Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14

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Members of the Farmers Grain Deal
ers' Association are going to assist in
looking up evidence to show the existence
of a lumber trust, so a grain dealer init
mated in Lincoln the other night. Be
fore these trust suits are over" said
this man, 1T will be discovered that the
lumber business has been done along the
same lines as the grain business. The
members in the lumber association may
not make any profit out of being men,
bers OF the organization and may not
even know how much profits others make
because Of the association. AS Il matter
OF fact the members OF the association
| are being worked BY an inside ring that
gets the big profits while the small dealer
member is safe guarded against conpeti-
| ton. | see where the Omaha dealers
| take exceptions TO tie ciarge that they
hav" something to do with the scalpers.
| Wait till the evidence IS all in in the
ct.se which 3ir. Godfrey has started in
| Lancaster County and then see what the
biz dealers have 10 say. The end OF the
! lumber dealers trust will be just like
| he grain dealers. II the Lancaster man
! digs up tie evidence he expects to, then
the attorney general will use that evi-
| Gence IL g0iu.; after the trust, and, you
mark my words, he viii get them. Z
| don't know whether the farmers as an
organization VIII take Il part in the suit,
but some OF the members will furnish
| some help and that can be depended
| upon
| C.S. Al;en,a member of the board of re-
gents of the University of Nebraska. has
81 In.t FL
ter County from the decision of Auditor
Searle refusing to issue the warrant for
the uneXpended balance of the appropri-
alton for the construction of the admins
tratlon building at the university. The
voucher was filed with Auditor Searle
edneSday morning and he at once re-
fused to issue the warrant Allen then
appealed to TIE district court. 1t is I'm.
derstOod that the decision of the lower
court insofar ~ this case is concerned
VIII be final and that 10 appeal will be
taken to the saprcne court. The appro-
pratl0n was made by the legislature of
1908, and there still remains unexpend-
ed III the neiGhE0rh00d Of so. 600. The
building IS UEt@r course Of construction.
but lacks considerable of being complet-
cd. Auditor Seara las issued the war
rant for the norma! school appropriation
and will hold the same until the work is
completed.
Tie state officers who were with Gov
Mickey in Portland are very anxious to
know whether the governor intends to be
an avoWed candidate for United States
senator. IniS because ex-senator W. V.
Allen, III speech ut Il banquet at Port
iahd, announced the candidacy Of the
governor tor the higher position. The
officers say Hr. Allen said in referring to
NoF- -hlcLey: Ike IS the best governor
the state OF Nebraska ever had and in
very short time Wc of Nebraska intend to
call upon him 70 90 up higher" When
Senator Allen WAS Told that the candidacy
Oh the governor had Tot been announced
around the state house, Mr.. Allen re Piled
that friends OF the governor around dad
ls0n had been running him for two
weeks.
The officials of the Royal Higllanders.
who have been undergoing an examina-
ton by the insurance department us to
their conduct of the affairs Of the order.
have been presented with Il clean bill by
Special Examiner Virgins who says that
every cent Of money taken in by the Off
GERS for all purposes, including interest
money, fees for making loans and re-
ceIpts from the sale of regala. has been
accounted for and deposited in the gener-
al fund OF the society. The report covers
Il period from June /, 1901. to the pres
ent time, the first date being the time
the last examination of the order was
made.
lIany Of the rural correspondents Of
the labor bureau who are sending in esti-
mates OF the crop yields have expressed
III their reports their approval Of the
plan recently adopted by the bureau for
gathering statistics. \ number of them
say that the figures thus compiled will
countcract the erroneous figures and esti-
mates sent out by boards OF trade and
price manipulators. Inasmuch as the
statistical clerk has ten rural CORES
spondents in each county there is 10
doubt that the forthcoming estimate of
crop yields viii he the most accurate even
made by the department.
By the grace of Gov. Mickey Pearl
ESley, who recently began a sixty-day
in the county Jail. will not have
to serve her time. The governor CONS
Inuted her sentence Wednesday after
noon upon the recommendation of Judge
Cosgrove. who sentenced her. The girl
strayed from the reservation and had
herself corralled at the Royal Hotel. for,
which she was punished. She had letters
which showed she Intended to 20 to-
Omaha as soon as she could get out of
Lincoln.
Twenty-six of the counties Of the state
have collective exhibits at the state fair.
Of course all the other counties will be
represented and on the fair grounds will be
great place for people 10 see the state
without travelling very far TO see it. The
'est of everything in the state will be
here. The fair opened on the first day
# the month and that and the two follow
NJ days were taken up il the placing
+ the exhibits.
Attorney General Brown has compIet-
d his answer to the petition of the Mu-
ual Reserve Life Insurance COuDeny
which secured an order restraining thel