The Columbus journal., 1904-05-18
NEBR ASKA STATE NEWS
TnE STATE ATLAaoe.

TIVE STATE At LARGE.
A ladies' band Is the newest feature
Of Norfolk musical circles. II il just
organized and win begin business
at once.
Peter -Dunbier. for years . resident
Of Polk county. has returned to his
native land. Germany. where he will
reside In the future.
After three unsuccessful attempts
to commit suicide James e. Miller,
the young fellow arrested at Ravenna
charged with burglarizing q way car,
has ut last decided to plead guilty to
the charge preferred against him and
begin his term in the penitentiary at
once.
At Fremont Ed Drannon. alias
Charles Wilcox. pleaded guilty in the
district court to the charge Of steal
ing . horse from the Star barn and
was sentenced to eighteen months in
the penitentiary. He was arrested in
Omaha while in the act of attempting
to sell the horse.
The interstate debate between Kan
sas and Nebraska was held in the
Normal chapel at Peru. the question
being Resolved. That the United
States should abandon the Monroe
doctrine" Kansas had the negative
side Of the question. but the decision
was given Nebraska by the judges
unanimously.
D. w. Cook last week shipped four
carloads Of fat cattle to the Kansas
City market. The animals averaged
1,5O0 pounds each, and 1t is unQues-
ti0nably one of the finest punches Of
cattle shipped from Gage county in
some years. Isaac Palmer. a well
known stock raiser living near Odell,
also shipped 200 head to the market.
Bartenders and gamblers can NO
longer Join the Knights of Pythias.
At the meeting of the grand lodge it
was voted to adopt the ruling Of
Grand Chancellor Phillips of LauNl
and keep them out. All members ad-
mitted contrary to rules will be eject
ed. The grand lodge will meet in
Omaha next year ON the first Tuesday
in May.
County Treasurer w. u. Wheeler
has collected more taxes in a little
more than four months than was ever
previously collected In one year in
Cass county. He has collected be-
tween 5000 and $1,000 in back taxes.
some of which it was thought never
would be collected. One farmer paid
the sum of $500 which had been &C.
cumulating on his property for many
years.
e. l. Dougherty of York. q young
man. attempted to commit suicide by
going into his bed room and saturat-
ing q cloth with chlOrOform. Lying
down on the bed he put it over his
face. When discovered he was al
most past having anything done for
him. Physicians after working with
him almost all night brought him to.
The cause for the rash act Is said
to be some love affair.
A. E. BOylan. q school teacher at
Warwick, Kan, while returning to his
home from Hardy was stopped by two
masked men and robbed of $3.50. The
robbers threw an old coat over Boy
lan's head and ordered him to lie still
for twenty minutes. At the expira-
tion of about five minutes BOyland
thought the robbers had left and
raised up. He was promptly shot in
the hip by one Of the robbers. His
wound, while deep, Is not fatal.
Guy Andrews. son Of Chancellor
Andrews of the State university. was
brought back to Lincoln from David
City by Sheriff Ress, and will be tried
before the insanity commission on
charge of insanity. Andrews had
been in the law ONCE of Judge Field.
is well educated and had made sue
cess of the law. For some time he
has been acting as though not in his
right mind. resulting in Chancellor
Andrews filing the insanity complaint
against him.
The mortgage record Of Red Willow
county for the month of April makes
q fine showing. The total filings ag-
gregate $29. .203.3 81; releases, $7O.818.87.
The special election held in West
Point to vote on the question of the
issuance of bonds of $1,000 for the
enlargement of the public school
building resulted In the bonds being
carried by q majority of Isl.
Messrs. Johnson and Graham, the
present owners of the Ames tOwnsite,
are having surveys made and the lots
in the new town will soon be on the
market. The business lots will be
southeast of the Union Pacific depot.
A report has reached Beatrice to
the effect that Ed Kelley formerly a
resident of Beatrice. was receIoly
killed in Texas. Relatives of Mr.. Kel-
ley have made inquiries to ascertain
the truth of the statement, which has
not been confirmed. In a letter to
Charles Alvey of Beatrice from his
brother, william Alvey. meager details
of the reported tragedy are given,
which indicate that Kelley came to
his death under rather peculiar cir
cumstances after the killing of an
other man at Kelley's home.
The cadets of the State university
will hold their annual encampment in
York ON May "a to %. in the beauti-
full York park. The cadets suggested
that a small purse be raised to de
fray their expenses. and through the
efforts of Mr. Mead, a university stu
dent who lives in York. the necessary
amount was in a very short time