McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-02-05
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Joe Laener, colored, of Lincoln, has bee,
Jailed, in default of $500 bonds, on the charg
of attempted outrage on the person Of a whit,
| woman.
A Beatrice man recently stored two pound
or powder in chunk of coal. 1t was missing
next morning. but none has been sto.en sine,
| that date.
The fine exhibit Of Nebraska grain and floul
at the Worlds Exposition has already effected
demand for Nebraska flour in southern
markets.
The latest editor to be made happy is Mr.
j. g. p. Hilderbrand. of the Pawnee Press
He went over the Kansas line and secured
Miss Alice E. Clark.
Senator Howe's bills repeating the pen
atty act and changing the time of delin
quency of taxes have passed the senate with
an emergency clause
Omaha presents the spectacle of 12 year
old girl about to become mother. Being ar
orphan, she has been sent to the poor house
and her seducer has fed.
The attorney general has decided that
county treasurers are not entitled to any pay
for the handling of funds arising from the
sale and leasing of school bonds.
sides in Richland precinct, Sarpy county, fel
into kettle of hot water and scalded itself
SO severely that it died next day.
The Texas live stock association has adj
dressed the legislature letter deprecating
any hostile legislation that will prevent Texas
cattlemen from getting their cattle to north
ern markets
The location of the state fair at Lincoln is
for five years. This will be an object for the
citizens of that city to provide good accom-.
mediation for man and beast-and it is said
they propose to do SO.
An Omaha man laid down his pocket book
in the postoffice while he read few letters.
When he got ready to move on his wallet had
preceded him together with $500 in cash and
$500 more in notes No clue.
Regarding the statement that Sidney desires
the removal of the North Platte land office to
that place, it is now stated in the public press
that the desire is only for establishment of
noted land district with the Office at Sidney.
The state farmers alliance elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, J. Burrows; vice
president, First congressional district, Allen
Root; Second, L. ID. Willard; Third, A. A.
Steadwell. A resolution was passed endors-
ing the course of Senator Van Wyck.
Senator ManGerson, the successor of the
late Senator Anthony as the chairman of the
committee on printing, participated in the
senate in the memorial proceedings in honor
of the departed statesman and delivered an
address setting forth particularly the work
Mr.. Anthony had so long performed upon his
important committee.
The house committee on public lands and
buildings, consisting of Wright, Kilmer, Bar
ney, Haley, Cox, Stone, Olmstead, Buckley.
Taggart, Crawford and Lee, of Furnas, &C.
companied by Hon. Joseph Scott, land COM
missioner, visited Kearney to look over the
new reform school building. The committee
are of the opinion that more room is neces
sary.
The Gibbon Beacon credits cold weather
with several good things: 1t checked and
nearly stopped diphtheria. entirely stopped
hogs from dying through the effects of
diseases, raised the price of corn over thirty
per cent, kept poor relations from visiting,
and is preparing the ground for the produc-
ton of an abundant crop this year.
J. NJ. Devine is the champion hog raiser of
Cofax county. He tells the editor of the
Schuyler Herald that he has April pigs that
weigh 800 pounds; July pigs tt at tip the beam
at $50 pounds, and $50 pounds will equal those
that rooted their first root and grunted their
first grunt in September last. These pigs have
had no extra chance, but run in wire fenced
pasture, and have been fed in the ordinary
way.
The Arapahoe Pioneer says that S. W. Car
penter, residing near Rexford, narrowly es-
capped death and was seriously injured while
finishing well. The bucket, filled with dirt,
was being drawn upward. when the rope
broke, the bucket striking Mr.. C. on the right
hip. He was taken from the well in an un.
conscious condition, and a messenger dis
patched to Arapahoe for physician, who
found the man badly bruised but not NOR
tally injured. The well was lao feet deep, and
it is marvel the man was not instantly
killed.
The report of Commissioner Harrison, of the
public land Office, in reference to the removal
of the land Office from Niobrara, concludes as
follows: 1.-The papers herewith make strong
showing in favor of O'Neill, and on the whole
case think it enjoys about the same facilities
and convenience for the location of the Office
as Creighton. At all events, the reasons for
making selection as between the two are so
evenly balanced, that while do not withdraw
my former recommendation, prefer to leave
the determination of the matter to the judy
ment of the secretary"
The Ponca Journal says: On the Nebraska
side and about half mile down the river
from Bigley's ravine is an immense bluff, 200
feet high. THE bottom of the bluff is washed
by the river, and the result has been that fire.
quent parts of the bluff which are undermined
by the current would break Off and fall into
the river. Last summer, at the time of the
June freshet, the current made an extensive
inroad on the bluff and carried large slide
into the river and thereby exposed to view
the rock and in it two layers of coal, of the
existence of which there had been no knowl-
edge. Mr.. William Porter, who owns the land
and who made the discovery, tells us that the
two layers of coal are each about ten inches
thick and are two feet apart. Between the
layers is a slaty formation interspersed with
thin deposits of coal. 1t is thought that this
slaty formation will disappear as the bluff is
penetrated and that coal will take place Of the |
slate.