The Columbus journal., 1909-08-25
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.

NEBRASKA NEWS AND EoTEs.
items Of Interest Taken From Hers
and There over the State.
The school levy in Hastings has
been considerably reduced.
Louisville will hold a merchants
. carnival from September 1 to 6.
The building going forward in Aims
worth amounts to a veritable boom.
Enraged because he had been Tilted
Harry Bliss of Portsmouth, Is years
old. shot and fatally wounded Miss
Minnie Clarke, aged II years.
The best yield of wheat reported &C
far in Gage county is on the farm OF
C. A. Reel. 22h acres threshing out
$50 bushels. or 80 bushels to the acre
So many cows belonging to Omaha
dairymen have been condemned by
reason of tuberculosis that the price
of milk is going to be put at ten cents
q quart.
Eta johnson, the little daughter OF
Mrs. w. ]. Johnson, living northeast
of Beatrice. died from injuries re.
ceived by being crushed against the
manager by a horse.
Ed. G. Maxfeld sold his farm
which was one and a half miles north.
east from Dorchester, to Andrew IRA.
mer for $121 an acre. This is the
highest price paid for land there for
some time.
Although uninjured. Arthur Allen,
formerly private secretary to ex-Gov.
Mickey, was passenger on the Den
yer & Rio Grande train which was
wrecked at Hustled, Colo. when nine
were killed and fifty or more injured.
H. H. Slime. a farmer living two
miles north of Hastings. was seriously
injured in a collision with an automo-
bile at the outskirts of the city. He
was driving home with his daughter,
when a touring car ran into him.
Mrs. Gertrude Seymour of Pender
received q telegram from the sheriff
at Davenport, Wash, stating that her
son, Hiram. aged 80 years, had been
killed. No details were given. and
further Information is awaited with
anxiety by the family.
The new Edholm Grain company of
Schuyler, composed of farmers. have
had such prosperous season that
they will celebrate their success by
holding picnic. A noted Chicago
and instruct.
Frank Marsh. living eight miles
northwest of Beatrice. has an orange
tree growing in his yard which will
bear considerable fruit this year. 4
branch of the tree containing about
sixty peaches the size OF plums was
exhibited in Beatrice.
SOD" Reynolds, the young man
from Humboldt, who drew No. 900 in
the Occur d'Alene land allotment, is a
son of MIR. and Mrs. /. NJ. Reynolds.
pioneers of that section. He has
spent the last few years travelling
through the west
The 7-year-old son of Henry MOelle.
of Custer county, found pistol and
some cartridges. He loaded the gun
and then by some means fired it. How
he did it is not known. for the ham,
mer of the old pistol was broken. The
bullet entered his chest, proving fatal
in few minutes.
w. G. Templeton of Omaha. secre-
tary and treasurer of the Union Loan
and Investment company, recently re-
ceived from the United States treas
ury department certificate for $14.43
for back pay due when he was sol
der of Uncle Sam during the civil
war, nearly a half century ago.
Chas. Knapp of Madison county,
charged with shooting his wife with
intent to kill. and who was bound
over until the fall term of the district
court in the sum of $4,000 bail, which
was given by his brothers. Jake and
John Knapp. has engaged the services
of Allen & Bowling of Madison to de-
fend him.
County Attorney Will G. Ramsey of
Cass county has filed a complaint in
county court charging Charles J. Ba-
ker with bigamy. 1t is charged that
Baker deserted his wife and children
at Ashtabula, O.. and came to Platts-
mouth and married Mrs. Lillian Vro-
man without first securing divorce
from his former wife.
News has reached West Point of
the death at Meeker. Okla, of Mrs.
Edgar n. Sweet. the wife of Judge
E. N. Sweet. formerly Of West Point.
The deceased was we'll known there.
hn~ h,,eh hn{U0 former county
Judge of Cunning county and the
founder Of the West Point Republican,
the oldest paper in the Eikhorn val
ley. which he established in 1870.
C.. L. Hoover, who recently re-
turned to the United States from the
Philippines. and who has been ap-
pointed United States consul to Ma
drid, Spain. is a sturdy defender OF
the work done by the Americans in
the islands The parents Of Mr.. Hoo
ver's wife live in Lincoln. and he has
spent recently some time with them.
He will sail for Spain next month,
after q short visit in Washington.
D. C.
The county board of York county.
in attempting to compel an estate to
pay taxes on property 1t claims to
have been hid and not returned for
several years. When the estate was
probated it was learned that from
$4,000 to 100000 had not been re-
turned for valuation. The county at:
torney and leading attorneys in York.
after investigating and looking up de-