The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-01-06
NEBRASKA. STATE NEWS
NEBRASKA BRIEFS.

Mr.. and Mrs. S. N. Peterson of Polk
county last week celebrated their gol-
den wedding.
At a regular meeting Of the Ere
mont Turnverein it was voted to send
team to compete at the national turn
fest, which meets next year at In
dianapolis.
The home of P. B. Neff, an imple-
ment dealer in Broomfield, was enter
ed by burglars a few nights ago and
robbed of $40, several rings and other
pieces of jewelry.
While oiling an engine at the elec-
trio power house at Beatrice Engineer
Peter Drouland got his hand too near
the machine and the index finger OF
his left hand was torn off.
Invitations have been issued at
Plattsmouth announcing the forthcom-
ing marriage of F. c. Kingsbury of
Arizona and Miss Para Love of Ere
mont, which will occur January 4.
Roscoe Pound will resign his posi-
tion as dean of the law school at the
State University to enter practice,
having formed law partnership with
Frank M. Hall and Frank H. Woods.
The body of Howard Penn who
killed himself at York in a fit of
dependency arrived in Broken Bow
from that place and was taken W the
residence in Former Sheriff Arm;
strong.
About II o'clock in the forenoon
one of the inmates in the open ward
at the asylum at Hastings escaped,
coming toward Hastings. He is de-
scribed as being about % years old,
weight $50. dark mustache.
The city council Grand Island
has passed on its first reading an Or
dinance regulating the running of au.
tomobiles, limiting the speed to five
miles an hour in the business district
of the city and twelve miles an hour
in all other districts.
The other night young George Coil
Of Dawes county walked from the peni<
tentiary to the trolley car station at
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one of Governor Mickey's Christmas
combinations. Coil was convicted
| five years ago of numbering q sheep
man named Ryan, with whom he and
his father, cattleman, had had
trouble over the range.
| Governor Mickey has assured SUI
perintendent Greene of the Lincoln
Hospital for the Insane that there is
absolutely no need for any investiga:
ton into the affairs of that institu-
tion. The official called at the exeN&
tive department for a conference and
perfect confidence in him and the in
tegrity of his management.
Phoenix, (AriZ.) dispatch: Sheriff
Hall of Holt county, Neb., arrived with
requisition for Bernard w. Nc
GreeVy, absconding president Of the
Elkhorn Valley bank of O'Nein, Neb.
The sheriff aid he would not leave
before Monday and perhaps not then.
He is impressed with the story that
Cashier Patrick Hagerty is in hiding
here and hopes to capture him.
The committee that has begged the
new depot at York in the place Of
the barn-like structure now used by
| the company there hope that York
will have New Years present in the
way of a notice from the company
| that they will build much needed
of hot ha in l.
with the rapid growth and the size of
the place.
Each prisoner in the penitentfary
was given Christmas present. The
gift was of modest proportions, con.
sisting of a large bag of candy, made
in the prison kitchen. but each man
was remembered. Many of them re.
ceived little trinkets from friends and
relatives at home. Little mementoes
of home life and jars of jam and jelly,
with other delicacies, were received by
many of the men.
The annual meeting of the Gage
county poultry and pet stock show will
be held in the opera house at Blue
Springs January 3 and f.
December will be a good month
from the standpoint of the state peni-
tentiary in that the census will bt in
creased there by tWenty-nine.
A circular letter will be sent out to
county treasurers by State Treasurer
Mortensen asking them to begin the
year properly by promptly remitting
state taxes to the treasury on Monday
or Tuesday. Many county treasurers
are taking advantage of the renewed
offer of the Burlington and the Union
Pacific to pay a part of their taxes,
pending the decision ON the applica-
tion for injunction.
After having been mouTned as
dead man for the past seventeen years
John MarQuardt has turned up at
Harrisburg, Ore, alive and busy
man. Almost a score of years ago ne
left Norfolk and two years later his