Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-13
No HOPE FOR NIECENFIND
Governor Mickey Out of State and Mceilton
Declines to Act.
CONDEMNED MAN RETAINS HIS NERVE
: Legislature Urged TO Make Appropri-
alton fer q to mark
Place Of Lewis and CIark's
Landing.
prom a stan Correspondent

LINCOLN, March 12.-CspeciaL)-Gottlieb
NiegenfDd will be hanged at the p%eniten-
tiary tomorrow. Governor Mickey is out
Of town and viii not return before the
execution and Acting Governor McGilton
will not interfere.
When asked this afternoon il he would
interfere, Lieutenant Governor McGilton
said: Il will not. Had the proposition been
made to me originally to interfere, / Ger
tsinly would have done so, for / do not be-
lieve in capital punishment. But / will not
tab advantage Of the governors absence
to do that which he would not sanction
! was raised in q state that has never bad
capital punishment and in that state there
is as little crime as there is in any state
in the union. Capital punishment, in my
estimation, is a relic Of barbsrism and l
am opposed to 1t. But in this case l will
not interfere"
In the meantime Niegennnd is taking
things calmly and does not seem to fear
his fate. This morning be stated that Re
had had a good nights sleep and humor-
ously remarked, land / am going TO have
another one. too" This morning the fol-
lowing telegram was received by Warden
Beemer from the brother Of Niegenhnd:
Dear Brother-I must write a line and
must bid you good bye, for very hard 10
phlAs ~ - HtAB VT AAbEtAAb w -
In Heaven. Rudolph wishes the same. But
dear brother my heart is breaking to keep
10 come home. / wish He viii soon cali US.
Never will forget your love, and kisses to
RUDOLPH NIBGENFIND.
Urging Monument BID
A delegation from Omaha representing
the Nebraska societies OF the Sons and
Daughters of the American Revolution was
in Lincoln yesterday presenting to the
legislature a plea for the passage Of H. r.
1913, a measure introduced by Loomis Of
Dodge county looking TO the commemora-
ton Of the expedition into what is now
Nebraska territory OF Captain Meriwether
Lewis and Captain william Clark. 1t is
proposed in the bill that IS 900 be appro-
priated with which the Board Of Public
Lands and Buildings shall purchase a site
and erect a monument at or near Fort CAL
houn, in Washington county, pointing out
the place where Lewis and Clark and their
companions landed, where the council be-
tween them and the Indians was held Au-
gust 4, 1904. and where Fort Atkinson was
afterward located.
Fort Calhoun is the site at which the
expedition landed. The bill sets out that
they were the first white men who, on or
about July 30, 1904, reached Nebraska soil
after the Louisiana purchase. 1t is located
at the place where the council with the
Indians was held 1--WE days later and where
Fort Atkinson was located and continued
for eight years the greatest western post
of the United States army, the advance
guard of the American government against
the Indians and British aggression.
The societies Of the Sons and Daughters
Of the American Revolution have taken the
initiative in a~rousing a patriotic sentiment
calling for the marking Of this spot, anS
II is proposed that the monument shall b
erected under its auspices. The amour,
OF land to be purchased and the amount &c
be expended in the erection of the monu-
ment shall be within the discretion Of the
Board of Public Lands and Buildings and
the plans and specifications to be furnished
by the society shall be approved by the
same authority.
Nebraska is not 80 favored as are sent
Of the localities farther east with spots Of
supreme historic interest, but there are
enough to appeal TO the patriotic pride o.
its people il only they are brought Il
public attention, and to none Of them doet
more interest attach than TO such as MAJ
be connected with the pilgrimage of Ex'
plorsrs Lewis and Clark a century ago. j
is proposed that the laying Of the corner
stone OF the monument shall occur August
next, the centennial! anniversary Of thu
event commemorsted.
Democratic city Nominees.
Al the democratic convention last nigh
George E. Hibner was nominated for mayor
EdwErd Hensley and John Wiseman wert
named for excisemen and E. T. Peters To-