Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-26
OVER THE STATE.

The Morton monument at Nebraska
City will be unveiled Oct. %.
The Northwestern's new round
house at Fremont Is about ready for
occupancy.
The farmers elevator at Arapahoe,
Neb., erected OF o cost of over $4,000
and by voluntary and stock contri-
button, was opened for business last
week.
Rev. Edgar Price, for the past sew
eral years pastor of the Christian
church of Beatrice, has resigned. 1t
| Is understood that Mr.. Price will go to
| Iowa in order to be near his father,
who is quite old and in feeble health.
Mrs. job Cassel, wife of Represen-
tative job Cassel, fell down the stone
steps at her home in Nebraska City,
and was seriously injured. 1t was at
first feared she was fatally injured,
but she will recover so the physicians
say.
Handcuffed to her husband Mrs.
Ida Mathews was taken from Lin
coin to Savannah, Mo, to answer the
charge of horse stealing. Mathews
and his wife were arrested at York
and brought to Lincoln by Sheriff
Gamble.
Rev. j. Alrander of Omaha has
been called as pastor of the Swedish
Baptist church at Oakland to succeed
Rev. NJ Larson, who goessto the First
Baptist church of st. Paul the LIST of
November. 1t is not known if Rev.
Alrander will accept the call.
William Cohoe of Auburn, living in
the house belonging to Joseph Uhli-
brick, an inmate of the asylum at Lin
coin, was doing some work in the Gel
lar and picked up a can containing
$1,000 in 500 bills. He at once
turned the money over to r. C. Boyd,
guardian, and received $500 for his
trouble.
Fire was dicovered on the second
floor of the Masonic building at Ne
braska City. The fire department
saved the building after hard fight
The fire was caused by defective
flue. The pharaphernalia of the sew
eral Masonic bodies that occupy the
building was destroyed and consider
able damage done to the building.
Fred w. Arndt, who has been en-
ployed at the Morton-Gregson pack
ing plant at Nebraska City for a num-
Der of years, fell dead at his home
south of the city. He was ont in the
yard looking after the COW and was
found lying dead near where he had
tied her. He was 60 years of age, and
leaves wife, four sons and daugh-
ter.
The ten-year-old son of w. T.
Young, prominent farmer on the
Middle Loup, Custer county while in
vestigating the working of a desk, got
his hand caught in the wheels and |
badly crushed. He was brought to |
Broken Bow and the injury proved |
so serious that DR.. Pennington had to |
amputate two fingers on the left
hand.
The dipsomaniac law will be
tested in the supreme court w. A. |
Simmons, cattleman of Dawes county
has applied for a writ of habeas cor
pus and it has been granted by Chief
Justice Holcomb. There are forty pa
tients in the dipsomaniac department
and there are more coming. Attor-
neys for Simmons will attack he con-
stitutionality of the law.
Mrs. Mary e. Morse has filed a pc
tition in the district court of Otoe
| county praying for a separation from
her husband, Frank S. Morse, and the
| custody of her minor son, Charles, and
sufficient alimony to maintain them
The husband is superintendent at the
Union stock yards at Nebraska City,
and the family are social leaders in
that city. The divorce proceedings
were surprise to all
According to the report of the
county recorder there were filed in his
office during the month of September
ten farm Mortgages of the value of
S2l, $50, and eleven released whose
value was $1S292 Seven town and
city mortgages were filed to the
value of $3,063.90, and seven re-
leased whose value was $2442.75.
This makes an increase in the debt
of the county of $3,47915 for this
month.
A petition for the organization of
the Richardson County Drainage dis
trict, embracing $1,000 acres of Ne
maha river bottom lands, was filed
with the clerk of the district court at
Falls City by r. e. Grinstead and
about one hundred fifty other resi-
dent land owners, under the provis-
ions of chapter one hundred sixty-one
of the session laws of 1905. The pc
titioners represent, in ownership
about 1900 acres of the finest soil
In America; much of which his year,
has growing on it sixty to eighty bush
els Of corn to the acre, but for the
four years preceding this the same
has produced almost nothing because
of the disastrous overhows along the
Nemaha river bottoms.
Several loads of new corn were on