The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1901-02-08

city will be gratiied to learn that Mr..
Bishop has reached this determination.
Thirteen members of the committee
on public lands and buildings are ex.
pected here tonight to visit the Norfolk
hospital for the insane, inquire into its
condition and needs and report same to
the legislature. Arrangements for their
reception nave been made and it is to be
hoped that they will carry away pleas
ing recollections of Norfolk and its state
institution.
Complying with Geographic instruc.
tons from the supreme court Sheriff
Losey came over from Madison yester-
day and took Leland Spaulding in Gus.
tody. 1t Is understood that the decision
of the district court has been affirmed
and that the sentence imposed will have
to be served unless there are other pro.
cesses of law that may change or post.
pone the sentence.
Thomas Clary, a patient who entered
the Norfolk hospital for the insane a
year and a half ago an almost complete
physical wreck has been discharged and
last night returned to his home in
O'Neill, looking and feeling fine. 1t
speaks we'll for the treatment given that
in this length of time a man can be con.
verified from a useless wreck into a
healthy and useful citizen.
Fremont Tribune: Cy Buck is dead.
A large portion Of the people of Ne.
braska probably do not know who Cy
Buck was, but everybody along the
upper Elkhorn and up in the Black Hills
country knew him in the early day. Cy
was large of frame, big hearted and had
a voice two sizes larger than his body.
In his freighting days when he started
in to skin a team of mules everybody
west of Norfolk knew it.
About two dozen # the friends of
| Miss H. O. Wood, who is soon to leave
for Kansas, planned and executed a
very enjoyable surprise IN that lady last
evening, the occasion being her birth
day. The time was very happily spent
freshments provided by the unlimited
guests were served. A handsome prayer
book had been ordered for a gift but its
~non-arrival was not allowed to interfere
with the enjoyments of the occasion
]. B. Barnes made a very nicely worded
and appropriate speech and presented
Miss Wood with an empty box supposed
to contain the prayer book, but which
in fact contained a note explaining the
reason of its emptiness.
Roy Gardner, one of the employees Of
the telephone company at this place,
last evening experienced the i%nconven
fence of having learned a horse a trick
which was to be used on occasions when
others than the owner should be dis
comfited. The animal had been taught
that when a boy or boys attempted to
'catch on" to the vehicle to which il
was attached, an immediate burst OF
| speed was essential and had become
proficient in the practice of the trick.
Last evening Roy had occasion to leave
the horse stand for a moment while he
was otherwise engaged and when he
attempted to get into the buggy, true to
it's training, the horse started and when
the young man attempted to "catch on
the horse put in some Of it's best ticks,
with the result that Roy was distanced
and the animal enjoyed an exhiliratine
runaway. 1t is safe to say that for
once Roy didn't think the horses ac.
quirements were cute a little bit.
Georgia Eldrege, the colored woman
recently injured here by the falling of a
telephone pole, has begun suit in the
district court against the Nebraska Tele
phone company for $5, $50 damages al
legged to have been sustained at that
time. According to the Madison Chron.
icle the petition sets forth that while
she was driving on Norfolk avenue a
pole which was being set by workmen
fell and struck her on the head, neck
and shoulders, producing q fracture of
the collar zone, bruising and injuring
her head and body and caused great
bodily pain and mental suffering. By
reason of carelessness and negligence in
not giving notice of the danger, accord
ing to the petition, the plaintiff became
sick and d~isordered and was confined to
her bed and room for five weeks and is
not now able to peform her labors owing
to the injury to the left shoulder, which
is permanent and ever will leave her a
cripple. She asks that judgement for
%, $50 be rendered. 1t is further al.
legged that $50 was spent in medical
aid and cure. Her attorneys are Barn.
hart 81 Free and j. H. Stewart.
A special to the Bee from Stanton
says: The citizens of this city have
raised a cash subscription of $4,000 for
the purpose of constructing a millrace
and water power for running a -four