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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1895)
f , l 4 4', 0" 4 Kl SOI COUNTT JOURNAL UJ.m OSS, frssrlstev. NEBRASKA. i It completely it don skirts. unmans a new worn a Jndge Culver bad his bngsy tarred d feather-! tbe other night. Wichi ta Ear!. Insane, lieyond a doubt. - - - CoL Breckinridge insists that he nev er aaid he was out of politic for good. Well, what difference dot- it make? lie to out Bloomer offer a new terror for the Ball boy ho has been accustomed to wear hU father's trousers cut down wade over. The newspaper is a great educator, but a man doesn't want to read two reports of tbe name event In two daily papers, unless be wants to get his wind confused. Tbe Pittsburg Press makes iuite a fuss over'the discovery that the new woman can strike a match on her bloomers. This certainly throws a new light on the subject. If'you think nolxidy cares for you just stand up at the circus. You will be surprised at finding bow many people will take au interest in your up rising and downfall. We believe uo difficulty would be ex perienced iu getting any amount of takes If a swimming match across the Atlantic could be arranged tietween Corbett and Fitzsimmons. Female. baseball clubs are reported from various sections of the country, but the new woman can make a hit quicker by putting buckwheat cakes across the plate, not a baseball. . - , Tbe Atchison Globe remarks that "kissing Is a pretty bad thing when you come to think about it." Don't think about it. She who hesitates is lost; he who hesitates Is a chuuip. A pleasing feature of these bloomer weddings will be the absence of the long trains, which cause the guest so much trouble. Indeed, there Is noth ing about the bloomer girl to step on except ber feet. ' Two t iregnu physicians quarreled and fought a dnel, each shooting the other. It was very unprofessional to give each other leaden pills like that, but probably It hcl)eil along the general health of the community. Miss Flagler, who shot ami killed a negro boy who was stealing a few pears from her father's orchard In Washington, went Into convulsions the other day when a thoughtless friend sent her a imsket of pears. What a pity she didn't display her tender heartedness earlier in the game! Oregon people are raising a stronit protest against the continuance of the horse-eaiitiitiK industry In that State. They claim that It will injure the repu tation of the State and of other can ning industries. They do not want people to say or think "dead horse!" wheu they see the brand "I trejron" on canned meats. The horse cannery has started business, but little is known of Its business yet. A wooden leg. If stood upon. Is not dutiable, according to a recent decision of the Treasury Department. To !e admitted without the customs tax It must be attached to the body of the owner. False teeth in the mouth, wigs on the head, false eyes in their sockets, are, under the same ruling, also exempt from duty. The false leg that does not support the owner must Hear its part of the support of the Government, Thus the Imported leg must no Its duty or pay It A curious sight was witnessed in Cincinnati during a tire there the other day. In the building all the upper floors were stored with peanuts, seven thousand bags in all. Au tbe fire ate Its way Into the peanuts and burned the windows of the building out, the nuts rolled out of the windows In a steady stream. Each nut was blaring and they had the appearance of a stream of fire-balls rolling out of the windows. The seven thousand bags, which were a total loss, were valued at $.'t a bag. As there were only forty thousand bags of peanuts in Cincinnati and one hundred and twenty thousand In the entire country, the loss of this stock will affect the market. ' Tbe Boston Transcript has been in forsaed on good authority that while Mm Columbia beat the record of any other warship In crossing the ocean the resl teat of Its ocean-crossing speed rsmalrm to be made. Its informant says It could nave done better if Its corn- Had been willing to do what done lately by the captain of a transatlantic liner namely, kill a tl re in bis effort to get the greatest oat of bis sbtp. As nsval offl- kve store soul than tbe agents ft grant snip-owning corporations, there t B Kkattbood of such a