The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-24

Harry Schiller and BOYD Brakeman
Will leave Saturday for Neigh to
spend sunday /
Earl Fairbanks was in the city to. !
day to take the examination for /
freight brakeman.
The Rosebud cowboy base ball team
passed through the Junction Friday
noon on their way TO Fremont.
A large party of Indians passed
through the city Friday noon from
the Rosebud reservation enroute for
Sioux City
County Superintendent Perdue OF
Madison and Couny superintendent
pilger of Pierce were in Norfolk Fri
day, returning from Wayne college,
where they are on the summer faculty,
for a Sunday visit at home.
Sam Reynolds leaves in the morn
ing for Hot Springs, Va, on three
weeks vacation from his work as chief
night train dispatcher at the Norfolk
Offices of the Northwestern. Mr..
Reynolds old home Is near Richmond,
Va, and he will spend much of his
time with relatives and old friends.
Hot Springs Just now is the temporary
abode of William II. Taft, the repub-
lican nominee for president.
Conductor w. S. Fox moved into
his new home on Koenigsten avenue
Thursday.
c. T.. Buckley of Lyons, salesman
for the Lincoln Paper and Bag com
pany has come to Norfolk to live.
Charles f. Bentley, cashier of the
First National bank OF Grand Island,
who died this week in Grand Island,
was well known among the bankers
of north Nebraska.
Rev. j. l.. Headbloom brought his
family from Stromsburg to the city
Thursday. Mr.. Headbloom is the pas
tor of the Baptist church and will oc-
cupy the parsonage.
Madison Chronicle: Three Wills
were admitted to probate without
opposition last week. The will OF
Mrs. Anna Luikart OF Norfolk was ad.
mitted to probate on Monday. Burt
Mapes appeared in this case for the
minor heirs. On Wednesday the will
of Denis Sullivan of Meadow Grove
was entered for probate and on
Thursday the will of Wilke Dierks,
who died recently in this city.
Pierce Call: Chas. Kirstine informs
us that he sold his half section farm
in Mills precinct last month to Henry
Hasenphug of Norfolk. The considera-
ton was $4,000 Mr.. Kirstine receiving
residence property at Norfolk in the
trade. One quarter section was Mr..
Kirstine's homestead which he set
tied on twenty-four years ago. He
informs us that he will dispose of his
Norfolk property and buy property
in Pierce as he wants to spend the
remainder of his years among old
friends and neighbors.
Gov Sheldon has posted a state re-
ward of 500 for the arrest of Ralph
Nieman, charged with killing Emile
Sandoz, ST., of Sheridan county on
July g. The county has offered a re-
ward of $3.50. Nieman is said to
have gone to SandoZ' ranch, twenty
miles south of Rushville, engaged
SandoZ in conversation, and then in
the presence of his wife and children,
to have killed him by shooting him
three times with a revolver. Nieman
was seen at dark that evening and
nothing has been heard of him since.
Madison Chronicle: Mayor Stur-
geon, of Norfolk, concluded a deal
whereby he became owner OF the
stock of goods known as the Racket
store in this city. This stock includes
a line of millinery goods. Mr.. Stur-
geon, at the time of the purchase in
tended to move the stock to Norfolk
but has since decided to continue the
business here for few months at
least. |. Catln, who has been in
Mr.. Surgeons employ for a number
of years is managing the business at
present A competent milliner VIII
be here this week to take charge OF
that part of the business.
Osmond Republican: Beef steers
was secured by w. n. Butterfield, OF
the Elkhorn ranch at Magnet, for a
string Of sixty-eight head of beeves
that weighed 1852 pounds. 1t is the
highest price ever paid on the Sioux
City market for corn red beeves. The
next highest was sS05 on July %
1902. The cattle were purchased by
the Cudahy Packing company and
netted Mr.. Butterfield $l25.7l per ami
NAL, $40 more per head than was ever
secured by any feeder on the Sioux
City market. When the bunch, BOO
head are marketed he will receive al
most $4,000. These cattle were
placed in the feed lot on October 2S
1907. Their rations was snapped corr
to start with and were finished with
shelled corn, alfalfa and prairie hay
BRYAN Club at HARRINGTON.