The Columbus journal., 1908-08-12
MEsRAskA NEWS AND NOTES.

NEsRAskA NEWS AND NOTES
Items Of Greater Or Lesser lmpor
lance Over the 9tate.
\ Charley Landreth Of Oconto. 1s years
old. was thrown from . horse and In
stantly killed.
The annual Gage County Teachers
institute will be held In Beatrice
August - to %.
A bank has been organized at
Crookston. small town west Of Val
entine. 1t is capitalized at $4,000.
The sixteenth annual reunion Of the
Old Settlers association of Cherry and
Keya Paha counties viii be held at
Sparks. Neb.
The village board Of trustees Cf
Brainerd recently levied an Occupa-
ton tax on nearly every line of busi-
ness In the town.
The people of Cook. Johnson county.
will call . special election to vote
bonds In the sum Of $4,000 for . new
brick school house.
Wayne's second annual chautauQua
assembly is closed. The session last
ed eight days and was a complete sue
cess. All expenses were met by 70
ceipts.
The Cedar county fair will be held
September 16, II and Is. The summer
races were held July and 4. and the
fall fair will be devoted mostly to ex-
hibits.
The executive committee Of the
Cunning County Old Settlers associa-
ton has fixed upon Thursday. August
~. as the date for the annual picnic
and reunion.
A stock company to promote a
creamery enterprise has been organ
lied at Crab Orchard and a sufficient
amount Of stock sold to warrant the
establishment of plant.
George Buchli.a well to do farmer
living couple of miles west of Powell,
in Jefferson county. committed suicide
by shooting himself There was ap-
parently no cause for the act.
State Superintendent ]. McBrien
and his family have been visiting
Johnson county relatives. The super
intendent says the story that has gone
out Of the shortage Of teachers in Ne
braska is not correct.
Threshing has commenced in the vi.
cinity Of Sutherland. Much wheat
will run about forty bushels, and oats
will 60 as high as sixty bushels TO
the acre. Corn is considered by the
farmers to be made
The real estate belonging to Andrew
Higgins Of Nemaha county. who was
killed some time ago in a runaway.
has been divided among the three
sons and one daughter. There were
about 900 acres of land.
At the recent special school cleo
ton in. Sutherland. bonds to the
amount of $500 were voted. This
sum is to 60 toward installing q heat
ing plant in the school building and
building two-room addition.
The telegraph instruments have
been taken out Of the station at LUSH
ton without notice. The patrons of
the Burlington route say they will not
submit to what they call an outrage.
The railroad business Of the place is
So. 900 a year.
Mrs. Oliver Starkey, who was shot
by her husband near Palmer. Is be-
lieved to be on the road to recovery.
Although her side was riddled with
birdshot. she has shown remarkable re-
operative powers. It Is feared though
that she will lose one Of her arms.
While Charles Dendinger and George
Porter were working on the top of |
Bcaffold around hay stacker in Cedar
the machine fell with them. |
Porter fell underneath the timbers
He was badly crushed and 1t is thought |
he will not recover. The other man !
vas baby bruised.
At st. Paul information was filed
against Oliver Starkey, charging him
with assault with intent to kill his d.
vorced wife recently in Gage Valley.
Howard county. The complaint was
He'd by Miss E Scott, q sister of the
injured woman. Starkey waived exa.
and was bound over to the
next November term of the district
CURT
Two men. Joy Wright and George
Fogis, members Of the national guard.
encamped near Ashland. were drowned
10 the Platte river. Both were men,
bers Of Company C, N. N. G.. Of Ne
braska City. The drowned are George
Nogis. aged 81, a farmer living near
Nebraska City. and Joy Wright, a
:lerk in a grain ONCE in that city. Both
we're born 1t that place. Neither could
swim.
Ben INLAND, . young farmer near
humboldt, reports a curiosity In the
'hape of an eyeless duck. Matched out
! few weeks since. The fowl runs
bout with the remainder Of the brood
md seems able to secure food. even
Without eyes. The freak shows abso-
utely no signs Of eyes, lashes or cavi-
les. but Is otherwise q perfectly
ormed fowl.
A coyote scalp swindle has been
rought out in Buffalo county by
|heriR Sammons. John Bacon. janitor
t court house, Lloyd Deets. Abe Swim
er and nine accmplices have been ar
ested and given preliminary hearings
nd all except one have pleaded guilty.
Iacon secured scalps from the county
Jerks ONCE and hid them in the
oiler room and Deets and Swinyer
7ould get same and resell them at