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: . , I" . . . The City Council. .
' . . ' . : The regular meeting of . : hc
: t ' ' ity council was held 011 Mottday' :
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' . . . . . . repairs on the standpipe was t11s-
discussed
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-t' cussed at ' '
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. .n I . is scaling ! off on thc inside ' and .
, . . ,1 will soon be uscless. 'l'ltc cost of
" 't/ ' 'makil1g necessary repairs will be
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.j ; r. ' , ctns ? lIerablc. Some towiis ill thc
/ state are using a direct pressure
l system which does way with a
rI standpipc. Such systems are in
I. use both at \Vahoo and Hastings ,
' " and Councilmen Reagcn , Powell
. . : " anel Holt were appoin tcd' on a '
. . committee to \ 'isit'thesc cities ,
examinc thc system and report on
} . . the advisability of installing sudl
" ' ; . a system hcre. City Attorney
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'Gan t t and Engineer Lapp were
E . invited to the
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iitittee 011 its trip. A petition
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across the ravine on East Twelfth I
' . street and a committee was appointed ; -
pointed . to investigate the mattcr.
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. ' E. S. Towlc , ' \V. El. Grccnwald
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. { . ed members of thc library board
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to succeed themsclvcs. The usual
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t , M " : " ed to investigate the cost thc
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/q . ' city will be put to in the event of-
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4d . - , ' , ' : paving Stone strcet. It was thc
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: opinion of thc councilmen that a
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; vided before any paving is done.
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' School
H''Sunday neeting.
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Time ninth annual convention
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{ , day school association will be
( . . . n Ic1cat thc Christian church in
.t : .i. . this city on June 20 , 21 and 22.
. . ' . . . . . . .1. : .i fine program has been prepar -
j d and 1 a large attendance is cx-
t , . iected 1 . Subjects of great : intcr-
. , 'est to Sunday school workers
.r ' . will be discussed and ( a great deal
\ ' , of important business will be
transacted.
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; \ 1- - Arrested for Bootlegging.
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: 1 ' , A dispatch from Humboldt
\ say : "G. R. Martin came down
1'/ . ' from Pawnee City this afternoon
and placed under arrest Nick
, Bcutlcr , a well known Humboldt
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.1 r , ' young man on a charge 01 boot
" \ legging at Table Rock sonic
, f months ago. The warrant was
; issued from thc court of Justicc
; ; 't ' \ \ 1 . Marble shortly after the offcnsc
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" t -is alleged to have been committed
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sums to have been given a tip
s r . and made himself scarce. Hc is i
, .tIlought . - to have . been in Missour %
r.ti . but on Sunday afternoon driftcd
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intoo town and was able to stay
here but slightly over twcnty-four
hours when Pawnee county ofii-
' cials were notified and the officer
came down He 111 tyoung Duct-
lcr on the street and placed limn
under arrest before thc young
man ' was ware of his . presence
on that mission
Died.
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence ' \V ea Vet : died at thc
family home in Stuart , Neh. , yes-
terday morning and the remains
will be brought t to b.is city tomorrow -
morrow for buriaL Time little
one was but a month olel. The
many Falls , City friends of Mr.
and [ rs.Vca'cr unite in cxt ud-
lug sympathy
The Holland Case.
The case of John I-IqllatH1 vs
Della Holland to secure custody
of a minor child was dismissed on ,
motion of the plaintiff. Mrs
Holland was given thc custody of
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the child. It was the aforesaid
custody of thc aforesaid child 1
that causcd l\Irs. Hollan to take
five shots at her husband.
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Bus : Line Changes.
Wallace & Hal1lk ceased to op-
. < : .ratc , thc Union Bus Line this
week. A part of their outfit was
purchased by Campbell Minnick ,
who will begin running a bus
line in thc near future Mr.
Minnick formerly conducted a
bus line here. Hc recently , returned -
turned from Auburn where he
has been living for some timc. . .
The Uarnum Circus.
Mayor Marten is in receipt of a a
letter from the Barnum & Bailer
circus asking whether the citi
zees : : of Palls City will donate
grounds , license and water if i f thc
show will come here instead of
going to Nebraska City , The
expense would be about two hundred -
Bred dollars and an effort is being -
ing' made to raise thc money
among the business mcn.
Was Nearly Killed.
