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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1905
Page
3
Lincoln officials and Governor Mickey weigh whether state officers and their deputies must pay nonresident tuition for their children in Lincoln public schools. The school board seeks legal clarity on collection rights, while the governor questions legality and justice of the claim.
State Superintendent J L McBrien spent a day at the Normal school where he spoke at chapel and to faculty urging effort in small beginnings. He praised current classwork, contrasted old building methods with new on site planning, and explained upcoming teacher and county superintendent standards.
The State Bureau of Labor and Statistics reports Nebraskas 1905 wheat output totaling 36,630,319 bushels of winter wheat and 4,713,438 bushels of spring wheat, with values of 25,641,223.30 and 3,299,406.60 respectively, for a total wheat production of 41,343,757 bushels and value of 41,? million. The overall wheat crop value reaches 28,940,629.90 versus 26,415,455.47 in 1904.
A proposed test of the school law may occur if state officers who vote in other districts refuse to pay tuition for their children in Lincoln public schools. A mandamus action could be brought against the school board to compel admission of nonresident pupils whose parents do not pay tuition.
CENTRAL CITY reports hog cholera has wiped out several large droves and affected market prospects as farmers worry despite a assured corn crop and record yields for the season.
A granite shaft monument to the unknown soldier dead at Prairie Union cemetery was unveiled Sunday. The impressive shaft stands as a notable dedication in the cemetery grounds.
Deputy Superintendent Bishop’s corn show at the state farm in Lincoln on December 14 and 15 will host 500 school boys contesting for best corn yields and many girls for cooking prizes. The State Board of Agriculture contributed 100 dollars and plans call for a state agriculture society formed from school boys. County and district societies are already forming with more to come.
Mrs. Herman Wippern, long entwined with a Boyd county kidnap saga, left her 1-year-old in a trundle bed at home in Butte at 10 a.m. to shop. She returned half an hour later to find the child unconscious and soon after dead, continuing a tale of mystery in a life fraught with peril.
The Burlington ice house in Hastings burned. South Omaha reports 33 births and 27 deaths in October. Ernest Guthrie of Wymore sent to reform school. Old Hammond packing plant may reopen in South Omaha. Norfolk enforces cigarette law rigidly. Crete Butter Tub Co incorporates at $10,000. J F Wheeler farm shed burns near Milford. York Gas and Electric finishes gas plant. Mayor Bemis of Omaha wins $5942 verdict for billboard injury. Bartley woman dies after buggy fall. Beatrice club plans Missouri Pacific outreach. George von Haller appeals murder case to supreme court. Captain Pickett to Fort Crook for training. Local mortgage and land records list October figures. R. C. Harris resigns as Sidney land office registrar. Governor to name Babcock successor. Alex Weddle visiting Auburn. first white child born in Nemaha. Halry Madison bound over for sauerkraut quail case. Interstate Mortgage secures $750,000 bonds for extension. Omaha post office October receipts set record at $54,163. Rock Island minutes note debt increase to $275,000,000. Wallfried Jacobson dies saving wife in Hamilton County fire. Supreme Court bans using national flag as trademark. John Noe injures Cooney Urbach in field dispute. Wolf bounty likely drops as wolves thin in western Nebraska. Deputy Auditor notes wolf bounties under $100 monthly.
A recent severe storm on the Great Lakes caused significant shipping losses. The brief bout of bad weather overtook vessels, resulting in notable financial and operational impacts across the region.
William T. Stead discusses Nicholas I’s youth and timidity after accession. He describes how noble and peasant factions welcomed the new czar in January 1894, and how Nicholas’s autocratic vow alienated the reforming forces that could have checked the bureaucracy.
Centralia Washington honors memory of George Washington founder aged 89 who became prosperous, donated land for a park and supported local causes. At his funeral all city stores closed in his honor.
In Chicago Post commentary a sermon drawn from a man who preached with a bullet argues life is a sum of opportunities either seized or neglected. It notes a son of a distiller, spoiled by wealth, squandered chances, yet asserts age 35 marks a turning point with future opportunities for change.
The Moroccan chief minister, visiting London, learns that about 600 “wise men” meet at the Houses of Parliament to settle national affairs. He is astonished and remarks that his master would decide everything himself.
Albert Gallatin of Sacramento California has died. He conceived and first carried out the modern method of transmitting electric energy over twenty two miles from water power at Folsom to power and light Sacramento. He pioneered street car service by this system, overcoming widespread incredulity before its success.
A narrator recalls Cornish miners in Montana with a culture of funeral processions and rowdy Sunday horse parades. The piece describes drivers, livery stables intercepting teams, and dramatic funerals where multiple horses are killed as crowds celebrate.
The Jacksonville Metropole notes that in a fireproof third floor archive room of the Treasury in Washington lie Confederate diplomatic papers and seven crates of Confederate money. The Pickett Papers, kept in special chests, once traveled from Richmond to Washington via Col John T Pickett then Canada before purchase by the U S in 1872.
The article surveys opinions from railroad leaders and experts on train speeds and safety. Knapp of the Interstate Commerce Commission calls speed a matter of line conditions, while Santa Fe’s Ripley notes fewest cars on fast trains reduce dead weight hazards. Other presidents discuss freight versus passenger risks, signaling, and fatalities in comparison to English railways.
A devotional meditation by William Jefferson Kennon printed in the Baltimore Sun. The speaker admits utter spiritual poverty and offers a surrendering petition saying all worth is found in divine mercy. He expresses faith that Christ’s sacrifice fulfills his need, surrendering self to receive grace and trust in God.
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