THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1913.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
PACE 7.
WWF fiXMI If 1FW
Copyright, 1314, kjr
CHAPTER XXIII.
"I shall help you to run away."
! ISTKN to u:e" said McCan. "The
fcj spring thaw is here, an' the
mtff crust is coin in" on the snow.
It's the time to travel. 1
would run with no less a man than
you.
"V.r.t you can't run." Smoke contra
dicted. "Yuiir back bene is as lim!er
as thawed marrow. If I run. 1 run
alone. The world fades, and perhaps
1 shall never run.
Said Snass: "Your partner Is dead
My hunters did nut kill hini. They
louud the body, frozen in the first of
the sprinjf-storms in the mountains.
No man can escape. When shall we
celebrate your marriage?"
And Labiskwee: "I watch yon. There
is trouble in your eyes, in your face.
Oh. I do know nil your face. When
you are happy the corners of your
mouth turn up. When you think sad
thoughts they turn down. When you
su.ile there are three and four wrin
kles at the corneis of your eyes. When
you laugh there are sis. But I can
not count them now.
"I have never read books. I do not
know how to read. But Four Eyes
taught me much. And in "his own eyes
I have seen the trouble of the hunger
for the world, lie was often hungry
for the world. Is the world so good
that you. too. are hungry for it? Four
Kyes had nothing. But you have me."
She sighed and shook her head.
"Four Eyes died still hungry for the
world. And if you lived here :ilway3
would yon. too. die hungry for the
world? I am afraid I do not know the
world. Do yon want to run away to
the world?"
Smoke could not speak, bnt by his
' mouth corner lines was she convinced.
Minutes of silence passed in which
she visibly struggled, while Smoke
cursed himself for the tin guessed weak
ness that enabled him to speak the
truth about, ku br.ngr lor-iie world
while it kept tis lips tight on the truth
o the existence of the other woman.
Again Labiskwce sighed.
"Very well. I love you more than I
fear my father's anger, and he is more
terrible in anger than a mountain
storm. You told me what love is. This
Is the test of lve. I shall help you to
run away back to the world."
Smoke awakened softly and without
movement. Warm, small fingers touch
ed his cheek and slid gently to a pres
sure on his lips. TLe one word
'Come" was breathed in his ear. He
sat up carefully and listened. Close
at hand he could distinguish the light
regular breathing of Snass.
Labiskwee tugged gently at Smoke's
sleeve and he knew she wished him
to follow. He took his moccasins and
German socks in his hand and crept
out into the snow in his sleeping moc
casins. Beyond the glow from the
dying embers of the fire she Indicated
to him to put on his outer footgear,
and while he obeyed she went back un
der the fiy where Snass slept.
Feeling the hands of his watch.
Snoke found it was 1 in the morning.
Labhkwce rejoined him and led him
on through the sleeping camp.
"Now we can talk." she said when
the last fire had been left half a mile
behind.
In the starlight, facing him. Smoke
noted for the first time that her arms
were burdened, and. on feeling, dis
covered she carried liis snowsboes. a
rifle, two belts of ammunition and his
fh-eping rotes.
-I have everything fixed, she said,
with a happy little laugh. "I have
Nt-n two days making the cache.
There is meat, even flour, matches and
skis, which go best on the hard crust,
aid. when they break through, the
w-l will bold up longer. Oh. I do
kt:ow snow travel, and we shall go
fast, my lover."
" Smoke checked his speech. That she
had n.-vn arranging his escape was
surprise enough, but that she bad plau
to go with him was more than be
was prepared for. Cnab'e to plan im
mediate action, he gently, one by one.
took her burdens from her. He put
h:.i arms around her and pressed her
close, and still be could not think what
to di.
tiod is good." she whispered- "He
sent me a lover."
Vet Smoke was brave enough not to
snsgest his going alone. And ere he
fke he saw all his memory of the
brizbt world reel and fade.
