The Red Cloud chief., 1904-02-19
Nebraska Notes.

At York an effort Is being made to
revive the county fair.
The people Of Bayard are going to
build q new town hall.
Fire drill has beer ordered in all the
Fremont public schools. .
There are not so many farm sales In
Nebraska as usual at this season Of the
cal.
The winter wheat in Gage and sur
rounding counties Is reported In good
condition.
Farmers who trade in Columbus al
ways put their horses under shelter
when in the city.
The town of Farnam. in Dawson
county. is agitating the question OF
putting In a water plant.
II has been resolved to build and OPP
crate an independent grain elevator at
st. Paul. II is to be ready for opera
ton for the next crop.
w. b. Knouse OF Beatrice Is so much
IN favor OF patronizing home industries
that the Express says he will hereafter
raise his own tobacco.
George Sbaffer. of Hooper. Dodge
county. was out hunting the other day.
His rifle caught in a barb-wire renee
and shot his big toe of.
The Grand Island board Of educa-
ton proposes not only to have fire
drill, but to make "a minute inspection
of every school house in that city.
The title to the site OF the Lincoln
Carnegie library Is valid. The supreme
court, for the second time. has handed
down an opinion holding against Sarah
Gruninger. who claimed an equity In
the lots on which the library building
stands.
Henry f.. Hunt. living near Firth.
signed a contract with an alleged rep
resentative of a cooperative medical
company. and later 1t proved to be a
pfomissory note. This is his defense
to the case brought by John V. Van
Burg, a banker at Firth.
The executive committee Of the state
republican committee was authorized
by the state committee at the. recent
meeting in Lincoln to select the tenn
porary chairman of the state conven-
ton which will meet on May Is.
A curious accident happened the
other day near Grand Island. A lady
was driving a buggy in which she had
some hot bricks. The bricks set fire TO
the robes which were In a blaze before
she knew II. Her clothes took fire, but
she ~extinguished the fire by rolling in
the snow, then unhitched the horse
from the burning buggy. All that was
left of the buggy was the irons.
The citizens of Giltner have made up
reward OF $3.50 to be paid to the party
securing the arrest and conviction OF
the %incendiary who started the fire In
the rear end of the Mathews hardware
store during the night of September 9.
and who started the fire in the rear
of Mr.. Wheeler's Office on the night of
February g..
The mortality RECORD for the month
OF January. compiled by Health Officer
William G. Rhode, shows a total of
forty-siY deaths In Lincoln. Pneumo-
MIA claimed the creates number OF
deaths, with six to its credit; pull
monary tuberculosis, 2; heart failure,
g.: gunshot wound, 2; Bright's dis
ease, 2; suicide, 2; tuberculosis, .,
and 20 other ailments.
ii. G. Shedd. secretary of the Me-
braska state commission. returned to
NIB HOHt ~ Asulhlu liOHl OF iFOuis,
where he has been making the fna
arrangements for the installation Of
Nehraska's exhibits In the various de-
partments. The shipment Of these ex-
hibits. now stored In Omaha and Lin
coin, and which will amount to sew
eral carloads, will soon be made. Mr..
Shedd fears a great freight congestion
at st. Louis during March and April
xrhAa all thA fo,.ntnn aNI AsnNn A~hthtf0
arrive, and has therefore decided to
ship the Nebraska consignment at the
earliest possible moment. Permanent
headquarters of the commission will be
established on the worlds fair grounds
March I.
Isaac w. Carpenter. president OF the
board OF directors OF the Omaha Young
Mems Christian association. has APP
pointed this committee to take up the
matter of providing a new home for
the association, which has sold it's pres
ent building: G.. G. Wallace. chair
man; DR.. L. C.. Henry. George F. Bid
we'll, ", l.. Kreider and George Gil
more.
The members OF the Nebraska dele
cation to the national irrigation con
vention, last summer, have been re-
membered by the Commercial club of
El Paso, Texas. Secretary Dobson OF
the state board OF irrigation. who was
a member OF the delegation. received
by express a large Mexican straw hat.
The hat Is a hand braided one. with
towering crown and broad brim.
Around the crown IL a tri-colored rib
hon bearing the inscription Eel Paso
Irrigation Convention, 1904" The Sec
rotary was informed that a similar
headpiece had been sent to each mem
her OF the delegation. At the conven-
ton last summer there was a fierce
contest for the location of the 1904
meeting. Nebraska cast the deciding
allot In the fight and El Paso takes
this method OF acknowledging the ia
yor.
John Lane, OF Rayenna. had his left
hand almost cut In two. II was caught
In the grasp Of a huge pair of ice tongs,
the bones Of the palm crushed. and
the artery nearest the index finger
nnllnd mn oil nf tbrnn i,,,bo. lnfn,o 1,