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The Valentine Demoera Valentine , Neb. I. M. Rice. Publishe EEROICRESCTJE WORK MINERS FACE DEATH IN TUB WRECKED FRENCH SHAFT. Troops Have Difficulty in Keeping People from Mouths of the Pits Party of 40 Rescuers Believed to Have Been Lost. Paris advices state : The worst fears as to the enormity of the mine disas ter in the Courriere district of the Pas de Calais Saturday morning have been realized. The death list numbers 1,100 , and the whole of the region stands appalled at the terrible tragedy which has brought sorrow to 6,000 fathers , mothers , wives and children. The last great mine disaster in France occurred in 1885 when 293 persons were killed and SO injured , but that and all others sink into insignficance before Courrieres. Four hundred soldiers have arrived at the mine to assist in holding in check the crowds of distracted mourn ers. For a time hope had been held out to the people that tappings on pipes by the imprisoned men had been heard , but gradually this hope van ished and the people demanded ad mission to see the bodies and even threatened to break through the cor don of troops , who had the greatest difficulty in keeping the crowds from the pit. One man named Sylvester succeed ed in entering the mine , but he never returned. It is believed he groped about inside until he was overcome by the gases and perished. It is reported that a rescue party numbering forty has been cut off by the caving in of one of the galleries. Minister of Public Works Gauthier , Minister of the Interior Dubief and the secretary of President Fallieres remain on the ground endeavoring to comfort the distressed families of the miners. President Fallieres has given $2,000 to aid in relief measures. The ministry will add a further sum to this and the chamber will be asked to vote $100.000. Ministers Gauthier and Dubief have received complete details of the ca tastrophe from M. Lavauers , the di rector of the mine. "Of the 1,800 miners who were down in the pits when the explosion occurred , " he says , " 673 were working in pit No. 4 , 482 were in pit No. 3 , 571- in pit No. 2 and the remainder in pit Xo. 10. "Those rescued were taken out as follows : "From pit No. 4 , 190 ; from pit No. 3 15 escaped through pit No. 11 , 490 came up from pit No. 2 , and 74 from pit No. 1. A number of these were injured and some of them have died since. At the present moment over 1,000 men remain imprisoned. " BURLINGTON TRAINS WRECKED. Two Men Killed and Three Injured in Collision in Colorado. Burlington passenger trains Nos. 1 and 14 collided headon two miles west of Akron , Colo. , on a curve in a deep cut. A fireman on one of the trains was fatally scalded. Several passen- gers are said to have been injured , although this is denied by railroad of ficials. No. 1 is the westbound limited , Chicago to Denver , and No. 14 is the Denver-St. Louis train. One story is that the operator as Brush failed to deliver an order. The main line of the road is blocked. The wreck hap pened at 5 p. m. Sunday. George H. Sherwood , a weigher on No. 14 , was killed in the wreck. En gineer Hardy , of No. 14 , and his fire man are seriously scalded. Two mail clerks on No. 1 were slightly hurt. Two engines , a mail car and a bag gage car were reduced to wreckage. Fireman Bud King died at midnight and Engineer Hardy may not survive many hours. New York Car Barns Burn. Fire Saturday destroyed a large por tion of the Metropolitan Street Rail way Company's car barns at Fiftieth ptreet and Eighth Avenue , New York , and several electric automobiles own ed by the New York Transportation Company , which occupied a part of the building. The total damage is estimated at $100,000. State Control of Racing. The Chinn state racing commission bill received the approval - of the house at Frankfort. Ky. , Saturday and goes to Gov. Beckham for his signa ture. Five commissioners are to be appointed to control all the tracks In the state. Sioux City Live Stock Market. ] Saturday's quotations on the Sioux \ City live stock market follow : Butch1 1 er steers , $4.45 @ 4.85. Top hogs , $6.10. * Miss Anthony Very Low. Miss Susan B. Anthony is very low at Rochester , N. Y. , and is not ex- .pected to survive many hours. She was taken with a sudden pain in the heart Sunday afternoon and became unconscious and has remained so most of the time since. Makes 80-Cent Gas Rate. At Albany. N. Y. , the senate Thurs day passed a bill making the rate for gas In Greater New York 80 cents