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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-10

presents an encouraging outlook.
Estimating the yield of corn at
an average of 30 bushels to the
acre, it gives 1854, 500 bushels.
Figure the corn worth only 25
cents a bushel land it will be
worth double that to feed to cattle
and hogs and it is worth 81, 800,
1850.
The 25,097 acres of wheat will,
without doubt, average Is bush
els to the acre, as great deal of
it will caisly double that. This
will give 467,S7 bushels, which,
at SOC a bushel, would be worth
1888, 938. Calculating upon the
same conservative basis for the
rye, oats, barley and potato crop
it makes the value of the crop
50, 2S3, S01.
1t is to be remembered in this
connection that these calculations
are baised only on land in cult
walton in p of the 25 townships.
To this estimate fully one sixth
should be added for Cliff and
Garfield townships, which would
make about $3.50, 64S more.
This enormous sum is equal to
1913 for every man, woman and
child in the county.
In connec ton with the crops
are the dairy product, the pork,
beef, poultry, eggs, and garden
products which are not estimat-
ed. The stock industry is one of
the principle industries of our
county. Take the profits deriv-
ed from our cattle, hogs, etc,
and add to the value of our crops
and the proceeds would reach full
four millions this year.
1t is because of these condi-
tlons that we have seen our peo-
pie in five years emerge from a
state of bankruptcy to the posi-
ton of competency. In ever
locality in the county farmers are
getting in good shape financially;
most of them are out of debt.
Nearly all have bunch of stock
cattle and are selling cream from
5 to Is cows that costs them
nothing but the labor of milking.
They have the grass wasting on
which their stock feed.
We know of nowhere that the
opportunities are offered to the
poor man to get a start that is
now open to him in Custer county.
There is yet thousands of acres
of pasture land that can be
bought cheap and on easy terms.
This land if occupied and used
for stock raising and dairying
could be made pay for its self in
a few wears,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-10
Thursday, July 10, 1902.
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
State Ticket.

State Ticket.
For Governor
J. II. MICKEY, of Polk.
For Lieutenant Governor
E. O. McGILTON, of Douglas.
For Secretary OF State
GEORGE w. MARSH,
OF Richardson
For Treasurer
PETER MORTENSEN,
or Valley
For Auditor
CHARLES WESTON,
or Sheridan.
For Attorney General
FRANK N. PROUT, of Gage.
For Commissioner Public Lands and Buildings
GEORGE ID. FOLLMER,
OF Nuckolls
For Commissioner Public Instruction
WILLIAM X. FOWLER,
or Washington
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-10

President Roosevelt formerly
declared the restoration of peace
in the Philippine Archipelago,
July 4, and placed the islands
under complete civil control, and
has extended general amnesty to
the Filipinos, who have been in
rebellion. Aguinaldo, who has
been favored with a guard to
protect him from his own coun-
trymen, has been given his liber-
ty along with the rest. He will
now have to protect himself from
the friends of Gen. Luna, and
other Filipinos, who he put to
death without cause.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-10

Mike Harrington has the cred
it OF betraying the populist party
into the hands of the democrats.
1t will now be just and proper
that Mike should be the nominee
of the ring circus for congress
from the Sixth district.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-10

The Union Pacific car men
have exercised good Judgment in
deciding to remain at work. The
company guarantees that every
man shall make as much as he
did under the old daily wage
scale, and will get a premium for
all over $50 a day.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-10

manager of the Loup Valley
Queen, but recently started by
Mr.. Zumbrum. Mr.. Barnard is a
good newspaper man, and the
Queen, under his business man
agement, no doubt, will become
one of the leading factors of
Custer county.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-10

No less man than Editor ALL
en-; formerly Unitec States SEN
ator, says J. II. Mickey, the rep
ublican nominee for governor, is
better than his party. That
would look as though the late
convention made no mistake any
how. Blair Courier
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-10

