Omaha daily bee., 1897-12-29
NEBRASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Program for the Annual Meeting I'm
January.

january.
LINCOLN, Dec. 2S.-(Special.)-Th State
Historical society will hold its twenty-frst
annual meeting in the chapel of the State
university on January IL and IL. The first
session will be devoted to the discussion
OF territorial journalism. The following is
the program:
Address OF the president, ]. Sterling Nor
ten, Nebraska City.
Address, Dr. George L. Miller, Omaha.
Paper, by Mr.. D. W. Carpenter, Omaha,
earliest Nebraska printer still surviving.
Paper by Hadley D. Johnson, Salt Lake
City. Nebrasksn OF 1853.
Responses by surviving territorial Journal
lets: Hon. Robert W. Furnas, Brownville;
Mr. John S. Briggs, Omaha Hon. H. T.
Clarke, Omaha; Mr.. John A. MacMurphy,
Omaha; Mr.. Joseph D. LaMaster, Tecumseh;
Dr. f. Renner, Omaha.
Tho following surviving journalists OF the
territorial period, 1t Is hoped, will be present
to respond: DR.. John Mcpherson, Isaac Par
IRISH, e. A. Mcclure. st. A. d. Balcombe,
Major J. z. Burbank Seth p. Mob!ey and
G. w. Fairbrother.
Following is a list OF the papers which
were published in the territory OF Nebraska
from the time Of the founding of the first
ono in 1854 UP to 1867, together with tho
date of first publication and the names of
the persons connected with them:
Bellevue, Nov. IA, 1854, The Nebraska Pal
,adirm and Platte Valley Advocate, Thomas
Morton. 1854; D. E. Reed, 1855
Nebraska City. 1854. The Nebraska City
News Nov. IA, 1854, DR., Henry Bradford
1854; ]. Sterling Morton, 1855, 1856, 1865, 1877;
r. Lee BaTrowman. 1856; NJ w. Reynolds
lS56-61; Augustus f. Harvey, 1s61-1S65.
Omaha, 1854. Tie Arrow (printed in Couu-
Gil Bluffs, j. e. Johnson, 1854; John W. Pat
tisco, 1854. The Nebrl lskian, 1854; Bird B.
Chapman John Sherman, Theodore N. Rob
erson, 1857; NJ. H, Clark 1859; Milton w.
Rey'o olds, 1859; Alfred H. Jackson, 1S63-1S65.
Brownvile, June Z, 1856. Nebraska Adver-
City; Robert w. Furnas, 1S5661, Brownville; ;
- - Longdon, 1857; l.. e. Lyanna, 1859; j.
r. Fisher. 1S61-1S63; - Colhapp. 1863
1864. 1857 W. H. Miller, 1864; :. Hill, 1864,
1867 - Muir 1867; - - Church. 1867
Bellevue 1856 The Gazette, Slas A. Strick-
'sud 1885, David Leach, 1856.
Cunning City, 1856, The Nebraska Pioneer
- Dimmick, 1856.
Wyoming, 1885, Wyoming Telescope Jacob
Dawson. 1856; - Jackson.
Omaha, June II, 1857 The Times, w. w.
Wyman, 1S5764 died Feb 26, 1860; - -
Pattscn. 1858. September.
Omadi, 1857, The Omadi Enterprise, George
Rust, 1851; Griffin, 1858; John Taffe
1858.
Desoto, 1857, The Desoto Pilot, Isaac Par
rish, 1857.
Plattsmouth. 1857, The Plattsmouth Jeffer-
sonian, L. D. Jeffries, 1857 ]. d. ingalls,
1857.
Brownvllle, 1857, The soort - Langdon;
Peru, 1857, - ----- Qor free state party,
Martin Stowell.
Nemaha City, January, 1858, Nemlha Val
ley Journal, Semour Belden; Nebraska City,
1858; The Peoples Press tname changed IN
1862 to Press and Herald; daily began in
1859. c. w. Sherry, 1858; o. H. Irish, 1858,
1860, 1866; l.. L. Surrey, 1858; Alfred Mat
| thias, 1S60-1S61; j. E. LaMaster, 1S60-1S61,
Tecumseh; w. H. H. Waters, 1S61-1s62
Salem ore); Royll Buck, 1S61-1s62; d. ].
| McCann, 1S64-1S65; w. N. Miller. 1865.