per thousand feel. APPEAL FOR CONGO. President and Congress Asked to In tervene. A Boston , Maus. , special says : With a view to stirring up American senti ment against the reported conditions in the Congo Free State , a public meeting was held In Tremont temple Thursday night under the auspices of the Congo Reform Association. The meeting adopted resolutions calling upon the president and congress to deal with tho situation in that country. President G. Stanley Hall presided. The speakers included Rev. John H. Harris , for many years a missionary in the Congo Free State , Rev. Herbert S. Johnson and Rev. Everett D. Burr , D. D. , pastor of Boston churches. The speakers outlined the deplora ble conditions said to exist in the Af rican state and appealed to the meet ing for support of any action which might be found expedient by the Unit ed States government. In connection with a discussion of the powers of the American government the following telegraphic correspondence was read : "Boston , Mass. , March S , 1906. Hon. Elihu Root , State Department , Washington , D. C. : Am I right in say ing regarding the Congo that your po sition is that our government does not share supervisory powers of Berlin signatories , but that you do not wish to be understood as holding that the case is closed or as declining to consid er further information as to facts , or suggestions of action along other lines ? Meeting tonight. Wish to be strictly accurate. Will use above un less corrected by you. ! [ Signed by a representative of the Congo Reform Association. ] " \ The following reply of Secretary 1 'Root was read : "WashingtonD. C.March S , 1906. Your understanding stated in your tel egram of today is quite correct. I am ' much obliged to you. Elihu Root. " At the conclusion of the addresses the meeting adopted the following res olutions : "Resolved , That as the United States was the first power to recognize the flag of independent Congo Free State , it is fitting that it should be foremost in efforts to ameliorate the terrible lot of our hopeless native inhabitants. Resolved , That we especially urge on the president and upon congress to take all possible steps either by re monstrances , by diplomatic corre spondence or otherwise to end condi tions which are a reproach to the civ ilization of the twentieth century and repugnant alike to religion , justice antf humanity. " THREE .ARE KILLED. Score More Hurt in a Pennsylvania Wreck. A Greensburg , Pa. , special says : Three Italians were killed outright and a score more injured , a number fatally , in a collision on the Pennsyl vania railroad , near Radebaugh , Thursday between a milk train and a work train filled with foreigners. The work train had just pulled onto the main line from a siding when it met with a milk train in a collision. The trains came together with terrific force , and the men and iron pipe were hurled in all directions. Immediately after the accident the crew of the milk train went to the as sistance of the injured , but were forced to flee from the infuriated Ital ians who were crazed at the sight of their dead and dying countrymen. The dead and injured were taken tf Greensburg. MUTINY ON SHIP. Battle on Vessel Lying at Dock in Brooklyn. A mutiny in which one life was lost occurred Thursday 011 board the steamer Massachusetts lying at her dock in Brooklyn , N. Y. James Slocum , a fireman , was kill ed during a revolver battle on the steamer's deck , in which the steamer's firemen were ranged on one side and opposing them were the ship's officers and members of the crew. The sounds of the fighting caused reserve police to be hurried to the steamer , but the firemen , who had started the trouble , had been driven into submission be fore the police arrived. Six members i of the crew and two officers were ar- rested and held as witnesses. f L Union Carpenters Win. The Builders' Exchange at East St Louis , 111. , rescinded the order issued Feb. 25 locking out 1,500 carpenters , as the result of a disagreement over the employment of non-union hodcar- riers. The employers agreed to in crease wages and to employ only un ion men. Evidence is Fnishcd. At Chicago Friday the government rested its cases against the packers. No announcement was made by the attorneys for the packers as to wheth er they will offer any evidence in re buttal. Seeks Quiet Life. SJ SJt At Columbus , O. , Gavin Harris , an t actor , son of the late Congressman fi fir Harris , and worth $50,000 , joined the r Third company of the coast