Omaha daily bee., 1874-05-12

q. s. land office.
The Fairmont Bulletin has ex-
and put on a new dress.
Fairmont has elected the
straight temperance ticket.
The total valuation of property
In Burt county is s., 90, 424.
Fremont is going to take dane
ing lessons from an Omaha dancing
master.
The Lincoln bone settlers are
revising their fee bill.
Palmyra is building a Masonic
hall.
1880 acres have been sown to
flaxin GAINESVILLE Precinct, Merrick
county, this season.
The Blue Valley Railroad from
Crete to Columbus is now on the
tapis.
Since the crusaders closed the
saloons the drug bushes is getting
to be profitable in Ashland.
AT the town election last Mon
day Dakota City cast ifty-three
votes.
North Platte merchants are sup
plying the Cozadites with provisions
and gewgaws.
-Fairburg prays for a brickmak-
er that does not carry bricks in his
hat.
The City Clerk Of Tecumseh
gets 500 per annum on his wash
ing.
The contract for bridging the
Republican river at ArrapahO has
been let.
"A Cunning county farmer has
planted thirty acres of flax this
spring.
-Otoe county assessors return
taxable property valued at S4,74s,-
174.96.
Madison county covers an area
of 1888 acres, and contains a pop
ulation of 1885.
The Plum Creek ard Cedar
River settlements in Boone county,
are In a very furnishing condition.
Timber claims are rapidly a.b-
sorbing all the vacant government
lands in Colfax county.
Gage county will hold an agri-
cultural fair Sept. 18th, 10th and
18th.
Sidney has been reinforced by
two car loads of old Fort Kearney
on wheels.
Lincoln proposes to organize a
manufacturing Company, with
steam power to let.
Syracuse, Otoe county, has
doubled in size and population in
the past twelve months.
Doctor Renner has moved the
&adts Zeitung back from Lincoln
to Nebraska City.
The State penitentiary will now
have an official barber. Weber,
the 81 900 forger, has leased a cell
for five years.
Regular trains will run over the
st. Joseph and Denver railroad,
from Kearney, on and after Mon
day, May 18th.
Dawson county was reinforced
by a colony Of forty families hail
ing from New York and Pennsyl-
vania.
Work on the Grand Island &
st, Joe road is to commence this
week, and will be vigorously
pushed.
Hastings and Juniata are shak-
ing hands across the bloody chasm,
and the fair ground controversy has
been settled.
Saline county census returns
show a population of Ills, and a
taxable property valued at 50, 1885,
OF. go.
-KearIiey county is rapidly gain
ing in population. One hundred
and twenty homestead entries were
made there since April LIST.
The Beatrice artesian bore had
reached a depth of 92O feet last
Wednesday. The formation of the
last Is feet was lime rock, but no in
dications of coal yet.
The taxable property of Colfax
county foots 81, $40, 092. As, from
which there is deducted for timber,
S25, $4,000, leaving the amount tax
BILE at 81, 314,22S.45.
The b. & NJ. lands in the Nor
folk land district, for which patents
have not been issued will be open
for homestead and presumption set
Element on and after May 18th.
Orleans suffered serious de-
rangement last week by the non-
arrival of United States whisky
license and the consequent closing
of the refreshment resorts.
West Point has voted SIS, OOO
bonds for a new school house, but
the legality of the election will be
contested by some of the opponents
of the proposition.
GAINESVILLE, Merrick county, is
improving very rapidly. Two new
churches and several business and
dwelling houses are i'm process of
construction.
"A large target shooting match
is to be held at Saint Helena, May
18th and 18th. The principal prizes
to be contested for are one Devon
shire cow, eight town lots, two
rifles, and one double barrelled shot
gun.
The total valuation Of taxable
property, real and personal, in Hall
county, according to the last assess
ment, is 81, 544, 1885, 5. The total
population according to the same
authority is 3,S42.
The amount Of business done at
the Beatrice land office: Home
steads taken, Is; final proofs made,
81; total number of timber claims
taken in the district, SIS, comprising
12,607 acres.
The State Superintendent of