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ATTORNEYS' FEES FOR DEFENDING STATE SUITS.

Years	Amount of Fee	Attorney
1875	$300.00	Stephen B. Pound.
1879	$530.00	C. G. Bullock.
1879	1,250.00	Lamb, Billingsley & Lambertsun.
1879	75.00	N. Millet & Son.
1879	100.00	E. E. Brown.
1879	1,000.00	P. O. Hawes.
1883	25.00	Geo. W. Heist.
1883	150.00	Crawford & McLaughlin.
1883	1,048.25	P. O. Hawes.
1885	122.50	P. O. Hawes.
1887	4,520.30	P. O. Hawes.
1889	100.00	Edwin F. Warren.
1889	2,000.00	Ebenezer R. Hoar, in case of Morton v. State.
1891	12,097.15	For fees in election contests of state officers.
1893	5,000.00	For suits in behalf of state.
1803	10,000.00	For use of state in prosecuting criminal cases.
1895	2,169.90	For defense of maximum rate law, viz: Omaha Printing Co. for printing briefs and testimony.
1895	261.00	L. D. Woodruff, printing brief of attorney general.
1895	478.05	George H. Hastings.
1895	6,000.00	John L. Webster.
1895	479.07	W. A. Dilworth.
1895	300.00	L. F. Wakefield, engineer.
1895	4,000.00	John L. Webster.
1895	7,960.73	For wiliness fees, Court costs, etc.
1895	200.00	M. B. Reese.
1897	5,277.00	Fees for election contest of representatives from Douglas county.
1897	661.10	P.O. Hawes.
1899	4,189.00	Fees in election contests of various state officers.
Total	$70,294.05

 

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES.

STATE AID TO GRASSHOPPER, DROUTH AND TORNADO SUFFERERS.

Years	Amount of Bonds Issued	Money Appropriation	Deficiency	Total
1875-76	$50,000.00	......	......	$50,000.00
1891-93	100.000.00	$100,000.00	......	200.000.00
1895-97	......	250,000.00	$1,207.52	251,207.52
1913-15	......	100,000.00	......	100,000.00
Totals	$150,000.00	$450,000.00	$1,207.52	$601,207.52

INSURANCE OF STATE BUILDINGS.¹

Years	State Buildings	State Boilers	Total
1869-70	$1,147.00	......	$1,147.00
1871-72	10,124.25	......	10,124.25
1875-76	13,293.00	......	13,293.00
1877-79	5,482.75	......	5,482.75
1879-81	3,000.00	......	3,000.00
1881-83	8,000.00	......	8,000.00
1883-85	10,000.00	......	10,000.00
1885-87	10,000.00	......	10,000.00
1887-99	24,000.00	......	24,000.00
1889-91	330.00	......	330.00
1895-97	......	$1,725.00	1,725.00
1905-07	......	1,200.00	1,200.00
Totals	$85,377.00	$2,925.00	$88,302.00

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     ¹Law passed requiring insurance of state buildings February 15, 1869, and never repealed. Ineffective since 1889, because of legislative failure to appropriate.

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LIGHTNING RODS ON STATE BUILDINGS.

Years	Amount	Institution
1871-72	$417.50	Insane asylum.
1875-76	1,275.50	Capitol and university.
Total	$1,692.50	......
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BOUNTIES. 

Years	For Scalps of Wolf, Coyotes and Wildcat	For Sugar Beets and Chicory	Total
1873-74	$8,604.251	......	$8,604.25
1879-81	7,500.00	......	7,500.00
1885-87	3,000.00	......	3,000.00
1889-91	10,000,.00	......	10,000.00
1891-93	15,000.00	$7,364.00	22,364.00
1899-01	60,000.00	17,840.233	77,840.23
1903-05	40,000.00	......	40,000.00
1905-07	15,000.00	......	15,000.00
1907-09	59,411.00	......	59,411.00
1909-11	30,000.002	......	30,000.00
1911-13	29,000.00	......	29,000.00
Totals	$277,515.25	$25,204.23	$302,719.48

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   ¹$2,031.45 of this amount paid for gopher scalps.
     ²Law providing for bounty on scalps of certain wild animals repealed by act approved April 5, 1909.
     ³Law providing for the payment of a bounty on the manufacture of sugar and chicory repealed by act of 1897.

 

EXTERMINATION OF PRAIRIE DOGS.

Years	Amount
1919-21	$2,000.00

 

STATE AID TO VARIOUS EXPOSITIONS, ETC.

