Nebraska advertiser., 1878-12-19
STATE NEWS AND NOTES.

loon bar tender named Smith was
beaten with clubs until he will prob
ably die, and a railroad boss named
relative of John Fitzger-
aid. the contractor. was fearfully used
up. The men quit work and went to
drinking because their wages were re-
dueed.
- Nebraska City is going to have
two night watchmen.
And now comes the said NJ. J.
Fem and tells a newspaper man that
he has not received appointment as
store eeper at the distillery at Nebras-
ka City or elsewhere.
- The "Old Settlers" of Otoe ooun-
ty-tbose who came prior to lS57-are
to have a jolly old time at Nebraska
City January %.
- Royal Buck, formerly of Nebras'
ka City, is County Judge, elect, of
Red Willow county.
- The Omaha Ne,CS, after the first
of January proposes to publish all the
names Of city officials who get drunk
rich or poor, high or low.-ETchdnge.
What good will that do? The edi-
tor would succeed in making three
fourths of Omaha his enemies and do
the temperance cause an injury instead
of benefit.
Burke, the gambler, who killed
Weihl, the Texas cattle maa, last
summer, in Omaha, has been tried
and found guilty of murder in the
second degree. Judge Savage sem
fenced him to twelve years in the PEN
itentisry. We judged from the re-
ports of the killing, at the time, in
the Omaha papers. that Burke had
committed a cowardly, premeditated
murder.
- Hon. H. S. Haley, Red Cloud,
has some fish ponds constructed, and
will soon go East for salmon spawn
with which to stock them.
"A young man named Joel G.
Kenevil was killed at Hastings last
week by falling under train of cars.
- Mitchell, one of the men burned
to death by the mod in Custer county
was 63 years old.
Kearney Press: 1t seems that
the murderers of Luther Holbrook
and party are finally at this late date
in fair way of getting justice. Two
of them have been arrested in Kan
sas for rse-stealing. and the where
abouts of Hargrave is known to the
officers of the law, who are on his
track. The reward offered for his ar
rest and conviction is about $500.
1t looks now, from what we can
CLEAN that Major Pearman's suit
against Collector Robb will be fizzle
too thin and will not wash worth a
cent.
- A farmer of York county, nam
ed Robert Martin, went to the city of
York, one day last week, with load
of grain. In the evening the team
stopped at home with no driver. Up
on looking into the wagon Martin was
discovered lying on his face i'm the
wagon, dead; his skull crushed in.
A strange man was seen in the wagon
with him "a he was returning from
York, and it is supposed he was muir
dered by the stranger for the money
he got for his load OF wheat.
- At FairmOnt, they are going to
have a rabbit and wolf drive on New
years-day.
- The Nebraska City Press argues
against a prohibitory law, after this
A prohibitory law would
have a tendency, to make people
drink. If you want to make every
body drink whisky just tell 'em they
shau't drink a drop. If the Lord
hadn't told Adam and Eve not to eat
apples off that particular tree they
have done it; they wouldn't
thought about it; but having had
their curiosity excited, they conclud-
ed to take their chances just for the
of the thing. etc. Such log
ic gets clear away with us.
- Nebraska is just now notorious
for dastardly deeds done within her
borders.
Two men named Mitchell and
Ketchum, on the Loupe not far from
Plum Creek, while in the hands of
were taken by party of out
laws called "cow boys" and burned
'at the stake" Mitchell and Ketch
um were under arrest for killing
Texas desperate named Stevens alias
Olive, while defending their lives and
ranch against him and other desper-
ate characters led by him. The Kear-
ney Press says, ,'truly we believe, that
there is an irrepressible conflict going
on between cattle men and settlers
who are trying to make farms that
the farmer thinks the country belongs
to them, and seem determined that it
shall not be settled up, and the cattle
range constantly diminished.
Jackson and Martin, hanged at
Nebraska City by mob, may have
been guilty and deserved the death
penalty, but the jury, sworn, who
herd and weighed the whole matter
coolly, and conscientiously, said not
and the furious mob with reason con-
trolled by allow order of passion, can
not be indorsed as a good thing by us.
-" "Gineral" Roberts is playing a
sharp game on General DiIworth
whereby he expects to steal all Dill
worths thunder. Roberts has now
begun suits for the collection of por-
lions of the squandered school funds,
suits he knows he c.nnot prosecute to
4 conclusion, but he can get the cred
Il for beginning them.-Orteans Senta-
1eI.
Well, II it Is right to commence,
md the "GiDeral" commences right,
sn't 1t all right? He should have the
,rediE of conrsp