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HOT AFTER STATE PLUMS Lincoln Statesmen Eager to Sacrific Themselves to the Public Service. ANY KND OF AN OFFICE WELC M Troubles Selecting of the State Banking Board 1. Receivers for Defunct State Banks-Woes of the Newspaper Wrecked by W. Morton Smith. litical LINCOLN. thetic with crop and profitable the the more old products of the state and stabl and gang their of barnacles, taxeaters, th new life next best freinds have ex-official taken weather and new hope during the o men and of the past week. With busines growin prospects farmers feeling jubilant over reason of a bountiful harvest, there is th leeches why the delectable coterri of n with should not extend their tentacle publi more hope and assurance. ture Of land course, just at present the public ing. but does not afford very succulent pas tender *he barnacles are watheing for pick appear shoots and nip them as soon as th the above the surface. In fact, the advantage very hungry have been taking some a o that have and have been rooting for mea in sight barely sprouted. The best plum that are just at present is the receivership thin stitutions being provided for the banking to the financial of the state that have in picking depression. With succumbe there has and the limitless number the of limite the provender been some tall hustling to pickers around. These come anything like mak by the State receiverships goin state treasurer. Banking Board, composed are passed of ou tor, and the attorney general. th age the men they have selected state to audi cut a strange affairs of embarrassed banks man ence. At figure in a monetary confer woul banking the first symptom of disease browsers concern in the state the in stampede prick for up their ears and there politica is the scene of action. SAMPLE OF THE TROUBLE. The receiver difficulties encountered in fixing of a Broken for the late Bank of upo: the troubles Bow furnish a good example Commerc worked that constantly beset the o Board. members of the State over were waiting About the time the local barnacle Banking ceiver Hon. for the bank to ask for state, Gilbert L. Laws, ex-secretary a re States land ex-member of congress, o of county commissioner and ex-a ex-Unite was on a offices in this and other numbe f and coming train nearing the Nebraska states had been through Kansas. Hon. lin the list playing in hard luck. He Gilber 0 gone to of offices in Nebraska and had had ru floor and Oklahoma to get in on the the fresh. get at picking while groun been branded He had got in the wrong it wa of every as a maverick and frozen push, ha break into political field as fast as he ou d Nebraska. it. He was on his coul line a Just before reaching way the back t why he friend did dropped in and asked stat t receivership not put in an application for Law Broken of the Bank of Commerce th lowed by Bow. Suggestion was a e station, just action, and the operator promptly at fo) e ised land, outside the border of the the nex e sion a had filed with him for prom as receiver, telegraphic application for a transmis bank. by Laws, for the Broken positio R. Humphreys, The next morning Hon. Box lands and late commisisoner Augustin of e with the buildings, filed his public Laws' banking board for the application delay claim was in ahead of him position S in line gave in time for another applicant and to th deputy the person of Frank ge 1, who was oil out inspector under Frank Ross, ex thing done for of him. meat and had to have Hiltor some 0 n financial It is with the settlement of such e Banking matters as these that the vexe it days. Board is being kept busy thes Stat n to The find inability fat of the state banking 1has places for all of the boar is the board caused trouble that threatens barnacle to g The and other state house affe O ing, men in who hungered for places employee g effect their desperation, charges are mal of salary that at least two of the state to th se are drawers are revelling in hous r. when pretty rich during these depressed snaps the dthat a one job with a pay attachment day at Dick reasonable barnacle ought to is a 1e ing Townley, chief clerk of the state expec 10 draws board, is a retired naval officer, banl st of the $110 a month from the an n $1,500 United States, in addition government to n Sbanking yearly rake-off as a member of h in a board. Then there is another th e. the office similar boat. Brad Cook, a clerk ma Id lands of the commissioner of 1 ly from and buildings, draws $1,500 public y. same the state of Nebraska and a at yes es United time is on the pension roll th he sion States at $72.50 a month, the of th n. like these drawn for total disability. In per ch Colonel the hungry applicants feel time to be Townley and Colonel Cook the IIand satisfied with one pay day a ough rthe fodder give their trough. fellow sufferers a whack mont a W MOnTO