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THIS IN NEBRASKA
EVENTS OF INTEREST OF MORE
OR LESS IMPORTANCE
Some Figures on the Corn Crop in
Nebraska Custer County First
in Production
Nebraska Corn Crop Figures
LINCOLN According to statistics
issued by the state labor bureau the
total production of corn in Nebraska
he present year is 2 11383537 bushels
as compared with 243733244 bushels
in 1905 or adecrease this year of 2
329707 bushels There was an in
crease in the acreage of corn tiiis year
of 308418 acres over 1905 but in spite
of this the total production of the crop
was lessened by hail in various sec
tions together with a period of dry
-weather at a critical time in the crops
growth Tlieaverage yield last year
f 3705 bushels per acre was ex
tremely high and the yield of 3528
bushels is nearer normal but a high
yield also This decrease in the pro
duction decreases the total value S
17338892 from the value of the 1905
crop which reached a total of 79
48523700 The 190G crop is valued
at 8931190892
Lancaster county ranks first in
acreage with 243475 acres- and an
iaverage yield of 322 bushels per
acre
Custer county ranks first in produc
tion with 8251158 bushels and Lan
caster county takes second place with
a production of 7839895 bushels
c Saunders county takes third place
with 7434003 bushels produced
Av Yield
per Acre tlon
County Acreage Bush Bush
Adams S07G4 317 2300218
Antelope 115588 311 35947SG
nner 2927 183 53504
Blaine 5515 2S7 158280
goone 102487 355 3C382S8
03ox Butte 4108 275 112970
Boyd 00009 3C8 220S331
Brown 23535 307 722524
aiuffalo 1812G7 390 70G9413
Burt 775G4 437 3389546
iliutler 121581 351 42G7493
Css 125059 375 4G89712
Cedar 123851 39C 4904499
-Chase 30184 238 718379
Cherry 24223 281 6S0GGG
Cheyenne 7900 281 221990
Clay 109877 383 4208289
Colfax 74379 400 29751G0
Cumins 102448 421 4313060
Custer 232427 355 S251158
Dakota 44175 451 1992292
Dawes 4282 2S0 119S9G
Dawson 131947 40S 53S3437
Deuel - 1G491 338 557395
Dixon 72375 402 2909475
Dodgre 99775 371 3701652
Douglas 68191 382 2604896
Dundy 42110 242 1019062
Fillmore 121726 376 457G897
Franklin 85492 296 25305G3
Frontier 122757 354 4345597
Furnas 10G757 371 39606S4
Cage 188531 335 G3157S8
Garfield 19018 305 5S0049
Cosper 87105 35 0 304S675
Grant 42 250 1050
583S2 2SS 1687161
Kail S0242 336 2696131
Hamilton 113173 3S3 4334525
DTarlan 129875 420 5454750
Hayes J 52494 250 1312350
-Hitchcock 28246 2S5 S05011
CHolt 93223 263 2451764
Hooker 2205 230 50715
Howard 7S690 376 295S714
Jefferson 112922 262 2958556
Johnson 79013 328 2591626
Uvcarney 84554 353 29S475G
Keith 12308 325 400010
Keya Paha 28775 292 S40230
Kiinhall S2S 175 14490
Knox 224393 315 706S379
Lancaster 243475 322 7839S95
Uiicoln 50710 291 1475661
JLogan 10494 295 309573
Loup 13766 311 42S122
Madison 9GGS0 310 29939S0
McPherson j
Merrick 57306 310 177G4S6
Nance G7068 367 2461395
2sTemaha 70752 382 2702726
Nuckolls 116205 356 4136S9S
Otoe 143568 370 5312016
Pawnee 71374 321 2291105
Perkins 17393 25S 44S739
Phelps 85805 422 1042971
Pierce S1636 300 2r4400S0
Platte 136020 382 5195964
Polk 86122 38S 3341533
CRed Willow 73297 2S6 2096294
-Richardson - 93747 3S0 37523SC
Roclc 1502S 284 420795
Saline 118699 351
Sarpy 52S65 368 1945432
Saunders 180S76 411 7434003
Scotts Bluff 2196 300 65S80
Seward 119901 370 443G337
-Sheridan 14949 300 48470
Sherman 5S502 345 2018319
Sioux 2006 193 3SK
Stanton 7S290 345 2 0100a
Thayer 114599 297 3403590
Thomas 1925 250 4S12o
Thurston - G67S9 384 2oG4G9
Vallev 72301 357 2S114
Washington 78490 368 28S8432
TVavne 92664 372 344100
Webster 109945 343 SJlIJ
Wheeler 13780 295 iOG lO
3Tork 120792 370 4j419
Totals GS4Q905 352S 242383537
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Consolidating Two Homes
An effort will be made this year
to consolidate the Girls Industrial
-home at Milford with the Home for
the Friendless at Lincoln the united
liome to oe at Milford This will
leave the entire building now used
for the Friendless and the Orthopedic
-hospital for the use of the latter The
Orthopedic hospital needs more
TGom and Superintendent Lord will
recommend a large appropriation for
lot of legislators
a new building but as a
lators will object to this expenditure
-the consolidation likely will be ef
fected
Change in the State Normal
LINCOLN A resolution will be of
fered at the next meeting of the State
