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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08

bend something of the rake off a
sheriff, with the pop interpation
of the law, gets yearly off the
people of Custer county. 1t does
not amount to less than SIS, or
So, 900.
Have taxpayers of Custer cour-
ty any reason to suppose that if
the present sheriff's deputy is
elected to Office that he will in
terpet the law different or con-
duct the Office different than he
does now. The fees of the sher-
ifs Office in Custer county if
properly accounted are sufficient
to pay the sheriff and his deputy
their salaries besides leaving a
good size surplus to turn in to
the treasury of the county.
1t is true the law provides a
fee of five cents mile for every
mile actually and necessarily
travelled, but it also limits his
salary to 81, 500 year. No pro-
visions are made for paying his
expenses above the salary. They
aie included in the salary. The
several items of fees specified the
sheriff may charge are provided
to create fund from which the
salary may be realized. Take
the office of county superintend-
ent of schools. The law limits
his salary to 200. 1t is his
business to travel the county, but
no provisions are made for him
hiring riggs at the expense Of
the county. That is included in
his salary. No mileage fees is
provided for that Office as it is
dependent wholly upon the rev.
enues of the county. But pro-
visions are made for the sheriff's
office to be self-supporting and
fees for his services are provided
that the office may not be de-
pendent on the revenues but that
he may retain the fees thus pro-
vided for himself and deputy to
the amount of So, 200 a year and
no more. The residue, whether
it be S1.00 or $4,000, whether
it comes from mileage or serving
papers, it belongs to the county.
Is it not about time the taxpay-
ers of Custer county rid them
selves of these reform grafters
and put men in that Office who
are willing to fill the Office for
what the law provides? Elect
republican sheriff who is capable
of keeping his accounts; one who
will account for every mile neces-
sarily and actually travelled and
you will have big surplus turn
ed into the county fund annually
to help meet current expenses.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08

Like Grover Cleveland, EX-
Sheriff of Erie County, New York,
Ebert Hubbard (divorCed) is
an Individual. Though the
author of "The Retired Farmer"
does not think that the eX-sheritf
can compare with the author of
Gessage to Messig, and founder
of the Roycroft experiment, he
has written a criticism of both
minerals. Mr.. Hubbard is one
of those envied by all broad
minded" whose ears long closed
to earthly things catch heavenly
sounds" and though it is i'm
possible for all men to be sane
enough to approach the truth
Hubbard teaches without en-
dangering their souls, it is well
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
WashingtOns ID. {.

Attention is called to the fact
that a wall map of the United
States, prepared under the direc-
ton of the Commission of the
General Land Office, has been
issued for sale by the Department.
In addition to usual map features
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08

What do you think of the
argument of w. ]. Taylor, the
great statesmen, that the county
has no protection in the treasur-
er's bond for the reason that the
county paid for the bond. A
wonderful revelation isn't it.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08

The Populist Press of Custer
County has dealt so long with
theory that cold facts are things
they don't like. When challeng-
ed to state how much Custer
County had lost on County
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08

Any official who courts public
favor and seeks public preferment
on the grounds that he perform
ed the same service for less money
than another is certain to be let
down hard when the public UNI
derstands the true situation.
"Schneringer has the documents
to prove what he says SO says
the Beacon. We don't know just
what he is telling the people but
If he is saying anything about
the expense of collecting taxes
show him the statement which
we print in another column.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08
Township Ticket.

