The Columbus journal., 1906-10-10
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n excursion 70 @t00 BLACK aAAA.
The trim will take five days and the
boomers will start October Is.
Two Beatrice residentS who care.
lessly enclosed . written note in .
rarcel Of merchandise recently. raid
SO each for violating the postal lava.
The city council Of Columbus has
Just passed an ordinance against spit'
ting ON the streets and the fellow
that is caught at it viii be aned 3
and costs.
SchinstOck Bros, noted horse breed
ers of West Point, suffered q serious
loss In the death of their best stallion
from an attack OF Inflammation of the
bowels. The animal cost the firm
$4,000.
Henry Oliver of Omaha. while get
ting into q boat at Fort Calhoun lake
was shot in the. arm below the
shoulder by the accidental discharge
of his gum. He bled p~rcfusely and Is
in a serious condition.
Thomas Kempster, the Plattsmouth
Burlington storehouse keeper. Is to be
transferred to Denver. and W. A.
Swearengen, the local station agent
for the Missouri Pacific, is soon to be
transferred to another point.
Adjutant General Culver has re.
/; ceived q special pamphlet from the
| war department describing the new
methods of Identifying soldiers. The
imprint of the right thumb is to be
filed with the enlistment papers.
Little Ora Malone. grandson of
Landlord Ester of the City hotel, Daw-
son, fell from the second story win
dow Of the hotel to the pavement on
| the street below and sustained q Ia
ceration on his chin and a fracture
Of the nose, but otherwise was not
hurt.
Secretary Adna Dobscn of the state
irrigation board has received the blue
print of a dam which the Farmers
Canal company expects to build acrUss
the Platte river e the wyoming
line in order to fill their irrigation
bitches, when the water in the river
is low.
|. Jay O'Hearn, convicted of murder
in the first degree in Omaha and sem
fenced to be hanged. last week.
through his attorneys filed petition in
error and a transcript in the supreme
court. O'Hearn YVES sentenced some
months ago and since that time has
been kept most of the time in the
p~enitentiary.
State Superintendent McBrien has
notified County Superintendent Yoder
of Douglas county that q school house
must be built for the pupils CT the
Nebraska district which lies or the
Iowa side of the Missouri river. The
district contains twenty-three pupils,
and was separated by the vasaries of
the Big Muddy.
Prof. C. H. Bright, principal Of the
high school at San Isidro. Manila, P.
L., and a former superintendent OF !
Wayne county, Nebraska, saw a press
report Of Professor Greggs' garden at
the Peru Normal and writes asking
for the plan, that he may teach the
how to raise garcens accord
ing to our system.
State Secretary Bailey arrived In
Beatrice to arrange for the dedicatory
services of the Mary Young Mems
association building. to be
held the middle of next month. Eight
days will be given to the dedicatory
exercises, which will consist of en-
tertainments addresses and gym
exhibitions.
The effects Of the Sioux City, Homer
& Southern Railway company were
sold at sheriff's sale by Sheriff H. C.
Hansen to J.. A. and Harry H. Foye, of
Sioux City, Ia, for $4,000. Three
bids were made, the first by the
Foyes. of $4,000, the second by E.
Burgess. representing the Sioux
City Bridge company. at $16.5 o and
he final bid of $4,000 by the Foyes.
The trial in the county court. Of
Chief of Police Howell, for assault,
was held at Tekamah the jury re-
a verdict of not guilty. This
rial is the outcome of q free-for1all
light which took place there one night
the races. In arresting the Of
Howell hit q young man by
he name of Allen several times with q
heavy cane. INJECTING wounds which
lecessitated medical attention.
T. c. Calvert of Lincoln was in Be
trying to locate L. p. Monlux
George Moore, solicitors repre-
an installment plan house.
claims that the men have
been making bogus contracts. selling
hese goods at kalfs price and pocket
ne the money. When the contracts
Lincoln the deception was
and the COMPANY sent a
representative here to investigate.
Sparks from the engine blown un-
Ter the door set fire I a car of am
nunition and quartermasters' supplies
belonging to the Fifth cavalry and en-
from Fort Riley to Fort Des
The ammunition began to ex-
and the train hurriedly cut
nut the car and switched it on q sid
ng near Papill:on. The fusilade of
'hO:s lasted from 6 O'clock in the
morning until after 8 O'Clock. fifty
ounds of ammunition for the regi.
neEt being consumed.
Governor Mickey has appointed the
assistants of the bureau of animal in
lustry OF the federal government in
Nebraska, assistant veterinary sur