Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-10-13
THE STATE AT LARGE.

The fruit yield is something enor-
nous in Seward county this year.
Peaches are especially plentiful.
More peaches were grown in Cass
county this year than for twenty years
past. They are of superior quality and
flavor and are selling on the streets
of Plattsmouth for 40 cents per bushel.
Timothy l.. Smith of Lawrence,
Kan. large property owner of Gage
county, finished Smelling corn on his
farm three miles southeast of Ellis
last week. from which he received
5000 bushels.
A. ]. Moore of Villisca, Ia. has ar
rived in Omaha and taken his place
as successor of Albert o. Swift, post
office inspector, who was transferred
to the Chicago division last week,
after many years of service in Ne
braska.
A. Jess of South Omaha was ar
rested at Chadron for selling liquor
to the Indians. At first he attempted
to resist arrest, but finding officers not
to be fooled with, he went to jail and
is now there. not being able to give a
bond for $500, for which amount he
is bound over
At Grand Island F. u. Brandt, Joe
Birdsong, and Joseph Bailey were
sentenced to one year in the peni-
Tertiary, having plead guilty in the
district court of burglary and l.. Nc
Cormick to one year for forgery. All
were caught in the several acts and
no trial resulted.
Upon the complaint of Fred Nc
Ilnay, farmer living few miles west
of Crete, Joseph Kulhanek, a neigh
Dor of McIlnay's, was arrested charged
with selling liquor on Sunday. He was
brought before Justice Fay, where he
unexpectedly pleaded guilty and was
fined 500 and costs, amounting to
1913
Theodore Brush of Cass county, has
petitioned the district court for de-
cree annulling his marriage to Mrs.
Edna Brush. The couple were mar
ried at Lincoln, November s. 1900. He
alleges that at the time of the mar
rage he was only II years of age and
Incapable OF contracting valid mar
riage with the defendant.
A criminal assault was made by
youth named Walter Kingle, aged 10,
upon a woman of So, named Mrs.
Dana, near Crawford The woman
teaches school near Grow Butte, and
the boy had been carrying mail and
doing chores for her for some months.
He tied her TO the floor and assaulted
her. He is being hunted for.
The Burlington shops at Havelock
yill be enlarged in the spring and the
present force vii be increased by the
addition of $50 men. The machine
and boiler shops will be enlarged. At
the present time the are oVercrowded.
ct this time 500 men are employed.
The proposed increase in the working
force will bring several hundred people
to town.
News of the death of Hon. c. II.
Gere of the State journal was re-
ceived in Pawnee county with pro-
found sorrow. Mr.. Gere was q resi-
| dent of that county and state repre-
sentative back in the sixties. His
| father and mother, Fl. n. Gere and
wife, and his brother, j. n. Gere, who
was killed by the Indians in 1870, all
are buried in Table Rock cemetery.
The infantry drill regulations adopt
ed by the United States army and
which went into effect September 10
in the regular army, will be adopted
by Commandant Chase at the Univer-
| sity of Nebraska, and the style of drill
of the university battalion will under
go an almost complete change. Drill
at the university has been delayed a
considerable time, awaiting the arri-
val of the new regulations
The beet harvest is on in the vicin-
ity of Sutherland. AS yet it is diff
cult to determine what the average
yield per acre will be, but the indi-
cations are that it will be between
eight and ten tons. The beets are OF
good quality and there are few small
cnes.
John Shoehy, aged 40 years, la.
borer, was found dead in a box car
at the burlington uepOl dJ JISclNOOu,
Sheehy, with several companions, had
consumed a key of beer during the
night. There is story of fall from
the car door, but no external injuries
can be discovered.
Near Verdigre, Knox county, while
Lydia, Myrtle and Louie Groeling were
going to a dance, their team became
unmanageable and ran away, demol
ishing the carriage, cutting and brus
ing the young people in a horrible
manner. Louie was thrown over a
barbed wire fence and his throat, legs
stomach and arms were badly LAGER
ated Lydia was thrown against a
post or tree and it is thought she sui
fered a slight fracture of the skull
Myrtle was badly bruised, but was the
Yeast injured of the three.
1'he finest crop of pears in Sarpy
county are those raised by Adolph
Peterson of Portal. The trees are
weighted down with well developed