IIRed" Knobe was nearly killed
at thc Burlington depot Monday
night. He was helping Gcorgc
Wallace haul a piano to thc sta-
tion and was sitting on top of thc
box containing the instrument
'rhe wheels struck a deep rut and 1
the box fell out of the wagon and
Red fen with it. 'rhe force of
his contact with the hard earth
rendered him unconscious in
which condition lie remained for
twenty , minutcs. , Time piano was ,
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l\'larried. \ '
Ollie Miller mind ; ' Harry P. Cus-
tcr. wcrc married yesterday afternoon -
noon at thc home of the bride : : : ;
sister Mrs. , James McDowell of
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'l'ccumscl ! Time ceremony \ was
performcd by l Blackmore of
the Methodist church , only a few
friends and relatives were pres-
cnt. Mr. and Mrs. Cust0r will
return at once to this city.
Time bride is a laughter of Ben
Miller and for several years has
been employed as a teacher in our
city schools. She has made many
friends who admire her for her
high character and womanly
qualities . The
q groom is the pro-
prietor of a job printing cstab-
cstablishment in this city : and by
the people amol1g whom he has
grown up , he is held in highest
esteem , coi } umnandiiig 1 : : thc respect
and ! confidence 0 fall. The union
of these two worthy young people -
pIe calls forth the mot ! sincere
of congratulations. '
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The Cigarnlakers.
John Smith of Kansas City ,
secretary of thc industrial coun-
cil of thc cigarmakcrs union , was
in thc city Monday , and a meet
ing of local union No. 190 was
. held \Vith a view of settling ex-
isting differences between Leyd a t
& \Vhctstine and thc union. All
attcmpts ; along this line were
fruitless and thc situation remains -
mains unchangcd. The cigar :
makers who walked out and refused -
fused to remain il a scab shop
will all go to work in Toni Mc-
Lanc's factory. Public sympathy
is with mc cig-armakcrs.
A Musicale.
The members of thc vested
choir of St. ' '
Thomas church arc
arranging for a musicale to be
given at thc Jennc opera house
on next Thursday cvcning' The
musical will bc participated in by
such well known ] musicians as
Mrs. ' 1' . J. Gist , Emma Keller ,
Blanche Kerr D.D Reavis , Prof.
Harnack anti many others. 'r.hc
procccds will bc used to defray
thc expenses of the boys annual
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Proved his Innocence.
James Carter , a young man
who had b . . . emi employed at thc
National hotel was arrested Sat
urday : and taken to Maryvillc ,
Mo. , the charge against him being -
ing the illegal sale of intoxicating -
ing signor- Carter was formerly
in thc drug business at l\Iaryvillc
and it was during that time that
the offense was alleged to ha'C
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been committed. A telephonc }
message from Carter , yesterday ( - , . .
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ed of thc charge and released , ill
fact it is said
that his arrest was
the result of spite work. f
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The Miles Case. ( > 1
The final argument in thc I
: Miles will case will take place in
the Supreme Court at Lincoln 011
thc 21st of this Mouth and
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iscs to be a'cry promr
affair. .1. H. Miles , who was ,
: given most of the estate of his r
father under thc
provisions of all
old will -made at Rube sonic tell
years before his father's death ,
has lately employed two 1irst
class lawyers , ' 1' . J. Mahony of
Omaha and J.V. . Deweese of
Lincoln and a battle royal ( legally -
ly speaking ) may be cxpectc '
'rhe disposition of thc estate depends -
pends 011 the question whether
thc will madc at Rube in 1888 ,
and which gave Joe the bulk of
tile estate or the one made in St.
Louis in 1897 , bout a year and a
half before thc testator died ,
shall in the distributio of it
'l'hc St. Louis will ( which is
mysteriously missing ) so far as
the contesting heirs have been
able \0 ' its
prove contents , rc\'ok-
ed tie Rule will , and 1)1 ovided
for an equitable distribution of
the estate among the scventt
heirs who by law are entitled to
inherit it. Time argument will
be conductcd on the part of the
contesting heirs by Mr. Webster
of Omaha , Mr. Atwood of Leav-
cnworth and Frank Reavis of this
city ; and on the part of Joe II.
Miles , by bir lvlahommy of Omaha ,
Mr. Dewccsc of Lincoln and , by
his local lawyer of this city. \Vc
will endeavor to lay before our
readers the salient points that
will be made and argued by
counsel
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Rcv. Ryan , rector of the Epis-
pal church at Hiawatha
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panted by.a number of the mcm-
bars of his church canine to this
city yesterday to attend thc lawn
social last night , at thc home of
Dr. 'u chard.
Dr. Gaise , the dentist who recently -
cC'ntly located here for thc prac-
tIcc of his profession , has removed -
ed his family front Lincoln to
this city antI they arc now occupying -
cupping the Burchard dwelling
at First and Stone streets
H. l\l Shaffcr and wife who
were married recently at Ogden ,
Utah have returned to this city.
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