Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-06-05
NEBRASKA

: The county Of Dawes has just been organ
feed.
The police of Hastings are blooming in new
suits.
Omaha thinks II has gained q population Of
1900 during the past year.
The assessed valuation Of real estate and
personal property in Crete is $50, 1913.
Union Pacific surveyors have staked an ex-
tension Of the road sixty miles west Of Cedar
Rapids.
The authorities Of Neigh propose to bond
the town for 81, 800 TO provide tools for o fire
brigade.
Thieves broke into tie railroad Office at
Fremont Tuesday ard secured two postage
stamps.
Mrs. Meals Is the appropriate name OF the
lsndiady Of the principal hotel In Ainswortl..
She ticxles her bosrders three times q day.
One OF "Doc' Middleton's pards In the
horse lifting business was run down in Wyo-
ming last week and brought hack to Sidney
for trial.
Twenty miles west of Papillior Walter Hays,
. school teacher, or Saturday was drowned in
the Elkhorn river, where he went to fish with
some companions.
Hastings stands q first class chance Of &C.
curing sn extension Of the E!khorn Valley
road from Lincoln. All that Is necessary is q
united appeal and q bonus.
A severe storm passed over the Town of
Friend about S 80 Monday evening, doing an
immense amount Of damage. Several teams
ran away during the storm.
The remains Of James Ewing, the founder
Of the town bearing his name, were brought
up from Lincoln last week and buried In the
Ewing cemetery with Masonic honors.
Sidney is anxiously waiting for a grist mil
and q railroad up the North Platte valley. The
Micswber plan will never secure either; such
improvements must be forced TO 'turn up"
The young ladies OF Genoa have organized q
broom brigade and are developing their mus
cles for future emergencies. A clean sweep
Of eligible bachelors in the neighborhood is
threatened.
Mrs. L. N. Henry, the evangelist, In COM
pany with several Of Exeter local divines, held
an open air concert on the depot platform
Sunday evening attended by nifty railroAders
and q large number CT citizens.
The four year old son of L, c. Brown, of
Graud Island, toyed with the tail of . vicious
horse and was kicked against the side OF Q
building near by. The outline Of his nose
was lost IN the collision, but the youngster
viii live.
Mr.. A. F. Wears, living near Plsinview, was
bitten on one Of his hands Sunday by . heller
suffering from h~ydrophobis. The heifer no
doubt was bitten By q dog which ran mad In
that neighborhood sbort three weeks ago.
The dog was pro mptly killed, % well as all
other dogs suspected Of having been bitten.
Harriet Hammond, the beloved wife Of Ben,
living near O'Neil City, fell desperately in love
with q neiRhbor PANIED Smith, and concocted a
plan to pool homestesds with the only man /
love-" With the assistance Of her daughter
she dosed Ben with poison, but being too large
for his capacity he threw up the poison. The
women are In jail.
The l~evel-headed Johnson County Journal
gives the whole snap awav when 1t says:
Newspapers In the west are instituted for
three specific purposes; first, to make money
for the owners; second, to furnish an sdver-
tising medium for the business men Of the
town; third, to proclaim to the world the sd-
vAntsges Of . place and adjacent country"
A. v. Sortin who was under arrest at Oak
land for breaking In and robbing the drug
store Of John A. IwAnson on Wednesday
night, was AIRS iRntd before Justice Houston.