Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-02-16
BROKEN BOW.
News in Brief

Naval bill, carrying an appropria
ton of 500 O70,O79, has been
brought before the house.
Rev. Father Edward S. WEIGH, who
died in Washington a few weeks ago
bequeathed 100000 to Boston col
lege. I...
The president has promised ex
Judge John Il. Thomas to visit
Muskogee next spring on his way to
Texas.
After twenty years of service as
United States commissioner of Ia
Dor Carroll ID. Wright has retired
from that Office.
w. b. Blddle, freight traffic man
ager of the Santa Fe railroad, has
been appointed third vice president
of the Rock Island.
Prof. Willis l.. Moore chief of the
United States weather bureau, has
been elected president of the nation
al geographic society.
Railroads have organized a power
full lobby at the national capital In
view of the clamor which has been
raised for rate legislation.
District Attorney Jerome says he
will prepare n chart of the gambling
houses in New York, locating exactly
where the tiger is to be found.
An effort will be made 10 establish
q $4,000 endowment Of President
Scott, who has had active charge OF
Franklin college, La Porte, Ind, fox
thirty-siX years.
The Cuban senate has passed the
bill providing for government con-
tribution toward sanitation for all
municipalities at the annual rate of
$2.16 2-3 per head of population.
Representative w. |. Nolan of Min
neapolis has introduced in the lower
house of Minnesota a bill establish
ing the whipping post as means Of
punishment for wife heaters.
The house committee on irrigation
o. arid lands authorized favorable
report on the senate bill providing
for the Klamath lake irrigation pro-
5ect in Oregon and California.
President Roosevelt has made a
substantial contribution to the Hanna
memorial chair association which
was organized for the purpose OF es-
tablishing chair at the Western Re-
serve university of Cleveland.
The house committee on merchant
marine and fisheries today favorably
reported the bill to remove discrimi-
nations against American sailing YES
sells engaged in the coasting trade.
Second Lieutenant David ]. Gill
mer Of the Philippine scouts has
been acquitted by court-martial al
Manila Of the charges of embezzle
ment and wrongful disposition OF
government property.
George S. Nixon, who is to sue
coed Senator Stewart as senator
from Nevada. is Californian by
birth and has earned his own living
from the time he was 10 years Of
age.
The national firemen's convention
will be held in Kansas City August
30, 80 and 81, next, and it is stated
that there Will be 5000 delegate!
present from all parts of the United
States.
The house committee on immigra
ton and naturalization authorized {
favorable report on the Adams bill
try Of more than 10000 persons from
any one country in any one fisca
year.
BY order Of the president the for
estry division of the general land OF
fees has been abolished and its worl
will be continued by the bureau o
forestry of the department of agri
culture under Chief Forester Giffar,
Pinchot.
Mrs. Lucy Ann Crandall, pionee
of Denver. died within two hours al
ter a jury had pronounced her in
capable of managing her business al
fairs. She had property valued a
100000 and the lunacy proceeding
were instituted by relatives.
According to newspapers publishe
in the far east General Stoessel, dc
fender of Port Arthur, is of JewisI
origin. His grandfather, Abraham
Stoessel, a goldsmith by trade, wen
to st. Petersburg from Moravi
about 1885.
The Yaqui outbreak in Mexico |
very serious. There are probabl
800 Yaquis out divided into fror
twelve to eighteen bands. The Ii
dams are well armed and are KILN
Americans and Mexlcans withou
discrimination.
Senator Lodge introduced a bi
authorizing the striking of bronz
medals of honor to be awarded {
persons displaying conspicuous cou
age or undergoing great danger
saving lives in railroad wrecks or
preventing such wrecks.
American Board of Foreign Mi
sions issued statement describin
conditions of restitution in Easter
Turkey. "
For the six months ended Decem
Der 81, last, 400,O63 emigrants wei
admitted to the United State
against 323,64l for the corresnondin