The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1903-02-06
NEBRASKA BRIEFS.

new industry for Hooper
Organized labor OF Nebraska City
has perfected the Central Labor un-
| ion.
Pastor Jones of Nebraska City has
resigned and will remove to Okla
homa.
Farm land in Saunders county is
reaching the highest figure known for
years.
A telephone exchange has been es-
tablished at Ord with about fifty GUS
toners.
An elevator with 100000 bushels ca
pacity is being agitated at Ellis, Gage
county
Galloway has effected a brass band
organization. New instruments have
been received.
The Central Nebraska Teachers as
sociation will meet in Grand Island
April /, 2 and 8.
OF two tramps arrested in Fairbury,
one of them proved to be a convict
from Kansas, to which state he was
returned.
The only hotel in the town of West
ern was destroyed by fire a few days
ago. The owner will rebuild bigger
and better.
Mrs. Sarah Kerns of Pawnee county
celebrated her 88th birthday with
fifty-eight of her descendants seated
about the festive board.
Rudolph Wilke, aged about 26 years,
and single, was thrown from his horse
and fatally injured while returning
home from a neighbor's four miles
southeast of Crete.
The vast acreage of wheat sown in
territory tributary to st. Edward the
last few years ard the success in
growing this grain justifies the owner
of the Touring mill there in extend
ing the capacity of the mill.
A team of valuable saddle horses be-
longing to B. F. Hefflefnger, who re-
sides a few miles south of Beatrice,
was stolen. Two saddles were also
taken. The theft is believed to be
the work Of local talent.
! Food Commissioner Bassett has had
a test made of the brands of vanilla
sold by dealers generally throughout
the state and of the tests made he
has found that three of the brands Ia
belled vanilla were adulterated.
A new telephone line is being con-
structed from Taylor to Brewster, the
county seat of Blaine county In ad-
dition to the Bell and Adamson COM
panies at Taylor, there are five lines
operated by farmers and ranchmen
entering Taylor, thus giving the coun-
ty seat of Loup county communication
with the farmer as we'll as the outside |
world
Senator Hasty of Furnas is very
anxious that Nebraska should get
more money out of the insurance COM
panies doing business in the state, in !
the nature of taxes, and to find out .
the reason that Nebraska is not get
ting as much as it's sister states he .
a resolution that a COM /
mittee of three be appointed to in
vestigate.
Captain F. M. Dorrington, register
of the United States land office at AL
lance, died last week, death being
by congestion, the small intes-
tines becoming knotted. He was i'll
only four days. Captain Dorrington
came to Nebraska in 1860 and located
where Falls City now stands. He
owned and operated the first stage line
between Lincoln and Falls City and
figured in the settling of
western Nebraska.
Farm land in Saunders county
north and west of Ashland is reach
ing the highest figures known in many
years. David Wilson has sold his
farm of 240 acres in Green precinct to
Joel Miller for $500, or about $79.17
per acre. S. L. Will purchased farm
Of 100 acres from E. D. Laughlin for
S65 per acre. Land that would not
$50 per acre six years ago
now sells for not less than $50, and
one farm west of town recently
brought S100 per acre
Warden Davis of the Nebraska state
penitentiary has filed his report with
he governor. From this it is gath:
cred that there are eight females-two
white and six negro-and 27S males in
prison. The total negro population is
a. There are "a life men in the pris-
IN. This state has one convict fof
every 3,S16 of its inhabitants, and it
s confidently believed that no other
in the union can make
50 good a showing. Certainly Nebras-
"a sets its immediate next door neigh
'oTs too fast a moral pace. Iowa has
/ convict to every 1897 inhabitants;
South Dakota has one to every 2,769;