The Red Cloud chief., 1921-01-13
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
Timely News Culled From AL
Parts Of the State, Reduced
for the Busy.
SCORES OF EVENTS COVERED

The state realty dealers association
VIII meet at Lincoln January IL.
The Nj. IL, church at Exeter has just
closed very successful revival.
The Nebraska Territorial Pioneers
association will hold It's annual reunion
AT Lincoln January II.
Fred blackburn, II negro. has con-
fesscd to police that he had robbed 20
homes In Omaha recently.
North Platte officers found an Illicit
still in operation in Il tank ear ON the
railroad tracks ut that place.
The annual conference of the county
superintendents Of the state will be
held at Lincoln January 1873.
Lincoln BARRIERS have reduced prices
ana are now giving n hair cut for 30
cents and u shave for 20 cents.
Prospects are bright for IL free
bridge across the Missouri river be-
tween Omaha ana Council Bluffs.
Over II hundred members of the
state bar association attended the ban
luet OF that body at Lincoln last
week.
Henry Ostenson, OF Norfolk, was
found dead In his room at an Omaha
hotel. His death is being investi.
gated.
Auto license plates to the number OF
3OO.OoO are now ready for issue Near
" 10000 state licenses have already
been delivered.
The bonded indebtedness OF the
state on the first day Of December was
S5O,2S6, 49,, according to returns I'm the
auditors office.
Twelve members OF the university
basket ball team have gone to Urbana,
ILL.,, where they will meet Illinois in n
series of contests
A whitman ranch owner, who want
ed TO get home in hurry, paid an air
plane taxi $500 to take him from
Omaha To that place
More than 100 petitions, asking that
capital punishment be abolished In Ne
braska, have been sent out by Mrs.
G. w. Hayes of Omaha.
Martin klawikOse, of Auburn, holds
the record for corn husking this sea.
sOn--3,35O bushels In thirty-sevcn days,
nearly 100 bushels day.
Contributions tOtaling 5,TS1.37 for
relief of starving children In Central
Europe have been received to date by
G. w. Wattles, state chairman.
George Jensen, an 8-year-Old Omaha
hoy. was fatally injured when he coll
lided with speeding automobile while
cOasting, dying a few hours afterward.
Frank Kutn. an IL year old boy, was
shot through the heart and instantly
killed by an older brother. while play
ing soldier mt their home Mt Columbus.
Hogs are on the upgrade at the
South Omaha stock yards and quite
number OF Nebraska farmers ship
ped loads last week that brought top
prices.
Jose Sanchez. Burlington round
house employe, was shot and killed ut
McCOOk by Pete Lopez, section labor
er, following Sanchez refusal TO loan
him money during poker game.
Commerce High school buildings at
Omaha, together with several apart
ments and dwellings In the same
block, We're destroyed by fire New
Years day, with an approximate loss
of $150,OOO
A grip belonging to Mrs. Ida Adam
son of Beatrice, containing about 500
In notes, was stolen from the Bur
| lingtOn station at that place shortly
| after Mrs. Adamson alighted from a
train on her return from IA trip In
| Iowa. .
Investigation shows that DIR. Charles
l..
fessional and business man, who died
suddenly in his Office while treating II
patient, was killed by an electric
shock from his newly instc.led N-ray
machine
One of the noticeable features of
trading at the Omaha Stock Yards on
New Years day was the purchase OF
by representatives Of Swift x Co., for
shipment to the Western Meat Co, q
Swift & Co. branch in San Francisco
| Eastern cement manufacturers who
have had men securing Kansas and
Nebraska. and who recently spent
oyer $4,000 In making tests In Jeffcr-
son county, have expressed interest In
their find Of three distinct kinds Of
clay formation near Wymore in Gage
county.
The welfare committee of the
WOman's club supplied II number OF
poor families OF Tecumseh with Christ
mas cheer. A big dinner was taken to
each, including chickens, fresh and
canned vegetables fruits, candies and
nuts. Also there was distribution
Of clothing, bedding and some fuel.
Jimmie Heating Of Lincoln wanted
to join the navy, bat was short OF
weight. A conference with the pole,
Judge resulted In n Jail sentence, an,
in sixteen days he succeeded In put
ting on weight enough TO secure TO
himself "A fOur-year hitch" will
Uncle Sam.
Walter Crom, farm hand from TIE
kamah, was found lying unconscious
his face, hands and feet frozen, nea
the railroad tracks In Omaha. Police
believe that the man was overcome b.
| "a.