Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1906-01-11
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Saturday the Aetna Indemnity Com
pany filed suit in the district court at
Lincoln against City Detective Malone
and Chief of Police Cooper and three OF
the men recently arrested for the Chap
man bank robbery for $1,214.12 taken
from the persons of the suspects. TIE
plaintiff charges that it had issued an iu-
1emnity policy to the Chapman bank in
surfing it against loss by burglary ana
that on Nov. 81 the bank was robbed OF
$2,475 which the insurance company was
obliged to pay. The petition alleges The
arrest Of the men, Nov. %, by Detective
Malone, who found the amount sued for
On the persons of the men. This money
# alleges, is now in the possession of the
! chief of police and the city detective, and
It demands that the sum be turned over
to recoup the company for the amount
paid on the indemnity bond. The police
officials have been holding the money
pending some action by the court MAXIM.
disposition Of it. in order to secure their
claim Of $500 reward offered for the cap
ture of the men. and the suit brought IS
regarded as an effort to defeat their
claim.
Representative Joe Burns found large
gold nugget in the crow of q Christmas
turkey sent him by John Wall, of Ar
cadia and he believes that his find
proves the existence of gold in the Valley
County hills. 1t is believed that the tur-
key picked the metal on John Walls
farm in the neighborhood of Arcadia. 1t
is suggested that the present find bears
out the story sent from st. Louis Il few
months ago that chickens sent to the mar
ket from that section of Nebraska We're
| found to have gold in their craws. Once
before that it was reported that gold had
| been found in the sandy region which cuts
| through the southwestern part of that
county. along the course of the Middle
Loup, which rises in Hooker County
! Biologists have maintained that gold eX-
! lists in the Platte River gTavels in small
quantities, but that is accounted for by
the origin of the stream in the ROCKY
! Mountains, while such an explanation
! does not fit into the valley county story
| State officials who have talked to Su-
| perintendent Greens concerning the acci-
dent which resulted in the death of Mrs
Julia Maly. of South Omaha, say that
the officials OF that institution were not to.
blame. The woman was lined up with
the other inmates when Sudden i'm
pulse seized her and before the attendants
could interfere she had climbed out Oh
the fire escape at the third story and
! jumped to the ground. Her death was due
to PARALYSIS induced by Il fracture of the
spine. The asylum authorities make an
effort to keep all of the windows closed to
prevent any efforts of patients to throw
themselves out, but in shis instance there
happened to be one open within reach of
the woman. Land Commissioner Eaton
believes that the accident was wholly un
aVoIdaDle
The attorneys for the plaintiff in the
suit against the directors of the old Cap
ital National Bank for money lost in the.
failure have filed motions in the supreme
court asking that the bills of exceptions
on which the cases were taken to the SUI
preme court be quashed because of defec-
tive authorization and failure to attach
the exhibits. The point raised in the
case is the same as that on which the su-
preme court based its decision in the suit
of the state against the BARLEY bonds
men. The bill of exceptions in the pend
ing suit was prepared in several volumes
and the proper certificates were not at.
tached to each of them By way of au-
Identification. 1t is now urged that the
failure to properly authenticate requires
that the entire bill be quashed.
The announcement of the final results
in the recent corn growing and cooking
contest shows that there are some boys in
the state who can cook. Charles Metz
ger, the first on the list, of Pawnee dis
trict No. 90 received q score of 99.2 His
chef dOuvre was a fruit cake in an or
namental carton, woven of vari-colored
cOrnhusks. The cake was left in the
possession of Deputy State SuDerintend-
ent Bishop and excited considerabl bic IA
vorable comment from visitors to his Of
fee. At the banquet given the visiting
school children at the time of the con-
test, the cake occupied place of honor
IN the center Of the banquet hail.
Prominent educators of the state, led
by State Superintendent McBrien. are
making an effort to induce the board of
managers Of the board of agriculture to
establish a regular educational exhibit
at the state fair il order TO provide for
an adequate display of the results oh
tdlned throughout the state. II IS belfcY-
ed that the collection OF exhibits bearing
on education will have the result OF ex-
tending proper methods of instruction
and give impetus to the general move
meDt for pedagogic reform.
The heart of Adjt Gen. Culver was
gladdened by the receipt OF information
from Kearney that nearly enough money
had been received to build an armory for
the National Guard. He understands thar
the structure is to cost about $4,000.
The plans for the new armories were
promised for Saturday, but the architect
has encountered further delays in the
preparation OF his drawings. Gen. Culver
expects Lincoln to follow Omaha in con-
tributing a site for a memorial armory.