The Columbus journal., 1909-09-15
wrsRAsxA NEWS AND xoTEa

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items 81 Interest Taken FROM Her
end There Over the state.
County Attorney John L. Cleary a
Hall county has fled ~ information
In the county court charging Ernest
e. Stout with the murder in the hrst
degree Of Joseph e. Riches0n.
Reports from eight threshing out
nts from the once supposed arid lands
| Of western Nebraska are most latter
ing and indicate the largest harvest
ever gathered there.
The farm home of r. II. Thomas
| one mile east of lndian0la. with all
contents, was burned 1t was q sod
and frame structure. and was one OF
me very earliest houses In this c0un'
ty. It was an old landmark. No one
| was at home but two small children
j. W. Bergman. the postmaster At
Odessa. has been in quarantine be-
cause his son Is afflicted with spinal
meningitis. The state board Of health
las required this to be done Owins
~ the epidemic now spreading over
the state.
Ben Cartney committed suicide at
Tilden by hanging himself. He arose
At the usual hour to do his chores.
His father soon became alarmed at
his long absence and went in search
Of him and found him dangling from
a rope, life being extinct.
Mary Brabec. wife Of Joseph Bra
bee. a Bohemian farmer. living near
BarnestOn, who tried to hang him.
self some time. ago. and who was dis
charged after an examination by the
insanity commission. has filed suit for
divorce against her husband. She
charges him with extreme cruelty.
One of the highest prices ever paid
for farm in the vicinity of Lawrence
was paid last week. when the farm
owned by Nick Brom was sold BY
Hilton & altman to Joe Thier, q local
farmer. for $125 per acre. This is an
eighty-acre tract. with only fair i'm
provements. and is considered a re-
markable price. as corn is short crop
this year in that part of the country.
In its reprint of news published in
the York Republican thirty years ago
corn was worth 20 cents bushel and
hogs about the same as cattle. then
worth $3.50 per hundred. Z. Z. Cobb.
the pioneer merchant. was advertising
as leader ten pounds OF sugar for
81. A comparison of prices received
now shows hogs worth 50. cattle $3.50.
corn 81 cents and wheat nearly So.
August Wellenseik, young man
residing with his father near Talmage.
met with an accident which resulted
in his death. He was in the loft
throwing down some hay and threw
down the fork and the handle stood
up straight. He jumped out of the
loft, the handle struck him in the
stomach and was forced into his
bowels.
J. w. O'Brien. state fish commission.
er, has been at Nebraska City. several
times recently with his car and each
time secured a carload of bass. rang
ing from two to six inches in length,
from the ponds on the cas-: side of the
river. There are millions of these
game fish and since the river has be-
come low they have been left in the
ponds and are easily secured.
The dry spell has been broken in
Dixon county by a splendid rain There
is great fear of frost. as the drop in
temperature has been as great as it
has been sudden. Many claim that
there was frost Sunday morning. but
as yet there has been no injury in this
manner. Corn is in first-class condi-
ton. not having been injured by the
dry weather in that section.
B. S. Peterson. an Osteopathic doc.
tor of kearney. was returning from
an early call near Odessa and was
riding motorcycle. Railroad graders
near that town had placed barb
wire fence across the road to corral
their horses and Peterson ran into it
at full speed. He was thrown off and
turning a sOmersault he lighted on
The back of his neck on tie wire, cut
ing deep cash.
William ID. Tully, administrator. and
Flora Tully. next of kin. have filed
Z petition in the Office of Clerk Lang
man of the district court of Hall cOun.
", suing the Grand Island Telephone
company, the Grand Island Electric
company and the Fairmont Creamery
company for damages in the amount
Of $13,732 on account of the death
Of Stewart Tully. who was killed by
q live wire near the Fairmont cream
ery's plant some weeks ago.
Nearly 500 Seventh Day Adventists
for the thirty-fourth annual Nebraska
camp meeting of their denomination
The conference headquarters of the
for Nebraska are located
there and the last three annual camp
meetings have been held in Hastings
The main assemblies are conducted
in large tent with seating capacity
of 1000. and it is filled almost to its
limit for each session.
Directors of the winter wheat grow
erS' branch Of the American Society
Of Equity. says Hastings dispatch.
are working on a plan by which they
hope to induce all farmers in their |
pool to sell through their agency once |
, month direct to millers and manu-
lecturers. They say that they are now
altogether in the manner of |
the product rather than in |
obtaining fixed price. They deny |
that farmers in the pool have agreed |
70 hold their wheat for any particular |
price.
Chase county is no more a part Of |
he great American desert only by |