Omaha daily bee., 1897-07-05

h hounds TaS Kept SiS'' FS5FP he T purpose ' of agh ting
wolves. A terrible fight ensued and by the
time he reached the wagon he was severely
bitten from head, to foot.
The capacity OF The stock yards at Ali
ance Is being increased to almost double
its present size by the railroad company.
This was necessary on account of the larse
shipments Of stock being handled at that
point.
From the amount Of appraisemen's Of
school land 1t is safe to say, says the treigh-
ton News, tina. al last three-tour,hs OF
the leased stHool lands in Knox county
will be purchased between now and the 9TH
of July, -
The water in the South Platte river at
North Platte. has fallen very rapidly for a
few days past, and has therefore robbed
the south side ditch of its supply. lrrisa-
tionists in Colorado are using all the water
coming down from the mountains.
W. l.. Parks of North Platte has ordered
for delivery next spring 5000 currant bushes
and 1000 cherry trees. These will be planted
on MIR. Parks land. south of the city limits.
There is no installing Mr.. Parks confidence
in the Platte valley as a fruit growing Gee
tion.
Everyone who goes into the country these
days, says the Holdrcge Citizen. comes back
with glowing accounts OF the fine crops. 1t
is doubtful If Phelps county ever had finer
crop prospects at the beginning of July than
at present. 1t seems certain that we VIII
have the biggeat crop of small grain that
has ever been produced in Phelps county,
while corn is getting a wonderful hump
on itself these DAYS,
When the drouth of 1894 cleaned up the
corn crop hereabouts Luke Matley, who re
sides near the fort in Garfield county, had
five brood sows and he kept them, paying
80 cents a bushol for corn with which to feed
them that winter. Since then he has pur-
chased but two hogs and both Of them were
males. Mr.. Matley has kept a record OF sales
since the fall Of 1894 and finds that from
these five sows he has sold 500 worth Of
hogs and has eighty head remaining,
BY order of Judge Westover, Receiver o..
O. Snyder Of the Holt County bank Of
O'Neill offered for sale all of the assets
of the said bank on Tuesday last at >
o'clock in the afternoon at the front door of
the court house. But only j portion of the
same received a bid. Eighteen thousand
eight hundred and ffty-SiX dollars ana
eighty seven cents worth of notes and judg-
ments were sold to the highest bidders for
$l2O.S5; three pieces of real estate. farm
lands. were bid off fer $526, sale of real CS-
tate to be approved by the court.
In a recent conversation with County Com
missioner ID. K. Os,rander, says the leCum-
sch Chieftatn, he mentioned having lately in
speCted William Ernst's alfalfa fields in
the eastern part of Johnson and western part
OF Nemaha counties. He said that he was
perfectly amazed at what he saw and never
before had an adequate idsa Of the value Of
alfalfa to the farmer, Mr.. Ernst has about
800 acres of this valuable grass and all the
fields are thriving and in splendid condition.
On the older fields the first crop had already
been cut and the second crop was about
knee high. Fields that had been p%astured
all the spring had also yielded a big crop, the
growth being so rapid that the cattle couldn't
keep it down. Mr.. Ostrander says these
alfalfa fields beat anything In the grass line
that he ever saw and that if he ever moves
back to his farm in Maple Grove precinct he
will seed at least 100 acres to alfalfa as soon
as possible. He thinks alfalfa is the most
profitable product a farmer can have growing
! on his place.