The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-05-24
NEBRASKA IN ERlES.
News Notes Of Interest from Various
Sections.

| ton is under consideration.
John Schultz wants $4,000 from the
Burlington railroad for the loss OF
his young son.
In accordance with the recent vote
Lincoln will now be wet" to the ex-
| tent of % saloons.
Woodrow Wilson confessed at Port
land he will not run away from presi-
dental lightning.
The supreme court sustained the
contempt of court sentence of Presi-
dent Wilson of the wireless telegraph
company.
The WOmen's Christian association
of Omaha are making a canvass for
$4,000 to liquidate the Indebtedness
on their building
The Commercial club of Lincoln,
| during a trip through the western
section of the state. was given the
glad hand all along the line.
Near Hooper, Marvin A. Pape.
| boy, fell from tree receiving Injuries
| that resulted in his death.
A Fremont dispatch says that G. w.
E. Dorsey, former congressman from
that district, is seriously i'll at Salt
Lake. Utah. where he is now living.
At a special election held in Willard
| the proposition to vote bonds in the
sum of $4,000 for a water plant car.
| ried by large majority.
Fielding Toalson. farmer living
~,
disease induced by digging the grave
| of a relative. TOalSon returned home
exhausted, but apparently in good
health. A few hours later his mother
found him dead in bed.
Game Warden Lease has ordered
folk for taking fish unlawfully from
public waters. Lease was employed
| to transfer fish from below the dam
at Norfolk to point above. 1t is
said that he kept some of the fish
| thus seined
Printed copies of the amended game
| laws of this state have been received
by Game Warden Miller and will be
| distributed by him free OF cost on ap-
| plication. The last legislature put
the universal license" into effect and
there are other important changes in
the law.
Mrs. Joe Moss. of Amherst, is dead
and her little daughter lies dangerous
ly ill with her leg broken in two
places and three other people are
more or less seriously injured. the re-
suit of an automobile wreck at Am
herst when machine became urman-
| ageable and ran down hill.
DR.. c. p. Fall and Carl Shaffer. OF
Beatrice, are planning the construc-
| ton of large Dam on the Blue river
mile and half from Hoag in Gage
county, and expect to develop water
power for the purpose of generating
electric current for use in Beatrice
and elsewhere in the vicinity.
The county commissioners of Rich
ardsOn county have let the contract
for building macadamiZed road liz
rods long in Ohio township to Charles
Heineman. for 1874 The work will
be under the supervision of q govern
.nent expert. This will be the first
permanent roadwork undertaken in
the county. 4 similar road was built
several years ago across the river bot
tom east of Auburn and proved to be
a big success.
The horse stolen by the men who
two weeks ago made an attempt TO rob
the bank at Raglan has been returned
IsS having ns ho
| barn of Charles Long in Holdredge,
without harness or buggy. which have
not yet been found. 1t is thought the
vehicle is somewhere in the city, as
F., il is much more likely that the ban
dts would leave the rig in town than
| in the country districts. The appear
| ance of the horse here naturally
leads to the theory that the would-be
ROBBERS drove here and. abandoning
the horse and buggy. go out OF town
by train.
The Columbus Journal, one of the
oldest papers in Nebraska. has been
sold to the Tribune of the same city.
Merrick county people are enthusi-
| astic for good roads and are contrib
utlng literally to this end.
The Omaha and Denver Good Roads
association was formally organized
AT the big road convention held in
HOldrege. Fifty-three official dele
gates representing thirty towns were
present and there We're more than a
hundred unofficial representatives OF
towns and villages in the convention
also. kearney county alone sent 81
auto loads of people.
Rev. Dennis Brooks Lake. an old
time circuit rider of the Methodist
church. died at his home in Auburn,
aged G. years. He has preached in
almost every school house in Nemaha
and surrounding counties during the
last So years. AS rule he has been
assigned country and village charges
and these were the ones he liked best.
His permanent home has been on a
farm five miles north of Auburn. al
though much of the time his assign
mertS required him to reside in diff
ferent places in the surrounding coun-
ties.
In line with the other improvements
Broken Bow is this spring placing
$4,000 worth of water main extern
SionS.
Secretary Royse. Of the state bank
ing board. has construed the section |
of the bank guaranty law relating to |
bonds for employees of banks as d. |
rectors only ard not mandatory He |