Omaha daily bee., 1896-05-03
FIFTY THOUSAND MISSING
Amount Of Maxey Cobbs Shortage Grows
as Investigation Proceeds,
HIS LATE BoNDSMEN WILL Be SUED
commissioners of Lancaster County
Decide to Press vigorously in
tue Courts for Collection
OF the Shortage.

LINCOLN, May specisl).--Notwlth-
standing the vigorous kick registered by
Attorney ID. G. Courtney against the en-
ployment Of the law firm Of Lambertson &
Hall to assist County Attorney Woodward
in the suit to be instituted against the
bondsmen Of the late Maxey Cobb, county
treasurer, the county commissioners this
afternoon announced that they should stand
by the contract made with Lambertson q
Hall, and that they knew of no good reason
why they should not do 50. Examiner Fod
rea has reported that the deficiency in
Cobb's accounts amounts tc nearly $50 900
The application of the various deposito
of the defunct Lincoln Savings bank for
the removal Of Receiver Hill will come up
In district court next Monday. a large num-
bcr Of witnesses have been summoned by
the objectors, including the bank officials
and several depos!tors, who will bring their
books with them into court
Regarding the story that State Auditor
Eugene Moore would withdraw his answer
TO the complaint of the Farmers Mutual In
surance company, or, rather, that portion Of
1t in which is raised the constitutionality
or the law authorizing mutual fire Insurance
companies, the auditor today stated that
he was perfectly willing that the attorney
general should withdraw It, and further
HOTe tnat tne dlleBeu attack on insurance
companies doing business on the mutual plan
was inserted in the answer without his
knowledge, and that he first read It in the
answer as submitted to him by the attorney
general. The question had been discussed
between himself and the attorney general.
but the making Of that portion of the an
swer a point was done without his previous
knowledge. This whole matter was eX-
plained in The Bee two weeks since, by au-
thority of the auditor, and so far nothing
new has transpired in connection with it.
In the office Of the clerk of the supreme
court today it was stated that the attorney
general could file a substitute answer,
minus the Objectionable constitutional point,
but SO far nothing Of the kind has been
done.
From the State Board of Transportation
the Union Pacific Railroad company has OBJ
ia med leave to file an answer to the com
plant against the new schedule Of freight
rates by May 90 In the meantime the old
schedule will be in operation, but the hear
ing of the Elkhorn controversy is set fer
May s. and at this time the whole contro-
versy may be settled for good.
This afternoon a special train bearing the
Boston contingent of the hotel mems Cali
form eXcurs on passed through the city on
its return from the annual meeting of the
Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit association at
Los Angeles The train containing the New
York contingent passed through yesterday
and tomorrow the Ch cago wing Of the eX-
cursion will fit through
Judge G. w. Norris, respondent in the con-
test suit instituted against him by Judge
D. T. Wety, in the Fourth judicial dis
triot, has filed another motion in the su-
preme court, asking that the case be dis
missed for want Of prosecution.
Omaha people in Lincoln: At the Lindell
M. Meyer, o. C. Holmes, e. B. Sadler,
George A. Day, o. o. Rushe. At the Capitol
George w. Turney, Edward Rich. At the
Lincoln-H. T. Clarke, l. A. Medlar, j. II.
Butler