Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-09-08
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.

state fair.
The citizens of Hooper have taken
preliminary steps for organization of
a commercial club.
Wages of county teachers in Ian
caster county have been considerably
increased, still good instructors are a
scarce article
Just now a great many western
sheep are being shipped into Johnson
county to be fed the coming fall and
part Of the winter.
Imposing ceremonies will attend the
laying OF the corner stone of the new
postoffice building at Lincoln If pres
ena plans are carried out.
While travelling from Wisconsin
and while asleep in the Omaha depot,
Salem Twist, resident of Galloway,
was robbed of a billbook, which con-
tanned draft for quite a sum of
money, besides his pension voucher
and other valuable papers
Patroman r. G. Joerger of the Lin
coin police force has sued the Lin
coin Traction company for the sum
of $4,000. The suit is a result of the
polce-street railway war, the COM
pany having withdrawn all free tSans
portation from the policemen.
In the justice court at Seward John
|. Goeggers was bound over to the
November term of the district court
in the sum of $500, charged with i'm
personating an officer. Defendant is
the young man who tried to gain ac-
cess to funds of the Tamora bank by
claiming to be a bank examiner.
While the youngest child of Rev
H p Smith of Falls City, who lives
upstairs over grocery store, was
playing about the back door the
screen was pushed open and the child
fell to the platform below, a distance
Of about twenty feet, lighting on it's
head and receiving injuries that are
| likely to prove fatal
Olney d. Smith, alias Brent A. Neal,
young man who, it is alleged, sue
ceeded in defrauding several banks
of Beatrice and private citizens in
amounts aggregating about $4,000 by
forged checks and misrepresentation
was arrested on a charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses. He was
bound over to the district court.
Charles f. Junken, an old soldier
and carpenter, &c years of age, met
with a serious accident at Bancroft.
He, with some ether laborers, were
engaged in raising roof on a dwell
ing "a section of which dropped and
| ,nIt L., To-, LIT,
crushed at the knee, one arm was bad
| ly torn, besides being badly bruised
on the body. He is not expected to
recover.
Deputy Game Warden Hunger has
reported the arrest and conviction OF
three prominent citizens of Ord, Neb.,
for violation Of the state game laws.
Mr.. Hunger was at Ord and arrested
T. Rockford and G. II. Partridge for
| having in their possession ten young
prairie chickens which they had slain
They were assessed $50 and costs
amounting to $3.50. When the two
men were arrested they at once sent
out mounted messengers to notify
others hunting in the vicinity of Ord.
| Frank Barker who is under sent
ence to be hanged September 2, is at
work wheeling cement for workmen
within the walls of the prison. He is
not compelled to work. The warden,
out of Difference to the usual custom,
would rather keep the man in seclu-
sion because of the nearness of the
day for the execution, but he was
obliged to accede to Barker's request
for work The man pinned away when
shut up in his cell for three days and
now the workmen witness the unusual
spectacle of fellow laborer whose
! life iSAdrawing to a close on the gal
lows working along contentedly at
their sides
At Decatur Art English killed
James Hanslip in quarrel over
horse trade, choking him to death
Both men had been drinking English
was arrested and is now in Jail at
Tekamah. Hanslip is a harnessmak-
er and has lived in Decatur thirty
years. Art English's home is in Lin
coin township, Monona county, Iowa,
| anu no lcI-lSl 10 a NCll-lOuO
there.
A brand new barn on the premises
Of Mrs. Catherine Duval in East Te-
cumseh was burned to the ground.
Children and matches were the cause
For the first time in the history of
that institution has a general farming
campaign been made on the Grand
Island soldiers home farm-the eff
forts hitherto being confined to stock
purposes, and hay more particularly
This year, however under the direc-
ton of Adjutant Bowen, sixty acres
were also put into corn and quite an
acreage to oats and both have yielded
well The home has sufficient oats in
the three glistening stacks for it's own
USE 600 tons of alfalfa hay, 200 more
than needed, and will nave so bushels