\V . B. Hugus ami family are en
joying the balmy breezes on the
Southern California coast. They
are spending the holidays at Pas
adena, the guests of Judge Hugus.
The Union Pacific Coal com
pany has sixteen men mining coal
at Dana and will get out twenty
cars to test it again.
Baloon food has been plenty in
the Upper Platte valley during
Christmas week. Jim Hopkins
says it blew ditches all through
his ranch last Monday and Tues
day.
Shippers, consign jour time
freight for the large commercial
centres east < f the Missouri river
to the Chicag'o. Union Pacific &
Northwestern line.
The Saratoga boys, who have
become tired of physical exertion,
have’ taken to the use of sail in
connection with their ice skates as
a means of locomotion on the river,
and the experiment works like a
charm.
A benevolent Eastern lady, who
has Saratoga's interest in view,
has promised to furnish books for
a public library here if our citi
zens provide a suitable building.
Donations in work, material ami
cash have already been promised.
. The foot race, which took place
on Christmas day on the Saratoga
race track, just after the pony race*,
between Al. Beeby and Charlie
Sutton, was pronounced off owing
to a misunderstanding, caused by
the sprints colliding with one
another.
Another horse race is likely to
come off two weeks from next
Saturday on the Saratoga track,
between horses owned by George
McDonald aud John Sisson. A
forfeit of $25 has been placed in
the hands E. G. Ashley as a guar
antee of good faith on the part of
the horse owners.
