Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-08-10
STATE NOTES.


During the last week new tele-
phones were installed in the homes of
fifty-two farmers of Cunning county.
Carroll Powers and Miss Annie Nc
Bride were drowned at Norfolk. The
bodies. after much search, were re-
covered
Henry Puloemaker, a young man
living at Odell. committed suicide by
shooting himself. No reason is
known why he took his life.
Deputy State Auditor Cook stated
that $1,000 has been paid out since
July 1 for wolf scalp bounties. This
amount represents $50 scalps.
Senator Burkett has been secured
to deliver an address at the Old Set
tiers annual meeting to be held at the
Chautauqua grounds in Beatrice Au-
gust "a.
State Superintendent McBried stat
ed that he believes there will be an
Increase in the school census of the
state from $4,000 to $4,000 for the
year ending in July.
The farmers met at Ainsworth and
organized the Brown County Potato
Growers association, the object of
which is to find ready market this
fall for the large crop that will be
harvested.
North Platte is looking for another
land opening and consequent inflow
of homeseekers. in the middle of Au-
gust. At this time about 100 sections
will be thrown open for one-section
homesteads.
The race for appointment as post
master at Dannebrog was practically
decided by a formal election, in which
p. S. Peterson received the most
votes. Only legal voters were allow
ed to participate.
DR.. F. H. Redmond, formerly of
Johnson county, has been appointed
ward physician over the incurables at
the state hospital at Osawatamie,
Kan. DR.. and Mrs. Redmond are now
located at their new home.
Dana Andrews, adjoining Table
Rock, threshed from his fifteen-acre
field 1861 bushels of winter wheat,
an average of almost so bushels per
acre, which he sold at the Butterfield
elevator at rs cents per bushel.
While Dan Randall, who went to
Ames six weeks ago from Omaha,
was assisting in raising a large pipe
at Ames a chain broke and the pipe
fell on Randall. Both his legs were
broken and his left hip crushed.
Miss Margaret Looms of Lincoln
assistant principal of Table Rock
schools for the past year, and who
had been retained for the coming
year, has sent in her resignation, hav-
ing accepted a position in Hawaii.
Warden A. D. Beemer says there
are twenty-eight convicts out on pa
role at the present time. A week ago
it was reported that there were thirty
three. The official processes to have
the utmost confidence in the system.
The joint teachers institute of Burt
and Cunning counties will be held in
West Point for one week, beginning
August IA. The day sessions will be
held in the high school building. and
the night sessions in a mammoth
tent.
DR.. A. Heintz of Columbus filed a
complaint under the new dipsomaniac
law against his adopted son, Morris
Ferns. Kerns is % years old and
has lived with his adopted parents
since infancy He will be sent to
Lincoln.
Richard Mason was arrested at Ne
braska City on two complaints, and is
now in the county Jail awaiting his
trial on a charge of beating a domes-
tic of that city out of 1885. The COM
plant states that he secured the
money from Miss Anna Gillich, with
the understanding that he was going
to loan it to farmer at high rate
of interest.
At University Place, Lincoln, feas
infested number of Mr.. Jenkins pet
dogs and he determined to "fix" them.
He took the dogs to the cellar, wash
ed them carefully with gasoline, u.s.
ing more than a quart, and went up
stairs. After a time he concluded to
see how his pets were standing his
treatment, and, taking a tighten Ian
tern, he descended into the cellar.
Then came an explosion. Jenkins
was thrown to the floor, receiving
many ugly burns, and the dogs were
killed.
A single bid was received for the
construction of the Peru library
building and the State Board of Edu-
cation declined to accept it. The bid
was filed by Contractor Sparks of st.
Joseph. The figures were not made
public.
Joseph Christians, who has been at
Crete for six weeks visiting his home
folks supposedly on a furlough, was
found to have been a deserter from
the Twenty-first regular infantry.
Word from Fort Crook called for his
appearance there at once He was
taken to Fort Crook by Constable
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