teat at pre CSC. ; Taw Transcript aptly says: "If if i rulTnntlf liners will kilt a man for ?C ftitt hssjr off tn record, and men ,0M ni w mam w'u tiM CI tif nr an aetoal wt r tn utmost m a mag rn; ror tnnn w rlfet and patriotic to acriice -831 nf'tCt CtiCk it-...An tuit 1 1 ft 4b a t. tnfH r- ' Ins run carriaee, mounted. Tie car riage, which 1 built for an 8-tncb gun. weighs when mounted about 04 ton and can be easily traversed or elevated in any desired position. The idea of the carriage la to protect the gun and tie men from the enemy. The gun la loaded and sighted from behind its parapet and ! exposed to the fire of the enemy but a few seconds when being fired. A charge of ISO pounds of pow der Is needed for the 8-inch gun and a projectile weighing 300 pounds will be ued. Boston Harbor is to be equipped with this style of carriages, and It is es timated that fifty will be necessary. They are also to be placed at Portland. Me., New York, Potomac river below Washington, Fortress Monroe and Fort Wadsworth. When this system of dis appearing gun carriages is put into the forts ironclads of a hostile fleet probably keep their distance. Will We have heard of a Kansas cycl"t:t which blew a dwelling bouse over Info an adjoining county and then went back after the cellar, but we never, until the other day. heard of a burglar going back to a residence he had looted to ak for part of the plunder he bad inadvertently dropped in his hurried leave-taking. Hut such a case was re ported to the Chicago police. Mrs. Kate Claymore's home on the South Side was burglarized, and anions orhi-i things considerable valuable jewelry was stolen. me diamond bracelet worth was taken, but its mate was overlooked. Next day a well dressed man called on Mrs. Claymore and said lie was an officer from police headquarter and had It-en sent to go. the second bracelet for comparison with one which had ! recovered from a pawnshop by the police. The bracelet was handed to him w ithout a moment s hesitation and he left. Mrs. Claymore also was "left;" the diamond bracelet and the voting man disappeared to gether; neither has le-n seen since. It would be a pity to eclipse such a pcnlil aa rhia tiv limirlsoiuuent. even if he were caught: but there Is little likeli hood of such au outcome, anyway. Chicago Kecord: The condition of the war in Cuba Is exciting as much in terest in Europe as it is ou this conti nent. Naturally enough, the sentiment In Europe, and especially in England Is thoroughly with Spain, and the Eng Ilsh papers go to the extreme of advis !ng Spain to patch tip her difficulties with Cuba so as to regain pewsion of the island. Part of the British pre,. legards Spain's effort to subdue tin Cubans as hopeless, ami advl-w com promise, because tt believes the next step after Independence would 1' an nexation to the Enlted States. And. says the Iondon Times, "annexation to America would be regarded with little favor by T-trttlsh statesmen." Whiii Cuban ludepuedence does not mean annexation to the United State by any means. St is not certain that Spain can patch tij) a compromise with the in- j surgents. The (ioveruor General of Cuba has tried In every way possible! to treat; with the rebels and has falh-d. 1 They have rejected every offer of reconciliation. They are not only ter ribly in earnest but are confident of success. The rebellion Is spreading, moreover, and is now costing Spain at the rate of J50.i-hVKK a year a drain which that country's treasury catin.it long stand. t"p to the present the at tempts to subdue the .rebellion have failed us miserably as have the efforts to treat with the insurgents. The Eon don Times in closing its advice ay: "Giving autonomy (to Cubai will be st bitter pill, but unless It is swallowed the embryo movement for annexation to America may gather strength until It becomes irresistible." Then Is at present no avowed national sentiment for the annexation of Cuba In this country. The feeling that we have territory enough Is general, and the ad vocates of territorial acquisition do not create public opinion In the United States. Spain may fix up her dispute and quarrel with Cuba as best site crtn without feeling that the United States Is anxious to seize upon Cuba as the result of her years of misgovernmeiit of that fairest of all her isissessions. A New Kxplosive. A