The Columbus journal., 1903-02-18

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The Montana house one day last wesk
killed the woman suffrage bill by . vote
OF Al to q.
The state senate of Colorado last week
adopted the Taylor resolution memorial
izing congress to pass the good roads
bill appropriating $4,000 for tho con-
struction OF highway across Tho con-
tiuent.
PROPOSITION is before tho city ooun-
ell Of Fremont to underlay tho city With
Q network OF tubes through which viii
pass telephone, electric and Telegraph
wires, and whatever else that may b %
placed
SAMUEL LICHTY, an attache OF Tho
auditors Office under populist admins
tratiou, recently sold his l60-acre farm
near Falls City at the big price Of $4,000,
that being tho first time farm ever sold
in Richardson county at 500 IN acre.
KANSAS also is getting into line, tho
senate on tho 1lth having adopted Stow
arts resolution asking congress to call .
constitutional convention for tho purpose
Of amending the constituti0n % that
United States senators may be elected
by direct vote Of tho people.
Swan s. BENSON, section hand in tho
employ Of the Fremont railroad company
va instantly killed at that place Thurs
day morning under tho wheels Of .
freight car in the yards. He had failed
to hear the ringing OF tho bell on tho
locomotive or see the car approaching.
The following public lands in western
Nebraska remain open to settlement:
Cheyenne county, $4,000 acres; Deuel.,
$4,000; Sioux, ,372; Sheridan, So, ,2ll;
Soott's Bluff, 10000; Dsvsa 165OO;
Box Butte, $4,000. Alliance u tho seat
OF tho United States land olfice for tho
district.
SrocKMEN from the range country
around Bonesteel, s. d., report that cat
tie are perishing by hundreda A Trip
county man lost over 800 steots. Tho
deep snow begins about fifty miles west
OF that place and the range for 100 miles
west OF that point 10 covered with snow
two feet deep, making it impossible for
stock to secure food.
The Philadelphia North American
observes that in proportion to mileage
covered, English railroads in 1901 carried
twice as many passengers as American
lines. Yet not . single passenger vas
killed in England, while the death roll
in the United States was 249. This 10
one instance OF American supremacy
which is not creditable.
OTrO GIBSON, q sheep berder near
Blackfoot, Idaho, formerly OF Heming.
ford, Nebr., met an accidental death by
poisoning recently. He ate OF raisin
stow cooked in galvanized iron kettle
Some Of the galvanizing had worn od
leaving the iron exposed. Being alone
he wrote the details on Q piece OF paper
which was found near the body.
THE ordinary taxpayer who earns hia
dollars by hard knocks, and hates to Gee
them get away, cannot understand Why
the corporations should be granted
special privileges, for tho money OF the
corporations comes easy, and there i
plenty OF it. The burden OF tho poor
would be greatly ightened il tho corpo-
rations were required to do their full
duty.-Beatrice Express.
News from Douglas, Arizona, states
that great excitement prevails over Q
fabulous gold strike reported in the
Torres mountains forty miles from the
terminus Of tho Nacohari railroad. Moro
than . score Of expeditions have LETT
Douglas within . week for tho soeoe o(
the strike. Samples OF ore brought to
DouRlas assay from two to three thous-
and ounces Of gold to tho ton. Almost
tho entire district in which tho find W.
made Il opened to location.
THE Fremont Herald says that r. L.
Edgerton . day or 20 ego discovered Q
remarkable curiosity in Q chunk oe high-
priced coal he had fed into his stove.
On opening tho stove door tho chunk fell
apart and left . perfect specimen of some
kind Of antediluvian mos, together with
what appeared to be . flower. He imme-
diately snatched the specimen from The
6re and he's turned it over to his brother
Frank, principal OF science at tho High
school, Who will preserve it - . valuable
thing. Tho latter estimates It must b
at least thousands Of years old.
TIE attorney general Of tho United
States ut Sioux City he's directed Deputy
Tracey to proceed against tho Great