The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-12-25

| furnish cars sufficient for the needs OF
those who want to ship from that sta
| ton.
Superintendent J. A. Gillespie of the
institute for deaf and dumb at Omaha
reports an attendance of ls4 pupils dur
the two years. Improvements costing
| S16,577 have put the institution in good
condition. Needs of the next two
years will involve an expenditure of
about $4,000.
Gov. Mitchell of Florida has written
Gov. Holcomb, informing him that the
board of trade of the city of Orlando,
| Fla, has called National Good Boads
congress, to be held in that city Feb.
! 9, 1897. He requests Gov. Holcomb to
| appoint delegates from Nebraska to
attend the same.
The sheriff OF Dakota county arrested
Charles Hlllman, alias Charles Cum
ningham, who is wanted in Sidney for
obtaining money under false pretenses
He is one of a gang which,i 1T is charged,
has been operating for some time past
in deciding land on which he had no
title in making trades.
For yield of corn Carsten Truelsen of
Sherman county leads He has just
finished gathering 1000 bushels Of corn
off of 60 acres of irrigated land and did
not get the water on. until August 10.
| A portion of it went 100 bushels to the
acre He says he will get an average
OF 100 bushels per acre next year.
A young man, giving his name as
Charlie Shipherd, is in trouble at Dodge
because of his inability to distinguish
his own goods from those of others He
| went west on freight with gun and
| some clothes belonging to +. B. Stud
nicka, and was captured at Lindsay
and brought back to answer for his
transgresSions
There are in the Norfolk asylum 142
males, 81 females; total of 1913 in
mates. Fifteen deaths occurred dur
of only g.. OF the whole numbe treat
ed The legislature will be asked to
appropriate 1000 for needs of the
institution for the twenty-nine months
ending Aug. 80, 1899.
A farmer near Lyons who has tried
burning corn and measured its quail
ties as compared with coal, says that
coal is the cheapest. He burned seven
bushels of corn in about two days this
week, besides small amount of wood.
The market value of the corn would be
about IS cents, while SIS worth of coal
and small amount of wood would last
him nearly two weeks.
The Nebraska state grange met at
Curtis with full delegation. The an
nual address was delivered by c. A.
Hall of Pawnee City. after which the
officers were elected for the ensuing
year. John T. Williams of Culbertson
was elected master of the state grange,
r. FL. Hanson of Curtis overseer, A. M.
Bovee of Vancoma lecturer, c. Travel
piece of Kearney steward.
Farmers in the vicinity of Prosser
met and completed the organization of
the Farmers Grain and Supply COM
pany. The stock is limited to 1000
shares, at SIS each, the duration Of the
company to be for forty years. Nine
member constitute the board of di-
rectors, to be elected annually on the
first Monday in December. Charles
Moritz was elected treasurer and busi-
ness manager for the ensuing year.
Thomas Starkey, junior member OF
the firm of Starkey & Co., proprietors
of the North Bend roller mills, met in
slant death by being wound around a
shaft in the third story of the mill.
He was placing belt when his cloth
ing caught in a cog wheel and the
force of the evolution of the shaft
could not be resisted. He was dead
before the machinery could be stopped.
He leaves wife and three young
children.
NJ. II. Redfeld, county clerk of Doug
las county, at the session of the asso-
citation of county commissioners held
at Lincoln, read an instructive paper
on the revenue laws of Nebraska,
touching upon defects therein and
making recommendations and sugges-
tions that will doubtless be embodied
in legislation at the coming session of
the legislature. In an exhaustive dis
cussion he points out weak spots in our
revenue system, and offers remedies
for correcting the same. He would
have, among other things, one assessor
to d county, more stringent penalties,
a basis for valuation and support to tax
deeds.
AS result of the Nebraska Clubs
after election advertisement in the
eastern farm and home journals, re-
Gently referred to in these columns,
Secretary Williamson reports the in
quiries for information concerning Ne
braska are reaching him at the rate of
from three to FIVE per day, and the cor
respondence and mailing of printed
matter is becoming something consid-
cradle. Arrangements have been made |
increasing the number of eastern pub
lications running the standing adver-
tisement to thirty publications with a
monthly circulation of 10000 and |
nearly three-quarters of a million read
ers. These inquiries the secretary also |
refers to the various local County |
Clubs, giving the local real estate deal |
ers, banks and other owners of farm |
lands, and others interested in the |
prospective new settler. an opportunity |
to communicate with them direct This |
list naturally becomes valuable one.
Chief Oil Inspector Edmisten has ap-
pointed Edward Lyon deputy oil in
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