Beatrice Daily Sun (Newspaper) - June 30, 1908, Beatrice, Nebraska SWORN AVERAGE LAST A Strictly Independent Y ami IF YOU DONT SEE if IN THE IT DIDNT 6 TUESDAY JUNE BIG FLOOD SUNDAY Cloudburst Causes Rapid Rise in Beatrice Flooded Cub Creek Breaks Record As forecasted in this paper Sunday Beatrice was visited by the worst flood in five years A cloudburst northwest of this city in the vicinity of Cub the rainfall being estimated at from live to seven caused Cub and Turkey creeks to over flow their and when the water rushed down upon Beatrice the Blue river was a raging tor rent in a few a rise of fif teen feet from Saturday night to Sunday afternoon being Shortly before noon the water rose so rapidly that it broke across West Court flooding that section of the city for three blocks west of Court street bridge and forcing many families to leave their They took shelter in the West school At one time the water was about three feet deep on West Court During the afternoon the water works and electric light plants were and at the latter place a sheet of tin casing was placed around the fly wheel of the large engine in order to keep the water The water lacked about three feet of reaching the boilers at the waterworks From early morning to late Sunday evening thousands of peo ple visited the Court street and Sixth street bridges to get a glimpse of the and never in the history of the oldest tant did the Big Blue rise so rap idly as it did Sunday The stream averaged a foot an hour after midnight Saturday un til Sunday Cub creek was the highest ever i and at one time water iwas running through the second istory of the house of Daniel Frec the first The dwelling house of a man named who lived on the Kilpat rick ranch west of was washed down stream before the family had time to It lodged against a tree after being carried a short and the family was rescued with It is reported that Coke had a narrow escape from Reports received hero ay arc to the effect that Cub creek was almost a mile wide in Some loss of stock such as e and hogs is Crops of all kinds were badly and the loss along the creek will foot up into the Near Plymouth the Rock Island had a quarter of a mile of track washed and the company was obliged to run its main lino trains over the Burlington through this The Union which has had all kinds of trouble the last six weeks between here and Man because of wa is again out of business for the In some places the track was covered with from six to eight feet of and no at tempt was made to run It will be several days before traffic is resumed over this The Burlington tracks near DeWitt wore partially but trains wore operated as One of the piers of the largo iron bridge between Beatrice and was washed away by the flood causing the structure to The rains which caused such a flood did not extend north of Pe The rainfall at this point was of an Sun day afternoon at five oclock the river WAS reported and liter In the evening the water began to Up to i late hour last evening a fall of five feet was Yesterday morning dawned and as the river had fallen back into its regular those who were driven from their homes moved back dur ing the The river lacked about four feet of reaching the high water mark of five years aud when the flood had reached its crest and a slight fall was reported Sun day evening many breathed a sigh of For the protection of the was suspended over the Court and Sixth street bridges during the entire day ropes were stretched across each structure in order to keep the throngs of sightseers off of NEW BANK ASSURED As announced in this paper a few weeks Beatrice will have a new bank in the very near fu Articles of incorporation have been filed with the state banking and as soon as the room can be put in readiness the Beatrice State Bank will open up for The bank will have a capital stock of fully paid and the business location will be in the north room of the Allen block on North Sixth This room will be entirely re modeled and made a complete and perfect bank rourn iu every The fixtures have been and are the newest and most mod ern that it is possible to The stockholders of the bank are Allen of IL Henry Henry Alpha Shelters and A reference to the list of above is certainly a guar antee sufficient as to the strength of the new It will be the policy of the bank to at all times cater to the wants and needs of Beatrice and in so far as this can be done consistent with sound and safe II who for so many years has been associated with the banking interests of Be and whose knowledge of the business is most thorough and will no doubt bo the ac tive head of the which will insure conservative and careful management of all its The growth of the busi ness and manufacturing interests of and the rapid devel of the country surround ing our has fully satisfied the stockholders of this bank that there is room here for such an in and sach business as can be secured by fair and honorable