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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1907
Page
7
Auguest Anderson a 78 year old rugmaker and his wife were found dead in their bed at 450 South Fi Street Fremont. Neighbors reported they did not appear in the morning and were later discovered by Mr Nelson who broke in with an axe. Gas from the stove apparently caused their deaths. a cat lay dead by the stove.
Sugar plant manager Hugh Scilley returned to Fremont from Sidney and North Platte to secure contracts for the next season but failed to obtain any. He will recommend that the Leavitt factory not operate next season as farmers form a beet growers association demanding $5 per ton for beets. The plant paid that amount this year but Scilley says it cannot again, offering a graded scale by beet sugar content above 15 percent as the best figure.
A new Tecumseh based bridge firm named Inter-Mountain Bridge and Construction company is organized with G A Dunlap as manager. He has long served as Burlington roadmaster and will run offices in Tecumseh and Ontario Oregon. The firm reportedly holds contracts in Oregon Washington and Idaho.
Dr. C A McKim state veterinarian urges quick passage of a local meat and dairy inspection bill amid rising tuberculosis in hogs and humans. He links tubercular milk to lung disease and notes scientists study hog infection sources from milk or tubercular cattle.
United States post office inspectors Steele and Frazier found citizens breaking postal laws by hiding writings in merchandise and printed matter. Offenders avoided prosecution by pleading ignorance and paying ten dollars each into the treasury.
Nebraska files suit in the supreme court to recover 100 dollars for January rent of the executive mansion. Attorney General W T Thompson acts at the governor's request to test if the governor may accept house rent despite a constitutional provision barring state officers from personal perquisites or compensation. The mansion was purchased under a legislative act.
Tecumseh Methodist church members plan to erect a new brick church on the current lot next year. The aging frame building, 25 years old, is deemed too small and a modern $15,900 structure is proposed.
John Kennison of Bennet, aged 70, was visiting his son when a wagon load of bricks slid off a bridge south of Nebraska City. The bricks crushed him. neighbors rescued him and Dr. Marnell treated gashes in scalp and body. Doctors fear shock may endanger recovery. The accident occurred at night on a bridge without a railing.
In an old feud at a Frontier county literary society Ben Jusel drew a revolver and shot one McCaighney in the abdomen. He fled in his buggy but was overtaken by the McCaighneys and beaten. The wounded man is expected to recover. Jusel is in bad condition but not believed to be fatally injured.
S F Johnson of Stromsburg vicinity was killed by accidental rifle discharge while checking cattle at a river crossing. He had carried a 22 caliber rifle. the incident occurred as he crossed a fence. Johnson and his wife had visited Sweden a year earlier.
County commissioners announce the annual levy is exhausted and refuse unpaid claims until the new levy is available in August. This postpones all county work and salaries until August, the first time in years the levy ran out this early.
The City Roller Mills formerly owned by E. T. Norwood was sold to T. B. Snider of Beaver City Wisconsin who has employed Norwood to supervise milling. A. Brunke sold his groceries and dry goods stock to C. C. Duffield who now runs the business.
D C McIntyre yard foreman at Alliance suffered a serious injury when a switch engine ran over him. His left leg was severed below the knee and he sustained a head injury after leaping in front of another engine. He is an older man and his recovery is in doubt. Formerly roadmaster in Alliance, he has worked here for several years.
In Mobile Alabama the Willis G Clarke public school basement fire caused smoke from an overheated furnace. The pupils exited calmly during the drill averting panic though the building suffered heavy damage.
While operating a machine at the Burlington planing mill in Pilatts mouth H. S. Clark sustained a serious hand laceration. He was cutting a block of wood when his hand pressed against a bit, requiring many stitches to close the wounds.
J. W. Compton, father of the editor of the Greeley Citizen, marked his ninetieth birthday. He has lived in Nebraska since 1858, a distinction shared by few state residents.
The Nebraska Senate rejected S. F. No. 128 on February 8 by 20 votes to 11 with two absent, defeating a measure to allow county wide votes on liquor licenses every two years. Opponents argued it was one sided and would block licenses in dry counties while not guaranteeing licenses in wet areas.
The Nebraska Supreme Court rules an Indian marriage between Paypay and Quadam, conducted under tribal law, was valid even after Paypay left the union. The decision holds Lucy Ortley’s claim to an undivided half-interest in Paypay’s land cannot be disputed and the children are legitimate. The case originated in Knox County in a dispute over quiet title and partition among Paypay’s heirs.
The War Department compels railroads to grant half fare plus two dollars to the Tefith cavalry for a Nebraska Forts to San Francisco move. Soldiers, originally set to depart February 26, are held until March 1 when these colonists rates take effect across western lines, beating the quartermaster’s bid.
In Block Island Sound a collision between the schooner Harry Knowlton and the steamship Larchmont caused massive loss of life. About 150 to 200 aboard perished or were lost. 48 bodies recovered. 19 survivors. The incident occurred near Watch Hill around 11 p.m. The Knowlton sustained no fatalities.
A sudden ice gorge on the Loup river northwest of Columbus Nebraska sent waters rising over five feet in an hour at 7 PM. A family of four named the McCone escaped drowned near the Union Pacific tracks in West Columbus. Rescue crews and a hunting boat aided survivors as trains halted and extensive flooding trapped residents.
F W Stevens reached Norfolk Nebraska after a 300 mile trek across South Dakota's snow swept prairies to tell his parents that his wife and three children froze to death in a blizzard near Rapid City January 14. He buried the two bodies, then found two sons aged eighteen and twenty perished on the plains with their bodies not yet found. He arrived in Norfolk with one dollar, broken in spirit at fifty seven.
The Toronto Globe asserts Canada enjoys healthy expansion in trade and industry with no artificial props. It notes bank liquidity to lend to the United States, rail projects opening new territories, and growing agriculture while avoiding risky speculation. US migration to Canada rises, with 216,000 new arrivals last year, 63,781 from the United States, and government ads predicting further growth in 1907.
A boy tries to throw a stone at a bobolink perched in an apple tree. The bird sings a pleading refrain and the boy spoons the stone on the ground, explaining he cannot stone him because the bird sang. The tale appears in Puck.
A 1906 seed catalog pitches a large seed sale offering postpaid orders for 12 cents per package. It promises garden bargains on items like Poke Garden City Beet Earliest Ripe Cabbage Earliest Emerald Cucumber Market Lettuce and Blue Tomato plus a free cash plant with a 16 cent order. The notice invites readers to request the company catalog and to mail to Balzer Seed Co Box W La.
Consul Harry A. Conant writes from Windsor that U S immigration to Canada for July through October reached 17 907, up from 12 664 in the same period last year, signaling notable cross-border movement.
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