The Red Cloud chief., 1908-07-17
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
Items Of Greater or Lesser impor.
tance over the state.

vicinity OF Malcolm thlng that they
have succeeded in exterminating the
Canadian thistle which recently
threatened to become such n pest
throughout the neighborhiid. The
seeds, 1t is thought, were brought In
In some eastern grass seed sowed in a
certain pasture, and grew unnoticed
for "a season.
Ninety per cent of the retailers In
Nebraska who were asked by the Dry
Goodsman and General Merchant Est.
Louis), which paper issued a prosper.
ity edition" about the business out.
look, replied that they expected to do
as much or more business for fall
than they did last year, while only
from so to rs per cent of the mer-
chants in other states gave as good as.
%surances.
Ditch matters are %engrossing the at.
tention of the Dodge county author.
tiles at present, a petition has been
filed by wner Of property lying north
Of Fremont for a ditch seven miles
long, varying from twelve to thirty
feet in width and six feet deep. The
proposed waterway will drain thou
sands of acres which the signers al
lege Is now unfit for cultivation be-
cause of an Excess of moisture.
AT the various scenes Of the wrecks
caused by the late storms, says a Ge-
neva dispatch, the debris is being
gathered, this being an arduous task.
At some of the places new barns have
already taken the place of the old. At
the Merriam farm a new barn is up
and a large new foundation for a resi-.
dence laid south of where the old
home stood. Much of the corr and
small grain on the lowlands is com.
pletely destroyed.
ID. Glenn Deaver. superintendent of
the homeseekers' information bureau
of the Burlington is arranging for the
winter trip of the exhibit car which
will be started east about September
/. The car will contain products from
Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming,
one-half the space being given TO dry
farming and the other half to irriga.
ton. Wisconsin will be added to the
territory covered by the car, which
last year visited Iowa. Illinois and
northern Missouri.
There is a lively fight on in Pleas
ant Grove school district, Otoe county,
over the removal of the school house.
At the election twenty-eight voted to
move the same and seventeen against,
but the law does not permit the mov-
ing of a school house unless 1t Is three
fourths of a mile from the center of
the district and both sides will have
surveyors out there to ascertain just
how neal the center of the district 1t
Is located and may call another cleo
ton to decide the matter.
A feature of the Fourth of July Gel.
ebration at North Platte was the pub.
! lie wedding at high noon of Joseph
Beirbower and Mrs. Walling, which
was witnessed by several thousand.
The ceremony vas performed by
| Justice Grimes of the district court on
n of the main streets Of the city.
| The groom was married with his hat
on. The couple were the recipients
of many and various gifts which had
been offered to the couple that would
get married on this occasion.
an behalf of the Territorial Pho.
neers of Nebraska | want to urge all
the officers and members of the Coun-
ty Pioneer associations to make a
special effort to get as many Of their
members and others to join the state
association Of Nebraska Pioneers
said President A. N. Yost of the Ne.
braska Pioneers at Omaha. IL would
like also, to see a pioneer organiza'
ton in every county In this state, and
there Is no reason why there should
not be. All 1t costs to organize Is an
The state board of purchase and
supplies invested in 1900 pounds OF
tobacco for the consumption Of con
victs at the state penitentiary. Only
sixty-one pounds was bought for the
inmates of the Lincoln hospital for
the insane Battle AK chewing tobac
co amounting to $50 opunds and fifty
pounds Of Dukes Mixture were pur
chased for the Norfolk asylum. The
Hastings asylum will receive SOC
pounds. The members of the Grand
Island soldiers and sailors home will
receive six gallons of whisky, four gal
Ions Of brandy and two gallons of port
all of which cost $23.40.
The total fatalities from the disas
trous wreck on the Northwestern line
near Clinton, a small station west Of
Valentine, has now reached thirteen
of which four were train man an(
nine were tramps, who were beating
their way, and officials say there MAJ
be more bodies buried beneath tn,
enormous piles of coal. The spo
where the culvert was washed ava,
has never been known to contain
more than a foot of water at a tim,
and when the double header plunged
into the hole 1t was filled with min,
feet of water.