"We will go back. La bisk wee, he
Mid. "You will be my wife, and we
Kan 11 live always with the Caribou
H-ople."
"No. noT And her body. In the cir
cle of his arm. resented his proposal.
"I know. I have thought much. The
hunger for the world would come upon
yiu. and in the long nights it would
demur yo::r heart. Four Eyes died of
hunger for the world; so would you
di. And I will net have you diel We
will so on across the enow mountains
cT rMrvrvxf
th WhttUr Syndicate
on the south traverse."
"Dear, listen," be urged. "We most
go back."
She pressed her mitten against his
lips to prevent further speech, "You
love me. Say that yon lore me."
"2 do lore you. Labiskwee- Yoa are
my wonderfnl sweetheart.
Again the mitten was a caressing ob
stacle to utterance. "We shall go on
to the cache." she said with decision.
"It would be a great wrong to yon to
go back. I 1 am only a wild girl, and
I am afraid of the world, but I am
more afraid for you. Yon see. It is as
you told me. 1 love you more than
anybody else in the world. I'love yoa
more than myself. The Indian lan
guage is not a good language. The
English language is not a good lan
guage. The thoughts in my heart for
you. as bright and as many as the
stars there is no language for them.
How can I tell you them? They are
there see!"
As she spoke she slipped the mitten
from his hand and thrust the hand in
side the warmth of her parka until It
rested against her breast. Tightly and
steadily she pressed his hand in Its
position. And in the long silence be
felt the beat, beat of her heart and
knew that every beat of it was love.
And then slowly, almost Imperceptibly,
"We will go back, Labiskwee. You will
be my wife."
still holding his hand, her body began
to incline away from bis and toward
the direction of the cache. Nor would
he resist. It was as if he were drawn
by her heart itself that so nearly lay
in the hollow of his band.
So firm was the crust that they slid
along rapidly on their skis.
"Just here, in the trees, is the cache."
Labiskwee told Smoke.
The next moment she caught bis arm
with a startle of surprise. The flames
of a small lire were dancing merrily,
and crouched by the fire was McCan.
"I was minded you'd run without
me," McCan explained when they came
up. his small peering eyes glimmering
with cunning. "So 1 kept an eye on
the girl, an' when I seen her cachin'
skis an grub 1 was on. I've brought
my owu skis an webs an grab. Will
we be startin now?"
Labiskwee looked swift consterna
tion at Smoke, as swiftly achieved a
judgment on the matter and spoke.
"McCan. you are a dog!" she hissed,
and her eyes were savage with anger.
"I know it is in your heart to raise the
camp if we don't take you. Very welL
We must take you. But you know my
father. I am like my father. You will
do your share of the work. You will
obey. And if you play one dirty trick
it would be better for you if you had
never run."
Daylight found them in the belt of
foothills that lay between the rolling
country and the mountains. McCan
suggested breakfast, but they held on.
Labiskwee explained to Smoke her
knowledge of the country and the way
6he planned to bailie pursuit. There
were but two ways out. one west, the
other south. Snass would immediately
dispatch parties of young men to guard
the two trails. But there was another
way south. True, it did no more than
penetrate halfway into the high, moun
tains; then, twisting to the west and
crossing three divides, it joiued the
regular trail. When the young men
found no traces ou the regular trail
they would turn back in the belief that
the fsr-!j'? bad been uiuiV by the west
traverse. i:vt dreaming that the run
awajs had ventured the harder and
c
longer way around.
Glnucing back at McCan, in the rear.
Labiskwee spoke In an undertone to
Smoke. "He is eating." she said. "It
is not good."
Smoke looked. The man was secret
ly munching cariboo suet from the
pocketful he carried.
"No eating between meals." he com
manded. "There's no game In the
country ahead, and the grub will have
to be whacked In equal rations from
the start. The only way you can travel
with us is by playing fair."
