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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-02-19
LEGISLATIVE NEWS.
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. II, 1908.

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. II, 1908.
AS was expected week ago,
the revenue committee was not
ready to report, and was readily
granted more time. The main
features of the bill had been
agreed upon by the members,
the actual work of the compila-
tion had yet to be done. On this
a committee of six lawyers has
put in solid week, and a report
of the finished product is expect
ed in a day or two. In the mean
time it is noticeable that faith in
the ultimate passage of a revenue
bill has grown among the MEM
bers of the Legislature, as we'll as
among outsiders. This shows a
considerable confidence in the
members of the revenue COM
mittee. 49,.
The program as outlined by
one of the members of the rev.
enue committee is to report the
bill and have large number of
extra copies at once printed, so
that the people outside of the
capitol may keep pace with the
deliberations on the new bill. 1t
is especially desired that the
county clerks, treasurers and
commissioners have copies, as
they are facing the tax problem
every day, and suggestions from
them will be of assistance in the
discussion of the bill.
On account of the pending
revenue bill, the events of the
past week have not been of great
interest. Appropriations for
state institutions have been re-
ported and discussed in some
cases, but it is conceded that
most of them must wait until the
one important matter is disposed
of. There has been discussed in
both ends of the house regarding
the prevailing methods of letting
bridge contracts in the countries
and bills to encourage honest
contracts and shut out comblna-
ton bidding have got fairly we'll
started in both ends of the legis-
lature.
There has been much discus
sion of the two elevator bills
now before the legislature, and
according to program they will
be considered by the counties
this week. The one in the house
is by Ramsey of Gage, and the
one in the senate is by Prady OF
Boone. They call for practically
the same thing, which is, that
any person be allowed to build an
elevator adjoining the railroad
right-of-way at station, and com
pei the company to run side
track up to the elevator. The
agitation of the questions come.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-02-19

elect Mr., Tooley on that issue.
But he succeeded in attracting
the attention of the public
through his bill and got not a
little notoriety out of it for his
effort.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-02-19

III, for the reduction in the
width of public roads in certain
cases.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-02-19

For SAFE OR TRADE:-For
yong cattle, a fresh mich COW.
Enquire at this Office. % If
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-02-19

facilities and partly from the
efforts of an organization worked
up by Kansas elevator man.
Some bills of interest recently
introduced in the house are:
No. 1877, providing that saloon
notices be published IN a paper
of general circulation;" No. POI,
compelling cities and village
clerks to report four times year,
the complete record of bonded in
debtedness to the state auditor;
No. 209, providing for appoint
ment of matron where females or
minors under Is are confined in
jails; No. 211, providing for
chattel mortgage on offspring;
No. 2l6, permitting independent
telephones to enter cities; No.
231, aPpropriating $4,000 for an
exhibit at St. Louis; No. 237,
for an examining board for the
inspection of steam boilers and
licensing of engineers; No, 255,
making chicken stealing a fell
ony; No. 655, appropriating $685.
600 for building for the State
Historical Society; No Cos, ap-
propriating 1000 to fit up a G.
A. r. Museum and pay for publ
cation of reports for Department
Commander.
Interesting Senate Bills recent
ly printed; No. 1913, preventing
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Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this Sd day of February, 1908.
[sEAL GEo. w. DEWEY, County Clerk.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-02-19

