The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1903-07-10
THE A m BRIEF.

cent annual meeting of the club,
which is one of the strongest organi.
cations in the southwest. with 200
members and a 500, 600 club building.
Rex, the 4-year-old son of Ed Green,
was killed at Harrington by being run
over by a lumber wagon. The hired
man had the team hitched tc the wag-
on standing by the house when Rex
climbed onto the wheel, the team
started and the wheel passed over
him just above the heart. He aasped
twice and died. u ru.T .
The Lancaster county assessment
has just been finished and the assess
ment rolls closed for the year. The
total valuation of property listed Is
$S,603,077.90 an increase of $780,
903.43. This sum was fattened by
$4,000 added to the Lincoln Gas COM
pany's valuation by the county board
OF equalization.
Mrs. D. S.. Guild and her son George
have returned to their home in Platts-
mouth from West Point, N. Y, where
the latter graduated from the United
States military academy. George will
remain at home until the latter part
of September, when he will go to San
Francisco, Cay, and report for duty in
the Philippines. ''''r y
Dnfoi1C nf q fro 0nHr nhinh honnon-
ed near Lomax, Custer county, have
reached Broken Bow, wherein Della,
the 3-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Brandt, was shot and
instantly killed by Jacob, the 11-year-
old son of D. c. Reynolds. The shoot
ing was accidental, the children being
allowed to play with firearms.
John Hill, who for several years
has been in the employ of the F. E. &
NJ. V. railroad at Fremont, died in
the hospital at Omaha and was buried
at Clay Center by the Brotherhood OF
Railway Trainmen, a large delegation
of whom came in from Fremont. The
citizens of the town, his former home,
joined with the trainmen in the serv-
ices, and turned out in large mum
berS. ,. .-st
~. Chief Deputy Game and Fish Com
missioner George l.. Carter assumed
the duties of his office July 1st. He
has. finished the appointment of 200
special deputies throughout the state,
who will see to the enforcement of the
game and fish laws These men serve
without fixed compensation, save for
the fees for arrests made. Commits
sions are being sent to them by the
secretary of the commission.
The B.. & M. crop reports says there
has been rains all along the lines and
in the eastern section, where the rains
were heaviest, the soil Is In fine con-
dition, while. it is not quite SO food
further west. There was plenty of rain
along the Alliance and Sheridan
branches, and the range is in good
condition. Corn is doing well and the
farmers have not been deferred from
cultivating it because of the rains.
The June treasury statement just is
sued by Treasurer Mortensen shows
that the state has on hand in the vari-
Gus funds 1924, 8S2.99 of which $685.
475.15 is on deposit in several banks
of the state. A. substantial increase
has been made in the general fund
since the last statement. which show
ed but a balance. of S4.95. Nearly all
of the agricultural college endowment
fund, amounting to over $4,000, has
been invested during the past month in
state warrants.
The chief of police of Omaha has
decreed that street preaching will not
be allowed. This order does not in
terfere with Salvation army work.
Lemuel G%oldsberry, Jr., was drown
ed in the Nemaha. river at Auburn. He
and another lad by the name of Hays
were out for a swim. They had be-
gan to slide into shallow water. The
bank was steep and slippery and just
beyond the shallow water the river
was twenty feet deep. Goldsberry
slid into the deep water, and not be-
ing much of a swimmer, failed to
rise.
The work of tearing down and re-
moving the false work under the new
massive steel Burlington railroad
bridge at P~lattsmouth. which spans
the Missouri river, has been accom-
plished. The false work alone, it is
said, represented 900 carloads of tim
Der. The work OF removing the old
bridge and putting in its place a new
one strong enough to carry twice the
burden of the former one was accom-
plished without the stopping of a sin
gle regular train on the road.
Notice has just been received in the
office Of the board of irrigation that
the government has withdrawn a large
tract of land in the extreme western
part of the state under the provisions