For Township Clerk
A d. BANGS.
For Township Treasures
j, N. KIMBERLING
For Justice OF the Peace
j, J. SNYDER.
For Constable
L, e. COLE.
For Road Overseer, District No.,
l.. CUSHMAN.
For Road Cverseer. District No 2
CHARLEY KAUPP.
For Road Overseer, District No.3
P. M. STRADLEY.
For Road 0verseer, District No.
G. K. RECTOR.
For Road 0verseer District No 3
FRED ARTHUR.
For Road Oyerseer District No. 3
HENRY REEDER.
For Road overseer District No. 7
j. N. WEST.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08

Treasurer bonds, the Beacon
stated about $1,000, when upon
investigation it was shown by
the REPUBLICAN last week that
on Weimer's bond alone the loss
was SO, 1870. How much was
the loss on Brown
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08
County Ticket

County Ticket.
For County Judge
). A. ARMOUR.
For County CLERK
q. W. DEWEY.
For County Treasurer
W. A. GEORGE.
For County Sheriff
.O.TAYLOR.
For Clerk District Court
GHO Is. MAR.
For Superintendent OF Schools
j. q. W. LEWIS.
For County Surveyor
FEE, VANANTWERP.
For County Assessor
JULES HAUMONT.
For County Coroner
DIR. MORROW.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08

postal money order made payable
to the order of the Financial
Clerk, Department of the In
terror. EDWARD M. DAWSON.
Chief Clerk.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08

Taylor asks what was the
matter with Weimer's bond?"
Look over the bond and you will
find the names of some of the
most respected and prosperous
citizens of Custer county. Are
they to blame for coming up and
making an assignment of their
possessions for the benefit of the
county? Many of them, we are
told, always stood ready to put
up their part, but others didn't
want to put up anything. We
would just like to know to which
class Taylor belonged. Mr..
Taylor, now that you are in bust
ness of discussing county treasur-
er's bonds just tell the public
how much it cost you to put your
name on Weimer's bond.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08

WANTED Several industrious persons In
each state TO travel for house established eleven
years and with large capital. to call upon mer-
chants and agents for successful and profitable
lie. Permanent engagement Weekly cash
salary of SIS and all travelling expenses and hotel
bills advanced In cash each week. Experience
not essential. Mention reference and enclose
self-addIessed envelope. The NATIONAL, 1874
Dearborn st., Chicago,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08
County Supervisors Ticket.

For Supervisor Second District
u. +. CHRISTY,
Round Valley.
For Supervisor Fouith District
j. Is. KLUMP.
Klump.
For Supervisor Sixth District
A. FONDA.
Oconto
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08
Pop Sheriffs An Expensive Luxury.

The county in general has not |
forgotten the sad experience be-
tween 1893 and 1897, when the
county, state and nation was I'M
der democratic rule. But COM
paratively few now know what
an expensive luxury the county
of Custer has been maintaining
for all these years, in keeping a
pop sheriff in office.
Here are some of the items of
Sheriff Armstrong; gratis, of
which the general public is not
aware. We find by looking up
the county records that he has
collected as mileage on distress
warrants on which he made
collections. ............$1,274.35
and on distress warrants
unsolicited ......... 2,334.5 So
Total mileage. So, COS. 90
On the item of 50, for
uncollected warrants, the county
paid him direct, while the item
of 81 ,274.35 on warrants collected
was paid to him by the individ-
uals from whom he made the in
dividual collections.
In addition to these items we
find that the sheriff received from
these same individuals as fees for
serving these executions the
sum of .............,$ T1,6O
and for serving the war
rants uncollected 49,. 1,4O3.
Total .,................$2,1 us. 10
This gives a grand total of
SIS, 793.00 he received for serving
and collecting on distress war
rants. AS the pop sheriffs con-
strues the law that they do not
have to account to the county
for mileage fees and have pre-
sistantly refused to account for
them to the county. You can
see that the present sheriff on
mileage fees alone has received
So, COS. 90 of a graft in addition
to the 50, 500 a year salary the
law generously provides for that
officer. When the number of
miles is taken into account that
the sheriff travels in the dis
charge of other duties of the Of
fee, for which he does not ac-
count, you eau begin to compre-
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08
Twelfth judicial District.

For Judge OF the Twelfth Judicial District
U. b. HoSTETLEk,
kearneY.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08
Thursday, October 8, 1908.
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
State Ticket.

