The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-09-27

News Notes Of Interest from variswa
Sections.

Miles Zentmyer. q well known citl
zen Of Schuyler. died after sever
weeks illness caused by blood poison
ing starting from a splinter in his
han0.
The clay model of the statue Of
Abraham Lincoln. which is to be
placed on the state house grounds. Is
practically completed.
Elias GenhO, a farmer of Butler
township in Buffalo county. has fled
damage suit in district court
against David Him., Justinia Him.
and AdOlph HIM, neighbors. asking
for $4,000. He alleges the defend
ants alienated the affections of his
wife. Emile Genho.
A new use for registration books
has been found in Lincoln, a young
woman calling at the city clerks Of
fee to determine the age of a man,
who evidently was at least an init.
mate acquaintance. She was much
agitated when she found that he had
sworn his age was 81. She said he
had told her he was g years old.
Ed Ritter. charged with conducting
blind pig" in the city Of Norfolk.
was given a preliminary hearing be-
fore County Judge Bates. He was
bound over to the district court in the
sum of $500. He was already under
bond of $1,000 to answer at the No
vember term of court to several
counts found by the grand jury last
spring.
The forthcoming encampment Of
the Nebraska national guard to be
held near Bellevue will cost from
$4,000 to $4,000. Fourteen hundred
officers and men are expected to be
in camp for ten days. c. II. Dean of
Lincoln. brigade commissary, has sub
mitted an estimate to Adjutant Gen
eral Ernest H. Phelps of the amount
of provisions that will be needed.
The Namaha Oh: and Gas company.
organized TO prospect for oil on The
farm of 4. B. Davidson. three and
cne-half miles NORTH of Stella. Is
M uling number to erect the derrick.
The machinery has arrived and is
being hauled to the farm. The gas
can be heard roaring a half mile
from the place. The company has
decided to go down at least 1,500 feet
il necessary.
The Southwestern Millers' league
of Oklahoma. Kansas. Missouri and
Nebraska, has filed complaint with
the railway commission of Nebraska
against all Of the railroads in the
state. The league desires the rail-
roads to repair. cooper. clean and line
with heavy paper all cars used for
the shipment of flour and other grain
products. or II they do not do the
work the league shall he allowed a
amount for doing it.
4 petition will be circulated in Te-
cumseh to raise a purse Of $1,000 to
be added to the $1,000 now offered by
the state of Nebraska and the county
Of Johnson, jointly. for the arrest and
of E. f. Hesse, the man
who is charged with the murder Of
his wife and stepdaughter. Wauneta
Laverine McMaster. in that city. IN
July. 1910. and afterwards burying
heir bodies in an old we'll.
The typhoid fever situation at the
'eeble minded institute at Beatrice. is
improving. No new cases have been
for several weeks, and the
sixteen patients who are still under
he care of physicians are GONZALES
.ent. DIR. Thomas is mending rapid
y. Steward Quein states that there !
rave been thirty-two deaths since |
he new administration took charge |
md that this number includes those |
Who have died from other causes
han typhoid.
Mrs. Gertrude Censor of Nebraska
'ity. has fled a uit against the Mod
'rn WOodmen of America. for $4,000,
he amount Of a policy her husband
'arried in that order at the time ne
nysteriously disappeared from home
September IS. 1910. when his cloth
ng and bicycle were found on the
'anks of the river, north of the city
nd footprints led into the waters Of
he river. Since then not a trace of
i'm hae been found.
Roy Edward Griffith, wanted at Yer
on, Richardson county, for embezz-
ing $221.34 of the funds of the Mis-
ouri Pacific, will be returned to this
tate for trial from Clarion, IA, where
e is under arrest, under a requisi-
ion issued from the executive Of
ce.
Secretary Bausch OF the school
GARD of Sutton. gives out the infor-
ration that the issue OF bonds for
he new school building will be taken
p by the state on very advantageous
erms. The bids received from pri-
ate concerns all called for a sub
tantial discount while the state al.
,ws one-half per cent. premium.
The matter of an extended water
ervice and sewerage plant will have
, come up for vote in Tecumseh
gain. and it will probably be submit
ID at special election to be held
le in October
A judgment of $3.50 has teen en-
,red against the Burlington railroad
! federal court in the case brought
gainst that corporation by Richard
louise. a youth OF fifteen years,
trough his father, Thomas X. Clouse.
ersonal injury was the basis OF the
etition. The boy lost an eye while
nployed in the Havelock shops, near
lincoln.