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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-10-09

This made total OF 1887 POUNDS
of butter bought in November and De-
cembsr at a cost of $2,O67.16 They
knew that it was fraud on the tax
payers. They knew that thousands
and thousands of pounds of the stun
would rot before it could be used. The
anxiety was to spend the money where
It would do the most good" before
the republicans took charge. In spite
OF the large amount of butter ON
hand they hurried and bought 2S9
pounds on the 5th of January and
442h pounds on the 9th. BY that time
the scandal and the butter both began
to "smell to heaven" and the new state
officials put a stop to further butter tran
sactions.
On examining the stubs of butter books
kept by our populist friends we find, dur
ing the months of October and Novem-
Der, 1900, there was only enough butter
bought for the institution to supply the
immediate demand the amou t pur-
chased not exceeding 5000 pounds per
month. After election in 300 however
the purchases became much heavier.
From early in December, 1900, to Janu-
arv 9th, 1901, period of less than FIVE
weeks, they bought about 1900 pounds
of butter for most of which they paid
fifteen cents per pound, but for some
twenty-five cents per pound. We under
stand from the gentleman who was then
book-keeper at the institution, and who
| lived in the city, that he was buying at
that time, good country butter from the
grocery stores in Hastings at twelve and
a half cents per pound, for his family
| use.
When the institution changed hands
Fob. 1st, 1901, there was nearly 10000
pounds of butter on hand, nearly all OF
which had been purchased after Dec. LIST
1900. For a short time Immediately fol
lowing the change, they were able to use
this butter, probably 1000 pounds. but
by that time it WAS in such condition
they were compelled to go into the
market aud buy for the use OF the insti
tuition, and this with three and half OF
four tons of butter in the institution.
Upon an order from the board of pub
lie lands and buildings, 5000 pounds o
this spoiled butter was disposed OF to thu
highest bidder WHICH happened to be thu
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-10-09
He Didn't Ride Down the Hill.

At the top Of a very steep hill In
Yorkshire cyclist dismounted the 9TH
err day and addressed an old fellow who
was breaking stones by the roadside.
Can you tell me where John y.
lives"
John H." repeated the old fellow.
Don't know him."
Don't your" was the rejoinder.
"Why, thought everybody round here
would know John. He's a young fell
low about my own age, and lives In this
district somewhere. He's cyclist, and
a clever one, too. Why, he's ridden
down this hill scores of times"
"Oh, 'e hey, hev'e," returned the old
man. "In that case you might find i'm
at the bottom o the hill there"
What? Are there some houses there
then?"
mo" was the grim response. INC
'ouses. Nobbut a cemetery"
Then the cyclist understood and h'
! decided to walk down that hill
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-10-09
FUNNY FUSION MANAGEMENT.
VISITS HASTINGS AND
PRESENTS FIGURES.
BUTTER "SMELLS TO HEAVEN"
PURCHASE EXTRAvAdANT BEFORE
THE REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS CAME INTO POWER


Hastings Produce Co., for eight and one
tenth cents per pound, delivered at their
place of business. What they finally did
with it no one can tell, but the manager
OF the Hastings Prodvce Co. experienced
considerable difficulty in disposing of it
to eastern butter rehneries. 1t was in
the original packages, the weights were
very closely watched and in the vast ma
jority of cases it was found that the
ackages had been billed to the insttu-
on at their gross weight, but little il
any deduction having been made for
boxes, barrels, and other butter contain
ers, which brought about an additional
loss to the state of about ten per cent.
To one who is inexperienced in this line
of work it might seem that this amount
of butter could have been cared for in
the cold storage, but this is not the case,
particularly so where it is delivered in
bad condition, and no effort had been
made to keep it.
This butter was delivered to the insti-
tuition in sugar barrels, salt barrels,
wooden shoe boxes, and in fact most any
wooden container that would hold
butter.
Such wholesale, vicious and foolish
waste of public money probably never
occurred before in any state institution,
yet it is certain that the fusionists now
running for Office all approved of it, and
the natural inference is that they would
repeat the dose if they could again get
control of the Hastings institution.
The butter transaction, however, was
only part of the grab game. On De-
cember 9th, 1900 just before the repub-
licans were to take charge of the state
departments, a bill was made out by
w. ]. Falk, a Hastings merchant, for
So, 5000 worth of clothing just sold to
the asylum. Here are the items con-
tanned in this grab:
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-10-09
Worth the Difference.

