The Columbus journal., 1909-08-11
MEsRAskA NEWS AND Nore&

NEBRAskA- NEWS AND NOTES.
items Of Interest Taken From Herr
and There Over the state.
Hastings Chautauqua opened with
an attendance Of 5000.
Grand Island Is busy with work Of
paving the streets.
A special election was held in Val.
ley on the proposition to issue $1,000
In 5 per cent twenty-year bonds tc.
construct q water plant. The issue
was approved by . vote Of lis to q.
Edgar Stanley. one of the best
known young men in Lancaster coun
ty. killed himself near Lincoln. He
left note saying he did not care tc
live longer.
Omaha is to be equipped with .
wireless telegraph and telephone sta
ton available for all commercial uses
The. new plant viii be in operation
about January 1.
Carl Bek has Just purchased thirty
acres Of land from Philip Spohn. pay
ing $4,000 for it. The land is the
highest in price that has been. sold
for long time.
Mrs. Jennie Beck Of Clatonia. Gage
county, filed a complaint against kei
husband. Joseph Beck. charging him
with wife desertion. Sheriff Trude
has gone to Pierre, S. D., to bring him
back.
Mrs. Elizabeth Harpster, an old res
ident Of Liberty. Gage county. COM
mitted suicide at the home of her
daughter at that place by hanging
herself. Ill health is assigned as the
cause.
County School Superintendent vogl-
lance has completed q report which,
among other things. shows the school
population Of Colfax county to be
4.046 for 1909. This is a little less
than last year.
The immense wheat crop In Cass
county is being threshed and marketed.
The farmers are taking advantage of
the high prices and turning the crops
into cash at once. The promise of a
big corn crop is fiattering.
Rev. John Wilt of the Avenue Meth
odist Episcopal church of Auburn. has
undertaken the task of securing a par.
don for J. p. Cohoe. who was sent to
the penitentiary from Nemaha county
for appropriating money he found, but
which he knew belonged to the estate
OF JOsph Ulbricht. Mr.. COhOe is in
failing health.
Horace Hunter. living near Harvard
died from the effects of an injury re-
ceived while raking scatterings in the
wheat field. In fighting flies his
horses got over the tongue, breaking
It. then running away and throwing
Mr.. Hunter several feet, dislocating
his shoulder and causing internal in.
jurier.
The heat last Thursday. says a Ne
braska City dispatch. was the most in
tense that has been felt in this section
during the season. It was so hot that
in places farmers lost their stock. One
man on the east side of the river lost
fourteen head in one pasture, despite
the fact that he had plenty of water
and shade.
\ young man named Henry Damon
has been arrested at West Point on a
charge of forging and uttering a num-
Ter of checks upon local merchants.
The checks were drawn upon the FIRST
National bank of Beemer and were for
sums ranging from IS to S. The
names of August Gardels and Ed Gal
lagher. we'll known farmers. were
signed to the checks
Attorneys for the railroads will ask
the state railway commission to post
p0ne either the date for taking testi-
mony in the 2-cent fare case or the
class rate schedules. Both of the
hearings are set for the latter part of
August and the first of September and
the railroad attorneys want one de-
layed until the other is out of the
way.
John Dawson. a special attorney for
the Kansas railway commission. called
on Attorney General Thompson to ask
him about the 2-cent fare litigation in
which Nebraska and the various rail-
roads are interested. Kansas. Mr.
Dawson said. was holding back wait
ing for q decision in the Nebraska
case though he was not sure that the
in this state would be &C.
copied by Kansas.
A second vein of coal. measuring |
seven feet thick. was struck by the |
drillers of the Bloomfield Gas & Oil |
company. After leaving the first vein. |
which was six feet thick. the drill |
passed through about five feet of rock |
then striking the second stratum of
coal. After leaving this stratum the !
1rill passed through eight feet of rock
and dry clay, when the third vein Of
coal was struck.
Word has been received at Beatrice
that Frank T. Wagner, a former Beat
rice resident, was sentenced at Madi-
son. Wis. to three years In the peni-
for giving perjured testimony
before the senatorial investigation
Before leaving Beatrice
Wagner took an active part in politics,
being strongly identified with the
Farmers Alliance and populist move
ments.
Everett Buckingham and C. c. Rose
water of Omaha returned from Chi
cago where they went in the interest
of the National Corn exposition. TAX
ng up the matter of railroad co-opera-
ion. The response has been all that
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