The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-22
Nebraska short Notes,

Red Willow County claims to have 5000
acres of alfalfa this season.
ThurstOn County is organizing an agri-
cultural society and will have a fair.
Wayne is to have a new enterprise in the
shape of a shirt factory, to be operated by
E. c. Cole, recently of Omaha.
The two days reunion of the old soldiers
at Hooper was a great success. General
Thayer was one of the attractions.
The directors of the Custer County Fair
have decided to permit no political speech
es on the fair grounds during the annual
show.
G. G.. Haller's residence, three miles
from Winside, was entirely destroyed by
fire during the temporary absence Of the
family.
The %semi-annual statement of the treas
urer of Platte County ShOwst the county has
$37, SOB cash on hand and only Sill ,265 in
outstanding warrants.
The railroad company has completed a
new sidetrack at Fender in order to make
room for the grain cars that will be need
ed to haul out Thurston COunty's crops.
Mr.. Duell, a farmer near Meadow Grove,
threshed 230 bushels of barley from two
and a half acres of land, the grain being
machine measured and the land surveyed.
Fred Schram, a 14-year-Old Columbus
boy, climed onto a freight train switching
about the yards for a ride. In jumping Off
he was thrown under the wheels and kill
ed.
Norfolk's military band is figuring on
going to Boston with the Nebraska Knight
Templars. Incidently twenty or thirty
other bands in the state are hoping to make
the same trip.
Sparks from a locomotive set fire to Jos
Graham's field of shocked oats near North
Bend and he is now guessing how big the
yield would have been had the grain not
been destroyed.
b. Z. Ash is the first Custer County
farmer to pay for the seed furnished him
last spring by the Broken Bow Relief AS
ISOLATION. He was loaned fifteen bushels,
and from the seed raised 200 bushels of fine
wheat.
Farmers in the vicinity of Table Rock
have contracted to cultivate 1000 acres OF
| sugar beetS next year, and the citizens OF
that bustling town have formed a joint
| stock company and subscribed $4,000 in
cash toward a sugar factory.
Three tramps broke into a Beaver City
store. Inelr IDENTITY was eSCaDllSneu ana
| a posse of citizens gave chase. The tramps
took refuge in the corn fields, and the corn
! stood so thick and high that they had no
| difficulty in secreting themselves.
Loup City people are enthusiastic over
| the new ditch being constructed by the
| Sherman County Irrigation Company. The
| ditch taps the Middle Loup River near
| Arcadia and is thirty-six miles long. 1t
| will irrigate $4,000 acres of rich bottom
land.
North Bend has had another baptism of
| fire. The flames started in Kempcr's har-
ness shop, and befOra they were extin-
| guished Kurza's new grocery store and
| Mrs. SCOTS millinery store were entirely
| destroyed. The total loss fOOts up to about
$4,000.
Oscar Brown, a man 50 years old, is
under arrest at Fremont for trying to
J make a criminal assault on Clara Dali
| strom, a little girl 7 years old. The child
! is an orphan. The court offered to release
Brown on $500 bail but the sentiment
against him is so strong that no II will
! 90 his bond.