artillery 3 Friday. He said he joined the army to get away from gay companions. Dr. Haugh is Guilty. At Dayton , O. , the jury in the case of Dr. Oliver C. Haugh , accused of M Mn the murder o his father , mother and n brother and the destruction of their , home by fire to conceal the crime , Friday evening found him guilty ot murder in the first degree. w Miss Anthony's Condition. xt : Reports from the bedside of Susan B. Anthony , who is ill with pneumonia ic at Rochester , N. Y. , were not quite s < i L encouraging SIX HUNDRED SLAIN. American Troops Crush Hostile Band of Moros. Not because of the casualties among the American forces engaged , though they were more numerous than in any battle in the Philippines for sev eral years past , but rather because of the extraordinarily large number of natives killed , the news of the battle of Mt. Dajo was received at the war department at Washington , D. C. , ( and the navy department as well , for the blue jackets were in the thick of the fighting ) with intense interest. The first authentic account came from Col. Andrews , the military secre tary at army headquarters at Manila , who had received his data by interisl- and cable from Zamboango , where the commander in chief of the Philippine division , Maj. Gen. Wood , happened to be. Secretary Taft was at the cabinet meeting when the official cable was deciphered and a copy of it was sent at once to the executive offices , and the president and cabinet listened to its reading by Secretary Taft. The Sixth infantry , which seems to have borne the brunt of the fighting , was from Fort Leavenworth and has been in the Philippines about a year. The officers of the general staff , ful ly acquainted with the habits of the Moros , say they have not the slightest fear that the Moros will try to retal iate for their crushing defeat. These officers judge from the dispatches from Manila that there were really two ac tions , the first probably a surprise and serving merely to locate the position and establish the strength of the Mo- TO defenders. This having been done the second day seems to have been oc- cupied in hoisting the artillery and ammunition supplies to positions from which to operate upon the Moro for- tress within the crater , and the second action , fought under the conditions described , on the slope of the moun tain at an angle of 60 degree , un doubtedly broke the Moro strength In that locality for an indefinite time. Gen. Wood highly commends tin work of the troops. Another acocunt of the fight states that 600 outlaw Moros were killed in the crater of the precipitous volcane five miles from Jolo. The Americans , lost eighteen killed and fifty-two men wounded , including Capt. Rivers , ol the Fourth cavalry ; Lieut. Agnew , ol the Sixth infantry ; Lieut. Gordan Johnson , of the signal corps ; Ensign Cooke and Capt. While , of the con- stabulary. The attack was under the immediate command of Col. Duncan , of the Sixth infantry. The fight last ed two days among the lava ridges , which had been strongly fortified by the Moros. Artillery had to be hoist ed by means of ropes up the last 500 feet at an ang e of 60 derees. CRUSHED UNDER AN AUTO. Italian Marchioness Killed by Over turning of Machine. ' . A Rome special says : The mar- j chioness of Corsini , former Princess Barberini , was killed Thursday even- ing by the overturning of an automo- ! bile in which she was riding with her husband , who is King Victor Imman- uel's master of horse. The machion- ess , who was 62 years of age , was driv ing the automobile , her husband , aged 69 , sitting beside her. While crossing a bridge in the suburbs , seeing a cart < ( approaching , the marchioness essayed to turn out to give the cart safe road'i way , but ran the automobile into the parapet of the bridge with such vio- ' lence that the parapet gave way and . the automobile was thrown from the bridge into the ditch fifteen feet be low , turning completely over as it fell. fell.The The marquis and the chauffeur es- caped without a scratch , but the mar chioness was crushed to death. IGNORE WHITE FLAG. I Revolutionists in San Domingo Violate Rules of War. The state department at Washing ton has received a cablegram , dated a Monte Christi , San Domingo , Friday , * saying that on the preceding day while the terms of surrender were be- , ing : carried out between the governc ment forces and the revolutionists the , r latter acted in bad faith and there a was a fight , in which two officers and six men were killed , including