Normal board which if adopted prob
ably will make unnecessary the ap
propriation asked for to increase the
capacity of the Kearney Normal
school This resolution which will be
offered by State Treasurer Mortensen
will provide no students can be ad
mitted to the normal school who have
not passed the tenth rade
Nebraska Insurance Companies
Blanks asking for information in
regard to the business of the last
year are being sent out to all U5ur
ance companies by Insurance Auditor
John L Pierce llife companies re
ceive blanks containing thirty six
pages Minute explanations as to the
manner of conducting business may be
made by companies which have been
In the state only one year They must
tell how their money is invested give
mi itemized account of their gains
nd losses and show the exact cost
iflf obtaining new business
NEBRASKA BRIEFS
- Geneva has purchased three trained
bloodhounds to chase criminals
The series of religious meetings in
Harvard were disappointing asJo re
suits
Butler county sim voing in the
matter of organizing a county agricul
tural society
Delia Clark an employe of the Mor
ion hotel Nebraska City attempted to
commit suicide by taking laudanum
Doctors saved her with a stomach
pump
William H Bush was arrested by
Sheriff Bauman of Dodge county on
the charge of stealing a horse from
John Hebebrand a farmer near
Hooper
George Hill who escaped from the
Dodge county sheriff while being
taken to jail to await trial on a charge
of attempt to murder was arrested in
Council Bluffs la
At Rulo Melvin and Bill Foster
were arrested and taken to the county
jail in Falls City being charged with
burning the barn and corncrib on the
Alois Dannecker farm
A man en route from New York to
San Francisco attempted to commit
suicide on train No 5 east of Lexing
ton and was taken off the train and
put in charge of a physician
Arthur Cremer who has been in
the vicinity of Ashland for several
months and has attracted much at
tention by his queer actions has re
cently been adjudged insane
The Cass county mortgage record
for November is as follows Mortgages
filed on farm property amounting to
20654 released 17610 Amount of
mortgages filed on city property
4100 released 322S
A Underwood a Virginian who had
been in Deadwood S D several
weeks came to Alliance He became
intoxicated and while in a rooming
house insulted Mrs F J Dunn who
shot him He will not die
Many contests on land are being
filed at the United States land office
at North Platte These contests are on
land in Cheyenne and other western
counties where homesteads were
taken and later abandoned
Miss Ella E Lawrence has started
suit in district court of Platte county
against the Monroe Independent Tel
ephone company for 20000 damages
She received a serious shock and so
will the company if she wins her case
Newspapers at Columbus have re
ceived notice from the Burlington rail
road that no more transportation will
be issued in payment for advertising
and that whatever the papers print
for them on their order will be paid
for by the company m cash
Reports of cattle dying in the north-
east part of Antelope county from
cornstalk disease are current in one
case a man losing five head There
is seldom danger after the middle of
January and the presumption is that
continued freezing removes the cause
A party of suveyors has recently
looked over the territory from Octavia
on west along the south sde of the
Platte river They carefully surveyed
the grounds leaving stakes on several
points along a line west from Octavia
Everybody is anxious to know the na
ture of this survey
The- case of Mrs Sarah Young of
David City against R L Berndg and
the Metropolitan Mutual Bond and
Surety company of Omaha for the
sum of 5000 damages for the exces
sive sale and giving away of liquor to
her husband Lee Young which caused
his death on February 22 resulted in a
verdict of 1500 in her behalf
The West Point Farmers Institute
society has decided to hold a competi
tive corn exhibit during the institute
which is to be held in West Point
February 7 and 8 Ten prizes will be
awarded five on yellow and five on
white corn Twenty ears of corn must
be shown by each exhibitor the judg
ing and scoring to be done by state
experts
The stockholders of the Webster
county fair association held their fix st
annual meeting at Bladen The man
agement was highly pleased with the
