Omaha daily bee., 1880-06-15
STATE JOTTINGS,

hiVA Souuty 10 hiofLlS ioF u u6'
cou't house.
| Fremont viii have a new direc
tory in a week.
West Point creamery has NOR
orders than it can fill.
Work has been begun on the ne
B. & NJ. depot in Lincoln.
On the 10th railway mail service
will be extended to St. Paul.
The first trains were run into Al
bion and st. Edward on the 9th.
st Paul hassuch a rush that NOR
hotel room is an absolute necessity.
Fremont has organized her boar,
of trade and elected a board of officers
-Niobrara has pentilential slough
that the people demand shall be dram
ed. a
"A colony from Elgin county, On
tario, intends settling in Dawson
county.
Gage county has tbirty-eightmile
OF railroad, divided between thre,
lines.
Some of the leading men of Heb
rontemplate moving south to the new
B. & M.
-Tekamah hopes to celebrate thu
completion of her new bridge ON the
4th Of July.
-Four hundred head of cattle from
F~airibault, Mimi, are en- the way te
Nance county.
The S. G. & P. railroad people
have bought eight blocks in Norfolk
for depot grounds.
Fullerton, is moving for village
organization. 1t has 264 population,
and is but n year old.
For The present mail matter from
the east is 4S hours in reaching Gull
bertson after leaving Orleans.
The old Ponca Indian agency, con-
sisting of $4,000 acres of first-class
land, Is without an occupant.
"A b. & M. surveying party has
been camped just north of Falls City
for several days awaiting orders.
"A number of Fremont men left on
the 9Th by team for the Black Hills,
by way of Yankton and Fort Pierre.
The medical fraternity of Hsrlim,
Granklin, Webster and Nuckolls coun.
ties will organize a medical associa-
ton.
Daniel Shoopman, residing neal
Utica, was instantly killed by the &C.
cidental discharge of his shotgun last
week.
The railroad grade between Pierce
and Plainview is nearly completed,
and track laying will soon be COM
menced.
-Afarmerin observation-disclosures
OF Butler county, who has a herd of
near'y 300 cattle, has lest ten of them
from black leg.
The storm of the 9th caused con.
siderable destruction generally, but
the va'ue of the rainfall mora than
counteracted this.
The new Iron bridge across the
Elkhorn, opposite Pilger, is completed
and accepted by the commissioners of
Stanton county.
The first tree planted in Fremont,
a cottonwood which had reached a
large growth, was uprooted by last
Saturdays storm.
In the Cedar river at Fullerton is
found a white chalk stone which can
be sawed into any shape, and when
dry Is hard and durable.
The only thing which prevents
Dakota City from being happy is the
stencil which arises from the different
cattle and feed yards in the city.
Excellent peat has been dis
covered in Wheeler county. 1t laws
In a bed about two feet thick along
the beaver under four feet of dirt.
"A Stanton lawyer threw a book at
the head of a witness who displeased
him, in the court at that rlace. and
was committed to jail ten days by the
judge.
West Points new round house is
nearly completed. 1t was struck by
tightening during the recent storm,
but the damage was slight and soo re-
paired.
"A child of Louis Auffengartsn was
bitten by a rattlesnake, near Ogallala,
the fore part of this week, and died in
a few hours from the effects of the
venomus bite.
One thousand dollars and the best
mill site In southwestern Nebraska,
will be given by the citizens Of Alma
to the party who will built a frst-class
mill there at once.
The valuation of Beatrice precinct
Is $4,000 more this year than last.
exclusive of the o. & r. V. X. R.
assessment, which will increase those
figures 5000.
Horse thieves have been raiding
Syracuse and neighborhood, and SO
indignant ale the people that if the
thieves are caught summary Justice
might be melted out to them.
From different parts of the state
come reports of two crops growing in
the same field, the result of two plant
lngs, one of wheat and one of barley.
both coming up.
North Bend is to vote on a promo.
sition to issue $4,000 in bonds to he
placed with $4,000 already voted to
build a bridge across the Platte. II
was found that the latter amount
would not do it.
"A. T. Day, of Lebanon, Franklin
county, has 17U head of fine Merino
sheep. From the first sixty ewes he
sheared six hundred and TWENTY-FIVE
and half pounds of wool. One
hundred lambs constitute this wears
increase in the flock.
"A farmer by the name of McBin.
ney, living nea Pilger station, Stan.
ton county, was the unfortunate loser
OF 200 head of sheep out of 75O In
the storm OF last Saturday by being
chilled and drowned in a ravine.
On an elevated piece of land near
Steel Creek, Knox county, can be
traces of what evidently was
once a fertilization. A circular en-
bankment embracing an area of two
acres can be plainly traced. 1t NAV
have been put there by General Frs-
mont, who wintered there in his ex-
plorations forty years ago.
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