The Columbus journal., 1909-12-08
aesRAskA NEWS AND NOES

NEeRAsKA NEWS AND NOES
Items u Interest Taken From Here
and There Over the State.
Recent snowfalls and rains have put
the roads of Nebraska in babe shape
York has q new industry, that Of
making cement posts.
The bank at Taylor has increased
its capital from 5000 to $4,000.
John Peatrowsky. q pioneer Of Cum
ing county, having lived therein Ovel
forty years. died last week.
Odd Fellows Of Humboldt have pur
chased ground and will erect thereon
q building for lodge purposes.
Arthur Nichols of Odessa has been
taken to the insane asylum for the
second time
The Union Depot company Of Omaha
is preparing to spend 100000 in en-
larging the station.
Citizens of Geneva turned out in
strong numbers and recognized the
Commercial club.
Woodmen day at Broken Bow was
quite successful, but would have been
better had the weather been prOpi-
| tious.
The Union Pacific railroad received
permission from the state railway
commission to put in effect one fare
rate to Omaha on the occasion of the
National Corn exposition.
The governor will appoint thirty
delegates to attend the good roads
convention at Topeka, Kas.. Deem
Der IL and 16. The meeting is ma
ti0nal in character.
Anton Christensen Of Omaha. a life
prisoner in the penitentiary for the
murder of his wife in 1907. has been
paroled by Governor Shallenberger to
his brother, C. Christensen, of South
Omaha.
Amherst schools closed on account
of scarlet fever. There is an epidemic
of this malady in the north part Of
Buffalo county and within a radius Of
ten miles from the north boundary
hardly school is running.
The discovery of fire in the labo-
ratory of the high school at Hastings
by group Of high school girls, who
promptly turned in the alarm. saved
the $4,000 school Building from de-
struction.
H. c. Young, prominent farmer
hOmesteader, living near Kimball, was
killed by his own wagon running over
him. He was on his way home with
load of coal and 1t is supposed his
team ran away, throwing him under
the wheels.
Judgment for $4,000 was confessed
In federal court by the North Platte
Water Works company in the suit in
stituted against it by the American
Water Works company. The amount
was due on work and material fur
nished by the plaintiff.
Ira Bass, young man about "a
years old, a former resident of Broken
Bow, was brought there from Dunning
suffering from gunshot wound in the
breast. He keeps a hardware store
and was examining some firearms
when the accident occurred.
Secretary Paine of the State His
torical society has received word that
James Mooney of the staff of the
American bureau of ethnology will be
present at the annual meeting of the
society in Lincoln in January and will
Mooney is one of the great authorities
on the North American Indian.
LuLher NJ. Overstreet, former York
county boy. has been promoted from
lieutenant to lieutenant commander
and according to Washington dis
patches will have charge or command
of one of the new dreadnaughts. The
promotion was earned by reason of
the best record as an officer and best
record at target practice.
Many farmers in Gage county have
filed objections with County Attorney
F. o. McGirr with reference to the
assistant state veterinarian charging
fees for inspecting dairy cattle or cat
tie shipped out of the county. Mr..
McGirr received q letter from Attor-
ney General Thompson stating that
the charges we're made according to
law.
Ed Burke Of Kansas was arrested
in Wymore for being drunk and dis
orderly. He was arraigned in Judge
Crawford's court on a charge of re-
sisting an officer and placed under
$1,000 bonds to await his preliminary
hearing. Before he could be brought
to the county Jail. however. Burke had
picked the lock of his cell and made
his escape
James Brink, who leased what is
known as musk rat slough" lying
north Of Lyons. now astonishes the
people when 1t comes to raking in
the shekels for his leasehold. What
to them appeared as q joke at the
time he leased it is now bringing him
in good income from the investment
Already. this early in the season, he
has taken over 600 musk rats from
the slough, for which he was offered
q cents by an Omaha man, and re-
fused to take less than 80 cents.
There is disease among horses in
Antelope and adjoining counties that
Is puzzling the veterinary surgeons.
The animals that have recently died
In Antelope county have been consid-
cred valuable and a heavy loss is re-
ported to the owners. Veterinary
Surgeon Matthews was called to the
farm of J. r. Nichol TO give treatment |
to three horses that had this unknown |
disease. He administered medicine of |
various kinds, but in spite of his ef-
forts they died.