Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-04-06
News in Nebraska


Omaha market at 81 a crate.
James Gleason, former citizen Of
Beatrice. recently died at Hot Springs,
Arkansas.
The Beatrice Driving association is
making preparations for an early
| spring racing matinee.
Mrs F.. S. Caldwell. OF South
Papillion, fell down stairs. receiving
severe injuries about the head.
Col. Cody (Buffalo Bid well known
in this state, failed to get a divorce
from his wife in Wyoming courts.
John o. Busley, a telephone line
man, touched live electric light wire
at Fairbury and was seriously injured.
Plans for the new T. NJ. c. A. build
ing of Beatrice have been accented.
The structure is to be built this year.
License or no license to sell in
toXicants Is going to be the paramount
question in many Nebraska towns in
the coming elections.
DR.. John NJ. Johnson of Avoca was
fined $50 and costs for prescribing
medicine without certificate from
the State Board of Health.
Creditors of Alos Kadler, retail
hardware merchant Of Howells, have
asked that he be declared a bank
rupt. giving his liabilities as $1,000.
The Methodist Episcopal church at
Cozad, has been reopened and dedi-
Gated after having undergone extern
sive repairs and the building of
large addition.
A petition signed by George F. Gil
more and others of Omaha was filed
with the State Banking board for per
mission to organize the First State
bank Of Mason.
While William Huffman was helping
Albert Dayton shell corn near Pleas
ant Dale, Seward county. his hand
was caught in the shelter and COM
pletely torn off
Jack the Hugger," who has been
performing in Wahoo the past month,
and who was indicted by the grand
jury on two counts, was fined 500
and costs by Judge Good.
DR.. Fletcher NJ. Sisson, formerly of
Omaha, presiding elder of the Nor
church, has accepted an invitation to
occupy the parsonage at Stanton
Sheriff Bauman arrested Frank
Middleton, deserter from the Sixth
| cavalry at Fort Meade, at Fremont
He admitted that he was a deserter
and will be taken back to Fort Meade
At Valentine at a special term Of
the district court Judge Westover
sentenced for burglary: John William
Johnson two years; John Payne and
| Sanford Smith, three years respec-
| lively.
Five pretty Norfolk girls have left
their homes to go with show. They
are Nora Dixon, LESSEE Dixon Ida
Wheeler, Daisy Mayhem and Ger.
trude Austin. Nora Dixon was
school teacher. They joined reper
tore company which played in Nor
folk for a week. They will do the ia
dies band" stunt.
Same Overton of Otoe county, has
lost a number of calves from dis
ease which resembles hydrophobia
The animals die a few hours after
the disease becomes noticeable. A
short time before they die they be-
come crazed and run into fences or
anything which happens to be in their
path. Mr.. Overton cannot explain the
cause or origin Of the disease.
Farmers in the eastern part Of
Sarpy county are experimenting with
drags, constructed upon the advice OF
d. Ward King, the lecturer upon the
good roads question. Three men, well
known farmers, August Leaders, J. NJ.
Gates and Allen Frazeur have made
drags and are using them on the roads
adjacent to their farms and it is said
the earth, by such exposure, is sc
packed that it readily sheds water
William F. Porter, eX-secretary Of
state, has filed brief in the supreme
court protesting against the action
brought to compel him to pay a trlhe
more than $4,000 into the state treas.
ury. He argues that the old law reg
ulating brands and fees was declared
unconstitutional and void. If so, those
who paid their money into the state
treasury received nothing in return.
Therefore he argues that the state
cannot ask in good faith a part of the
money for which the applicants re-
ceive no value.
VIII Shoemaker Is in jail at Osceola
and Vic Davis was fined $40 and costs
as the result of an assault by the for
mer upon William Vanhoosen with the
aid of Davis. Davis and Shoemaker
were drunk at the time.
For some time the officers of ]. F.
Reynolds post, G. A. r., OF Osceola,
have had in a requistOn to the gov
eminent for tombstones for the veter-
ans that are buried in the Osceola
cemetery, and nine of them have just
been received through the efforts Of
Colonel II. f. Bense. Every grave is
marked with a headstone except one,
and that will soon be marked
At Fairbury, John o. Burley, a line,
in,