Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-12-05
STATE NOTES.

| holiday trade.
Dodge county employees but eighteen
male teachers.
The hotel Lathrop at Hardy was
burned 10 the ground.
There was a fire at the Normal
college in Fremont, but it did not in
terrupt work.
Nebraska has realized from the In
spection of kerosene and gasoline, at
J 10 cents per barrel, the sum of $685.
| 954.40, according to the biennial re
| port Of OIL Inspector Church, which
was filed with the governor.
At Holdrege John II. Lucas, who
shot and killed Clyde Lester Deem
Der g., was bound over to the district
court on q charge of murder in the
first degree and was remanded to jail
without bail.
Charles Field hung himself at Crete.
He was a foreman of stonework on
the new Burlington depot at that
place. He was found at supper time
! hanging from a rafter in the tool
house. No cause Is known for the
deed other than that he nad been
drinking heavily.
| The Farmers Elevator company of
| Straussville, have the elevator under
construction and have commenced to
purchase and ship grain. An exper-
fenced man has been placed in charge
Of the business and the farmers by
cooperation hope to circumvent the
grain buyers trust If such an insti-
tuition exists.
Judge Harrington in the district
court at Long Pine, has granted de-
cree annulling the marriage of S.
Herbert Moore and Clara Taylor,
which occurred n Long Pine several
years ago. The decree was petitioned
for by Will II. Taylor Of Rosedale,
| ILL.,, who declared that his sister had
been insane since 1894. Mrs. Moore
is now an inmate of the Lincoln asy-
| lum.
George e. Haskell, president OF the
Beatrice Creamery company and for
mer resident Of Lincoln, will return
to Lincoln from California with his
family about January 1. He has been
in Colorado and California for several
years on account of ill-health, but has
so far recovered that his physicians
say he can return to this climate with
safety The family has been for some
time at Ocean Beach, Cal.
Recently p. G. Alcorn of Crab Or
chard suffered an injury to one of his
eyes, and it was believed the optic
might be saved However, infiamma-
tion set in in such bad condition
that the sight of the other eye was
threatened, and the surgeons deemed
it advisable to remove the injured
eyeball to guard against the possibility
of Mr.. Alcorn's suffering total blind
ness.
Mayor Hackett and some of the city
councilmen of Humboldt had an in
teresting session with a stranger who
appeared last week and made all pre-
parations to open up bucket shop in
vacant office room of the city. The
authorities objected, but the man
went on with his arrangements until
warned that he would be Immediately
arrested If he attempted to do bust
ness, when he decided to drop the
matter
P. l.. Troyer in jumping from freight
No. 46 at Galloway. had a narrow es-
cape from a horrible death which he
is liable to remember for some time
to come. Troyer has been up at Sheri-
dan for some time past and, wanting
to get back TO his home at Galloway,
| do DO,
bringing some horses east to ride
with him. Thinking the train was not
going to stop when it arrived there,
he made jump for the platform,
which was covered with frost. A few
minutes later he was discovered by
t Frank Makvicka, the night Waterman
| lying insensible, with his head nearly
touching the rails.
Sheriff Hall of Holt county is quite
pleased with the capture of Bernard
j McGreevy, the missing banker, and
says he had received a tip that he
y was in Arizona and was making ar
i engagements to go to Arizona wher
r he received word of his capture. Mr.
J. hall has worked diligently on the case
e from the beginning and had sent de
y scriptions of the missing banker t.
( all officers in Arizona and severa
s other states and territories.
The same line of talk concerning
Il seed corn as was given at the stat,
g university seed corn special over tn,
Burlington route in Tecumseh, will
be carried out at the coming session
of the farmers institute. The farm
ers are awake to the fact that Their
g Is much in the proper selection OF tn
m grain, its care. in the cultivation O
n the ground, and in changing crops
Of Hon. ]. j. Young, who has one of tn
r. best farms in Johnson county, say
Of that few years ago under the sam
L. conditions that have prevailed for tn
lie past two or three years, he used t
IS raise as high as seventy-fve bushel