The Norfolk weekly news. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1888-1900, 1899-08-10
eaath However the indications were
favorable for genuine twister.
TO CLEAN MATING.


favorable for a genuine twister.
Geo. Marshall was arrested yesterday
for being drunk and disorderly and was
locked up over night. Marshall has been
a persistent violator of the law in this
regard and when he was brought before
Judge Hayes he received very respect.
able fine. Being unable or unwilling to
pay, he would have been sentenced to
work on the stone pile, but tools for this
work are not easily..procurable in this
part of the country and for this reason
the sentence was not carried out. He is
still confined in the city Jail.
A husky stranger, who was out for a
good time, was taken up last night
by the officers on the charge
of being drunk and disorderly. This
morning he was brought before Police
Judge Hayes, where he made representa-
tions that he wanted to get to work and
was accordingly discharged. He had
not been out more than an hour
whom he again commenced accumulat-
ing jag and creating disturbance.
He was promptly replaced in the cooler
and the judge IS now of the opinion
that it will take him until about Mon.
day to sober up, when he may be given
a job on the stone pile.
City Engineer w. H. Lowe is busy
preparing plat of the power canal he
recently surveyed at Creighton. The
canal is two miles long, receives it's
water supply from creek and empties it
into the same stream. AS planned the
canal proper will have a fall of about
a foot and half but where it empties
into the creek the canal is about "a feet
higher than the water of the stream.
This.fall will furnish an excellent power
with which it is proposed to operate the
electric light and power station. The
canal cuts up some of the farm lands
considerably and the projectors are
about to begin condemnation proceed
ings in order to secure right. of-way.
Wayne Republican That laborers
are scarce and the supply not anything
like equaling the demand is being dem
onstrated daily in our midst. Farmers
find it an utter impossibilty to secure
the help necessary to put the wheat in
stack and many who do not wish to are
going to be obliged to thresh out of the
shock. By going together and helping
each other they can get up threshing
crews sufficient to keep the machines
running providing they do not get in too
close proximity to each other. For
several days farmers have been Offering
81. 80 per day and board and some of
them offer even better wages than that
and find that it does not secure the
needed help-confound these prosperity
days.
Chr. Schavland, clerk of the district
court of this county, has gone to the ex-
pense Of securing enlarged pictures of
the judges who have presided in this
district, which will be used to adorn his
Office in the court house. He has thus
far secured pictures of the following !:
Samuel Maxwell, J. B. Barnes, j. @.
Crawford, Isaac Powers, w. f. Norris,
VIM. V, Allen, N. D. jackson and John
S. Robinson. AS soon as he receives
photographs, his picture gallery will be
enlarged by the addition of likeness Of
l.. Crounse, Thos. l.. Griffey and E. X
Valentine. The pictures he has secured
thus far are very good ones and if the
idea is continued by successive clerks,
the collection promises to be most in
teresting one.