Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-07-07

evening of the death of Frank Barclay,
sr., which occurred at Lincoln. Before GO
ing to Lincoln Mr.. Barclay was engaged in
the plumbing business at this place for
twenty-three years. He was IS years of
age and is survived by widow and three
children, two sons and daughter. The re-
mains will be brought here for interment.
PLATTSMOUTH-Seve members of the
family of II. Westlake, residing at Muir
dock, were taken severely III yesterday
after eating ice cream. During the day
Mrs. Westlake had made some Ice cream,
of which all who are sick had eaten. In
vestigation showed that the only posi-
bility of poisoning was in. the vanilla
are reported to be recovering.
BURWELL-One of the largest crowds
ever seen in the town was here Tuesday
Windham of Plattsmouth was the speaker
of the day. The civic parade was one Of
the attractions OF the day. The Scotia
band furnished music and the Scotia and
Burwell ball teams played a close and in
teresting game of ball. A grand display of
fireworks closed the days program.
SCHUYLER-The excessive rains in Col
fax county during the last month have put
corn, in bad shape. Several fields along
Shell creek and the river were washed out
during the spring floods and had to be re-
planted. These fields and all over the
county are backward. Small grain is
nearly ready to harvest and the rains this
week have beaten several fields down. The
rainfall this spring has been exceptionally
heavy.
oGALALLA-At Paxton Cyrus Morford,
an old resident, had some kind of an alter
cation with couple of tramps. They at
tackled him with knives and cut him in
three places the worst cut is a scalp
wound five inches in length, a slight cut
across the nose and another over the heart,
which is not deep. Or. Lykens was called
from here to dress the wounds. He thinks
Morford will recover. but will be laid up
rested, brought here and locked up.
FREMONT-Fred Foglesong of this city
had leg and shoulder broken and sus-
tained some internal injuries while putting
up hay northeast of this city yesterday
afternoon. He was fixing stacker and
place The boy slightly ioosened his hold
on the rope and the stacker fell, carrying
Fogelsong with It and plnning. him to the
attention could be secured. His injuries
are serious and 1t will be some time before
he can recover.
GRAND IsLAND-A further committee
has been appointed, upon the authority of
mass meeting of citizens at which over
200 were present, to confer with the Union
Pacific officials to the change in the local
yards with instructions to take charge of
the matter and secure satisfactory solu
ton as quickly as possible. AS such COM
mittee, President Ryan Of the Commercial
club, who was chairman of the meeting,
Moore Of the First ward; c. F. Bentley
and NJ l. Dolan of the Second ward; john
Allan and c. b. Norris of the Third ward,
and II. w. Potter and Allan Craig of the
Fourth ward.
BAssETT-The celebration of the Fourth
arranged for at this place was held be-
way. 1t had been raining almost con-
stantly for a number Of days before the
Fourth, but the weather on that day was
ideal until about o'clock in the evening
when a rain storm came up, which lasted
about an hour. Fully 1900 people attended
| the celebration and the principal events
OF the day were the grafton by Judge f. M
Walcott of Valentine and a ball game be-
| tween the Bassett team and a mixture Of
| Mariaville and Deadwood players. The bali
game was won by the Deadwood end of
| the visitors, the score being 5 to 8. A bas-
| ket ball game was played between Maria
| Vile and Bassett teams, resulting in a
| victory for Bassett.
EXETER-Tuesday was an ideal Fourth
| of July day, clear and warm until night
| when light thunderstorm scattered the
| large crowd which had been celebrating
from early morning. Everything passed
of pleasantly. There was but one accident
worthy of mention and that occurred in
| the early morning, when some of the young
/ men of the town thought they would begin
| the day with a little extra noise. They had
| prepared some bombs from pieces of gas
| pipe and were setting them off. One extra
| large one failed to explode as soon as the
| boys thought it should and Rex Stratton,
son OF Dr. stratton, ran up to investigate
| ing him badly from his feet to the top OF
| his head on the right side and stripping
| nearly all his clothing OFF.
WOOD RIVER-The Fourth was cele-
| brated in a very fitting manner here and
no accidents occurred to mar the pleasure
| of the day. A fine parade, IN which nearly
every enterprising business house in town
/ was represented, and with number OF
| other floats and decorated carriages, took
place in the forenoon. c. G.. Ryan Of
| Grand Island delivered a fine address. The
/ Wood River team won the blue rock shoot
/ in the afternoon. NJ. Diefenderfer won the
| free-for-all shoot, breaking fifteen birds
! straight. Joseph Rounds scored the high
est In the rife shoot Wood River de-
! feated Grand Island ball team by q score
| OF IA to g. An Arnold man won the foot
| race, with r. Bulger Of this place second.
! The display Of fireworks in the evening was
magnificent The attendance was estimated
FAIRBURY-The Fourth was celebrated
| tauqua assembly for 1905. The weather
| was ideal and large crowd attended the
exercises during the day and evening. The
! the Petit Cornet band furnishing the in
strumental music. The morning exercises
! and an address by Adrain NJ Newens. The
! afternoon program included a concert by
| the Adelphians, readings by Mr.. Newens,
an Grafton on THE American Citizen" by
! DR.. Dana 9. Johnson cooking demonstra-
/ ton by Miss Vawter, followed by a con-
| tinuous performance in the pavilion. In
the evening the Adelphians and Miss Fyvie-
| Dench gave concert and Mr.. Newens en-
! tertained the audience with humorous read
ings, the, evening exercises closing with a
| grand display OF fireworks.
| SEWARD-County Assessor Baker has
| completed the compilation of the assess
ment valuations in tsbulated form and has
| forwarded a copy of his report to the
State Board OF Equalization: The total
! assessed valuation Of personal property In
] this county, including railroads, is 81, no.
| OS7.9S. which is one-fifth the actual value.
| This is an increase OF about $4,000 over the
| assessment OF a year ago. According TO
] the report, the assessed value OF the casn
| In the banks OF this county Is Sis 745 80,
| which would make the actual amount
! $59S 729.5 so. According to the consolida ted
| bank statement published June IA, the
M 81 quite Sh deposit ders9 eTa sum eo fra
| what was on deposit when the deputy as
/ SCISSORS made their rounds. The poultry OF
! the county wac assessed at SO 455 which
! In reality gives uH $4,000 worth Of poultry.
| Railroad property is assessed a. t5S6 779. a.
cattle at Sl2s O76.50 hogs at $40 OOT and horses
! at Si66 81. So.
| pIERCE-The Fourth OF July celebration
! hers was a success In every way A large