By 1 o'clock the crust bad thawed
so that the skis broke through, and
before 2 o'clock the web shoes were
breaking through. Camp was made
and the first meal eaten. Smoke took
stock of the food. McCan's supply
was a disappointment. So many silver
fox skins had he stuffed into the bot
tom of the meat bag that there was lit
tle space left for meat.
Enough food for a month, with care
ful husbanding and appetites that nev
er blunted their edge, was Smoke's
and Labiskwec's judgment. Smoke ap
portioned the weight and bulk of the
packs, yielding in the end to Labisk
wee's Insistence that she. too. should
cerry a pack.
Kc-xt Liy the stream slmHcwed out in
a wide mountain valley, and they were
already breaking through the crust on
the flats when they gained the harder
surface of the slope of the divide.
"Ten minutes later, and we wouldn't
have got across the Cats," Smoke said
when they paused for breath on the
bald crest of the summit. "We must
be a thousand feet higher here."
But Labiskwee. without speaking,
pointed down to an open fiat among
the trees. In the midst of it. scattered
abreast, were five dark specks that
scarcely moved.
"The young men." said Labiskwee.
"They are wallowing to their hips,"
Smoke said. "They will never gain the
hard footing thw day. We have hours
the start of them. Come ou, McCan.
Buck up. We don't eat till we can't
travel."
In the higher valley in which they
now found themselves the crust did
not break till 3 in the afternoon, at
which time they managed to gain the
shadow of a mountain where the crust
was already freezing again
Black datkness came on. after a long
twilight, at 0 o'clock, when they made
camp in a clump of dwarf spruce. Mc
Can was helpless. The day's march
bad been exhausting, but in addition,
despite his nine years experience in
the arctic, he had been eating snow
and was in agony with his parched and
burning mouth. He crouched by the
fire and groaned while they made the
camp.
In the night came wind and snow,
and through the day of blizzard they
fought their way blindly, missing the
tarn of the way that led up a small
stream and crossed a divide to the
west. For two more days tbey wan
dered, crossing other and wrong di
vides, and in those two days they
dropped spring behind and climbed up
into the abode of winter.
"The young men have lot our trail,
an what's to stop us restin a day?"
McCan begged.
But no rest was accorded. Smoke
and Labiskwee knew their dauger.
They were lost in the high mountains,
and they had seen uo game nor signs
of game. Day after day they strug
gled on through an Iron routig'jratiou
of landscape that compelled them to
labyrinthine canyons and valleys that
led rarely to the west. The terrible
foil and the cold ate up energy, yet
they cut down the sie of the ration
they fiermittwl themselves.
One night Smoke was awakened by a
sound of struggling. Distinctly he
heard a gasping and strangling from
where McCan slept. Kicking the tire
into flame, by its light tic saw Labisk
wee. her bands at the man's throat ana
forcing from his mouth a chunk oi
partly chewed meat. Even as Smoke
saw this her hand went to her hip and
flashed with the sheath knife iu it.
"Labiskwee" Smoke cried, and bis
voice was peremptory.
The hand hesitated.
"Don't!" he said, coming to her side.
She was shaking with anger, but the
hand, after hesitating a moment longer,
descended reluctantly to the sheatb.
McCan sat up, whimpering and snirl
ing. "Where did you get it?" Smoke de
manded. "Feel aronnd his body," Labiskwee
said.
(To Be Continued.)
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TeL No. 1.
Letter files at the Journal office.
TO HOLD SOLONS
UNTIL FINISH
Speaker and Lieutenant Governor
Evolve Plan.
WILL KEEP BACK WARRANTS.
Decide to Refuse Their Signatures on
All Vouchers Until Session Is Ended.
Appropriation Bills Up In Senate
This Week
Lincoln Members of the present
legislative session will not have an
opportunty to skip away before the
ted of the game. Speaker Jackson
and Lieutenant Governor Pearson
have agreed that tbey will not sign
the last $200 voucher of the members
until the last day of the session. That
means that in order .for the members
to obtain that priceless little piece of
paper called a warrant they must be
on hand when the last stroke is heard
through the chamber.