In s. l.. Powers story Mt the Middle
sex Bar Association dinner the lawyer
tried the case for the complainant.
She sued middle-aged gentleman for
breach of promise. He married another
girl. The jury retired, and the defend
ant also went his way. The jury re-
turned, the defendant did not. The
jury found for the plaintiff in $500
damages.
The lawyer met the mlddle-aged gen.
tleman few minutes later in the
lobby of an adjacent hotel.
Squire" said the latter, how did
the jury decide1"
Against YOU" was the answer,
81 didn't think they would do that,
said the middle-aged gentleman mus
insly. whats the damagesr'
THAT amt SO badp he exclaimed
on being told. Squire, there's tina
much difference between the tw,
men~-Boston Record.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-10-09

1t is reported that John Powers, candi-
date for state auditor on the fusion ticket,
has found holes in his fences in Howard
county, where the democrats are said to
have been trading him for votes for
Thompson. Mr.. Powers is the only rep
resentative of the old-fashioned populism
on the state ticket and it will not be sur
prising if the returns from the election
reveal that he is too old-fashioned to
please the democrats. This has been one
of the greatest faults of the fusion
scheme. The candidates of one party
can never be certain that they will have
the support of the voters of the other
No.folk News.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-10-09

A professor who has made a study OF
children says he has discovered why
the majority OF the people are right
handed. Infants use both hands until
they begin to speak. The motor speech
function controls the right side of ths
body, and the hrst right-handed mo-
tions are expressive motions, tending
to help out speech, As speech grows
so does right-handedness.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-10-09

The management of the state institu-
tons by the fusonists the four years that
they were in Office, was disgrace to the
fair name of Nebraska. Not only were
the inmates improperly fed and cared for,
but the cheap stuff furnished them to eat
and wear was purchased at fabulous
prices, amounting practically to steal.
The officials were fed on the best that
money could buy. It's different now.
The inmates and officials have the same
"bill of fare" and with the economical
management of the past two years nearly
every institution will have surplus in
stead of deficiency at the end of the
two years.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-10-09
Approved by the Board OF Purchase
and Supplies. October 80, 1900

approved by the Board OF Purchase
and Supplies, October 20, 1900.
81. V. Wolfe Secretary"
The hll which came in for this requisi'
ton on the clothing fund was duly pre-
sented to the republican state officials foi
approval 1t was as follows;
CDR. To NJ. Reed Undertaking Co.
Dec 3, 1900, GO gents burial
robes, ..............Y. ....''p OO
pee. %, 1900, co collins, -. $40"
This was an item of clothing that
looked suspicious coming in just when
it did, and the republican officials inves-
tigated The following letter explains
the whole business:
Hastings, Neb., Feb. Ia, 1901. Hon.
Chas. Weston, State Auditor, Lincoln,
Neb.
Dear Sir-I have your letter of the 18th.
Also the voucher of the NJ. Reed Under
taking Co., returned for investigation.
In looking the matter up we mud that
there is on hand at this time % coi1ns
and 70 burial robes, as shown by our In
voice of Feb, /. There seems to have
been a dozen burial robes on hand when
this bill was bought.
"I trust this record will be entirely
satisfactory to you. Should you need
any additional information kindly let US
know.
Yours very truly,
w. B. Kern, Superintendent.
So it seems that these gruesome art
icles of clio hing were not absolutely
needed at once, " but were bought simply
to use up $500 more of the clothing fund
before the republicans took charge. The
whole fusion machine approved of this
sort of business.
There were many other peculiar .pur-
chases at the expense of the clothing fund:
Late in 1900 they bought 81 loads OF
shelled corn at 81, 136. 49, and 63 steers at
s., 1854 % Part Of the steers were bought
from J. N. Lyman, the present candidate
for state treasurer on the fusion ticket.
Before the republican superintendent
took charge the steers had eaten the corn,
and then most of them evaporated.
Hastings is just sample OF how the
state institutions were operated by the
fusionists. The same startling conditions
we're found at other places, and the pres
ent group of fusion candidates, being
either in Office or in active control of the
machine at the time, were responsible for
these conditions. 1t would be strange
move for the people to vote them back
into Office and bring back upon the state
another epoch of rancid butter, K. D."
collins, gents burial r. es, mythical
clothing, disappearing red steers, and
ethereal shelled corn.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-10-09
His Wife Was a Purchaser.