Broken Bow Township Tick ct
For Supervisor, Third District
G. II. THORPE.
For Township Clerk
A. ID. BANGS.
For Township Treasurer
]. M. KIMBERLING.
For Township Assessor
w. M. VANNICE.
Fer Road overseer Disr ct No l.
l.. CUSHMAN.
For Road 0verseer District 70. q
JOHN KENNOYER.
For Road 0yerseer DIS rio' No d
l.. MCCANDLESS.
For Road Overseer district No. d
LEONARD HERSH.
For Road overseer District No
G. F.. RECTOR.
For Road Overseer District No g.
HENRY REEDER.
For Road ov rse District No =
]. n. WEST.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-10

r. h. Barnard, who for two or
three years has been associated
with Geo. B. MAR in the publ
cation of the Galloway Courier,
has disposed of his interest in
the Courier to Mr.. MAR, and has
accepted the position of business
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-10
Representative Ticket

For Representatives, Both District
A. Fl. COPSEY, of Westerville
S. G. WALDRON, of Over.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-10
Congressional Ticket,

For Congressman, Sixth District
M. p. KINKAID,
or o. ell
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-10

and unanimously endorsed as
the one which the voters are
asked to support next fall There
is not a candidate on the ticket
who will need a defence; not one
for whom an excuse is necessary
It is a ticket of which every
republican may we'll feel proud,
and one which appeals strongly
to all who want the affairs of
state transacted in fair,
competent, business like manner.
Wayne Republican: The ticket
nominated by the Republican
state convention is an unusually
strong one. Especially is this
true in regard to the nomination
of John II. Mickey for governor.
The nominee is man of most
excellent qualifications, thorough
ly fitted to fill the position with
credit to the state and honor to
the party he represents, man
who will not be pulled up by
being nominated to the position,
but will recognize each and every
citizen the same as every other
citizen. Mr.. Mi ckey is farmer,
a banker, an old soldier and a pi-
oneer of Nebraska and his cleo
ton is just as sure as it is that
the sun rises in the morning.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-10

North Platte Tribune: Not
for number of years has re-
publican ticket been so strongly
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-10
The Republican State Ticket.

Holdredge Citizen: The re-
publican state ticket gives
evident satisfaction to republican
voters and vigorous and united
effort should be made by Phelps
county republicans to give it even
stronger endorsement than was
given the republican ticket last
fall. Fusion as exemplifed in
Nebraska means a combination
of political parties, at the
sacrifice of principle, for the
purpose of obtaining office.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-10

Geneva Signal: The ticket
is in many respect one of the
strongest and ever nominated
by the republicans of Nebraska.
Several of the candidates are al
ready serving first terms in
highly satisfactory manner.
The several candidates will be
discussed individually as tae
campaign progresses 1t is little
early yet to worry too much
about politics and republicans of
this country ought doubtless to
be allowed to recover somewhat
from their spring siege
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-10

Fall City Journal: 1t is
amusing to watch the opposition
in the frantic eff orts to find some
thing upon which to base fight
against J. H. Mickey 1t is
from the very tone of their
expressions that they realize
that they are up against the real
thing. The statement that
Mickey is an upright and
honorable man is one that will
notadmit of successful contradic-
ton, and no one realizes that
more fully than fine Nebraska
fusionists
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1902-07-10

County Ticket.
For County Attorney
A. h. HUMPHREY.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

PRESIDENT Pro TEN Frye said to him: Joe,
l thought when you got on your legs that
time that you were going to move that the
president be impeached."
General Fitzhugh Lee, who distinguished
himself in the confederate service and is
now on the regular army retired list as a
origadier general, recently went on a visit
TO West Virginia. While there he met an
old comrade in rms whose reception was
somewhat frigid.
Well, what's the matter" said General
Lee.
oh, nothing much,' was the noncommit-
tai reply.
There is something wrong" persisted
the general. "out with IL! What do you
want?"
After being strenuously urged the old
comrade said:
Well, want to die at least half an hour
before you do. l want to be in the other
world when you arrive there, just to hear
what General Jubal Early says when he
sees you in the blue uniform"
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