The Kearney papers are inclin-
ed to find fault with Judge
Gutterson's appointment to sue
coed Judge Sullivan as Judge of
the 18th Judicial district because
the Office had been held by two
Broken Bow lawyers previously.
The Kearney papers evidently
must think that Kearney is the
only city in the district that is
entitled to Judicial honors. AS
matter of fact Judge Gutterson
is only the third person that has
held that position OF Broken Bow
since the organization of the
county twenty six years ago. If
our memory serves us correctly
all the other occupants of the
bench for the district have been
kearney lawyers. They were
Judge Gaslin, Judge Savage,
Judge Hamer, Judge Sinclair and
Judge Green. 1t is also true that
that three of the above men at
tanned to the position by appoint
ment. In all of that time Kear-
ney has had the court reporter
whose salary is nearly as much as
that of the Judge. 1t comes with
poor grace for kearney to kick.
The Omaha papers are vigor-
ously opposing Tooley's State
Apportionment bill on the
grounds that it takes the money
from Douglas county and dis
tributes il to the smaller counties
of the state. 1t was on that
issue that Mr.. Tooley made his
campaign and no doubt won
him enough votes to elect him.
AT the time we maintained that
as the money was apportioned on
the basis of school population
that Douglas county was entitled
to her full share though she had
less number of school districts than
some counties with a much less
population. But since Omaha
seeks to locally assess the rail-
road term nails and thus deprive
the rural communities of their
legitimate rights from this source
we fell that it will be equally as
as fair for the rural school dis
tricts to profit by Omaha's large
school population. The differ
ence in the amount that Broken
Bow School District would receive
would be but little yet the
districts of smaller school popu.
lation would receive more than
under the present plan. None
except the districts of counties
where are large cities would
theyreceive less than they
do now. Not as Z
matter OF revenge bat as matter
of protection to the rural com
munities we hope the bill may
become law.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-02-19

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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-02-19

in part from local dissatisfaction
in some parts of the state because
of discrimination or unequal
facilities and partly from the
efforts of an organization worked
up by a Kansas elevator man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-23
ASK GAMES WITH MICHIGAN
Eastern Football Managers Unbend in
Attitude Toward West.

Ann Arbor Mich, Feb. 23.-West
Point and Columbia have both request
ed football games with Michigan next
season. but Manager Baird has declined
both, saying that Michigan would have
enough to deal with next year in Min
nesota Chicago, and Wisconsin.
AS it is he said, the team will have
to he on edge for two months. 1t is inn
probable Michigan will ever go east, not
only because the trip would be both
hard and expensive but we are unwill-
ing to play unless we are granted re-
turn games, which they are unwilling
to give"
With the offer of West Point and Col
unbia came also requests for baseball
games on the part of Yale, Harvard,
and Princeton. These also had to be
refused, owing to the fact that the
Michigan schedule is already complete
However, three games with Cornell are
scheduled-one at Ithaca on May %, one
at Ann Arbor on June Il, and one on
June IS.
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ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.

James Nicholas, an old employe Of the
machine shop, drew his time Saturday aft
Clarence Lowe. the son of ]. A. Lowe,
Waterman in the east shops, is i'll with
pneumonia.
J. NJ Meade resident engineer for the
ness trip to Chicago.
Vint Parkinson, engineer Of the machine
shop stationary r ,o snEne mas moved his
H G. Whitcomb of the Rock Island
claim department returned Saturday morn
ing from short business trip to Fort
Worth, Tex.
The Sunday afternoon meeting at the
Railroad Y NJ c. A was addressed by
William Boyes, the new secretary of the
association.
Toundhouse has been resumed. The work
was called off for several days on account
of the cold weather.
c. W. Parker. Kansas City depot passeu
ger agent Of the Santa Fe. viii leave the
company on February Is to accept Pc
sition in New York.
NJ. A. Low, general attorney of the Rock
Island railway system. has denied all the
rumors concerning alliances between the
Rock Island and Southern Pacific.
General Auditor II. c. Whitehead of the
Santa Fe, who has been in the city for the
last few days. left Saturday afternoon on
No. for his headquarters in Chicago.
Mrs. W. S. I.awless OF Eureka Springs,
Ark. has had two strokes OF paralysis
recently and is very low at present. W.
S. I-awless was formerly a foreman in the
shcos here
Walter Lyons. who has been employed
IN the Santa F'e machine shop, quit the
shop service Saturday He viii leave short
" for the east. where he expects to Sc
cure q better nosition-
The Rock Island passenger trains which
were snowbound in New Mexico last weef
are now nearly all through and on theil
way east. 1t viii not be long before thS
trains are all running on schedule time
again
John Kempton. the former assistant sec
Ietary of the local Railroad Y NJ c. A.
who is now secretary OF the association
at Ellis, kan, Is in the city attending (
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RAILROAD NEWS.
Rock Island Will Spend $780,
600 at GOOdland.
30 Stall ROundhOuse viii Be
Constructed.
We'll EMPLOY 200 MEN.
GOOdIand Expects to Become a
"Second Horton
New Electric System Will Be
Installed.
WILL EMPLOY 200 MEN.

