CIimlnsMt,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1884.
Fiftt thousand Northerners are
now in Florida.
Bbaziis navy is said to consist of
3,000 men and fifty vessels.
The Indian appropriation bill
passed the senate, as amended.
Tear God and take your own
part" is the motto of north Dakota.
"Watermelons la6t week in south
ern Georgia were as big as hens' eggs.
Florida haB already begun to ship
north large quantities of strawberries.
The bill to place'General Grant on
the retired list has passed the Senate.
Dakota has thirty national banks,
with an aggregate capital of 7,557,
990. The President returned from New
York one day last week to Wash
ington. An organized band of harness
thieves has been recently operating
in Omaha.
A member of Bismark's family haB
been appointed German minister to
the Hague.
"Water S. Johnson has been ap
pointed receiver of the Marine bank
of New York.
A Morman missionary has been
condemned to a month's imprison
ment at Vienna.
Prince Yamashams, of Japan, and
party started east from San Francisco
the other afternoon.
The plains of Texas cover an area
of 152,000,000 acres, on which feed
3,800,000 head of cattle.
Two workmen were killed by slate
falling from the roof of the Junction
railroad tunnel near Pittsburg.
Huntington, Pa., had a genuine
English May Day, with a dance on
tho green around the May-pole.
The Santo Domingo congress has
recently passed a bill authorizing
free trade with the United States.
Not long ago 223 slaves, worth
$37,600, were freed in Brazil. There
are still 1,500,000 slaves In the empire.
Senator Morrill the other day
was reported paired in congress for
tho first time in twenty-nino years'
service.
The city marshal of Lincoln was
recently laid up with a broken hand,
the result of a scuttle with a tough
customer.
O. A. Carpenter, recently ac
quitted of the Zora Bu.-nes murder,
it is said has taken up his residence
in Chicago.
The bill to establish civil govern
ment in Alaska has passed both
houses ami is ready for tho Presi
dent's action.
The jury in the McCarty murder
caso of Bradford at Papillion, Neb.,
being unable to agree, was discharged
by the Court.
Or 11,-1-lS natives who loft Ham
burg for foroign countries during
March, all but seventy-four were
bound for America.
Four hundred and nineteen type
setters, it is said, besides apprentices,
aro now in the government printing
office at Washington.
The supreme council of the Knights
of Honor of tho U. S., met at Chica
go one day last week, and will con
tinue in session about ten days.
The contract for the brick work of
a new Congregational church at Lin
coln has recently been let. It is to be
a large and handsome structure.
The famous Flat Rock Spring, at
Saratoga, which disappeared without
warning twenty-fivo years ago, has
suddenly begun to bubble again.
Mary Kerr, aged eleven years,
died at Girardville, Pa., the other
day, 'from congestion of the brain,
caused by excessive rope jumping.
The other night A. A. Shaw,
treasurer of Clear county Mich.; was
bucked and gagged at Harrison, the
county seat, and robbed of $5,000.
No clue.
A ferryman named Isadore Plum
mer was drowned the other evening
at Duluth, Minn., with three Swedish
dock laborers, by a collision of two
ferryboats.
Mrs. Wilkins of Beatrice, afflicted
with dropsy, submitted the other day
to the operation of "tapping," and
three gallons of water waB removed
from her body.
Mr. Mitchel, of the senate, from
the committee oh pensions, reported
favorably, with amendment, the house
bill grauting pensions to soldiers of
the Mexican war.
Mr. Cullom, of the senate has in
troduced a bill, which was referred to
the committee on finance, to prevent
speculation on the part of national
banking associations.
A grand band tournament is pro
posed at Omaha, to be held in June.
If the plans aro consummated all the
brass Bands in Iowa and Nebraska
will be invited to participate.
An express car on the Union Pacific
was wrecked the other evening as the
train was coming into Schuyler. No
one was injured, but express messen
ger E. W. Harlow had a narrow
escape.
The department of State at Wash
ington the other day received official
notification of the ratification by the
Mexican senate of the reciprocity
treaty between the United States and
Mexico.
In most of the tables of presiden
tial probabilities at Chicago we
notice Nebraska put down as 8 for
Blaine and 2 for Arthur. Will some
eon of a prophet rise and tell who
the two are ?
Several remarkable instance's of
cures by-prayer and faith have been
recently reported. The last one is
that of Mary Billiard, of Pittabnrg,
cripple, who claims to have been
urea by nun. j
Bishop SiJirsoN, of tho M. E.
church, is the only episcopal officer
who was living twenty years ago in
that capacity.
Several hundred business men of
New York have issued a call for a
meeting in the .interest of President
Arthur's candidacy.
Hon. S. J. Brewer presided over
the session of the court at Des
Moines last week for the first time.
