The Red Cloud chief., 1909-08-12
NEBRASKA HAPPENINGS.
State News and Notes In Condensed
Form.

Be sure and see Paines battle In
| the clouds. at the state fair.
County School Superintendent Vogl.
lance has completed report which
among other things shows the school
| population of Colfax county to be g..
| O46 for 1909 This Is little less
! than last year.
Liberatti's great band Is to be pres.
ent and furnish music at the state
fair. This feature alone is worth go.
ing across the state to hear.
Mrs. Elizabeth Harpster committed
suicide by hanging herself at the home
OF her daughter near Liberty at noon
Saturday. The loss of her husband
and i'll health are supposed to have
| deranged her mind.
Western league baseball Is one OF
the attractions at the Nebraska state
fair
Joseph Morrow, an Italian laborer
of Wisner, has been bound over to
the district court under a 81 900 bond
on a charge of stabbing William
Geisch, a fellow workman. and is now
III JAIL Ill uetdhlt OF pail.
Five state bands have been engaged
to furnish music at the state fair.
Charged with forging the name of
Grover Smith TO "a check for $10.50,
Clyde Peters. twenty.one years old,
of Fremont. was bound over to the
district court. Peters pleaded guilty
TO the charge.
The Cherry county W. &. T. L. held
its annual cosvention at Crookston
this week. There was good repre-.
sentation Of the unions in that county
The treasurer's report gives the
amount received for county work at
Sl,O6S0S and the disbursements at
sl,06l45.
Fourteen harness races, the Ne.
braska Derby and a number OF run.
ming races are part OF the speed
program at the Nebraska state fair.
fine new pipe organ has been In.
stalled in the Congregational church
of Seward. A union meeting Of the
churches of the city was held there
Tuesday night and the large audience
listened appreciatively to the music,
1t being the opening night for the
organ.
Three cents per mile for the round
trip where the fare exceeds one dol.
lar. is the rate made by all railroads
for the Nebraska state fair
For the first time In several weeks
the Fremont city Jail is empty. The
police have been making crusade
to rid the city of an undesirable Gle.
ment and they believe their efforts
have proven successful Several
women and men have been deported
within the last fortnight.
The Nebraska state fair. Lincoln,
September d to 10. 1909.
Nebraska City boasts of the Oldest
officer in the state. in Constable Rich.
ard Vitte. who has served in that Of
flee for the past ten years He Ia
eighty.three years of age and very
spry. Last year he walked from
Horton, Kansas. to Lincoln on
wager and often takes jaunt of ten
and twelve miles.
NJ. l.. Frady. proprietor of the Mer.
chants hotel at Tobias, passed away
at o'clock Saturday morning as
result of hemorrhage. His death
was unexpected as he was working
around the Office just prior to the at
tack. Mr.. Frady has been conducting
the hotel for the last eighteen months.
Hs came from Omaha.
President William II. Taft will visit
Omaha Monday, September 90, arriv.
Ing at 4:30 In the afternoon and re.
naming until II o'clock that even.
Ing, This word came to Omaha Wen.
nesday in kilograms from Senators
Burkett and Brown. who had taken
breakfast with the president. and to
whom he announced his intention OF
paying Omaha one more visit.
The York Gas and Electric. company
is installing a large 4S0horse.power
boiler, the largest ever seen in York.
A smokestack $50 feet high Is to be
erected In the near future.
Steve Startling, an old resident OF
Beatrice. was found dead in bed We'd
nesday morning al the home of G. RI.
Kelley, where he has been living
while in the city.
Samuel Parks of the Mayberry
neighborhood fell from heavily
loaded wagon, the wheels OF which
passed over his body. crushing his
lungs, breaking his leg and bruising
his shoulder blade. He will recover
Owing to the increased business on
the Rock Island at Fairbury, several
additional firemen have been en-
ployed on the extra" board in order
TO keep the business moving.
Potato bugs are doing heavy dam.
age In Dodge county. Farmers from
some sections declare their patches OF
potatoes look as though they had
been swept over by a prairie fire.
The negro people of Fremont cele.
brated the anniversary of Former
President Lincolns declaration that
he would issue the emancipation proc.