Valentine Democrat., 1906-05-17
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The report of State Treasurer PetSa
| Mortensen, of the condition of the
treasury and the amount of business
| done during the month of April shows
| that outside of the temporary school
! fund the other funds of the state
contain only s42,019. The temporary
school fund contains $685., 7,525.50-
which will be appSrtioned out on the
third Monday in May to the various
| school districts of the state. AT this
time this fund is several thousand DOL
lars In excess of what it was at the
same time a year ago and the FUND
to be apportioned will therefore be
correspondingly larger. In the gener-
| al fund there is only s41.12. while eV-
cry cent Of the permanent school fund
IS drawing interest for the state
| There was received in the insane hos
pital fund a total of cents during
the month This cents was received
under an old tax law now repealed.
| A PENNSYLVANIA bank has bought q
$1,000 bond issued by the city of Beat
rice in 1900, bearing per cent In
terest, which has not been registered
IN the office of the state auditor. The;
bond was sent to the First National
| Bank of Lincoln for registration and
was brought to the auditors oft1ce
J Saturday morning. The bond was one
| of an issue of ninety-seven bonds, f1f-
! ty-1ve of which were for
! 1000 each, twenty-five 500 each,
| one s97 and one s248. This is shown
! by the bond Some of the coupons
| had been clipped from the bond and 1t
bore the appearance of having been
nd hCr
! city clerk of Beatrice. None of the
| bonds, however had ever been regis
! tered in the office Of the auditor and
there is fear that the bond is forg-
ery. The bank has taken the matter
up with the officials of Beatrice.
It Is the desire of some members OF
the state board of assessment, which
met Monday, to get through with the
work as soon as possible, and 1t is not
probable the meetings will string out
as long as they did year ago. The
board last year gave the railroad
weeks and weeks to tabulate the rail-
road property and decide what 1t was
worth. As Eaton, Galusha and Searles
had experience last year on the board
and as Mickey and Mortensen haver
members, It is believed the work this
Year will be much easier for all OF
them. The railroads will be given
plenty of opportunity to give their side
of the case to the board and to ex-
plain their reports, but an effort will
be made to hurry matters up and get
1t over with.
commission is preparing to get busy
to see whether Nebraska is going to-
have an exhibit at the southern expo
sition. With the exception of Rome
Miller the members met with the gov
ernor last week and canvassed the sit
uation and decided to look up infor-
nation regarding the character of the
exhibits and to see whether it would
be a paying investment for Nebraska
to do anything. The commission has
no money and is going rather slow
The officers of the commissOn are: -.
E. Burnham, chairman; Rome Miller
vice chairman; S. G. Bassett, secre-
tary, and c.. H. Rudge, treasurer.
Attorney General Brown has filed
an answer to the appeal of former
Sheriff Power, of Douglas County,
from the decision Of Auditor Searle
in refusing to allow him railroad fare
from Omaha to Lincoln, the trip being
necessitated by reason Of the sheriff
bringing a prisoner to the state peni-
tentiary. The claim was for $3.50.
The answer sets up that the sheriff
rode On a free pass and therefore his
car fare was not allowable as a claim
against the state.
Clifford Harger and Mrs. Bailey
Barrows, the latter from Omaha, were
arrested in Lincoln in the room Of
the latter upon the request Of Mrs.
Harger, and both have been bound
over to the district court for an al
legged infraction Of the moral code.
Neither could give the $500 bond rs
Quired and went to Jail. The Hargerg
have been married only a short time
and Mrs. Barrows came to Lincoln
from Omaha only a few days ago.
Superintendent Alden, of the Nor
folk asylum, was in Lincoln conferring
with Gov Mickey over the affairs Of
that institution. Some time ago the
governor went to Norfolk and investi-
gated the institution, charges having
been made against some the employees
Tt is understood there are still some
complaints coming in.
James A. Douglas, of Rock County,
member Of the last legislature, called
upon Gov. Mickey Friday afternoon
and will shortly file an application to-
get the governor interested in convict
now serving time in the state peniten-
tiary, in whom Mr.. Douglas is inter-
ested as an attorney.
Gov Mickey sent to James D. Phe-
Ian, head Of the relief committee of
San Francisco, a draft for $2,41673,
the balance in his hands for the relief
Of the California sufferers. There has
been sent in all through Gov. Mickey
IS, 437.0s, of which sum s3,02035 was
spent for provisions.
The state house was closed Friday
afternoon out Of respect to the mem
ory Of former Gov. Boyd whose fu-