Thomas Walsh, the Colorado millionaire
who is buying much property In Washing
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

left in the world who wore boots. Let's
take a drink"
Senator Bate accepted the invitation and
the two booted veterans-for the stranger
was an old soldier-were soon looking az
each other over the edge OF a glass.
General T. NJ. Burlington, the governor
OF the Cherokee Nation, measures 6 feet s
inches in his stockings and weighs 275
pounds and is not overburdened with SUI
periuous flesh. He wears a No. s hat. No.
l2 shoe and dresses after the most approved
business fashion. His one-eighth Cherokee
blood gives him the rudy appearance char
acteristic OF the race OF which he is so
proud.
Captain S. II. Barton, c. s. A, who is
said TO have fired the last hostile shot IN
the rebellion on the plains Of Brazos, San
tiago, Tex, May 70, 1868, is now living
at Del Rio in that state. II is said
among his %neighbors is one Ney. a com
rade on that occasion, who claims to be a
Of NapoleOn's marshal OF the
same name. who fred the last shot in Ma
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

and next tn Omaha. He lived i'm Omaha
until 1868, when President Lincoln pre-
vailed upon him to enter the army service
He was made captain and quartermaster
and stationed at Little Rock in charge Of
the military telegraph lines. His connec-
ton with the government service lasted
until 1866. On his retirement he was
brevetted lieutenant colonel and thanked for
his services by President Johnson, Colonel
Clowry began at once with the Western
Union company, being made superintendent
OF the southwestern lines Ct that system.
In 1878 he went to Chicago, where he be
came assistant general manager, and two
years later succeeded General Arson
Stager as general superintendent OF the
western division Of the system, He con
tinued in that position until the elevation
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

there was Of such high order as to bring
her into notice Of the university authOri-
ties. Her dramatic ability was first mani
tested in Nebraska when she won frs. hon
Ors at a state nigh school contest at Kear
ney, after winning in the preliminary hons
and district contests. The rivalry at this
contest was marked, one of the participants
being Miss Mabel Baily of Hastings, who
afterward won the state contest and who
has attained no mean reputation as a dra-
matte reader. Miss Lamont evidenced such
marked ability that after a short course at
Lincoln Normal school she was induced %
enter the Cumnock School of Oratory at
Northwestern university, where her work
received fattering recognition. After grad
uating from Evanston she was called i'm
mediately to her high school position az
Madison, which she has held since Sep
TENDER. Miss Lamont has a pleasing per.
s%onality, a prime requisite in such a voca-
ton. She has a particularly happy power
of Interpretation and the genius to endow
any character which it falls to her lot to
interpret with real and vital life. These
characteristics have already gained for her
no little measure of success In her new
position.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
Episodes and Incidents in the Lives of Noted Peon1e

I"1HOSE two giants OF French litera-
ture, Victor Hugo and Alexander
- Dumas, were born In the same
IW4SA year, 1902. The one hundredth an
- niyorsary Of Hugo's birth was
commemorated a short time ago and July
"a the centenary Of the great romancer's
birth will be observed throughout France.
An elaborate revival OF Henri Trois ct
La Cour" is to be made az the Coincide
Franchise.
Sam Hague, who first introduced real ne
groes as minstrels in Europe. died a short
time ago in England. While running a
saloon in Syracuse, n. Y, some thirty-hve
years ago he conceived the idea Of taking
a company Of darkies abroad. He did so
and "Hague's slave troupe" made a tre-
mendous hit, He picked them all up in
Syracuse and neighborhood, but none knew
the difference across the water. Hague be-
came wealthy, but was worth little or moth
ing at the time OF his death.
Thomas FWalsh, the Colorado Millionaire.
who is buying much property In Washing
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
Pen and Picture Pointers

@1OBERT c. CLOWRY has now run
the entire gamut OF employment
- i'm the telegraph line. He began
I'D as messenger boy with one Of the
- pioneer lines in the west, he is now
president and general manager Of the West
Crn Union, tn" greatest telegraph company
in the world. No halo of romance sur
rounds Mr.. Clowry's career, nor has his rise
in the service at any time approached the
spectacular. He has merely worked hard,
paid close attention to business and slowly
won the position to which he has been
called by the managing board Of the com
plny. In 1852. when 13 years Of age, Mr..
Clowry began his career as a messenger boy
i'm the Office of the Illinois & Mississippi
Telegraph company in Joliet. III. Seven
years later he was made a superintendent
In two years from the time he began carry
ing messages he was accounted the com
pany's most efficient operator, and was
sent from Joliet to Springfield to take
charge Of the office there as manager.
within "A year he was transferred to st.
Louis, end there his work was such that
in 1879, when only 90 years old. he was
made superintendent Of the st. Louis &
Missouri River Telegraph company. He
maintained headquarters at st. Louis for a
time, and then moved first to Leavenworth
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

