The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-04
until the new high school structure is


iTe lne INeUTdskd COnleTeuCe anu De-
hind closed doors. The accused min
lister was recently in Norfolk for sew
eral weeks, working as the special
state agent for Des Moines life in.
surance company.
CHASED by Wolves" is the title Of
two-page "reminiscences written by
County Attorney ]. A. Van Wagenen
of Pierce and published in the Septem.
Der issue of Sports Aheld Mr.. Van
Wagenen writes of a personal adven-
ture with wolves in Iowa in 1887 when
the present county attorney Of Pierce
was engaged in his first week OF dis
trict school teaching.
| Governor Sheldon has received an
application from the city of Columbus
to be declared city of the first class
| Accoring to a census of the city re-
Gently taken, 1t contains 50S2 inhab-
tants. The law requires 5000 popula-
ton for city before 1t can be a city
of the first class. The governor will
issue his proclamation shortly, IL the
application conforms to the statutes.
That even Nebraskans attend the
Mitchell Is. d. corn palace Is shown
by the following item in the Yankton
Press and Dakotan: Ole Johnson of
st. James, Neb., for many years of this
city, came in today from Mitchell,
where he attended the corn palace,
which he reports grand as was the
Sousa band He also reports his old
town of st. James now on the railway
map for the first time in its many
years of existence, fact already re-
corded by this paper.
| Ed Harter of Norfolk has more than
a passing interest in the new news
paper folding machine which has just
been installed in The News plant. The
folder is Dexter make and the invent
or and builder, Dexter, is an uncle of
Mr.. Harter. Dexter married sister
of Ed Harter's mother and was for
years on the force of the old Des
Moines Register. He invented this
folding machine, went to Chicago and
then to New York and has made for
tune. He is now riding in automobiles
as a result of his genius.
| The Northwestern has announced
numerous special trains in and out of
Omaha for the electrical night parade
next Wednesday. One special will
leave Norfolk at 1906 p. m. and arrive
at Omaha at ABS p. m. Another train
will leave Oakdale at CPS a. m. and
making all intermediate stops arrive
at Omaha at :35 p. m. Special trains
sufficient to carry home all desiring
to return Wednesday night will leave
Omaha at 11:25 and 1870 p. m. Pa
irons of the road are requested to buy
round-trip tickets that they may avoid
the crush at the stations.
There was some local color for Nor
folk in the arrest of officials of the
Western Pump and Manufacturing
company at Kansas City for using the
mails to defraud. This company some
time ago sent literature to newspapers
in Norfolk as we'll as other towns of
the state with the hope that as free
advertising the stuff might be printed.
Some newspapers did bite on the mat
ter. The story contained in the litera-
ture told how Norfolk could get a big
pump device manufacturing establish
ment and then went on to give the
advantages offered by the device itself.
AS result of the free advertising that
was thus grated, the company is said
to have done $4,000 worth of business
in the last few months.
A prairie fire swept over 5000 acres
of land Tuesday afternoon, starting
about two miles west of Valley juno
ton, says a report from Huron, S. d.
The fire originated from spark from
a passing locomotive on the North
western line, and the company, realiZ-
ing the situation, Immediately sent a
special engine carrying fire fighters
to the scene. The first crew being
unable to check the flames, second
was sent out, but the fire was not ex-
tinguished until 1t had covered at
least 5000 acres of land. Thousands
of tons of hay in stacks were destroyed
and the prairie entirely devastated of
feed. The losses are very heavy to
farmers, as many of them had their
winter supply of hay in stack and
must now take their herds to other
localities or buy feed from neighbors.
Three days without food, lost in a
fog on the South Dakota prairie, clad
only in thin dress and exposed for
three days to the heat of the sun, for
two nights to the cold prairie air and
passing through two rains and hail
storm, was the portion of Mayme
Rezek, a deaf mute, whose privations
are related by the Dallas News. The
girl is the daughter of Frank Rezek,
who lives about four miles northeast
of Dallas. Although weighing more
than 200 pounds and twenty-one years
of age the girl is still a child mentally.
Driving the cows to pasture in the
early morning she became lost in a
fog. For three days the prairies were
searched before the girl was found
lying in the prairie grass about six