reports of the different departments
Premiums were all paid in full Nearly
4000 has been expended for improve
ments during the past season and the
treasurer still shows a nice balance
on hand
Capt W S Noyes aged sixty five
years a resident of Hastings for
twenty five years dropped dead shortly
after enteiing the Bostwick barber
shop Mr Noyes asked Lou Egelhoff
a barber to assist him in removing
his coat and as Egelhoff turned to
take the coat Noyes said I might
as well give it up Im going to die
He was caught in Egelhaffs arms as
he fell and soon expired
A draft for 706725 was tendered
to the county treasurer of Lincoln
county by the Burlington Railway
company through its attorney J J
Halligan in payment of the companys
faxes for the year 1906 This tender
was 381543 less than the amount
due and was therefore refused by the
county treasurer until permission is
given by a court of competent jurisdic
tion to accept a partial payment with
out invalidating the collection of the
full amount
Tony Prebyl a farmer living near
Barneston brought specimens to Beat
rice which were taken from the craw
of a duck by Mrs Prebyl while she
was engaged in dressing the fowl The
sample were pronounced a fine qual
ity of placed gold
The new government road in Ne
maha county is completed Two miles
of macadamized road now stretches
to the east from the foot of Central
avenue in Auburn This covers the
strip of ground that has always been
impassable in the spring when the
water is high
Gridiron Heroes Named on
All Star Western Eleven
Strongest Combination Possible in Es
timation of Critics and Rea
sons for Their Selections
Now that the football season of 1906
has passed into history it is customary
to select the men who have made the
best showing for an imaginary all
star team While opinions of various
critics as to the merits of the many
players differ the following combina
tion is generally conceded to be as
strong as any named
In selecting the western stars this
year the performances in the few big
games scheduled have been the decid
ing factors in a number of cases
Along with the changing of the foot
ball map wrought by the re-arrangement
of the time honored relations be
tween Michigan Wisconsin and Chi
cago and the arrival of Minnesota
at Chicago has come a changed
Tnate of the western teams which
leaves the gopher school of Minne
apolis in the lead in the number of
players chosen to represent the west
Eastern and western -fans will not
agree on the quality offootball players
turned out in the two sections this
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ALL STAR WESTERN ELEVEN
v Walker Chicago End
Curtis Michigan Tackle J
farry Chicago Guard
Safford Minnesota Center
Case Minnesota Guard
Ittner Minnesota Tackle
Marshall Minnesota End
Eckersall Chicago Quar Back
t Schnecht Minnesota Half Back j
Clark Wisconsin Half Back
X Garrels Michigan Full Back
play is given a guard position as his
class does not permit of his being
crowded out of the line up He has
j been a mainstay in the gopher line all
season and both oirensively and de
fensively has proved that he is a
worthy member of the star eleven
Parry whose versatility in execution
and headiness at interpreting the the
ory of opposing plays makes him sec
ond only to Eckersall in the estima
tion of the maroons might play equal
ly well at end tackle or guard He is
one of the greatest defensive players
Stagg ever had and a star in the at
tack as well His speed is remarkable
Quartette of All- Western Stars
year Undoubtedly the west has not
shown up to the standard -set in pre
vious seasons in the games played and
a straw vote probably would give the
east the call
In the selection of the all western
ends Marshall of Minnesota and
Walker of Chicago seem to have no
superiors Marshall the veteran
gopher who played his best game this
season and perhaps the best game of
his career in the Chicago Minnesota
battle at Marshall Field Nov 10 is re
garded by the majority of the nonpar
tisan rooters as entitled to one of the
ends The colored man negotiated the
place kick which brought victory to
his team but more than that he made
possible much of the showing both
offensive and defensive that Minne
sota furnished
Fred Walker Chicagos left end has
the call on the other extremity He
is regarded by Coach Stagg as a mem
ber of his select gallery of stars and
