The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1905-07-07
OVER THE STATE.


SCOTS Bluff is counting or having
electric light at an early day.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. W. Cardiff of Fair
bury last week celebrated their golden
wedding.
The teachers institute of Holt
county was unusually well attended
this year.
The new $4,000 Young Mems Chris.
tian association building of York was
dedicated clear of debt.
Johnson county farmers are harvest
ing their wheat and find the CROP one
of the best for a number of years.
The Nebraska Banking association
will hold a meeting in Lincoln October
10 and II and the Lincoln bankers
are making elaborate arrangements
for the entertainment of their guests.
Thieves entered the slaughter house
of H. A. Hansen at Elkhorn, stealing
a dressed beef and the hide. The sup
position is that it vas taken to Val
ley, as wagon tracks were traced to
that place.
G. G. Topping, brakeman on freight
train No. Is of the Chicago. st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha road, while
switching in the yards at Oakland, was
thrown fro mthe car and sustained a
number of broken ribs.
Among the improvements of mo-
ment which McCook will see this sum-
mer will be the investment of about
SIS, 900 in betterments by the Nebraska
Telephone company in the local ex-
change, which mean a quite complete
overhauling.
A man was killed near Gannett,
about five miles east of North Platte.
His body was badly mangled and is
unrecognizable. He was probably a
2, and fell off. His head, arms and legs
were cut off and his body almost en-
tirely dismembered.
John Foilen, residing just over the
county line in Nemaha county, came
to Nebraska City and filed complaint
against his two brothers, Henry and
Nicholas Foilen, charging them with
a%ssaulting and beating him until ne
was insensible. He ysls so badly beat
en- that the services of a physician
was needed.
Max Ploehn. charged with the MUIR
der of Alma Coos, pleaded not guilty
before Justice M. Archer at Pats
mouth. He was bound over to the dis
trict court. The prisoner will be ar
raigned before Judge lessen of the
district court in a few days, at which
time it is believed he will change his
plea and receive sentence.
F. E. LANCE, a farmer living ten
miles north of Tekamah, died from in
juries received in a runaway. Mr..
LANCE was driving a team of colts
and in crossing a bridge the tugs
came unlocked, letting the tongue
down, throwing Mr.. LANCE out of the
wagon and rendering him unconscious,
from which he never recovered. He
was 70 years old and vas the oldest
settler of Burt county.
The farmers in Saunders county do
not seem very anxious to donate prop
erty to the Great Northern for a sta
ton and elevator site near the Nc
Lean farm. The company wanted
twenty acres of land and Mr.. Mclean
offered to donate ten acres, the farm
ers to pay for the other ten. Several
meetings were held to consider the
matter and it was finally decided to
call the deal off.
Deputy Labor Commissioner Bush
is holding daily sessions at Labor
Temple, in Omaha, to arrange for
sending harvesters to the Kansas
wheat fields. In answer to his adver-
Using he is getting a good many ap-
plications and expects to send away
several hundred men. The railroads
have granted a rate of 1 cent a mile
for men going to the harvest fields,
and MI. Bush says there is a demand
which will assure all who go of get
ting work.
Denver (Colo.) dispatch: Coming to
Denver with has savings, $1,000, By
ron Gage of Ord, Neb., has been miss
ing more than a month. His brother,
Harry, came last night and asked the
aid of the police in finding him. The
brother believes that Gage was swim
died out of his money and perhaps
murdered. Gage came here to go into
business. He wrote his relatives he
had met a rich mining prospector and
expected to make plenty of money.
Since then nothing has been heard of
him.
Now that the biennial election law
has been knocked out, it means that
the terms of Office of these officials,
who would otherwise have held over
until next year, will expire, and sue
cessors must be elected. In the state:
One supreme court Judge; two regents
of state university. In the county:
sheriff, county treasurer, county clerk,
county judge, surveyor, coroner, SUI
p~erintendent of instruction. The Off
ces of register of deeds, county asses
sor and county commissioners go over
one year, as contemplated by the law,
and are not effected by this decision.
Wayne, the two and a half year old