Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-07-21
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.


Grand Island as result of a collision
| of vehicles.
Eustis will hold a school election
July 20 to vote $4,000 bonds to build
brick school house.
Two special government agents
were in Fremont looking for a pair
OF suspects who are said to be pass
ing $40 counterfeit bills.
The toy pistol was responsible for
no less than a dozen accidents in Be-
| atrice on the Fourth, although none
of them are of serious nature.
Articles of incorporation have been
hled with the secretary of state by the
National Stone company of Cass coun-
ty. The company has capital stock
of $4,000.
Baffied in her attempts to get work
and discouraged by illness, Marie
Johnson of Lincoln turned on the gas
in her room in the Rawlings residence
at 1241 l. street and was found dead.
An expensive list of books has been
purchased for the school libraray Of
SCOTS Bluff. Half of the funds were
raised by the school and the other
half given by c. A. Morrill, of the First
National bank.
work has commenced on the new
power and pump house of the Shelton
water works, and now, barring the
slow arrival of material, the work Of
laying the mains will be pushed as
fast as possible.
Day Lewis, young man who re-
Gently came to Gering from New York,
was accidentally shot by a companion
named Frank Fisher, the ball from a
44-caliber revolver passing through his
leg, but not striking the bone.
V. w. Graves. secretary of the lie.
high school board, has completed the
school census and reports that he
found 1853 pupils Of school age in the
district. This is decrease of four
from the census of 1903.
Frank Miller, young man Is or 20
years OF age, the son of Peter Miller,
living four miles northeast of Table
Rock, was shot through the right
hand while engaged in cleaning an
I
know was loaded
The following is the Cass county
mortgage record for the month OF
June: Thirteen farm mortgages filed,
amounting to the sum of S24.315:
twenty-five released, s34,616. Eight
mortgages on city property filed, So
597; nine released, $500.
Warden Beemer is mourning the
loss of Convict Jesse Sillick, sent up
from Omaha to serve a years term
for stealing. Sillick has been a trusty
and was employed as waiter. He
had but few days to serve and was
given considerable liberty.
At a meeting of business men of
Neigh it was decided to hold a car
nival on September T. s and 9, with a
decided change of program and better
than former years. Mayor M. B. HUFF
furdee was selected as chairman, with
power to appoint committees.
The bank at Edison was broken
into. The burglars succeeded in gain
ing entrance to the vault, but were
frightened away before they could
blow the safe. There is no clue ex-
cept that one of the men cut himself
in the broken window glass and left
considerable blood upon the window
casing and bank furniture.
Ludwig Raric, a well-to-do German
farmer of Butler county, left for Ger
many and expects to be gone about
two years. His object for making the
trip at this time is to consult some of
the eminent physicians of the old
country for trouble which threatens
TO cause total deafness He has been
unable to get relief in this country.
York county has doubled it's assess
able valuation according to the alb
stract filed in the office of the secre-
tary of the state board of equaliZa-.
ton. The total assessable valuation
is S5,2O0,371, as compared with S2,6S2-
1866 in 1903. The greatest increase
is in real estate, all of which, to the
extent of 359,577 acres, is reported as
improved
William Brown and John Yates, the
two colored men from Lincoln who
robbed the old soldier, Tidball, who
is an inmate of the Milford soldiers
| home, on the Fourth of July, were.
taken before Judge Leavens and
bound over to the district court in the
sum of $500 each. The sum stolen
was small, but it was a plain case of
highway robbery.
st. Louis dispatch: In the Ameri-
can Boy program rendered in Festival
hall, Grover C. Aker "the boy orator.
of Blair, Neb., delivered the most
brilliant Grafton. His subject was
The Coming Men," which he handled
magnificently, He was interrupted
several times by deafening applause.
Hugo Sue Juni, a Japanese boy, won
| second place, his Grafton being filed
with patriotism, love for Japan and
! love for America.