he has been of immense value to his
team He took up the end position
when he was needed there worse than
at his regular half back position and
he surprised even his coach by the
versatility he exhibited He knows
the game thoroughly and is the equal
of any western end in all around work
Curtis of Michigan Ittner of Minne
sota and Parry of Chicago were used
at end in certain games where their
showing won them praise but they are
considered of great value in other posi
tions Ends of exceptional ability other
than these were lacking
Captain Curtis of Michigan and Itt
ner of Minnesota deserve the tackle
positions Curtis whose broken leg
kept him out of the Pennsylvania
game was the best tackle in the west
last year and he fully upheld his rec
ord in the games in which he appeared
previous to his injury He is powerful
of build and fast beyond the usual gift
of heavy weights He is invaluable in
the attack and every bit as good as on
the defense
Ittner has been declared the best
tackle in the west by the gopher
hordes without reservation and Dr
Williams esteems him as one of the
most valuable players he has ever had
in the line In the Chicago game
where he played end he got down the
field in record time and made the
greater part of the gains negotiated by
Minnesota
In picking the guards and tackles
consideration was given to the claims
of Smith and Case of Minnesota and
Parry and Russell of Chicago above
the other candidates for the places
Case whd was used at tackle most of
this season by Dr Williams and Parry
who alternated at tackle and end are
given the preference for the guard
positions Curtis and Ittner being pre
ferred at the tackles
Case whr ii3 atill another year to
in view of his weight which is far
i above the 200 pound mark
i Considerable difficulty is found in
unearthing a center who can stand as
a worthy successor of the fleshy giants
who frightened the opposing linemant
in the past In weight and size Waughi
of Indiana seems to be built for the
place but he is not regarded as the
equal of Safford the young Minnesota
star who made such a creditable show
ing in the Minnesota games in which
he appeared Waugh is quick at charg
ing and knows the trick of swinging
his beef to advantage through the
line but he has not filled the bill as
he apparently should have done Saf
ford who is given the place is slightly
underweight for an ideal center But
he is a bundle- of nerve sense and all
around knowledge of the game
Eckersall at quarter back has been
a foregone conclusion all season The
little Chicago captain far from losing
ground on his past record materially
increased it In his brilliant lodging
runs through the open field in run
sing the team in drop kicking and in
punting he was as he has beea for the
past four years head and shoulders
above his rivals He has starred in
every game onChicagos schedule this
yeai
Hare of Indiana is a quarter back
of remarkable ability but a much
lesser luminary than Eckersall Ovitz
of Illinois and Larkin of Minnesota de
serve praise for their work in general
ship
Schuknecht of Minnesota and Clark
of Wisconsin have the call on the half
back positions from their showings in
the big- games played by their teams
Schuknecht played a rejnarkably
clever game in the Chicago contest
making more gains than the entire re
mainder of the back field He starred
in the Carlisle Minnesota game as
well His dodging speedy style makes
him the equal of Clark of Wisconsin
who is placed in the other half back
position
Clark outclassed his team mates at
Wisconsin and seemed to withstand
the shock that hit the cardinal team
Those who saw his exhibition in the
Wisconsin games brought back glow
ing reports of his brilliant work He
has shown exceptional class all sea
son and makes an excellent running
mate for Schuknecht Clark of In
diana and Doane of Minnesota showed
brilliancy in several games
Garrels of Michigan is ths best full
back in the west He keiit up his
starring at the position as he 5ad done
at -half back for the wolverines Of
fensively and defensively he is inval
uable and Yost might have taude a
sorry showing without him tltf3 sea
son Current of Minnesota is his only
rival for the position and his poor
offensive game unfits him for the
honor
IN TROPICAL AFRICA
MILES OF RAILROAD LAID ALONG
UPPER CONGO
Remarkable Progress Made Consider
ing the Distance from All Sources
