Gfc Nobraslio. Indopondcnt
MARCH 23, 1906
PAGE 5
TO BUILD ELECTRIC ROAD
Route Proposed is From Red Willow
to Hayes Center, In Western Ne
braska, a Distance of 50 Miles
McCook, Neb. There Is a move
mnte on foot to build an electric
railroad from Rew Willow station, on
the Burlington, up the Red Willow
Creek valley, past Box Elder and OS;
borne to Hayes Center, the county
seat of Hayes county, a distance of
about fifty miles. Interested parties
who have gone over the proposed
route with an engineer, to' find out
the best place to locate the roadbed,
Seport that the route is entirely feasi
le. Behind the enterprise, besides
the business men of Hayes Center,
are John F. Helm, Stephen Bolls,
James Doyle, David Osborne, Joseph
Allen and Judge Robert C. Orr, all
wealthy ranchmen, residing along the
proposed rouse who are amply able
to build such a road. There is to
be an early meeting of the interested
parties and. a. company incorporated;
COAL'DISCOVERERS DISPUTE
. Owner of Land and Successful Pros
Deetor Each Claim $5,000 Reward
Offered by State for Find.
Some question has . been raised as
to who will get the $5,000 offered by
the state to the person discovering a
vein of coal 36 inches thick. The
coal has been discovered near Peru,
and a lump of it is now on exhibition
in the office of the governor. The
reward was offered in 1903 by the
legislature and the appropriation has
lapsed, but the law still remains on
the statute books and it is said it will
be the duty of the governor to order
the auditor to draw the warrant. It
may be, thought, that the -warrant
. lature makes another appropriation.
The coal was discovered by F. M.
Medley on the farm of A. M. Vorst.
Medley , leased tne lana to prospect
for coal, and in addition he has se
cured an indefinite lease on many
other acres adjoining.
He agreed to pay Vorst 50 cents a
ton royalty on all the coal mined.
Now that the coal has been discov
ered, however, it is said Vorst claims
4 the mine because it is on his ground,
ward. .
, It was reported that Vorst had of
fered to give Medley a certain-per
cent of the reward, but Medley be
lieves he is entitled to all of it and
there will likely be a hot fight for the
money. Medley, it is said, has put in
much labor in prospecting for the
coal and is a poor man. It is under-
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trouble in getting good backing to
work the mine. As he has a lease
on the property, it is said Vorst will
have a hard time getting the reward
or in stopping work at the mine.
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TRAVELING MAN SUICIDES
Otto F. Tappert of Norfolk Takes Car
bolic Acid in Elks' Club Room.
Norfolk, Neb. Selecting the room
where he had enjoyed the most of his
fun-making and joking during life as
the place of his death Otto F. Tap
pert, for thirty-five years a commer
cial traveler for the Standard Oil com
pany and the oldest traveling man
in northern Nebraska territory, went
into the paraphernalia room at the
Elks club in this city, of which lodge
he had been tyler since its organiza
tion here six years ago, and committed
suicide. The cause was supposed to
have been despondency. He leaves a
wife and four children. Mr. Tappert
was one of Norfolk's most prominent
citizens.
Mr. Tappert had never missed a
meeting of the Elks lodge but once
in his life and that was- when he was
snowbound out in western Nebraska
one night. He telephoned in to ask
that he be recorded as "present."
As tyler of the lodge he had charge
of the paraphernalia of the organiza
tion and he took personal pride in
conducting the initiations. By acci
dent the porter unlocked the door of
the paraphernalia room and found Mr.
Tappert'a body.
He was under supervision of the
Sioux City ofll;e, but formerly under
the Omaha office of the Standard Oil
company. Within a couDle of years
he would have been pensioned by the
company.
The coroner's jury returned a ver
dict of death by carbolic acid, self-administered.
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