The Red Cloud chief., 1908-12-25
NEsaAskA News awe NOTES.
items Of Greater or Lesser Impor
lance Over the State.

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Items Of Greater or Lesser lmpor.
lance Over the state.
Broken Bow, amid much enthusi.
asm. organized a commercial club.
The Gage County Farmers Insti.
tue will be held in Beatrice January 6
and Z 1909.
Contractors installing sewer work
mt David City have stopped operations
until spring.
c. II Congdon, Of Wilcox. who was
found guilty Of selling liquors on three
counts was fined $4,000 and costs.
improvements involving an expendi-
ture Of between $4,000 and $1,000 are
shortly to be made In the plant Of the
Central City gas company with a view
to improving the service.
The only -four mil in Kearney coun.
ty was destroyed by fire at Minden.
It was the property Of A. ID. Andrews
& Sons and was estimated to be worth
from $4,000 to 100000.
Scarlet fever has broken out in the
girls Industrial school at Geneva, and
the city o-icers have established a
quarantine over all inmates and EN-.
ployes.
Poultry fanciers of West Point met
at the city hall and organized the
West Point poultry and pet stock asso-
citation. It was agreed to hold the an
nual poultry show January 10, IA
and Is.
William Bachman, one Of the old
conductors Of the Burlington. died at
Alliance Of pneumonia, after q linger.
ing illness Of about three weeks. The
remains were taken to Glenwood, Ia,
for burial.
Two mor alleged crooks who are
thought to have been implicated in the
robbery Of two stores at Diller and
Steele CITY were arrested in a room
Ing house at Wymore and taken to
Fairbury and lodged in Jail.
In district court at Portsmouth
Judge Fl. d Travis sentenced Matt
Bozarth to serve In the state peni-
Tertiary during his natural life. Bo-
Earth killed James Dyer by stabbing
him on the street In Greenwood on Oc-
tober 6.
In district court at McCook william
Jeffries, the well known horseman OF
this city. secured q verdict for $500
In his suit LOT damages against the
Burlington Railroad company for In.
juries, to his fast horses In shipment
and delays.
man named Thompson from
Brown county has written Mr.. Nor.
resey. an attorney Of Valentine. want
Ing him to have a certain deed can
celed, claiming It Is q forgery. The
deed Is made out to n Sutton. who
is not known in Valentine.
A Lincoln correspondent says 1t
will be a "show-me" session of the
Nebraska legislature which begins Its
~thirty-hrst session at noon Of next
New Years day. Every individual
and every institution that wants an
appropriation will. have to put up q
pretty good reason for the need OF
that appropriation to get away with
the goods.
William Tape, q farmer "a years
old, living half q mile northwest OF
Benson. shot and probably fatally
wounded himself. The shooting oc-
Cured In the preesnce Of Tapes wife
and while the frantic woman was
struggling with her husband to pre-.
vent the deed. Tape had OF haze been
drinking heavily.
At Central City w. A. Hughes has
rendered his resignation az secretary
Of the local Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION. the resignation has been &C
cepted by the board Of directors and
his has been chosen In the
person of r. l. Mcmillan Of Crete, q
graduate Of Doane college and one oil
the state secretaries.
With q d~eafening roar and withou,
q seconds warning the concrete dam
ACROSS the Little Blue river at the
Fairbury roller mills went out. The
first sign Of q weakness In the dam
was noticed when a sixteen-foot sec
lion broke loose and was showed down
the stream twenty feet. Tho loss I.
estimated at from $4,000 to $1,000.
The sheriff Of Grant county arrived
In Chappell after Will Henderson Of
Oshkosh. who had been arrested from
q circular sent out by the Grant coun'
ty sheriff. offering a reward Of $50 foI
his apprehension. Henderson ia
charged with a criminal assault on a
young woman near Hyannis and a'sc
with burglaria.ng the premises after
the assault.
Thomas L. Hisgen. late candidate
for president on the Independence
league ticket, Go going to ask the legis
lature OF Massachusetts, TO enact one
of Nebraska's laws. Mr.. Hisgen has
written Secretary Of State Junkin for
a copy of the law enacted last winter
which prohibits the selling Of any com
modify at a different price In n place
than In another, freight rates being
considered.
Cummings g. Pease OF Beatrice filed
a damage suit Of $103.07 against the
Burlington railroad for failure Of the
A. lfA- $685. -