Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-11
STATE JOTTlNGS.
NellcaSka.

Hay Springs will celebrate the Fourth.
The Bnrwelt Lever has been forced to
shut up shop.
J.F. Ringler is the editor of new paper
at Crawford, called the Times
The ladies OF the Chadron Baptist church
are to give business mems carnival early
next week.
There is talk of organizing an agricultural
society in Garfield county and holding fair
this fall.
Stratton will have horse racing, foot
racing ball games and numerous other at
fractions on the Fourth.
The Alliance is the name of paper just
started at Lncon,a as the official organ of the
Nebraska State Farmers alliance.
A bogus deputy internal revenue collector
tried to work the cigar dealers of Central
City, last week, but failed to rope in any
victims
The Hay Springs News says it will take
SIS, 600 to pay for the twne necessary to bind
the grain crops of Sheridan county this
year.
Citizens of Stella think the fire fiend must
have an especial grudge against that town,
$4,000 worth of property having gone up in
smoke in the past two years.
The reunion committee of the G.. A. r.
encampment which is to De held ut kearney
in August, is busy making preparations for
the event. A letter of regret has been re-
ceived from General Sherman.
The Dundy county Democrat says that
the most serious result OF Benkelman's pro-
hlbition movement will be the lack of funds
necessary to the maintenance Of the public
schools The closing OF the schools for a
period, next winter will be the inevitable
result.
The Keya Paha Press says it looks as
though the rustlerS had given up stealing
from outside parties and had commenced
work among themselves. It's case of '.dog
eat dog" and as long as they confine their
operations among themselves the honest peo-
pie will be content
Iowa Items.
Boone county has paid 5000 bounty on
$1,000 gopher scalps this season.
b. F.. Erb, of Coon Rapids has paid 5000
for selling liquor contrary to law.
Two tame deer, which had strayed away
from park were shot the other day by
hunters near Muscatine.
o. A. Kentner, of Carroll, has engaged in
the business of breeding Shetland ponies, be-
ginning with thirty head.
The annual commencement of the Vii
lisca high school last week was highly sue
cessful, and at its close the school con-
tributed s25 to the Johnstown sufferers.
John Knapp, who died recently at Vinton,
served as soldier in the Mexican war and
was member of the regiment commanded
by jefferson Davis.
The twenty-ninth annual commencement
of the State university begins on the l4th
inst, and continues until the 10th. There
are $40 students attending the institution.
At the last term of the Osllaloosa district
court the Judge of that district agreed on
new rule in divorce cases, the substance of
which is that all costs must be paid into
court before decision is rendered or made
known to the attorneys.
While Joseph Landers was performing on
swinging bar at Audubon foot strap
broke, and he fell distance of thirty-five
hreakiDp nlHraS
locating several RIBS, and sustaining severe
internal injuries.
An Osceola county farmer purchased fire.
smoke and sulpher gopher exterminator, gave
it to his boy, and told him TO kill every d-m
gopher on the farm. The boy went. The
result Of the first hours work was the cap.
ture of one gopher and the burning of $50
worth of hay.