Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-06-01
NEBRASKA.

towards u $50, 900 hotel.
Two noted CROOKS Gagged In Falls City
sawed their way out OF jail and disappeared.
The Masons OF Colum us are discussing
WAYS and means to erect a 500 building.
Now comes Fremont with u claim that she
Is doing all the business In North Nebraska
and the Black Hills.
Lincoln is still waiting for the undertakers'
convention. There is q dearth OF home
talent to lead the procession.
Sheridan county, with only a few years
growth, reports 2,5l1 school children. Ne
braska soil and air are simply uuapproach-
able.
Nebraska is all right. Herbert Powers, Of
Schuyler, is the happy and hilarious father
OF triplets-two boys and q girl. More Powers
TO you.
The Brown county agricultural society
has air, sdy perfected plans for its seventh
annual fair, to be held al Long Pine, Sep
tember "a to q.
Jack Wilkinson, Of P~lattsmouth, invaded
the Iowa bottoms, with a few companions, In
search Of game. Becoming separated In the
jungle, Jacks reckless imagination saw a
huge animal crouching for a spring. He
biszed way, and n wild yell rose above the
smoke. The shot riddled the foot IF a com
pan on.
'Join the chamber OF commerce." says the
Kearney Hub, ''give us a new opera honse, a
union depot, sewerage, paving, the new rail
road and Kill the dogs"
rrha DALI rue, \ ..Iar fz tIo .a,.Itn+tn
auar hlst If the state. II is a crimson sheet
In color and contents. The object Of It's ex-
isteuce is a painful mystery.
The seventh anLual tournament OF the Ne
bra ki fremen, TO he held at Red Cloud July
10 to 10, is being extensively advertised, and
the ID Us are promised q great time.
The people Of Kearuey are making the nee
essary arrangements to care for all who at
tend the meeting Of the state medical board,
which convenes IN that city May 81.
Ashland elevated the liquor license to such
a height that only one saloon man could
reach It. Twelve hundred dollars a year
gives him a monopoly of the business.
Benkleman is enjoying = season Of prohi-
billion. A few technical errors In the appli-
cations for license knocked the collar of the
beer and plugged the kegs for week.
Jack Lanham, Of Crete, proposes TO insert
his pick under the fifth rib OF the Omaha ice
trust. Three thou and tons Of huid cakes
viii be shipped In and sold at low rates.
SIyty-eight thousand pounds Of iron has
been received at Kearney, TO be used In the
construction of the new paper mill, and no
time will be lost In completing the structure.
The Norfolk base bali club Is ready to tan
the hide Of any amateur nine which chal-
lenges its right to the title OF state champion.
ship. Now let Genoa turn loose the Indian
club.
The movement among the railroads to sus-
pend Sunday work as much as possible, is
likely to be put into force. At several points
IN the state switching was suspended last
Sunday.
Norfolk is moving for a packing house to
cost 800, 900. A New York capitalist will
put up $4,000, anG the city comes down with
$685. 900. Work on the building viii begin
this mouth.
William O'Day, who deserted from the
army at Fort Laramie, In the hope Of better
ing his condition, has given up the struggle
! aud surrendered hlmeelf 10 the authorities at
Plattsmouth.
The contract for grading the first 100 miles
Of the Pacific Short Line has been approved
by the directors, and the work viii begin
without further delay. +. 2. Reynolds d Co.
| are the contractors.
A conservative estimate places Hastings
improvements for the year at $500 900. The
buildings now under way Will cost about $780,
600. The big Third possesses lots Of grit and
the goods tJ back II.
With the advent OF hot weather, symptoms
Of bydrophobia appear ia town and country.
There is a growing and wholesome desire to
reduce The canine race 10 a peace footing by
scuttling every collarIess bark.
A Fillmore county man captured a litter OF
| eight young wolves and took lhem to Geneva
to secure the bounty, but was disappointed to
find that the county had discontinued the
practice Of paying for scalps.
r. s. Oberfelder has planted 10, 900 noun
tain trout In the creek which percolates
\ luIOuSh uIb IhHsu AZ LOGSc EOt. nc pro-
poses to prove that the country can raise
something better than cowboys and hades.
Plattsmouth's future is secure, In the i'm
| aginatton of the Herald. Next year will
come q court house, two electric light plants,
a motor railway and a pontoon bridge, In
| volvipg a total cost Of $780, 900. Where is the
new depot.
The village clerk OF Grafton, who Is also q
member of the village board, recently issued
a saloon license, out as the attorney general
holds that the action was Illegal the temper
ance people Of the town proposed to have
some fun out Of the matter.
Joseph l.. Weber wandered around the
country for fifteen years in search of a quiet
peaceful retreat, but finally gave up and re-
turned TO Fremont. Scores Of sceuaint-
ances who mouined his departure together
with S1l 900 wiz be glad to know that his
latch strin. hangs out at the city jail.
At the last meeting OF the Avondale Pro-
| tsctive and Relief society, composed Of prom
inent farmers Of 0toe, Cass and Lancaster
| counties, a resolution was adopted ''thst We
will use our self-rakes and headers and stack