Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-08-24
Brief kilograms

Secretary of state Elihu Root has
sailed for Labrador.
A strike against the American
Bridge company went into effect at
Pittsburg.
Creditors Of the missing mayor OF
Paterson will ask that he be declared
bankrupt.
Sir Mortimer Durant the British
ambassador, Is confined to his SUM-
mer residence in London.
Heavy losses which the Armour car
line is reported to have suffered in
handling southern fruit and berries
may cause the abandonment of the
field.
Walter Wellman writes that Sergius
Witte, with all his strength and craft,
faces al apparently hopeless task in
the peace conference, as Japan holds
all the trumps.
While the confidence in Wall street
Is aided by the good crop reports, con.
servatlve commission houses urge eau
ton in buying because of the high
prices prevailing.
Health department figures show that
unlike New York, Chicago is in no
distress because of the strenuous life,
but instead Is ready for really nerve.
straining conditions.
Harvie Jordan Of Atlanta, Ca, pres.
ident Of the Southern Cotton associa.
ton, has telegraphed e. s. Peters,
vice president Of the association, de.
handing his resignation.
The London Daily Telegraph, which
in this matter may be regarded as
lsemi-officlal, says the reports Of the
Forthcoming resignation of Lord Cur
zon are at least premature.
On the top of Mount Tanalpais, near
San Francisco, is being erected a
wireless telegraph station, from which
1t Is expected direct communication
with Honolulu will be established.
Having been driven out Of st. Louis
and Chicago and with little prospect
of racing further south, the Western
Jockey club may select Louisville as
the only available place for an au.
tumn meeting.
The condition of the farming com.
munity near Seville, Spain, is becom.
ing desperate. Thousands of labor.
ers, being without bread or other food
have been reduced to eating the roots
of wild plants.
Citizens In favor OF saloons in Mon.
roe county, Iowa, carried the county
by petition by about fifty plurality
Abba will now have saloons, and Mon.
roe county Is the only one in Iowa
In which such a petition was carried
The governors of twenty-six states
have so far accepted the invitation OF
the National Civic Federation to ap.
point delegates to attend the national
conference on immigration to be held
in New York December and 7.
Orders from Washington have been
received at the mint to cease opera.
lions and dispense with the services
Of the 600 employees. except those nee
essary to attend to the affairs of the
institution when coinage has been
stopped.
Paul Morton Of the Equitable Life
Assurance society has appointed Doug
las Robinson of New York, brother.
in-law of President Roosevelt, special
appraiser to make thorough examin.
alton of the real estate owned by the
company.
The case of the United States
against Senator w. A. Clark of Mon.
tana involving charge of defraudng
the United States in the appropriation
OF timber on the public lands, was
docketed In the supreme court of the
United States.
Former Commissioner of Pensions
Tanner, and now register Of Wills fol-
the District of Columbia, is a promi
nent candidate for the office Of com
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army oil
the Republic to succeed the late Gen
eral Blackmar.
Three hundred Americans, employ
es of MacCaddon's circus, have be
come chargeable to the authorities II
Grenoble, France, while awaiting {
legal decision in connection with tn,
disposal Of the circus property for thu
payment Of alleged creditors claims
Union compositors went on strike II
tnree Detroit book and job printing
shops. 1t was understood that tn,
printers were preparing to demand tn
eight-hour day January 1 all over tn
country. The Detroit typothetae tool
the bull by the horns by declaring 10
the open shop.
Indian Agent Randkett of AnadarkC
Okla, received special instruction
from Secretary Hitchcock orderin
him to change the form OF lease @
100000 acres of pasture lands 500
to be opened to settlement. TIL
change is for second choice, wher
heretofore the bidder must be Statistic
with one selection.
Wall street man says that Grove
Cleveland, instead of being immensel
wealthy, has an income of only SIS ,00l
Secretary Egan of the Illinois Stat
Board of Health announces that III