The Red Cloud chief., 1912-08-01
sR,er NEWS or NesaAsxA

mouse 10 nearing completion.
The Nebraska State Bankers viii
hold their annual meeting In Omaha
August 26 and ~.
There are close TO 450 incorpo-
rated municipalities in the state, &C.
cording to figures submitted by The
state legislative reference bureau.
Rev. Savage Of Omaha Is going to
build q $4,000 home for old men in
Florence. He has NO money. but says
the Lord will send It. The first day
after announcement $1,000 came in.
Il. L. Gore, chief of police Of o..
mond, sustained a broken hip when
the excavation for the connection Of
the big pumps in the water works
power house caved in on him. He was
taken to Sioux City hospital on Tues.
day.
Mrs. Pearlman Of Fremont was
badly hurt in q fall down the cellar
stairway. She stepped through the
wrong door when intending to pass
from one room to another, and
plunged down the stairs. Her injuries
though severe are not necessarily
fatal.
Syracuse was visited by a heavy
rain, accompanied by an electrical
display; 1.1S inches Of rain fell. DH.
ing the storm lightning struck the
tower Of the High school building
and dameged It considerably. Bits OF
shingles and boards were picked up
nearly q block away from the build.
ing in different directions.
Uehling Is to have four days car
nival and town fair August Z to 10, In.
elusive, and the citizens are making
great preparations for 1t. Governor
Aldrich is to make an address the
closing day. The auto owners Of the
town and vicinity will make tour OF
the territory for a radius Of fifteen
or twenty miles to advertise 1t.
The -eighteen-hour service OF the
Wahoo city electric plant will be
changed on August Is to twenty
four-hour service. This is done to
furnish power and heat for the Wa
hoo Brick company, who are install.
ing an electric brick burner, by means
Of which all brick will be burned BY
heat generated by electricity.
As the results Of family quarrel
between Lee and Marion West, broth.
ers. living in Auburn. Marion. the
elder, is lying at deaths door due ia
| knife wound in the left side which
just missed the heart and entered
the left lung. The stabbing was tho
outcome of q quarrel over q board
bill. The injured man cannot live.
Records worth many thousands OF
| dollars. some Of them irreplaceable.
have been damaged by dampness In
storage vaults Of the Union Pacific
headquarters building in Omaha. The
vaults are located in the basement.
some Of them under the sidewalk, and
various officials concerned are rack
ing their brains for O solution Of tho
ventilating problem, SO that the docu-
ments may be preserved intact.
When travelling agent for the
searboro company Of Indianapolis.
| Ind. arrived in MerrHck county and
made ready to canvass his maps he
met with little opposition. Tho
company in publishing map OF Me-
braska failed to mark the Plato
valley route through the state and
consequently local good road en-
thusiasts did not think 1t did Justice
to modern methods of travel. The
| agent agreed to forego an attempt to
sell any maps until he had communi-
Gated with the company and had the
defect remedied.
| Nebraska is a great state. Il has
an area of 49,157.120 acres. OF this
there were 38,622,021 acres in farms
in 1910. an increase Of 8,71O.242 acres.
or 29.1 per cent over 1900. The acre
ageage Of improved land in farms in
1910 was 24,382,577 acres, an increase
| Of 5.9499S2 acres. or 1928 per cent In
ten years. This left 14.239.444 acres
Of land in farms still to be "tickled
by the plow." In all there were a..
state still to be developed to the ag-
ricultural possibilities of which It IL
capable. comprising nearly onehalf
Of the state.
Paul Glazier. 10 years old, q. STAN
ton county boy. died suddenly OF
heart disease, soon after bathing In
the river.
Grand Island.-The state of Ne
braska is in the harvest field in this
city, and is at once hauling its wheat
to the market. On the section of land
given by the citizens of Grand Island
to the state for the location of the
Soldiers home In this city. in the
SOS. forty-fve acres OF wheat have
been cut. It has threshed 80 3-4 BUSH
els per acre. the wheat testing sixty.
two pounds to the bushel.
In the case of the Nebraska Power
company against Keonig ct al, In
which the former company represent.
ed by the H. e. Babcock and Doherty
interests sought to have ownership Of
all Of the Koenig filings for Loup
river water power adjudged In it's