Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-26
STATE AND. TERRITORY.


Dakota county claims u population of
6,0O0.
Rushville has been declared the
county seat of sheridan county.
Nebraska City proposes to secure a
rock pile ms gymnasium for her buns.
Six days without train and ten days
without mail was the blizzard expert
cnce of Coleridge, Cedar county.
Seventy thousand dollars worth OF
building improvements are booked to
bloom in the spring in South Sioux City.
The Ponca coal shaft struck a fifteen
inch vein of coal at depth of iifty-seven
feet. The work of sinking the shaft is
being pushed vigorously.
The Yanktou Press says committee
of Yanktonians is to visit Omaha in II
couple of weeks in the interest Of the
proposed Iankton-Omaha railroad.
The Puget Sound colony boomers are
operating in Plattsmouth The gilded
bait held out will doubtless catch the
fancy of the reckless us we'll as their
spare cash.
Broken Bow has been given to un-
derstand that the Missouai Pacific was
heading that way. and with proper in
ducements in bonds and lands, would
build to the town.
Plattsmouthcrsa are organizing q grand
hill slide carnival, and have extended in
vitations to coasters in Omaha, Lincoln
and Council Bluffs to participate and
crack shin or two.
The supervisors of Butler county have
compromised with the dofaulting treas
urer, G.. H. Cutting, at 33b cents on the
dollar. Cutting cleared S., 800 by the
operation.
Grand Island is offered beet sugar
plant provided the business men sub
scribe stock to the amount of $4,000
and n farm of 5000 acres. A. j.
Levallee is chief engineer Of the
scheme.
Judge Kenney, of Nebraska City,
Indian agent at the Yankton agency,
publicly denies having made the state
ment that l 900 perished in the blizzard
in Dakota. He declares that few facts
have been tortured into alarming false
hoods.
Iowa Items.
Sioux City has on the stocks building
improvements to cost 81 ,Sl2, 700.
The press club of Des Moines will in
dulge in banquet February IA.
The business mems club of Davenport
will blow in $500 in advertising the
town.
The Bremen County Independent says
hay is $40 to Sl2 per ton and fodder very
scarce.
The alcohol works at Atlantic are to
be converted into starch factory the
coming season.
A Marshall county farmer thinks the
snow is twenty inches deep on an
average in the timber where it is not
drifted.
The force of telegraph linemen are
pushing forward the new telegraph
wire between Fort Dodge and Sioux
City at the rate of fifteen miles per day,
when at work, although the intense
cold weather seriously interferes with
the progress of the work.
Dakota.
Deadwood is threatened with coal
famine.
A party from Wisconsin has made ar
rangements to establish q foundry and
machine shop in Huron early in the
spring.
Mitchell citizens are coming to the
front grandly with subscriptions to
make up the $1,000 for the next terri
tOrial fair.
The American tin mining have 1000
pounds of stream tin, averaging 65 per
cent, that will be shipped from Deadwood
to New York in few days.
A prominent citizen of Aberdeen said:
81 have lived in Dakota and Minnesota
thirty-three years and never saw or
heard of such a storm. 1t was phenOme-
nal, and such one may not occur again
in a hundred years"
Bismarck is all torn up socially over
the Judge Mackey and Mrs. Witherbee
scandal. That Mrs. Witherbee is seek
ing divorce is admitted. Many stoutly
champion the cause of the lady, and in
sist that it will be time enough to con-
denim her when the facts are proved.
Dakota has large supply of blizzard
teacher in Yankton county, is one of
them. Her school was in session when
the blizzard came and her. orders to her
school children were to remain in the
building until the storm was over. She
then started across the prairie in the
midst of the storm to the nearest house,
half mile away, and procured a supply
of provisions and returned with it to her
imprisoned charges at the school house.
Providentially the two journeys were
made in safety and the school children
were enabled TO pass the night in COM
fort. At the house where the provis-
not one of them could be induced to
accompany Miss Guernsey back to the
school house. So she went alone.
Montana.
The new city directory of Helena con-
tains 5,24O names.
The bullion shipped from Butte last
week was worth S76, 1872.
Six spans of the Montana Central's
eight-span bridge across the Missouri at
Great Falls are completed.
In 1887 at the Helena land Office there
were entered 252, ,S4l acres OF land, the
receipts for which We're $l60, ,593.47.
The mining camp of Burk, in the
Cnur d. Alenes, imports 800 pounds of
whisky and liquors to 100 pounds of
provisions.
The production of the Hecla company
at Glendale for 1857 amounted to 49,