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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
NEBRASKA ELEVATOR MEN.
A Largely Attended Meeting Looked

- -oi SSy NNtSHuSu mCSll1S IOOkSu
For in January.
L1NCOLN-James Brady, of AL
bion, one of the officers of the State
Cooperative Elevator association
who has been in the city, predicts
that the state meeting to be held in
Lincoln January II will be large and
enthusiastic. He stated that there
are now 1876 cooperative companies
in the association and he looks 70
see the membership considerably aug
mented because of the fact that many
of these concerns have been doing a
profitable business recently.
In this connection it is pointed out
that at the time the attorney general
filed his suit for an injunction against
the Nebraska Grain Dealers associa-
ton it was believed that the result
would be to increase the number of
Independent associations which had
been kept down because of the price
cutting tactics of the old line COM
panies. Under the temporary injunc-
ton secured by Attorney General
Brown that species of attack on the
new concerns would invoke the wrath
of the supreme court in the shape Of
contempt proceedings, and there is, in
consequence, an absence of interfer-
pnop
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
New Editions.

McClure-Phillips are printing third
edition of G. n. and A. NJ William
sons my Friend the Chauffeur"
second edition of Elizabeth Cherry
Waltz's THE Ancient Landmark" a
second edition of Eugene Woods
Back Home" second edition of
Frances Brownies "Granny's Wonder
full Chair" a fifth edition of Myra
Kelly's Little Citizens" fourth edi-
ton of Kate Douglas Virgins and
Nora Archibald Smiths THE Posy
Ring" third edition of Youth" and
third edition of Booth Tarkintons
The Beautiful Lady"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
ULCERS FOR 80 YEARS.
Painful Eruptions From Knees to Feet
Seemed ncurable-Cuticura
Ends Misery.

Another of those remarkable cures
by Cuticura, after doctors and all else
had failed, is testified to by Mr. NJ.
G. Moss of Gainesville, Texas, in the
following letter: For over thirty
years suffered from painful ulcers
and an eruption from my knees to
feet, and could find neither doctors
nor medicine to help me, until used
Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Pills.
which cured me in six months. They
helped me the very first time used
them, and | am glad to write this so
that others suffering as | did may be
saved from misery"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Hog Cholera at Grand Island.

GRAND ISLAND-The ravages of
the disease of cholera has become
quite devastating among the herds of
swine In this county, many farmers
reporting the loss of over half of their
herds, and some as high as so per
cent. Peter Tagge, a farmer in Cen
ter township, reports loss of seven
teen out of twenty-four; A. Felske of
a more southern township, reports a
loss of thirty out of thirty-seven; j.
l.. Johnson reports a loss of sixty;
Fred Scheel of the Island a loss or
ninety.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
European Breakfasts.

Mark Twain, in speaking Of the typ
ical European breakfasts, said. DO
you know what I'll do? I'll nall a
piece of cuttle-fish bone to the CHM
ney, and every morning I'll hop up on
the mantel and take pick at 1t with
a tin bill 1t will be just as filing and
much cheaper than European break
fast"
1t Is evident that Mr.. Clemens pre-
fers the typical American breakfast
dish of Pillsburys Vitos with good
cream and sugar.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Use the Means at Hand.

1t is not money so much as brains
that the small merchant wants for adj
vertising-the handicap of deficient
capital is as nothing compared with
the handicap of defective thinking.
Whatever excuse may be given for
failing in business, the lamest Of all
is lack of means to advertise" be-
cause the business does not exist that
cannot be exploited profitably with the
means at hand
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Laborer Killed by Enoine.

MILLARD-A man supposed to be
farm laborer near here was struck
and instantly killed by the engine OF
train No. 10 on the Union Pacific
tracks, eastbound. 1t seems to have
been n case of suicide.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
"OId Curiosity Shop."

