Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1895-01-25
TO AID NEBRASKANS.
STATEMENT GIVEN our az THE
RELIEF COMMISSION.
About $40 Car Loads Of Provision.
aud Clothing Observation-Disclosures
ting Committees ut workin Twenty.
six counties-A Double Suicide.
Work of Relief.


w. n. 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:
''Ihe commission is not a ne-nan con
Germ at oil, as. in addition to myself, the
following gentlemen IRE members of it:
Rev. L. p. Ludden, Secretary; j. FL. Nc
Clay, Lincoln, Treasurer; Rev. Joseph T.
Duryca, Omaha; c. ]. Ernst, j. w. Hart
ley and A. j. Sawyer, Lincoln; Henry
Sprick, Tontanelle; and s. b. Thompson,
Broken Bow; making in all nine members
composing the commission. We have an
auditing committee, and u record is kept
of everything that is received and paid
out, and the auditing committee audits
all TIE accounts. AT the last meeting of
the regular working majority we author
lied Rev. l.. p. Ludden to incur inciden-
is the salary of IL stenographer. All
the bills are to be submitted to the COM
mittce for approval.
"Whcn we first organized the commits
sion we had nothing to dispense and II
idea was to get people interested in the
movement to raise funds without solicit
1lIS IN Ok SIuNCl(lSIllS llS III uuNCLSSISt
and we have been successful in obtaining
large contributions in this way. We de-
cidcd that we would try to organize Oma-
In in a 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 so many charitable
causes that they are taking care of now,
but we merely wanted to stimulate the
movement.
"Wc do our work in a systematic man
ner, and wherever II county has applied
for relief we have uniformly required the
people of that section to call n public
meeting and appoint a central committee,
comprising two members of the county
board and from five TO 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 u committee
of three in every precinct where there is
dcstitution, aud this last committee acts
as q visiting committee. We have eff
footed organization of committees in this
way i'll twcnty-six counties.
"Among others who have already given
US relief from outside points are: Mrs. G.
l.. Burrows, of Savanna, ILL.,, who has
donated a carload of coal. We have
just received q check from William HI.
Allen, of Boston, Mass, for $15S, and
the other day the same gentleman sent
us n check for $500, besides u lot of good
clothing. L. II. Hummel has sent us
S25, and the proprietors of a coal mine ut
Athens. ILL.,, have promised to send us
the output for a half day of their coal
mines. which will amount to about four
teen carloads Of coal, and the Burlington
Road has consented to transport it free.
"We have already distributed about 200
carloads of provisions, coal and clothing,
and about forty more carloads are now
in the course of transportation. 1 should
estimate that We have already disbursed
about S11,50O for the relief of the suf-
ferers. This is the amount of cash paid
out up to date. 1t was arranged Mt the
meeting last week that there would be
one or two members of the commission
in the office at Lincoln from now ON SO
as to attend to the prompt distribution Of
supplies"