Bridgeport inventor says he lias discovered an explosive which will blow an invading army into cats" meat as soon us It Is dropped among them. lie has gone to Cuba to try It upon (ien. CaiupoH and his peninsular myrmidons. and if news from that Island were not so habitually untrustworthy It would Uow be wailed with llicfeased Interest. So many destructive agents of warfare are reported in this period that' If all their claims were realized war would become Impossible and auollier mode of settling internecine and international difficulties would have to lie devised. Bnt many of them thunder in the Index, exploding with more smoke than car nage, and effecting no revolutionary change in military methods. The Bridgeport fulminant may be In this category, but its pretensions remain to be tested. Is.ve Will Find a Way. At Krankfort-MO-tbe-Maln a young woman recently resorted to an Ingeni ous method of removing tbe obstacle In the way of ber love. Th mother of the young man to whom she had given her affection offered a stout re aistance to tbe consummation of the marriage, but speedily repented her rashness, ft tbe young lady there upon denounced her for speaking dls raaptrtfnlly of Kmperor William. Trending an Imperial toss in Germany hi dangerous, so the old lady was ar rested, and. pending her triad, tbe vsanc man and yonng woman got mar ring. m loan ih4mrv whan tbsy g tn sVnUntX ami e taw ha mm an ia MAY UKT IT BACK. Th lurmr Cumi ! Mejr avsr i-rekerB Money. Kansas Citi', Mo., -pt. 11. Robert T. Herrick, th insurance lawyer who captured Dr. G. W. Fraker, the insur ance swindler, will fila with the clerk of the United Statr eooxt an amendment to the bill tn equity wbieh tbe insur ance companies filed last week to re cover the money paid to tbe Fraker heirs. The original bill asked for the return ot ucb money a tbe heirs bad recovered from the companies wblcb fought their elam nntll the February compromise. It now develop thst the heirs have spent a considerable portion of this money, but that Judge Lincoln, the administrator, hag invested some 5,0CiO secured from the Equitable and other companies which settled without a fight. The Equitable paid the heirs nearly f 9,(00 on two 1 5,000 policies rather than participate In the light made by the other companies, and f making no effort to recowr it. 1 here is a pewsiLiiny mat tne companies hich mad ht tight may recover all they paid if Judge 1'billips will order the beneficiaries to repay to them ail tbey owe. Mr. Herrick estimates that the money already tied up iu litigation will besuf ficient to return to the companies which mad the fight sums as follows: Kan sas Mutual Lite, vXl out of 810,000 paid out; Hartford Life and Annuity SlS.000 out of tlS.OOO; Provident !v Irigs Life and Annuity, H,6(X) out of $10,000 and Knights of Pythias $2,UQ out of 83,000. ftlaorha Lamont on the Stand. San Fbascisco, CaL, Spt. 11. In the Durraut case Tuesday Mrs. C. G. Noble, aunt of Blanche Lamont, waa on the stand, tfce identified the clothing- of her neice and gave the facts of the girls disappearance. When shown the chip diamond ring which the sec ond hand dealer, Adolph Oppenbeimer, avs Durraut tried to sell to him a few days after the murder, Mrs. Xob:e said it belonged to Blanche's sister, Maude, but had been wirn by tbe dead girl, and waa one of tbe three taken from Blanche' haod and sent to her aunt through the mall after tbe murder. Mrs. Noble was given more time in which to verify her Idea as to the date after Blanche's disappearance, when Durrant called upon ber and offeted to make a search for the missing girl, In timating that he believed that she had gone astray. Yesterday's testimony otherwise was of policemen who found the dead girl's books and clothing where they bad been hidden in the church. The de fense aonlied Itself to showing that the bookt and clothing could not have been placed where they were found without the murderer having plenty of time and getting very dirty from the dust. It will claim that neither of these conditions apply to Durrant, as be showed no dirt on his person when seen immediately after the murder, at d bis time was then limited. Shot by an t'Dhnowo. LAitAMiK, Wyo., Sept. U. William Powell, a one-armed ranchman living on Horse creek, was shot and instantly killed yesterday morning by an un known