In years agone this has been a bau
trouble. Member after member would
desert the ranks, until upon the last
day it has sometimes appeared that
there were no more than a handful cf
the members here. It is a dangerous
thing to experiment with, according
to Speaker Jackson, and if it so hap
pened that a designing few laid over
until the last they could do enough
mischief in the dying moments of the
session to make a deal of trouble dur
ing the two years following.
Thus far there have been heard no
rebellious utterances over the matter.
The members quite agree with the
presiding officers of the two houses
and they are reads to acquiesce in the
new orders.
The big appropriation bills which
passed the house last week are before
the senate this week and it appear
that there will be some raising there.
This, however, is in line with the sug
gestions of a number of the house
members, so that the latter body will
net take any credit to itself for keep
ing the totals at a point below those
finally approved by the senate. The
common cry has been in the house,
"Oh, well, let the senate raise it."
That attitude has been taken very
frequently so often in fact- that it
has become more or less a legislative
joke. Numerous members of the house
have insisted that the body as a whole
should not be afraid to do something
of a startling nature on its own hook.
"If we're afraid to do it, why what
are we sent here for?" they ask.
Railroads of the state asked Tues
day fcr what will probably be the only
roll call tote on a measure which th'v
were interested in and which they de
sired to see killed. This was the Os-
terman uniform right-of-way bill. This
measure provided that right-of-way
of the roads of the state had to be
uniform through a county. Penalty
for non-observance under its pro
visions was to be followed by for
feiture of it3 right of eminent domain.
That would have meant an impos
sible barrier against the construction
of further lines in the state, in the
opinion of a number of attorneys and
outside business men, who came here
to help in the fight against it.
The statements of both President
Wilson and Secretary of State Bryau
relative to the railroad situation in
this state were read to the assembled
members in the debate on the mat
ter. In both of these there was re
flected the belief that railroads should
be undisturbed and that their secur
ities should be allowed to become as
stable as government bonds. Those
lawmakers who presented the rail
roads side of the case then insisted
that this would never be if such legls
latlon as this were aimed at them.
The question of the ability of the
legislature to keep the appropriations
3f the sesssion, including all the spe
cial and regular bills, down to a point
below those of the 1913 session ap
pears to be uppermost at the present
time. It is an acute question, accord
ng to some of the members, and while
t is impossible to tell anything defi
nite so far in advance, some of the
ncmbers freely predict that a good
record will be made. Others think
'.hat the sum total will be in excess of
17.500.000. or only half a million dol
lars below the session of 1913.
If that is done, however, the mem
bers generally say they will be well
pleased. They believe that that will
be doing fairly well in view of the
fact that the population of the various
Institutions has increased consider
bly during the two years and that
nuch money will be put into perma
nent investments, in the shape of
lands.
A half million dollar saving would
jower the taxes on $3,000 worth of
property about $1 a year. This ap
parently inconsequential sura Illus
trates the midgetry of the state levies
ind in the opinion of a number of the
aouse leaders shows that state taxes
after all are the least of any property
jwners have to pay.
- The state levy has never been over
3 1-5 mills or about one-fourth the
jchool levy In any number of districts
jf the state. The state levy for th?
rear 1914 was 71-5 mills, or about
jne-seventh of the total average levy
n all the counties of the state.
Omaha affairs are to the fore during
ie week. The annexation bill has
Just been acted upon and the commit
tee of the whole is still to hear the
merits and demerits cf the Omafc
lighting bill. The latter measure
one of those in which R. B. Howe!
