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Daily' Bee New 'Phono Number lil DopartTnanta omaha n s TYLI5U lOOO WEATHER FORECAST. For Nebraska Showers. For Iowa Shower. Kor weather report set .g 3. VOI. XL NO. ID.-). OMAHA, Wi:i)Ni:SDAY MOKNINO, 0TOr.KK 1!. 1!H TWKLVK l'Al.T.S. SI NO LB COPY TWO CKNT3. BURKEIT IN LINK Omaha H.is 124,096 WELLMAN LEAVES BALLOONFOK SHIP Crew of America Drop Lifeboat and Board Steamer Trent After Drifting Far South. Object Lesson for Young Monarchs 1011 BUI POSITION! Increase is 21,011, or Twenty Per Cent South Omaha Has 26,259 Peonle. Nebraska Man Stands Good Chance to Succeed Lolliver as Head of Important Committee. OMAHA IN C2KSUS. 1860 1,883 1B90 140,452 1870 1S.083 1900 103,553 1880 U0.&18 1910 134,096 ON AGRICULTUiti. AND FORESTRY OFF NORTH CAROLINA COAST Former Treasurer Seeks Chance to Defend Himself on Charge of Democratic Candidate. t 68,536 oorracted (Stimats. SOUTH OMAHA, Last Year Seventeen Millions Were;ie9o 8,osa 1900 ae.ooi Records for Time and Distance Are Both Broken. 1910 88,359 Used in Work. City loiuidtd In 1884. The Omaha mm to COIffllTTEE vurr 'iv. OTHERS ARE "Of AVAILABLE Warren Will Succeed to Chairmanship on Appropriations. BUENHAM IKJ i' Perkfn lloes .it Desire In I. p. .Natal Af faira 'Nrltraaknn Una Kannlciiar Hequlred fur Plncr. (From A Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON. Oct. li. (Speilal Tele giain.) Since announcenieiit of the liratli of Jonathan P. Dolllver l here has not been a much speculation aa to who will succeed i him aa United States senator as who will succeed him as head of the very Impor tant committee on agriculture and forestry. Tlil committee lias to deal annually with the treat agrlcultui al appropriation bill, which last year carried an appropriation In round figures of over $17,Xl,0.rt). Senator Frauds H. Warren of Wyoming ii the ranking republican member of the committee on ugitcultuic. but as he now is chairman of the committee on military affairs, and in all probability will succeed to the chairmanship of appropriations In the Sixty-second congress, lie is not to be figured In connection with the chairman ship of agriculture. ' Next In order la Henry E. Burnham of New Hampshire, who, while capable to direct affalis of such un important com nilt'ee. It is thought would prefer to re main as at present situated at the head of claims and take his chances of something, better when tli "shake up" takes place In the sixty-second congress. Next in ordtr ot succession is George C. I'erklns of California, the present chair man of the committee on naval affairs, a place for which he lias worked for ycuu and for which he is most eminently Adapted through curly training at sea. George C. i'erklns was born in Kenne- I bunkpoi t, Me., reared on a farm and in bis thirteenth year lie shipped aboard a Hilling ship for New Orleans and followed the calling of a tailor on ships engaged in the European trade, in 1S.M be. shipped "before the mast" on the sailing ship Galatea." bound for San Francisco, whcie he arrived that autumn. Tlita brief statement from Senator Per kins' autobiography Is sufficient to indicate that he will not desire to rrliiupitslt Ids eherlslird position of chairman of the com-, mittfl on navul affairs to go to the head of the committee on agriculture. Burkrtt Anl In l.lue. . Next in line on the committee of agricul ture is Senator Kliner J. Hurkctt of Ne biaska, a man who would make an Ideal chairman of this committee not only be cause he represents one of the greatest ag ricultural states of the Union, but because ho bus a personal knowledge of farms, fanners and agricultural affairs and condi tions in general lu the Inter-inountatn west Thu advancement of Senator Hurkett to the chairmanship of the committee on agriculture would be a Just recognition ot uno of the hardest and most persistent workers of the younger element In th 1'nlted States senate and further would undoubtedly he most ucceptahle to the farmers of the country, for in many ways he is h