The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-12-23
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
Items OF Greater or Lesser 1mpor.
lance Over the State.

Items OF Greater or Lesser Impor-
lance Over the State.
Broken Bow. amid much enthusl-
asm. organized q commercial club.
The Union Stock Yards company at
South Omaha has reelected all its
old officers.
The Gage County Farmers lns'i-
tue will be held in Beatrice January q
and 1909.
Contractors installing sewer work
at David City have stopped operations
until spring.
C. E. 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 81 600 and $4,000 are
shortly to be made in the plant OF the
Central City gas company with view
to improving the service.
The only -four mil in Kearney coun-
ty was destroyed by fire at Minden.
1t was the property of A. D. Andrews
& Sons and was estimated to be worth
from $4,000 to $4,000.
Scarlet fever has broken out in the
girls industrial school at Geneva, and
the city officers have established
quarantine over all inmates and en-
ployes.
Farmers should all have telephones.
Write to us and learn how to get the
best service for the least money. Ne
braska Telephone Company, 18th and
Douglas streets, Omaha. use the
Bell"
Poultry fanciers Of West Point met
at the city hall and organized the
West Point poultry and pet stock asso-
citation. 1t was agreed to hold the an
nual poultry show January Is, IA
and Is.
William Bachman, one OF the old
conductors of the Burlington. died at
Alliance of pneumonia, after a hnger-
ing illness of about three weeks. Inc
remains were taken to GlenwOOd, la !,
for burial.
Two more alleged crooks who are
thought to have been implicated in the
robbery of two stores at Diller and
Steele City were arrested in room
ing house at Wymore and taken to
Fairbury and lodged in Jail.
In district court at P-attsmouth
Judge H. D. Travis sentenced Matt
Bozarth to serve in the state peni-
Tertiary during his natural life. Bo-
Earth killed James Dyer by stabbins
him on the street in Greenwood on Oc-
tober 6.
In district court at McCOok William
Jeffries, the we'll known hOrseman OF
this city, secured a verdict for 1920
in his suit Tor damages against the
Burlington Railroad company for in
juries to his fast horses in shipment
and delays.
A man named Thompson from
Brown county has written Mr.. Nor
resey. an attorney of Valentine, want
ing him to have certain deed can
celed. claiming it is a forgery. The
deed is made out to one Sutton, VINO
is not known in Valentine.
A Lincoln correspondent says II
will be "show-me" session of the
Nebraska legislature which begins its
thirty-first session at noon of next
New Years day Every individual
and every institution that wants an
appropriation will have to put up a
pretty good reason for the need OF
that appropriation to get away with
the goods.
At Central City w. A. Hughes has
rendered his resignation as secretary
of the local Young Mems Christian as
sCciation. the resignation has been ac-
cepted by the board OF directors and
his successor has been chosen in the
person of II. L. Mcmillan of Crete. a
graduate of Doane college and oneof
the state secretaries.
With a deafening roar and without
a seconds warning the concrete dam
across the Little Blue river at the
Fairbury roller mills went out. The
first sign of a weakness in the dam
was noticed when a sixteen-fOOt Sec
ton broke loose and was showed down
the stream twenty feet. The loss is
estimated at from $4,000 to $4,000.
The sheriff of Grant county arrived
in Chappel after Will Henderson OF
Oshkosh, who had been arrested from
circular sent out by the Grant coun-
ty sheriff, Offering a reward OF $50 Tor
his apprehension. Henderson IS
charged with a criminal assault on
young woman near Hyannis and a':o
with burglariz:ng the premises after
the assault.
Thomas L. Hisgen, late candidate
for president on the Independence
league ticket, Is 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 CODY of the law enacted last winter
which prohibits the selling Of any com
modify at different price in one place
than in another. freight rates being
considered.
Cummings & Pease of Beatrice filed
a damage suit of $1O3.O7 against the
Burlington railroad for failure of the
company to deliver several cars OF
cattle at Kansas City at the specified
time. The plaintiffs allege that their
cattle did not arrive in time for the
morning markets. that they were
obliged to buy extra feed and bedding
| and that the cattle suffered an extra
shrinkage of thirty pounds per head
| hence the suit.
| Postmaster HolHngworth has re
! ceiyed word from Senator e. ]. Bur
! kett and Congressman E. H. Hinshaw
! to the effect that prospects are bright