Gen. ' Cepin. The revolutionists escaped to the bushes. ' St. Louis Police Scandal. ' c At St. Louis two sergeants and eight b patrolmen Thursday were suspended * from the police department pending * charges , it is said , that willformally be preferred against them before the j police board. The men were until re- ' cently on duty in the central district , i which is in the center of the grand y jury investigation. c cr Wanted to See a Wreck. p Four young men , arrested at 'Pas- ? sale , N. J. , Thursday charged with at tempting ( to wreck an eastbound Buf falo express train on the Lackawanna railroad ; , have confessed this was their 6 sixth ] attempt at train wrecking. The eason for the acts was a desire to wit"V less the excitement attending a wreck. I' Patching Up Cabinet. A Paris special says : President Fal- C. Meres consulted Jean Sarrien , former - minister of justice , Friday afternoon jr nd offered him the task of forming a tt Cabinet. h D Girl's Body Identified. ' The Ethel A. Brown , whose body was recently found in the river Seine , ' Paris , and who was supposed to le lave been an American , has been tl1 dentified as a woman who came from < London. w STATE Oi1 NEBRASKA KEW/B / OF THE WEEK IN A CON DENSED FORM. Spent a Gloomy Sabbath Located In a Dark Dungeon All Day Long for Repentance Convict In Peniten tiary is Yearly Reminded of Crime March 3 was a gloomy Sabbath for Convict Andrew Nelson , one of the stripe-clothed wretches in the Ne braska state penitentiary at Lincoln. For Sunday was the anniversary of the horrible crime which Nelson commit ted upon his oldest daughter three years ago , and for which he was sen tenced to serve twenty years in pris on , and to be locked in a dark dun geon every 4th of March , in order to force the prisoner to reflect upon his awful deed. Indignation ran high in the commu nity where Nelson lived at the time of his terrible wrong to his child. There were threats of lynching , and the ropes were all ready when Nelson was torn away from the mob , hasten ed to the county seat , tried , convict ed and sentenced. And the judge , in Imposing the sentence , provided for this annual dungeon day on the 4th of each March. Nelson's daughter and wife , togeth er with eleven other children , now re- aide at Newman Grove , where they are living with friends. They are the family who , a few months ago , were robbed of their homestead in Holt County because of the fact that Nel son is alive. After having lived for two years on this homestead , which would have been theirs in three more , the family were suddenly driven off their claim jbya man who contested their right to title because Mrs. Nelson , who had filed on the land , was not the legal "head of the family , " and b cause the 'legal ' head , who was that bj virtue of the fact that he lives , was locked up in prison. Mrs. Nelson and her little children endured all of the tortures of poverty in : a lonely land , slept all in the same little J room , used chips picked up from the prairies for fuel to keep their thin forms warm , ate what they could get and no more , and worked like beavers trying 1 to make a living. Through two hard , long winters this little ; family , miles from a railroad sta tion 1 and with no neighbors to help them , suffered in their cabin , insp'red to ' endurance by the hope that some [ iday ' they were going to own a horna of 'their ' own. And then , a few weeks . ago , came a letter from the land office . announcing that their claim had been contested , on the ground that Mrs. Nelson was not the head of a family. And so , this charge being proven , they were driven off and have now gone to Newman Grove , whei-e they are living with friends. If Convict Nelson were only dead they they could have retained their home. Loses Wager Through Wind. To decide a wager , William Pape /Saturday attempted to cover the dis- .tance ] of nine miles between Pickrell jand Beatrice afoot , in one hour. He , Jefi Pickrell at 2 o'clock and arrived . at Beatrice at 3:04 , four minutes be- hind time. Pape made the trip on the Union Pacific road and would have won had it not been that he was obliged to run against a strong wind. Omaha Car Holdup. * Three white men held up a street car at Albright , a suburb of South 'Omaha < , early Thursday morning. Con ductor Flory resisted their attempts to 'rob him and one of the men shot him in the wrist and in the side. They ithen fled without securing any money. Flory is seriously and perhaps fatally 'injured. License