He made a good impression on the
bar and bids fair to become very
popular as a Judge.
Ok disputed territory at Omaha,
the other night, the B. & M. railroad
people laid 800 feet of track. The
Union Pacific secured an injunction,
bnt the rails were down before the
papers were served.
Thx grand jury at Cincinnati has
recently indicted Wm. Mank, charged
with setting fire to the court house.
Also one against A. F. Shaw, fore
man of the grand jury that indicted
Berner, for perjury.
The free-trade democrats promise
to get even with the protection wing
of their party by nailing a free-trade
plank into the national platform and
nominating a strong free-trade can
didate for President.
A resolution was passed the
other day in the M. E. church con
ference at Philadelphia that color
6honld not be a bar to the right or
privilege to any office in the Metho
dist Episcopal church.
The chnrcb extension meeting of
the M. E. Church was held the other
evening at Philadelphia in the Acad
emy of Music. The great building
was packed. $51,000 was raised to
bnild churches on the frontier.
Col. Ingersoll announces with
great satisfaction that his log house
on the Dorsey ranch in New Mexico
is nearly finished; that it cost only
$8,000, and that he and his famiiy
mean to move into it by July 1.
A report has been received from
Medicine Lodge? that the four bank
robbers were captured and placed in
jail, and that a mob broke the jail
in, shot one to death and took the
other three out and hanged them.
Charles O'Cokor, the eminent
lawyer, died at Nantucket, N. Y., on
the afternoon of the 12th inst., in his
80th year. His remains were brought
to New York and placed in a vault at
the cathedral, until the funeral takes
place.
About 2,500,000 acres were sown
in Ohio last fall for the wheat crop,
and late reports estimate that the
yield will reach fully 34,000.000 bush
els. Ohio's largest wheat crop waa
that of 1880, when 48,500,000 bushels
wero produced.
The Nebraska greenback state con
vention met on the 14th inst., at Lin
coln, and selected L. C. Pace, of Lin
coln, C. W. Wheeler, of Nemaha, W.
B. Picket, of Butler, and Ed. J. Hall,
of Saunders county, delegates to the
national convention.
C. H. McCormick, head of the
great harvester manufacturing com
pany, died at his home in Chicago, od
tho morning of the 13th inst., aged
75 years. He had been an invalid for
many years. He was regarded as one
of tho richest men in Chicago.
A carpenter at Seward the other
day, by mistake placed a large chisel
on his knee, gave it a heavy blow
with his mallet, sending the chisel
into the joint, letting out the joint
water. Mistakes will occur, but this
is about as singular a one as could be.
Kendall's St. Paul Phonograph
suggests that certain politicians (pos
sibly meaning those who do not
believe in the sincerity of congress
man Yalantine's withdrawal from the
campaign) "will hunt all fall for a
Valentine and let other game es
cape." Late the other night in a saloon on
the west side Chicago, Alderman
Gayner was fatally shot by James
Davie, a ward politician. The facts
are not definitely known, but it is
stated the only cauBe was the Alder
mau's refusal to drink with his as
sailant.
A west-bound freight train colli
ded with a gravel train the other
morning on the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad, one mile east of Connells
ville, and a number of laborers,
variously estimated at from twelve to
twenty were killed and many were
injured.
Mrs. Hurst, living seven miles
south of Ponca, Neb., while back
firing to save her house from a
prairie fire, her clothing caught fire
and she was burned to death. She
was a widow living alone, and there
was no one with her at the time of
the accident.
H. H. Nelson, claiming to be a
real estate agent at Omaha, hired a
team at Morton's livery 6table Bloom
ington, Neb., for two days to go to
Kirwin and has not returned. There
is no doubt but that he has absconded.
A deputy sheriff and Morton have
gone in search of him.
Willard's hotel at Washington
City was on fire the 13th inst It
caught in the lower part of a back
bnilding. The fire ran up the eleva
tor shaft and spread under the tin
roof, but was soon extinguished.
The Iosb was principally by smoke
and water, and is not heavy.
It is stated that a lady of Hunting
ton, Pa., dreamed that her mother,
who died thirteen years ago, came to
her bedside, shook her by the arm,
and told her to get up at once and
open the door. She did so, and found
the room filled with coal gas. The
timely apparition saved her life.
A recent statement of the con
dition of the treasury shows the
amount of gold and bullion, $196,
143,551; silver and bullion $136,271,
732; fractional silver, $29,201,674;
United States notes, $66,693,361;
total, $428,310,918; certificates out
standing, irold. tfiO.fWU fififl? rnrmiRv.
$15,200,000.
Denver papers have some interest
ing news on the passenger rate war.
