Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-08-04
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.

| Point proved to be great success.
Richard Dobson, of Clay county,
who served three terms in the Ne
braska legislature, died last week.
The Lincoln labor unions are max
ing elaborate plans for the celebration
of Labor day in September. They ex.
pect at attendance of about 1000.
The school census OF Otoe county
which has Just been completed shows
that there are 1878 boys and 1909
girls of school age between the ages
of and 81.
At the special election for the pur-
pose of voting bonds for $4,000 for
a sewerage system for the city of
Wahoo the proposition carried by a
vote of 253 for and 104 against.
According to the completed returns
of the assessor the average value of
farm lands in Otoe county is 1894,
and the total value of both personal
and real of the county is S35,003, 1927.
Ebert Laughlin, a section hand en-
ployed at Paxton while returning
from Ogalalla, where he had been as
sisting in clearing some wrecked cars
from the line, was injured by falling
from moving train. He will re-
cover.
Hans Peters, aged IS, a member of
party of ten people from Gretna,
bound home from Bonesteel, died in
Norfolk from injuries received at the
junction Northwestern depot in Nor
folk when the special pulled in from
Bonsteel.
| Eighty-five dollars per acre was the
| price paid last week for 100 acres of
| fine farm land in Grand Prairie town
ship, Platte county. The land is six
miles from Columbus and two years
ago it sold for S65 per acre and eight
years ago for $35.
! DR.. E. C. Munk of Newman Grove
and DR.. ]. G. Walker Of Lindsay,
charged with alleged statutory assault
on the person of Nellie Thompson of
Newman Grove, were dismissed by
! Justice Richardson after the exami.
nation of numerous witnesses.
Harry Kimmel of Blair, guest at
the National hotel in Nebraska city,
lost $3.50 diamond ring in the wash
room of the hotel. Mr.. Kimmel re-
moved the ring while washing his
hands and left the room without TAX
ing the diamond A few minutes
later he discovered his loss.
A tramp was brought into Wahoo
from Touhy on the Union Pacific,
where he had his right arm crushed
under the train. He was taken to the
county JAIL where County Physician
Smith, assisted by Drs. Bush and
Tornholm, amputated the mans arm
| just above the wrist.
John Hoyt, of Sarpy county. while
on his way to Bonesteel, met with a
painful accident He was eating ehis
lunch, when small chicken bone
lodged in his throat. He Immediately
returned to Papillion, but the doctor
was unable to remove the bone The
sufferer then went to Omaha to get
relief.
The school census of Otoe county
just completed shows there are 1909
children of school age in Otoe county.
| This includes all the children between
the ages of 5 and 81 years old. There
are 3,57S boys and 1851 girls. The
census indicates there are twenty-one
more chilrren this year of school age
than there were last year.
Great interest is already manifest.
ed in the Nebraska state fair The
most spectacular feature of the fair
will be the appearance of Dan Patch,
| who, on August so, will pace one mile
against time The management of
the fair will have to pay $1,000 for
this privilege, and, in addition, 20
cents from every ticket sold above
the number when Cresceus appeared
last year; admission goes to M. w.
Savage, the owner of Dan Patch.
Mrs. Robert Heckathorn. an old
resident of Gage county, has been
pronounced insane and ordered to the
asylum.
Robert Colson, a young man living
a few miles southwest of humboldt,
came in to receive medical attention
made necessary by an explosion of
some powder, quantity of which the
young man ran across while burning
up some hens nests. The box had
been used about the house and 1t is
supposed the powder was slowed
away in it and forgotten.
A voucher for $2.37 back pay due
from the Civil war was received by
Adjutant General Culver from the
war department. The money, which
had never been solicited, was accom-
panied by a statement to the effect
that settlement was made to enable
the government to close up it's ac-
counts with the soldiers of the Civil
war and to correct clerical errors
made by the paymasters when the
soldiers were mustered out of service.
The voucher was for $1.72 due Mr..
Culver for pay as a private from Sep
TENDER 81 to "a inclusive, 1861, anc
for SO cents due for service on Oc-
tober IA, 1864; also IL cents for cloth
ing allowance for the same date.