Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-16
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residences.
Miss Rose Eddy, OF Hastings, expert
enced the first leap year rebuff from John
Hobson, and took to strychnine. She
was not Hobson's choice, and the reall-
zation shattered her spirit.
The sheriff OF Dawes county has col
Jared Miller Miles, II colored soldier at
Fort Robinson, who is supposed to be one
of the murderors of Sergeant Stance.
The latter was shot full of holes near
Crawford, Christmas week.
Columbus is ready to swear on stack
OF chips that the wisdom of the supreme
court is unbounded. Since the decision
of tho court that the city had right to
issue bonds for bridge over the Loup,
its praises have been sung by young and
old.
DR.. Slicker, the Stratton medic who
sprung into notoriety by his willingness
to sacrifice himself for democracy as u
candidate for regent, has slid out of
town on wave of wrath and exposure
of past wickednoss. lie left reminders
valued at 800, which can be bought
cheap.
The Fulton tract near Nebraska City
will be auctioned again, February Is.
A committee of vigilantes should at
tend, prepared to rasp the clutches of
spectators should they attempt to de-
feat the plan to purchase the land at its
appraised valuation and present it to
the city for u park. Mr.. Morton's gen
erosity should not be balked by individ-
ual greed.
Fitzpatrick Bros.& Collins. of Beatrice,
claim to be the champion railroad build
ers of the state. Last year the firm con-
structed 539 miles of road, and employed
6,OOO men and teams, at an expense of
S2,25O,0O0. The work was done for the
following companies: Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy, 2S9 miles: St. Joseph 81
Grand Island, 80 miles; Union Pacific,
6S miles; Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska,
60 miles; Missouri Pacific, 32 miles.
The humorists of the Fremont papers
are easily moved to merriment. The
report that the Elkhorn Valley road
South Omaha stockyards produced sew
eral photographic outlaws as bilious and
fuddled as the authors. The twenty
stall round house and freight house
built by the company at cost of $780,
600, in Omaha last year, would accom-
modate the population of Fremont and
give separate stalls to the newspaper
cattle.
North Bend is waging vigorous war
on the elevator monopoly at that point
The two elevators there are controlled
by Himebaugh g. Merriam, of Omaha,
whose extortions and CALLING treatment
of patrons has raised a blizzard of indig-
nation. A meeting of prominent citi-
zens and farmers was held Tuesday, and
the elevator company unanimously de-
| nounced. Resolutions were adopted
reciting that ground cannot be had for
a competitive elevator at North Bend;
that competition is prevented
by the refusal of the railroad to furnish
cars; that a fair market is impossible
under the rule of that ''prince of monop-
olies," the elevator company, and that
steps be taken to organize farmers
cooperative association preparatory to
building an elevator and stockyards.
The resolutions passed with shout
and q committee Of seven was appointed
to confer with the Union Pacific and
Elkhorn Valley roads to ascertain which
will give the best privilege for locating
| the elevator either at North Bend or
Morse.