counterpart of Dolllver, whose death leaves the chairmanship vacant. Horn on a farm. Senator Burkett has never forgotten what the life of a furnier means and he has been one ot Dolhver's most urdriit supporters In everything that would ameliorate the condition of farm l.fc and help the farmer in securing better results through appropriations to the Department ot Agriculture looking to those ends. Then again Mr. Hurkett Is a member of the committee on appropriations, and as nearly all chairmen ot important commit tees are members of the appropriations committee. It Is wholly probable that Hurk ett may be selected Immediately after the convening of congress to take charge of and prepare the next agricultural bill, for Which lie Is .eminently ijuullfied. Hurkett as head of thu powerful committee of agri culture seems tht most likely choice. MORE TROUBLE IS IN SIGHT ( IhmIi llrlwrra W oiiilna Cattle and &heemeu la Looked (or BOOB. ISASIN. Wyo., Oct. 18.-Special.-Mor tiouble between sheep and cattlemen la threatened In the Ten Sleep country, south of here. lteeently several stack of hay contain inn 100 tons, belonging to Jacques Alle muiid, a btinhcr of Joseph Allemaud, who vas asa.-sinated by George Sabin, Ed Kuiou. M. A. Alexander. Herbert Hrlnk und Thomas Dixon at the mouth of Spring .ink. April 2, lJOi, and who are now serv ing long terms in the state penitentiary for the crime, was destroyed at the itfuch of Dr. Walker, occupied by ' W. S. OeJaud, fourteen miles above Honanaa, and the fire was ol lm miliary origin. Allciiiand. who lives In Johnson county, pun based the. bay and Intended to w Inter several bands of sheep at the Walker isnch. The peisons who committed the ei line are suspected, and detectives of the Wyoming Wool Growers' association will be placed on the trail at oueo. It Is known mat sluing feeling against the sheepmen exist lu the Ten Sleep country, eioclally since the conviction of the five cattlemen, but Hut is tl. e first tune since the memo lable Spring creek murdt-is that a crime has been commuted in this becllon. GOV. STUBBS KEPT AT HOME Has Mleht Keirr and Molts Cans I alanlait for a Krw !. lOI'KKA. Kan., Oct. V. Governor W. R. Stul bs was confined to h i tioni' toflay wuh a slight feer. Il sient the lust week in u tour of the southwestern coun ti. u an automobile and followed It up uh a day of speech making In St. Louts on Sunday. Ills physician said his illness was not serious, thoush It might compel tha auandumrtat of his cmp4'nln- lu. (r'rom a Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON. 1). C. Oct. 18. (Special Teh aiam. The population of Omaha is l-4.c', as compared with lftJ.DSi in 1900. j ami U'),i:,i It) lxyo. The increase from hH0 to 1310. therefore. Is 21. ."ill. or 21 0 per cent. las computet! with decrease for the preced 15 OTHER JOB j dwadi of 37.W7. or 27.0 per cent. t. ' The population of South Omaha Is JU.2jD, 7- compared with "S.OOI in WOO, and K.l,2 ' t.'.HI. The increase from l'JOO to 111 10, r Tore, in 2V. or 1.0 per cent, as coin J, with un increase for the preeedins, f lT.'.KU, or lUi.j per cent. r. r , c J linalm-Suuili uniah consolidation pi i gone through the total pupu- lat. i combined city would have ap peal vj, ull in the olflclal figures of the i uis. Delay In the hope that th'.s i. ght be achieved is one of the rea sons why tho Omaha llgures lias not yet been unuounced at Washington. Concern ing this the Commercial club through J. M. Guild lianlsuedthefollow Misstatement; "When the people of South Omaha soma weeks ago broached to the Omaha Com mercial club the subject of the consolida tion of the two cities and on the predic tion that this would carry in South Omaha if submitted to a popular vote. It was generally believed that the opportun ity for Omaha to derive any benefit from the increase In population hud passed. The. matter was, however, taken up with Washington at once and In view- of the poslblllty of the union of the two munici palities und the short time within which the question would be deeded, an