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North Platte Semi Weekly Tribune

Location

North Platte, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

Oct 30, 1908

Page

6

Nebraska Pointers Report Wide Range of Local News

Otoe county stock show a success. Colfax county farm sold at 122 60 per acre. Campaigns gain traction across the state. Omaha Christian Scientists plan a 40000 church. Fullerton Methodists push theirs. Tripp land drawing yields success. Loomis revival meetings end well. Omaha man Davis to stand trial in November. Hall County superintendent Miss Margaret Brown resigns effective January 1. Grand Island plant foreman Ray Lamareaux loses fingers. Diphtheria cases reported in Meyer family, Bismarck township. Nebraska City to host chicken and corn show in December. Matthews & Mathews store in Callaway burns, loss around 15000. Telephones urged for farmers. Holmenville Mill and Power builds dam at Holmesville. Cass County Sunday School convention in Weeping Water Nov 9–10. C. D. Meigs to speak. Bridgeport to become county seat of Morrill county after division vote. Fritz King found dead in Nebraska City. Venus Webber robbed of 500. thieves take 400 and 100 in rolls plus silver and a revolver. Dr. Holland of Carnegie Museum departs Gordon for the east with fossil haul. Ponca’s Pier Swift, second in Tripp county land draw, 23, respected young farmer. New Masonic temple work starts at McCook. W Z Warner resigns from Dempster factory to move to Huron. Niobrara inquest verdict pins death to October 17 by blunt instrument. Engler store at Talmage broken into. safe blown, $20 stolen. Insurance agent C D De Pass arrested for unlawfully transacting accident insurance without state certificate.

Otoe County Colfax County Christian Scientists of Omaha Methodists of Fullerton Nebraska Parker Loomis Charles B. Davis Dr. Austin Margaret Brown Hall County Ray Lamareaux American Beet Sugar Company Grand Island R. ‘Meyer Bismarck Township Cuming County Meyer Nebraska City Callaway Mathews & Mathews Farmera Nejbracka Telephone Company 18Th Douglas Streets Holmenville Mill and Power Company G. W Fritz King Missouri Pacific Venus Webber Dr. Holland Carnegie Museum Pittsburg Gordon East Pier Swift Ponca Tripp Masonic Temple McCook W. Z Warner Dempster Beatrice Huron Niobrara Valentine Engler General Talmage C. D. de Pass Cortland Clatonia J. E. Austin

Mystery of the silver skull and the Bellevue murder

In a tale framed by Clarke and Sexton a silver skull named Ynath becomes the focus of a decades old mystery. Dr. John R. Ranthan, a Bellevue hospital graduate student, is found dead with an oriental knife blow and two locked doors. Clarke recalls a confrontation with Ranthan and a woman, a Himalayan past, and an eerie claim of mind and body phenomena.

Clarke Achmon Dr. Ranthan Sahib Sexton New York Sun Bellevue John R. Ranthan Bellevue Hospital Ranthan Mussoorie Garhwal Simla Himalayas Baid Dr. Cartwright Ranthin Cartwright

Glorious scare leads to occult pursuit and murder tale

An outlandish scene unfolds as Clarke and Inspector Ship chase a lethal mystery involving a severed blade, a half caste princess in a legend, and a talking skull. The Hindu seer Proves a secret via trance while authorities chase a condemned culprit who escapes handcuffs.

Achmon Ranthan Clarke

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Frank Lovell Nelson Carlton Clarke Calcutta Parla London New York Ynath Yangmal Sikkim Darjeeling Ibndu Inspector Ship Ahhmon Gahib Cione Alge Elory W. G. Chapman
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