Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-03-31
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Sixth Nebraska district cOnVen-
ton unanimously renominated Con
gresham Moses p. Kinkaid and named
w. p. Miles and e. c. Harris as dele
gates to the national convention.
Polk county has lost by death an
other of it's oldest citizens, Jacob II.
Jones, jr. He was eighty-two years
and he was a soldier of the civil war,
belonging to Company G, of the 61st
Ohio infantry.
Fire near Filley destroyed the large
barn of j. W. Wright with all it's con-
tents, including thirty tons of hay and
grain, Nine head of horses and mules
persisted in the flames. Loss. $4,000,
partially covered by insurance.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Houseworth
celebrated their golden wedding ami
versary at the home of their daughter,
Mrs. c. B. Murphy, in Plattsmouth.
They have resided in Nebraska for
nineteen years and in Plattsmouth
eight years.
Two weeks ago William O'Dell, a
farmer who lives three miles west of
Leigh, shipped a carload Of cattle and
team of horses to South Omaha. He
has not returned to his family up to
this time, and it is reported here that
he does not intend to.
The North and East Omaha I'm
provement association of Omaha has
| filed articles of incorporation. The
capital stock is S25,000 The associa-
ton will work for the improvement
op rte Of ho
city included in the corporation title.
Must Nebraska pay taxes on green
backs? This is a question that Attor-
ney General Prout must answer at the
request of the state board of equaliza-
| ton. Several members of the board
think that the greenbacks are not tax
able. The greenbacks are the treas
ury notes of 1863. They are part of
the public debt.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. p. Hansen brought
their little daughter to Grand Island
in from the country for surgical at
tendance, the little one having been
severely lacerated by hog, and she
narrowly escaped a most horrible
death. She was playing about her ia
theirs farm and watching a pen of lit
tie pigs when she fell in and was at
| tackled
The farmers of Hitchcock and Hayes
counties, Nebraska, have taken up the
cooperative proposition, and will sell
and ship their grain and livestock di-
rect to market in the future without
the intervention of a middle man. The
Palisade Grain and Livestock COM
pany of Palisade has filed articles of
incorporation. The capital stock is
$4,000.
The supreme court has decided that
extra pay contracts for county officials
are Illegal In the case of Wilson
against Otoe county a former ruling
is reversed and the legality of the con-
tract denied. Wilson was county at
torney and the commissioners prom
ised to pay him for extra litigation.
The agreement was illegal, declares
the court.
Quartermaster John tP JohansOn,
late of the United States navy, is in
Oakland on a visit with his cousin,
Mrs. Alex Hammarstrum. He has
been in the naval service ten years,
and served on the cruiser Marblehead
in the Spanish-American war when
that craft was sent with a crew of
volunteers to cut the Spanish cable at
Cienfuegos.
Another damage case went against
the Missouri Pacific Railroad company
at Papillion in district court. William
Jones brought suit against the COM
for do mo To hic
ing from an overflow of water caused
by the grade of that road banking the
water. The case was tried before
Judge Sutton, who rendered a decision
giving Jones a verdict wor 1915.
d. c. McKillip, a prominent lawyer
of Seward, the first lawyer in Seward
county, died last week.
The Standard Cattle company has
leased upwards of 1920 acres of land
around Amos and Leavitt to twenty
four tenants, taking lien on their
crops. In past years, up to 1903 the
company farmed it sown land, but it
prefers to let the tenants raise the
crops themselves and buy from them
whatever the land produces.
John Haurigan of Fremont had
narrow escape from drowning in the
Platte river a few days ago. He
was out hunting with Frank Rhoades
and broke through piece of slush
ice where the water was deep and the
current swift Fortunately, his gun
rested on two pieces of solid ice or
he would have been swept out of sight.
In the case of the state versus Geo.
Boslough, at York, charged with gamb-
ling, the attorneys for the defense at
tempted to have the case dismissed on
the ground that Acknowledgement
Prout had given his opinion in the
same kind of a case that the law gov
erning such cases was invalid Judge
Good held that the law was valid and
the case will be tried.
After an extended trip throughout
the United States, w. j. Bryan con-