He found him down at Whitehall
crossing gazing at a locomotive that
was standing steamed up ready for
making it's departure from the city
when a friend who had noticed him
pivoted there for some time stepped up
and remarked: Say, Bill, why do you
stand staring at that steam engine all
the timer" well, jim" he replied.
ITS the first thing that I've struck
since l came up here that my wife
hasn't asked me to buy!"-Monroe Ad-
Yertiser.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-10-09
Woman Suffrage In Oregon

A woman suffrage amendment is to
be submitted to the voters of Oregon
in June next and an association OF
women has been organized to oppose
it. These women say in their protest
that only small percentage Of the
women in the state desire the ballot.
as is proved by their neglect to use It
in school elections. and that, therefore,
it should not be forced ON the others,
with its attendant privileges Of sitting
on juries and running for Office.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-10-09
IIasting, Sept. "a.

When the voters of the state read
the full record of fusion managmente
Of the state institutions they will con-
clude that further experiments in that
direction are useless And when the
fusionists now running for office at
tempt to shirk the responsibility OF
what their predecessors did, it Is likely
that their share in the whole business
will be pointed out as follows:
Mr., Thompson, the candidate for
governor, was national committeeman
then and directed the party move
ments. G. @. DeFrance, now a candi-
date for auditor was chief bookkeeper
In the state treasurer's office. was chief
compiler Of campaign matter and was
state chairman for the populists. e.
A. Gilbert was ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
then and wants it again. John Pow
ers and James Brennan were employ
ees in state institutions. j. II. Broadly
had just finished running for Con-
gress and other offices. Lyman, the
candidate for treasurer, was selling
steers and other stuff to the Hastings
institution. They were each of them
a part of the state administration, they
all had knowledge Of the wretched mis-
management, and they all approved the
fusion performances.
Since they are anxious to get back
in, it is well to call their attention to,
and fix upon them the responsibility
for the sensational and scandalous
grabs which were executed at Hast
ings during the last two years of the
fusion reign. E.
The superintendent of the Hastings
asylum, acting under the orders and
approval of the state offic!A Is and the
other parts of the fusion machinery,
made fierce and frantic onslaughts on
the appropriation for food and cloth
ing, and after the election of 1900 had
marked the end of the fusion manage
ment, the onslaughts became more
fierce and more frantic. The trans
actions between election day and the
first of January afe almost incredible,
and would be beyond belief were they
not matters of actual record. One does
not blame them for the several at
tempts that were made to conceal or
obscure the records of scandalous pur-
chases
Possibly the most oily of all the
schemes was the purchase of butter
from favorite dealer in Adams
county, and the record of monthly sup
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-10-09

When Nebraska sends six republican
congressman to Washington to sustain
the policy of the McKinley-Roosevelt
administration she will have properly
shown her appreciation of the splendid
prosperity that has been enjoyed since
Mckinley era began, dating from tho
latter part of 1896.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-10-09
CHAPTER XVI.

