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The Valentine Democrat VALENTINE , NEB. L M. IUCE , Publishes COLLISION IN A FOG FAST MAIL HITS A PEMNSYL. VANIA FREIGHT. ifhreo Men Killed and a Carload ol Rnce Horses Destroyed Freight Train Losing Time Cause of the Wreck Fatal Auto Accident. Three men were killed , one man was in jured and a carload of race horses e-ithci killed or so badly ii > j < u > fiel that they had ( o be shot , as the result of the coliisier.i at the junction of the LyLens Valley branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad , a milesouth of Millersbiirg , I'a. . Sunday. The dead are Theodore Scot I. Northum berland , fireman ; Ralph Ilcndershof , Northumberland. freight brake-man ( 'has. E. Berry , Sunbury , freight conduc tor. The injured man is Julius Lcsli. of Sun- bury , engineer , whose l"g was crushed and body bruised. All the victims were married. The collision was between the fast No. Erie mail train , westbound , and a ca boose and box car containing a load of race heirses. The mail train was preced ed out of Ilariisburg by a freight train , which , owing to a heavy fog , lost some time * . The caboo.se anel b.-ix car accident ally uncoupled at the junction , and the mail train overlook them. Berry and Hcndoishot were in the e-a- boose when the crash came , and were instantly killed. The horses were bound for the 1 looms- lie rg , Pa. , fair , and belonged to several eastern horsemen. FOOTBALL PLAYER DEAD. jester , Pa. , Man Fatally Injured Saturday. jygill , aged 21 years , a football team , thero during a i render- . ihdo- Kaying. is accident-lily Kicked in the jain became in > ensible. He was resuscitated andatched the game from the side lines. On the way home he fell to the ground and was removed to the hospital. His death was due to hemor rhage. Summergill Avas married three months igo. AFFAIRS ARE DESPERATE. Rioting at Moscow Saturday and Sunday Was Fierce. Special dispatches to the London news papers describe the desperate state of af fairs at Moscow Saturday nud Sunday. Many persons were killed or wounded in the rioting on the Tversky Boulevard at the site of the monument to the poet Al exander Pushkin and in the great square fronting the monastery , where the troops used sabers and rifles , tiring point blank into the rioters. The authorities have issued a proclama tion giving the police absolute power to prevent assemblages. AUTOMOBILE SMASHUP. Dne Killed , Two Fatally Injured , and Two Badly Bruised. An Athens , Mich. , dispatch says : Wal ter Palmer , of Athens , was instantly kill ed , Chauffeur Blake , of Knlamazoo , was fatally injured , and Mrs. Walter Palmer and her daughter Frances were badly : ruiscd in an automobile accident Sun day two and a half miles west of this vil lage. lage.The The automobile , which was traveling at a good speed , swerved out of the road into a marsh and capsized. Mrs. Palmer and her daughter are not dangerously hurt. Bad Gaii Broken Up. With the holding for trial in the polic < - court at New York Saturday of three men said to be expert flat burglars , and two jewelers through whom the plunder is said to have been sold , the police be lieve that they have broken up a gang which during the past two years haa rob bed many hundred flats in Harlem. Mexican Bandits Co tight. Advices from Guadalajara , Mexico. state that eleven bandits engaged in the $ hold up of Manuel Parades , shipping foreman of the Buena Vista mines , and ; his two assistants six miles west of Hos- : toippaqusllo Jalisco , have been captured and shot by rurales. It was learned that fifteen men participated in the holdup. Killed by Russians. The schooner City of Papeete , whicli arrived at San Francisco Saturday from : the coast of Siberia , brings a story ol having picked up the dead bodies of nu merous Japajier-e on the Kanicliatkaii coast , who had been killed by the Rus ' sians some months ago. Sioux City Stock Market. Saturday's quotations on the Sioux City stock markot follow : Bulis , J52.00ig2.2n. Top hogs , o.20. Americans Acquire Mining Claims A Mexico Ciay special says : Messrs. Sqully , Perry and Newell. Americans , . have acquired , for the sum of $2f 00,000 , a group of mining claims situated in the state of Duranjjo. The first payment , the Jjn.oO-MJOO , has been placed with the Na . tional Bank of Mexico. : Suez Traffic Resumed. Traffic on the Suecanal , which had been delayed since the blowing up of the wreck of the British steamer Chatham tSept. 