Omaha daily bee., 1888-02-03
Lincoln Lumbermen Do Not Share
Reductions With the People.
THE INSANE IN COUNTY JAlLS.
Great Inconvenience Caused BY De-
laying the Completion of the
Norfolk Asylum-Delin.
Quent Counties.
fFRoM THE REEFS LINCOLN Bt-REAu


them. In the month of December lum-
Der rates were reduced some cents per
100. This represents, on common build
ing material, reduction to lumbermen
of an average of $3.50 per 1, 900, yet no
one has been able to discover that the
people have been benefited by this re-
duction. A new joint tariff sheet has
been received by the board of trans
portation that announces an additional
reduction on lumber rates to Lincoln to
take effect in short time, this reduc-
tion being about the same as the one
made in December. A member of the
board states that these two reductions
represent an average of nearly So per
1000 less than rates were at the close
of the building season last fall,
and that the people Of Lincoln
who build themselves homes during the
coming year are in every sense entitled
to the $3 per 1000 reduction and the
board would like to see the people re-
ceive it.. 4 reduction of this amount
secured means great deal for the city
and its building prosperity the coming
year. When concessions are wrung
from the railroads and the power of the
a hardship to all parties to have the
middlemen swallow the profits. Con-
scienceless coal men have maintained
pool through the winter that has swal-
lowed 60 cents Of the peoples money on
every ton of hard coal consumed. For
the good of the city and its upbuilding
and the people who invest their money
in homes it is to be hoped that the
lumber dealers will not take pattern
from the coal ring.
POOR INSANE ACCOMMODATIONS.
Lancaster county yesterday had to
consign the second patient in the last
week to the county Jail on account Of
the overflow at the state insane hospital
and a lady was in the city from Pawnee
county with a patient for the hospital,
who could not be taken, and had to be
returned to the Jail of Pawnee county.
justice is done the different counties
and the helpless insane by the non-com-
pletion of the Norfolk asylum, which is
filling county jails with insane. A su-
perintendent and steward have been
under pay for months at the Norfolk
asylum, and yet no patients are re-
ceived there, which, gives very plausi-
BILE grounds for complaints from counties
that have to keep insane in the common
Jail, with attending meagre accommo-
dations. The insane man committed to
the Jail in this county yesterday
has been kept s at the Howard
house by the city missionary for some
time. The mans name is Jones, and
he claims to have relatives in Ohio. AT
the time of the great storm on the 18th
Cheney, in this county, and was
severly frozen in the face and hands.
The day following the storm he walked
to Lincoln to get assistance. The city
missionary took him in charge and he
has been lying very sick with pneumo-
mia, caused from exposure. Wednesday
evening he showed marked symptoms
of insanity, and escaping from his room
he ran out in the mud and the streets
until captured yesterday. The sheriff
took him in charge. In the meantime
the sheriff has the young German in
charge who recently jumped from a
window, and followed that up with cut
ting his throat from ear to ear in his fran
tic efforts to suicide. This patient re-
quires constant watching, and yester-
day morning he jumped
through scuttle-hole at the
Jail in renewed effort to take his life.
Through the hours that he is awake he
puts in his time searching for a nail or
u splinter of wood for the avowed pur-
pose of Sitting his neck open where it
has been sewed up. A more difficult
case to manage it would be hard to find.
The sheriff has no accommodations at
the Jail for the violently insane, and he
has no means at hand to hire the help
absolutely necessary to care for them.
In the light of such circumstances it is
no wonder that he, with the other
county officials would like to see the
state hasten to prepare for the proper
care of the insane.
DELINQUENT COUNTIES.
The 1st of February was the date upon
which the time prescribed by law ex-
pired in which -treasurers are to make
annual settlement with the state
auditor. After this date the county
treasurers who have failed to make set
tlement are liable to a penalty Of 10 per
cent interest. The following counties
are delinquent and their treasurers
subject to the penalty: Boone, Colfax,
Custer, Cherry, Dakota, Dixon, Greeley.
Harlan, Hayes, jefferson, Lancaster,
Logan, Merriclt, Phelps and Sarpy.
GOVERNMENT LAND RECORDS.
The state auditor has received re-
turns from the different government
land Offices in the state with the excep-
biOh VI Vic NoIIl ldtuC W. vi
these Offices, those at Sidney and Chad
ron, were opened late in the year and
the showing is from the time they were
opened. The others are the final proofs
made during the year 1887. The num-
Der in each districts: Niobrara, ,32O;
Lincoln, 139; Neigh, 70l; Grand Island,
] ,360; Valentine, l,O94; Sidney, l30;
Bloomington, sos; McCook, 2,O65; Chad
ron, 800.
NEW NOTARIES.
The following notaries public were
commissioned yesterday by the gov
ernor: j. A. Tulleys, Red Cloud, Web
ster county; Edwin S. McWhinneS,
Tamora, Seward county; John l.. Hutch
inson, Indianola, Red Willow county;
William j. Robertson, Cleveland, Holt
county; Fayette T. Dimmick, Exeter,
Fillmore county; Frank j. Burnley,
Omaha; Nj. V. Cannon, Omaha; Sey-
mour.S. Wertz, Jewell, Dawson county;
William r. Barnard, Mullen, Cherry
county; j. Chase, Weeping Water, Cass
county; Albert F. Brown, Ong, Clay
county; j. p. Nixon, Fairfield, Clay
county; Willis G. Sears, Tekamah,
Burt county; w. H. Neeley,. Gibbon,
Buffalo county; James L. Martin, Hum
bolt, Richardson county; John G. Coge-
shall, Omaha; William b. Morrison,
Hickman, Lancaster county; julius f.
oil