person. Powell had many times been before the courts for cattle stealing, but he always escaped conven tion. This morning he left his ranch with hired man to work in a hay field two miles distant. On the way his wagon broke down an i the hired man was bent back to the ranch boure for tools and material to repair the vehrcle. The man had gone but a few hundred yards when the report of a rifle rang out and the hired man turn ing saw Powell fall from the wagon. Fearing that he himself was fated, the frightened man hastened on to the ratch, where he met the mail earritr just starting for Laramie, who brought the report of the murder. Sometime ago, when a man named Lewis, re ported to be a notorious rather living in that county was shot, Powell stated while in Laramie that he also was slaud to be killed, but be was prepared for them. It was known that be usu ally carried a gun, which be could use with deadly effect, being fearless and a good shot. Iteaerve Short. Washington, B. C Sept. 11.- N'othing official, as far as can be as certained, was received at the treasury department yesterday from representa tives of the Belmont Moigar: syndicate to indicate whether or not they in tended to make good the treasury de pleted gold reserve. At tbe close of business yesterday the reserve stood, nil withdrawals deducted, at IVT,&4, 6M, or nearly 82,aOO,000 below what Is usually regarded as the reserve limit, In ordinary operations tbe treasury lost gln.000 In gold yesterday owing to in San Francisco. A. small withdrawal of gold at Nw York for export 8160, 000 was also reported lata in the after noon. Tmasury official express no nnnasinsns over tbn declining gold re serve, as tbey tool assured that the ayndieats and tno New York national banks will not permit it to fall below tn limit of eonodeTOc. A tales Fries. Denver, Colo Wept. 11. Alfred Packer, tha eannlbal convict, serving a Ufa ssalsnns in tha panltontinrr nana gofrnado ant of ! b X Dnt. who was rnloaasd from I th. Paly arataagag ha oauM at a antvloa for Parkar by tha aa waa raraiansa aim H Faafcar from Ma aavtaga. tag sniilrlTtr af Daly. Ftakar laM th amrgat) gmg yaWatngy Daty sftts ar DEFENDER LIVES 1U RACE The Yaching Committed Decide Race in Favor of Defender. the THE MURDERS PLAN TO ESCAPE Holaues, the Brat, Is Formally Charged With Ihe Slaughter or Howard 1'itial by th Corn are J ory New York, Sept. 12. The regatta soinmittee of tbe New York yact.t club rendered a decision lata yesterday after noon sustaining Mr. Iseiin's protest gainst Valkyrie and awarding yester lay's race to Defender. This result was reached after deliberations and touferences lasting practically all day. As the occurrance was directly uuder ibe eyes of the committee and only one decision was possible Every one, con versant with the racing ot yachts pd rules of the road at sra agreed that the British yacht was at fault. Lord Dun ravan and bis trieuds, however, held that bis boat was crowded by Defender and that tbe accident was unavoidable The committee gave each side ampU opportunity to state their case and took the testimony of each yacht and )! others who were on board. Davie Henderson, who sailed on the Defeudw as a represent ative of Lord Dutiraven, and J. li. yuan, who represented tht New York yacht club on tbe Valkvrl. each reported on the occurrence. Ail the interested par':es,were at the yacht club house until late la the afternoon. With Lord Dunra'-n were Hear Coin modore Arthur Gi nule of the Kojal Clyde yacht club, sailrnaker Ka'z, II. Maitland Kersey, Captain Cranlield sud s-ycamore. In Mr. Iseiin's party were Wooburg Ka e, Newbury Thome and Herbet C. Leeos. It waa 4:30 p. m. when tbe decision was announced. It was in tbe form oi a reply to Mr. Iseiin's protest nd readt as follows: Mr. I . Oliver Iselin: We beg to ac knowledge the receipt of your letter ol Tuesday protesting the Valkyrie. We have given the matter our careful con sideration and believe that the foul occurred through the miscalculation ol the distance between the two yachts at a critical moment. From our observa tion, stulaiiied by that of others w bc were in good position to see, we ilnd that the Valkvrie, In contravention ol section 1 1., racing rule Iti, bore down upon the Defender and fou ied her by the swinging of her main boon) w hile luffing to straighten her course. We also consider that Defender allowed Valkyrie sufficient room ..to windward to pass clear of the committee boat, Your protest is, therefore, sustained. Signed. 