The Columbus journal., 1909-10-06
hEsRAsxA NEWS AND NOTES.
items 81 Interest Taken From Here
and There over the stats.
THE MIDWEST LIFE

and There over the stata.
THE MIDWEST LIFE.
II costs for life Insurance Just as
it does for other things, for groceries
or clothing. Because a man Is not
dead at the end of the first, third or
tenth year does not signify that the
company Is ahead the premiums paid
it. Some have died during these years
and it has taken a part of the pre-
miums paid by those still living to
pay the death claims. No one who
dies in the first few years his policy
IL in force has paid the company any
thing like the amount 1t pays his
beneficiaries. That will be apparent
to all on reflection. Life insurance
companies are great equalizers. They
collect small sums from many and pay
large sums to the benefciaries Of the
dead. or to the policyholders them
selves in case of endowment policies.
The Midwest Life issues all the
standard forms of life and endowment
policies at reasonable rates. The Mid
west Life is an old line Nebraska COM
pany. Home Office 1907 20" street.
Lincoln. Write for an agency.
Andrew Meyers, the college ball
player. who was struck by a ball at
Seward, died from his injuries.
A man giving the name of Hans
Jargensen and claiming to come from
Omaha, who has been working for q
farmer north of Nebraska City for
about thirty days, tried to hang HIM
self and then begged someone to
shoot him.
The Western Union Telegraph conf
pany has appealed to the supreme
court from the decision of the dis
trict court of Lancaster, witch as
sessed the corporation 500 and costs
for changing its rates without author
ity of the state railway commission.
Attorney General Thompson is
highly pleased with the opinion rem
dered by the supreme court in the
Sibley express case, whereby the ex-
press companies are enjOined from
charging more than Is per cent of
the rates in effect January 1, 1907.
The Nebraska Bankers association
has offered a reward of 1900 for the
arrest and conviction of the person
or persons who broke into a local
bank at Ashton. Eleven dollars in
change was said to have been taken.
The two vault doors were blown open.
Robert Dorgan, deputy internal rev.
enue collector, was in Beatrice scan
ming the records in the county clerks
Office for the purpose of ascertaining
the number of corporations in the
county subject to the excise tax fea-
ture of the tariff law passed by the
recent session of congress.
Robert Dunn, young man about
% years old, farm laborer working
for Harry Desmore, residing a mile
northeast of Elmwood. committed sui
eide by shooting himself in the head.
No motive can be found for the act,
as he was a well-to-do young man Of
pleasing address.
Frank Reynolds, Jr., living east Of
Arlington, has a fine crop of sugar
cane. This crop was planted about
June 1 and is now out of frosts' way.
Mr.. Reynolds also has some fine to-
baccO and has successfully grown cot
ton and stands ready to prove that
Nebraska can grow any crop.
Eunice, the 3-year-old daughter of
Emil Nelson, living east of Oakland.
strayed into yard in which young
colt had been turned loose. The lit
tie girl approached too near the ami
NAL and it turned suddenly and kicked
her in the forehead. The frontal bone
was badly shattered from the blow.
She will probably die from her injur-
les.
Sheriff Horace Kennedy of Custer
county returned from Lebanon, Mo-.
bringing with him F. E. Parker, who
is wanted on the charge of obtaining
money and goods under false pre-
lenses. Parker had been serving a
sentence of 100 days in Jail at that
place on a smaller charge and was
brought to Nebraska on requisitiOn
from the governor of Missouri.
The large number of apples which
were blown from the trees in OtOe
county during the recent storm are
being hauled to the vinegar works. |
where they are being made up into |
cider and vinegar. This company has |
nearly all of the apples it can handle |
daily and expects to be able to make
like 1000 barrels of vine |
gar this season.
Twenty-one states have already con- |
tracted for space at the National Corn |
exposition and will install education |
al exhibits. Each exhibit at Omaha |
will demonstrate some special feature |
of agricultural development and ex-
perimental work. In a spectacular
way the corn show is to be far ahead
Of last years mark and also in the
matter of educational achievements
this years exposition will eclipse that
Of 1908.
A carload of horses, the property of
NJ. w. McClennan of Echo, New, con-
signed to st. Louis, were fed at the
stock yards in Sidney and after be-
ing reloaded and waiting to be at
tached to a fast freight train the car
took fire from a locomotive on the
Union Pacic railroad, burning four of
the horses to death, seven were shot
to death on account of burns and
eight more are in precariOus condi-
lion and may have to be killed.
At the hay camp of George Hume.
located twelve miles north of Sidney
IN the Richardson ranch, Lewis Stolz.
l haymaker in Hume's employ, shot