It is stated that $11 is the rate to
Chicago, $5 to St Louiiand $24.50 to
New York, and all other points in the
same proportion. It will f be aoon
announced that a trip ticket , from
Denver to Chicago will be $15.v
Orders were received fromvLon
don Friday in New York to buy both
stocks and bonds at market prices.
It fs stated that the situation in New
York is greatly relieved and no more
serious failures looked for at present.
The Metropolitan bank, after looking
into its accounts, again opens for
business.
Benj. F. Butler received the nom
ination as candidate for president
from the national anti-monopoly con
vention held at Chicago on the 14th
inst, receiving 124 voles out of 132
votes cast. What appears a little
singular in the action of the conven
tion, no candidate was nominated for
vice president.
It is claimed that Arbor day in
augurated in Nebraska many years
ago when the prairies were. destitute
of trees, is now celebrated by some
of the older states. Vermont is the
last convert to the good cause of tree
planting, and her citizens celebrated
the day by the planting of trees for
ornamental purposes.
Hanley, the prize fighter, visited
PlattBmoutb, Neb., on the 15th inst,
and was arrested there by Sheriff
Eickenburry on a telegram from
Saunders county and promptly lodged
in jail. Some time in the night Sher
iff Pierce arrived from Ashland and
took Hanley, handcuffed, to Wahoo,
where he will be held.
x The sheriff of Brown county
passed through O'Neill, Neb., the
other day for Fremont, with Ora
Webb, who is held for the shooting
of J. L. Longcor, near Valentine,
May 3d. He also had in charge
young Lucus, charged with being a
member of the notorious "Kid"
Wade gang of horse thieves. Webb
is only eighteen years old.
The "cannon ball" east-bound pas
senger train whose schedule time is
some forty-one miles an hour, when
about four miles east of Riverton,
Neb., an unknown man fell from the
train and was thrown some thirty
feet before he struck the ground.
The engineer backed up and the
wounded man was taken aboard. The
extent of his injuries is unknown.
We will have this fall, probably the
longest ticket of a life time, Presi
dent, Vice President, electors, con
gressman, state senator and repre
sentatives, state officers, and nearly a
full line of county officers. Citizens
who have any regard whatever for
the welfare of the country should be
thinking over these matters and cast
ing about for the proper men to place
in joffice.
Thos. Leonard was waylaid the
other morning at Nebraska City,Neb.,
and brutally murdered and robbed of
a gold watch and two dollars and
eeveuty cents in money. The mur
der was committed about 3 o'clock in
the morning in tho deep cut below
the city. His face was literally pul
verized with a stone, and his skull
mashed to a jelly. No clue as yet to
.the murderer.
The citizens of Zanesville, Ohio,
were terribly excited the other day
by what they supposed to be an earth
quake. A terrible crash was heard
and followed by the sinkiug of
about three acres of ground iu the
heart of the city several feet, carry
ing with it many houses which were
badly damaged. The latest theory is
that several deserted coal mines un
derlying the city caved.
Burglars entered the Burlington
Missouri depot at Franklin, Neb., the
other night and took $512 from the
office drawer. $500 of the amount
was the Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express
money, the $12 belonged to the rail
road company. Mr. Lock, the station
agent, sayB be thinks the parties who
took the money were up-stairs when
he went to supper, and that between
8 and 12 o'clock the money was taken.
Recent news comes from the city
of Mexico which states that seventeen
of the brigands who wrecked and
robbed a train on the Mexican Cen
tral railroad last November, were
shot the other day at Queretaro.
The mayor of New Laredo, who
waB implicated in the daring robbery,
was not among the number executed.
Ho is generally believed however to
have been one of the leading spirits.
Senator Sherman has introduced
a bill placing John C. Fremont on the
retired list as a Major General. The
services rendered by Mr. Fremont to
the country have never been reward
ed. He is now old, infirm and poor,
and the long delayed justice ought to
be awarded him which will enable
him to spend hirlast days pleasantly
in the remembrance that his country
is not ungrateful for his eminent ser
vices. The mystery of the "Sheatsley
Suicide," which occurred at Tee
Garden, Ind., Dec. 13, '83, was un
ravelled the other day by the arrest
of C. E. Lortz at Unadilla. Neb., by
Dr. R. Neville, a special detective.
Lortz choked Sheatsley to death and
hung his body in a barn, and, getting
on the coroner's jury, 60 shaped mat
ters as to get a verdict of suicide.
Neville started east with the prisoner
immediately.
The ability of woman to win her
way in the straight and narrow path
that leads to the professions, supposed
by some to have been intended from
the beginning for man's feet alone,
has again been demonstrated. Miss
Emily Fifield, daughter of ex-Regent
Fifield, of this state, has just gradua
ted from the Woman's Medical" Col
lege, of Baltimore, and with such an
excellent record that she was at once
appointed resident physician of the
Wilson Sanitarium of that city. The
success of a Nebraska girl is noted
with pleasure. Hastings Journal.
