Omaha daily bee., 1888-09-13
STATE AND TERRlTORY.
Nebraska JOttin rs.

Nebraska Jottings.
Stock yards are being built Mt Crawford.
The ''arsenic route is carrying off Ulysses
CANNES by the score. There is u mad dog
scare in the
Nebraska City parents are making a howl
on account of another change OF text books
in the public schools.
Workmen on the Plattsmouth sewers ex-
humed an Indians skull which was buried
six feet below the surface.
The Merrick County Republican is the
name of a clean and intelligent looking paper
Just started at Central City. w. p. Watson
is editor and proprietor.
A young man named Craig, living near
Ulysses, has the s'rim' OF his hand left. The
palm was carried away while he was holding
u loaded gun by the muzzle.
The old veterans living near Crawford cell
citrate the anniversary of the battle of Antie-
tam September II, with "a picnic, camp fire
and dance. General Brisbin Will be on hand
and give them a talk.
A Utica man named Cobb stole a team sew
eral weeks ago and made his escape. TIL
officers kept an eye on the thief's best girl,
and have just been rewarded by catching
him while on Il visit to her.
Annie Miller, a seven-year-old girl living
near Crawford, was thrown by an unruly
broncho last week and dragged over half u
mile with her foot caught in the stirrup of
the saddle. The little girls face was hor-
ribly mangled, but she will live.
Jacob Bellville, a farmer living between
Whitney and Chadron, is said to have pois-
oned some of his watermelons as a guarantee
against thieves. The Crawford Crescent
wants the matter investigated, and says that
if the report be true Bellvillo would be a dis
grace to Il coat of tar and feathers and
should be chased out of the country by blood
hounds
G. w. Kirfman, a Sarpy county farmer,
SOLD his crops, stock and furniture at a sac
ritice last week to accept the offer of a iu-
crative job made by a slick individual who
claimed to own a stock farm in Kansas. The
money from the sale, however, was absorbed
in paying kirfman's debts, and when the
sharper discovered the fact he skipped. He
evidently intended to rob his victim of the
proceeds of the sale.
Iowa.
The cold water people have cleaned out the
Logan saloons.
Algona's building records for the year show
$500 N invested.
The Iowa State Fair receipts are over ST.
000, the largest in the history of the society.
The governor rcappointed L. G. Weld, of
Iowa City, state superintendent of weights
and measures.
Miss Louise Sowneberger was attacked by
a highwayman on the streets of Dubuque and
robbed of her purse.
Actual count showed that over 5000 peo-
pie passed through the state library during a
single day last week.
Davenport ministers will hold union re-
vlval services in November. with an eminent
| evangelist from the east to conduct the meet
ing.
Italians are employed in city work at Sioux
City, and in reply to the general kick the
contractors aver a shortage of American Ia
borers.
The Des Moines Electric Railway company
| nnp, "A SnttInn np1au lnSt Annlay Thn
company expects to have cars running by
October ID.
Postville is getting an unenviable reputa-
ton for burglaries. They come periodically
and almost regularly, and the lapse of time
between them is shortening up.
A pleasing incident of the Maple Grove
church dedication at Marshalltown is that
every member of the board of trustees and
the minister who performed the dedicatory
rites had served as soldiers in the union
army during the war.
Dakota
A gigantic wheat trust is gradually being
brought to a focus at Fargo.
Mitchell university is now almost free OF
debt, while last year it was nearly $50, 600 in
the hole.
The M. e. church at Armour is the recip.
lent of a check for 800 from =. ID. Armour,
of Chicago.
Pierre will vote October 1 on the question
of bonding the town in the sum of 81, 900 for
the purpose of building two school houses.
A. McHaln, of Fargo, offered the directors
of the north Dakota fair 81 900 for the privi-
lege of running a wheel of fortune, but was
refused.
The James River Baptist association has
closed its third annual meeting at Aberdeen
Four new churches were received into the
association.
The w. G. 7. U. IN session at Fargo ha:
decided to establish and maintain head
quarters at Bismarck during the session Of
the legislature.
The Rapid City Republican says: The
fronticrsmen who have long been familiar
with the reservation and its resources have
invariably insisted upon the existence of fin,
veins of coal on the reservation. People whC
have crossed it from time to time state that
they have found indications that this ma
terial is there in large quantities. From
time to time parties have prospected on the
reservation for coal ana have returned Il C
this city with good reports of their eXplora
tiOns. A gentleman who came up TO Ia
city a few days ago from that sec
ton says that he has found a large body OF
coal of what he believes to be a superior
quality and expects to take possession of it il
the reserve is opened. The value of coal de
posits in the eastern vicinage of Rapid City
cannot be Overestimated. The first railroads
to the city will in all probability be from tho
east, and il they Will bring cheap coal to its
doors the mining problems of the section will
find ready solution. 1t is now apparent thai
the only thing needful to bring out the
wealth of the Hills and make it attractive Il
capital is cheap fuel and coke. But The
United States government has virtually left