Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-14
NEBRASKA.

uhy III 1910.
The Omaha cable line will be in operation
in two months.
The Arlington cutoff was opened for bust
ness on Monday.
The mail route between Fremont and Ever
es has been resumed.
The insurance will more that pay Tor Ere
uaont's burned opera house.
The Wasp Printing company at "ahoo
haye incorporated. Capital, 100000.
The ladies OF Cbsdron have arranged ior a
winter course Of lectures at that place.
The insane asylum at Norfolk Is nearly
completed and will cost when done $4,000.
Norfolk completed one and one-half miles
of street railway track on New Years day.
Albion has completed arrangements by
which it gets ii seventy-hve barrel Touring
n&ll.
A lad by the name Of Lange, while skating
ut Pebble last Sunday, fell and broke bis
arm.
The Railway Surgeons society Of Nebraska
will convene at Omaha on the 10th OF this
mouth.
A panther is creating havoc among the
stock near Drubar. a party is organizing for
its capture.
The opera house at Fremont was destroyed
by fire a few days 70. Loss, 5000; insur-
ance, $1,000.
The decision In the county seat contest at
Chadron will be given to the public by Judge
kinkaid January II.
The new York county court house will be
completed by February 1. 1t is 4 splendid
structure costing $4,000.
The Masons of Blair celebrated ST. Joints
day by u banquet and a good social time.
Their wives participated.
Many people in Blair are mourning on ac-
count of the death Of Grandma Sect, a good
old mother in Israel, aged 81. .
Norfolk has a lumber thief. One party
claima to have lost from 1900 TO 1000 feet,
and offers a reward of $50 for the thief's APP
prehension.
j. S. Natter, near Blair, had his stable
burned last Friday. 1t contained his winter
supply of wood and all his tools. Supposed
TO be inccndiary.
John Haun, near Maple Creek, had his
thumb literally extracted from his hand and
u IdlGt tOih bap sA' IA - Nv"
days ago by becoming entangled in a corn
shelter.
C. p. Treat, the we'll knawn railway con-
tractor, is again establishing headquarters at
Fremont. This leads to a superstition that
the Elkhorn is planning big extensions for
1888.
s. II. Mcclure, living near Fullerton, was
hunting at Buffalo Gap, when he accidcntly
dropped his gun. The hammers struck upon
some projecting substance, ~discharging the
gun, from which he received painful injuries
In the face and neck.
The citizens OF Loup City are very much
agitated over an attempt. TO fire the store OF
II. j. Shapp q Co, on the west side OF the
square. An empty oil barrel was fouud with
one head out and laid down with a potato
holding a lighted candle placed inside, and
papers piled around in such a manner that
when the candle burned low the papers would
ignite. The room has long been used as an
oil room and If once started would have spread
very rapidly. This is the third attempt with
in a few months to fire that side Of the square
In different buildings each time. The motive
cannot be surmised.
The board Of transportation had under con-
sideration Thursday afternoon the advisa-
billty of abolishing all distributing tariffs, and
compelling all Nebraska business to be done
on the local distance tariff. Delegates from
the boards of trade Of Hastings, Lincoln and
Grand Island were present, and protested
n-,f Au, III. n-,acal ,nt;n, nlnf,,,,r thot
such an order would drive the wholesale bust
ness out Of the state, losing the state millions
Of dollars thereby and tending to build up
distributing points outside the limits Of the
state. They recommended TO the board a
comparison Of Nebraska local rates with those
Of Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota and suggested
that rates be reduced to the same scale.
The remains of Newton Bradley, who was
shot and killed at Boston, Colorado, by the
city marshal last week while att tempting in
company with a gang to take the town, were
taken to Nebraska City Wednesday morning
for burial. He was classed az a very reckless
desperate In Colorado and western Kansas,
and at the last election at Huron, in the latter
state, he made a desperate fight to steal the
ballot box but was beaten of. His parents
reside in Nebraska City and are among
Nebraska City's most respected citizens. He
has also several brothers Of good standing re-
siding in Omaha. The funeral was held
Thursday morning at 10 O'clock.
An interesting railroad suit has been com
menced in Gage county which will be a test
case on the ground required for a rightof-
way. Several years ago the Burlington and
Missouri acquired and are usinr a 100 foot
right-of-way out Of Beatrice. When the Rock
Island built TO that city II purchased of the
Burlington, for four miles out of the city,
fifty feet of thisright-of-way. One of the owners
of the land crossed now sues the Rock Island
for damages and trespass, claiming that the
fee OF the land il his and that the Burlington
has no proprietary rights except on the right
of-way for its individual use. The test ease
involves right-of-way Of at least $50, coo To the
Rock Island.
The twenty-thrcc acres Of school land adj
joining Nebraska City on the west, and
known as the Fulton tract, was Tuesday after
noon offered for sale at public auction by &.
T.. Carter, deputy land commissioner. The
land was appraised at 500 per acre. A nnm-
II.