The Columbus journal., 1909-03-03

NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
items Of Interest Taken From Here
and There Over the State.
I! Sheriff Bauman of Dodge county. re-
ceived a telegram from the sheriff
at Rochester, N. Y, to hold Rainbodt.
alias Davis, for forgery.
Mrs. Anna Jenkins of Clearwater,
was before the board of insanity in
Antelope county, and committed to the
Norfolk asylum.
An electric light franchise was
granted by the town council of SCOTS
Bluff to Clarence ]. Morley of Denver
and James c. Game of Salida, Colo.
The new Christian church at Fair
| field was dedicated last Sunday. 1t
takes the place of the building de-
stroyed by cyclone in June last. The
structure cost $4,000.
The State Railway commission is
sued an order permitting the Auburn
Telephone company to charge SLIPS
for individual service, the former rate
being 81 for individual service at first.
A. Benjamin of Arapahoe, had pub
lie sale of car of mules in Humboldt
which averaged better than $4O5 per
span, the highest price paid for one
span was $500.
The grain growers association of
Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma have
chosen Hastings as the headquarters
for the organization and have opened
their rooms there.
1t is reported that proposition is
being considered by the Union Pacific
whereby another motor is to be added
for the run between Beatrice and Lin
coin.
An express car on the west bound
Burlington train caught fire while the
train was between the towns of Chalco
and Gretna and burned, with practical
ly all its contents.
The HYGIENE dairy at Fairbury was
broken into by burglars, but the bur-
glars found themselves locked in the
refrigerator after gaining ingress to
the building and were unable to go
further.
A telegram was received in Nebras-
ka City telling of the death Of Miss
Anna McMeachen at Kansas City.
where she has been i'll for some time.
The deceased was one of the pioneer
settlers of OtOe county.
At the front door of the court house
in Plattsmouth Attorney c. A. Rawls
sol dat referees sale 1O4 acres of
land adjoining the town of Union be-
longing to the Joshua Lynn estate for
$4,000, or a little over S1O4 per acre.
Two boys. aged 13 and Is. who ran
away from the orphans home at At
Gibson. Kas.. have been in charge of
City Marshal Vaughn of Fort Calhoun
for some time Mr.. Rokes of Atchi-
son arrived and took them home.
Churches. led ges. schools, clubs.
places of amusement and all other
public gatherings of adults or children
in Gothenburg have been placed under
a ban by proclamation issued by the
Board of Health in an effort to stop
the ravages of scarlet fever.
The Young Mems Christian associa-
ton in state convention at Hastings
unanimously reelected the following
officers: w. J. Hill, Lincoln. chairman:
w. o. Henry, Omaha. vice chairman;
E. c. Babcock. Omaha, secretary; NJ.
c. Steele. Omaha, treasurer.
Senator Alex Laverty Of Saunders
county received Information from |
Colonel Gardner Of Fort Crook that |
the government would lease a tract |
for the purposes CT rifle range. This
is the range used by the state troops. |
Word YVES just received in Blooming |
tor that Happy" Nelson, young |
farmer living with his older brother |
four miles east Of Center. was killed in
a runaway. Young Nelson had taken
his brother to Creighton to catch a
his team became unmanageable and
ran away.
Mrs. Mary r. Stokes, widow of Ed
ward d. Stokes, who was found dead
ON the Scissor farm, north of Aims
worth, January Is. with a wagon box
across his neck, has begun suit against
Ben H. Able and Jesse D. Birdsall,
two salOonkepers and the Lion Bond
ing and Surety company and the
Bankers Surety company for $4,000.
The body OF Elmer Chart, aged %
who had been missing since February
8. was found Tuesday under a drift
near Ponca creek within fifty feet of
the main street of the town of Lynch.
He had lost his way and persisted in
the severe blizzard of two weeks
a 90.
A dispatch was received in Hastings
stating that the Mrs. Thomas Cooper
who was murdered in her home in
Chicago recently four days after her
was a Miss Ida CTess, form
erly of Hastings. Inquiry develops
he fact that the murdered woman did
i've in that city and that she married
! man named Carl Miller in 1905. He
vas carpenter by trade and later
moved to Pauline.
Acting under the direction of the
BOARD of trustees of the Child Saving
institute of Omaha, the building COM ,
nittee, of which Rome Miller is chair
nan. has opened headquarters at the
Hotel Rome, room 30. parlor floor.
where the active campaign work will
,e conducted for the raising of the
TX OOO b,,;1d;pr fund for tho |