N earnest in her advocacy OF the prohi-
bition Of the sale of liquors and tobacco.
Her lecture in Omaha was attended BY a
number Of people, drawn there more bV
curiosity and a desire 20 see the noted
woman than because Of any support Of her
peculiar doctrines. The photograph from
winch the picture presented in this num-
Der was made was taken at the hotel where
she stayed while here. To the reporters
ana others who met her she was verv
gracious, only insisting that no tobacco be
in her presence.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

Mrs. Carrie Nation has recently made
an extended tour of Nebraska in the in
terest OF prohibition. Her lectures have
been unaccompanied by any of the pyro-
technic features that marked her debut as
n reformer, but she was verbally much
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

poleon's retreat from Russia. Captain Bar
lon says mat a young man who fell by his
slde was undoubtedly the last man killed
in the rebellion.
Joseph Jefferson was driving from bis
summer residence in Buzzard'S Bay IN
onset-which is the next town vest NJ
Cape Cod-whe he met two women from
the camp meeting grounds AZ the Latter
place who had dismounted from their nj
cycles and were acting as il in a quapdarv
The women, who wore bIcomers hailed
the veteran comedian with the query.
Please, mister, is this the way TO Ware.
ham,
Mr.. Jefferson looked at the boomers and
then replied; The way to wear EN-? Ger
tainIy, Madam. 1t is the way I wear mine "
Senator Blackburn is always oratoricaI
and declamatory when in the senate. even
when speaking on the most commonpIace
matters. The other day he made a motion
to adjourn, speaking in his usual impressive
way. After the motion had been carria5
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

ton, had his eye on the Foundry Methodist
church building and dropped into the church
one night while an ice cream social was in
progress. He astonished the young women
by the prodigality OF his expenditures.
Finally the pastor came around. MIR, Walsh
introduced himself. I'm having a good
time" he said. 81 like to buy things,
Have YOU anything else for sale?" Moth
ing except the church property, replied the
pastor. "All right" replied Walsh, I'm
take that, too" And he did, paying S2Ol,-
0o0 therefor.
Senator Bate Of Tennessee is one OF the
few men in congress who wear boots. His
pair Of boots are very heavy, being braced
to support his wounded leg. II II was not
for this wound General Bate would have
discarded his boots long ago.
Some time ago Senator Bate was out in
San Francisco. While he was sitting in the
hotel, his legs stretched out, a man APP
preached him.
Mister" said the stranger, Il want to
know you. I thought l was the only man
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06