Dickens Old Curiosity Shop" is
No. 10 of the street where it stands
near Lincoln's Inn fields. 1t is now
owned by a waste paper merchant
who is enterprising enough to carry
on besides his professed trade bust
ness in selling Dickens souvenirs
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Valuable Pair of Scissors.

The German emperor not long back
received a peculiar present-a pair Of
scissors, but so exquisitely made as to
be valued at nearly $500. A steel
merchant was the giver. He had the
emperor's portrait and some celebrat-
ed historical buildings engraved ON
the scissors. The engraver is said to
have worked five years at his task.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Training Horses for Royalty.

All the horses in the royal stable
at Windsor are specially trained be-
fore they are considered safe for rid
ing or driving. After they have been
broken in. they are driven past mill
tary bands, and are made to stand
by railways trains and to hear them
rattle. The horses are also accus-
toned to firing by taking them down
on field day to Aldershot.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
BURGLARS Pay Visit to a Bank

GRAND ISLAND-The state bank
of Chapman was entered at 2:S0 in
the morning, the safe forced by dyna-
mite and between $1,000 and 81 500
was taken. The burglars apparently
secured entrance through the front
door by use of skeleton keys. The
safe was badly wrecked and all the
cash was taken, but papers were not
disturbed. The robbers escaped.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Liesner Landed in Asylum.

NORFOLK-Carl Liesner, the aged
farmer from Pierce county who so
nearly ended the life of S. H. Crippen,
the Plainview marshal, by running a
sword into the latter, was brought 10
the state hospital for the insane here,
but was only placed in the institute
after struggle, in which Sheriff
Jones of Pierce county, his deputy and
an attendant were almost overcome.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Be Cheerful.

Perhaps it is natural for one child
to be happy and sunshiny and for an.
other to be blue and downhearted; but
cheerfulness is a quality which can
and ought to be cultivated in all. The
world will return your smile If you
give it a chance and you and the
world will be better for it.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Too Much Hospitality.

A soldier lately come over with
Gen, Moore was asked if he had met
with much hospitality in Holland.
"Oh, yes" he replied 81 met with far
too much of it. | was in the hospital
nearly all the time was there"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
BeIuium's Good Work.

Though Belgium has an area of but
1873 square miles, which is less than
one-fourth the size of the state of
New York, and a population of only
6,500,000, it has accomplished within
twenty years a mighty task, opening
up to the world a vast territory COW
ering an area of 100000 square miles
with native and white population of
about 30,000,000.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Important TO Mothers.
Wondrous Work of Tailor.

A countryman in Stoken Church,
England, says that he has worn the
same suit on Sundays and holidays for
forty-seven years. The wearer of this
wonderful old suit gives the tailor's
name, adding that it is good now and
that mot stitch has given way"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Partisan Market Porters.

The porters of the market place in
Paris carry, strapped on their backs,
great baskets full of garden produce.
Often one sees man with load of
cabbage that is bigger than himself.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Look at Your Chin.

A pointed chin is sign mental
acuteness and taste for dramatic
poetry and art, and if angular, great
may be looked for, while sharp linden
tations denote GOODNESS and presence
of mind in danger. A fiat chin shows
puritantical sternness. - London
Evening Standard.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
"Hoodoo.n

"A white spot is a hoodoo," says
an estimable authority and adds no
word of explanation. Hoodoo seems
to be derivative from voodoo, what
the negroes call "cunjur," a thing
which may work good, more COM
monty works harm.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Substitute for Sugar Cane.

From South Africa comes the latest
substitute for sugar cane. It's juice
cannot be fermented, and for this
reason the plant is to be developed
for the manufacture of syrup.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
"Found Drowned in Water"

A coroners jury in Cornwell Eng
land, which had been called to sit on
the body of miner found drowned in
a pool in an abandoned quarry,
brought in the following verdict:
Found drowned in the White Quarry,
there being water there at the time"
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Wealthy Farmer Suicides.

NEBRASKA CITY,. H. Meyer, a
wealthy farmer residing near Burr,
committed suicide by drinking r.
bolic acid. He was forty-nine years
of age and leaves a widow and five
children. He was in ill health.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Relation Makes Happ ness.

