Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-06-23
Brief kilograms

William b. Mckinney of Champaign
was nominated for congress by the
republican convention Of the Nine.
teonth Illinois district
General Sherman Bell claims to
have evidence which will hang from
thirty to forty men for recent dyna
mite outrages in Colorado.
Joseph Farr of Richmond Mo, shot
and killed his son-in-law, Charles Rey-
burn, with a shotgun near Reyburn's
house, and then surrendered to the
sheriff
I've were all treated like dogs and
were glad to get away" was the re,
mark of the South African constabu-
larry who recently returned to Halifax,
Nova Scotia.
The state charter board of Kansas
refused to grant license to do bust
ness in Kansas to the Kansas Natural
Gas company a corporation organized
under the laws of Delaware.
The island Of Nordstrand, the only
portion of once fertile North Fries
land, which is as yet unreclaimed is
now 70 be saved from the sea by the
construction of large dyke.
The secretary of the interior has
withdrawn $4,000 acres of land from
settlement in the Buffalo and Lander
districts in Wyoming on account of
the Shoshone irrigation project
The joint army and navy board has
postponed until next fall the consider.
alton Of the question of control of
wireless telegraph systems operating
on the coasts of the United States.
Superintendent Melville, the head of
Scotland Yard, has retired after a SER
vice of over thirty-one years. On the
occasion recently he was presented
with an address and a check for over
$4,000
A contract was let at st. Paul,
Mimi, to a Tacoma, Wash, firm for
the erection at Tacoma of $4,000
hospital building for the Northern Pa
cific railroad employees beneficial as
sociation.
Dr. Eugenia Meter of Kansas City
has just received an appointment to
the woman's table for research work
at the geological station at Naples and
will sail from New York city the last
of this month.
The Court of Pardons, at Trenton,
N. j., refused to commute to life i'm.
rrisonment the sentence of Anna Val
ontine, who is to be hanged in Bergen
county on June Is for stabbing Rosa
Galza, at Lodia.
Samuel M. Burbank of Arizona. a
dry goods merchant, attempted kill
himself by cutting his throat in a
law office in New York city He is
now a prisoner in hospital, charged
with attempted suicide.
On a tombstone at the head of a
grave in one of the dog cemeteries
In Paris is this inscription to the mem.
DRY Of brave st. Bernard: "He saved
the lives of forty persons and was
killed by the forty-first."
Locked in each others embrace
the dead bodies of three young men
were taken from the dam at Mutual
No plant of the H. c. Frick Coke
company, Mount Pleasant township,
near Greensburg, Pa. Two went in
bathing, and beyond their depth, not
being able to swim. The third at.
tempted rescue.
The potato king. of America is
Junius G. Grove, a negro, who has
farms in the best section of Kansas
and whose credit is good for 500 OOO
at the banks any day. Booker T
Washington tells the interesting story
OF the success of this man and his
wife, for they began the triumpha:
march together without a dollar.
The executive board of the Worlds
falr has announced the otticial figures
Tor May as follows Paid admissions
542,O2S; admissions by pass. moi
counting workmen's passes, Ass, 1863
making total of 1,001 1871 persons at
tending the exposition in May. The
number of workmen admitted has no
been given out and cannot be learned
Assistant Controller Mitchell, in ;
decision reversing the auditor of tn,
War department, holds that the re
moval to their homes of the remain,
or officers and soldiers who NAV di,
In military camps or at other place
while on duty, is to be done at gov
eminent expense, the same as if dealt
should occur in the Philippines O
Alaska.
The death recently of Jerom
Shavehead, member of the Siou
tribe of Indians of North Dakota, re
moved a valuable friend of the go,
eminent and an example of the hes
sort of educated Indian. The son G
a tribal policeman, who had in hi
day assisted in the capture of Sittip
Bull. Jerome was educated at HAM
ton, Va.
The State department has apple
to the Mexican government for the @,
tradition of Samuel V. Fulkerson, VIII
is wanted in Ell Paso, Tex, on
charge of ENLIGHTENMENT of publ
money while acting in the capacit
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