The Red Cloud chief., 1912-01-04
BRIEF NEWS OF NEBRASKA


More than 10000 cream separators
are in use on the farms Of Nebraska
The kenesaw school board is plan
ming to build new $4,000 schoo
building
Fremont business men have made
cash gift of slOi to the Lutheran or
phans' home.
Norfolk turned down the $4,000
municipal electric light plant bonds
at recent election
Knox county will have the records
Of it's officials for the last ten years
examined by an expert.
The farmers institute at Dewitt
was great success. many farmers
taking part in the exercises.
w. NJ. Downs, Wymore boy. is
under arrest at that place for calling
a prominent citizen "banty"
The court house at Madison is be.
ing overhauled and much needed i'm
provements are being made.
Otis Ballou former Omaha man
was run over and instantly killed by
an automobile at Seattle. Wash
The coroner's jury has decided that
David Stepsay. who was found dead
at Omaha, came to his death from nat
ural causes.
J. +. Dalton hanged himself in a
barn at the rear of his boarding house
at Omaha Sunday afternoon because
he could not buy Christmas presents
Or. and Mrs. Kelly. the Fremont
missionaries. will sail from San Fran.
cisco, Cal, January 3. to resume their
charge at Hainan. Off the coast OF
China
State Geologist T.. II. Barbour. upon
examining the vein of coal found on
the farm Of Eph' Johnson. near Hoop
er. pronounced II a Ignite of good
grade.
Owing to a snOwstorm and a small
pox scare the farmers institute at
Guide Rock was not the success that
was expected There was a small at
tendance.
Some one left a suit case contain
ing quantity OF nitroglycerine in
hotel at Stanton, and authorities
won't do thing to him" when he
calls for II.
The new Christian church at Kene-
saw. the corner stone of which has
just been laid. will have the largest
seating capacity of any Of the seven
churches in the city.
Charles Musselman. twenty years
old fc, Lon at I 10 xx,,, Il
supposedly contracted from letters re-
ceived from relatives in an infected
family in Pennsylvania.
George Parker. a negro. said to be
a medical student of Creighton univer.
sity at Omaha, Is under arrest at st.
Paul Mimi. charged with the killing
Of Mrs. Andrew Jackson OF that place.
The young people of Elm Creek
have organized class for the scien.
tiflc study OF the Bible Professor
Odell is the instructor They meet at
the school building Thursday even.
ings.
Harry Oliver was badly injured
when n freight train backed into a
handcar which he and his father were
driving at Long Pine. and he died four
hours later He was twenty.one years
old.
With his little four.year-old niece
clasped in his arms, playing Sleep"
James 3. Austin. a real estate dealer
OF Lincoln, died suddenly Monday
morning. Heart failure caused his
death.
The committee in charge of solicit.
ing funds for the new hotel project at
Hastings report pledges to the amount
Of 100000 and the campaign will be
pushed until $l25.OOO or better is
pledged
A fire in the barn Of Sherman Rog-
ers, near Syracuse. caused the death
OF six head Of horses, and the loss OF
lot of farming implements, harness,
etc, together with nearly a thousand
bushels of corn.
Charles Freeman. a colored man of
Wahoo, is the oldest person in Saun-
ders county, and one of the very old
est in the state. Mr.. Freeman was
born in Blue Ridge. Va, ninety-seven
years ago. He was born a slave.
The snowfall at Wahoo measured
five inches, making total of fourteen
inches since the 18th OF December
which added to the inch and sixty.five
hundredths Of rain on December .,
brings about a very encouraging con
ditiOn for the wheat crop.
In Christmas day shooting ARRAY
at North Bend, Mike Corey was shot
twice in the abdomen and will prob
ably die.
The Elks club at Lincoln played the
role OF Santa Claus to over 1000 little
ones Christmas day, keeping open
house from Q till IL.
Miss Alva Boiler, Hastings young
lady attending an eastern college of
music. is receiving high praise from
critics for the skill and expression dis.
played in the rendition of a Schubert
number at recent Boston concert