Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-25
STATE JOTTINGS.

Beatrice Express: Nonresident owners of
thusiastic because of the fancy prices paid for
the Otoe lands, and want to raise ON prices
from two to eight dollars per acre. Real es-
tate dealers will do well to prevent this, and
impress upon the minds of land owners the
positive fact that they are already holding
prices quite high enough. The prices paid at
auction sale under the stimulus and excite
ment of bidding, with long deferred payments,
do not supply a standard by which the regu-
lar land market can be gagged.
The valuation of Holt county, as returned
by the assessors, is 1864, 1873. SO, an increase of
SIG, 531. O5 over 1882. This does not include
the railroad, S245, 902. 80, and the telegraph,
So, 2O5.50, which will make o grand total val
uation this year of SS17 DAG. 80.
A petition for signatures is being circulated
in Lincoln as follows: 1--WE, the undersigned.
agree to pay the sum set opposite our names for
each and every burglar, dead or alive dead
preferred). Proof of attempt to burglarize must
accompany each victim"
Lincoln News!"A sturdy Nebraska farmer
remarked, yesterday, that we never had a bet.
ter prospect for corn. He says if the grum-
bier will dig down he will find the roots reach
out from two to three feet, and in the next
four weeks the natives will be astonished at
the rapid growth.
Doc Middleton, the noted brigand and des-
perado, was discharged from the penitentiary
last Monday and left the state, after serving
faithfully and without a single instance of dis
obedience to prison rules, his sentence Of five
years.
A Saunders county man has sued the Bur-
lington Il Missouri railroad for $4,000 lam
ages by reason of an overflow of the Platte
caused by defendants bridge gorging the ice.
The overflow left sand on the land of the plain
tiff.
that insufficiency Of water will be one of the
drawbacks of the reunion at that point as ut
erly ~groundless. Water can be had on the
grounds in unlimited quantities.
Fullerton Journal: NJ. S. Lindsay, secre-
tary of the mill company, has closed the con-
tract for a first.class, oil roller mill, and the
outfit will be here in q few days. 1t will be
one of the best mills in the state.
Burtonian: The successful working of the
KeaTney canal has induced capitalists in the
east to write to Kearney officials as regards
other mills at that place.
A fourteen months old child Of Avoca
got hold of a pill box and succeeded in swal
lowing twenty-mine pills before detection. The
child nearly died, but with vigorous treatment
finally recovered.
Nebraska has increased its population 1,49t
per cent. in twenty years, and its taxabl,
property LIZ per cent. Its per cent. of illit
eracy is less than any other state or territory
in the Union.
The Sun says the Schuyler creamery ha,
worked up a larger business than it can read
lily take care of with its present capacity, ant
consequently steps are being taken to en-
large it.
There is great excitement in Wymore ovel
the discovery OF a defective title to the best part
of the town and the commencement of pro
ceedings to eject owners of lots.
A prospecting hole 800 feet long is to bt
made at Bazile mills, Knox county. 1t goes fol-
cool water, scientific information or anything
else that can be found.
Norfolk suffered badly from the floods las,
Tuesday. One report says that fish were spear
ed on the streets where they had been carried
up by the high water.
The G. A. r. of P~lattsmouth ask the city
council for a corner in the Plattsmouth GENE
terry in which to bury their comrades as they
pass away.
Some miscreant in Custer county put poison
in a corral containing 1870 head Of cat
tie. Thirty-two head, valued at $1,000, died
Over 10000 fat weathers have beeu shipped
from Gage county this spring, from which thu
wool clip is not less than $4,000 pounds.
Valparaiso is excited over the prospect o
being made division station on the branch o.
u. p. running from Omaha to Kansas.
A crank was captured near Richland Will,
engaged in placing Instructions on the u, T.
track. He will be sent to the asylum.
About "a bridges vent out in Lincoln coun
ty during the recent floods. Cass and Otoe los
in nearly the same proportion.
Tha Epllartnn I,,,rnal oauo that Spnall erras,
is looking. exceedingly well in Nance county
and corn is doing finely.
Fullerton, the first building of which wa,
erected in May, 1879, has attained a popula
ton of over 700.
decided to begin at once the erection of tw,
new buildings.
Dixon county is discussing whether it !
best to pay off the railroad bonds now in liti
CATION.
The Union Pacific is planting evergreen
about all its depots. The trees come from Col
orado.
A Burt county boy who herds cattle rides
bull, which he guides with an ordinary bri
die.
A second attempt to establish a saloon il
Osceola since the first Of January has failed
The Stromsburg republican complains of til
quantity of ''bitters" drank at that place.
The G.. A. r. reunion and Sunday scI.oo
assembly take place at Crete, June 25th.
The Grand Island high school has tune
out its first graduates class of three.
Work has been commenced ON the u. L
Stock yards at Gibbon, Buffalo county.
A supreme judge and two university regent
are to be elected / in Nebraska this fall.
Tecumseh claims to have more wealthy me
than any town of its size in the state.
A boot backing establishment has bee
started ON a large scale at Falls City.
Several portions the state We're visited b
severe storms during the past week.
The Seward fire association is now iucorpoI
ated under the laws Of the state.
About $780, 900 worth of buildings are |
course of construction in York.
Steps are now being taken to establish
soldiers home in Nebraska.
A building and loan association is bein
talked up in Central City.
When Migrants visit P~lattsmouth they ar
promptly run out of town.
The most destructive hail storm Schuyle
ever experienced visited that place Wednes