The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-04-07


of the surplus water of the spring and
summer.
r. II. Slattery. formerly one OF the
force at the Norfolk hospital for the
insane, has arrived with his family
in Norfolk from Lincoln and will have
charge of the laundry at the institu.
tion as soon as It has been shaped for
operation.
There are an unusually large num-
ber Cf carpenters and builders in the
city this season, but with t,e mum.
bers of new houses going up and the
improvements being made they are
being kept very busy and tho prCba.
bilty Us that they will continue busy
throughout the building season,
The ladies of The Heights who YES
terday spent the afternoon at the
home of Mrs. r. j. Morrow, present
ed Mrs. Morrow with set of very
handsome solid silver spoons as
token of their esteem by which she
may remember her friends in Norfolk
after she has moved to the Pacific
coast
The board of public lands and build
ings are expected in Norfolk on any
train now to inspect the buildings iust
completed at the Nebraska state hos
pital for the insane here, before &C
cepting them from the contractors.
pr Alden will go to Lincoln as soon
as this has been done and will bring
up a score of patients.
The village election at Atkinson was
hotly contested, nearly 200 votes De.
ing cast. There was no particular is
sue except a fight for control of mu-
nicipal affairs, the personnel or the
board being the main factor. The sue
cessful candidates were Nelson J. Full
Ter, elected for third term: DR. w j
Douglas, and Moses Campbell
The hook and ladder CCmprny held
meeting last night. A committee
from this company was chosen to ap-
pear at the meeting of the CITY council
tonight for the purpose of requesting
half dozen new rubber coats for the
hooks members. The company now
has no rubber coats, the last two that
they owned having been stolen during
the fire at the cold storage some time
ago.
With the mercury indicating ten 10
twelve degrees below the freezing
point each night there is every indi-
cation that April needs some fixing
to come under the requirements of
spring month. Garden truck that has
been planted for a week has had no
encouragement to appear above the
surface and it is much better that il
does not as long as these frosty, freez-
ing nights continue.
Next week the annual election in
the Norfolk fire department will be
held. 1t is said that )nsidcrable IT,
terest has already developed in the
contest for chiefshir r. H. Reynolds,
S. r. Mcfarland and II. w. Winter
being mentioned prominently as can
didates 10 succeed Chief Kern, who is
reported to have declared hat he viii
noC accept another election to the Of
flee. Every company has its candi-
dates for Offices and a lively meeting
is anticipated.
Adiutant General A. S. Daggett of
Governor Mickey's staff, was here over
night on business connected with the
future of company L, N. n. G., which
it is said is to be mustered out. Gen
eral Daggett is an experienced mill.
tary man and gentleman of pleasing
manners and loaded with interesting
"reminiscences. He was with the
United States troops at Pekin during
the Boxer uprising and his CONVERSE
tiOn concerning that interesting epoch
is wonderfully entertaining. He has
acquired considerable reputation as a
lecturer and his fund of information
and anecdotes has entertained many
audiences as well as private hearers.
AS August Karo and his men were
driving bunch of cattle through the
eastern part of the city A big anirral
broke from the bunch and made a
desperate dash for liberty. He was
cornered on the bank of the mill race
and with an action illustrative of Pat
rick Henry's "Give me liberty or give
me DEATH" he plunged boldly into the
mill race and it was the opinion of Oh
lockers that he had chosen death as
the water was deep, the bank steep
and the footing precarious, but by his
own efforts he finally succeeded in
emerging from the cold bath and af-
terward proved more docile and con.
tent to assume the environment that
had been chosen for him.