1 S. Nit tiNoi.-os, Chairman. Ikvin (JlUNNKI.I., ('HKRTKK liltlsWtitl. Made I rlriol. Wtlb tlir Waichmsn. Caiuuii.i.ton, Mo., Sept. VI. :oon after the jury in the trial of the Taylot brothers rendered a verdict of guilty ol murder of the Meeks family, and Judge Kucker sentenced them to be banged October 2, the two manilested a friend linens for Night Watchman Brown ol the county jail, and as soon as they fell ute that be was their friend they of fered him a liberal sum of money tc assist them in "breaking" out of jail Brown then gave the proposition Ir detail to Sheriff Stanley, who Instructed him to encourge the Taylors and hem their plans. Brown met the Tayloi brothers the next night and assured them be could and would tlx it so they could escape, but that it would brma suspicion upon him and the condemned murderers to be seen conversing to gether, It would be advisable to con duct further negotiations tn writing They accepted tbe advice and as tht letters were received by Brown the) were submitted by him to bheriif Stan ley, who, of course, knew what repliei were sent, to the J aylors. Extra guardi ill now be put In the jail. Holuuet Indicted . Lndusapous, lnd., tpt. 12. Cor oner Castor yesterday announced thai in his verdict In the inquest over tin remain of Howard 1'iUel he would de clare that the child came to its dealt at the bands of H. II. Holmes. Hit finding will be filed today. The Marloi county grand jury yesterday afternoor found an indictment against Holrnet for murdar in the first degree ano should be escape conviction in Phila delphia he will be brought here foi trial, where the chain of evidence against him is much more complete. Odd tallow Maletdea Chicago, Sept. 22.-Peter S. Hoff man a prominent and wealthy Odd Fellow, who mads regalias and othei secret soe sty supplies, committed sul cldo Wednesday morning at blshora In the Winchester flat, where he livec with his wife and two daughters. Hi was seventy-two years old and said tc be mentally queer, Dies ml Aeopleif, Atchison, Kan., Sept. 12. Jobi Bolt an old nad prominent banker ot this atats, dtnd of apoploiy ysatordaj morning while at work In his ogios. A lts Attempt. KiiniCNT,UUmnt. lt.-DataoUvat are aaarohtag far Urns men who mi a asmgHag attatnat to rah tha north hwnnal asataaa trala aathaliUaaU Omv tral Tntagay night naar barn. Ttei worn rtdhng sat hha nmtf oral 9t tha a Thai Uaagaaaawsmmtaa !Mawasj.atoMmtattebaMaaT ntlsmhatMw waramaar waar wtch i to a am mm a ha mm tMOafrr Mtaf am) g ant A 8TBAHGE CASE. Proaae u.1 loei May llu Durraat tor Harder. San Francisco, Cal Sept. 13.-The prosecution managed to get some itrong links in its testimony against Theodore Durrant for tbe murder of Blanche Lamont yesterday. Five ma verlal witnesses were examined and ihey all stood the erjs examination of Durrant' counsel without abating any Df their positive answer. In yesterday's session Durrani's movements were traced from 8:30 on the morning of the day of the murder ntil after 3 o'clock, when he was on a ;ar with Miss Lamont going toward the Emmanuel Baptist church. The 5rst witnees was a grocer who had sev ral times weighed Miss Lamont, the V -.. ... . , I last time on the 2bth or Jiarcn, six days before the murder. She then weighed 115! pounds. rJ bin disposes of the defense theory that she was too Sieavy for Durrant to have carried into the tower. The prosecution then intro 3ueed a fellow student of Durrant, who on the morning of the murder bad seen Durrant with Miss Lamont riding on a street car toward the boys' high school, which she attended in the morning. Durrant had a few days later admitted lo the witness that the giri was Miss Lamont, and had explained her disap pearance b' saying be thought she had gone astry. He said she was weak and easily led. Durrant" counsel made vigorous fight against this proof of Durrani's inovemeuts on that morn ing, but when the conductor of the oar he and M ub Lamont rode on identi fied him and a reporter to whom ho bad admitted that he had escorted her to school that morning were produced counsel said they would admit that be bad been in ber company on the car. Two of the three young lady students