Religion is not by accident or
chance, but by it's own very nature,
the happiest of all lives. Just so far
as it ever grows sad and gloomy it
grows irreligious.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
The LARGEST Arsenic Mine.

What is said to be the largest ar
senic mine in the world, turning out
seventy tons month, is situated in
Floyd county, Virginia, seventeen
miles from Christiansburg. the near
est railway station.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Wnnnan Has Tenor Mice

Miss Josephine Northmore, of Lake
side, Mimi, has a genuine tenor voice,
with a range from E fiat to high c.
Any attempt to make her sing soprano
in the same range or contralto has
proved unsuccessful.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Saved Boy Three Times.

A custom-house officer at Yarmouth,
England, the other day saved the life
of boy who had got off quay into
the sea. and found he was boy whose
life he had saved in a similar manner
twice hefOre.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
River Rises Forty Feet,

The famous Tugela river, in South
Africa is said on one occasion to have
risen forty feet during single night,
owing to thunderstorms on the noun
tains.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
BEET GROWERS DISSATISFIED
Farmers Threaten to Turn Their At
tent on to Other Crops.

tenton to Other Crops.
MCOOK-The dissatisfaction among
raisers of beets in this section is such
as to make it quite probable that the
industry will receive an ugly setback
another year, unless better terms in
several respects are secured from the
factories, especially more liberality in
the matter of receiving beets at the
factory. Delay in taking them at the
factory at present is a great annoy
ance, inconvenience and loss to the
producers.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
SYMBOL of the Cross,

The symbol of the cross is used in
the religions of the aborigines of
North and South America, and by
the most ancient nations of Europe, as
well as by Christians.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Strawberries in November.

TECUMSEH-Kansas and Missouri
cannot make their boasts of being the
only states in the north to raise the
second crop of Strawberries. G. w.
Crawford of Tecumseh raised a Sec
ond crop, from which has been picked
several quarts for his own use the
past two weeks.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ed.
mund II. Hinshaw has requested the
president to appoint Samuel G. Pies.
ant postmaster at Osceola, Neb., in
the place of H. II. Campbell, who re.
signed on account of his election as
county judge of Polk county
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
RINGS of Ancient Xmas.

Solomon is said to have worn a
ring which possessed magical power;
and Midas, the king of Phrygla had
one which when he wore it made,
him invisible.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Mother Crays Sweet Powders for Children,

Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse
In the Children's Home in New York, cure
Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach,
Teething Disorders, move and regulate the
Bowels and Destroy Worms Over 30, 900 tes-
timonials. AT all Druggists, csc. Sample
FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted. Leroy. Ny.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Value of Private Cars.

A few years ago only men Of great
fortune possessed private cars. Now
adays there are so many of these
palaces on wheels that their value is
estimated at $72,000,000.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Old Mother Nature.

Nature is an endless combination
and repetition of very few laws. She
huns the old well-known air through
innumerable ariations.-Emerson
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07

The December chapters of Mrs.
Humphrey Wards "Fenwick's Ca
reers," which began in the November
Century, find the Young Westmore.
land painter hard at work in London,
just getting his first glimpses of new
worlds of work thought and social
life. In this number too, are intro
duced Lord Findon and his charming
daughter, Madame de Pastourelles,
both of whom seems likely to prove
important characters in the develop.
ment OF the story.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
Wasps "HoId unn Bees.

