The Red Cloud chief., 1910-05-12
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit.
ical and Other Matters Given
Due Consideration.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.

nave Deen arrested for selling liquor
to Indians.
The several road supervisors of
Johnson county held a meeting in Te-
cumseh for the purpose of getting to-
gether on a general plan of road
building and maintenance.
Robert l.. Love, the eldest son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. A. Love, who reside
three miles southeast of Valparaiso
was instantly killed by being run
over by a heavy wagon.
The county board of supervisors of
Dawson county have decided to sell
the county poor farm and invest part
OF the proceeds In a county hospital
for the poor. This decision was made
after an investigation. The present
farm represents property valued at
$4,000 and $1,000 yearly expense for
maintenance and there are only two
inmates.
Saying that It would not hurt any
body, Martin Larsen. of Hall county,
aged Is years. placed q revolver at
his temple. pulled the trigger and
instantly killed himself. It is believed
the boy thought the pistol was not
loaded.
Word has been received in Ne
braska City of the sudden death OF
Maty Howell, a son Of Roy Howell
and for years a resident of that city.
His death occurred in Oklahoma.
Sheriff J. n. Gustus of Phelps coun-
ty Is back home after q week or more
spent with his daughter on her new
homestead near Willard, Colo. Mr..
Gustus reports that an unusually
large number of Nebraskans have 10
Gated in that section.
Mrs. Estella Il. Warden has filed
suit against the Burlington. asking
$4,000 damages for injuries for be.
ing elected from a passenger train
by q brakeman, at Hamburg, Ia,
February IS. She also sues to re-
cover forty-two cents overcharge for
a ticket from Nebraska City to Ham.
burg, a distance Of less than fourteen
miles.
The new German Lutheran church,
eight miles southwest OF Tecumseh,
will be dedicated on Sunday, May s.
Many barn fires have recently oc-
Cured in Nuckolls county, near SUI
perior. They are believed to be OF
%incendiary origin, and 1t Is likely that
some arrests will be made.
S. B. Wolbach, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
S. n. Wolbach of Grand Island, and
who was born and reared in that
place, has been elected to the posi-
ton of assistant professor of bacte.
riology of Harvard college for a term
Of five years. He has been an in.
structor at Harvard for a number Of
years.
The town board OF Valentine had
n special meeting and decided to call
n special election in regard to the
request of the state to give forty
acres of land on which to build per-
manent buildings for the state expe-
rimental farm, as the state only has
a lease rom the government for the
land, and 1t does not want to erect
permanent building on leased ground.
James Hummell, a veterinary sur
geon and old-time resident of Gothen-
burg, dropped dead from heart trou-
BILE twenty-eight miles northeast Of
that place. He had just finished op-
Grating on some horses and sat down
to rest. Death came very suddenly
with no warning whatever.
After celebrating all day the jury
at Central City brought in a decision
in the case against Sherman Grub
on q charge of horse stealing, finding
him not guilty. Grub was charged
with being a member of a gang which
stole three horses from the Reeves
farm, q few miles south Of town, last
September.
Utica, met with a serious accident
three miles SOUTHEAST of Waco. He
was riding a motorcycle at a rate of
about sixty miles an hour when his
wheel broke, throwing him forcibly
to the ground. rendering him uncon-
scious, badly mutilating his face and
otherwise brusing his head. !
Some time since W.. A. Schapers.
who had been conducting a saloon at
Syracuse, died and several Wholesale
liquor houses brought suit against his
widow, in whose name the husband
conducted the business. The suit
dragged in the courts for some time
and finally Judge Wilson, after hear
Ing the evidence, decided that a
woman could not have a license or
conduct a saloon under the Slocumb
law and dismissed the suits.
Clark Townsend was found dead in
bed at Stratton. The day before he
had been in the country taking cen.
sus, and It is thought that overexer.
ton of going from place to place on
his motorcycle was the direct cause
of his death.
Henry Hotel of Kansas City, Kan.
proprietor Of a moving picture show.
was probably fatally injured at Stella
by IN explosion of gas he was gen
Grating to operate tine machine. A
t3-year-old daughter who was assist
Ing him was badly burned. but will
recover.