The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1909-07-28
nEsRAskA NEWS AND NOTES.

/, NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
Items o. Interest Taken From Hers
and There Over the stats.
The tenth annual session of the
Fullerton Chautauqua assembly viii
open In Fuller Park, Aug. Il.
The First Regiment band. Nebrasks
National Guard. of Bloomfield, left fol
Ashland. Neb.. for the ten days state
encampment.
Cecil Davis. son Of Mr.. and Mrs
r. L. Davis, was drowned in the
Union Pacific pond, a mile east Of
Grand Island.
There is an oil fight on in York
and consumers are able to buy kero
sene oil for 10 cents per gallon and
the best gasoline for Is cents per g0l
lon
Lawrence Barrett, 14-year-old boy
was drowned while swimming in Salt
creek near Lincoln park. The body
was found shortly afterward in IL
feet of water.
The York Chautauqua will com.
mence Friday. July 30. and close on
Sunday, Aug. 8. The management is
presenting fine array of talent this
year.
The Masonic fraternity of Grand
Island purchased the Held corner,
and contemplate the erection of a
much more pretentious building than
its present headquarters, at a cost o.
$4,000.
A prosperous farmer named Sam
Larue. living at or near Ingham, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
with 44-caliber revolver. few
yards east of the Burlington depot in
Holdrege. He is thought to have
been mentally unbalanced
William Lane was arrested in Ne
braska City and placed in Jail on the
charge of wife desertion. He will be
held until his wife reaches there from
Blanchard, la. The wife has been
trying to locate her recreant spouse
for some time.
June II was the fifth anniversary
of the going into effect of the Kin
kaid homestead law, and those kin
kaiders" who filed the first few days
now have completed their five years
residence. Many of them will prove
up this summer and fall. They are
required to have $500 in improve
ments.
One of the largest public sales in
that part of the state has just taken
place at the Melton ranch. seven miles
southwest of Dickens. Over $4,000
worth of stock, implements, ETC.. was
sold. Twenty-Five head of yearling
mules sold for $50 head. which is
the highest price paid there for mules
for some time.
James Barry. the village black
smith at Odell. was arrested on a
charge of bootlegging, an indictment
being returned against him by the
grand jury. Barry was arraigned be-
fore Judge Pemberton. pleaded not
guilty and was held to the district
court in bonds of $1,000, which he
gave.
The first wheat to be marketed in
Kearney out of this years crop was
brought to the Kearney Milling COM
pany last week. direct from the
threshing machine. 1t was of excep-
tionally good quality. tested 81
pounds to the bushel, and is said to
have yielded about 40 bushels to the
acre.
Word has been received at Table
Rock OF the recent death at the Is
raelite colony at Benton Harbor,
Mich. of George W. Myers. who lived
in Table Rock until he left for Ben
ton HarbOr some two or three years
ago. after giving away to this sect
practically all of his property. consist
ing of several thousand dollars.
The divorce suit of Lucie Blakely
of Long Branch. N. j.. a former
Beatrice resident, against Charles
Blakely was called in the district
court, and after the evidence of Mrs.
Plakely had been introduced Judge
RaDer granted her a divorce and ali. |
mony amounting to $4,000. on the
grounds of cruelty. The Blakelys |
we're for years prominent residents
OF Beatrice.
Melbourne Carriker of Nebraska
City sailed from New York City for
South America, in the interest of the !
Carnegie institute. and will be gone |
for year or more, and will travel |
over the major portion of that south |
ern country. Carriker is graduate |
of the Nebraska University, and this |
is his third trip to foreign countries |
in the interest of the large institu-
lions of this country.
At Plattsmouth John Clarence was
sentenced by Judge H. D. Travis to
serve a term of fourteen years in the
state prison at hard labor. The
Judge overruled the motion for new
trial. Clarence was found guilty of
killing John p. Thaker by shooting
him with a revolver in a fight about
seven miles south of there. The men
were working about a corn shredder
at the time. Thacker lett a widow
and several small children.
Sheriff F. NJ Monaugh of Stockton.
Kan. arrived in Nebraska City, hav.
ing in charge James Rankin. an in
sane man. and attempted to turS him
over to Sheriff Fischer. claiming that
he was a charge belonging to OtOe
The officer refused to ac-
cept the prisoner. and when the Kan
sas sheriff attempted to leave with
out taking his prisoner with him he
was arrested and placed in Jail. being
unable to give bail. He is charged
with attempting to dump pauper on