Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-07

CeiNed n Shipment OF Gu cattle which he
Will feed at his place the coming summer.
MCOOK-A splendid snow is now falling
over this section Of the state. bringing pro-
| lection and moisture to the small grain.
not to speak Of the Joy and encouragement
to the husbandman.
BEATRICE-The heaviest snowfall OF the
winter visited this locality last night and
today the ground is covered to the depth
| OF about four inches Farmers say II Is
| Just the thing for winter wheat and will put
| the ground in splendid shape for spring
| blowing
sHELBY-A farm house occupied by Ed
burgess and family, northwest OF town.
was entirely. burned after midnight this
morning. All the household goods of Bur
/ CESS were destroyed. The house belonged
to Charles Krumbach who is in Hot
| Springs, Ark.
| BEATRICE-w. r. LAughlin. the Junior
! member of the firm of Cummings &
| laughlin. grain and ccsi merchants Of this
Daisy Malone of warrens6urg. Mo. The
| bride and groom arrived in the city yester-
! day to make their home
| SCHUYLER-The Schuyler High school
has added sixty-eight volumes to the school
! library. The library contains only books
| that are instructive and enjoyable to the
| pupils. The library, considering the size of
the school. is one of the best in the state
| and contains 100 volumes
! NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. evening several pc
! titions were filed with the city clerk asking
4 of the city council the submission to the
! voters the question of license or no license
for for the coming year and as many more
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requires it is presumed the request will be
granted.
HAHTINGToN--A. declamatory contest
viii be held here March JIG and will be par
! ticipated in by eight students of the Hart
! ington High school. gold medal or
winner will also be chosen to enter into
the declamatory contest to be held at Nor
( folk April l.
and neighbors gathered yesterday at the
! country home of Uncle Ben Leatherman
and wife, just east of the city. and cele-
I brated the golden wedding anniversary of
the worthy couple. Mr.. and Mrs Leather
man have been residents of this section for
| about a quarter of century.
! FREMONT-The Great Northern has
plans ready for its passenger depot which
will be located On the east side of Main
| street south of the Union depot. 1t will
! be a two-story Structure with large wait
! ing room. ladies' waiting room and "A sInok-
ing room, with ample rooms for baggage
and express. Ii Will be about the size of
| the Union depot.
FREMONT-Hans Stoliey is wanted by
| the officers for passing a worthless check
! for $50 on Mortensen & Christensen, the
complaint against him having been filed
/ by Fritz SHREDDER, who endorsed the check
and had 1t to pay, stolley was IN town
| time the check was drawn and lives on a
farm in the western part of Saunders
county.
FREMONT. A. Welton has succeeded
in finding a farm wagon which was stolen
. frcm his store in November. 1904. 1t was
FOUND In Omaha IN the possession OF l..
Peterson at Twenty-first and Cunning. Pc
| terson bought in from a travelling horse
trader who spends considerable time IN
! this vicinity. Mr. Welton still has reward
for the arrest of the thief and hopes to
get him
FREMONT-The police last night gath
| cred in an Omaha pair a; lower Main
street lodging house on a statutory charge.
| They gave their names as SChnederwindt
and put up money for their appearance this
| morning but failed to appear. The man
had plenty of cash and was much agitated
| for fear the Omaha papers would get onto
his escapade. He was apparently man Of
good standing.
BEATRICE-The annual government in
spection of Company was made last
night by captain F wlfSx ThiTte5a
under heavy marching orders and included
guns, haversacks and all Announcements of
the company. Captain Wilcox left today
to inspect Battery A at Wymore. He was
accompanied by Captain Penrod of this
city. who will conduct the state inspection.
BEATRICE-At meeting of the Board
of Education last evening George a. Lee,
English and civics teacher in the high
school, rendered his resignation but the
board took no action in the matter. The
total enrolment as shown by Superintend-
ent Fulmer's report is 1896. County SUI
perintendcnt Anna W Day was granted
me use of the high school room for the
third Saturday in each month for monthly
examinations at rental of s. per month.
FREMONT-The Northwestern Railway
company is making preparations for putting
on more trains as soon as the Shoshone
| reservation is opened. A notice was posted
I'm the roundhouse today for twenty-five
additional firemen to take engineers ex-
aminations, which will result in the pro-
motion of practically all tiremen of over
Wyoming train Is doing an increasing bust
ness and 1t is said that anothe through
train to the end of the line in Wyoming
will soon be put on.
EDGAR-The first real snowstorm of the
season began yesterday afternoon about
o'clock and continued till after midnight.
hA oil Wit ind
and this morning the ground is covered TO
the depth of nearly four inches with a fine,
heavy snow. The winter. up to March ],
had been unusually mild, no snow, no wind,
and only one blizzard. and that occurred
last Friday and Saturday. The wheat
crop. before being covered with snow. was
looking fine, and this nice fall of snow will
undoubtedly he highly beneficial
HUMBOLDT-Snow fell during last night
ton. the heaviest fall of the winter, but
there was no wind and travel has not yet
been interfered with to any great extent
The crowd of Canadian emigrants are ex-
perencing considerable difficulty in load
ing their cars s., as result suit Of the snow snow
with it's train of nine cars, loaded with
household goods and implements started
this evening for the province of Saskatche-
wan, Canada where many of them have
already taken claims and others expect
to do so.
PLATTSMoUTH-I the case of NJ. E.
, Brantner of this city against the Burlington
Railroad company, Byron Clark, attorney
| Tor the company, mas ltdTIleu tndl Judge
Wheeler of the Mills county, Iowa, dis
, trict court has handed down the following
ruling on the application for a new trial
The court found that the charges of mis-
conduct on the part of the attorneys and
| certain witnesses for the defendant com
pauy were untrue and that the verdict In
the sum of $4,000 was excessive and gives
the plaintiff until March 20 to remit 5000
and II he does not do so the motion fol
new trial will be sustained.
WEST POINT-Bert Green, a stranger IN
: the city. was arrested on Saturday evening
by Sheriff Malchow and lodged in Jail upOT
! the information of c. L. Tate of AtchisoT
| county, Missouri, who asserts that Greer
was a fugitive from justice from Atchisor
county, and that he Tate, had authority
! to pursue and arrest him. Tate says thai
Green had jumped bail bond of $1,000 II
the Missouri county. II appears that Greer
: had been for some days past in Scribnel
, in company with his brother. F. II. Green
before coming to West Point. and upoI
hearing of the arrest the elder Green i'm
> medately sued out a writ of habeas corpus
which was tried yesterday before Count!
Judge Dewald, resulting in the discharg'
OF Green from custody. the so-called office
l from Missouri failing TO show his authority
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