arrange ment was made whereby the figure would be withheld and not be announced until afler the election. Then when made, the separate and combine..! population could be given so thut although they would each appcra as of date April ID, 1 y 1 0 , the statement , In a foot note or otherwise nculd have been made lhatslnce. taken the two cities had merged. Omaha wouid thereby have been enabled to make use of the 'Greater Omaha' figures and the people of both towns would have been benefited accordingly." Winner of The B Priie, Last April The Bee offered four prizes for the closest guesses as to the popula tion of Omaha. The first was to be J10 for the one who guessed closest to the official figures and S3 for each of the three next best. 8. It. Kenln. 1X4 O street, Lincoln, Neb., on April 6 filed an estimate at 121.000 and Is therefore within nipety-six. ot the exact number.' lie wins first price. ' ' ' On April 24 E. U. Mlessler of Columbus, Neb., filed a guess of 124, 202, which puta him second. F. Hober of Council Bluffs, who comes third, filed his estimate on April S, putting the number at 12i,4a8. On April 11 W. M. Wheeler of 315 South Kleventh street, Lincoln, put In his fig ures at l-t..Vtl, and he gets fourth money. A number of othor guesses were between 124.000 and 12.".000, but the four given are closest to the actual figures. POPULATION OF THE BAY STATE Twenty Per Out Increase la Shown DarinsT the Laat Tea Years. WASHINGTON', Oct. J8 The I state of Massachusetts has a population fit 3,.16,tl(i, according to the enumeration made In the thirteenth census as announced by the di rector of the census today. This is an in crease of Mil.070, or 20 per cent, over the population of 1W0, when the total was 2.SOT..346. The Increase from 1SA0 to hMO was 5t,403, or 3T..3 per cent. The population of Clay county, Nebraska, Is 15,72i, as compared with 15,735 In 19u0 and lG.SlO in 1H90. v The population of Rock Rapids, la.. Lyon county, Is 2,005, as compared with 1,768 In 1!M) and 1.214 In 1S90. In lo Massachusetts was the sixth stattJ In the union in point of population, but In l'.WO Texas, forced. Massachusetts Into seventh place. Whether Massachusetts will retain seventh place in the in 10 census cannot be determined until the report has been completed, Indiana la believed to be pressing close to Massachusetts for seventh place. Th J population statistics of the thirteenth census were Issued for the following cities today: Shenandoah, Pa., 35,774, an Increase ot S.453. OC :i.81 per cent, over 20,321 In 1909. Norrlstown, Pa., 27,876, an Increase of 6. 610. or 25. J per cent, over 22,265 In 1900. ANOTHER BOMB FOUND IN PARIS plosive Machine Located Beside Harraeka of the Republican . Gnard. PARIS. Oct. 18. Another bomb was found on the Quui Les Celestlns today beside the barracks of the republican guard. The train service was normal today. Tin' government Is continuing its negotiation with the companies In an effort to secure a general scale ot wages. , - . Omaha Has Champion Eater; Devours Pig at Meal The city of Omaha refuses to be besien in any department of human endeavor. the boasts of' I Spurred on to action by ouier cuies aooui ineir ciianipioo caieis. the loyal people of this town have un earthed in their very midst a fabulous monster who Is athlete. ortsman, mer- chant and champion eater all Jn one, and combination of all tint people produces a bulk of 0 pounds weight. On 14 recent hunting expedition this num. who iasen among his business e.-aoeiates as a sane and normal bHng, ate this lay- out at one meal: Seventeen catfish, large sire, au naluisl; three sprin? chickens. fried, one-half pe- k or potatoes, assorted, and four cups of coffee a la bucket. A lii)Sr w no was uoacguaanlad Ith th patuts of this duo k outer compU- CALLED FOR HELP BY WIRELESS Messages Stated They Wanted to Abandon the Airship. AERIAL VEHICLE FLOATS AWAY Men Are aved Only by Fortunate Meeting with Reaener and Art Taken un Board Wlthoat Difficulty. NEW YORK. Oct. lS.