Republican candidate for governor,
was interested. The fight on this hi
has been particularly fierce during the
past several weeks, and it is believe
that it will yetbring about a battl
of some dimensions before it is se
tied. The bill has been amended i
the process of making, so that t'n
people of the city of Omaha may vot
on the question of issuance of bond
for the embarkation of the water dis
trict into the lighting business. It i
believed that this amply safeguards It
There is no disposition on the part
of the present session of the legisla
ture to pass any kind of liquor or tem
perance legislation. By quiet consent
of the members of both houses all
such bills are being sidetracked. Not
a one has any change of gettir,
through. The wet bill3 are being sub
jectefl to the same treatment at the
hands of wet members under thi
agreement as the dry bills are at the
hands of the dry members. This ac
tion is taken in the hope that thee
will nothing result from this sessio
bich will impair the free settlement
of the liquor question two years hene
under the provisions of the Initiative.
Interest in the anti-discrimination
fire insurance bill, now pending in
the house. Is at a fever heat since
people of the state began to under
Ftand its provisions. The house lead
ers who are interested in the passage
of the measure sav that it will stand
a good show of getting through. Th
bill erases the discrimination that has
existed for years in this state and
compels the citizens of the various
towns to pay upon the Fame basis
and the citizens of the same town tc
pay the same rates on the fame kind
of risks. Members who are advocat
ing the passage of the bill-say that
fire insurance is virtually a tax upon
property and that there is no more
reason for a lack of uniformity than
there is in tax affairs. Omaha people
are now paying two to three times aa
much for the same kind of Insurance
that Lincoln business men and dwell
Ing house owners are purchasing
Lincoln has no right to this discrimj
naticn. say the Omaha senators and
representatives. Neither has any oth
er of half a dozen towns where the
rates are exceedingly low. The towns
entitled to the rates are those several
hundred localities where the rates are
still high.
Under the proposal, the rates would
be raised where necessary and low
ered where necessary, but the state
rste would be no higher than the aver
age state rate at present. The entire
matter would be under the charge of
the state insurance commission, com
posed of the governor, the state and
Itor and the attorney general. It is
believed that that body would pre
serve an equality between the rate:?
and that utter fairness would be re
corded in rate making hereafter in
this state under the terms of the hill
The most Insistent enemies of the
bill have been those who have q'i
tloned the advisability of giving Mr
Howell so much power.
Messages sent from Governor More-
head to the legislature show the in
tense interest which the executive hag
in road making over the state. Tii3
governor wants something done in the
way of providing for the establish
ment of road paving districts in the
rural sections of the state. He be
lieves that only through such a plan
can there ultimately come a tlm
when farmers of the state can get tc
town in all kinds of weather. He
wants the present legislature to 2rni
the farmers with some kind of
weapon like this, and he believes they
will then work out their own salva
tion. The experiment, he sayg. wou'd
be an expensive one when regarded
from the angle of first cost. But in
the end, he believes that it would pay
and pay well, and he thinks that no
farmers of the state, once they have
given it a trial would be willing to
go backwards.
Another message sent to the law
makers by the chief executive asks
that something be set aside for the
payment of indemnities to the owners
of animals which have to be slaugh
tered by reason of their affliction with
the foot -nd mouth disease. That
disease has not yet come into thr
ftate. but the live stock sanitary
board feels that it would be well to
have the money available and then in
the event that it is needed have it on
hand to recompense the owners for
their loss.
Dodge of Douglas went on the war
path in the senate, making charges
against the Omaha Gas company, the
Omaha city commissioners and former
Lieutenant Governor McKelvie.
Dodge said that McKelvie in 1913
had fixed the conference committee so
that all amendments hostile to the gas
company were stricken out.
Concerning the gas company and
the city commissioners of Omaha, be
said that the former was attempting
to put something over in the shape of
a ten-year contract extending the com
pany's franchise, which expires !n
1917. If they couldn't do it with the
present commissioners, he said, they
would with commissioners which they
were now fighting to elect this spring
The remarks were made in support
of Quinby's successful fight to sivp
senate file 231 from the report of Sen
ator Howell's standing committee, rec
ommending it for indefinite postpone
ment. The bill repeals certain pow
ers given the city council in connec
tion . with the gas franchise, including
the power to enter Into a ten-year con
tract. -
...?....?. ,T T....T... .'..T..'..T..T. T?Tt
IN PLATTSMOUTH
FORTY YEARS AGO.
