The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-06-16
NEBRASKA BRIEFS.

July.
Columbus is planning to do honor
to independence day by a grand cele-
bration.
County assessors of Otoe county
find an excess Of $4,000 over that OF
last year.
The saloon element has won out in
Table Rock and license to me saloon
will issue.
There is talk at Fremont OF taking
steps for the suppression of base ball
games OF Sunday.
The order of Eagles, Nebraska City,
are making arrangements for cele-
brating the Fourth.
The city council of COLUMBUS has
reduced the pay of policemen of that
city SIS a month all around.
News was received in York of the
drowning of Clarence Page, a former
York boy, while out in a sail boat near
Eugene, Ore.
The ministerial institute of the east
ern Nebraska conference of the Uni.
ted Brethren church will be held in
Beatrice June IA to 10.
Charles West, who was knocked off
the Union Pacific tracks by the west
bound flyer n day last week, died
in Schuyler from the effects of his in
juries.
John Steele, who has been fagman
at the Randolph street crossing in
Weeping Water for more than ten
years, was run over by a switch en-
CINE and killed last week.
The summer school will open in
Broken Bow under the direction of
Professors B. B. hawthorne and G.. L.
Mohler. Many students are already in
the city. The school closes July 81.
Robbers entered the meat market
of William Stall at Beatrice, blew
open the safe and secured amout 5000.
Bloodhounds were put on the trail of
the robbers, who escaped.
James E. Richard, a farmer living
near Mariaville, in Rock county, died
at his home from the effects of an in
jury received while playing ball at
Mariaville a few days before.
Robert A. Hook has begun suit in
district court against the Lincoln Ice
and Cold Storage company for $10,0 900
damages for injuries alleged to have
been suffered by a fall into a ditch
dug by the company in an alley.
State Superintendent McBrien said
that the awakening in rural school
matters is one of the most remarkable
things in the recent history of the
state. He estimates that fully $500
young people will be graduated from
re country schools this year. About
tWo-thirds of them are girls, and the
average age is Is.
While playing about a farm home,
Helen, the little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Behrens of Grand Island,
was severely bitten by a dog. The
little one, strange to the country, saw
a dog kennel and looked in. The an
imal within, though eve before vi
cious, was aroused by the procedure,
and dashing out, bit her in the cheek
and over the eye.
The state board of public lands and
buildings has awarded a contract for
the lighting of the Norfolk asylum for
the insane to a private corporation.
The state o lights some of it's own
Institutions, but at Norfolk there is
no appropriation for that purpose. The
contract was let to the Norfolk Elec-
trio Light and Power company for a
period of two years.
Ex-senator G. H. Dietrich of Hast
ings expects to enter the hotel bust
ness. He is one of the incorporators
of the Hastings Hotel company, which
has filed articles of incorporation with
Secretary of State Galusha. One of
his associates is John Mines, the own
er of the Bostwick hotel. 1ue other
incorporators are Irene Mines and
Gertrude Dietrich. The capital stock
is $500
Governor Mickey has honored a
requisition issued by the governor of
Kansas for the ~extradition of A.
Smith, who is under arrest in Fill
more county on the charge of dispos-
ing of mortgaged property. Smith is
charged with borrowing $3.50 from a
bank and giving a chattel mortgage
on some horses and then selling the
property without the consent of the
money loaner.
George Holden, a farmer living
across the Platte river in Butler coun-
ty, is suffering from a snake bite
which he received in a very peculiar
manner. He was blowing corn and
stopped to remove a bunch of morn
ing glories which had clogged one of
the shoVels. He at first thought he
had pressed his hand on a wild rose
briar, but he withdrew his hand and
found clinging to it a small green
snake about ten inches long with its
fangs deeply imbedded in the lower
part of his right palm, and also found
that it was dead. 1t had been cut in
two by the shovel and had bitten him
in it's death struggle.
The body of Gothard Beckstrom,