The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1908-06-10
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES
Items Of Greater or Lesser lmpor
lance Over the State.

Adams voted Is to .2S In favor OF
an issue of $4,000 in bonds for the
erection of a school house.
The saloon fight at Leshara has
been won by the liquor element. the
town board having granted a license
for one saloon.
County Judge G. C.. Marshall of
Washington county has announced his
intention Of resigning his office, to
take effect July !. He has bought an
interest in the Arlington State bank
at Arlington.
John Smith. a Burlington detec-
tive, has been at Wymore investigat-
ing the disappearance of grain from
the cars while in the yards, and as a
consequence warrants will be issued
for the arrest of several persons.
A number of farmers in Cass coun-
ty have recently been swindled by a
well dressed and good talking insur-
ance agent, who claimed to be repre-
senting the Bankers Accident Insur-
ance company, and would collect and
receipt for the premium on the policy.
The fees collected by Secretary o:
State Junkin during May aggregate
$4,2O5.69. This is about double the
usual amount and far exceeds the
$4,000 estimate for two years made
by the secretary of state when the
fees of his Office were increased by
legislative enactment. The 81 fee for
motor vehicles during the month
amounted to $354.2O.
The general opinion seems to be
that Nebraska has a chance to make
an excellent showing at the Grand
American handicap. to be held at Co
lumbus, O., June % to 26. At the
state shoot a series of records were
made that cannot be duplicated in any
other state. fifty-fOur Of the men en-
tering making score On 600 birds, or
better than 81 per cent.
Mr.. Croker, a weil-to-dO farmer liv-
ing about ten miles southwest of Nc
Cook, threw himself head foremost
and fifteen feet deep. en- his farm and
was instantly killed. He leaves wife
and seven children. He had hallu-
cination that the world was about to
come to an end, and sought to defeat
the foreclosure by suicide route.
A petition literally signed by citi-
zens of Knoxville, Tenn. has been
filed with Governor Sheldon, asking
for the release of ALDER Crigger, SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for two and
a half years from Red Willow county
for horse stealing. The petition says
Crigger is the sole support of an aged
father and mother, is only % years old
and owes his predicament to bad COM
pany.
Opinion seems to differ among the
farmers of this section. says a Fair
bury dispatch. in regard to the cOndi-
ton of the wheat crop since the re-
cent heavy rains. Some contend that
wheat has been damaged, while others
hold to the belief that no damage has
been done unless the sun comes out
follow the soaking CAUSED by Nle
rains.
Mrs. John Knox of Palmyra is at the
Pasteur institute in Chicago under
treatment for rabies communicated
by a pet cat. The cat was house
hold pet and was kept in the house
all of the time. While Mrs. Knox had
it on her lap stroking its back the
cat suddenly sank its teeth deep into
her right hand: Her hand began to
swell and she was advised to at once
go to the Pasteur institute.
The season for destructive storms
is at hand. WIND and LIGHTNING
will destroy and damage buildings and
kill and MAIN stock in barns and
pastures. Protect yourself by insur-
ing them in the Nebraska Mutual ins.
Co., home Office, 141 South Twelfth
street, Lincoln, Neb. Write us for
particulars.
One of the oldest farmers in New
York county, who has watched the
great improvement made in recent
years in the preparation and plan:-
ing of corn by York county farmers,
stated that never before has he seen
farmers pay so much attention to the
preparation of corn ground and that
the seed this year is the best. Owing
to the great work done in preparing
the corn ground and the fine rains of
which every ounce of water was
soaked in and is still held in the sub
soil. the prospects have never been
better.
Nebraska crop bulletin says: The
week was cool and cloudy. with an
excess of rain in most parts of the
state. The daily mean temperature
was between 60 degrees and Ga de-
grees in the eastern and southern
counties. which is two to three de-
grees below the normal. But in the
northwestern counties 1t was about
Sc degrees, which is six degrees below
the normal Tuesday was the warm
est day, with a maximum temperature
quite generally above S. degrees. Fri
day and Saturday mornings were the
coolest. with minimum temperatures
about so degrees in the eastern Sec
lions and five to ten degrees colder
in the western.
Eli A. Barnes, the newly elected
commander of the G. A. R., depart
ment of Nebraska. has reappointed A.
n. Trimble assistant adjutant general
and Quartermaster general and has
sent his first official orders to the
posts in the state.
According to the report of the coun-
~ rocordor If Ofoe comfy there were