-The attempt of the Wellman airship, America, to cross the Atlantic ocean came to a thrilling and dis astrous close today when tho British mail steamer Trent picked up Wellman and his crew from the airship, 375 miles off the North Carolina coast. , The range of wireless had swept the en tire north Atlantic, bringing no word from the airship for two days. The last came at l.':45 Sunday off Nantucket. It was forty-four hours after this that the rescue was accomplished. Tho America has undoubtedly broken all previous records, both ns to tlmo In the air and distance covered. The previous time record, that of Count Zeppelin, was thirty-seven hours. Tho America's time up to 8 o'clock this morning would be three full days or seventy-two hours. The previous distance record was that of Count Zeppelin, 870 miles. The America's dis tance covered Is somewhat conjectural, but It appears to be about equal or greater than tho Zeppelin record. Airship la Mgnted. ON BOARD STEAMSHIP TRENT, at sea (Via United Vireless to the Associated Press.) At 4:30 a. in. today tho steamer Trent sighted the airship America and wireless communication ' was established. Irwin, the operator on the airship, in formed Ginsburg, the operator on the Trent, that the airship, America's, crew wished to abandon the balloon. Wireless communication was kept up from this time on between the airship and the steamer. Daylight was rapidly approaching and the Trent was requested to follow the America, which was then drifting at the rate of twelve miles an hour. After a council un the airship It was de cided the best means of rescue was to launch the lifeboat. Hut this was such a hazardous undertaking that much time elapsed before the maneuvering was (xe culed, a the tall of the airship, consisting of tanks of gasoline and wooden blocks, threatened to capsize the lifeboat as It was dropped from the balloon into the water. The danger was at 1 t overcome and the operation wus carried out with success. In the operation the trailers struck wireless operator. Jack Irwin and Louis Loud, the engineer, and also knocked a small hole in the side of the lifeboat. America Floats Away. The airship Immediately on being re leased from its weight of crew and boat shot skyward as the boat shot downward. A moderate sea was running at the time and after some slight difficulty the crew were taken on board together with the lifeboat at 7:30 a. m. All the members, of the crew are well after a thrilling experience. Wireless telegraphy has distinguished itself by show Ing the great assistance In accomplishing the work of rescue. The Morse lamp signalling also took a great part in the communication between Jack Irwin and the officers ot the Steamer Trent, which gave the signals leading to the rescue. ' The crew was picked up in latitude u..ti north, longitude 2. IS west, where the America was abandoned. Wellman said that the airship had been blown far out of its course so that It was inadvisable to proceed. Taft Had. Been Anxious. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. News of the rescue of the crew of the dirigible balloon America reached Washington about the time the Navy department and the revenue cutter service, at the Instance of President Taft, were preparing to dispatch vessels to search for the Wellman party. Army and navy officials were much sur prised to learn that the America had gone so far out of Its course and rerarded it as a remarkable circumstance that Its passengers had been picked up. They de clare the flight is wonderful, even though Wellman did not realize his ambition to land on European shores. General James Allen, chief of the signal corps of the United States army, expressed grave fears for the safety of th balloon ist a short time before news of the rescue came. He said that In a recent talk with Wellman the latter had Indicated that h placed little confidence In the collapsible lifeboat carried by the balloon and did not think much of the chances of hi crew If It became necessary to descend at sea. SaOYZsfXHTa) Or OCXAJT STEAMSHIPS, Fort- Arrived. Suit