The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-01-24
TO AID ~NEBRASKANS.
STATEMENT GIVEN our BY TIE
RELIEF COMMISSION.
About 24O Car Loads of PROVISIONS
and Clothing Raiscd-LoCal Distribu-
ting Committees at Work in TwcntS-
six Counties-A Double Suicide.
Work of Relief.


w Y Mason. President of the Nebras-
ka State Relief Commission. has made
the following statement in regard to the
reorganization and work of the commits
sion:
The commission is not 4 one-man on
Germ at all. as. in addition to myself the
following gentlemen are members OF ~
Rev. l.. L. Ludden, Secretary; ). ii. NC
Clay. Lincoln. Treasurer: Rev. Joseph /.
Duryea. Omaha: c. ]. Ernst. j. W. Hart
icy and A. J. Sawyer. Lincoln: Henry
Sprick. Fontanelle: and :. Is. lhonpNoH'
Broken Bow: making in all nine members
composing the commission. We nave an
auditing committee. and Il record Is kept
of everything that is received ana pa!u
out. and the auditing committee audltS
all the accounts. Al the '.s' meeting OF
the regular working majority We author
lied Rev. l.. Z. Luddcl 10 in:ur inclden-
tai expenses. the pripciI al rem IF when
is the salary of one steno2i1phor. All
the bills are ia be submitted 10 the com
mittee for approval.
when we first organized the commits
sion We had nothing 10 dispense ana our
idea was 10 get people Interested III the
movement TO raise funds without solicit
ing aid or advertising thc Stat" adversely.
and we nave been successful III obtaining
large contributions in this way. We de
cided that we would try to organize Oma-
ha in Il quiet way and get our people To
do what they can to aid sufferers. We
do not want to prey upon the citizens OF
Omaha, as they have 50 many charitable
causes that they are taking care OF now.
but we merely wanted TO stimulate the
movement.
1--WE do our work in a systematic man
ner. and wherever q county has applied
for relief we have uniformly required the
people of that section 10 call a public
meeting and appoint . central committee,
comprising two members of the county
board and from FIVE 10 seven citizens sat
isfactory to the people of the section to
constitute the central committee, with
whom We transact our business, and that
central committee appoints Il committee
of three in every precinct where there IS
restitution. and this last committee acts
as a visiting committee. We have ot-
fected organization Of committees III this
way III twenty-siX counties.
Among others who haze already given
us relief from outside points are: Mrs. {.
/. Burrows. of Savanna. H.. who has
donated 4 carload of coal. We have
just received Il check from William ii.
Allen, of Boston, Mass. for Sl5N, and
the other day the same gentleman sent
us n check for 5000. besides 4 lot of good
clothing. +. II. Iiummel has sent us
SD. and the proprictor> Of a coal mine AT
Athens. H.. nave promised 10 e US
the output for q half day of their coal
mines. which will amount to about four
teen carloads of coal. and the burlington
Road has consented L. transport ii free.
I'VE have already distributed about POO
carloads Of provisions. coal and clothing.
and about forty more carloads are NOW
in the curse of transportation. ! should
estimate that we have already diShur>cd
about S11.5uO for the relief Of the sui
@ferorS. This is the amoUut of cash paid
out UP to date. II was arranged AT the
meetin. last week that there would lac
one or TWO members of the commission
in the Office nj Lincoln from now on So
as t. attend 10 the prompt d~istributiun #
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