28 , was resumed Sunday. IN A FIERY FURNACE. Fifty Min Am Miraculously Savrd from Death. Advices received from Pueblo. Colo. , state that a defective electrical generator started a destructive fire at the Fremont ; -oa ! mine near Florence , Colo. , at about noon Friday. All the works , save the air shaft , were destroyed. By the prompt work of their compan ions the miners who were in the under workings of the Fremont mine were rest cued alive through the air shaft , which was being slowly burned. The men were in the main working shaft when the fire first started , and were unable to get to the surface by reason of the flames having destroyed the main shaft. Superintendent McCallister , real izing their danger , signaled them to hast en to the air shaft , and ropes were let down to rescue them. They acted at once , and all the available men in the camp were fighting the flames , which were ex tinguished about it o'clock in the after noon. Superintendent McCallister and twenty men were rescuing the men in t shaft , one at a time , the work being so slow that only two wore raised an hour. It took the combined strength of twenty men to hoist one of the miners from below. At a late hour Friday night nearly all of the men had been brought out , and the rest were in no danger. All of the buildings , including the elec tric house , blacksmith shop , boiler house , main shaft , etc. . were totally destroyed. The property loss is about $70,000. BANK DECIDES TO CLOSE. Dougherty Scandal Causes Peoria National to Go Into liquidation. As a direct result of the indictment of X. C' . Dougherty at Peoria , 111. , for forg ery Thursday , the directors of the Peoria National Bank , of whicli he was presi- lent , announced shortly after midnight Friday morning that they had decided to discontinue business and would call in the comptroller of the currency to wind up the affairs of the institution. The meeting of directors lasted all veiling behind closed doors. It was ad mitted that n disastrous run would be 5n- ivitable Friday and the only course was to liquidate at once. The loan of $100- 000 by the Peoria clearing house was tied tip in such wise that it could not be ac- . epted. It was learned that quiel with- Jrawals from the bank had been going on ill day , most of the calls coming from > anks in the neighboring towns. LION AND THE DEAR. Two Ancient Enemies May Bury the "Bone. " Following closely upon the publication jf the text of the Anglo-Japanese treaty has come considerable talk of the possi bility of an understanding between Great Britain and Russia. All the newspapers are devoting columns to a discussion of the question , pointing out that if Russia is sincere in her expressions of desire for peace in central Asia there is no reason why the two ancient enemies should not come to an agreement that will not only assure peace , but clear away suspicions that have led to the friction which has existed for years. That negotiations with this object in ricw are pending seems possible , though Jefinite official confirmation is lacking. * MURDERED IN HIS HOME. Bachelor Irving Near Des Moines , la. , is Found Dead. Ed Gresser , a bachelor , aged 35 years , residing in Alleiu township just south of Des Moines , la. , was murdered in his a home Thursday night. His remains were found Friday morning by Chas. Graves , who broke into the dwelling. The coro ner has gone to investigate the crime. Gresser was a bachelor , living olen. and it is supposed he had money in the house. a His pipe was lying beside him , whore he had been felled to the floor. OVER TWO HUNDRED KILLED 2. Loss of Ijli'e in Philippine Storm Was Great. The government reports at Manila , P. I. , show the result of the recent storm was very serious. At least 200 natives and 2.1 Americans and foreigners were killed. It was im possible to identifv many of the latter. ( * In Albav , Sorsogon. Masbate and Sa- ai mar fields have been devastated , stocks ' damaged and10 to SO per cent of the buildings , dwellings , schools and ware houses destroyed. Abscondor Pleads Guilty. * In the criminal court at Chicago Fri- iay Gus Bobbs , who absconded with $12,000 belonging to the firm of Charles A. Stevens & Bros. , entered a pica of , uilty. He was sentenced fo an indefinite i\\\ * erm in the penitentiary. , . , Industrial Crisis in Italy. dc The reports in continental papers that ftaly is passing through an industrial crisis are denied at Rome , and it is as serted that the industries of the country iry flourishing in an excellent manner. . . F.lls from Train. W At Dubuque. la. , an unknown man fell otl 'rom an Illinois Cential train Friday morning and was instantly killed. Fireman is Killed. of , Fireman George Cramer fell from a Northwestern Tar.ia. la. engine near , and by was killed. fore Tzifi to Manage Canal. It has been definitely decided at Wash- .iiglon that the management of the isj'.i- frc mian canal shall reimun under Secretary sei Taft. The matter w.is discusscel after igan cabinet meeting Friday , when this opi ouclusioii n as reached. ab