Omaha daily bee., 1888-09-24
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska JOttings.

Another sign of civilization is noted at Nc
Cook-the plug hat.
Guide Rock is again in hard luck. It's
brass band has disbanded and the iastru-
ments have been sold.
Dick Vetty, u well-known Nebraska City
character, iSs disappeared, leaving u large
family poorly provided for.
An effort is being made to nave u per ma
nent hog market at Ponca, and a compan V is
being organized for that purpose.
J. NJ. Hawkins has purchased the Fairbury
Democrat, changed its name to the Enter
prise, and will run it as u republican paper.
Michael Fisher, a Humphrey man, had his
arm wound up in IL threshing mac~hine"Thurs-
day, managing the limb in a terrible manner.
The Edgar canning factory has put up
100, 900 cans of corn, 5000 ems of peas and
beans, and will finish the seasons work with
5000 cans of tomatoes.
Prof. Foster, who was hired by the board
OF education to teach the Chadron school and
then notified that his services were not
needed, has secured Il Judgment in his favor
Of $500.
Eight female camp followers at the United
States military camp in Dawes county, were
arrested and fined last week. General Hatch
is bound to drive this dissolute class away
from the soldiers.
Albert Sammons, a Holt county boy,
dropped a gun from his shoulder while out
hunting the other day, and received a charge
of shot in his heel, which will necessitate the
amputation of his foot.
A four-year-old boy, living at Candy, swal-
lowed Il tin whistle last week, presumably
with fatal results, as the the local paper an
noGnces that ''the little fellow will use the
plaything in the other world"
The Washington county court house at
Blair was found to De in an unsafe condition
last week, and eighteen heavy timber props
were placed around the outside of the build
ing. 1t doesn't look very pretty, but it isn't
dangerous.
/ Tom Shubert, an old and eccentric citizen
of Beatrice, was found dead in his cabin in
the outer part of the city Friday night. His
body was badly decomposed and he had evil
IDENTIFY died in a tit. He was about sixty
years old and unmarried.
The David City Press has started in on its
sixteenth year, and while Editor Casper ac-
knowledges that in that time he has learned
many things and corrected lots of mistakes,
he has still failed TO rectify his one great
error-he is still a rock-ribbed democrat,
A novelty in the way of an exhibition is
proposed for the Lincoln county fair next
month in the shape of a ''roping'' contest. A
leading ranchman has agreed to furnish the
necessary steers ii the agricultural society
will secure competent ropers to contest for a
prize.
Smooth-tongued swindlers have worked a
number of farmers living near Paramount,
during the past week, selling agencies for a
hydgo-carbon burner. or course the newly
| appointed agent nau TO Sign u dralJ To Sc
cure the royalty, and then the swindlcrs
skipped. State warrants have been issued
| for their arrest.
Prospecting for coal at Ponca has been
abandoned, The conviction is being forced on
| the drillers that they have been duped by
some wicked Individual who ''salted' the
hole put dow eight years ago.. The Journal
goes into paroXysms of grief and rage over
| the result, and says OF the man who caused
all the trouble: "His memory should be
handed down to p~osterity on a platter OF
molten brass as the champion liar Of the UNI
scalped west. He deserves that the fingers
Of fate pinch him, the palm of sleepless
wrath slap him, the untiring foot of
Providence kick him, and the landlord OF the
hotel de Sheol brand him. And finally, when
he has been slapped, %pinched, kicked and
branded until he realizes the enormity of his
condition, he deserves to be loaded into a red
hot bombshell and fired by the kick of a TO-
900 horsepower mule unto the boundless
regions of interplanetary space"