McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-01-03
NEBRASKA ITEMS.

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eAsspecial meeting of the State Farm
er's Alliance Is to be held at Kearney Jauu-
airy 16 and IT next.
Plum Creek Pioneer: A horse was
stolen last Sunday from the rancho Of Capt.
C.. w. McNamar, on Wood river, this
county, by boy employed by the captain
as q sheep herder. The lad, who is about
fifteen years old and small for his age, lit
out with fine bay horse abont noon, the
folks all being away from the house at the
time visiting neighbors. The next day pur-
suit was commenced, and the young can
didate for a cell In the penitentiary was
overhauled at Elm Creek by Henry McNa-
mar, the captain 3 oldest son, just as he was
preparing to wend his way further east.
The lad is stranger in this part of the
world, having been here but short time.
Hebron Journal: Years ago large
amount of pottery was manufactured just
south of Rose Creek City close to the
Thayer county line. The ware was excel
lent and found ready sale. Clay of the
some kind is found in large quantities near
here. 1t would pay to establish such
mandatory at this place, as the machinery
is inexpensive, and ready market can be
found for the pottery.
The Oakdale Journal says trapping
party of Indians from the Omaha nationhave
been encamped on the Elkhorn mile or
two below that town and brought in several
beaver furs during the week.
Lincoln Journal special from Hamp-
ton: Yesterday morning some small boys
were attracted by some noise In an outbuild-
ing connected with the depot. Going In
they found man fallen in fit. They gave
the alarm and he was conveyed to the hotel.
Medical assistance was called, but too late,
as he died at p. m. On his person were
found 1910 in money and two letters ad-
dressed to John Fl. Ford, David City, and
one from young lady to whom he was to
be married Christmas. Two prescriptions
were fonnd also for fits. The doctors pro-
nounced apopleXy the cause.
Auburn Post: Tom hall made what
he considered a safe bet the other day. He
bantered his sister-in-law, Mrs. Mark Hall,
for a wager on -husking. She accepted
a bet of new dress that she could husk
fifty bushels of corn in ten hours, and exc
cuted the work in little over five. Is there
another lady in the state who can beat 1t?
The Exchange national bank of
Hastings will make its first issue Of bank
notes about the 9th of January. The issue
amounts to $500. It starts out as ma
tional bank the first Of the year.
Alma Tribune: We notice in some
of the county papers that some one in New
York Is going to bring carload OF paupers
to this county and distribute them out
among the farmers and others. We need
hope no one will be SO foolish as to have
anything to do with the scheme.
Receipts from entertainments in the
opening of the new opera house at Alma
mounted to over 5000.
A sad accident occurred the other
day few miles northwest of Juniata, says
the Gazette j ournal. A man by the name
of Peter Anderson started for Juniata with |
a load of wheat, taking with him his daugh |
ter, about seven years old. The father and |
child, getting cold, got off the wagon to !
walk, and while the daughter was walking |
alongside the wagon, she slipped and fell
between the wheels, and the hind wheel OF |
the wagon containing forty bushels ofwheat |
passed over her stomach. On Thursday |
she was still alive with fair prospects of her
recovery.
Falls City journal: Our community
was shocked on Tuesday by the report that
old DR.. Newkirk was dead. Monday night,
about II O'Clock, he was sent for to visit the
wife of man living In a shanty in the
woods. He was in his two-wheel road
cart, and when near his destination the
horse became frightened at log and SHE'D,
causing the wheels to strike some saplings,
which overturned the cart, throwing the
doctor to the ground. He was able to go
to the house and prescribe for the sick
woman, when he began to vomit. He was
put to bed and his son sent for, who soon
arrived, and was with him until he died,
which was about O'Clock. DIR. Newkirk
was g. years of age, but was remarkably
active and energetic.
The car department in the Union Pa
cific shops at Omaha Is now busted with the
of thirty new passenger
coaches for use on the. main line, from
which some of the coaches now in use will
be sent on the branches for duty. The new
cars will be of the latest and best style, and
will be quite an addition to the rolling stock
of the road.
Red Cloud Cloud Chief A peculiar
natural material phenomena is manitesting
itself in the central part of Webster county.
The water In the wells rises and falls some