Omaha. May S, 1858, The Nebraska Re-
publican E. F. Schneider, 1858; H. j..
| Brown, 1858; G. c. Monell 1858 and 1859;
d. d. Webster, 1859; E. B. Taylor, 1861
| 1864, 1866 and 1867; E. A. Mcclure, 1861, 1864
| 1866 and 1867; John Taffe, 1864 H. H. Heath
| October, 1865; st. A. d. Balcombe, 1866 and
| 1867.
Rulo 1858, Western Guide, Rulo Town and
| Ferry company; A.. D. Kirk, 1858 and 1859;
F. NJ. Barrett, 1858; - Hergesheimer,
| 1859.
Falls City, 1858, Broad Axe, Major j. e.
! Burbank, 1858; Sewall Jamison, 1858; l.. B..
Prouty, ]. ]. Marvin.
| DeSoto. 1858, The DeSoto Enquirer, q.
Jackson, 1858; 1858; Washington County Sun,
Cunning City. 1858. Cunning City Star. L.
| M. Klein, 1858.
Plattsmouth, 1858. Platte Valley Herald
| Alfred Townsend. 1858.
| Rock Bluff, 1858, Cass County Sentinel,
E. Giles, 1858 and 1859.
Brownville, January, 1862 The Nebraska
| Farmer. r. w. Furnas, 1859
Nemaha City, October, 1859, Nebraska
Herald. G. w. Fairbrother. 1859; T. C.
| Hacker, 1853.
Omaha, 1859, Nebraska, - Clark, 1853;
| - - Reynolds, 1859.
Brownville, 1853, Nemaha Valley Journal.
otoe City Minersville), 1852 Star of the
| West o, j. Nickerson, 1859.
Plattsmouth. 1853, Cass County Sentinel,
| ~. Giles. 1853; Democrat Times, Joseph L.
| Early, 1859.
Brownvllle, 1860, the Bulletin daily,
advertiser ofice) September, 1860, TO
| August, 1861.
Omaha December II, 1860 The Daily
Telegraph, Henry z. Curtis 1861 w. Ii.
| Kinsman, 1860.
Aspinwall, May, 1861. The Union, A. S.
Holiday; John II. Maun.
| Nebraska City, 1861, The Nebraska Deutsch
| Zeitung, DR.. F.. Renner, Nebraska City.
Bellevue, 1862, The Platte Valley Times,
II. T. Clarke, 1862, Omaha.
Omaha. July II, 1864, Nebraska Daily
Statesmen, w. Fl. Jones. 1864; II. l.. Harvey,
| 1864.
Rulo, 1864, Nebraska Register
| Omaha, October 2, 1865, The omaha Herald
Geo-ge l.. Miller, 1865: - Carpenter. 1865.
P'ru, 1866 Campaign paper), two months }
Falls City, 90, Southern Nebraskian, ]. j.
| Marvin, N. o. Pierce. German and English
- - SAKE, G, l.. Mather, G. A. HILL e. l..
| Martin, - Metz, Sanderson, H. A.
| Buell..
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12.
tbs p, m.-Business meeting. Reports of
| officers, election, etc.
| 8 p. m.-Two notable Habeas Corpus cases
| in Nebraska: THE Arrest OF the Lincoln
| City Council, 1887" Hon. A. ]. Sawyer.
| "The Ponca Indian Habeas Corpus Case
| 1S76-77." Mr.. T. II. Tibbles.
| 9:15 p. m.-Joint session with the Hori-
| cultural society to eat apples.
| The State Horticultural society will meet
on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday of the
same week, having only day sessions.
| Holidays at Maine
MAUMo. Neo. Dec. 2s-(Special.) The
holiday season here has been observed with
the usual celebrations. The High school held
q reception on Friday afternoon. and all
! the pupils OF the Malmo schools took part
In entertaining The pupils made the usual
Christmas gifts to the teachers and super
| intendent After the program was finished
Santa Claus appeared in full costume and
invited the teachers and pupils to take a
! Christmas ride. which they did. Various
other festivities also occurred.
| County Hoard Meets.
| FREMONT, Neb., Dec. 2S.-(special)-
The county hoard met in regular session
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