Trxit * Oil Goes Up. A Beaumont. Tex. , dispatch says : A ] straight advance of 3 coals on Texas dis crude oil has been posted by the Texas an company , in a King a total rise of 5 cents bei during the past two wccis div UNCOVER A STEAL. j Prominent Peoria Educator In | volved in liifj Tliefc. N. C1. Dougherty , for many years su perintendent i of schools at Peoria , 111. , and \ one of the most prominent educators in i the country , is under arrest , following an i indictment by the grand jury charging forgery. Dougherty was rr'eased on a $ . ° . ,000 bond. I IIis arrest fallows most asround- | ing i revelations by the grand jury , now ' in i session , which has been examining the books of the IV.ria school board. With in a comparatively brief space of time a shortage of $7. > , COO was discovered , but a further discovery was made that the peculations have been extending over a long term of years. The shortage wil1 reach hundreds of thousands of dollars. The arrest followed an investigation by the granel jury on charges brought against Prof. Dougherty that the ac counts of the school funds which were de posited in the bank of which he was pres ident were being manipulated. Tho in- vcstigation resnlteel in the discovery that I here was a shortage of at least $ ( JU. 000. 000.The The investigation covered only the pe riod from January , 1001. The grand jury , it is staled , will investigate the en tire record of Prof. Dougherty as .super intendent of se-hools , and it ' : ; believed a much greater shortage will be found. Psof. Dougherty was first arrested o.-i a charge of forgery , the specific charge being that lie had forged a voucher foi $1 ( i4.)0 for coal. He promptly furnish ed $ . " > .OfiO bail. The indictment and ar rest on the charge of embezzlement fol lowed Thursday afternoon , and 0:1 thi.- chargo Prof. Dougherty furnished $9 , 700 bail. Following his arrest cm the charge of forgery , Prof. Dougherty sent in his res ignation as president and director of th ? Pcorin National Bank. He also sent in his resignation as superintendent of schools. -Prof. Dougherty's arrest created a sen sation , lie has been reputed a wealthy man , owning much real estate , consider able western 1-iiul , and is connected with a number of financial institutions be sides the Peoria National Bank. ONb DEATH IN CHICAGO. Mississippi IVIan Succumbs to Yel low Fever in a Hospitnl. Win. Gunning , of Natchez , Miss. , who came to Chicago city a week ago , died Thursday of yellow fever. When Mr. Gunning reached Chicago he was suffer ing with the disease and was at once tak- ho hv to a hospital , whore he steadily grow woise despite the efforts of the entiro hospital staff. Gunning , who was 2J ( years of age , broke through the quaran tine ' ' at Cairo , 111. , and came direct to Chicago. His death is the first in many years that has been caused by yellow fe ver in that city. GRAND TRUNK FACES STRIKE The Switchmen May bo Called Out at Any Moment. "Eighty per cent of the switchmen em ployed by the Grand Trunk Railway be tween Chicago and the Canadian border may be called out on a strike within twenty-four hours. " Grand Master Huwley , of the Switch men's Union of America , who went to Chicago Wednesday in the hope of nego tiating with the heads of the Grand Trunk for a settlement of the strike at the Elsdon yards , and failed , made the foregoing statement Thursday. Nearly a Disastrous Wreck. The Chicago and Northwestern fa t limited passenger train , northbound , had narrow escape from a bad wreck in the Sheboygan. Wis. , yards by dashing into an open switch and into a line of freight cars. The fact that the train had slackened its speed only prevented whatwould have been in all probability terrible disaster. "Hunger Strike" General. The "hunger strike , " which began Oct. . in the woman's department of one of the large prisons at St. Petersburg , de voted to the detention of political offend ers , has become general. For three day ? all the inmates of the prison have been refusing to eat as a protest against rouuh treatment. Valuable Collection Stolen. Rev. Jeremiah Zimmerman , of Syra- cuse. N. Y. , the well known numismatist and Egyptologist , who stopped over in Paris on his way to the United States from Egypt , was the victim of thieves , . who stole hi * entire collection of ancient coins , medals and cameos , valued at $200,000. Held for Bij Swindle. . Charged with swindling Henrv F Wheeler , a wealthy farmer of Stratford , Conn. , out of $17,000 , Frank L. Rogers. JJ \ attorney of Bridgeport , and D. K. Tripp. a New York business man , are un der arrest. Fourteen Men Are Killed. Fourteen men were killed and two in jured Friday by a cave-in at the Ver mont Slate Company" " quarry near Gran- a . ville. N. Y. Among