or No License. Saturday evening several petitions were filed with the city clerk of Har vard asking of the city council the submission' to the voters the question of license or no license for the com ci ing year , and as many more names were on the petitions than the law re quires it is presumed the request will be granted. Bassctt 3Ierchant Fails. Henry Evert , who has been running it a small department store at Bassett for the last year , made an assignment f to his creditors and until all of the creditors can be heard from the store Is locked up and a trustee for the creditors is in control. The assets sur- irendered will amount to about $3,000 P and the liabilities are fully $5,000. si Teachers to Meet at Norfolk. IVg Five hundred teachers from north e ern Nebraska are expected to be in tl jNorfolk April 4 , 5 , and 6 to attend tl 'the North Nebraska Teachers' Asso- tlP 'ciation. The declamatory contest , to be participated in by the representa tives ' of schools from northern Ne braska j , will take place Wednesday , o April 4. C Cfr fr frai Unlicensed Druggist Fined. ai Dr. Chetek , who has been conduct aicl ing a drug store at Verdigris for some fc years , was arrested on a charge of tv conducting a drug store without a tc registered pharmacist in the store. He pleaded guilty to the charge and was fined $20 and costs. It is said that he Is planning to leave Verdigris. C al alP Farmer Burned Out. P F. T. Newshbaum , living near Ma- tl Bon , , lost his building , fixtures and eioi stock 1 of farm implements by fire early oi Wednesday morning , valued at $2,000. ? Insurance ' , $1,400. sc Counterfeit Coin. A counterfeit dollar was passed on . M. Coon , the meat market man in West Beatrice. The coin is a poor la Imitation of the genuine coin. It con toK tains considerable lead and Is much K heavier than those turned out at the bi United States mints. is Fatal Accident at Franklin. Lee , the youngest son of Walter Mil ler , of Franklin , was killed by being sh thrown from his horse. He was drag of ged twelve yards and was unconscious he when found , dying in a1 ut ten hours. > y BONDS FOR A LIGHTING PLANT. Grand Inland Votes for Municipal Ownership. Municipal ownership won a most sub stantial and sweeping victory in Grand Island on the proposition to vote $36- 000 in bonds for the construction of a lighting plant In connection with the already municipally owned water works plant. Out of a total vote of 1,287 the bonds carried by a majority of 567 , or by a vote of nearly 3 to 1 The two private lighting plants and especially the Grand Island Electric Company , a branch of the General Electric Company , of New York , made a vigorous compalgn in opposition , but only aided in piling up the majority , [ against them. The question has been fully investigated by the council and newspaper representatives and for weeks the press has been giving facts and figures upon the subject. No oth er question was voted upon. NEBRASKA JUDICIAL CONTEST , Many Candidates in Training for Proposed New Federal Judgcstiip. A Lincoln special says : After an exciting debate the Nebraska State Bar Association decided to indorse a candidate for the new federal judge- ship in case Senator Burkett's bill be comes a law and another district is created. It was decided to favor two districts. The Platte will be the divid ing line until the western boundary of Hall County is reached , thence north to the southern boundary of Holt and west to the Wyoming line. Tom Hunger is supposed to have the promise of the appointment from Burkett. However , he will be opposed by a dozen lawyers. Chief Justice Sedgwick will be his most formidable opponent. JAIL BREAK FOILED. Prisoners Confined at Fremont At- tempt to Escape. Ed Penn and N. W. Stafford , alias Lynch , attempted to saw their way out of the county jail at Fremont Thursday night , but were detected by a party whom Sheriff Bauman had staying in the corridor to watch. Staf ford gave up his saw , a small jeweler's tool , to the sheriff and declared it was all they had , but after staying naked in the dungeon a few minutes told him where two other saws were concealed.e They evidently had been sawing for several nights and had they not been detected would have got into the cor- ridor and probably escaped. Penn is a federal prisoner and Stafford is awaiting trial in the district court. FIGHT ON STATION PLANS. Injunction to Prevent Grant to North western at Norfolk. Injunction proceedings have been issued against Mayor Friday and the Norfolk city council to restrain them from passing an ordinance to vocate a s portion of Philip Avenue in order to 1 meet the request of the Northwestern t Railroad Company , who promise , on this condition , to erect a modern sta tion for the city at a cost of not less $ than $15,000 and probably $20,000. The injunction proceedings were filed at the instance of a few citizens o who claim that their property will be 5 damaged by the closing of the street. 