The independent., 1907-02-07
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sionally by such an item as this from
the Alliance Herald Ferdinand Mix
ont caught a very large golden eagle
on his place west of Herningford last
Saturday. The coyotes had been caus-
ing more or less annoyance for some
time and he set steel traps near the
carcass of dead animal. hoping TO
lcatch a few of them. Instead, the eagle
got into one of them and Mr.. Nikont
had a lively scrimmage to get him OUT
of the trap and into safe place.
This from the Nebraska City News
has something to do, perhaps, with
the price on land in eastern Nebraska:
Peter Berlet Of Auburn, while in the
city last evening. stated to a News
man that in ten years he cleared $780,
900 off his farm near Brock. He and
two men attended the farm and looked
after things during that time and most
of the time he paid the men $50 per
month and gave them their board.
The compulsory school attendance
law is no dead letter in Sarpy county,
saws an item in the Papillion Times:
Messrs Joseph Kosik. James Debelka,
Frank Lorenz, Frank Blaha and Mike
| Zandina. who were summoned to ap-
| pear in county court to answer TO the
charge of having violated the compul
sorry education law by not sending
some Of their children to school as the
law requires, appeared Monday and
Messrs Zadina Lorenz and Blaha plead
guilty to the charge and were fined SIS
and costs, each. Messrs. Kosik and
| Debelka claim TO be over two miles
from school and therefore are not
amenable to the law. An examina-
ton of the records of the various roads
| by which the children have to travel
show that they do not live over two
miles from school and their hearing
has been set for Saturday. Several
other cases of truancy are being in
vestigated and it is likely that COM
plants will be filed within few days.
SYRACUSE Neb., Feb. 3--John
Rammell, thirty-four years Of age and
school teacher, was burned in his
fathers barn, two miles south of the
city, today. Whether he committed
suicide or death followed an accidental
fire, will perhaps never be known.
Members of the family scout the idea
of suicide, while neighbors can explain
the train of happenings that followed
in no other way. He was the son of
William Rammell
RammeIl was in the house of his
father a few minutes before the fire,
honing his razor He remarked to his
father that he believed he would hitch
up a horse and go to town. He went
out to the barn and few minutes
later members of the family saw the
barn was on fire. They rushed out.
but at that time the fire had gained
great headWay. They succeeded. how
ever, in getting one horse out of the
| barn. Another horse and large
amount of grain was burned. They
called to the missing son when they
reached the barn, but got no answer
Two hours later, in the ruins, his
skeleton was found under a pile of
oats, with the flesh burned off.
Neighbors could explain the fire in
no other way than that the man had
cut his throat after setting fire to the
barn Members of the family do not
believe this Rammell had no trouble.
so far as known, and appeared to be
in his right mind. He had never had
mental or nervous troubles. If the fire
was started by accident it is believed
that he could have escaped and prob
ably would have saved both horses be-
fore the family arrived on the scene.
The fire started about 2:30 p. m.
Members of his family admit that
Mr. Rammell was a smoking man, and
plausible explanation, and one ac-
cepted by many friends, is that fire
caught from his pipe in the hay and
that he was smothered before getting
out of the barn.
FALLS CITY, Neb., Feb. 3,-The
work of packing ice is being pushed
vigorously. Every man who wants to
work can easily secure it at one of
these places. Every available team is
at work The Ice is about ten inches
thick and clear as crystal, as fine as
can be procured anywhere. Rulo par
ties have packed away a large lot of
six, seven and eight inch ice from the
Missouri river Though the river Is not
entirely frozen over good ice can be
found on II in places. The Fargo bus
mess men have been unable To secure
any ice this season because the river
has not been frozen over there yet this
| year,