Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-01-07
NEBRASKA.

The Masons Of Fremont vii! rear Q TEN pie
early next year.
Tne total number OF ~conviets in the state
enifentisry is 1884.
Lincoln has voted strong To build a railroad
TO Red Oak and Des Molnee
Dodge c)un,y boasts OF q corr field that
yielded eighty bushels to the acre.
L E. Walters, TO, merry OF the Wayne Ga
ze,te, has Dough. the Betmer Tinee.
The expenses OF Fillmore county for the
coming year are estimated at s12,5SS.
Barney Baldwin, the troken-n, cked phe
nomenon, Is on exhibition IN Omaha.
The Omaha World published the delinquent
tax list. for which 1t received &75l.C9.
Charles s. Higgins, proprietor OF the st.
Clond re stau,ant, Omaf a, fas failed.
Lincoln feels confident that she will secure
the belt lire and car works for her city.
Brewster has organized a dramatic com
pany, which is meeting with much success.
Negotiations are Eo1 In progress with
Messrs. A. j. Levalie and N. B. Booth, Of
Chicago, with regard to the establishment OF
d beet sugar factory at Lincoln. Rival real
estate owners are ar1tous to secure the lCca-
ton. 1t is intended to put In q plant that
will employ from 800 to 600 families, and that
will represent a capital Of from $500, COO to
81, 0Oo, GOO.
The Fremont creamery paid out during the
year s65,0 t0 for cream, SIC, 600 for hauling
and IS, COO for labor. The total amount Of
butter manufs ctured Was 49l 696 pounds.
there are In operation forty cream routes,
aud the nuu Der OF patrons average over 600,
having reached as high as 725.
The city council and Police Judge Reuthe-,
Of South Omahs, have been having some
trouble CT late. Charges were preferred
agairs st the judge, which, on Investigation,
fell through. Thursday Councilman Lcescher,
In the absence of Judge Rsuther, demanded
the books of the clerk, ard was refused. High
words ensued and the clerk had Loescber ar
rested. The ease was heard and dismissed.
Lincoln is certain OF the Ere ich fectory gym
dictate and Its 81, 900, 600 investment the&lOO,-
600 opera house has long been assured; In a
few days contracts will be closed for the e.
ta~blishment OF the Christian university, and
a $500, 600 court house is merely a matter Of
letting the contract.
Judge Broadly has rendered a decision in
Gage county that promises to beat the Rock
Island road out OF a bonus OF $50, 600, and
save the tax payers that amount. s. +. Cook,
OF Beatrice, began suit last summer to er Join
the levying Of a tax to pay interest on the
bonds. He bases his right to the Injunction
upon a number Of grounds, the principal one,
and that upon which Judge Broadly decided
the case, being that the proposition submitted
and voted upon Only contained q provision
authorizing the levy OF any tax to pay the
principal OF the bonds when 1t became due.
The omission IN the proposition, Judge Broadly
held, under the statutes, effectual'y defeated
the bonds, and he gave judgment ~perpetually
eI Dining the city from issuing them.
Hcrse thieves are again reported atroad In
Otoe county. A few days ago sevtra' head OF
horses we're reported stolen northwest Of the
city, but there was no clue to the thieves.
Wednesday night o. X. Browo, a farmer liv.
Ing near Unadilla, reported that a valuable
horse, together with q saddle and bride. had
been stolen from his stables, and no clue to
the thief. Otoe county seems particular y
cur ed with hor sc thieves, and the systematic
and OF rsistent ste sllDg would Indie ate an Or
ganized gang somewhere in the county. Lit
tie less than a year ago q similar raid was
made throughthis section and many ,a'usble
horses were stolen, pu: the ore an'z alton OF a
vigiiantes committee among the farmers put
a stop to 1t for the time, though none OF the
thieves were ever disc vered.
Lon Thurman, whose death occurred at
Council Bluff, Was well known In Nebraska,
and the history Of his life Is 3 sadly interest
ing one. A few years ago he went TO that city
from Brownville with a young wife and child,
started in business and was one OF the most
respected and popular young men in the city,
but cards and loose women got the best OF
him. HIS wife secured n divorce ard he
married one Of the town, who already had
three husbands. He then opened a saloon
and gambling deN, and went from bad TO
worse until even his last wife would no longer
recogn re him and procured adivorc,. Lon,
with the help of some friends, then made an
effort to "brace up" and succeeded so well
for q time that he was given charge OF the
Grand Central hotel and ran It successfully
for seine time, when he again took up with
his late wife ard together they turned The
hotel into a house OF prostitution. A serious
shooting scrspe between his wife and one OF
the inmates, growing out Of jealousy, which
occurred soou after, resulted IL the polio:
closing the house and ordering all parties
concerned to leave town. Thurman frequently
returned to that city, but was always driven
out by 'he police. His death is no surprise,
and there Is hardly one tear dropped over his
cad ending, though once bis friends we're
without number.
Omsha spetis', 25: About ten weeks sgoa
gentleman OF pleasant address, about forty
years ole, named r. II. Parker, secured a pc
sition as travelling salesman with an omaha
wholesale house, and shortly after handed ia
q letter to the Methodist chlrch. He was
soon recognized ~ one % the most devout
communicates A handsome widow frcn
Cnicago named Mrs. .aclede came to Omaha
and WAS also united to the church. Brother
Parker soon began paying his addresses 70
hcr. He represented that he was senior
member of the drm for which a Travelled, and
during their drives about the city pointed out
some Of the hardsomest residences and told
her that they were his. She took a particular