Years	Amount	Exposition
1877-79	$4,509.00	Centennial, Philadelphia, Pa.
1885-87	20,000.00	Centennial, New Orleans, La.
1893-95	35,000.00	Columbian, Chicago, Ill.
1897-99	100,000.00	Trans-Mississippi, Omaha, Nebr.
1901-03	10,000.00	Pan-American, Buffalo, N. Y.
1903-05	20,000.00	Louisiana Purchase, St. Louis, Mo.
1905-07	12,000.00	Lewis and Clarke, Portland, Ore.
1915-17	300.00	Exhibit, Dry Farmers' Congress.
1917-19	500.00	Exhibit, Dry Farmers' Congress.
1917-19	5,000.00	Southwest Nebr. District Fair.
Total	$207,309.00

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MONUMENTS.

1881	$1,000.00	Memorial block of stone for Washington national monument.
1883	500.00	Lincoln's monument at Springfield, Ill.
19M	600.00	Colonel Stotsenburg, Arlington Cemetery, Washington, D. C.
1907	1,250.,00	Gen. John M. Thayer, Wyuka, Lincoln, Neb.
1909	20,000.00	AbrahamLincoln memorial statue, Lincoln, Neb.
Total	$23,350.00

STATE AID FOR INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.

Years	Amount	Purpose
1915-17	$35,000.00	One-half of cost of paving Holdrege street adjacent to University Farm.
1917-19	1,500.00	Straightening Dead Man's Run.
1919-21	1,000.00	Paving Lancaster County.
Total	$37,500.00

 

CLAIM FOR GLANDERED HORSES.

Years	Amount
1915-17	$300.00
Total	$300.00

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INDEMNITY FOR ACCIDENTS SUFFERED IN THE, SERVICE OF THE STATE.

Years	Amount	Person	Kind of Accident
1887-89	$2,000.00	Maggie Pribble
1887-89	3,000.00	Edgar D. Everett	Gunshot wound.
1889-91	2,500.00	William J. Wilson	Gunshot wound.
1891-93	3,500.00	George W. Davis	Burn.
1891-93	3,500.00	Jacob Norin	Death from boiler explosion.
1891-93	2,000.00	Lavena Turner	Loss of hand.
1891-93	600.00	Ernest Reynolds	Physical breakdown on account of militia service.
1893-95	2,000.00	George Maurer	Physical breakdown on account of militia service.
1893-95	2,000.00	J. P. Paxton	Killed by escaped criminal.
1897-99	2,000.00	Mrs. Lucius Lawson	Loss of eye from gunshot.
1899-01	500.00	Cyrus F. Bake	Gunshot wound.
1899-01	3,500.00	William C. Peterson.	Physical disability on account of exposure in Sioux campaign in 1891.
1907-	500.00	U. G. Sawyer	Strained back.
1911-13	800.00	Sylvester C. Hathaway-	Gunshot wound.
1911-13	3,000.00	W. A. Philpott	Loss of hand.
1911-13	600.00	Louise Rollins	Burn.
1913-15	7,500.00	Roy P. Blunt	Killed in running fight with escaped convicts.
1913-15	2,000.00	Rollie C. Ballard	Death from injury in militia service
1913-15	1,000.00	John I. Keane	Nervous paralysis from fall.
1913-15	2,000.00	Mrs. Ruby Carson
1913-15	5,000.00	Thomas J. Doody	Wounded by escaping convicts.
1913-15	5,000.00	E. G. Hellman	Killed by escaping convicts.
1915-17	2,000.00	Ed. M. Talbert	Killed in auto accident.
1915-17	5,000.00	Cassie Dyer	Loss of arm.
1915-17	5,000.00	E. D. Davis	Killed by convict.
1915-17	731.00	Ione Story	Hand injured.
1917-19	2,000.00	W. I. Wiser	Carbolic acid, insane hospital.
1917-19	3,000.00	Frank Henke	Paralyzed by fall.
1919-21	4,000.00	Eugene Ramberg	Loss of arm.
1919-21	5,000.00	Maud Janson	Fractured leg.
1919-21	826.45	Charles Tizor	Killed by diving into lake.
1919-21	1,500.00	Katheryn Huffman	Injured feet.
Total	$83.557.45

 

REIMBURSEMENTS.

Years	Amount	Purpose
1919-21	$311.48	To City of Kearney for expenses inured in improvements on lots belonging to the state.

 

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