The Red Cloud chief., 1909-08-18
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, PoIit
icaI and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.

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. FUSED to authorize the ten cent rat,
, OF the Nebraska Traction and Power
company between Omaha and Ralston
. By the will of Mrs. Marie Steinbecl
OF Grand Island. which has just beer
probated. the Nebraska Children,
! Home Society receives $500.
Inc first annual old settlers re-
union for Cass county was held AT
Union and was attended bv tbousande
of people.
AT Weston VIII Warren's four.year
Ola girl was badly bitten about the
race by dog which IL is believed has
hydrophobia.
AL Lincoln death came instantly To
MAURICE Laughlin, a young lineman
III the employ of the traction com.
pany. He was killed by a shock wbile
on top of the hurry.up repair wagon.
City delivery service will be estab.
lished on November 1 at Aurora with
three letter carriers, one substitute
. carrier. twenty street letter boxes and
one combination box.
I. s. Keltner of Wagner. who had
Deen attending to some business in
the land Office at Broken Bow. was
Iound dead in bed at the home of ID
M Amsberry, with whom he was stop.
ping Death was due to heart failure.
The county commissioners of Otoe
county have given notice to all farm.
ers TO comply with the law in the
matter or cutting weeds about their
places and unless 1t is done and the
roads Kept clear the work will he
done and charged up to their property
Pioneer day will be celebrated Sat.
urday, August rs. at the public park
In Florence by the old settlers of
douglas county. The civil war veter-
ans OF Douglas county hold an en-.
campment of four days at Florence
beginning August % and ending with
Pioneer day
Patrick Duncan of Rulo found a
pody on sand bar five miles north
OF Rulo left there by the high water
OF the Missouri river. There was very
little left of the body but the skeleton
ana no trace of the identity of this
man could be discovered by Coroner
Reneker.
separator belonging to William
Leonard of Odell was burned on the
farm OF Frank Burger, ten miles
southwest of Beatrice, while the bar.
vest hands were eating sumner II is
DeieVed to be the work of an incen.
diary. Bloodhounds were taken to the
burger farm to assist in ferreting out
the case. The loss is placed at 81 900. |
charles Bumgard and Clara Powers.
VINO eloped from Sabetha, Kan. were |
arrested at Fairbury and lodged in |
jail. En- route west they stopped off |
at Rockford in the same county. but |
upon learning that the officers were
after them. left on the first train be.
fore warrant for their arrest could
be issued.
Great preparations are being made
Tor the annual agricultural fair at
Galway, the dates for this year being
September 81, %, % and "a. This fair
was organized and Is supported ex-
clusiVely by the business men of Cal.
laway and the farmers of the COM
munity, and no financial help is re.
ceived from either the state or
county.
Frank Larson, who received a Car
negie medal about two years ago for
saving the life of little Earl Delaney
at Exeter, Is to marry the mother.
One day when young Larson was firing
on the road he saw a child on the
track ahead of the engine which was
moving at the rate of forty miles an
hour. He climbed out of the window
and made his way to the cowcatcher,
where he pushed the child away from
the track and thus saved its life.
In answer to the request of the rail-
road companies for postponement
Of the hearing on the classification of
freight rates set for the latter part of
September, the State Railway commits
sion has made the roads PROPOSE.
ton to the effect that II the railroads
will furnish a transcript of all the
evidence taken before the court for
the use of the commission ii will con-
sent to postponement until Decem.
Der !.
James ]. Hill, chairman of the
board of the Great Northern, has
offered $4,000 in gold as prizes to be
awarded for the best grains and grass
rs grown in the territory along his
ines to be exhibited at the National
Corn Exposition in Omaha December
to IS. The money is to be divided
INTO 200 prizes by Prof C. p Bull OF
he Minnesota Agricultural College
and Prof. Thos. Shaw of the Dakota !
Farmer. There will be about 40 first
prizes for wheat, oats, barley, corn,
lover, timothy and alfalfa hay. as
we'll as prizes for speltz and field peas.
John Palm, painter from Omaha,
secured work temporarily on the farm
If Charles Smith over on White Rock
'reek south of Superior and while on
he windmill tower, oiling the gearing,
lie lost his balance and fell, breaking
10Th legs.
Joseph Wackel, the 19-year-old son
If Nicholas Wackel, a well known
armer of Cunning county, committed
suicide by blowing the top of his head l