of Supplies and the Primi
tive Labor
More than 1000 black men in
charge of European engineers have
been engaged for more than a year in
grading the roadbed laying the track
and doing all the rough work on the
new railway tl tat has jusfbeen opened
along the upper Congo This road be
tween Stanleyville and Ponthlerville
75 miles circumvents the stretch of
rapids that forms the first impedi J
iuuiil iu luivigiiiiuu on me upper river
The line was opened a few weeks ago
and it the pioneer railway in tropical
central Africa In straight lines its
southern terminus at the head of the
rapids is about 1070 miles from Zan
zibar and 970 miles from the Congo
mouth
It has been interesting to watch
the progress of this enterprise Few
railways have been built with primi
tive labor so far from the sources of
all supplies The first step was the j
building of two large storehouses at
Matadi and Stanleyville 1235 miles
apart following the Congo channel
firing and operation This will not
only result in an economical use of
steam and fuel but the elimination of
dense smoke will largely contribute
to the comfort of passenger and the
general public especially in passing
through cities towns and otaer thick
ly populated sections
The rules require that the fire must
be in good condition at the time the
locomotive starts out on a trip the
large lump coal reduced to near the
size of a mans fist and freely
sprinkled with water before used The
superintendent says the most success
ful firemen are those who can main
tain the working steam pressure
within a range of ten poundu variation
with the smallest amount of fuel and
the least waste of steam
One Train a Day
Within a few miles of the greatest
industrial center of the Midlands
England there is a small railway link
ing together two trunk lines on
which only one train is run a day
and occasionally without any passen
gers The service is a paper or
dummy one continued
sinipjy in or
der that the running powers of the
Midland company may not be for
feited through non usage
Sobriety Rigidly Enforced
Intoxication while on duty is a mis
demeanor for a railroad employe in
California and if death results a
felony
CAR BUILT OF SOLID STEEL r
Will Supersede
Type That Ultimately
All Ofher Kinds
A railroad car built almost wholly
out o lb
of steel has been turned
shops in Sacramento by tne Southern
Pacific railroad It is made of sheets
of steel riveted solidly together as are
the steel plates upon a warship It
is expected that this car will be al
most indestructible in a collision or
other kind of accident and it cannot
burn
TTwronotntr favor Is accorded the all-
steel passenger coach ami the predic
tion is made In railroad circles that
this type of car ultimately will super
sede all other kinds of passenger
coaches Similarity is given to the
exterior appearance of the wooden
passenger coach by covering practical
ly all the rivets on the outside of the
car body with special drawn moldings -and
by graining all the steel parts
such as posts and panels to conform
to the ordinary wood flnjah
The California typo of car is one
practically adapted to the climatic
conditions of that country and con
sists of open sections at each end of
the car with closed sections in the
middle this forming a satisfactory
construction for the year around The
length of the car over all is 40 feet
six inches
The underframe side sheets out
side finish to eaves of closed section
and the platform posts in the open
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Railroad Car of Soffcf Steel Prates
to house the material at its landing
place in Africa and at the starting
point of the railway Locomotives
cars and bridges were carried up the
Congo in pieces and put together
where they were needed on the line
Some of the gangs of laborers were
superintended by young natives who
had been trained for years in the in
dustrial schools of the government or
the missionary societies
The extent of navigation available
for steamers on the Congo Is now well
known and the purpose is to carry
railways around the few parts of the
river which are obstructed by rapids
so as to extend unbroken steam trans
portation to the end of the farthest
navigable reach of the stream By
building this new railway the Congo
State had added 261 miles of steam
transportation to the 1325 miles al
