Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-02-05
Nebraska Notes
Milan G. Cook, " Fremont, vast
assessed S25 for beating his wife. (

Inc CltlZenS' NallOnal Dank OF Ie-'
cumseh has increased It's capital stock
from $50, 600 to $40. 900.
The annual meeting Of the Old Set
tiers association Of Otoe county
will be held in Nebraska CITY.
J. Il. Roshong Of McCook was run
over by the cars and had a leg taken
Off.
Mrs. l.. W. Young, wife Of ex Sen
ator Young, committed suicide at
WiIsonville by taking carbolic acid.
j. d. Roshong, an aged citizen OF
McCook, was run over by the cars In
the yard losing leg and receiving
severe injuries about the head. On
account OF Ills advanced age and
feebleness, there Is some doubt as to
his recovery. Being hard of hear
ing, he did not hear the approach OF
the cars until too late
Thirteen cars Of cattle have been
shipped from the Ernest farmer at
Tecumseh to the experimental farm
at Lincoln. Ten head OF Shortborns
are to be used In judging ano mark
ing points and three Hereford COWS
with abnormal growths upon their
jaws will he experlmented upon.
The Zellcr Stock Food company has
been organized at Hooper with cap
ital of $40, 000-S4, 900 paid In. The
company will continue the business
Of DR.. M. Il. Zellers, who has been
preparing this stock food for year
past. The stock Is held by citizens
Of Hooper.
Colonel Mcdonnell Of the Second
Nebraska infantry has announced
number OF appointments as follows:
Reglmental adjutaut, Mayor Robert
a. Clapp of Fairbury; regimentas
surgeon, DR.. Clifford W..Walden Of
Beatrice; regimental chaplain, Rev.
Addison e. X Rocker Of Lin
coin.
A. b. Chelf, grocery salesman
who left Alliance very suddenly IS
charged with bigamy. On January
Chelf was married to a young won't
an at Wapela, Ill. IL is alleged that
on his way to Illinois Chelf stopped
! off Grand Island, where he marriedI
another girl. Mrs Chelf No. ar
rived and Chelf left Alliance imme-'
diately
ID. j. Sinclair, postofiicee inspec-
tator has succeeded in capturing
Pearl S. Kaseer, the postmaster att
Gosper, Neb., who Is charged with
absconding with $500 Of the money
order funds Of that Office. Kaser left
GospeI Jan. ID with a companio n,
and presumably went to Denver. In
spector Sinclair visited the pUstoffice
and found that the money order fund
was short the amount mentioned and
Immediately started to find the miss
ing official. He was captured at
Arapahoe.
The county clerk at Chadron an-
nounced that the last available piece
Of land in the county to file oil
claims on has been filed on. The
st Of the land, about $50 claims,
was taken up by the Minnetonka Oil
Mining company. The oil belt,
which embraces what was known as
the "bad lands" is about eighteen
by thirty-six miles, For years the
professors and students Of different
universities have excavated for pre-
historic relics there, and word has
been brought by them OF small veins
OF coal of an inferior grade, but no
attention was ever paid to what they
said. Now that interest In the re-
gion has been aroused there is hope
that coal OF better grades will be
found below the surface. Claims are
helng sold to some extent now for
three and four times what it cost to-
Tile on them. The largest transfer
Of decided land was the sale Of Hud
Mead's ranch to Nelson Upton of
Omaha.
An unidentified man was found
hanging to a tree on the farm Of A.
Hill, two miles north OF Norfolk.
The body had evidently been hanging
, there sumo time. TIE position was
such as to appear like one standing 4
Mr.. Hill first saw the man there
the day before but thought 1T was
someone out hunting. Again seeing
him still In the same place, Mr.. Hill
went near enough to ascertain that
The man was dead. A piece OF wire
had been fastened around the neck
, and over limb Of tree and the
man had strangled himself by lifting
l his feet from the ground. The body
was taken to the undertaking rooms
= to await identification. In one p OK
ct was found 500. 35 in cash, and in
/ another some memoranda, made on D.
t piece Of manila wrapping paper, evil