the dead is J. B. Williams , president of the company. Thf others were .Hungarian laborers. cr Suicide of a Prisoner. St. Louis : While waiting the arrival a patrol wagon after his arrest on a , , t forgery ' charje , Thomas G. O'Connor , 40 years of age , Sunday committed suicide drinking carbolic acid. He died be he could be sent to the city hospital Michigan Brewers Unite. A Detroit , Mich. . Free Press special from Grand Rjpids , Mich. , says : Repre ton sentatives of twenty-eight central Mich the breweries met here and formed n co hiLi operative brewing company , representing Li about Stf.OOO.OOO capital. rew Has a Cure for Tuberculosis. be Prof. Behring. " of Paris. France , thr discovered of the anti-diphtheria serum , announces he has found a cure for tu berculosis , the nature of which he will fC livulge next August. thPC STATE OP KEBEASKA NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON- DENSED FORM. Franchise of the Sioux City , Homer anel Southern Railroad' Company Expires Doubtful if the Enter prise Will be Revived. A Dakota City special says : Midnight Saturday marked the expiration of the frane-hise granted the Sioux City , Homel and Southern Railway Company by the board of county commissioners for the purpose of establishing a street car line between South Sioux City and Homer via this place. On March 30 , 1003. the board of ( county commissioners granted right e > f way along the highway to the proposed line , giving the company eighteen months in which to install and operate the Hue. During that year some work was done e > n the line and during the summer of l')04 ) tiie grade was completed nearly tho entire way from South Sioux City to Ho mer and ties and rails were laid from South Sioux City to a point about a mile west of this place. During the month of October last year a gasoline propelled car was installed ou tiie line and after several weeks' futile ef forts in trying to establish passenger serv ice , it was abandoned. On Oct. 22. 1004. ( 'apt. R. A. Talbot. promoter of the road , appeared again before the board of coun ty commissioners and asked to have an extension of the time in which to estab lish service , which was granted the fran chise being continued until Sept. 3' ) , 1.j. ! ) ( ) At the time the first franchise was grant ed J. S. Lawrence , representing the Sioux City Traction Company , appeared before ; the board and asked that his company also be granted a franchise and that Ihc first company to have a line into Dakota City be recognized as that holding the franchise. This the commissioners failed to grant. Mr. Lawrence offered the fur ther proposition on behalf of his company that upon the expiration of ( 'apt. Talbot's franchise his company be given thirty days in which to extend its line to Dakota City , but this also was refused. Now the Sioux City. Homer and Southern Rail- way has held a franchise for over two and one-half years and Dakota City no nearer rapid transit connection with Sioux City than it was a elecado ago. ago.The The county commissioners meet soon , when the matter will probably come up for 1 action again. It is doubtful if anoth- er extension will be granted the Sioux City ( , Homer and Southern Company un less 1t 1 they can make a showing sufficient 1t to t prove beyond doubt that they have the means at their disposal to complete the work undertaken. There is strong talk if the commissioners should extend fhe franchise of taking the matter into the courts. The board of county commissioners Wednesday granted the Sioux City , IIon uier and Southern Company an extension to its franchise for thirty days. A BIG MEETING. Eleventh Annual Session of Feder ation of Women's Clubs. Fully 200 of the most representative women of Nebraska are in session at j Lincoln at the eleventh animal meeting of the Nebraska Federation of Women's Club. Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker , of Denver , president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs , was the guest of honor the convention during the entire session. The prediction that there would be no real issue at this meeting promises to , prove untrue , as the directory at a pre liminary meeting passed a proposition which will be presented to the convention providing for an amendment to the con stitution Avhieh will make future state meetings biennial instead of annual. V - this plan has been strongly opposed ! in the past , it will hardly be carried with out a struggle. The directory further recommended that : district vice presidents be made dis trict presidents and admitted to the direc tory : also that adjacent districts com bine their annual conventions when pos- "ble and bear their own expenses. WOULD KILL HIS FAMILY. Joe Tjnrkins is Placed Under Ar rest nt