The Republican is standing pretty
uprightly for reform in the city ad
ministration at Omaha. The who!o
state of Nebraska has a deep iuterest
in the affairs of the metropolis, and
must feel like holding up the hands
of those who are endeavoring to
make clean the foul places of the city.
Mayor Chase, we are 6orry to say,
has been far from a pink of perfection
in the discharge of the duties of his
important office. The remainder of
the state has this natural interest in
Omaha, that they desire to see it the
best city, in every respect, in this
western country. Absolute perfec
tion cannot be expected, of course,
but, for the sake of the state, Omaha
must cease to be known as "a nation
al asylum for thugs, gamblers, confi
dence men, sluggers, burglars and
murderers," a city whose morals
"would disgrace a Zulu battle field or
a Hottentot wedding," a city where a
brutal prize fight can be provided for
with impunity, a city with scores of
"gambling-hells and wbiskey-divea
and houses of prostitution" running
against the law, and to the ruin of
hundreds of unwary or weak victims.
As the Journal has 6aid of matters
here, so we aro glad to see the He
publican strike the key-note, Enforce
the laws. Thia is the sovereign rem
edy. The Norfolk Journal docs itself no
credit by distorting the action of the
state convention at Lincoln into an
implied instruction for Arthur. Mr.
Blaine was the first choice of the
convention and the delegates elected
declared their first choice to be the
Plumed Knight. No delegate could
have been elected had it not been
known that he was for Blaine, yet
many of that statesman's friends were
opposed to tying the hands of the del
egates by even resolutions of prefer
ence, and one Blaine speaker, Mr.
Clarkson, so stated during the dis
cussion in regard to himself. That
vote was in no sense a defeat of Mr.
Blaine, and was not so considered
except by the most nltra administra
tion men. We know of enough
Blaine men who voted to table the
resolution to have changed the result
had the question been Blaine or Ar
thur. The question was shall we
instruct or not. The resolution ap
proving the republican administration
was due from a republican conven
tion, but a resolution to express a
preference for Mr. Arthur at Chicago
would have been defeated by a voto
of more than two to one. Hastings
Journal.
The following special was sent out
from Omaha to the daily papers, May
13th. We give it as showing the bad
state of morals of the metropolis of
the state :
"James Fell, of Rich Hill, Missouri,
and Jack Hanley, of Leadville, fought
with bare knuckles for a purse of
$300 this afternoon.. Fell was de
clared winner on a foul in tho tweuty
second round. Both men were dead
game and hard fighters. Tho battle
ground was just across the Platte
river bridge on the Republican Val
ley road. A party of 100 left here in
a special train. Two bad riots oc
curred at the ring, in one of which a
Leadville pugilist was vcrv roughly
handled. Pis:oIs wero trumps all the
time. On the way home there was a
free fight on the train and three men
were shot. The cars were running
twenty miles an hour just west of
Midland, and the passengers all jump
ed rather than bo shot. John Ranch,
one of the wounded men, will proba
bly die. John McCIcllan, a saloon
kcoper of Omaha, was shot through
the shoulder. It was the most terri
ble crowd of bad men that ever loft
the city on a similar occasion."
We are going away from home now
to find out the news. An Omaha
special to the Chicago Tribune gives
the preferences of the district dele
gates elected from Nebraska as fol
lows: "Mathowson in for Edmunds
first and Arthur second. McCall is
for Arthur first and last, and of the
other four district delegates Reed and
Burton are for Arthur. Scott is for
Gresbam first and Arthur second."
Church Howe is omitted from the
list, but this doesn't matter, as it is
generally understood that ho is for
Howe. Add to tho six district dele
gates the four elected as delegates at
large, and it will bo a puzzle for any
one to solve the presidential prefer
ences of the delegation. Beatrice
Express.
The Columbus Journal is in hopes,
if Blaine fails to reach the goal of his
ambition at Chicago, that Gen. W. T.
Sherman will be the man chosen as
the standard bearer of republicanism
in the campaign of 1884. Onr Bro.
Turner, being an Ohio man, still
wishes to seo the sceptre wielded by
the Buckeyo state.
Bro. McCune, of the Stromsburg
Republican, is assured that in making
the suggestion, we bad no thought of
locality Geueral Sherman is, in a
very strong sense, an American citi
zen, a representative American citi
zen in whom we all have confidence,
a man who has a full mind of his own,
and who speaks his mind, frankly and
courageously.