For Judge OF tho Supreme Court
j. Is, BARNS.
Madison.
For Regents OF State University
CHARLES $. ALLEN,
Lancaster.
VIC. WHITMORE.
Douglas.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08

These figures represent an in
crease of 20 per cent. in our ex-
port of these lines only. Against
this good result, the following
decrease must be allowed for:
Copper manufactures ...,............. 100000
Total OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. ..,...., 9O,OOO,OOO
Deducting this from the $43,-
100000 total increased exports
enumerated above, leaves a net
gain of $37, 900, 600 in the export
of our Protected manufactures.
AS our total net gain in all ex-
ports was S3S, 900, 900, the Ding
ley Protective Tariff is entitled
to all the credit.
WALTER ]. BALLARD.
Schenectady, N. Y, Sept, IS.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08

ministration Of the treasufer's
Office has been Endorsed by the
people. Galloway Courier.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08

J. O. Taylor, republican candi-
date for sheriff, has been resi-
dent of Custer county for twenty
four years. During that time he
has been engaged in farming,
and by hard work and good man
agement has made success of it.
He has been an active worker in
the republican party, standing
by it through all the years of
populism and fusion, and never
faltering for a moment in his de-
votion to its principles. For the
first time he is now a candidate
for office, and with his long rec
ord as an upright citizen, a good
business man, and faithful re-
publican, he has earned the
hearty support of every republi-
can in the county. If elected,
Mr.. Taylor will perform his Off
cial duty without fear or favor.
Galloway Courier.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08

on this are shown the several
acquisition of territory upon this
continent by the Government of
the United States, by clearly de-
fined boundaries, as determined
by the latest Investigations, all
military, naval, Indian, forest,
and timber reservations, private
land claims, and the location of
all United States Land Offices
and Offices of the United States
Surveyors-General. Along its
lower border are small maps of
Cuba, Porto Rico, Pine Island,
the Hawaiian Group, Guam, the
Philippines, and the Tutuila
Group of the Samoan Islands.
This map is about 5 by feet in
size, mounted on muslin and at
tached to rollers ready for i'm
mediate use, and is sold for 80
cents per copy.
The Department also publishes
separate maps of the several
States and Territories in which
public lands of the United States
are located, ISSUED as follows:
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08
Ebert Hubbard-Au Indy idual.

BY will A. Campbell, Editor of The Knocker.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-10-08

Oconto.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-20
THE McKANNA CURE

Does not treat the Drinking Man as criminal It's
inhuman to punish victim of disease, and it is bar
barous to try and cool his fever with texts TheIquOr
Habit is certainly disease, the chief symptom Of
which is the Craving for Drink and it requires Scen
tifc, RATIONAL human treatment DR.. McKannas
method not only speedily and easily antagOnizes the
habit the craving for Alcohol-but by virtue Of
it's perfection restores the disOrdered physical and
mental functions totheir normal condition Hsmethod
is recognized by men Of science everywhere as the
Only Treatment for the LquorHa that's absolutely
safe and permanent Within fourteen years he has
cured $4,000 Drinking Men, who are now SOBER re-
spected members Of Society," ready and willing at all
times to praise the great Cure that saved themselves
and their families from ruin and disease.
It is the Only 3Day Cure for Alcoholism that is safe,
speedy and permanent 1t has failed cure any victim
of the Drink Habit no matter how serious his condition
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-20