Beatrice. Too Larkius. a farmer living ten mile ? southeast of Beatrice , was lodged in jail a Monday night by Sheriff Trude , accused of trying to kill his wife and two chil a dren , who escaped to the home of a neigh bor. Larkins shot at his brother George , who tried to protect the family , but the di shots went wide of the mark. diw , George Larkins was released Wednes * w day after he had entered into an agree A ment to allow his wife a divorce , turn til over all his personal property to her and _ . . _ _ _ . . _ _ * 1. I. A 1 * i ! * J 1 1 give her the custody of their three chil- tlren- ; , Lid AYas on in West Point. Sunday for the first time in over twerst- t.v years , the "lid' ' was on in West Point. The saloons , business houses , barber shops and butcher shops were kept tight closed all day. A petition to the city authorities was circulated and signed , with the result that all business in buy ing and selling will be discontinued here after on Sundavs. 15ouml Over to Court. The preliminary examination of Chas. Crook charged wiht criminal assault upon ne 4-year-old girl at Diller. was held be in. fore County Judge Boyle and the ac bti cused was held in $1,000 bonds to answer st the charge at the next term of district si court. He was unable to give bond. she Hessian Fiy is Numerous. John Shove , a prominent farmer and stock raiser living northwest of Beat fir rice , reports that the fields where there di.- are weeds and a volunteer growth ef tomi wheat the Hessian fly is exceedingly nu mi merous. fa Child Dora on Train. A woman passenger aboard a Burling train stepped into the lavatoray about ca time the train left Crete and gave en birth to a child. She was en route from col Lincoln to Dillor. and after the train road reached Wymore the woman and child diet were < icnioved to a hotel , where they are being cared for. Celebrate Golden Woddiug. Mr. and Mi's. David E. High , pioneer t.v settlers of Cuming County , celebrated PO their golden wedding last week at West ing Point. O1H MAN BEHEADED BY TRAIN. Frank Miller Instantly Hilled at South Omaha. Sunday afternoon a Rock Island freight train ran over and killed Frank Miller at II Street in South Omaha. Railroad men who saw the accident say the man was walking north on the tracks when the train from the south whistled and he stepped from one track to another and was struck by tiie freight. The man's head was severed from his body and pieces of the head and body were scattered along the track for about a block. So badly was the body mutilat ed that a description of the remains could not be given. A portion of n brown mus tache was found. The man was a labor er , but there was nothing to show who he was , except a receipt for $1 paid to Shel don & Landon. Omaha , on July 13. On this receipt tiie name of Frank Miller was given. Late Sunday evening I he man was posi- lively identified as I-'rank Miller , a labor er who was formerly employed in ihc Ciiclahy packing plant. He was a mem ber of the Ancient Order of United Work- men , lodge No. C ( > , and was unmarried. PAT CROWE'S REQUEST. Wants the Douijlas County Officers to Escort Him to Nebraska. Sheriff Power , at Omaha , has received a telegram from Pat Crowe himself in which Crowe asks the sheriff to go to Montana to bring him to Omaha. In his telegram Crowe says that ho will make jio effort to avoid extradition in case the sheriff goes after him , but that unless he does so Crowe will make crery effort to prevent his being brought to Nebraska. The sheriff has taken no action in the matter , and will co-operate with the Omaha police authorities. The allegcel confc-s.-ion of Pat Crowe to the kidnapping1 of Eddie Cudahy five years airo. in which Crowe implicates the boy in a conspiracy to wring $2f .000 from the boy's father , Edward A. Cud ahy , is given little eirdence in Omaha. A LADY tSURGLAR. Dressed in Male Attire , She is Un- tier Arrest at Hnlliim. Town Marsha ! J. A. Went : : , of Hal- lam , arrester ! two persons Monday on th charge of rubbing a school house in the neighborhood of the village , only to find after some questioning that one of them was a woman who had assumed the mas- culine attire. They gave the names of James and Ella Gifford and claimed that they weifi husband ami wife. Tiiej * claim to have come from Chicago. I The woman was dressed in black trouaJ J cis. cofit and vest and wore : i pink shirt i and a crushed hat. ? > Irs. Gifford said she formerly lived in Cedar Falls , la. , and was married in Anoka , Minn. Close Call rr Thresher. Rufus Str.iiigh. near Pickerel ! , was crossing a field with threshing outfit. when the engine set fire to the stubble. The flames , fanned by a strong south ' wind , soon enveloped Strough and his ! team. lie fell from the machine and ' was rescued by several other threshing men who Avi-re following close behind , lie was .seriously burned about tho face aim body , but it is thought he Avill re cover. The threshing outfit and team was saved , although the hair was singed almost entirely off the horses. Stranger Passes Forged Checks.