The wasp has been observed to way
lay and rob the bees while the latter,
laden with honey, were returning to
the hive.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07

The largest window in Britain is
the east window in York cathedral,
1t is seventy-flve feet high and thirty
two feet wide
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07

Storekeepers report that the extra
quantity, together with the superior
quality of Defiance Sarch, makes it
next to impossible to sell any other
brand,
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07

Celery is the. cultivated variety of
the English weed, smallage.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07

There will be one of Myra Kelly's
stories of East Side child life in the
Christmas Century, Star of Bethle-
HEM" the tale of a little Jews last
Christmas, with illustrations-one in
tint-by Jay cambridge.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
ATTRACTIVE YOUNG LAI

agents wanted in every Town and
City.-Complete outfit furnished free.
We guarantee that you can make
from $1.OO to $500 per day. Address
P. o. Drawer No 500, Buffalo, N. Y.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07

Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible
medicine for coughs and colds.-N. w. SAMUEL,
Ocean Grove, N. j., Feb. II, 1900.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07
The North Pole.

II is often said that, when the North
Pole is discovered there will he found
Scotchman doing business, The
Highlander always ranked foremost
amongst the pioneers OF the Ameri-
can West His Herculean strength
fitted him for frontier life, and to his
constant use OF "porrldge" for break.
fast is attributed his splendid ply
sique. This generation can be as
brawny by eating Pillsbury's Vitos.
He who has many vices has MAI Y
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07

A stout heart may be ruined in for.
tune, but not in spirit-Hugo.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-12-07

He who has many vices has MAI '
masters.-Petrarch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-23
MRS, MARY ROGERS AGAIN RETRIEVED Vermont Woman Will Not Die on GaIIowS Today GOV. BELL SIGNS PAPERS Famous Case Will Now Go to the su- preme Court of the United
 States for Final
 Action.
GOV. BELL SIGNS PAPERS

Brattleboro, Vt, June PA reprieve until December for Mrs. Mary M Rogers, the condemned lndrdcrcss, was signed this afternoon by Gov. Charles J. Bell and for the third time the woman who was to have been hanged at Wind sor tomorrow for killing her husband, has been saved through the operation of the Governors power of staying the exeeu- ton.
 Today's reprieve was granted in order that the case may be carried to the supreme court of the United States on con- stitutional questions which were raised at a hearing before Judge II. II. Wheeler, sitting as a justice of the United States circuit court. Mrs. Rogers attorneys pe- titioned her release on habeas corpus. The court declined to grant the petition but suggested that the points of law raised by the petitioner were such as to be passed upon by the supreme court of the United States. The refusal of the judge to grant the writ was at once followed by the al- ing of an appeal Judge Wheeler there upon announced that lie would render his decision on the question of appeal late in the day in order to give Governor Bell an opportunity to reprieve Mrs. Rogers
 This afternoon Judge Wheeler received dispatch from Governor Bell at White River Junction, announcing that Mrs Rogers had been repreved. The Judge at once signed the paper which gave to Mrs. Rogers the legal right to have her case heard by the supreme court of the United States.
 Springfield, ILL, June Ex-Governor Deneen this afternoon granted Johann Hook a reprieve until July 2S in order that the case may be taken to a supreme court justice for writ of supercedeas.
 Springfield, H., June 2-The supreme court today granted a writ of error and supercedeas in the cast of Joseph (Jocko) Briggs, sentenced to hang tomorrow in Chicago for the murder of Hans Peter son. Today's action of the supreme court will give Briggs a new trial
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-23
Secretary Handles Negotiations
 in Presidents Absence
CALLS ON ROOSEVELT TODAY
Cause of Peace Would Be Furthered If the Belliaerents Will Avoid a Clash Tending Washing
 ton Conference

Washington, June 22-In official and diplomatic circles the return of the Pres ident is awaited with great interest be- cause of the understanding that in case there has been no new definite step In the peace negotiations it would be an- nounced in a statement from the White House.
 Secretary Hay has number of cable grams from St. Petersburg and Toko which he will take to the White House tomorrow, and a conference on the gen eral situation and the outlook for an ar mistice will -Jlow. In the absence of the President Secretary Hay has been in charge of the negotiations but all in- formation on the subject has been with held at the State Department Despite the strong belief that 1t would greatly further the cause of peace if the belliger- ents would avoid a clash between their armies pending the Washington confer ence the President and Secretary Hay are aware of the wish of the Japanese that before assentng to an armistioe they receive more definite assurances regard ing Russias intentions
 Mir. Takahira, the Japanese minister is expected to return to Washington tomor- row and Sir Mortimer Durand, the Brit ish ambassador, will be in Washington at the end of the week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-23
WELLMAN AND BECKWITH
 KNOWN IN BIRMINGHAM
President Newman States That the Eiahteen-Hour Schedule Between Chicago and New York
 Will Be Abandoned.

