Omaha daily bee., 1901-02-05
Nebraska aud Nebrasknns.


Thirty clerks have enrolled as charter
members in the union recently organized
at North Platte.
The Fairmont Creamery company will
soon begin the erection of a $4,000 building
and factory at Crete.
McCook has decided It wants an audi
torum and committee of citizens has un-
dertaken the task of promoting the enter
prise.
Many Nebraska towns are preparing to
expand with the coming season. Osmond
other things.
Henry Halsenyager of Johnson county
cleared sl39 from two and one-half acres Of
beets the past season after paying for all
labor and cash expended.
Henry Rogers OF stanton county has sold
his farm for s6,5Oo. He homesteaded the
place thirty-one years ago and has resided
on the land ever since.
E. l.. Heath of the Cody Cowboy has
| succeeded in roping the, opposition organ
| and now has the two broke to drive double,
with Heath holding the reins.
The Platte County Democrat of Hum
phrey has changed owners and the new
| proprietors, Herbert Bros, will conduct
| II as n nonpa rtisan journal.
There is vacancy i'm West Point from
| the Fourth congressional district and a
| competitive examination of the aspirants
| for the place will be held at Beatrice
March II.
A prairie fire northeast of Cody burned
as large Say sGSpe Of S1%nry Large
prove serious loss, as there is a shortage
| in that section.
The Grand Army of the Republic post 1t
Hayes Center, which has been langushing
| for some time, has taken on new life and
| the members have decided to continue the
local organization
| The hquor cases recently tried I'm the
| district court of Phelps county ran up "a
bill OF, costs OF over 1880. and there are
| several more TO be tried. The detectives
| absorbed over half of the total
| The steel gangs which are relaying the
| Union PACING track In the western part of
the state, substituting heavy for the pres
season. This is over month earlier than
| the work has ordinarily been commenced
S. Jones of Ravenna has been awarded
| the contract for widening out tho grade of
many places along the Billings line of the
Burlington in Nebraska. He has enough
! of that kind of work contracted to keen
him and his gang of workmen busy all
| next season.
| John b Gentry, who has conducted one
of the warmest popuist papers In the state
| i'm the republican stronghold of Burt, has
| SURRENDERED his lease of the Burtonian
plant and F., II. Lester and r. ]. Taylor
| says he hopes, by pushing his other bust
ness, to eat cake three times a day instead
OF husks swelled up by liberal doses of
| spring water.
| Niobrara has taken on new hope for the
| future. Arnold c.. Koenig, an expert hy-
draulic engineer, has been employed TO
canal, and If his report is favorable a
local company viii undertake the work OF
| redllZlnB on tne expectations or the town.
| If there Is a place in the state which de-
serves to succeed II is Niobrara. The fates
| have dealt unkindly with the hopes of the
| people, but they have never faltered or lost
| courage.
Senator-eect Kearns of Utah was for
| merly a resident of Holt county. lie came
| there in the early day before the railroad
and put In his time at the usual occupations
| of pioneer, swapped yarns at the corner
| store and came down daily to see the stage
| pull in. He borrowed the money to take
| him to Utah, and while fortune has smiled
on him the senator has never forgotten the
| friends of his earlier days and the first
thing he did after being elected was to
| wire the good news to his O'Neill acquaint-
| anCes.
Cy Buck Is dead large portion of the
| people Of Nebraska probably do not know
| who Cy Buck was. but everybody along tho
| upper Elkhorn and up into the Black Hills
| country knew him in the early day. Cy
was large of frame, big-hearted and had
| "a 'oiCc two sizes larger than his body. I'm
his freighting days when he started In
to skin a team of lies everybody west OF
| Norfolk knew IT. Nothing but mule,
however, could roll his good nature and
| ranchers along the route always well
| coined him with his fund of latest news
and good stories from the settlements.