We learn that tho central com
mittee of this congressional district
purpose holding their meeting at this
place on tho 23d inst. ; 6ome of the
papers of the district are advocating
the holding of the convention to
nominate a candidate for congress,
very shortly after the national con
vention. There is no rushing demand
in the district for so early a conven
tion as that, and we think it would be
a wise policy to wait until after the
state convention.
Some excitement exists in New
York relative to the money market
on acconnt of recent failures in that
city, and it is stated that at least one
hundred telegrams from New York
have been received by members of
congress recently urging immediate
legislative action to relieve the
financial strain. We believe the
people have nothing to fear from the
National Banks, and that outside of
speculators, who are very much
agitated, there is little excitement,
and bankers declare there is not the
slightest reason for any uneasiness.
Hanley, the prize lighter, was ar
rested atPaitsniouth,takeii to Wahoo,
and plead not guilty to the criminal
charge preferred agaii.st him. A re
quisition has been obtained for Fell,
and ir the two get together in the
Nebraska penitentiary, anywhere
from cue to ten years, for their ex
hibition of brutal strength, it will
certainly be a timely lesson to them
and a warning to others of their kind
to steer clear of Nebraska, at least of
that portion of it wherein Col. Mar
shall does the prosecuting of alleged
criminals. It cannot be reiterated
too often by the press and people of
the state that the sovereign remedy
8gainst social evils is the faithful
execution of the laws, the punish
ment of those who violate them, and
public execration of the officials who
fail, neglect or refuse to do their
whole dnty in the interests of the
law-abiding, peaceable, honest, well
meaning public. These groveling,
fleeh-pounders happened to strike the
only county in the neighborhood of
Omaha where a grand jury wero in
session, and the promptness with
which tho machinery of the law haa
been put into motion is commendable.
The senate committco on foreign
relations received the other day au
informal report from the sub-committee
on the exclusion of our meat
products from foreigu countries. The
sub-committee recommend that a bill
be passed authorizing tbc President
to retaliate upon the countries which
discriminate against the United States
by suspending imports from such
countries, in wholo or in part, and
that there be established a system of
inspection of the qualities of 'our
meats, as well as the quality of im
ported articles suspected of adultera
tion. The sub-committee is on the
right track.
tbMtioitftl jforaJ.
Platte Center Ite
Platte Center is humming.
Wm. Edwards has moved into his
new house. Success to you, William.
Our meat shop is in full blast. Our
"Hawthorn" is in bloom. Our town
folks pick their teeth and look happy.
Mr. Balford has the heartfelt sym
pathy of the people of Platte Center
and vicinity in his sudden and terrible
bereavement.
J. J. Macken has just completed
the addition to his residence which
improves its appearance aud adds to
the good looks of our town. John
has no doubt of tho future prosperity
of our burg.
George Hopkins, our worthy furni
ture and harness man, haB transferred
his stock of furnituro to hia new
building on the opposite side of the
street, where ho can attend to his
numerous patrous more conveniently
than heretofore.
Tho Goodman building, just vaca
ted by Mr. Hopkins, is undergoing a
thorough overhauling, scrubbing, re
pairing aud painting under the su
perision of our energetic M. D. who
is about to move in. He appears to be
master of tho situation.
Wo aro happy to hear that Mrs.
George Field is recovering from a
very severe and protracted illness
that has kept her confined to the
houso for a long time. Wo were
pleased to see her out with Mr. Field
this week in their buggy.
Mr. Wolf of Burrows township was
in town mis wceK. no tens or a
very narrow escape that he had the
day of the storm. It happened in
this wise: he was sitting with one
foot on the stove, down stairs, the
lightning came in through a window
up stairs that was minus a light, and
following the stove-pipe down, struck
Mr. Wolf's foot and hip, shattering
the watch in his pocket, knocking
him insensible and turning the nails
of bis toes black as a coal. Ho was
quite lame when we saw him. t.
Lost Creek.
The following was received too
late for insertion in last week's
Journal. Some of the matters re
ferred to have already been spoken
of, in a different manner, in the Jour
nal. Ed. Journal.
The residence of Walter Jewell
was burned to the ground on the 3d
inst. The fire originating from the
cook stove, and spreading with such
rapidity that within ten minutes the
rooms were impassable. Most of the
furniture was saved. The principal
Iosb being on the house, which was
only insured for $100.
This vicinity was visited with one
of the severest, and most destructive
storms on the 5th inst., ever witnessed
here, by even the oldest settlers.
