Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-02
BOYS NAY COME HOME SOON
Nebraskans in the Philippines to Return to
tn II Native Heath,
MILL BE MUSTERED OUT FIFTH OF MAY
All of Them Are Likely TO he Back
Again Tn United states
by the End of
July,

LINCOLN, Neb., May 1.-(special)-Re
ports from Washington confirm the story
that the Nebraska boys may soon leave the
Philippines. il letter from the War de-
partmcnt to General Barry was received
today, in which the statement was made
that General Otis had discretionary power
to send home any Of the men who were
incapacitated for duty as soon as 1t would
be safe for them to start. The last clause
OF the letter was as follows:
"a recent cablegram from General Otis
Is to the effect that he will to
return to the United States for muster out
all the volunteers in the Philippines about
the 5th OF May, and II Is expected that all
OF them will be home by the end Of July"
A little over a month ago in one of the
brushes with the Filipinos where a num-
Der Of the Nebraskans were wounded the
list cabled to the War department con-
tanned the name of Mate Summers OF
Company NJ. No such name was found on
the muster rolls and the identity Of Mate
Summers remained a mystery. Today Gen
oral Barry is In receipt of a letter from
Mrs. d. Grant OF Broken Bow who says
that her husband is in the hospital corps
at Manila and that he has just notified her
OF the death Of Nate Simms Of Company
NJ, who was wounded on the 2Sth of
March. There is no doubt that Simms and
Summers are identical. 1t is said that the
news received by Mrs. Grant was the first
intimation the relatives Of Simms had that
he vas hurt in the battle.
The War department has notified the
state that the claims for transportation of
the Nebraska troops cannot be audited for
the reason that the records show they have
not been paid by the state. 1t seems that
the only claims of this nature paid by the
state were for the transportation of the re-
jected men of the regiments and especially
for those rejected from the Third regiment.
The bills for moving the regiments have
not been paid, but the state will at once
proceed to get receipts from the railroad
companies so that the claims can be settled
in due form.
Ezra Mahaffey has been appointed second
lieutenant of Troop A, to succeed Stephen
g. Langworthy, resigned.
General Barry went to Broken Bow to-
day to muster in Company b of the Second
regiment, the new company organized "a
Custer county.
The newly appointed clerk and store
keeper of the National guard, e. w. Crane
of North Platte, has reported for duty and
will act as assistant clerk in the office.
Crane is an alliance populist and served
as timekeeper in the house during the 1897
session of the legislature.
Housed over Harrington Interview.
The Harrington interview, as published in
The Bee this morning, caused much un-
easiness in the fusion camp at the state
house. They were amazed for several rea-
sons: That a Holt county populist would
refuse a nomination, that he should pre-
dict the end of fusion in 1900 and that he
should say that a straight populist nomina-
tion in the Sixth district would be prefer |
able to fusion with the democrats. Some
of the office hunters and especially Silas A.
Holcomb and his friends, held a hurried
consultation during the forenoon and de-
cided that such a statement, coming from
such a prominent man as Harrington would
do much harm to their future aspirations
and there was an effort to have the Holt
county lawyer deny the interview. 1t was
noticed that Holcomb clung to Harrington
during the balance of his stay in the city
and fairly fawned upon him in a way that
was noticeable to all observers.
There were some populists at the state
house. however, who spoke their minds
freely on the fusion question in the Sixth
district. They said that Harrington was per-
fectly right in making the statement, as
there were less than 1000 democrats in the
district and these were not all true to fusion
and were unmanageable in every campaign.
The populists declare themselves to be dis
gusted with the deals that have been made
between Neville and Holcomb whereby the
offices are already parceled out, and they
say that the people of the district may take
some hand in making the nominations. They |
say that Harrington would make the best
run, but that in the event of his refusal,
as now seems probable. then H.. G. Steward,
of Dawes county but now a resi-
dent of Box Butte, would be the most ac-
~ceptable man. They would not object to
Homer Sullivan, personally, but they think
Custer county has already had more than
its share and the nomination ought to go
further to the northwest.
This afternoon a democrat who has held
Office under Holcomb and is supposed to
him more closely than anyone else,
in discussing the fusion question, said the
populists did not have a majority of the
votes in the Sixth district. He believed that
OF the 80, 000 fusion votes fully 5000
were democrats.
Ignore Investigating Committee.
The state officials today intimated that
they would completely ignore the legislative
investigating and that any move
to call witnesses would be resisted. Secre-
tary Porter said the books of all the Offices
would be open to inspection, but the mem
hers of the committee would be treated as
private citizens and would not be furnished
u committee room in the state building.
of the officials were as outspoken, and
II is plain that they do not court an inves-
~tigation and will throw every possible
hindrance in the way OF one.
Tho sheriff NJ Richardson cnuptv rano,,,
to the governor that there is a case of CLAN
ders in the north part of the county and asks
that Or. A.. ~. Scott of Falls City be APP
pointed to attend to the case. The governor
has answered the request by calling atten-
ton to section l of article ii Of chapter iv
of the statutes which authorizes the APP