will be given every at tention A meeting of the stockholders will be held within a few at which time the board of director will bo and the necessary officers Further informa tion will given out as soon as same js Water for Barneston That is in substance the nature f the legal pill rolled for and administered to the devotees of trong thirst goods in that Judge gave iis decision in the saloon remonstrance case icard here district court last The court sustained the and refused the li cense thereby reversing the action of the village The decision of the court was upon the fact that only twentynine of the thirtythree upon the application of Walter Judah for a license proved to be Of these freeholders allowed by the three were jut as thirty resident freeholders ire required to make the applica ion legal it was unnecessary to tricken these signers from the ist to make it It was stated last evening by Attorney Adam who the liquor interests n the that Judah ecure now signatures to his ap and readvertise it LEAVE FOR AN OUTING a party of gentlemen who enjoy an outing will leave for a trip of a few weeks to Womans where they will hunt and en joy a few weeks The party comprises II Brash and This quartet made a similar trip to tha section of the country last year and they had such a good time that they will try it Adams departed day afternoon for on trip IS REFUSED udge Raper Reverses Action of Board in Deciding Barneston Remonstrance WYMORE NEWS NOTES June stepped on a rake and tines were forced through his making a painful but not The company added a steam engine and clam shell shovel to the equipment at ts sand pit east of The Blue lacks two inches of jeing as high as it has been any ime this It commenced falling about 11 A meeting of railroad men is for tomorrow night to or a protective A similar meeting was held some weeks but nothing was done the attendance was Miss Maude Acton wont to this morning to attend the wedding of Miss Mamo Fen formerly editress of the Dawson News The street commissioner has leaned the refuse out of the cutters on the main ly to a conference on the things in the local Sunday school and this greatest gave a brief but rapid sketch of definite plans for grading Sun day schools and oC his visits to the largest Sunday schools in the United He is a fluent and interesting speaker arid those who avail themselves of tho opportunity to hear him will en joy his address to tho graduates of tho training class Following is the program for today AFTERNOON Mc Bible school Round Best plans for junior and intermediate a and Louise EVENING Beatrice training class commencement WIN GAME ATTEND SPECIAL SERVICES In honor of the patron the the local lodge of with the ladies of the Eastern attended spo ial services at Christ Episcopal hurch Sunday afternoon at 5 Tho service was the usual choral evensong with a special sermon by the The largo vested under tho director of rendered the musical parts of the service The sermon was an appeal to Masons who all professed to trust in to show that in their Though the sermon was of usual interest to those in atten and especially so to the Masons and the members of the Eastern CHRISTIAN CONVENTION OPENS A game abounding in heavy hitting and spectacular fielding marked the contest between the Christian Berean confederation of ball tossers and the Presbyterian nine at the Fairview grounds last Tho former team won after eight breathless rounds by the score of 9 to A large sized crowd was in The secured an early lead by thumping the Presbyter ians imported for some timely and scored occasionally thereafter when Kretsinger replaced The latter twirled in better style than his The Presbyterians were unable to connect to great advantage with the slants of while he passed several to was invulnerable when hits meant Among the acts deserving spe cial mention was a double play by Chester Dobbs of the un assisted two trisack hits by Son sensational catches by Dobbs and Peterson of the Rothenborger and the fielding of ger and Warren of the Score by innings r h e 0220102 9 6 1000011 5 7 ger and Booth Kretsinger and Struck by 6 by First base on Son 4 off and Following is tho standing of tho Sunday school league Won Lost ROAD FILES APPEAL Missouri Pacific Wants to Put Back 3Cent Passenger Rate and New Freight June Missouri Pacific today filed an appeal with the state rail way commission for permission some time soon to put back into force tho old 3cent passenger faro and a schedule of freight rates that appears to bo about equal to tho rates in force before the Aldrich maximum rate went into These acts have boon in court ever since their but have been iu In evi dent despair at getting an immedi ate decision in those the railroad has turned from tho judiciary to the commission for Accompanying the petition is a statement of tho earnings and ex penses of the road during the year ending Juno and the nine months ending March The deficit during the first