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Uncle Sam for the transportation of
liis troops and munitions of war to the
land of Monks and monasteries where
political favorites have perhaps been
monkeying with money belonging to the
American people ! Who wants to buy
the transports ?
The Daily Omaha
SLEUTH Bee of the 16th
ROSE WATER. contains , from a
staff correspondent ,
very startling implications as to the
honesty of present Republican State
Treasurer Steuffer. The Bee charges
that there was "a rake off' " of $53,200 in
a sale of $80,000 of Burt county refund
ing bonds for the permanent school fund
to the State Treasurer.
Speaker Sears , the Bee declares ,
claims that he tilked over this bond
issue with Treasurer Steuffer , who
agreed to take them for the school fund
at 8 i ; per cent interest , but when the
bids were opened there was none from
the State Treasurer , but there was one
from W. T. S. Neligh of West Point ,
who got the bonds , bearing 3 % per cent
interest , and the county supervisors im
mediately issued to him the following :
"Tekamah , Neb. , June 21 , 1901 :
Above bid accepted and bonds sold to
W. T. S. Neligh , upon deposit of certi
fied check for $1,000. "
The check was drawn upon Treasurer
Stenffer's bank at West Point , made
payable to Neligh ,
Here Comes and assigned to W.
the Gazelle. A. Meyer , dork of
Bnrt county. Thus
far the deal seems to be regular , except
as to the neglect of Treasurer Stenffer
to redeem his promise by investing per
manent school funds in said bonds ,
drawing S ) per cent interest. The said
bonds were registered and finally Ne
ligh made payment for them to the
Deputy State Treasurer in two checks ,
one for $10,000 on the Merchants Na
tional of Omaha and one for $70,000 on
the First National of Omaha , and both
of these checks were signed by Treas
urer Steuffer , payable to the order of
Neligh. The Bee concludes that they
evidently represented the school fund
money , that the $800 premium was paid
by a check drawn by Neligh against
Steuffer's bank at West Point. The
Bee claims further that the checks had
been dated ahead , and then publishes a
letter from John G. Ashley to the
Kountze banking house in New York
City , and the reply of that concern to
Ashley acknowledging the receipt of
his check for $80,000 which is passed to
the credit of the treasurer of Burt
county.
Now comes this letter :
"Tekamah , Nob. , July 8 , 1901. Mr.
W. T. S. Neligh , West Point , Neb. :
Dear Sir Here-
Finally. with receipt No. 69
for $80,800 , paid to
me for the purpose as therein shown. I
also enclose your check No. 2,161 , West
Point National bank , for $1,000 , payable
to W. T. S. Neligh , and by you made
payable to the order of W. A. Meyer ,
county clerk of Burt county , Nebraska ,
and by Meyer made payable to John G.
Ashley , county treasurer of Burt
county. Kindly receipt for these checks.
Sincerely yours ,
JOHN G. ASHLEY ,
County Treasurer. "
The Bee claims that these bonds , sold
by Burt county to Neligh for $80,800 ,
went immediately
A Bee Sting. into the school fund
of the state of Ne
braska at $84,000 , notwithstanding the
fact that the purchase was made with
money belonging to the school fund ,
with the possible exception of the $800
check drawn on Mr. Steuffer's bank.
When these bonds were delivered to
Steuffer , the Bee charges , interest coupons
pens , amounting to the $4,000 , were de
tached and retained by Neligh as a
premium , making the investment for
the school fund on the basis of 8 4 per
cent.
The Bee declares that Burt county
has been chiseled out of $3,200 and that
a committee of W. G. Sears , ex-Treas
urer John F. Piper and ex-Senator John
F. Nesbitt investigated the records of
the state board at Lincoln and returned
convinced that the bond sale deal will
not look well in the bright light of day.
The Conservative withholds any com
ment as to the honesty or dishonesty of
State Treasurer Stenffer in this matter
until further testimony has been ad
vanced. At the present writing The
Conservative would prefer not to be in
the position occupied by Steuffer. Nor
can it conscientiously give any mitigat
ing reasons as to why Steuffer ought
not to be immediately indicted for mal
feasance in office.
Since the expos-
STATE ure of the Stenffer
TREASURER , style of pinching
school funds , by
the Omaha Bee , perhaps the republicans
would relish Crowe Pat Crowe for
State Treasurer of Nebraska ?
Crowe kidnapped only boys but
Steuffer kidnaps bonds and mutilates
them , too , if the Bosewater charges are
true. Perhaps Pat Crowe would get in
onto the republican reservation if guar
anteed the whole management of the
State Treasury.
When every man
TOO GOOD ! and woman on earth
is in good health ,
the doctors will make no wealth. When
there are no suits in court , the fee-bill
mind attorney will expire. When every
soul has religion , preachers will pine
and' piety prevail. With a world so
good , what can the devil do ?
The man from
A MISSOURI MAN. 'Missouri who could
and would make a
good president , is David R. Francis.
Many years ago
DISINFECTED , a virile , but unlet-
t o r ed , democrat
said : "I know where there are a lot of
'disinfected' republicans. " And now ,
in New York , since the smoking out of
Crokor , we know where there is a "dis- .
infected" democracy.
If New York sre-
PRESIDENT generated and de-
FAIRCHILD. Tammanyized De
mocracy furnishes
the next candidate for the presidency
against the republicans , why may he
not be Charles S. Fairohild , formerly
Secretary of the Treasury ?
It is not probable
LOW. that , the re'cently
elected mayor of
New York City is any relation to "Lo !
the poor Indian , whose untutored mind
sees God in clouds and hears Him in
the wind. " He belonged to Tammany ,
and was a chief.
The re-inoarna-
GORMAN. tion of Arthur Phew !
Gorman recalls the
persistency of his adherence to the re
publican doctrine of a Protective Tariff ,
when in the Senate of the United
States he led four other alleged demo
crats in the barbaric mutilation of the
revenue bill of the late W. L. Wilson.
Gorman converted the original bill into
and all free-traders
a high-tariff measure -
will remember that outrage.
The Palmyra
PROCESS BUTTER. Items , of Novem
ber 15 , 1901 , shows
miraculous ignorance as to the phil
anthropy of the Process butter-makers
of the United States. These benevolent
gentlemen belong to the American
Dairy Association and pass sleepless
nights in concocting legislation to re
press the manufacture and restrict the
sale of oleomargarine and bntterine in
the United States. These disinterested
ly benevolent manipulators , manufac
turers and renovators of cow butter
have long been in the habit of purchas
ing all the adult , rancid , antique butter
at the various villages , towns and rail
road stations in the country for the pur
poses of chemical resuscitation and treat
ment in dairies. The paleozoic chunks ,
hunks and gobs of malodorous butter
they pick up at country stores and
crossroads , are put through various
paces in laboratory training and finally
out with "June"'tint"
come a complex
ion , or a Jersey-Alderney-Guernsey
color , and ore introduced to the public
as the purest , sweetest , dairy butter.