The Columbus journal., 1911-07-12
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
News Notes Of Interest from Various
Sections.

| 4"SSuAo6 1Oln NounS SAS"S
very good yield.
Elkhorn. Douglas county, had quite
. serious fire on July eth.
August Cd Omaha will again vote on
the water works bond question.
Some heat prostrations are report
ed here and there, mostly in the towns
and cities.
Some good rains fell in the first
week Of July. but for most part Ne
hraska needs. moisture.
| Seven teams contested in the base
ball tournament at Scottsbluff, which
was to decide the championship Of
the North Platte valley.
Jack Roach. a young plasterer and
bricklayer- Of Ainsworth, was killed
by passenger train about q mile and
a half from Long Pine.
The toll keeper on the Union Pa
cific bridge at Omaha has mysterious
| ly disappeared. and it is feared he has
been murdered and his body thrown
into the river.
A livery barn belonging to William
Sloan at Wilcox was burned. No
horses were in the barn at the time.
! 1t is believed that the blaze started
frsm the smoking of pipes in the hay
! loft by tramps.
George Manscher, aged 10 years. Of
Walthill. was drowned while swim
ming in the Sioux river at Riverside
park, Iowa. Manscher went into the
water against advice of physicians.
Over exertion was responsible for his
death.
State Treasurer George has re-
ceived and paid for Beaver City water
bonds amounting to $1,000: Chadron
school district bonds, $4,000; city of
Crawford water bonds, $4,000; school
district No. II. Antelope county. $780,
600. Burt county has paid the state
$4,000 on bends due. Gage county
has paid of $4,000 and Cedar county
has paid $4,000 for bonds which were
due and held by the state as an invest
ment.
State Treasurer George has receiv.
ed and paid for Beaver City water
bonds. amounting to $1,000: Chadron
school district bonds. $4,000; city
of Crawford water bonds. $4,000:
school district No. II, Antelope coun-
ty. $4,000. Burt county has paid the
state $4,000 on bonds due. Gage
county has paid of $4,000 and Cedar
county has paid $4,000 for bonds,
which were due and held by the state
as an investment.
John Crawford. a former Wymore
resident. who broke jail at Monmouth.
ILL.,, after being arrested on the charge
of bank robbery. was arrested at
Reno. New. and taken back to Mon
mouth. Crawford, it is thought. fig
ured in the Kansas robberies last win
ter and it Is believed to be the fellow
who sold touring car to H. H. Hoerr,
the Wymore man who is serving two
years in the penitentiary for bank rob-
berry.
A. v. Brown. J. w. Pickens of Has
tings and B. H. Begole of Beatrice,
called at the Office of the attorney
general to confer with that official in
regard to the enforcement of the anti
trading stamp law. They are mer-
chants who organized a trading stamp
company of their own to compete
with the large trading stamp compa-
MES. but when the new state law
was passed they obeyed it and quit
business. but they allege that the
large trading stamp companies have
continued and are reaping benefits
contrary to law.
At the Nebraska stockgrowers con-
welcome by Postmaster fash of ALI
ance was responded to by Fred L.
Wright. of Gering. R. L. Tomlinson.
inspector of brands at South Omaha.
reported the number of cattle held mp
there and the money going to the real
owner. Willis E. Reed. candidate for
United States senator. gave 4 short
address on the transportation of live
stock, advocating the creation Of
court having jurisdiction of both state
and interstate transportation.
A Shubert dispatch says that in ad-
dition to the drouth the grassboppers
are especially plentiful and are be-
coming very destructive. Usually the
spring rains destroy a large number
of the grasshOppers when they are
just commencing to grow. but this
year the infreGuency of the rains and
the rrotracted drouth has favored
their growth. Frank Parriott. living
about 4 mile from Shubert. reports
that they have stripped ten acres OF
his corn. John WeGdle. Morg WILL
Jams and others arc reporting minor
DAMAGES.
Artificial adorrmeE. in the share CT
puffs and rats" saved Mrs. Ciaud Ii
ger of Wymore from serious burns on
the night of the Fourth in that place. |
She and her husband were conducting |
a refreshment tent when fireworks ig- |
nited the gasoline lamp tank in the |
tent. The tank exploded and the |
blazing oil dropped fairly upon the
head of Mrs. Lizer, instantly setting |
her hair ablaze. A bystander pulled
the false hair off her head and put
out the small blaze which had seized
upon her natural hair. before she had /
received any serious burns.
At a special election election at
Upland water works bonds carried. by
a vote of IS to "a. There was big
celebration and display Of fireworks
at night.
Under the new automobile law. now
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