- A man who gave his name as II. Milton passed a forged check on N. Sampler , a Fremont merchant. The man met Mr. Sampler at the store by appointment to purchase quite a bill of goods. lie picked out about $24 worth and gave a $40heck j purporting to be signed by R. E. Gould , ' a contractor at the sugar factory , in pay ment , receiving $10 in cash. The clearing house rejected the check as a forgery. Fatal Accident Near Papillion. Clans Harmsen , a farmer living one and one-half miles east of Papillion" , was probably fatally injured Monday after noon by a Union Pacific train. Mr. Harmsen was driving some cattle across the track , when the horse he was riding became frightened and stepped directly in front of the rapidly approaching train. The animal was instanlly killed and his rider Avas thrown about forty feet. Death of Prof. Co Witt D. Brace. Prof. DeWitt D. Brace , head e > f the physics department of the University of Nebraska , elied Monday as a result of blood poisoning following an operation on , carbuncle. Ur. Brace was a native of j to New York. 4(5 ( years eif age. and occupied A chair in the University of Nebraska eighteen years. He survived by a wife of Wants $5OOO Jamages. , , John S. Lewis has filed a suit in tJie district court against the Nebraska City water and light company for $5.000 dam sti ages. ! Lewis was severely shocked on th Aug. 22 by his back coming in con fo tact with a live wie. He was terribly foH burned and was rendered unconscious , ha and in his petition claims he wa < perma th nently injured. re Gets No License. fn The Bankers' Union of the Wold has failed in an action to compel State Audi tor Searle to is.Mte a license to do busi CO ness in Nebraska. Searle refused permis en sion and the company , an Omaha frater in nal concern , applied for a writ of man co damus compelling him to issue the cer fir tificate * . This the supreme court Satur fir day denied. he ou Woman Injured in Runaway. al Mrs. Minnie Schrader , who resides the near Prosser , was badly injured at Hast the ings in a runaway. In jumping from the buggy she was thrown against the stone steps < of the Picsbyturian church. Be sides receiving a severe cut on tho head bo sustained a fracture of her left leg. gr of Turley's Sentence Affirmed. ing The supreme court Friday evening af tei firmed the decision of the Hall County day district court in sentencing Win. Turley da.we seventeen years' imprisonment for the lee murder of Norman T. Bliss. The two sil farmers quarreled : tnd Turley shot Bliss. 15. Was Accidental. ] Tho coroner's jury empanneled in the urer case of J. E. Yoorge. the Rock Island § < engineer who was killed Sunday in the No collision with an iron brace on the rail cei : bridge at Clatonia. rendered a ver- P finding that the injury was purely ac- of cidental. rode pei Proposition Postponed. the At a meeting of t'.ie advocates of coun the division held Mena. it was voted to ? 1. postpone : submitting ti : ; > question of divid of Custer County until the fall election the year hence * ? y The report of State Treasurer Morton ECU , issued Saturday , shows tfiat the to tal cash balance of the stale at the closo ' of business is $2Sr , SUG.14 for nil fund4" as compared with a lotal balance ol 9430.709.87 at the close of August and ? J5o3,7S3.04 at the close of business tho month previous. One of the big items ol decrease has been in the cash of the per manent school fund , which stands at $47,407,23 for the close of the current mouth , as compared with $ l.T7,3Gi.59 shown by the last monthly report and MS,2l3.'i. . for the end of July. This de crease bears witness to the decrease in receipts since July , due lo the fact that real estate obligations were liquidated with considerable promptitude. In lien of general fund receipts the cash of the permanent fund has been invested in the general fund warrants issued in pay [ ment , of current expenses during the pnst two months. The general fund has re mained fairly constant at a low ebb. At the end of July there was $4,209.SO , a month later it was $4,377.09. at the close of business Saturday it had risen to $18- 301.81. The temporary school fund is beginning to grow again. At tho end oC July it contained a tolal of $133,802.87 , which reached $103.373.34. * * * Deputy Auditor Cook has rejected the claim of the Van Dorn Iron Workst of Cleveland , O. , for a $ ; > ,320 balance due on tho $60,000 contract for the installa tion ol"steel ceils at the state peniten tiary. The board of public lands and buildings has rL-commeneled the allowance of the ciaim. The auditor takes the posi tion that the terms of the contract call t.ii ing for the installation of 240 cells has iin not been complied with because six of the cages have not been fitted up and con.