HhCMEN Oruuv K. I ANTWEKP. Upland Mo.NTKKAl. Mount Temple. KKWYUHK P.nl.nd NEW VOKK Kmdam mented hi in on the fact that he had shot dozen ducks, but he replied sadly that ,an 1 "v 'th0"' having something In e:. t imr In mhll For dinner he prefers a whole roast pig. with sweet potatoes, and two or three pumpkins pies. He is noticeably careless about desserts and a mere handful of pies ! will content him. The high cost of living stabs him most 'painfully at breakfast, Iv.r he can hardly .get along without a dozen and a half of 1 filed raits. With thl he wants a nieasurs o two of oatmeal, but for breakfast coffee ' Is merely nominal. Once this man was a champion base ! ball player, an1 l still active and nimble I with hit 9)0 pounds. His only regie! lu hi ! pgi.ullar gift is that he la navsr a.kU to I dies at U am plac twlca. From the Chicago Evening Post. D0LL1YER FUNERAL PLANS Many Leading Men Will Speak Over Bier of Dead Statesman. DR. FRANK GUNSAULUS TO TALK Senator tatnmlaa will Make Addrena on Behalf of tailed states Senate Nervlres Outdoors to Ac conimttdata Crowds. , : -V ,i- FORT DODGE, la , O !t , 18 (Special.) Final arrangements have been made for the funeral and burial of Senator Jonathan Prentiss Dolllver, who died last Saturday evening. The services will be Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock on the residence veranda which overlooks a spacious lawn, where it is designed to accommodate the thousands of visitors who will be In at tendance. The time when the body can be viewed has been extended, and Wednes day afternoon from 2 o'clock until evening the casket containing the body of the dead senator will repose on the veranda. Thurs day, from 9 a. ni. until 1 p. in., the casket will rest on the veranda and visitors to the bier will be received. A guard of militia from Company G. Fifty-sixth Iowa in fantry, will be on duty there. It is announced by those in charge of the funeral thut Fort Dodge people visit the ! Dolllver home Wednesday, leaving the i morning of the day of the funeral for out-of-town .people. Ten thousand people are expected from the state and nation. The railroads are making preparations to handle the crowds. Special trains have been ar ranged for east and west on the Illinois Central. Program of Services. The program for the funeral was com pleted today and is as follows: Dr. Frank Gunsaulus, Chicago, will pay tribute to "Dolllver the Man." Governor Carroll will speak In behalf of the state of Iowa. Senator Cummins will speak for the United States senate. George E. Roberts of Washington and Fort Dodge, director of the mint, speaks In behalf of the press. Judge W. S. Kcnyon, Washington and Fort Dodge, assistant to attorney general, peak in behalf of the home city. Fort Dodge. Rev. Robert S. Smiley, Sioux City, in be half of Northwestern Iowa conference of the Methodist church. Rev. W. H. 8pencer, thl city, "The Senator' Relation to the Home Church." -4 (Continued on 8econd Page ) fan X. riic vjcstunr; .union Tnluhaf Arrives t tj i Wu wrriva ua l;Kllii.'fi' I, rtn airiuwl wiriT U uj.rwkii. J A ''tLS . ... iihmi ,sMaraAzsti .,, awl RCCSIVGD 1835 x strut. Lincoln, m'? : Dated -y--" - -' HITCHCOCK - : ' ' "" VVm. H. Cowaill Funeral Held at Holdrege w. Hundreds of Former Friends and Neighbors Honor Memory of the Deceased Man. HOLDREGE. Neb.. Oct. l8-(fipeelal Tel egram.) Hundreds of former Holdrege and Phelps eounty friends" and -neighbors-' who attended the funeral services of Railway Commissioner William H. Cowglll this afternoon testified to the high esteem In which he was held in his home city. The services which were held at the local opera house, were conducted by Rev. O. O. Rennet, of the local Episcopal church. Jacbln lodge No. 14(5, the local chapter of the Masonic fraternity of which Mr. Cow gill was a member, attended the services In a body as did the woman's club to which Mrs.! Cowglll belonged, when the family re sided here. During the progress of the services every business house In the city, and all the county offices were closed. Fllowing the services a funeral procession formed and marched to Prairie Home cem etery where the remains were interred. The last rites at the grave were performed by the Masons, who used their Impressive burial ceremony. The body arrived in the city this morning on the Burlington. It was met at the depot by the Knights of Templar Commandery ' and escorted to a local undertaking establishment. The widow, Mrs. Cowglll, a son, Guy Cowglll, and daughter, Mrs. Elmer Kerge, all of Lincoln and all of whom survive Mr. Cow gill, accompanied the body here. .