After supper, the Jew returned to the
shop, where his boy, Mizar. had remained
during his absence. When he recalled
to mind that Clarence Harleigh had
promised to call in the course of the even
ing to look at the OPAL he remembered
that it had not yet been returned. He,
therefore, sent Mizar to procure it.
1t was s o'clock when the boy returned
with it, yet Harleigh had not made his
appearance. The Jew was impatient at
his delay, for he had concluded in his
own mind that he would make a conf
dant Of him relative to what had befall-
en- Alice the preceding evening and that
there was reason to fear a note that she
had sent early in the morning to her
friends had fallen into unfriendly hands
and would prove the means of betraying
to Falkland her place of refuge.
The minutes, one after the other, crept
| slowly away, without bringing him the
Jew most desired to see. Another half
hour had passed, and it was o'clock,
the time he was accustomed to pass an
hour with Abb, who vcntured to play the
harp and sing to him some of those stir
ring and sublime songs recorded in the
Old Testament. Now, after boiling and
barring the door, he remained few min
utes, hoping that Harleigh might yet
come.
"Mizar," said the Jew, remain her,
half an hour longer. If any one knock
at the door, inquire who is there. If tn,
answer should be Clarence Harleigh ad
init him, and then call me-"
"And IL it shouldn't be the gentleman
by that namep
Let the door remain fastened, and cal
me-"
Only few minutes after ne was gon
some one knocked at the door, MiHar ros
and went towards 1t to inquire who wa
there. Before he had time to do SO. tn
; knock was repeated louder than at first
, and was Immediately succeeded by vic
lent struggle. Soon came wild an
, piercing cry. Then there was a SCUM
! OF voices. low though earnest. aud at tn
same time dull noise, such as might b
made by dragging a heavy weight. III
boy stood almost stuDefed with terrier. ii
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-10-09

The difference between a fusion and a
republican administration OF the affairs of
Nebraska seems to be about the SAME as
the difference between deficiency and a
surplus. One means lack of business
methods while the other means good bus
mess methods. One means waste and
the other means economy.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-10-09

Right here election came IN, and
they had only two months for operations
before the republicans took charge.
SO they improved the time and let an
other butter man in on the deal. This
is the way they went after the butter
| money:
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} TO TRADE for COW and calf
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% sprxn1vc AND SAVING

Most men have more or less money--and
more or less trouble to know what to DO
with It. There are only two things that
con he done with it--spend It, save It, But
which?
Theoretically the answer is easy. So
spend and so save that you keep In the
middle Of the road, half way between the
spendthrlft on the one hand and the miser
on the other. Practically this is one OF
the hardest things In the world to do
Most men are trying to follow this middle
line. Many are far over on this side, many
far over on that side, and many zigzaggins
mo1strously, ., 40
put all hack IN the middle " the road
Empire Of Business, Andrew Carnegi p.
Doubleday, Page & Co, New York Chap
Z. Are Americans Economical? Hutch
ms Hapgood: Ainslee's 9Sl2' May ,y ~
4, spending and Saving: Z Primer Of
Thrift. Alfred Pcnhorn. Cass-l Co.
g. DEVELOPMENT Of Thrift. y IN. Mary w
Charles Scrihners Sons. View York
In number | Mr., Carnegie insists , ugol
AS 10 how much ana how long ne Is QUIT
explicit He says that the, duty 20 "a
ends when lust money enough NUS uteu ~
aside TO provide comfortably for thoS' de'
pendent upon us. , ,...,.o,,.
are MS saving as they used ia be Is as
cnssod IN reference 3. Is polnted our
that the Appearance Of thrift rs not as
marked now as formerly, largely because q
10 nnblish ones thrifty ways from tue
housetop and get crcdit. for them Now
adays the many selfdenl0ls and petty SAL
| ings are concealed II possible. 1t y aiso
tlnc that thrift now takes many neW forms
While men who practice saving sim ttE 70
put some money by, they also nnt men
savings into insuring TIER hves, theI
health and their undertaking..
Doubtless the best practical book upon
Saving wisely In order to spend wisely
Is number g. II opens with general
chapter on the thrift habit ana then pro
ceeds TO discuss various savings agencies
including building and loan ass 'cAtions
peoples banks and the provident loan com
psries.
The theoy of some classes # socialist
I that saving is a vice instead OF virtue il
Z not brought ont IN the reading list abofn q
/ tut a smiler view runs throught the afti
+ Gle number 2, and is more seriously devel
/ cped in number g.
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STRIKES.