1 1fi A Guilty Couple. fitl The police at Fremont gathered in tlo an Omaha pair at a lower Main o Street lodging house on a statutory charge. They gave their names as ti titl Schneiderwindt and put up money for tltl their appearance , but failed to appear. tlsi The man had plenty of cash and was si sih much agitated for fear the Omaha np- h pers would get onto his escapade. He $ was apparently a man of good stand tl . tlri ing. ri ria Passed Worthless Check. tz Hans Stolley is wanted by the offi ti cers for passing a worthless check for 3h $20 on Mortensen & Christensen at h Fremont , the complaint against him n having been filed by Fritz Schroder , who indorsed the check and had it to pay. Stolley was in Fremont enjoy C ing a good spree at the time the check fc was drawn and lives on a farm in the fc western part of Saunders County. fcoi tl Recover Long Lost Wagon. ir J. A. Wei ton , of Fremont , has suc ti ceeded in finding a farm wagon which EC was stolen from his store in Novem is ber , 1904. It was found in Omaha in fc the possession of P. Peterson at Twen fcH ty-first and Cuming. Peterson bought H from a traveling horse trader. fc Mr. Welton still has a rew ard tl for ( the arrest of the thief and hopes to ed get him. $ Street Cars for Fremont. n The Fremont Street Railway Com ai pany intends to reorganize and put in le street cars this summer. E. N. Morse , ta who was president and general mana taaj ger of the company during its brief aj existence : seventeen years ago , thinks ajPi that street cars would now pay there , PiP the city having grown since they stop ped running. Left Many Descendants. ze Mrs. Kelpha Pilgrim , aged 94 years , til one : of the pioneer residents of Dakota ri County , was buried at Huron Monday rioi from the Methodist Episcopal church. ar Mrs. Pilgrim was the mother of nine in children , sixty-three grandchildren , inm forty-three great grandchildren and twelve great , great grandchildren a W total of 127 descendants. rii Conductor Attacks Editor. Refusing to apologize in his publi cation last week for the account of an . alleged wife-beating case , which ap th peared < in the Long Pine Journal the Tl [ the week previous. C. H. Lyman , the ip 2idtor , was Saturday assaulted in his nc 3ffice by A. G. Bronson , a conductor Is n the Northwestern railway , who al IsCO : resides at Long Pine. is ] Thief Escapes. A man went to Frank Gustafson's th ivery barn at Axtell and hired a team tic ast Saturday and drove to Blooming- ed ion and sold the outfit The sheriff of edwl xearney County went down and th jrought the team back , but the thief thwl still at large. he thwi Death from Peculiar Accident. by Mrs. John Tuchel of , Cedar Townsic ihip , Buffalo County , died as , the result el ( being struck in the abdomen by the mndle of a hayfork which was kicked Of a horse. ; al Vital statistics compiled by Dr. Beward , of the board of secretaries of the state board of health under the provisions of the law enacted by the late legislature , show that during the last year for the state 5,470 deaths from 61 causes. The summary of- deaths by the month is as follows : January , 475 ; February , 60S ; March , 307 ; April , 378 ; May , 373 ; June , 332 ; July , 350 ; August. 293 ; September , 365 ; October , 724November ; , 641 ; De cember , 534. Of the 64 causes of death the largest number succumbed to infant disabilities , there beng 989 deaths of children under 5 years of ] age. The next highest number of deaths from any one disease is charg ed up to heart failure , there being 532 deaths from this cause. Typhoid fever carried of 109 persons , tuberculosis took 36i , cancer caused the death of 245 persons. Bronchitis was responsi ble for 63 deaths. Bright's disease canted off 165 , while appendicitis was responsible for 75 deaths and 200 persons of apoplexy. Paresis was re sponsible for 147 deaths. Only three , persons died of sunstroke , while te tanus was responsible for 10 deaths ; 12 persons died of accidental poison ing ; brain fever carried off 6 , while only 1 person in the state died of smallpox and