Goodland. kan. Feb. eat is admit
ted by those who are in a position to
know, that the Rock Island company
win soon make large and extensive i'm
provements in their railroad works here
With this in view, c. A. Goodnow,
general manager; w. T. Barnum. super
intendent of motive power; H. F. White,
superintendent of maintenance, build
ings and bridges; II. S. Gable, superin-
tendent Of roads west OF the Missouri
river, and c. II. Cole, travelling engineer
of the Colorado division. We're in Good
land with a special train. They arrived
at 6 o'clock IN the morning. and left at
o'clock the following morning for Den
Yer, Colorado Springs and Pueblo.
A thorough inspection of the plant
was made measurements were taken
and definite plan formulated, the car
rying out of which viii call for the ex-
penditure of 100000.
The machine shops will be remodeIed
The south end viii be used to stable en-
gines, cars and caboOses. while under
going repair More tracks VIII be laid
into it, Doors viii be cut through on
the west end, and the tracks continued
so that the rolling stock from the shops
can be shunted out of the way. and
switched on to the main track either
east or west as soon as they are needed
for the road.
The central portion OF the shops, now
occupied by the FORCES, viii probably be
left intact except TO add to the number
of FORCES 10 increase smithing facilities
An addition viii be built on to the north
end Of the shops to allow sufficient
space for the placing of a good many
more machines, and to provide room
for the carpenter shop
The old ten-stau round house will be
torn down, and the arc of the
other one continued and enlarged to 80
stalls. This will also be heightened to
the largest of which cannot now be
entirely housed on account Of their
length.
A dynamo if sufficient power will be
installed and an electric light system
put in on their grounds. The shops.
round house, hotel, passenger and
freight depots, and every place where
needed, win provided with electric
lights.
The company is telegraphing all over
the country to secure machinists and
labOring men, in readiness to push the
work and it is estimated that when the
new order Of things is esta blished here
the Rock Island shops here will employ
200 men.
When all these vast improvements
are considered together with the steam
heat and other present equipments it
is no wild assertion to say that Good
land will feel its influence. The town
will grow. the price of real estate viii
Advanced has been advancing right
along-and in a railroad way Goodland
viii be a second Horton.
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MEN OF TALENT LIVE LONG.
Erudition Seems to Lead to a Green
Old Ape.