of the lormal school which Miss La mont attended in the afternoon testi fied. They positively identified Dur rant as the man who met Miss Lamont at the normal school and got on a car with her, which carried them in tbe di rection of the church. One of tbe girls rode on the car with thera to the Mar ket street transler point, from which 1. is supposed Dun ant and the girg rode directly out to within three blocks of the Emmanuel church and there alighted. The prosecution proposes next to take up Durrant near that point, and by two wilues who knew him show that be went to church with the girl, the well-known incident of Durrani's ap pearance in tbe room where Orgauist King wat practicing on a piaoo, a he came down a passage way which led from the tower, will close the main case for the prosecution. This will be be fortified with testimony tending to show that Durrant was not where lie ought to have been that afternoon, and that a number of things about the church are against the statement he is known to have made. The case went over until Monday. An Awf .I Piiuiiliiiifiit. Sax Fuaxcisco, CaI., Sept. 14. An evening paper publishes a long account of the capture of (ien. Florencio iSiuta- mente at La Libertad. It says that Bustamente probably met a fearful ueath at La Liberted soon alter he was landed from the 1'acilic mail steamer Cltv of Sydnes. Just before the tteamer left port the rumor came from the shore that he had been seized by a maddened populace, saturated with coal oil and roasted alive. The Sydney passengers did not have opportunity of verifying this revelling report, bui they all testify that such was the news brotihgt off to the steBiner a few niiu utes prior to her sailing. According to the article, the American consul-general Cooper, demadetl of Captain Johnson that officer had refused to take any part in the search after the refugee In fact he had refused to permit armed men to make the search. Captain Johnson thereupon bid Ins crew to make search, and Buttamente whj Ilnally found bidden In the coal bunkers. Non after be iiad been hurried ashore the rumors of burning by oil reached the ship. tirand Slsod CoIIma. Lofisvti.LE, Ky Sept. 13. A sec lion of the grand stand on the river front in the rear ot the Gait bouse. Inch was occupied by Grand Army officials and visiting members of the pa ss, collapsed while the fireworks dis play waa in progress last night, Doem of tbe occupants sustained bruises. sprains, contusions and slight injuries, but none were seriously hurt. A panic waa only averted by the appeals of sev eral cool-headed men to tbe two thou sand people on tbe teats to keep cooi Several ladies tainted ana were re moved by the ambulance corps. Ki aggerated reports that ten were killed and scores injured were spread about tbe city and bulletined out of it. Ship Selzrd. Ottawa, Ont,, Kept, 13. Th gov erumont has been notined of the seiz ure by a United State cutter in iieriu sen of th Canadian staling schooner Boatrlca. She was tent back to Vic torla, Th offense was failure to keep a record of tha number of seals and the location of capture. Th CoMlllHlUual UaUws Com hi a, S. C ept. 12. -Tbe con ttliulionai convention was In settlor only an hour and a half Thursday K. C Millar, tba colored eongrammai af a raw year ago, prmcntod a eonts on bahaJf af a aagro delegation fron WUMasMburg oannty, whlah was re Itrrai to tha anmmltuod an naffaags Oat, Kahtrt AMriaa iatradnaad ptwta aiatitasHa' vhtah i It la tetahsM to asataM Nebraska "Notes Tue authorities of Elaiumoulh are making considerable efforts to stamp out the social evil. Nebraska City, bj way ot diversion, will extend the pavement area a few square rods this season. I ancroft has the largest school pop ulation of any town bwtween Emerson ano Tekamah, the number being 233. A Nebraska City man named F n ciaco is under bonds not to break uis wife's neck, as he has repeatedly threat ened to do. Charley Hooper of Dodge coir ty dug ., . .nnur heet from a patch of twenty -seven acres that weighed a . . . I- I. I. Ik. uu a bhs - hole lest than ten pounds. It it the largest one so far reported from any where. The following is the mortgage record of Jefferson county lor the mouth of August: Frm mortgages tiled 33, amount 23,i'32.90; satisfied, '2i,amount. 