Phil Harrison was married yester
day.
Daniel Wheeler, jr., has been acting
express agent during Captain Ben
nett's absence, and a very good fist
he makes of it, too.
Both avenues, Second street and
Vine street, are or have been receiv
ing the attention of the street com
missioner lately.
Mr. Wells hunting dog, having been
poisoned by some one, came inio the
house, and while in a spasm, got un
der the stove and tipped it over. Rush
Fellows and several others reachc
there just in time to quench the fire
and prevent more serious results. The
dor died.
Our fire marshal is respectfully re
quested to examine and report the de
fective flues on Main street. Hal
those shanties there have chimney
only a foot high, and others run the
pipe through the roof. Below there
are little sheet-iron stoves with no
dampers and always in a blaze this
cold weather.
Gen. Cunningham returned homo
from Washington on Saturday la?
after a nearly all winter's stay. The
general reports the Nebraska cnaps
in Washington as all O. K., fat and
Nourishing, ready for investigation
or any other music. He himself look
well and shows his feed while uown
among the big guns. Think's Blaine
is the man who will be next president
time will tell how good a guesser
he is.
The Pioneer association met last
Saturday with a largely increased at
tendance. Further steps were taken
for the success of the picnic of the
16th inst. By the way, everybody
wants to keep the entertainment in
mind and be on hand, as it will prove
one of the best, as well as the last cf
the season. In 1S55 a brass band dis
coursed sweet music where Platts
mouth now stands. That band is to
be reorganized for the ICth.
WTe omitted last week to speak of
Judge Sprague's removal to Ashland
Mr. Sprague has been the law partner
of Hon. Sam Chapman for two years
rand removes to his old home in Ah
land on account of owning property
there and other business relations
We are sorry to lose the judge. He is
a good citizen and lawyer, and Platts
mouth can ill afford to lose such, but
we suppose he must look after his
own interests, just as the Herald or
anyone else does. Success to him,
anyway, wherever he goes.
Christmas was a gala day at Glen-
dale all day the school house pre
sented a busy appearance, as a beauti
f ul Christmas tree was being fitted
up. At 6 o'clock everything was in
order and the crowd began to as
semble. Ere an hour had elapsed the
house was filled to its utmost, and
the tree gave unmistakeable evidence
that Glendale could do the handsome
thing when she felt so disposed.
Elegant and costly presents, as well
as some of more utility than style,
graced the tree from top to bottom
The exercises of the evening were
formally opened by a song from the
choir, entitled "Christmas Eve." It
may not be out of place to mention
that the music was very fine. The
choir was composed of Messrs. Ward,
Sayles, Cooley,-Livingston and others
Miss Mamie Cooley and Miss Hase-
meire in turn presided at the organ;
after other music, prayer was offered
by our worthy superintendent, Ben
jamin Ward, esq., after which J. H
Polls, in his usual style, delivered the
cpening address then followed the
distribution of presents, and our real
merriment began. We learn'lhat more
than 250 presents of real worth were
distributed, and everybody went home
telling that it was good to have been
there. C. S.
Dr. John Black has been quite sick
again with his old complaint. It ha?
been very serious this time.
John Englehart has gone and left
us, and Henry Bons has bought iiim
cut. He and Lenhoff will run the ma
chine for the future.
, Vivian has been down to Syracuse.
Did it all alone with the mules, over-
and route. Says the town is growing
and everybody happy.
John Heffner's horse committed
Euicide last week, and broke his nack
to do it. John says there ought to
e a law against horseaciding.
Mr. Byers, U. S. coun:;ul to SwiU-
erland, in company with W. Gilmore,
called on the Herald last week. He is
a very pleasant and intelligent gentleman.