period was and at the rate stated for the nine months ending March the deficit was This deficiency would mean a of for the year ending June As this is considerably less under the Jaws which the road inveighs than the deficit exper under the old rates which the road seeks to the statement appears general attor ney for the made the com plaint and has asked that the hear ing be held sometime between July 4 and July No date for the hearing has been CZAR IS ANGERED and by Baer and of the Juno court martial of tho officers of the Black Sea which has con to serve as an example to navy has been ordered by the The fleet has been con ducting maneuvers for the last Here is its records since June 23 Three collisions of one boiler one gun two mutinies due to a bad a drunken captain injured by a fall from a Not a single target as yet has been hit in gun Tho czar is thoroughly incensed over the showing and a violent shake up of tho ministry of marine is likely to bo tho THE WEATHER Fair Tuesday much change in Daily Temperature at 12 59 oclock last BELL TO REDUCE RATES Accord ing to the state railway commission has g tho Nebraska Telephone company permission to reduce its rates in The reduction will save tho patrons of tho Bell company in this city between 500 and per year and does not to business houses or The cut is tho result of strong competition made by tho New Home Telephone company against tho For the last year such a move on the part of the Bell com pany has been but the company has refused to make any reduction in its It is ex that tho cut in this city will be followed by a like reduc tion in all parts of The charges are still than the company with the exception of the four party the Homo and Bell rates for this being Individual lines for residences are reduced from to a The company charges a For lino phones a reduction from to is made and on fourparty phones from to a All these rates are for metallic For the selective lino phones the rate is reduced from to The company charges for the same For the fourparty selective signal service the rate is reduced from to The Bell has for years con tended that its rates wore just and that the Now Homo companys rates were too but tho latter has been making improvements and branching out in all directions under tho present rate charged since Manager Caman took hold of the local Patrons of the Bell in this city will certainly appreciate tho reduction in tho rate from tho old schedule which they have been paying during these many PADDOCK BLOCK SOLD Christian 6 Methodist Baruca Lutheran United 0 The annual district convention of the Christian church opened last evening in this The opening address was given by Not many knew that this eminent worker was in town in consequence of which he was greeted by a small Pet 2 2 3 3 6 This evening at the Pres and United Brethren will play off tho tie game of last POISONED BY CANNED SALMON Two cases of ptomaine poison ing on the West Side were re ported last Tho victims wore Charles Burgess and Alonzo and it was caused by canned sal mon eaten yesterday at The effects of tho poison were not apparent until last A physician was who upon his arrival found that the ladies were suffering intense He administered antidotes and after working with them for three hours pronounced them out of The suit in garnishment of Thomas Allen Humes was disposed of by Judge Pem berton in district court About two years ago the defen dant took out insurance with the Bankers and upon arrival of tho policy ho rejected Tho insurance company brought suit and obtained judgment for tho amount This judgment they assigned to Allen who there upon the wages of Tho court yesterday found for tho plaintiff and ordered the to make payment to the out of the defendants wages the amount called for in the DYNAMITE OUTRAGE San June 29 were killed and many injured by a dynamite explosion in a crockery store and in flats adjoining a saloon early front f the was blown across Fire followed the which is wort of thugs hare engaged in si i in J t T i r is uot The largest exchange of city property ever consummated here occurred yesterday when the Pud dock block was purchased by Mario wife of General from John Tel ford and John the Chicago Tho considera tion named in tho deed filed yes afternoon is and the dual was handled by the Wal ter Hill real estate Tho fact that tho Paddock has now fallen into tho hands of a citizen of Beatrice gives rise to tho belief that tho opening of the opera house to gether with tho necessary and much needed improvements will bo The date of opening has upon so many ont occasions furnished pipe dream material that the Sun with holds its prophecy for tho GAVE BIRTH TO TRIPLETS Andrew Fuller of Fairbury The meeting was devoted in the on prosecution John living six miles east of gave birth to one boy and two early One of the girl babies died soon after but the others were and nicely at last re they are below appear to be p heathy as