Commencing at 2 p. m., the rain fell
in torrents for three hours, with
driving hail occasionally, of five and
ten minutes duration, many specimens
of which averaged three inches in
circumference. Many herds of cattle
were driven before the storm, into
creeks and ponds, the herders being
unable to hold them. Others were
yarded on low lands and trampled
the weaker ones to death in mud and
water. Crops were also severely in
jured, grain and corn being washed
out entirely in some places, and
buried with mud in others. A spur
of the Loup bottom in the center of
the township consisting of over 1500
acreB was completely flooded, plows
harrows and other tools left in the
fields at noon were buried beneath
the waves or floated miles away at 5
o'clock p. m., and in many places
fields were washed away as deep as
had been plowed. The rain fall being
eight inches in three hours.
Real Estate Traaiirerx.
Reported for the Journal for the
week ending last Saturday, by Gus.
G. Becher & Co :
Emily J.Briggs to Michael Erb, w.d.
$2400; nw i 22, 17, le, 160 acres.
Leonhard Widhalm and wife to Peter
II. Fedderson, w. d. $225; part ne ne
21, 20, 2v, 3 acres.
John Wiggins and wife to K. H. Hcury,
w. d. $400; e ne s,w IS, 17, lw.
James K. North and wife to Thomas
Ottis, tv. d. $200; lots 1, 2, S, 1, and 3, bl3,
Humphrey. v"
U. S. to Daniel WiUon, p.iteut; uo yv
4, 18, 3v, 116.77 acres.
U. P. fi'v Co. to X. P. Lars,on. wVai
' .;. ... .. .... ' "J
wv; c Be s, iy, le, ou acres.
U. P. R'y Co. to Martin H. Dirks, W. d.
$400; e Ji se J 29, 19, le, 80 acres.
U. P. R'y Co. to John Drake, w. d.$300;
s K ne K and n K se 17, 20, le, 1G0
acres.
U. P, R'y Co. to Herman O. Lueschen,
w. d. $200; ne X ne K 1", lle, 40 acres.
U. P.'R'y'Co. to John Wilrdeman, wl d?
$200 ; ne X ne K i?18, le. - -
U. P. R'y Co. to Wm. E. Walton, w. d.
$323.16; a i nej lS,;183w, 64.43 acres v
U.-Pl BTy Co. to' HenryHuntemina,
w. d. $440; v X no K H. W. le, 80 acres.
U. PRj Co. Jo (fcsKv NashWi d $640;
se X 29, 19, 4w, 100 acres.
U. P. R'y Co. to Andrew Paproeki, w.
d, $240; neJiie 15, 1,9, 2w, 40 acres. -
Wm. Anyan, Ree'r, to- .Ootlieb Kuk,
f.r. r. $3.78; n X nw i 3020, le, 73.67
acres. F "
U. P. R'y Co. to Geo. Zimmerman, cer
tificate, $800; e K se K and jne K W,
20, lw, 16J acres.
Wm. Anyan, Rec'r, to Sven Svenson,
f. r. r. $4; eseji 14, 1!), 4v, 80 acres.
Win. Anyan, Rec'r, to Paul Masilouka,
f. r. r. $4; w ne 18, 19, 2w, 80 acres.
Win. Anyan, Rec'r, to Patrick Mahoney,
f. r. r. $4; e C sw 0, 18, lw, 80 acres.
U. P. R'y Co. to John Peters, certifi
cate, $720; ne J 31, 19, 3w, 160 acres.
Lest Creelc Iteaaau
Mr.' Murdock intends building a
residence and large barn adjoining
town, this season.
Owing to the wet season they have
abandoned the coucrete process for
building our new church aud have
decided in putting up a good frame
structure.
Mr. Weatherbee of this place has
perhaps some of the finest blooded
catt!e-4n the county ; one of his heavy
grade cows tips the beam at 1460, and
is peneci in.Buape.
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Caiaap Meetlaar.
The Seventh Day Adventists thro'
Elder A. J. Cudney are making ar
rangements to hold their annoal camp
meeting at Beatrice, Neb., June 4-10.
The grove across the river, east of
the fair grounds has been selected as
the camping ground. Elder Cudney
will, about the 25th of May, begin the
work of arranging the grounds and
putting up the tents. Fare the round
trip from Columbus, $5.05.
HENNINCS
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CORSET
Is irarranted to wnr lonrer, fit
the form nenter, and trte Detter
satisfaction than any other Corset
in the market, or price paid will
be refunded. The indorsements ot
(Thlrairu'-t bt Dhrsicians accom
pany each Corset. Price, SL00 and upward. Ask jour
merchant for them. ..
ROTHSCHILD, JOSEPH & CO.,
Manufacturers, Stt dttii Randolph St., Chicago.
For sole by
FRIEDHOF & CO.
SPECIAL TOWtf XEETHra.