only 1 person died of hydrophobia. Lightning killed 4 per sons , while 1 person was frozen to death and 35 persons were drowned. Of the persons whose death were due to animals there were 37 , of which J number 33 were males. Firearms was responsible for 43 deaths. There were 76 persons , so the statistics show , who preferred death to life and there fore killed themselves. Forty-three persons were accidentally burned to death. Lagrippe was the cause of the , death of 64 persons , while erysipelas killed only S persons. Whooping cough . was responsible for IS deaths. Alcoholism killed 27 persons. Ulcer of the stomach was responsible for the death of 20 persons. Peritonitis kill ed 92 persons , 297 people died of old age and 58 persons died as the.result . of falls. Only three persons died of locomoter ' ataxia. Childbirth resulted : in the death of 39 persons. s * * The quarterly report of the transac tions of the state treasurerwith the state's finances ending Feb. 28 show $1,009,188.41 of the permanent school fund has been invested and at this fti time not a dollar remains in the fund uninvested. The general fund at this time contains $13,288.38 , while out of tiit it was paid during the quarter the its sum of $559,776.66 and there was paid Into it the sum of $570,935.27. The temporary ( school fund contains at this time $232,981.97. The receipts of this tifl fund during the quarter amounted to $237,364. The university cash fund at this time amounts to $32,135.26. At titl the beginning of the quarter there was tlo on hand in all funds the sum of $325- 598.54 ; the receipts amounted to $2- 187,793.87 and the payments to $2- 171,129.21 , making a balance in all funds at this time of $342,105.20. Of this sum the treasurer has on hand only $6,652.88 , the remainder being on deposit. The redemption fund at t1-- ? time amounts to $5,133.74. During the months of January and February the state treasurer has reduced the statedebt $192,000. During January he paid warrants to the amount of $370,000 and registered warrants to the amount of $285,000 , while in Feb- ruray he paid off $219,000 of warrants and registered only $112,000. Secre tary of State Galushoa Thursday turned over to the state treasurer $1- 355.70 , the amount of fees collected in his office during the month of Feb ruary. * * * The movement started in Lincoln to collect money by popular subscription for the maintenance of the hospital for crippled children is not looked up on with favor by all the members of the board of Public Land and Build- Ings , which has charge of this insti tution , but instead such a course is said not to be necessary. The last leg islature appropriated $23,000 in all Cor the improvements , salaries and maintenance of the hospital for the Home of the Friendless and $10,000 tor the creation and maintenance jf the hospital for crippled and deform children. Out of the total appro priation for the former institution 514,000 : was set apart for mainte nance for the biennium. Of this imount $6,745 has been expended , leaving $7,254.07 remaining to main tain this institution for the remain- 3er of the year , ! ? Out of the $10,000 appropriated for the hospital for crip pled children $6,625 has been ex pended. , At a mass meeting of Lincoln citi- sens last week a resolution commit- ling to municipal ownership was car ried unanimously after a most strenu- jus debate , in which Judge England ind Mark Woods , the latter represent- ng the municipal ownership senti- nent , came almost to the boiling joint , Judge England declaring the CVoods brothers and others had ulte- ior motives in urging municipal own- srship of the traction lines. * * Slayers of wolves have gobbled up .14,000 of the $15,000 appropriated by he last legislature as a wolf bounty , "he claims for bounty continue to pile in the auditor's office , and though more will be paid when the $1,000 taken up it Is presumed they will ontinue to pile up until the next leg- slature disposes of them. * * * The $60,000 bond issue voted by he city of Grand Island for the erec- ion of a high school has been declar legal by Attorney General Brown , 7ho has recommended to the auditor hat he register the bonds. By those vho opposed the issue it was asserted board had authorized the election vithout waiting for a petition signed one-third of the voters. The other ide asserted the law specified the lection could be called by a vote 'of wo-thirds of the board. One section the statutes so provides and the le department held the law was good.
