Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-08-24
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.

| SlOI6 VI WlllS az was
practically destroyed by fire.
s. N. Taylor, sheriff of Hall county,
resigned his Office last week. ]. W..
Ely has been appointed to fill the va
cancy, effective September 1.
Miss Margaret Hall, late principal
of the West Point High school, has
accepted a position in the Lincoln
High school for the next year.
Ford Quinby, of Yutan, was arrest
ed under the new dipsomania law and
the examining board found him guilty
of the charges, committing him to the
asylum for treatment.
Fire destroyed the barn and all the
outbuildings of Charles Engeles, who
lives in the outskirts of Schuyler. Two
COWS and calf that were in the barn
were burned to death.
A complete rural delivery service is
now in operation in Johnson county.
Fifteen carriers from seven postoffices
go over the different routes each day,
serving every farmer within the bord-
ers of the county.
Almost the entire colored popula-
ton of Fremont, numbering about 100
persons, celebrated the anniversary of
the signing of President Lincoln's
emancipation proclamation by a pic
mic on an island in the Platte.
Fred Brinkman, Johnson county
farmer, harvested and threshed a nine
teen acre field of wheat which yield
ed 500 bushels. He sold the grain for
rs cents per bushel, realizing over
$50 per acre from the land this year.
Linn Huntington, a former State
university student, who left less than
year ago to accept position as
civil engineer on the Panama canal,
writes that the work is progressing
fast. His health is good.
State Treasurer Mortensen has is
sued call for $4,000 state general
fund warrants running up to and in
Guiding number 123,567, for August 49,
This call brings the remeption up to
warrants issued February 10, 1904.
Sheriff Bell of Cripple Creek, Colo,
was in Grand Island with requisition
papers for Frank Martin, alias Frank
Buster, wanted on charge of murder
at Victor, Colo. Martin was held in
Grand Island until Sheriff Bell ar
rived.
While stacking hay, R. Tappan, liv-
ing one mile north of Hyannis, was
struck by a stacker and nearly killed.
The accident was due to the breaking
of clevise, allowing the stacker to
fall on him, completely scalping him
from eyebrows to neck and dislocat-
nose, right arm and leg.
Sweet Water is the newest Buffalo
county town and begins business with
the brightest of prospects for pros
porous career. Heretofore the town
of Sweet Water has been located in
Sherman county, but County Surveyor
Edwards has just finished the task Of
line in Buffalo county.
J. q. Albee, who for six months has
been mourned for as dead by his
friends in Vermont, called at the office
of a local paper in Fremont and as
sured them that he was not the man
whose body was found with a bullet
hole in the skull near the depot at
Ames last January. His resemblance
to that individual, however, was start
ling.
Governor Mickey Gave John Clark
of Madison county, sentenced to three
years for statutory assault, a pardon.
The action of the governor was based
on the recommendations of Supreme
Court Justice j. B. Barnes, County At
torney Mapes of Madison county, the
trial judge and the members of the
jury, who assert their doubt as to the
man't guilt
County Clerk Tyson has been au-
thorized by the State Board of Equali-
cation to make number Of changes
in Cass countys assessment. In the
valuation of horses per cent in
crease is made; pianos, 80 per cent;
threshing machines, 40 per cent; sew
ing machines, 10 per cent. A 10 per
cent increase is made in the valua-
ton of mules.
During a severe electric storm the
six-year-old granddaughter of Marshal
Towsley of Broken Bow was struck by
and badly burned. The bolt |
first struck the house and the child |
who was standing in the doorway re-
ceived a portion, it running down the |
left side, burning her clothes off and |
passing from her body through the |
toes of her left foot
Deputy Attorney Ger Thomp-
son advised County Ase Miller Of |
Lancaster county that stockholders in |
nebraska insurance companies must |
list their shares for taxation. Miller
went to Secretary Bennett Of the |
state board in the first instance and |
by him was referred to the deputy at |
torney general, who told him that the |
statute is explicit in it's requirement, |