- Elmer Kerge of Lincoln, E. T. Rector, vice president of the Fairmont Creamery Co. of Omaha, Mr. and Mrs. V. Jugger of Okley, Kansas, Mr. and Mrs. R. Kent of Goodland, Kansas, and Mr. Martin Christ oner from Indiana, all near relatives of thffamlly, were at the funeral and H. T. ClaTke, Jr., who, as a member of the rail road commission, knew Mr. Cowglll better than did anone else In the state's official life, w as also an attendant at the funeral. RUSSIAN STEAMER GOES DOWN Sixteen Men, on the Valeria Supposed to Be Drowned in Baltic Sea. HAMBURG, Oct. 18. The small steamer Valeria from Reval, Russia, for this port, foundered In the Baltic sea. Four bodies have been washed ashore and It la supposed that the wholo crew of sixteen was lost. A Tell-Tale Telegram - INCORPDirATtP !. m .-... - , n. . . , amcnit,. bAMtt w V ,. i tyni e- rrt f w fVsw.dilsr n'.MUttort wrafanwi' it." ... t ,.SSTV-- jf f 'r' W1KE8 BAKILtY OR AN URGENT FLORIDA IS STORM SWEPI Wires Down and Communication is Almost Entirely Cut Off. WIND BLOWS NINETY MILES HOUR One Million Dollars Is a Conservative estimate Placed on the Damage Done to the Orasge Graves Alone. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 18.-At 4:20 this morning the Associated Press wire from Jacksonville to Tampa, the last thread of communication with any point in the storm swept the territory south of this place was severed. Officials of tho Western Union reported there was little probability of re-establishing communica tion this morning. With the entire Florida peninsula south of a line from Tarniia. on the Culf r..i to St. Augustine on tho Atlantic, cut off from communication of any kind with tho outside world since 6 o'clock last night, when a wind velocity varying from seventy to ninety miles an hour was reported, ac companied by ill-boding barometric changes, the effect of the West Indian hur ricane In tie trucking and fruit itrowlnn belt Is a matter of conjecture. That the property damage has been heavy is Indicated by the brief bulletins from tho eust coast and the extreme southern keys before communication was cut off. Conser vative estimates place the loss to the orange growers at II.OuO.OOu. The last message lrom Key West re ported a wind velocity of ninety miles an hour, u baromoter reading ix.so, high seas and water rising to alarming depths in the seas. Shortly after the message the wire less apparatus, the last remaining means of communication, failed. The last dispatch received from Tampa before daylight today reads: "South Florida faces a disaster unknown but which It is feared will be as bud as me memorable rrecze of Js'Jo. As yet Tampa has not felt the full force of this eddying destroyer." , Uneasy at Charleston. CHARLESTON. 8. C, Oct. 18-At 8 o'clock this morning the wind velocity here was twenty-eight miles an hour, with the barometric reading at 29 81 and apparently rising. Forecaster Grant does not think the hur ricane will strike Charleston In full force. Memory of the destruction wrought by the hurrtcan of August. 1803. has increased the nervousness here. " frrt ' ' LALL TUP V-tdsm n - - ; yXZ- ino'- ; i -. ...- '--?Ss' " 'f ' . e - , J! MEETING. WIRES REQUEST TO BYRNES Man Accused as Blackmailer by Hitchcock Would Face Him. WANTS TO MEET THE COMMITTEE Hitchcock Said to Have Evaded Pay ment of Full Amount. MORE LETTERS ABOUT LOANS Produces Two in Which Hitchcock Refers to Deals. DENIES BOUGHT THE MORTGAGE Former Trenaurrr Suva He is 4 online to Lincoln .Next Week to Take Hand In Matter and Promises Farther Developments, (From a Staff Correspondent.) DENVER. Oct. IS.