The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-10-16


has on his farm, he intend : to feed
this winter. Forty-seven thousand
sheep are to be shipped to Saunders
county from Colorado this fall. and are
to be distributed around through the
country, where they will be fed during
the winter.
Gov. Holcomb last week issued the
legal proclamation for the approaching
election. Nebraska electors will have
a chance to vote for eight presidential
electors, six congressman, governor and
state officers, one regent of state uni
versity to fill vacancy, two contingent
judges of the supreme caurt. thirty.
three state senators, about one hun
dred state representatives, and also the
proposed amendments to the state con.
stitution.
The West Nebraska conference OF
the M. E. church convened at Ogallala.
There were 200 ministers in attend
] ance, who were entertained by the cit
izens of that place. The first days
exercises were principally class exami.
nations. In the evening an address OF
welcome was delivered by Hon. l.. B.
Rector of Ogallala and response was
made by d. d. Forsyth of Elm Creek,
after which Bev. r. S. Moore delivered
the conference sermon.
Joe Pinkava, a farmer living near
Crab Orchard, Gage county, beat his
wife with a hatchet, breaking her skull
in several places and mangled her
body badly. Doctors say she will not
live. After the assault Pinkava ran
to his neighbours, borrowed a revolver,
stating after securing it, that he would
| shoot himself. He ran for the woods
| and fired two shots at a tree. AS no
trace of his body can be found it is be-
lieved that he fled. Parties are in pur-
suit Family troubles seem to be the
cause.
The executive committee has found
it necessary to postpone the meeting of
the fourth annual convention of the
Nebraska state irrigation association,
to have been held at Lexington from
October z, and 9 to November 10, 20
and 21. The selection of these dates
was thought to be essential to the
most complete success of the meeting.
There were conflicting meetings and
engagements of large number who
were particularly anxious to attend,
and the change was made by unani.
nous decision.
Edward E. Spencer of Otoe county.
who was charged with the murde of
John Kicker and found guilty of man
slaughter, was sentenced to ten years
in the penitentiary by Judge Ramsey.
Other sentences were passed as fol-
lows: Charles Ferguson, five years for
the larceny of some harness belonging
to a farmer near Palmyra; ;Quiller Beck,
convicted for stealing hogs, four years;
Henry Webber who dug his way out of
jail few days ago, but was captured
and brought back, pleaded guilty to a
charge of daylight burglary. and got
two years
Joe Price, the young man who stab
bed George Stadler at Cedar Creek,
Cass county, was brought to Platts-
mouth by the sheriff and lodged in the
the county Jail Stadler is lying in a
precarious condition, with five knife
wounds in his body. He is resting easy,
but the physician says he may yet have
a relapse. Stadler had fallen to the
ground when Price first stabbed him,
and the knife was plunged into his
body four times while he was held on
the ground by his murderous assailant.
The quarrel arose over the payment of
keg of beer.
The fortunate discovery of three
finely tempered saws beneath a strip of
carpet on the turnstyle which admits
prisoners of the county Jail from the
outer corridor, undoubtedly prevented
a general jail delivery at the county
Jail in Lincoln. It is supposed that the
saws were introduced in plugs of to-
bacco, bestowed upon prisoners by
thoughtful friends The Jail at this
time contains large number of des-
perate criminals, among whom are the
notorious thief, Bill Rose, and Hagey,
the alleged murderer of the eastern
capitalist, w. F. Eyster:
Washington dispatch: Secretary
Francis today rendered number of
decisions, his first since assuming Office.
The cause of the United States against
Thomas Cooper, VIM. j. Gillen and Kit
Carson Cattle company, from McCook
district of Nebraska was finally dis
posed of by the secretary's refusing to
entertain motion filed by the defend
ants for review of the departmental
decision refusing to re-instate the Nc
Gillen homestead entry. 1t was held
that the cattle company was not an in
nocent purchaser within the meaning
of the act of March 3, 1891.
The sound money democrats met in
Omaha last week and placed in nomi-
tion the following ticket by acclama-
ton: For governor, Robert S. Bibb,
Gage county; lieutenant governor, o.
F. Biglin, Holt; treasurer, Frank Nc
Gibern, Dodge; secretary of state, John
Martes, Jr. Otoe; auditor, Emil Heller,
Cunning; attorney general, Robert W.
Patrick, Omaha; superintendent of
public instruction, Samuel q. Glover,
Washington commissioner of public
lands and buildings, George NJ. Baer,
Nance; regent. Dr. j. j. Leas, Chad
ron; judges of the supreme court,
Frank Irvine. Douglas; w. H. Platt,
Hall; electors. Fred Renner, Burt: Will
liam Griffin, Thayer; A. S. Godfrey,
Lancaster; Charles Turner, Douglas;
Joseph Bruenig, Platte; Alexander