Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-07

WAS no quarrel. nuL EulIeT was hhANA AAN
influence Of liquor
NORTH PLATTE-A game Of basket ball
Will be played between the kearney and
the North Platte High school teams on next
Friday evening.
BEATRICE,-At a meeting OF Hose COM
pany No last night George Conner was
awarded the prize Of SO for the member
OF the company hauling the hose cart out
q the house the greatest number OF times
during the past year.
CoLUMBUs-John schranke Of ColfaN
county died at St Mary's hospital here
few days ago II was not known whether
he had any relatives and his body was
buried in the Catholic cemetery here. lie
was over q years old.
DAVID C1TY-Snow began falling last
Saturday evening and up To Tuesday night
about six inches OF snow fen. Sunday and
winter The thermometer registered from
to p degrees below zero.
NORTH PLATTE-About two inches of
snow fell yesterday morning. Some of the
cattle men are a little worried over the
hay proposition. as they fear they will not
have enough hay to last the season II the
BEATRICE-E j. Shinn. manager Of the
BooRwalter farms In Pawnee county, re-
walter He reports that the wheat Is well
protected with a blanket Of snow, ana
bids fair to make an excellent crop.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the Omaha High
school sent a challenge for a debate with
the Beatrice High school team. As Beatrice
has a debate with Humboldt February Is,
and another with wYmore later on. IL has
been decided not to accept the challenge.
BANCROFT-John II. Tryon Sons are
making extensive preparations tor , Ine,r
swine, which will be held on their farm
three miles east Of town on February =.
They will offer for sale fifty bred sows, the
choice of the herd.
DAVID CITY-Joe Pelan, who has been
recorder in the county clerks ONCE Tor the
Mr.. Pelan has purchased Oltrogge's general
merchandise store at Bruno, Neo. Ed
Mashek Of Able win take Mr.; Pelan's place
recorder in the clerks office.
PIAATTSMOUTH-Whi working in the
Burlington planning mill here Tuesday IA. v.
Clark had his left hand caught In an auger
I drill, and before that member could De
/ removed II was seriously injured. The BUR
lington physicians, DIS. Jack and Living
| ston, dressed the wounded member.
| NORTH PLATTE--The case of Samuel
| Goozee against John Grant, which involves
| the ownership of a strip Of land ten inches
wide and 1872 feet long, has been appealed
was defeated in the lower court The strip
| in question lies between lots owned by the
parties.
| RED CIOUD-Enough signers have been
| secured on the petition to ask the Web
ster county board to call a special election
| 10 vote bonds to build new court house;
| This has been in the hands of the Red
Cloud Commercial club for some time and
have new court house.
| NORTH PLATTE-Mr. and Mrs I. c.
| Patterson will leave tonight Tor New
/ Orleans. The OBJECT OF TINS TIP Will De
| to visit Captain George T. Patterson, who
| will be in that city for a time, and also
to witness the Mardi Grass which occurs
in that city next week. They expect to
be gone about two weeks.
| FREMONT-John Lorenson, who has
been in police court several times for get
ting drunk and raising a disturbance at
his home, has been adjudged a fit subject
for treatment under the dipsomaniac law.
desire for 1 whisky and did not appear to
object to being committed to the asylum.
| EDGAR-C. J. Shaw's meat market was
discovered on fire at midnight. The build
by a new brick structure. The insurance on
the building was 500. which covers nearly
half the loss. The shop was full Of butch
er's stock, most of which was saved. The
loss on the stock was covered by insurance.
! CLARKS-The girls and boys basket ball
teams have scheduled and are practicing
for a double game with Columbus, to be
played at the latter place February 10.
The school board. however. is inclined to
discourage the teams from making the
trip, the ground that II is not desirable
TO extend the practice of interurban high
| school games.
BEATRIcE-The Ancient Order Of United
Workmen held a meeting last night and
appointed a committee to select suitable
proposes to erect in Which TO hold lodge
meetings. II is the Intention to erect
two-story block. The first floor to be used
lodge gatherings.
NORTH PLATTE-Mr Fred w. Rincker.
until recently a passenger conductor ON
the Union Pacific, FAzTchased the Doolittle
book store and began b lsiness yesterday.
For many years Mr., Rincker has been
on the road and this kind of business will
be new TO him. but there is no doubt but
that he will make a success of II. as he is
a very popular man and a hustler
SCHuYLER--stock shipments out Of
Schuyler for the last week are as follows;
/ Cattle-One car by Thomas Walters; one
car by Waters Bros. one car by Joe Po>
korney; one car by T. B. Richards. Hogs
One car by Levi Pointer; one car by A. c.
| Vanhauser: two cars by l.. c. Wellman;
one car by Joe Peters. SheeD-Two cars
by Tim Ross. All were shipped to South
Omaha.
BEATRICE-J. w. Burke reports a Pc
cular occurrence at his farm northeast Of
the city. He allowed his geese and chick
ems TO feed upon some manure hauled from
Beatrice and scattered upon his place. and
yesterday morning he found twelve geese
and two dozen chickens dead. Evidently
the fowls had eaten poison put out for
rats and hauled out with the manure upon
the farm.
PLAfTEMOUTH-T Board of County
Commissioners has awarded the contract for
burying the pauper dead to L. r. Upton OF
Of Hf the Weeping Mater s Republican sg snd
named the following physicians to look
trcts prs Martin In Ihe WsRer aus
W. BRANDED. ]. NJ. Green. N. d. Talcott and
j. g. Munger.
BEATRICE-The musical festival being
held in Nichols hall this week by the Beat
rice Military band is attracting large
crowds. Considerable interest is manifested
in the diamond ring contest, the sparkier
to be awarded TO the most popular young
woman In Beatrice. The vote last night
showed Missb Maude wilt to be in the
lead. with Miss Blanche Calvin second and
Miss Blanche Francis third.
EUSTIS-A COW broke out OF the stock
yards and started on rampage. Ii wan
dered up Main street Deputy Marshall
Schmidt procured a horse ard tried TO drive
: the animal back to the stocIIyards, but his
only success was to drive il through the
plate glass window In the Office Of the
Frontier Land & Loan company. After
much scheming and cussing II was roped
, and returned TO the stock pens.
BEATRICE-The man Reed and the
, young daughter of Mrs. williams who dis
appeared from Wymore several months ago
were married at Belleville, Kas-, recently.
The bride is fifteen and the groom twenty
five years Of age. The couple now lives al
Byron. Neb., and before word reached wy
more that the couple was married the auth
critics were looking for Reed on the charge
of having enticed the girl away from home
BANCROFT-F l.. Gallagher, a banker
at the new town of Rosalie has been noti-
fed by the secretary OF the interior that
he was a successful bidder on a section OF
land In the big pasture" in Oklahoma
His claim is about three miles from
Randolette, which has good prospects OF