Omaha daily bee., 1874-06-23

The Washington county Jail is
to be put in . safe condition.
Claim jumpers are warned to
keep out Of Adams county.
Republican City Is building a
Methodist Church and a school
house.
The Normal School at Peru
closes next week.
Williamsburg is the Capital OF
Phelps county.
-Kearney Is to be illuminated
with two locomotive headlights.
The mountain lion Of Burt
county has emigrated to parts I'M
known.
"A patent right pedlar has been
swindling the farmers Of Cass
county.
John ]. Blair pays 5000 per
annum In taxes on his Burt county
land5.
"A number Of new buildings
have been erected this spring on the
Omaha reservation.
Lowell expects to become the
great Texas cattle centre Of Ne
braska.
"A vein Of Ignite coal has been
discovered on the Blue river q few
miles from Crete.
-Colfax county Is receiving heavy
reinforcements in immigration from
Bohemia.
Dakota City looks hopefully to-
ward the realization of her railway
projects.
An Ashland cattle dealer
shipped ten car loads Of live stock
to Chicago last week.
George Linly, q cattle herder
was drowned in Rock Creek, Saund-
srs county, June l4th.
The reunion Of the Otoe county
pioneers last week was q very in
teresting affair.
The new town Of Wood River
has been surveyed, and q town laid
out by the U. P. Company.
One year ago Grand Island
City contained $50 buildings, now
she contains 4O7.
After the heavy rainstorm, a
week ago Saturday, the Blue river
rose 10 feet.
Horse thieves are getting bold
In Sarpy county. Their last exploit
was borrowing the Sheriff's horse.
The Thayer County Horse Thief
Protective Association is now a fixed
fact.
Some Lincoln capitalists have
organized q coal mining company
to operate In Colorado.
Gage county has cancelled
5000 Of her outstanding court
house bonds. The original issue
was $4,000. d.
Government lands are album
dant in Dawson county for home
stead, pre-emption or timber Gull
ture.
Coal of good quality has been
found In Jefferson county, and eff
forts are being made to organize q
coal mining company.
Hall County is organizing an
Agricultural Society, with a view to
holding q County Fair at Grand
Island this fall.
The mail route between Loup
City and CrOwelton, ON the Union
Pacific road, is to be opened by July
LIST.
Charlie Hyatt, q boy aged IL,
was drowned at Lincoln during the
food that submerged the lower part
Of the Capital City, q week ago Sat-
urday.
Thirty emigranta arrived at
West Point last week direct from
Bohemia. They have considerable
money and propose to purchase
lands and settle in Cunning county.
-Thirty-two hundred acres of
land have been taken by settlers
within two weeks ON the Prairie
Dog, town l, range 10, Harlan
county.
The members Of the Christian
Church of Table Rock have united
with the Masonic, Odd Fellow and
Grange fraternities in the erection
Of a public building to be used
jointly.
The Blue river, in the south part
Of Polk county, was visited the other
day by q severe hail storm. Hail
stones were picked up measuring six
and one-half inches In circumfer-
ence.
The Board of Insane Asylum
Commissioners held q session at
Lincoln last week. They found ev.
erything satisfactory, but will rec.
ommend an enlargement Of the
Asylum to the next Legislature.
The Logan has overlooked, and
has covered the bottom land Of the
valley, making Q stream from three
quarters to q mile wide, and at last
accounts the water was still rising.
All Of the mills on the stream have
suspended operations.
Hamilton county IL to hold a spe-
cial election ON the 18th of July
next, for the purpose Of voting on .
proposition to issue bonds to the
amount OF SO, 900 to be used in con.
structing two wagon bridges across
the Platte nver-0ne at Lone Tree,
and the other at, or near Grsnd Isl
and.
General Morgan has filed with
the Normal School Board his resig-
nation g PRINCIPAL of the State