The Red Cloud chief., 1910-03-24
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
NEWS NOTES or INTEREST from
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
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Religious. Social. Agricultural. Polit
ical and Other Nst,ers Given
Due Consideration.

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Ground has been broken for the
new high school AT Broken Bow.
\ cleanup crusade Is ON at Nc.
braska city by order of the mayor.
Scarlet fever has again got a foot.
hold at ~Gothcnburg. several new
cases having recently developed.
Calvin J.. steele, AT one time com.
mander Of the Grand Army of the
Republic. died in jefferson county last
week.
John Griffin, one Of the oldest en-
gineers on the Burlington railway. has
resigned his position and will be-.
come a farmer.
The advertising committee OF the
Commercial club at Kearncy has de.
cided to adopt the phrase: "Kearney
A Capital city
The new hank AT Bridgeport will
soon he ready for business. In the
near futur" a building 81 will be pro
vided for the bank.
Boone county farmers are finding
! the seed corn problem "A hard one.
Those who are testing their seed are
finding a great deal of It useless.
Emerson will decide the saloon
question this year by popular vote.
The village trustees will submit an
ordinance which. If carried, will shut
out saloons.
kearney has paid $445,l97.22 in
freight and passenger fares during
the last twelve months. and with only
two railroads. stands fifth in the state
exclusive of Omaha and Lincoln.
The business men of Palmyra are
pushing the good roads idea. and sub.
sc%riptions are being taken with u
view to dragging from thirty to forty
miles of roads leading to the village.
John Kennedy of Omaha. &c years
of age, thought he wanted to drown
himself. but when he got out into
the Missouri river and found how
cold the water was he changed his
mind and waded back to dry land.
w. 3. Wright. a retired farmer liv.
ing at Valley. Mas shot in the leg by
John Story, a Union Pacific detective,
who was on guard In the railway
yards on the trail of box car rob,
bers. The wound is not serious.
For some time the seniors of the
McCook High school have been rem
onstrating against what they call the
'~despotic rule of the superintendent
and principal and following the sus.
pension OF three OF the class the
whole class quit school.
-. w. f.. Porter, II farm hand, is in
, the county Jail at Fremont awaiting
the arrival Of the sheriff from West
Virginia, having been arrested for the
crime Of seduction at his old home.
Buffalo county will get through the
inheritance tax 1854 from the George
Meisner estate, being settled in
county court. The interest on this
amount will be added and will go to
| the county. The entire value of the
estate was appraised at over 5000.
900.
A number of farmers in the vicin.
ity OF Holdrege have been conducting
some thorough Investigations as to
the probability of the wheat crop he
ing damaged. The unanimous opin.
ion is that the crop is entirely un-
harmed, and that the winter Just
closing has left fields in most excel.
lent condition.
Jacob Kimmell, who died at Kear.
he made eleven years ago. He was
SO years of age.
j.. +. Rosenfeld of West Point
famous as the largest grower OF
p%eonies in the United States, Is now
visiting at Honolulu, Hawaii Island
having crossed from San Francisco
He has been sojourning on the coast
for som months preparatory to EN-
barking anew in the culture of peonies
on a twenty-five.acrc tract neal
Omaha. bought by him last summer
for the special purpose OF propagat
ing this one plant.
About thirty members, heads OF
families, in and around Hampton
have decided to start a German Lu
theran church in that town, and have
rented the Christian church building
for five years.
Ben +. Shuts and Jess Cronk, both
of Curtis. had their preliminary hear
ing at ~Stockville before the county
judge on a charge OF 'bootlegging'
whisky. Both were bound over to the
district court. Shuts, on two counts
was required to give a $500 bond, and
Cronk, on five counts, was required
to give a $3.50 bond.
Sherman Grub, who Is accused oil
participating in the theft of three
horses from the John Reeves place
In Merrick county, on September 0
is now in the custody OF Sheriff Her
after having escaped the hands o.
the officers of the law for several
Months.
Edward Russell, with many aliases
was arrested in Hastings on tele
graphic information from the western
headquarters Of the Scientific Amer