Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-21

detection Of the other persons implicated In
the crime.
Andrew Hawkins. the alleged murderer.
hopes to get another trial Of his case. He
has appealed to the supreme court for a re-
ycrsal on grounds Of error in the proceed
ings. His case will be taken up within the
next two or three months by the court. In
the meantime Charles Jensen will devote his
time to looking up the property OF his
father aud the collection OF evidence against
several persons whom he suspects Of being
implicated in the murder.
state Historical society.
The Nebraska state Historical society
viii hold its next annual meeting in the
chapel OF the main building of the State uni
varsity January and TO- The State Horti-
! cultural society will meet on the same days,
/ but by special arrangement It will have
/ possession Of the chapel in the daytime and
/ the Historical society in the evenings. B tn
meetings promise to be unusually interesting
and large attendance is expected.
The Society Of Nebraska Territorial Pio-
neers will also meet in the city during the
week, probably Immediately after the con-
vention Of the Historical society. This
ganization is composed Of about $50 per-
| sons who settled in Nebraska prior to its
admission as a state, March 6, 1867. Its
! president is Robert w. Furnas of Brown
| Vile.
J. Sterling Morton, as president of the
! Historical society, will deliver the opening
address to the members OF that organization.
! On the same evening l.. j. Abbott of South
| Omaha will read a paper on some OF the
early political methods employed by poiti
| clans in Nebraska in the early days and
John Turner of Indianoa will speak on the
! early Spttlpmput n ROODp David
Anderson of South Omaha will also deliver
an address on some historical subject and
| sketches on the lives of T. w. Upton and
| Champion S. Chase will be read, the former
| by Robert w. Furpas and the latter by
| Clement Chase OF Omaha.
The subject OF overland freighting from
| 1916 to 1867 or until the time OF the rail-
roads, will be the subject for review on the
second evening of the meeting. Prepared
speeches will be delivered by Thomas Majors
| of Peru, ID. p Rolfe of Nebraska City and
Eugene Mum of University Place and the
balance of the evening will be devoted to
ten minute talks by members of the So
ciety. Secretary Barrett has asked num-
Der of pioneers for maps of the old over
| land freight routes This feature of Ne
braska's history has never been thoroughly
worked up before, but from the interest
ludL mas dlI6duy Deen HldulIeSIeu III tue
subject by old settlers it is probable that
some very valuable information will be col
lected in form for publication in historical
works. Prof. C. E. Persnger of the Ameri-
can history department of the State uni
versity has been collecting data along this
line for several years with the intention
of publishing at some future time a history
of the early methods OF transportation in
Nebraska.
OId-Time Politics.
Mr.. Abbott will deal particularly with
the famous republican convention of 1870
and the incidents of the following cam
paign and will give review Of the i'm
peachment trial of Governor David Butler
Nebraskas first governor. who was con-
victed on one count by the senate of 1871
There Is still dispute as to whether the
findings OF the senate in that case were just
At the time of the trial ii was considered
strange and remarkable circumstance that
Nebraska should, among all the states in
the union, be the first to present her gov
ernor before an impeachment court for en-
bezzlement of public funds. Up to that time
only one similar case in the history of any
foreign country had been recorded-the one
involving Warren Hastings, the governor
general of India, some eighty or ninety
years previous. The managers of the i'm
parchment trial were: ]. C. Majors J. E.
Doom, Henry Hudson, DeForest Porter and
their counsel was the late Experience Esta-
brook. The attorneys for the respondent
were ]. c. Redick, Clinton Briggs and 7.
NJ. Marquette. j. C. Redick is the only man
who participated in that trial that has sur
vived the many years. He is now in Cali
fornia. The state of Nebraska realized a
profit of over $4,000 from the offense com
mtted by Governor Butler, and for which he
was afterward impeached by the senate.
The constitution of Nebraska then in force
permitted the state treasurer to loan the
permanent school fund on real estate. Gov
ernor Butler, while acting as the chief
executive OF the state, secured a loan on
some real estate and charges were subse-
quently preferred against him. He bor-
rowed the money as a citizen while acting
as governor, which, it was held, he had no
right to do. The land thus mortgaged was
later sold by the state at an immense profit,
the value of the land having increased in
the meantime.
stock Breeders Convention.
The Nebraska Stock Breeders association
continued its business today and will close
its annual meeting tomorrow with the cleo
tion of officers. DR.. Victor A. Norgaard of
the Department of Agriculture at Washing
ton, spoke today on the nature and cause of
infectious abortion in cattle. This evening
addresses were delivered by George w. Har-
vey of Omaha N. II. Gentry of Sedalia and
Harvey Johnson of Logan, la.
In the Brown Maucke election case from
Nuckolls county the supreme court has re-
versed the order OF the district court by de-
claring Brown elected. He was the repub-
lican candidate for county attorney last
year.