Omaha daily bee., 1911-11-28
Nebraska
ON STATES ROADS
Eighty-0ne Killed Besides Those in
Indisnola Wreck.
CANvAss1NG BOARD IN SESSION
Don stephens Anxious to Get Ccrtifi-
cate of Election, But state OH :
GERS Have Not Blank
Ready for inning.
tFrom a sad Correspondentl


LINCOLN, Nov. 27,-(Special) "A sum
mary Of persons injured and killed by
railroads in this state has just been com
pleted by the State Railway commission
The record includes all injured and killed
up to June 80 lqtl. The totals include
thirty-three railway employees. five pas
sengers, one postal clerk and forty-two
others, grand total of eighty-one
The injured number 40 employees, 100
passengers. thirty-one postal clerks and
other employees. and 146 other persons.
The total was 1,O24 persons. The average
total number of railway employees on the
roads in that time was 23923. while the
total number of revenue passengers car
ried was 10,447, Ss3
OF the railway employees killed seventeen
were employed by the Union Pacific, one
by the Rock Island, six by the north
western, eight by the Burlington and one
by the Missouri Pacific. OF the five pas
sengers killed three were killed by the
Union Pacific and two by the Missouri
Pacific.
Owing TO an error in the report the Bur-
lington wreck at Indianola May %, was
not included. In this wreck fourteen per-
sons were killed or died from injuries
later, and there were twenty-five injured.
CanvnssInR Board Meets.
The state canvasslng board met today,
as provided for bylaw and went through
the formality of canvassing the returns
of the late state election. The returns as
sent I'm by the county clerks and as
tabulatcd by T. w. Smith of the secre-
tary OF states office were found to be
A
Nemaha county returns on railway com
missioner was found, bat telephone call
TO the county clerk of that county righted
the matter the figures as recorded
originally being found correct
State Treasurer George and Governor
Aldrich, other members OF the board,
were absent and pending their return no
certificates of election will be issued 10
the successful candidates. Dan Stephens,
who was elected to succeed ]. p. Latta
In the Third district and who has been
very anxious to obtain his certificate,
may have to wait a few days longer,
because theer are no blanks on which to
I'LL in the certificate 1t is probable that
sn improvised one, however will be given
the new congressman in view of the fact
that he is DESTROYS of going to Washing
ton and getting settled before congress
opens December l.
7. l.. Hall, elected as railway commits.
sioner, has not yet asked for his certifi-
cate, and IL is understood that he is not
In hurry to take his place. as he has
business interests to clear up before he
can settle down to the duties of the COM
mission.
WhiteR's Salary Raised.
Walter Written, who has been acting
as secretary of the Lincoln Commercial
club for some time past, has been en-
gagged for another two years. BY action
o fthe board of directors Whitten's salary
has been raised from $500 to 1920 per
year.
1t is believed by a well known local
capitalist that Theodore StanIslcs, the
miser, who was facing a penitentiary
sentence because Of a conviction on the
charge of arson and who hung himself
here in the city jail last week, came to
his death because he could not obtain
$4,000, which he had on deposit in a New
York bank. The inability of any Of the
officials of the bank in which the local
man had his money to identify him, IL
is thought, was the thing which preyed
on his mind and finally caused him Ito
end it all after his return here.
Stanisics upon leaving here converted
all his property into cash, it is under
stood, and then sent the drafts forward
TO New York, where he later knew he
would be. Failure to obtain anyone to
identify him there and the fear of arrest
If he tried to get communication with
Lincoln men 1t is thought made him feel
that his money was gone and that 1t
could never safely be recovered.
c. II. Imhoff. former Lincoln banker,
who is now New York City capitalist
asserted in letter which has just reached
here that man purporting to be stan
Isles called upon him there and asked him
to identity him so that he could get
money out of bank there. Later the
man called at his bank, he said, but he
was unable to tell that he was the same
man who had done business with him
years before in this city.