Omaha daily bee., 1889-04-30
STATE AND TERRIToRY
Nebraska Jottinrs.

STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska Jottings.
A creamery company has been organized
in Ewing.
The case of DIR. Candy, in Richardson
county, has been postponed till May %.
Broken Bow has "A school population of 45i,
an increase of 100 over last year.
West Point has only four struggling news
papers, vet another is about to be launched
on the troubled sea.
Lightning caught two mules asleep in the
barn of Gus Backus, near Oakland, last
week The shock filled them with mortiti-
cation.
The farmers of Webster and York coun-
ties have resolved that l5 cents is the maxi
mum price that they will pay for binding
twine this year.
Hastings, will give a banquet and ball at the
Bostwick hotel, Thursday evening. The
boys propose to give their friends a sample
OF their sociability.
A Des Moines drummer hurried to Lincoln
last week to commit suicide, but police
man nipped a coroner's fee. The disgusted
drummer could not find sufficient energy ut
home to shuttle off.
Some remote and nameless admirer insinu
ates that Col. Tom Majors, he of Nemaha. is
farming extensively this year. 1t is limited
that he is cultivating q consuming desire for
the governorship
Burglars visited the store of John Vaborl
in Linwood, and secured a years supply of
dress patterns, underwear and furnishing
goods, valued al $500. Fifty dollars will be
paid for the capture OF the thieves and the
goods.
The boomers of the Wyandotte plug road
from Kansas have been feeling the pulse Of
Beatrice. and insnuate that $50 900 would
be about the size of the pile necessary to Sc
cure an extension OF the rust streaks.
ynnf ifsn lec llIfNfy tfsfi i'm
HThe white cap lunacy is breaking out in a
mild form in remote sections of the state.
These self-consttuted regulators should be
vigorously informed that Nebraska railroad
bridges are convenient and effective means
of involuntary suicide.
Hog Cholera Billings proposes to turn his
| energies to live stock insurance. A more
profitable scheme would be to start hog
ranch, literally insure the porkers and ill
| them with virus. In that way he can effectu-
ally inoculate the insurance treasures.
The Pacific Town Lot company has been
organized at Fremont, with capital of
| Sl0O,0OO. The company will dabble in town
sites and lots along the Pacific Short line,
and cheerfully exchange small slices Of the
| earth for verdant cash.
Charles Griffith, Of Nebraska City, will
| not add his voice to the patriotic shouts on
"thls day we celebrate" While incautiously
| toying with the loaded end Of mule, he
| caught the animals shoe in his mouth, but
/ ulu nOU swallow IL. his jaws Will TcCupbTa ave
in sling for few days.
he RockIsS and Beyond.
Ogden has raised $4,000 of the $50, 900 re-
quired for an opera house.
| Last week 102 cars of mineral were
| shipped from Salt Lake City.
| Last year 79945 cattle were brought into
| Wyoming, Texas contributing 81, l31.
The Willard syndicate has secured fran
| chise for electric and cable street railways in
| Tacoma w. Il.
The question Of statehood is agitating the
| newspapers of Wyoming as well amb-
| tiouS politicians.
The city council of Denver has enacted a
| Sunday closing ordinance. The mayor is
| pledged to enforce the law.
The supreme court of Nevada has affirmed
the constitutionality of the law requiring sa-
| looms TO close at midnight.
| Frank Derville dock laborer in Port
land, has fallen heir to $780, 900 by the death
| of Il grandmother at Cincinnati
| The three lakes near Saratoga, Wyo.,
| which we're supposed to contain borax,
prove to be genuine soda deposits.
Cheyenne has granted franchise for
| street railways. The company is required to
| build and operate the road within five years.
| The election for delegates to the constitu-
| tional convention of Montana will be held
| May IA. The convention will assemble
| July 4.
| The Laramie glassworks have been sold to
| f. M. Scrmyser for Sl6,Ol5. 1t is probable
| that the plant will be put in operation at an
| early day.
| Irrigation will come INTO general use IN
| Colorado this year. Thousands of acres of
land will be brought under cultivation by
| tins means.
| The postotfice at Mineral Point, Colo, is
| IL, 900 feet above the sea level, but the salary
| of the postmaster is not regulated by the altI-
| tude.
Colorado claims to have produced and con-
| tributed S316, 100000 to the wealth of the ma
| tion. This does not include the $2l, 900 pro-
duced with castor oil.
Fort Russell is to be enlarged and made
| one of the important posts in the department
| of the Platte. An appropriation of SS3, 500
has been secured to carry out the plans.
A lead of silver ore has been struck near
Helena, Mont, said to be the richest found in
years. 1t carries twenty-five to thirty feet
| of ore, and the owners ask even million
dollars for the property.
Geologist Knight, of Wyoming, pronounces
| the Douglas Creek mining district the rich
est in tue territory. There are now between
| 100 and l50 men employed in the district.
The ore assays from s35 to $500 a ton.
A rich gold ledge is reported four miles
| east of Ogden. Specimens OF rock taken
| from the ledge contain what is known as
wire gold, assayng from $4,000 TO $40 600 10
| the ton.
An amateur highwayman invited railroad
man in Cheyenne to "stand aud deliver"
| The latter complied by cutting an irrgating
ditch in the robbers mug with Il cane They
separated without further ceremony.
Wyoming is crying out against its swinish
| neighbors in Colorado. by a recent law the
diversion Of the waters at or near the