The Red Cloud chief., 1892-12-23

WINsIDE is TO have a new bank, with
q capital stock of $40, 900.
HERMAN PoLMERHEN, a bachelor who
resides on "a farm near Hubbard. was
awakened by n noise in his room the
other night, and opening his eyes found
himself confronted by two masked men
with revolvers drawn. They tied his
hands Behind his back with a leather
strap and requested him to bring forth
his money. Polmerhen went to his
bureau drawer and gave them about
$500 in silver and a bank check for sew.
eral hundred dollars. They refused to
take the check. They then left. 1t Is
evident the thieves intended to secure
much booty, as Polmerhen had sold
fifty head of hogs that day, but for
tunately did not receive his pay.
In his annual report to the governor
DIR. Bowman, superintendent for the
state hospital for the insane ut Lincoln,
asks for the following appropriations:
For new wing to building, $50, 900: for
rebuilding kitchen block and additions
to general dining room, sleeping rooms
and amusement hall, etc, SO, 900: for
new ice house and cold storage room,
so, 800; for new system of locks, $500;
for new roof to entire building, with
iron c~ornice, $4,000; for new boiler
and pump house, 81, 800; for fencing
farm lands, $1,000; for permanent fence,
$4,000; for finishing basement, 81, 900.
Total, s1l0, 500. In addition to the
above Superintendent Bowman asks for
maintenance the sum of $751;, 800.
AT n late meeting of the state board
of educational lands and funds held in
Lincoln for the purpose OF considering
the alleged frauds perpetrated in the
leasing of school lands i'm Perkins coun-
ty, it satisfactorily appearing to the
board that the several leases Of school
lands in Perkins comfy, made by the
county treasurer of said county on the
25th of November. 1892, were not made
in accordance with law, nor was the
interest of the state subserved thereby,
and Of right should be set aside. 1t wa
resolved that each and all application
for lease Of the said school lands of
Perkins county be rejected and set
inside. and Hon. A. II. Humphrey, COM
missioner of public lands and buildings,
be instructed to forthwith readvertise
| and lease said lands in manner provided
by law.
THE report of the superintendent of
the boys industrial school tates that
during the existence of the school $50
inmates have been received and SIS dis
| missed. or the number dismissed the
| superintendent saws that fully 50 per
cent ore conducting themselves in "A
| manner to reflect credit upon the school.
| The average population of the school
| approximates 225. The superintendent
| recommends the erection of u chapel,
the purchase of n new dynamo and u
larger engine for running the machin-
| cry in the laundry, printing Office and
iron and wood working departments.
Superintendent Mallelieu also recon-
mends hat the law should be amended
making l6 years the maximum age for
! commitment to the school. His esti-
| the school for the next two years Is
$751;, no. The appropriation two years
ago was s187, 74s.
FIRE at Tobias the other day destroyed
the Musil building and its entire con-
| tents. The ground floor was occupied
| by II. ii. Cowgirl as a general merchan-
| disc store and the second story by DIR.
j. II. Borland as a dentists Office and
| Hiram Townsend as a dwelling. The
| Townsend family barely escaped with
their lives.
WHILE playing with an elder brother
at Nebraska City the other day the six
teen-months' old child OF John Omafht
met with u distressing accident. The
! children wore playing with n pair of
scissors, when they were dropped, tho
sharp point penetrating the little girls
! y destroying the sight