebraska Pris- on Association has attracted the atten- tion of the national committee located atf Trenton , N. J. Dr. Martin , of the Lin coln association , received a letter from .A. M. Fish , chairman of the committee' on discharged prisoners , of the national , committee , asking for a copy of his re port on this matter to be incorporated in the national report. Dr. Martin is well pleased with the progress of the Ne braska association in its work with the- growing membership , which at this time is almost 500. The committee is con stantly after new members , for upon the- membership is dependent the finances , of the association , each member paying : a fee of .SI. The association will meet In Lincoln a week from Tuesday. * * * At the close of business last Thursday night the permanent school fund con tained $09,312.85 , with investments in sight to take every cent of it and monr too. The report of Treasurer Morten- sen , filed with the state auditor , sliows there has been paid out of this fund .dur- i ing the month $114,028.00 , and received into it $78,723.87. For the quarter there- was received into this fund § 339,570.18. and paid out $ GG,492.GO. 'Ihere was re ceived into the general fund during the- month $47,222.85 , and paid out $58- 134.82. In all funds , on August 1 , there- was $370,810.59. During the mouth there was received into all funds $1G3- 382.72 , and paid out $209,410.46 , of which there is in cash on hand $3G5S.2G- and on deposit $331,778.20. * * * J. C. Stevens , formerly of the state- board of irrigation , but now connected with the government survey , will leave- Lincoln the first of the mouth for Den ver , where his headquarters will be in. the future. Mr. Stevens has just complet ed taking measurements along the Nio- brara for a distance of several hundred miles , and incidentally lookintr out for irrigable lands. He found little of the- land that was Gt for irrigation , however. The river runs through a canyon and. for many miles is three or four hundred feet deep , this making the cost of get ting water to the lands too much. He- was in Sheridan , Brown and Iveya Palm Counties. * * * There are 4G3 cases to go on the su preme court docket for the September term. This is twenty-three more than the number of cases on the docket for the September term last year , and proves conclusively that the litigation in the su preme court instead of falling off is in creasing at a famous rate. With this great increase in the number of cases- which must be disposed of , there is a , prospect of another glut such as that which existed three years ago when it took the average litigant from two to- three years to have his case determined in the supreme court. The situation is- already causing speculation among law yers who have supreme court practice. * * * Thursday was visitors' days at the- capitol at Lincoln , and the officers at the state house were kept busy all the tinn5J showing curious sightseers from over the- state the wonders of the big building. While all the officials did their utmost in making it pleasant for the out-of-town people , the dome was still a superior at traction. Great numbers of people have made the ascent to the crowning lan tern , from which they are enabled to- view the entire city , and the grounds for miles nround. While the greater distance- of the 200 feet in perpendicular height must be made on a tortuous spiral stair way , no casualties have taken place so- far. far.Lincoln Lincoln is to have another representa tive on the governor's staff , and L. W. Garroute , a traveling man , is slated for' the honor. While t' o commission has- not been made out , it has been tendered him , and the recipient is already re ceiving the congratulations of his fellow travelers. Will the silver service to be desigued- ! for the battleship Nebraska member- among its pieces a punch bowl , the sym bol of Gambrinus' revels among the jun iors of the ward room ? Some of the more- far-sighted Nebraskans are already be ginning to consider that question. Most silver services of the magnitude proposed have such an accessory of the most gen erous proportions , and the committee which is to be named by the governor to" take the matter of raising funds ana se lecting designs in charco , vill have a dif ficult tifce of it