Murder, Lust, Misery and Death Turk behind
the gaudy label on the Whisky Bottle. Every
crime in the Calendar-every human atroCty,
every form of misery, disease, horror and de-
spair is masked by the auring trademark of
the Bottled fury. The Drinking Man cheats
himself, saying "the label tells me this is good
whisky,' but when the paper mask is torn away
his own mask falls, and he is hustled to prison
to let iron bars quenCh his thirst and Confine-
ment Cure his diseased body.
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cere-with head that looks as if 1t
might hold one of the superbest brains
of the ages, with its noble size, har
.nontous configuration and domelike
brow 1t is a face and head before
which a man would instinctively take
Off his hat. Let her sex rejoice that
the twentieth century has produced
a woman who will rank as one of the
era makers in chemistry
''She is the greatest woman living
enc of the greatest that ever lived. :"
I heard a gentleman say yesterday
But with their feeling of exultation
American women may regret a little
that the first great woman chemist was
not an American. that, with all our ad-
vantages and opportunity. there is not
a woman scientist of the first rank in
the whole United States.
In the picture of Nine. Curie that
have seen, her little daughter sits
upon her knee. a child a few years old,
with a large head end full brow and
thoughtful, earnest face, like her
mother. Nine. Curie's head is very
fully developed in the upper part of
the forehead. high and square. the
kind phrenologists call the logical
head.
Sir William Croolxes said in an ad-
dress recently that the Investigations
of twentieth century physicists might
reach the point where matter is re-
solvable into pure energy. Mime. Gu
ries discovery is the longest leap yet
made toward that goal.
LILLIAN GRAY.
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ments they were able to make in their
spare time-he from his college lectur-
ing. she from her family and house
keeping. The name of Curie became
known among those making original
research in chemistry. But, being a
man. the husband got the credit for
it, The home keeping wife was only
known as a sort of assistant, his head
bottle washer, as it were.
A hundred and fourteen years ago
the metal uranium was discovered. 1t
was found in considerable quantity in
the mineral pitchblende in Bohemia.
In 1896 Professor Henri Becquerel dis
covered that salts of uranium emitted
an invisible radiation" that is to say.
possessed what chemists call radio
activity. This is the property of con-
stantly throwing off streams of infini-
tesimal particles that travel with in
conceivable velocity There was no
doubt of the existence of these rays,
for they went through metals and other
solid bodies and produced images upon
a Photographic plate.
Nine. Curie was naturally interest
ed in the radio activity of the salts
of uranium and made experiments on
her own account. She took pitchblende
and separated its various chemical
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components. She found that some of
these compounds exhibited radio activ-
ity in more marked degree than even
the extracted salts of uranium did.
A thought struck her, a chain of
mental lightning flashed through her
brain. 1t made her eye kindle her
cheeks flush, her heart beat quickly.
In brief, if the pitchblende compounds
exhibited the strange quality, even
after the uranium had been separated
from them. then were there not other
elements in the pitchblende that pos
sessed the same property of throwing
off the powerfully penetrating streams
of infinitesimal particles? A woman
does not possess real reasoning power,
of course. Oh no, But in some way,
all out of her own head. Nine. Curie
arrived at the conclusion that such
must be the case.
She began a series of experiments on
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the ability to say bright things in an
original manner. Men do admire thor
oughly nice, unselhsh girls. The girl
who holds herself in a high state of
Importance, who wants the best seat on
the coach. the most comfortable arm
chair. the most attention in every way.
is not apt to be admired for long. One
of the most desirable men I know was
won by the unselfish behavior of a girl
who denied herself at the last moment
the pleasure of a ride in order that an
other girl might go.
But girls don't always appreciate
this. They think - especially the
younger ones - that a delightfully."-
wicked and blase air is what will in
terest their admirers; simplicity.
wholesomeness and all that sort of
thing they look down upon with scorn.
In their dress they try as much as pos
sible to ape the rather loud young
matron, and they do their best to be
as sporty, as epigrammatic and as
clever as she. I use the word clever
in its most unpleasant and designing
sense.
It's all a tremendous mistake and it
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REMARKABLE NECKLACES.

