The Falls City tribune., 1904-09-02
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.

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The citizens of Hooper have taken
preliminary steps for organization of
q commercial club.
Wages Of county teachers in Lam
caster county have been considerably
increased, still good instructors are a
scarce article
Just now a great many western
sheep are being shipped into Johnson
county to be fed the coming fall and
part Of the winter.
Imposing ceremonies will attend the
laying of the corner stone of the new
p~ostofice building at Lincoln II pres
n plans are carried out.
While travelling from Wisconsin
and while asleep in the Omaha depot,
Salem Twist, a resident of Galloway,
was robbed of a billbook, which con-
tanned a draft for quite a sum of
money, besides his pension voucher
and other valuable papers
Patrolman r. G. Joerger of the Lin
coin police force has sued the Lin.
coin Traction company for the sum
of $4,000. The suit is a result of the
police-street railway war, the com.
pany having withdrawn all free tx,ns
p%ortation from the policemen.
In the justice court at Seward John
I. Goeggers was bound yer to the
November term of the district court
In the sum of $500, charged with i'm
personating an officer. Defendant Is
the young mar who tried to gain ac-
cess to funds of the TamOra bank by
claiming to be a bank examiner.
While the youngest child of Rev
Fl b Smith of Falls City, who lives
upstairs vel a grocery store, was
playing about the back door the
screen was pushed open and the child
fell to the platform below, a distance
Of about twenty feet, lighting on It's
head and receiving injuries that are
likely to prove fatal
Olney ID. Smith, alias Brent A. Neal,
n young man who, it is alleged, sue
ceeded in defrauding several banks
Of Beatrice and private citizens In
amounts ~aggregating about $4,000 by
forged checks and misrepresentation,
Wdo dIICotcu OD a III Sc VI ODtdlhlh6
money under false %pretenses. He was
bound owe to the district court.
Charles F. Junken, an old soldier
and a carpenter, 76 years Of age, met
with a serious accident at Bancroft.
He, with some other laborers, were
engaged in raising a roof on a dwell
ing "a section of which dropped and
caught Mr.. Junken, one leg being
crushed at the knee, n arm was bad
ly torn, besides being badly bruised
on the body. He is not expected to
recover.
Deputy Game Warden Hunger has
reported the arrest and conviction OF
three prominent citizens of Ord, Neb.,
for violation of the state game laws.
Mr.. Hunger was at Ord and arrested
Il. Rockford and &. II. Partridge for
having in their possession ten young
prairie chickens which they had slain.
They were assessed $50 and costs
amounting to $500. When the two
men were arrested they at once sent
out mounted messengers to notify
others hunting in the vicinity of Ord.
Frank Barker who is under sent
ence to be hanged September 2, Is at
work wheeling cement for workmen
within the walls of the prison. He is
not compelled to work. The warden,
out OF Difference to the usual custom,
would rather keep the man in seclu-
sion because Of the nearness of the
day for the execution, but he was
obliged to accede to Barker's request
for work The man pinned away when
shut up in his cell for three days and
now the wOrkmen witness the unusual
snectacle of q fellow lahorer Whnse