1t is very common but erroneous
belief that brain work is destructive Of
physical strength The fact is that
men of thought and mental force have
always been distinguished for their age.
Colon, Sophocles, Pindar, Anacreon and
NenophOn were octOgenarians. Kant
Button, Goethe, FontelIe and Newton
Titan were eighty-nine and ninety
nine, respectively Harvey. the discover
er of the circulation of the blood, lived
to be eighty Many men have done ex-
ceilent work after they have passed
eighty years. Lander wrote his Imag-
mary Conversations when eighty-five.
Izaak Walton welded a ready pen at
ninety. Hahnemann married at eighty,
and was still working at ninety-one.
Michael Angelo was still painting his
giant canvases at eighty-nine, and
Titan at ninety worked with the yigorl
of his early years, says the Chicago
Chronicle.
FontenelIe was as light hearted at
ninety-eight as at forty, and Newton
at eighty-three worked as hard as he
did in middle life. Cornaro was in far
better health at ninety-fve than at
thirty, and as happy as a sandbOy- At
Hanover DR.. Du Boisy was still prac-
ticing as a physician in 1897 going his
daily rounds at the age OF one hundred
and three William Reynold Salmon,
NJ r. s., Of Conbridge, Glamorgan-
shire, died on March II, 1897, at the
time of his depth he was the oldest
known Individual of indisputably au-
thenticated age. the oldest physician.
the Oldest member of the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons. England, and the old
est Free Mason in the world.
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M. Kerns, the deserving widow, has
been filing the office so satisfactorily
since the death of Mr.. Kerns, that
about all the patrons of the office want
her to KEEP It, and have SO petitiOned
Congressman Reeder.
One Of the Iiveliest scraps to be fought
out in the campaign of 1904 will be the
state senator contest in the Thirty-nlnth
district, which is now represented by Chas
BuschOW, who will doubtless ask for re
election Pitted against him will be DR..
A B. Jones' member of the legislature
from Trego county, and w. B. lockwood,
the Cheyenne county member The two
last named got into the Long band wagon,
while Buschow fell under the wheels and
was run over. In other words, he camped
Hear the Mankato Monitor sarcasm:
Bailey Is owned by Leland and We are
opposed 10 him Too bad.
c. B. Daughters. who was on the dele
cation from Lincoln county in the Wichita
convention. was the only Sixth district
delegate who refused to vote for Hanna
for lieutenant governor on the ballot which
nominated him. He is now a resident CT
Manhattan, having moved out of the Sixth
district.
There is a vacancy in the Colby postof-
flee, the C emission of the present Incurn-
There are about half dozen others who
would like to succeed McGOnigal. j. NJ.
Summers who isn't candidate, writes
to Congressman Reeder as follows BIZ
Reeder-My Dear Sir. In view OF the tact
that there is vacancy IN the Colby post
office and you can't decide which one OF
the several applicants to appoint. if you
can see your way clear, appoint me to the
office. My appointment will make You
friends and be satisfactory to the different
political factions" About the time the
congressman should get the letter Mr..
Summers dreamed that he had been ap-
pointed. And so the matter rests.
The Plainville Gazette favors the cleo
ton Of Ed Hoch for chairman Of the Kan
sas delegation to the national Republican
convention in 1904
John Dawson. assistant attorney general,
believes in printers ink. He IS carrying
his law card in the Hill City papers,
which reads as follows: John s. Daw-
son. attorney at law. District. state and
Kan
The Norton Courier man, who ought to
be better acquainted with the Sixth dis
trict politicians than he is, asks who IS
this man Holland who is mentioned for
congress. He comes from Russell county.
and if he gets into the congressional
scramble in 1904 the other candidates will
ali find out before the battle is ended who
George Holland is.
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Tome met him and the twain fell in love
and within a few weeks they are to
wed. They propose to pass the follow
ing three years abroad, during which
time the young physician will be given
every opportunity to increase his store
of surgical knowledge.
Another story that comes from q close
friend of the bridegroom-to-b is that
Mr.. and Mrs. France will go at once to
Vienna where DR.. France will enter the
hospital Of Prof. Adolf Lorenz with tho
intention Of perfecting himself in the
art of bloodless surgery. So it may be
that some Of the Tome millions viii
still further add to the happiness and
advancement of the human race by
making possible a great infrmary for
the treatment Of congenital hip disease
and kindred misfortunes-
The prospective wedding is but one
link of an alliance between the France
and the Nesbitt families. Mrs. Tones
maiden name was Nesbitt Miss Jnez
France, the charming sister of the doc
tor-tO-be, is about to marry William r.
Nesbitt. Mrs. Tones youngest brother.
Mrs. Tome has the distinction Of be-
ing the only woman president of a ma
tiona1 bank in the United States. And
to make that distinction binding she Is
al the head Of two such financial inst-
tutions One is the Cecil National bank
of Port Deposit and the other the Elk
ton National bank Of Elkton, Nd. That
she is as great success as a banker
as in a social way is vouched for by the
stockholders in the two concerns. They
report largely increased business and
profits under the "Dettlcoat regime"
Although Mr.. Tome left many mill
Tome institute. he wiIIed to his widow
So, 100000 absolutely, and this vast sum
is said to have nearly doubled since the
teStatOrS death.-ChicagO Chronicle
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SIXTH DISTRICT NOTES.