Nine Sarah Bernhard and the Ouch
ess of Abercorn are the fortunate pos
SCISSORS of two remarkable necklaces.
That owned by Nine. Bernhard is a
gorgeous gold necklet composed of a
string of nuggets presented to her by
the miners of California. The famous
actress wears this unique piece of jew
elry with all her red costumes.
The other necklace, treasured by the
Dowager Duchess of Abercorn, is even
more interesting. 1t is made up of a
chain of thirteen tiny lockets each con-
tanning a portrait of one u her chill
dren in infancy. The late duS> pre-
scented them to her singly on the ccsa-
sion of each birth.
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away your elaborate silk and lace
gowns. In the day time, of course, if
you are at a fashionable resort, you
will wear ankle length white linen shirt
waist suits with perhaps a suspicion
of linen embroidery, but if you go driv-
ing or calling you will not adopt a
fussy, overturned and consequently
not looking gown. No, that is not
smart. Slip on cool little dress of
pongee or embroidered batiste with a
hat of coarse straw trimmed with a
feather. In the evening, too you will
ind dainty gowns of sheer muslin, of
null, or lowered organdie far prefer
able to pailletted effects and silk tot
lets.
The great thing in summer is to keep
fresh and cool looking, and the woman
who succeeds in doing this scores an
undoubted success. A well Numbered
linen gown is worth a dozen silk ones
trimmed with lace which shows the
effects of country dust
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MONUMENT 10 sAcALEWEA
New York.

Sacajewea. the Indian woman, is to
be concentrated among the other
statues at the Lewis and Clark Centen-
NAL exposition, if the women of Oregon
and neighboring states are able to
carry out their plan. Sacajewea was a
Shoshone Indian, the wife of a half
breed French interpreter. She con-
ceived a great friendship for the ex-
plorers, and. at a time when they stood
face to face with failure because of a
lack of horses, she pacified the Sho-
shones, obtained ponies for them and
smoothed their way through the hos
tile tribes of the Flatheads and the
Nez Perces. She was of important serv-
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ice to them in many ways during the
winter spent at the mouth of the Co
lumbia, and acted as their guide on
the return trip. 1t was said of her
that she seemed to have the instinct of
the homing pigeon in threading the
painless wilderness. Her services were
gratefully acknowledged by Lewis and
Clark, yet no mention is made by them
as to when she died and where she was
laid. An association has been formed
to raise funds for a memorial for this
brave and intelligent Indian woman,
and it is proposed to erect a statue
costing $4,000.
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I noticed with pleasure the other day
when I was down at Larchmont the
trim hedges which surrounded many of
the lawns. Some one has accused us
of becoming English, but here is an
English custom which we do we'll to
adopt. How much more artistic are
these beautifully clipped and watered
boundary lines of green than the
typically American. but, alas. aggres-
sive, picket fence, or even the stone wall
We are certainly learning from the
other side of the Atlantic the art of
landscape gardening. We have learned
the beauty of the horse chestnut tree
and We have used il to line our avenues
/ in imitation of Paris; we have bor-
rowed from the English their beauti-
fully clipped lawns and their borders
and hedges of box. From the English
also we have taken much that is good
in house building-the broad, spacious
halls, with their hard wood floors; the
entrance living room and the great
flreplaces. But there is one thing we
can give them: our wide breeze swept
verandas which in some houses are
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is an enthusiastic student of chem
istry.
His wife also is an enthusiast in
chemistry. In the off spells of her
housekeeping and child minding she
has experimental in her laboratory at
home. Not having TO dazzle anybody
socially, and both herself and her hus-
band being from choice very simple in
their style of living, Nine Curie, the
woman chemist who loved scientific
research as she loved life itself, had
considerable time to experiment.
An odd taste. wasn't it, that a woman
should prefer studying and experiment.
ing in a chemical laboratory to con-
cocting new costumes which she could
not always afford and shining in So
ciety? But so it was. She was of the
race of new woman, born perhaps
little before her time. like the first
human child of the anthropoid ape,
to show what is coming.
Nine. Curie and her husband appear
to be soul mates if there is any such
thing. They worked together, one sup
plementing the other in the expert