Of Thomas T. Eckert to the presidency.
when he was made vice president and gen
oral superintendent of all the lines. This
was in 1892. ON March 70 this year Mr..
Eckert resigned from the presidency and
took the Craftsmanship of the board of di-
]rectors and Colonel Clowry was made presi-
dent and general manager of the great sys-
tenn with which he has so long been identi-
fed. He has removed his headquarters
from Chicago to New York.
Mr.. Clowry has extensive interests in
Omaha. He married a daughter Of the
late General Experience Estabrook. and
through this connection has always main
tanned a social as well as business con
nection with the people Of this city. His
property interests here are such that h
has always taken an active part in mat
tors furthering the growth and develop
ment Of Omaha.
Theodore =. Cook. who succeeds Colonel
Clowry as vice president and general super
intendent, also came up from the ranks.
lie was a Nebraska farmer boy when the
Atlantic & Pacific telegraph line was being
built across the plains. He entered the
service then and has risen by hard work
TO the position Of second in Mr..
Cook went from st. Louis, where he was
division superintendent. to Chicago to take
the position left vacant by Colonel Clowry.
CITY beautiful" people can get an ex-
cellent notion of how to do things by visit
ing the suburbs during these spring DAYS.
It Is impossible to preserve lawns or grass
plats when some hundreds of full blooded
youngsters prance about in unrestrained
plpp 1urinp a pnrtinp of oVnr 1,y To,
this reason Omaha school yards are like
those Of all cities, bare, and provided with
cinder or brick or other suitable surface.
But all OF them have trees and many OF
them flower beds and these latter are the
pride Of teachers and children alike. In
this number are reproduced some photo
graphs taken at the Farnam school about
a week ago. when the boys turned to with
a Will to clear away the rubbish OF last
years growth and prepare the beds for a
new season Of beauty. These were not
posed for the moment, but were snapped
by the artist, showing the boys as they
swarmcd about, doing all sorts of things
needed to be done. Farnam school will
have beautiful flowers all summer to show
Cor the enterprise Of the principal and the
energy Of the pupils.
In other places the school children have
push. Superior has some Of them. Re
Gently a piano costing $685. was purchased
for the use OF schools there. and the debt
was assumed by the children, who under
took its discharge. At a single entertain
mcnt 500 Of the sum was raised. This
entertainment vas given at the opera
house. one of the hits of the affair was the
cake walk by little tots, a picture Of which
is given in this number of The Bee.
James NJ. Brenton, republican, mayor
elect Of the city OF Des Moines, has lemon
strated that pluck and perseverance win IN
politics and I'm all the avenues Of life.
His election as mayor by a big majority
Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-06
MISS MARION b. LAMONT OF
AURORA, Neb., WHO HAS BEEN
APPOINTED PROFESSOR OF
ELOCUTION AT UNIVERSITY
OF WISCONSIN.

came as a surprise to the Des Moines
people. They did not believe he would be
nom mated, but he carried nearly every
precinct. His candidacy was at first
treated as a joke, then r'diculed, and he
was subjected to violent abuse; but the
more he was opposed the stronger he be
came. Brenton has had an interesting
career. He was a big, uncouth boy. who
neglected his lessons and preferred to
become a blacksmith. He was unusually
strong and took to athletics, and in the
old days Of amateur base ball he was a star
player in the local club in the town Of
Adel, where he lived. Then he determined
upon being a school teacher, and, h ugh his
education was limited, his tact was coed
and his determination carried him through.
He was always selected to handle the
hardest Of the rural schools in his county.
He went to Nebraska and took charge of
a school at Sidney, where 1t had been the
custom for the big boys to do the bossing
and direct what the teacher should do.
Brenton wrought reform in the situation
and proved himself to be master OF the
school. He returned to Iowa and taught
several schools. and finally came to De-
Moines, where he engaged in the ice bust
ness. II was while building up a business
for himself that he went on the stump as
a speaker and became so identified with
politics that he went after the position
Of county superintendent. There were
many who did not like the idea Of e%Iecting
an iceman to be superintendent OF tho
schools, but Brenton was named and he
proved himself to be a good superintendent
He retired from that office January l and
entered the campaign for mayor. Brenton
is n tOVtal fpI1OW QOO ppupAs ~ ,v., a..
weight, ever ready with a song or a story,
possessing courage and a will Of his own.
He will succeed Jerry Hartenbower as
mayer in a few days.
Teaching the congenitalIy deaf to talk is
one OF the educational triumphs OF the last
century. To enable those who never heard
a sound to not only initiate articuIate
sounds, but to speak fuently and not in
frequently to give accurate accentuation
and infection to words seems little short Of
miraculous. Yet It has been ACCOMPLISHED
and so successfully that in som schools for
the deaf the manual method has been aban-
doned altogether for the oral. Pupils are
taught lip reading so that they can ranidIv
answer without apparently more than ordi-
nary scrutiny Of the speakers face. This
though probably the greatest. is only one OF
the triumphs OF education OF the physically
deficient. Many who onlIa few years ago
found themselves rsstrAd by reason OF
this deficiency haveNhi the avenues OF
useful occupation opened to them and are
filling places in the business world with
great success because Of the discoveries
made by men and women devoted to the
work OF investigating the conditions and
applying the remedies. One OF the most
successful OF these is Edward NJ. GalIaudet
Phi. D., LID, president Of Gallaudet col
lege, Washington. d. C., now on a tour