Omaha daily bee., 1910-02-20
Nebraska
ACCOUNTS SHORT
Late Lancaster District Clerks Books
Investigated.
TOTAL IS OVER FOUR THOUSAND
est Part II for Fees Earned,
Not Collected or Reported
official Ended own
- Life.
tFrom a staff Correspondent

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LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 19.-(Special Tele-
gramD-The experts who have been in
vestigating the records OF the late Dis
trict Clerk VIII Phillips have reported to
the county board that he was short in
his accounts some $4,000. Mr.. Phillips
took bis own life I'm Kansas City while the
investigation was in progress.
The shortage for the first term is
found to be s1,245.6O. and for the second
term S4,3S9.5O. a total Of S5,635.10. but
about nine months after going out OF Of
flee Phillips paid TO, his successor, j. $.
Baer, 421.2S. Mr.. Baer has collected OF
fees earned during Phillips first term OF
s2s.Ss and fees earned during his sec
ond term S7a2.59, a total credit Of ST.
242.25, leavig a balance Of s4,Ss2.25.
The greatest item in the shortage rs for
fees earned but not collected or re-
ported. The law makes the clerk liable
for all fees earned and he Is required to
report them. The accountants found, how
ever. that Mr.. Phillips had reported only
such fees as he collected. This Item alone
amounts to S3,1S3.l3.
Another item which the former clerk
failed to report and which Is charged up
to him is interest on deposits of public
money in HIS hands. During the eight
years Of his incumbenCy, this amounted
TO S975.65. 1t was also found that sew
eral hundred dollars in fees had been
collected which had never been earned
Attorneys and litigants paid in com
mencement fees which had not been
earned 3435.5O. and also paid for complete
records, copies of DEGREES and other doc
uments which were never made, sums ag-
gregstins 3424.25.
wiItse Not Only One.
g-n,A.- UytItuo ig mot Tho pu1y one EOm-
planning of the work of inspectors APP
pointed by State Veterinarian Jucknies. A
Cass county. dairyman called at the office
Of the governor this afternoon with a
grievance. He said one of the Inspectors
mad inspected his dairy herd and CON
demned four head Of cows. These were
Tent TO the packing house and when killed
1t developed there was no sign of tubercu'
losis. He was trying to find out how ht
could get repaid for the loss he has sus.
lained.
When Governor Shallenberger returns to
the city the recent ruling Of the state
veterinarian will be brought to his atten.
| tion and several parties are Of the opin.
'on that the law has not been interpreted
correctly and consequently considerable
loss is being accustomed the farmers, or a
elast those who have~had public sales Of
their stock.
As to Mayor Brown.
Some criticism has come from the Bis
Four"-Thompson, Metcalfe, Shallenberge
and Dahlman-because of the publication o
the statement that former Mayor Brown o.
Lincoln had never been defeated for office
though a candidate four times. Thes'
friends of the banquet orators say Mayo
Brown was defeated when a candidate TO
congress against e, M. Pollard.
Friends of Mayor Brown admit tina
technically the statement is true that HI
has been defeated. But they say that HI
was defeated at a special election on the
nth day Of August, which is q mighty
poor time for a heavyweight the size o.
! Mayor Brown to train down to RUNNING
n size. They say also that the day of cleo
ton was also the birthday of his son; NOR
than that, they say the election day wa
also the weddin gday of that same son
that the wedding occurred in St. josef
and Mayor Brown himself was present a
tho wedding and did not even vote for him
self. more than that, the same 18th o
August was the thirty-fifth anniversary @
the date upon which the former mayo
began work as a poor boy in a lumber var
back in Mizzoo.
With three anniversaries to celebrate o
one day in the middle Of a very hot sum
mer, Mayor Browns friends say he coul
not be expected to make a very strenuou
campaign for a place no more lmportan
than a seat in congress. Besides that h
accepted the nomination merely to get |
trim for his race for mayor of Lincol
and his friends say he has never yet bee
defeated for office-they don't call tina
fluke a defeat by any means.
The state Railway commission listene
today TO patrons Of the Lincoln Tractio