Russell Harrison, of Smith county,
who didn't like it a little bit because
he failed to get either the Democratic
or Populist consent to run for congress
in the Beloit convention, is getting
some endorsements for railroad COM
missioner.
The state bank of Oakley has a cap
ital of $40. o0O H F. GiessIer, of Mus
catine, Iowa. is president, and he owns
$4,000 Of the stock. He was a former
resident of the place, and he may con-
clude that Oakley is good enough for
him, and return. in which event the
list of congressional candidates may be
increased ore more
J. B. Beal. of Grainfield, Cove coun-
ty, has received the appointment of in
spector and appraiser of Union Pacif1c
lands. This is much more remun-
eratiVe job than organizing .tSundOweR
clubs in which he was engaged sew
eral years ago.
There viii be any amount of political
fun going on in the Sixth district in
the year 1904. 1t begins to look at this
early stage that it viii be a fight to a
finish between those. who supported
Curtis for senator, and those who were
''furninst" him. The followers of eth
er faction are now known, for they
lined up in Topeka on divers occasions
during the winter. The fellows will not
Wichita. The map of the district was
completely changed when n. H. LOOMS
general attorney of the Union Pacific,
took a hand in politics. The Sixth dis
trict would be all right if it didn't have
quite so many want-to-be political
leaders. There is too much sneezing
when the other fellows take a pinch of
snuff, and on this account all OF them
want TO be leaders or "bossbusters,
whatever that means
And now it is said Colby has become
the great Republican political center
of the Sixth district 1t shouldn't be
this way any more than any other
town It has been said by some fell
low in that town who has been sworn
to secrecy, that there is a movement
snouldering already. which will break
out soon. to bring forward a get
there" candidate who can beat Con-
gresham Reeder in 1904; who the can
didate is to be the informant refused to
divulge.
is spoken of as a compromise scandi-
date for mayor Of that town this
spring
There is a vacancy in the postoffice
at Oakley, john Kerns, who filled the
office of postmaster there for upwards
Of nine years. died last fall. Mrs. Eta
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LEAvBNwoRrH OBJECTS.
Does Not Want Its Trade Diverted to
Kanaas City.


Leavenworth, Kan, Feb. est is
now positively known that a Kansas
City syndicate contemplates building
an electric line. similar to the one now
connecting LeavenWorth and Kansas
City, which line will operate between
the latter place and Topeka
According to the present plan of the
syndicate the tracks viii pass through
the southern part of this county in or
der to still further draw the trade of
LeavenwOrth county farmers to kan
sas City and away from here The
merchants Of this city as well as the
farmers of the county viii resist the
accomplishment of any such plan.
The least the new company can do
If they win not build to Leavenworth
is to connect with the Kansas City
LeavenwOrth road to make access to
this city equally expeditions for tray
elers over the new line.
Horace A. Keefer of Wallula, in a
letter addressed to the board of county
commissioners of this county brings
out several vital points in regard to
the proposed line. He says:
Gentlemen. Tt is understood that the
Kansas City-Topeka electric railway
win seek. at your next meeting. a char
ter on certain roads in the southern
part Of the county.
While the writer thinks that cleo
trio railways should be kept off Of pub
lie highways. still. if the people Of the
district through which they propose to
operate. prefer to give them the high
way rather than donate them a right
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Of way, those of US at this end should
not interpose too much.
However, we feel it a duty to insist
that the commissioners, in granting
this petition which cuts across the
southern end Of the county in a manner
to divert all business from Leaven-
worth and the north end. that company
be required to go into an agreement to
furnish a connection with this line to
Leavenworth, which win make it equal
" serviceable TO and from Kansas City
and Lawrence.
This is a matter that is equally i'm
portant to every merchant and resi-
dent in Leavenworth and the county,
the writer viii undertake to deliver a
free right Of way through Fairmount
township. and I think the same can be
secured in adjoining townships"
If the new line is built so that it con-
meets Topeka. Kansas City and Leav-
enworth by means as set forth in
Keeffer's letter, the proposed Atchison
line would later make connections here
and form the most complete interurban
electric line on this continent It is
hoped the county board viii see things
in this light.