Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-30
STATE J0TTINGs.

STATE JOTT1NGS.
North Platte has a string band.
-Oakdale is still improving.
Work on the Grand Island ele-
vator will be commenced shortly.
-Loup City is to be REINFORCED
by two brick dwelling houses.
Columbus had a gala week with
the Georgia exeursionists.
"A portion of the Georgia ex-
cursionists visited Grand Island.
Columbus had a $1,000 fire last
week.
Crete has repealed her fire or
dinance.
Lincoln is to have q $4,000
plow factory.
The Platte bridge at Schuyler
will be completed within two weeks.
-Pawnee county has organized
an agricultural society.
jefferson county has raised the
liquor license to $500.
-Pawnee City smokes home
made cigars.
-Dannebrog is organizing q mill
company.
The Lowell land Office reports
lis entries last week.
The Loup ferry at Columbus is
again in running order.
Plum Creek contains about l4O
houses and a population of $50.
Artificial stone is being manu-
featured at York.
-Tecumseh is sinking four public
wells.
Twelve cars of California freight
are transferred on an average each
day at Kearney.
Large herds of buffalo are now
roaming in the neighbOrhOOd OF
Kearney.
-kearney Is to have no further
interruption in the construction of
the Platte river bridge.
Falls City has fifteen stores,
three hotels, four livery stables, five
churches and seven saloons.
The Thayer county anti horse
thief association will meet at
Hebron, July 7th.
Crete viii have q new elevator
in time for grain shipment of this
years crops.
Falls city is elated at the pros.
pective extension of the Trunk road
to that point.
Bloomington Is now definitely
fixed as the County Seat of Frank
lin.
The farmers of Lincoln county
propose to establish q cheese factory
at North Platte.
-Merrick county collected over
S 1900 from the U. p. for taxes last
week.
Columbus is to have an iron
foundry. They expect to have it
in running order by July 20.
The Blair hook and ladder COM
pany propose to purchase new uni
forms.
The commissioners of WASH
ingtOn county have contracted for
two iron cells for the Blair Jail.
Lincoln proposes to ship 5000
bushels of wheat to Galveston,
Texas.
The Seward grist mill will be
completed by the time the wheat
harvest is over.
"A new steam ferry boat is ex-
pected to make her appearance al
Decatur.
The WinnebagOes on the
agency have under cultivation 600
acres of wheat, $50 of corn, 80 of
oats, and so in garden vegetables.
The Lincoln Register has been
merged in the Blade. The Register
is discontinued and the Blade will
hereafter issue a weekly.
The Burt county mountain lion
has turned up near Cunning creek
in Dodge county, and the farmers
are in hot pursuit.
1T is currently reported that the
division station of the u. p. will
soon be moved from Grand Island
to some point West.
The Saunders county Court
House at WahOo-i is to be completed
before the fall term of the Saunders
county District Court.
The site for the new $50, 600 fort
in the Loup Valley has been selected
and preparations are already on foot
for its construction.
New Grafton is the name of a
just laid out by the B. & M.
railroad, six miles west of Fair
mont.
They are beginning to agitate
D change of county seat from Platts-
mouth to Weeping Water, in Cass
-Innumerable immigrant wagons
have passed through Grand Island F.
EN- route for the Upper, Mid
die, South and North LOup coun- j
Try,
Her name was Elvira Blazier,
aged l6, she lived at Lincoln and ]
tried to kindle q fire with kerosene.
An explosion, followed by a funeral
was the consequence.
Seward is making many i'm
Improvements this summer.