Omaha daily bee., 1903-03-17
BEEMER'S WARDS INCREASE
Two More Admitted to Penitsnt ary Than
Discharged During February.
STATE BOARD LET'S BUILDING CONTRACT
Capital National Bank Assets Sell for
Trihe-W. j. Bryan sitting
on n Jury in n Civil
Case.
(From a STAFF Correspondentl }

LINCOLN March 16.-(Special )-The re-
port OF Warden Beemer of the state pepI-
tentiary for the month of February shows
that twelve men were discharged during
the month and fourteen were taken in
Those discharged were: Matthew Speller.
Douglas county, sentenced for four years
for burglary; George Meier. from Douglas
county, one year for burglary; Guy Col
lier. sentenced from Richardson county
eighteen months for forgery; George Moore
from Lancaster county, eighteen months
for felontous ASSAULT Andrew Tucker from
Douglas county, two years for shooting
with intent to Kill; Bruce Chapman, from
sherman county, three years for criminal
assault; Charles Miller, from Butler county
two years for grand larceny; Charles F.
Stanton, from Burt county, two years for
grand larceny; George w. Wilson, from
Merrick county. three years; Johr Cook.
from Douglas county, sent up for thirteen
years for robbery commuted by Governor
Savage; Pat O'Brlen, thirty months, frsm
Sarpy county, remanded by the supreme
court; Charles L. Sharp, from Lancaster
county, three yearH for grand larceny, re-
leased on parole. The total number of in
mates at the end OF She month was 2S7. OF
these 1856 were employed under contract
by the Lee Broom & Duster Co. and put
in 150h days. One man was sent to the
dungeon for two days for refusing 20 work.
Let Penitenfiary Contracts.
The Board of Public Lands and Buildings
has let tie contract for the completion of
the administration building at the penl-
tentiary to II. T. Guard q Co.,
for $23,500. This includes all material and
labor. d. B. Howard was the only other
bidder who tried for the entire contract.
His bid was S24.700. The contract is made
contingent on the appropriation for such
work by the legislature. The board au-
thorized Architect Grant - prepare plans
for the construction of 140 cells. The work
to be done on the administration building
Is that portion Of the building destroyed
by fire.
Assets Bring Little.
John w. Mcdonald, receiver of the old
defunct Capital National bank, sold at
auction Saturday afternoon a bunch Of as
sets left in his hands in the form OF notes,
judgments. overdrafts. etc, amounting al
together to over $675.OOO, which were
knocked down to H. ]. Whitmore for the
Insignificant sum of S2O6.
The biggest item in the bunch is one
series Of judgments against the Western
Manufacturing company, amounting alto
Eether to $142, ,656.S2.
There was also a series against 2. w.
hosher aggregating about $4,000, and
about $4,000 against c. w. Mosher, $36 900
against Mosher and oLtcalt and S32, 900
against r. C. Outcalt
bryan Sits on n Jury.
W.. Bryan, twice a candidate for pres
dent OF the United States. today is a Juror
sitting on the case of Mrs. Isaac Sharp
against the New York Life Insurance COM
pany.
The case is one that depends more upon
the construction of law than the facts.
Mrs. Sharp Is the widow of Isaac W.
Sharp, formerly OF Lincoln, who died in
Montana in March. 1902. Among his ef-
fects was $4,000 policy in the New York
Life Insurance company. This policy had
been taken out in May. 1899, and the ques-
tion is, had II lapsed or was 1t IA force
at the time OF his death?