The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-06-17
NEBRASKA STATE NEWS
H STATE AT X

the 7th with a grand DaiI'
A party of five Humboldt peop
left last week for a Visit o. nIe
months on English soil. job Hof
man and wife, their son and daush'el'
James and Nellie, and MIS- 1eolse
Cliff comprise the party.
District court was held at MulieD
last week. Theodore R~oggensheln'
who was accused a stealing a co"
from Fuller Bros. and butcherlng III
was found guilty and sentenced 10
thirteen months in the penitentlary'
The business men of Broken Bow
held a meeting and decided to cele-
brate the Fourth of July. The neces-
sary committees were appointed n
efforts will be made to have the Dig
gest celebration ever held in the
county.
All the red cedar trees in Seward
county are dying from some parasite
disease. Numberless hedges are dead.
The nurseryman here reports the loss
of 1000 red cedars. The botanists at
the State university have offered no
remedy.
Seward county farm land still sells
at highest prices. The Furnald fifty
acres sold at $3.50 per acre a short
time ago, and last week Gnekow pur
chased the old Mcintyre thirty acres,
a short distance north of Seward, for
1888 per acre.
The 3-year-old son of Henry Muhle
was drowned in Omaha creek, about
ten miles northeast of Bancroft. Some
of the older children were sent to the
store nearby and the little fellow fol-
lowed them and fell into the creek.
The body was recovered.
The record for mortgages in Rich
ardson county last week is as fol-
lows: real estate, filed twenty-eight,
$43,6 GAS, released twenty-seven, $42,-
290,451; city property, filed. eight, 3d.
531.25; released, seven, 1927; chat.
tel, filed, $4,000; released, $~37,788.46.
Hon. Edward A. Mann, whose ap.
pointment as associate justice of the
New Mexico supreme court was made
by the president, was until one yeSs
ago a resident of Gering, removing to
New Mexico On account of his wife'a
health. He was prominent in repub.
lican politics.
The Cass county mortgage record
for May is as follows: Amount of
mortgages filed on farm property, $37,
975; amount released, 35,518. Amount
OF mortgages on city property, filed
$4,550; released, 1891. Sixteen farm
and eleven city mortgages were filed
and fifteen farm n nineteen city
mortgages were released.
Freight trains No. 63 and No. 110
of the Burlington came together at
Dawson and did considerable damage
to the rolling stock, though the speed
was not insufficient to occasion loss of
life. One engine went into the ditch
and the other was just able to Dull
its train out with a badly battered
pilot and other slight damage.
The annual report of the librarian
OF the public library at Grand Island
shows a circulation of an average of
ninety books per day, or over 81 O
for the year. The library has nearly
1900 books, and an effort will he
made, as soon as the new building is
occupied and incidental expenses in
connection Herewith are out of the
way TO increase the number to 10, 900.
An ARRAY at a boarding house at
the stone quarries lea Wymore prom
lses to be fatal to one of the mar
tlcIpants. Those engaged were all Of
them BOhemians. Brehm and Fraska
were intoxicated and in this condition
went to the boarding house, where
they assaulted another laborer named
BIaka, using a hammer and knives
ASIDE from being seriously beaten
Blaak is stabbed in several pIaces
with knives. 1t is not thought nos.
sible he can recover.
For having in his possession ron.
trary to the state game law ninatv.
one cathsh, John Hopkins of Dewitt
AaS Deen held in the sum of 500 bail
~ appear for trial at the next term
IL olstrlct cou by Justice E. D. Fav
Crete. In default of giving bond
was committed TO the county 3aiI
for the purpose of perfecting tho
'rsanlzatlon of the southern Nebraska
iult growers association, a move
nent which has been under way for =
ear a number of the representative
rult growers in that part of the sta+o
IN Tecumseh. Committees Were
to take charge of the businesI
once and a second meeting will 10
leld at an early day.
ose'e Wnlttecar was arrested at his
5ome IN South Sioux City by sboris
ianseh on a warrant sworn ont -
.ounty Judge Elmers' court by Con-
, AItorney j. j. McAllister. char.
MN with ~assaulting his oys,
a @osh[er' Georgia, a child 10 years of
Mnlttecar was brought to M.
lily and taken before Judge 81.
VINO set his preliminary basr.
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