NOTICE 19 hereby given that in ac
cordance with a petition legally
signed by twelve (12) freeholders and on
tile in my ollicc, there will be a special
meeting beld at the Reed school-house,
in Columbus township, on
Naturday, May 91th, laat.
commencing at ! o'clock a. m., for the
consideration of the following questions,
to-wit: 1st, re-consldering the levies
made at the annual meeting, the levies
then made having been based upon a
wrong valuation. 2d, the amount of the
road and bridge fund to be expended
upon the river bridges. 3d, to make such
by-laws, rules and regulations as may be
deemed necessary. 4 th, to take same ac
tion in regard to bridging and grading the
principal highways that lead to the city
of Columbus that have recently been
washed away by high wuter.
Given under my hand the 0th day of
May, A. D., 1884.
r. t A. W. CLARK,
ISKAt-j 3-2t Town Clerk.
Tax Sale Hotice.
, Dualevy, C. Hickok, Aug
To S. B
Kerckman
You are hereby notinea that tne prop
erty described a follows, to.wltt The
N. E. K of the S. W. Ji of Section Town
ship 17. Range 1 east, and the S. E.Ji of
the S. Y. i of Section 2. Township 17,
Range 1 east, situated In Platte county,
and State of Nebraska, was purchased on
the 16th day of August, 1832, at tax sale,
by W. L. Selby. and was taxed- and de
linquent for tho year 1880, that the tame
was taxed in the name of S. B. Dunlevy,
and that the time of redemption will ex
pire on the 16th day of August, 1884.
2-3t W. L. SKLBY.
Tax Sale Kotict.
To whom it may concern or the un
known owners:
Tou are hereby notified that the prop
erty described as follows, to-wlt: The
N. E. i of the N. E. i of Section 14,
Township 17, Range 1 east, situated in
Platte county, and State of Nebraska,
was purchased on the 16th day of August,
1882, at tax sale, by W.L. Selby, and was
taxed and delinquent for tfce year 1880
that the same was not taxed in the same
of any person and that there is no name
on records for 1880 or subsequent years,
and that the time of redemption will ex
pire on the 16th day of August, 1884.
2-3t W. L. Sklby.
Tax Sale lotice.
To Nelson Millet, Pat Murray, J. A.
Steele, M. E. Clother and W.C. Sutton.
You are hereby notified that the prop
erty described as follows, to-wit: Lot
number four (4), in block number eigty
five (85), in Columbus, situated in Platte
county, and State of Nebraska, was pur
chased on the 11th day of September,
1882, at tax sale, by W. L. Selby, and was
taxed and delinquent for the year 1873,
that the same was taxed in the name of
Nelson 3Iillett, and that the time of re
demption will expire on the 11th day of
September, 1684.
2-3t W. L. Sklby.
FINAL PKOOF.
Land Office at Grand Island, Neb..)
May 12th, 1884.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
following-named settler has filed
notice of his intention to make final
proof in support of bis claim, and that said
proof will be made before Clerk of the
District Court at Columbus, Neb., on
Friday June 27th, 1884, viz:
John Newman, Homestead No. 8939,
fortheW. K. S.E. KS.W.K, N. E. J,
and S. E. J, N. W. , Section 30, Town
ship 20. north of Range 4 west. He
names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon, and cul
tivation of, said land, viz: John Blom
quibt, Andrew M. Anderson, Hans 0.
Knudson, Oskar Eng, all of Lookinglass
P. O., Platte Co., Neb.
4-6 C. HOSTETTER, Register.
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FIAL PROOF.
Land Oflce at Grand Island. Neb.,)
May 9, 1884. j
NOTICE is hereby niven that tbc fol.
lowiog-named aettler has filed notice
of bis Intention to make final proof in
support of bis claim, and that said proof
will be made before Judge of the District
Court at Columbus, Neb., on the 23th
day of June, 1884, viz:
John A. Griffey, Homestead Entry Xo.
8166, f Tthe S. E. , S. 12, in Township
19, north Range 3 west. He names the
following witnesses to prove his contin
uous residence upon, and cultivation of,
said land, viz: John Dee-'an, Henry
HcCabe, Thomas Mcl'hillips, Hans.
Elliott, all of Postville, Platte County
Nebraska.
3 C. HOSTETTER, Register.
FIXVAIu PKOOF.
U. S. Land Office, Grand Island, Neb.)
March 3d, 1884. f
"VTOTICE is hereby given that the fol-
N lowing named settler has tiled notice
of his intention to make final proof in sup-
Eort of his claim, and that said proof will
e made before Clerk of District Court
for Platte county, at Columbus, Neb., on
June 12tb, 1884, viz.:
Hugh JicCarvel, Homestead No. 8624,
for the E. y2 of S. XV. U and AY. of S. E.