Current labor troubles suggest a general
prose ntatlon Of the subject of strikes.
In the conduct Of disputes BETWEEN cap
tai ana labor the strike has grown o he
mighty weapon. While It Is IDLE 10 at
tempt 10 take It's MEASURES in figures and
dollar marks. yet some such estimate may
he suggestive During the twenty years
ending December 81, 1860, there occurred
in this country 22.793 strikes, involving
1850 establishments and causing d.
rect money loss Of nearly S4OOOVv,OoO TO
he immediate parties alone.
There is the widest difference Of opinion
as to almost every phase Of the. strike
problem. 1t begins with the broad ques-
lion as TO whether there Is any light or
reason in the quitting OF work BY employees
acting as body, and In their attempts.
workers from taking their places.
The view that such acts are inherently
unjustinable ID TO be met with on every
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r. ane Young heifers giving three
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HOTELS, SUMMER RESORTS

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,ToCK AND POULTRY

E-T COWS. four fine calves, l7l4
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FOR RENT-New and secondhand type
W lt,rs all makes. Rents will apply ON
pu clas price. Texls Writing Machine
Co.. Waco, Texas. .
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WE SELL GOOD BUGGlEs; our word Is
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is ALL THE WORLD CoMlNGY

is ALL THE NONLD ttMlNGf
The year 1902 promises to break am i,nmi-
grafton records So far the ships have been
unloading their human freight upou our
shores Mt rate never before equoled. IN
one day recently there landed In New York
Gs0o immigrants.
The immediate cause OF this great influx
Is supposed to he our national prosperity
Good times means bad immigrants, At
such seasons the poorest foreign element
living here is able to do something toward
bringing a still poorer foreign element from
over the sea. A large part of the present
tide OF immigration is from Eastern aud
Southern Europe and shows an unfortunate
percentage Of unskilled labor aud OF IL
literacy.
How long the United States can con-
tlnue 10 take In all OF this sort Of pco.
pie that may choose to come Is serious
question. The answer depends somewhat
upon where the people go when they gGt
way out upon our vast stretches OF va
cnnt lands. whore they were needed
onles. in our cities, where, to say the
least. they are not needed, aud where thel
tend to complicate the already grave prob
lem of municipal overcrowding.
However another view solnetimes adj
vanCed is thar the cities are the best places
for such immigrants. mis- Is on the around
that the cities act a great cruclhe' III
which widely differing elements Of poW.
lation can he best held in contact AMI
Hnally fused into homogeneous people.
OF course the believer in restriction If
immigration will look nj the matter yet
dillcrently He viii point out that one
fourth at least of this undesirable immi
grafton now pouring In could have been
turned back II congress had acted on the
suggestion OF the immigration Nestrct Oh
lcncue and had excluded even those !mmi-
grants who were wholly unable to cad.
few Of the latest references on the
subject of the present flood tide n I'm
migration follow
i. Immigration Records Broken. Liter
ary Digest 24:GGs May II, 1902
. Enormous Flood Of Immigrants from
Europe Leslle's weekly. N4'44-' May
3. The Flood Tide Of Immigration. Out
look. 71154, May II, 1902.