Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-31
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska Jottin gs.

| ganized at Gordon.
1t has cost Cheyenne county Sl,5Ol to run
its poor farm this year up to October |.
IL is predicted that $40, 900 worth of flax
will be raised in Nuckolls county next year
The Creighton high school boys are taking
exercise and hard kicks these days with u
foot ball.
The citizens of Harrisburg have subscribed
$500 toward the erection of Methodist
church at that place
A Blair man sold 500 worth of tomatoes
from one acre of ground this season and left
200 bushels on the vines to decay.
II. II. Bowie, of Elm Creek, has purchased
forty-one cars of Colorado cattle which he
will feed on his ranch this winter.
About three hundred barrels are manu-
featured daily at Union and filled with
apples, the crop beng very abundant.
Ben Il. Hildebrand, who has been con-
nected with the Pawnee Press for six years.
has sold and wants to buy n paper in some
good town. Write him at Pawnee City.
Eugene Ong, son of Judge Ong, residing
near Nevada, was thrown from a horse he
was riding, striking on his head and causing
concussiOn of the brain. He was uncon-
scious for twenty -four hours aud is still in IA
critical condition.
Mrs. William NJ Nages, of Kearney has
left her husband and three children and gone
on visit to relatives IN Kansas. Mr. Naggs
heard that she contemplated leaving and
went to the depot to head her of. but she re-
fused to be headed and left in spite of his
eXpostulations.
Ollie Zimmerman, young man nineteen
years old, disappeared from his home near
Freeman postotfice three weeks ago and his
parents have so far failed to learn anything
OF him. Any information concerning him will
be thankfully received as his mother Is very
anxious for his return.
S. B. Clapp, who was nominated for sheriff
Af n
withdrawn from the race and William
Hedges has been substituted for the place by
the county central committee. Hedges, how
ever, has mystericusly disappeared, and his
friends fear foul play. Over week ago he
started out on horseback with warrant for
d criminal and nothing has been heard from
him since. He is constable and livery
stable keeper in Answorth
Iowa Iters.
Dubuque county will have a stone pile for
tramps.
The Ottumwa Y. M. G. A. is raising money
to erect u SOS, 900 building.
James Martin, one of the oldest residents
Of Cedar Rapids, died last week at La Crosse
Wis, aged seventy eight years.
On a bet with grocery man Keoluk
youth ate cighty-three bananas at one sit
ting, comprising one whole bunch of the fruit
w. Scott Prouty, of the Iowa City univer-
sity, has been elected president of the Iowa
Collegiate association in place of j. S. Tuttle
resigned. The next state contest will be held
at Mt. Pleasant. February 81.
E. b. Altman, who was recently injured in
the recent wreck on the Santa Fe road, has
arrived at his home IN Cedar Rapids, and
says that the company imposed on him while
he was lying in the hospital at Kansas CITY
in q semi-conscious state by effecting com
promise with him for S25. he waving all
CLAIMS against the company for injuries re-
ceived.
State Superintendent Sabin has received
reports from the superintendents of schools
in sixty of the nnetv-nne counties in the
state. AS far as received there is an increase
in school population of nearly six thousand
eight hundred over thc,reports of year ago.
and if the rate is kept up the increase IN the
entire state will reach nearly or quite ten
thousand. The schools of the state are re-
ported to be in splendid condition.
DR.. George w. Holmes, physician -in-chief
to the crown prince of Persia, for many
years a missionary in Persia who, with his
family, is spending the summer IN Cedar
Rapids, has received a cablegram calling
him back to that country, an emergency
having arisen which required him at his post
of duty. The doctor. with great reluctance.
responded to the call, announcing that he
would take the first steamer. His wfe's
delicate health precludes the possibility OF
her return with him.