27.BW2.0O; town and city tiled 10. amount. f3,4ii 22: satisfied amount t4.30itC4; chattel filed 77, amount $13, MR.74, satitUed l'., amount 2,l'79.42. At the county convention of the straight democrats, sayg the McCook Times-Democrat, a speaker to illustrate a point made twe of the word water, and the chairman called him to order tnd slated that that was the first time in the thirty-five years of hit experi ence that water was ever mentioned iu a democratic convention and hoped It would be the last. Harold Uber and Lyle Willlamt, wo yo..ng men of Fairmont, went to sandbank for a load of tand. mm getting it out the bank caved In and buried Williams all but his bead. Jnher wb knocked down and covered nlirely. The tand being ery dry both got out with little damage. Wil liams has a badly bruised hand and Fisher is aomewha t bruised about the head. William Worland threthed on his plsce, one and a half roilos south of Chapman from thirty acres, J.oio bushels of eats machine measure over running in weight from fifteen to twenty biithels to the hundred This t tbe largest yield of oats ever harvett- d in this locality, and without a doubt r ill prove to be the banner yield of th late. Ten days more of warm weather och as the present, will place the corn beyond danger of frosts. An irrigation company will organise at ipringview toon and a ditch from the mouth of Snake river, above Valen- tine, to and through Keys I'aha county will be built. A distance of eveuty five miles. The level was male some weeks ago and committees were elected to lav out the district and omcers e'ecteu to take charge of the work. Elections will be held this fall to ot bonds and work will be pushed, hoping to get water on the laud for next year's crop. With an Irrigation ditch through Keya Paha county Ill ba a garden. Keya I'aha is well supplied with springs, creeks and rivrs, with tulles of wild hay Hits and wild forests Her atids are the best in the world with a more water. The police of Hattsronuth captured a man named James Kelly, who It sup posed to b a noted crook. At any rate, he U one of ihe amootnetit men that ever visited thai cily, Kelly Iu some manner nipped a pockelook from the inside vent pocket of a travelling nirseryman and made his escape be fore the theft was discovered. The watlel contained a roll of money amounting to 4 1 50. Kelly was cap tured, about an hour after the theft, in tbe B. A M. yards, but he had thrown the money away, retaining the pocket book, Tbe money was afterwards found by some railroad men. While n ollicer was searching the theif he cam e near stealing the officer's watch out of his pocket. Aftbrhe had been searched several times, he stilt continu ed to produce money at will. 1 ho police believe he is an till round crook. aa they received a card giving a fair description of the man about a year fto. Quite a sensatioo it being mace out of an elopement which took place at Valley, Nebr. When Thomas Hunter nd Miu Miller skipped by the light of the moon for Fremont, It waa supposed that they would be married next day, come home and be forgiven. But it teems they have not yel been united in the holy bonds of wedlock. Hunter, finding himself without funds, was un able to pay their board bill, left their belongings at the hotel and started to walk wett. In tbe meantime the par ents and relatives of the girl wete searching Fremont high ana low for them. Nothing was beard of them, however, until Thursday evening when Jim Collen returned from hit search. He tuid he had tracked them to Co lumbus and would meet them there. The etory told by Hunter and Mitt Miller waa that tbey were walking to Denver on a wager and had repre sented themselves as man and wife and occupied thosama room. In this way tbey secured their board sod lodging fro of charge. In tha elopemottt noth ing could be done with tbtm, as both wars of ago, but now It may be made warm for thm. Th (Ho County Progress, a now popullit payer, baa bean ttarUd at Ne braska City. It ha tiv editors, arid M. S. Ltttiefteid Is "ona of 'm." Th Cortland Herald says It must hava mors advertising or go out af bus isjaaa. Tba poopio af that vtllaga aan aot affard to bwa aa gang a aaaar. W. R. Pulton haa manod tha Ofclow Ohtowaa for a yaar to P. L. Barm la atafelag this aaasaasamsat, Mr. PaW I toa laUsrtMaa that ha wit! mn nway iff tatataf M s3sj.jp U , ' 8 'pfc . KZzi Kan t3f UNO. .