- nevtcd to the sewerage system. The man- nfaclttrcr is willing to do the work , but the : state board was unable to provide any place for the erection of tho cages , the west cell house having been filled to. the ceiling. Tho oSicial says that justice/ / may domund the payment of the claim/ / especially in view of the attitude of tho members of the jj-ard , but that he has no right to vary from the terms of the con tract. o * * The report showing the condition of th < ? state banks of Nebraska at the close ot business Aug. 25 , issued Saturday by Sec retary Royse , of the state banking boardp : indicates : that the total deposits have in.- ireased $0,000,000 since the date of tho ast report , making the total $50 , > S3- , 4)41.22 ) , and the total for the consolidated banks l , slate and national , over $130,000- ' 000 , an increase of nearly one-third in lit tle i ] more than a year. A significant fea- . ture of he report is the fact that the'total of loans and discounts remains about con ; slant ) at $37,4if,2r ; S..jS , which is pretty close to the total shown by the report for May 29. This is taken to indicate a grealf surplus of loanable funds. Another sig nificant feature is the fact that tho re serve is 42 7-10 per cent , nearly three times tiie legal requirement. * s * Wool worth & McHugh , atlorneys for tiie Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Com pany of New Yorw , were at the office of the secretary of state Saturday looking up the oflicial bond of Auditor Searle. who some time ago revoked the certificate ; of Van B. Lady , the state agent for tho company. < The attorneys did not dis close their object in looking up the bond but state officials believe that it may bo the intention of the company to bring suic in the federal court on the official bond , because of alleged damages accruing from his action in revoking Lady's cer tificate. The company has an injunction' suit against the auditor pending in tho federal court. * * * Saturday Gov. ? .Iickcy issued the proc lamation announcing that a general state election will be held Nov. 7 for the pur pose of electing one judge of the supremo ! court , two regents of the state university,1 one representative from the Twenty-first district and a sonator from tho First elisJ trict. In the two latter offices there aro vacancies due to resignations. Repre sentative N. D. Jackson resigned to go oa the supreme court commission and SenaJ tor E. A. Tucker is now a member of the Arizona territorial court. * * * Chief Clark Davis , of the state hoard charities , who has the preliminaries fo the prison congress in charge , said Sat urday that the citizens of Lincoln havo promised the general committee n largq sum towards the guarantee required byi the officers of the association in return.- for tho location of tho meeting in Lincoln. ! He says that the Lincoln bushiess men } have shown a laudable desire to make tho convention a success. Requests fori reservations of space arc coming in daily , from eastern delegates. ' * * * Since July 1 between $35,000 and $40- , COO has heeu collected under the scav enger tax law and it is expected fhat ) much : more money will be paid into tho' * county treasury belween now and Ihb first Wednesday in November , when the' first public sale under the law will bej held. The county commissioners nre serl- ' ously considering having a barbecue to go along < with the sale and by first satisfying ! inner man secure better prices for land. * * * The corn banquet to be tendered the * boys anel girls participating in the con growing contest by the state department ; public instruction will be on the even- ] : of Dec. 15. Deputy State Superin-j tendcnt Bishop announced the date Fri-j . morning and also that the contestants' ' would be entertained in Lincoln with ? lectures and demonstrations on the pos sibilities ; of seed corn culture Dec. 14 and , . * * * Land Commissioner Eaton and Treas- , < Mortensen have each filed claims"for , j.70 for railroad fare from Lincoln to , Norfolk and return , which trip they rc ; cently made as members of the board ofi public lands and buildings. Secretary , . State Galusha , wbo also made the trip.j on his pass and therefore has no es.-4 peuses. This money will be paid out off incidental expense fund , which at' end of the fiscal year amounted to. 1.50 , left over "from the appropriation ! 1903. It is figured at this rate that' ' board will necessarily have a deSciem' in this particular fund.