"Lon" Cunningham coasted "him
self into the creek, costing him a
split cheek severe enough to have ihe
doctor sew it up. At la?t accounts
he was so so.
Uncle Stephen Hobson came in to
see us Friday and left the mada.no
the handsomest apple a great
Bellflower. Uncle Stephen is the only
man that can raise Bellflowers in this
part of the country.
The work of refitting the Methodist
church is going on favorably. It was
intended tq have it opened for service
on next Sabbath, but delays will j re
vent. It is intended to have it ready
for occupancy on Sunday after ne?::,
of which notice will be given next,
week.
We dropped into Hatt's butc'ir
shop the other day and saw a fine ar
ray of beef hanging up against th!
walls; 1,300 pounds and over of dr?rs
ed beef, in luscious steaks of red and
white that woukl make an anchorite a
mouth water. Att halso ad sorr.s
'eavy ogs for sale.
As Thomas Ellington was eng:ig;l
in moving the goods of Alonzo Cui.
ningham, the hordes started to run a
they were crossing Vine on Sixth, t
wards Main street, Ellington thr.v
the lines and jumped from the load;
team crossed the bridge and collided
with the telegraph pole just in tb.
rear of the bank, at which Judge Ga.-.-.
forgetful of his dignified title, con
descended to allow himself to be
thrown across the sidewalk and down
among the boxes and barrels in .ho
rear of the brick block (we are -;lal
to learn he escaped without serious in
jury); the shock threw the tongje
down, and the crosswalk between thi
bank and Stadelmann's offering an
impediment to its pjKgre?, the wagon
was raised, the tongue broken, and
the horses relieving themselves of all
incumbrances, passed on at a, livjly
pace to the brick stable without any
further damage.
District court is in full blast, with
all the attendant lawyers.
Cholera is again destroying a laige
number of chickens in this vicinity.
Master George Donovan is nj.v
playing the "devil" for the Herald.
Preston Conner, who had a fit
fall and fell in the fire and burred
himself, was buried last Thursday.
"Dick" O'Neil. F. Carruth's mir,
Friday, saved a little boy from bein
run over by a car last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. N. Shc:a, Rock
Bluffs, had a son born to then on the
13th inst. Mr. Shera is a brother to
Jos. Shera, the well knwvn rwvehant
and miller there.
Judge Haines has be j i pick. They
say a trough had someth'j j; to do wit I.
it. 'Hie! sic preach in' would imkc a
dog sick." Eh, how is this?
A sweet collection cf pt)-onal.s col
lected on the pavement in front of
Ben Hemple's the .il'ier day. Morgan,
Hagood, Mickelwa:te, L'ipt. Paine,
the Herald, Hemple, and- well, we
settled the fate of the nation. Fr?d
Dorrington wants to look out for thil
crowd.
Fighting inside the limits of She
town is forbid. Charley Holmes, I .
Jones and a host of fellows want to
"look a leddle oud." Horses free fron
any livery in town to see the figh;.
Cutler has his own team.
Something strange, but neverthe
less true is the fact that on the ajo i
road between Heisel's mill and PHUe
bottom, within the distance of less
than half a mile, there are 14 tele
graph poles that have been more or
ess shattered by lighting; 12 in a
row, then missing one, two more art
stripped from top to bottom. All of
which seems to have been done during
our last storms.
It almost a.stcnishcs us to see w'j-it
nice improvements Mr. King, pro
prietor of the Nebraska House at
Eight Mile Grove, has made within a
year past. Mr. K. ha's put up a 'om
fortable building, wherein he hi a
store, tend postoffice and receiuc
and entertains travelers, and all thai
comes and goes. In short, making a
small village himself. This suppiu-.
a want long felt and needed in thi?
county. The soad to Weeping WatT
a long one on a hot day, -wid
travelers will gladly welcome Brother
King's Nebraska resting place.
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