Cleveland, O., June 22.-It is possible that investigation will develop tomorrow that a boy 14 years old meddled with the switch at the Mentor station last night and caused the wreck of the Twen- tieth Century Flyer.
 William Usher, ticket agent of the Nickel Plate. and James Barnes of Will loughby were on the scene of the wreck twenty minutes after the wreck happened. lantern. They questioned him and he said that he had been down to shut a switch. possible that the boy had tempered with the switch but the boy insisted that he had shut the switch.
 The men went to the scene of the wreck and found he switch open but locked. The men are of the opinion that the boy thought that theer was a freight ahead of the Twentieth century and open cd the switch to let it through to take siding.
 H. S. Storrs, superintendent of the Lake Shore said that the matter will be in- vestigated tomorrow, although he is in- clined to doubt the story that boy had possession of a key and could turn the switch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-23
UNION BUTTONS ARE
 NOT TO BE ALLOWED
MIR FAREWELL NOTIFIES CHICAGO STRIKERS THAT THEY WILL HAVE TO ACCEPT THE EMPLOY FRS TERMS.

Chicago June PA conspicuous display of the union buttor, II Is said tonight, is all that stands in the way of a settlement of the teamsters' strike. A sub-eommit- tee of the striking teamsters' peace com mittee called on J. V. Farwell, represen- tative of the Employers association to- day and outlined a basis of settlement
 One of the requests of the labor men was that the teamsters should be allowed to wear their union buttons if they agreed to accept the terms of settlement pro- posed by the employers. MT. Farwell in- formed the committee that the employers could never agree to this proposal and would insist on the men either dispensing with union emblems entirely or if wear ing the button at all keeping 1t out of sight The subcommittee told Mir. Far well that they had no authority to con- cede this point but that they would lay the matter before the full committee when A decision on the proposition would be reached Another conference with Mir. Farwell was arranged for tomorrow when A decision of the committee will be sub- tnitted tO him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-23
SIX RACERS cAPsIzE.
All Crews Are Rescued By Vessels
 Near By.

Imperial Yacht Club Kiel. Germany. June 22.-While fifteen men of war cut ffis pinnaces and gigs were racing in the outer harbor today the wind rose and half a dozen of the racers capsized. All their crews were rescued but the races were thrown into considerable confusion.
 The first of the series of S0-footer races for cups offered by the Emperor, Crown Prince Frederick William and Prince Henry of Prussia was sailed today oyer short (eight mile) course because of the rough weather. The Deerg, which came in second in the first race was the winner of today's event. Time, one hour 20 minutes 20 seconds. Tilly VI was sec ond and Wansee V. third Prince Eitel Frederick sailed the Elizabeth in this race but she did not finish. One Belgian, three Spanish and three French yachts were among the twenty starters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-23
VIOLATES THE LAW.
Judge speer Pays Compliments to the Southeastern Freight Association.

Macon, June 22.-The case of rift ct al. vs the Southern railway ct all, involving increases in lumber rates was closed to- day with argument on behalf of defend ants Incidentally Judee Speer declared:
 Counsel on both sides have doubtless ly gathered in the intimations of the court what we may as well announce at tlis time, that the Southeastern Freight association Is, in view of the evidence, re- garded as a transparent scheme to avoid the effect of the laws forbidding pooling and combinations in restrain of trade. While this is true whether or not the rates involved in this case and put In force as the result of the action of that association are unreasonable and viola tive of law must Undetermined after fur ther consideration"