ready in operation between the Coggo
mouth and Stanley Falls Navigation
is again impeded at Kindu ISO miles
above the terminus of the new rail
way and the government intends to
begin at once the building of the third
and last stretch of railway along the
river from Kindu to Buli about ISO
jniles above which there is uninter
rupted navigation for small steamers
for 372 miles where the importance
of the river for large commercial pur
poses practically ends
The total length of steam transpor
tation along the Congo when the last
mile of rails is laid will be 2144 miles
of which 154S miles will by water and
595 miles by land ami the end of this
long route will be in touch with the
great mining region of Katanga which
is said to be as rich as Rhodesia in
goM while the prospects of copper
production are perhaps unsurpassed in
any other part of the world The im
portance of extending transportation
to this region is stimulating the ef
forts of the Congo government It
remains to be seen whether the Congo
rail and water route will reach this
southeast corner of the state before
the branch of the Cape to Cairo rail
way arrives at the same destination-
Wilt Stop Locomotive Smoke
With the object of minimizing the
emission of smoke from locomotives
the general superintendent of motive
power of a leading railroad has is
sued new instructions to engineers
and firemen intended to govern their
sections are made of steel in the- form
of plates rolled or pressed to suit re
quirements
In order to carry the road and
weight of the car entirely on the side
constructfon care had to be taken in
providing openings for steps next to
the closed section -between the trucks
without weakening the car at ihese
particular points
MAKES RECORD OF ORDERS
Telegraphone Will Go Far Toward
Preventing Railroad Accidents
If experiments which are- being
made with a new device known as the
telegraphone succeed another long
step toward the prevention of railroad
accidents will have been taken The
advantages which the telegraphone
affords in train dispatching have at
tracted the serious attention of rail
road officials and it is expected that
before long the new apparatus will
be in use on several of the big rail
road systems
The telegraphone makes a perma
nent record of all train dispatching or
ders sent bv the telegraph ticker or
over the telephone wire The- sound
waves set up by the ticker act upon
the diaphragm of the transmitter at
tached to the telegraphone and are
thence conveyed to a thin steel wire
where they are electrically stnrri Ac
soon as a record of the orders- has
been made upon the wire the trIn
dispatcher places the receiver to his
ear and immediately hears- the- orders
just as they were given
Records may be repeated as often
as desired but as soon as there is no
further need to keep them they niay
be wiped out by passing a strong mag
net over the wire thus making it
ready for use again
in this way the possibility of error
fn train dispatching orders wilt be
greatly reduced There is no need to
trust to the memory as the orders are
there upon the wire
and can be re
ferred to at any time The records
can be transferred for future- refer
ence by connecting the receiver of the
machine in daily use with the trans
mitter of a large storage telephone
Should any mistake occur the
sibility can immediately be located
by reference to the records on the
storage machine an inTinitr
mg on just what portion of the wire
any particular record has been made
The record will give
so perfect
a re
production of the dispatchers voice
even after months have elapsed that
it can at once be recognized
Last Stage Coach Gone
With the extension of the North
western railway from Casper west
ward toward Lander Wyo will for
ever vanish the last vestige of the old
stage coach days
excepting a scat
tering few star routes for short dis
tances throughout the mountains from
railway terminals to minor post offices
or interraountain resorts
Of the old stage coach days the
hue between Atkinson Kan and
Placerville Cal
which
ran daih
coaches for about five years-1860-5-1
was probably the finest ever known in
the stage coach business
those days it cost more for meals During
tween Atkinson and Denver San the
railroad fare costs with the meals
Use Wipic
Wireless telegraphjMsSed on
stations to approaches drains
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