-(Special Telegrain.) "Nevcr run up tho white flag." said ex State Treasurer Joseph S. Hartley tonight, as he filed his telegram to the chairman of th edemocratlc state committee of Ne braska, asking permission to appear be fore the committee with G. M. Hitchcock to refute the charges that he was a black mailer, as made by the democratic sen atorial candidate. Tho telcgrum sent to Chairman Byrnes Is as follows: "Gilbert M. Hitchcock, your candidate for United States senator, has publicly called me a blackmailer. Will you permit me to meet him before your committee and allow me tho privilege of answering any Questions ho or any member of the com mittee may desire to ask me, concerning my relations financially and politically with him? It you will grant the privilege, 1 will thank; you." Mr. Hitchcock's statement In the paper, yesterday thut Joseph 8. Hartley bad at tempted to blackmail hliu anil was using Edgar Howard for his tool was read by Mr. Bartlcy In Denver last night and the ex stato treasurer will defend himself from th churge. He said he would be In Lincoln tho first of the week, probably though he said any one who read the Hitchcock statement and compared It with the facsimiles of tho Hitchcock letters to him certainly could have no doubt of the truth of Howard's charges. In his possession Mr. Hartley has many notations and memoranda ot his trans actions with Hitchcock and these reco.dd disclose more startling sensations th.-i the records given out for publication b Edgar Howard. These papers indicate that Mr. Hitchcock settled a debt ot between 15,000 and $6,000 for 81,000 and a note for j00, a total of ll.WO. They Indi cate he not only- failed to pay the princi pal of the note, 3,ou0, but paid only about three-fifths of tile interest on th loan. Total Debt Six Thouaaud. The S3,0ti0 note was dated September 28, ltM, and bore Interest at 7 per cent. Th nolo Was renewed September 23. l&tt. Set tlement was made October 12, llioff at which time the total dobt Hitchcock owed th ex-treasurer was in tho neighborhood of SO.Ouu. At that time Hitchcock pledged the Sl.uuo and gave his note for &uo due Novem ber 12, VMM. Thl note was paid. The memorandum kept by ilartley shows thut Hitchcock lu June, ijo4, came to Lin coln to too iiiin and said he would not pay the note and that if suit were brought th state probably would take the matter up and "if any one gels the money it will be Ine stale," Hitchcock is Quoted as saying. on one occasion Hartley says he drew upon Hitchcock for J00 when the latter was In Washington and Hitchcock said If the note and evidence of Ids various trans actions had accompanied the draft h would have paid the money In order to settle the matter. The statement by Hitchcock that Bart ley had bought a second mortgage Is pro nounccd by the ex-state treasurer devoU of truth. Why Buy Ket-oud Morluagrit "Why should 1 buy a second mortgage,' said Hartley, "when there vvcr plenty ol llitt mortgage in the niurkel?" To allow Hie utter foolishness of Hllcl; cock's denial, Mr. Bartley referred to Hi' following Hitchcock letter which refer t tho loan: The fiist letter ilaud December 30. la; two days afltr I he mjiiiii.- ,,t the 4J.vm note, is as follows: "1 got your letter und a Hanged the mat, ter as suggested with Mr. ., whom 1 had not privately rnci, but who impress, me as a very strong, Clear-headed bueluta! man. Thank ou " The following loiter lefers to a second renewal ol' the note: "Dear Lanky: Please do not forget to speak to . lie has not yet heard from you. I do not like to ask it aa a favor from lain, aithuu.h 1 think h wou.J be glad to oblige Jo-i " This letter was diled May 14, 1XS3, and war. signed S.I. II." "Dots this look liLc. Mr. Hitchcock toid the truth when he said Hartley bought a Kccoiil mortgage?" jcmaikid Mr. Bart, ley. M Hailley denounced as untrue th, statement by Mr. Hi'chcock that tl. lattef