K Section 27. Township 20, Range 3 west,
lie names the following witnsesses to
prove bis continuous residence upon, and
cultivation of, said land, viz: Henry Mc
Cabe, Thomas McPhillips, Martin Maher
and Michael Clark, all of Postville, eu.
2-6
C. HOSTETTER, Register.
FIJtAE. PKOOF.
Land Office at Grand Island, Neb., )
April 12, 1884. f
NOTICE Is hereby given that the
following-named settler has tiled
notice of his intention to make final proof
in support of his claim, and that said
Sroof will be made before Judge of the
istrict Court at Columbus, Neb., on
May 17tb, 1884, viz:
Thomas Reagan, Homestead No. 119.l
for the S. W. , Section 30, Township 20,
Ranee 3 west. He names the folio win-r
witnesses to prove his continuous resi
dence upon, and cultivation of, said land,
viz: Jas. Fay, of Farrel, Neb., Pete Bar
ney, of Postville, Neb.. Jas. Ducey. of St.
Bernard, Neb., Patrick Noonan, of Co
lumbus, Neb.
51-6 C. HOSTETTER, Register.
FINAI PKOOF.
Land Office at Grand Island, Ncb.,1
April 10th, 1884. f
NOTICE is hereby given that the following-named
settler has tiled notice
of his intention to make final proof in
support of his claim, and that said proof
will be made before Judge of the District
Court of Platte county, Nebraska, at
Columbus, Nebraska, on May 22d,
1884, viz:
Christian Maler, Homestead No. -0750
for the N. E. , Section 4, Township 20
north, Range 3 west. He names the fol
lowing witnesses to prove his continuous
residence upon, and cultivation of, said
land, viz: August Schmitz, Gustav Som
merieldt, Christoph Bolin, Otto Born, of
St. Bernard, Neb.
514 C. HOSTETTER, Register.
FJL1AE. PKOOF.
Land Office at Grand Island, Neb.,)
April Z-iQ, 18&4. )
NOTICE is hereby given that the following-named
settlerbas filed notice
of his intention to make final proof in
support of his claim, and that said proof
will be made before the Judge of the
District Court, at Columbus Nebraska, on
the 14th day of June, 1884, viz:
Carsten Petersen, Homestead Entry
No. 11074, being additional to Homestead
No. 471, for the S. i, S. E. i, Section 8,
Township 18, North Range 2 west. He
names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon, and cul
tivation of, said land, viz: C. Vanallen,
P. F.Ketelson.F. Tessendorf.or Mctz v. u
Platte County Nebraska, and J. H. Jo.
hannes, of Platte Center P. O., Platte
County Nebraska.
1-6 C. HOSTETTER, Register.
FL1AL PKOOF.
Land Office at Grand Inland Neb.,)
April 12th, 1884. f
N'
OTICE is hereby given that the fol-
lowiner-named settler has nieu notice
ot bis intention to make final proof in
support of his claim, and that said proof
will be made before the Clerk of the Dis
trict Court at Columbus, Nebraska, on
May 21st, 1884, viz:
Richard H. Johnson, Homestead No.
10984, for the N. W. Ji Section 4, Town
ship 18, Range 4 west. He names the fol
lowing witnesses to prove his continuous
residence upon, and cultivation of, said
land, viz: John Hoffman, Cornelius Koch,
John Nelson and James Kiernan, all ot
Woodvillc, Neb.
51-6 C. HOSTETTER, Register.
FlftjML PKOOF.
Land Office at Grand Island, Neb.,)
May 12th, 1884. f
NOTICE is hereby given that the
following-named settler has filed
notice of his intention to make final proof
in support of his claim, and that said
proof will be made before the Judge of
the District Court, at Columbus, Nebras
ka, on the 28th day of June, 1881, viz:
John Hosaer Homestead No. 10423, for
th"eS.K,3f.E. , Section 30, Township
17, north, of Range lwest. He names the
fallowing witnesses to prove Us con
tinuous residence upon, and cultivation
of, said' land, viz: Peter Zibach, John
Bredehof, John Gerber, John Bern, all
of Duncan P. O, Platte Co.,Neb.
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FIX A I. PKOOF.
Land Office at Grand Island, Neb.,)
April loth, 1884. f
NOTICE is hereby given that the following-named
settler has tiled notice
of his Intention to make final proof in
support of his claim, and that said proof
will be made before the Judge ot tne Dis
trict Court at Columbuj, Neb., on the
7th day of June, 1884, viz:
Cobak Formanski, Homestead No. 8421,
for the S. N. E. K Section 20, Town
ship 17 north, of Range 1 west. He
names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon, and culti
vation of, said land, viz: Yalentine Loaek,
George Borowiak, John Treba and John
Flakus, all of Duncan P. O., Platte Co.,
Neb.
52-6 C. HOSTETTER, Register.
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