The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-04-17

LAST week attorneys for George
Morgan filed with the clerk of the
supreme court q petition in error sug-
gestion of diminution Or record and
transcript in the case of his application
for a new trial. Morgan was sem
fenced in December last in the Doug
las county district court to be hanged
on April II for the murder OF little Ida
Gaskill
GEN. L w. COLBY will not be a can
didate for reelection as brigadier gen.
eral of the Nebraska National Guard.
Company c. recently met and requested
him to become a candidate, and he re-
plies in a card in which he says he has
decided to sever his connection with
the Nebraska militia at the expiration
of his term OF office. The old guard
will miss him.
Mrs. CHARLES CUTKoMP came to
Pierce the other day and proceeded to
County Attorney Quivey's Office. She
was battered and bruised and stated
that she could not live with her hus-
band any longer and wanted a divorce.
Mr.. Cutkomp, who also drove to town
and told his troubles TO the county at
torney, was hacked and cut. He also
wants a divorce.
THE Great Eastern canal, which was
projected by H. E. Babcock, of Genoa,
is already an assured success. The
T, first section of twenty-five miles has
been surveyed, staked and located and
the right-of-way obtained for nearly
the entire distance. There appear to
be few kickers, principally those whose
land lays SO high above the ditch that
no water but that which descends from
the clouds can ever reach them.
WASHINGTON dispatch: Acting Sec
rotary of the Interior Reynolds today
affirmed the commissioners decision
against Elijah P. Steen, applicant for a
tract of land in Valentine district, Ne
braska. The decision is affirmed, OF
the ground that +. M. Wolcott. Stems
attorney, had not been admitted to
practice before the department and
could not therefore be recognized.
THE Douglas Grove Custer county,
Farmers club passed the following:
That we ask the cooperation of the
press of the state. of the state agricul-
tural society, of all farmers clubs and
of all societies in any branch or deyel-
opment of agriculture in obtaining an
appropriation from the next legislature
~ VIC pun PoSS u ASiuAh5
throughout the state on the plan SO far
as practicable as followed n Wiscon-
sin.
OTTO WAGNER, a farmer living about
Fort Calhoun, has brought Assayer
Carraway of Omaha a specimen OF gold
ore that assays SIG to the ton, proving
exceedingly valuable. Mr.. Wagner
first stated that he dug the ore from
&1,a Io<ko~o ~ - 1cn foot ,yo11 ftof ha
was excavating. Later he limited mys-
city, Wherever he found it, there is
evidently a small bonanza lying back
of the piece.
A QUESTION is being agitated in the
three counties of Kimball, Banner and
SCOTS Bluff of segregating Banner
county and attaching a portion to each
Of the other counties named. kimball
county has a large amount of railroad
land and railroad bed available for
taxation, and SCOTS Bluff county is de-
veloping through irrigation a healthy
assessment roll. Banner county has
neither of these, although an excellent
stock region, and her county organiza-
ton being a burden, the agitation is
quite strong there. The other counties
| UdtS Iuduc liz ScI1OuS OOJCCUtOA Y ~ AZ
plan.
WHILE George Bartholomew of Nc
Cool junction was assisting in unhitch-
ing a livery team at his barn. George
Wallin rushed at him with a revolver
in one hand and an oak club in the 9TH
err, threatening to kill him. Bartholo-
NEW knocked the revolver out of his
assailant's hand, but received the full
force of the oak club on his head. Be
fore any one could separate them Wal
lin had struck Bartholomew three
times, laying his head open in three
places. Bartholomew is a white-haired
old man, and, although his injuries are
severe, he will recover.
No OTHER industry has yielded so
great a profit to all concerned in this
community, says Lyons special, as
output show there have been over
1000, 900 pounds of milk received and
$50, 900 has been paid to the farmers
the past year. Many farmers say it
has been the means of carrying them
over these hard times Why more farm
ers do not keep more cows is hard to
understand. Over $4,000 is paid to
farmers each month. Many are begin
ming to realize that they receive more
profit from a few cows than from any
other source on the farm.
The Veterans Association of the Bat
tie of Shiloh, at their gathering in Mil
ford last week, passed the following:
Resolved, That the fraternal greetings
of the Shiloh veterans assembled at
Milford, Neb., April 6, 1896, the thirty
fourth anniversary of the battle of Shi-
loh, are hereby extended to our hon.
ored comrade, Gen. John NJ. Thayer;
that we heartily unite with the ma
TONS representatives in recognition of
his honorable services to his country.
Further. that we are gratifed to learn
of his improved health, and hope for a
speedy recovery and his presence with
us at the next anniversary.
PRELIMINARY arrangements for the
| Arbor day celebration at the state fair
grounds were made at a meeting of the
executive committee of the Fair and
Speed association in Omaha the other
day. Five hundred trees of all kinds,
elm, birch. sycamore, catalpa, oak and
other varieties, have been purchased
from Ex-Governor Furnas, and he has
in addition donated 100 extra ones.
These are to be planted about the
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