Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-06-22
STATE NOTES.

being built in Wayne this year.
The Great Northern is hurrying up
the right of way through Saunders
county.
DR.. Rawllns, one of the early prac-
titioners OF Cass county, 81 years old,
died last week.
The Old Settlers association at
Palmyra held their annual picnic with
good attendance.
George Nelson, a Dakota county
farmer, has been declared insane and
sent to the asylum.
Material has been ordered for an
extension of the telephone line from
Curtis to haywood.
Another $4,000 church is to be
built in Auburn, making three at the
same cost within one year.
The child of Mr.. and Mrs B. s. r.
Batson Of Lincoln, while visiting at
Arlington, was killed by being caught
under falling lumber.
Near Hoskins a runaway team
| threw August Bruckner out of his
wagon and fractured his skull. Proba-
bilities are that he Is fatally hurt.
For four months ending April 30
there were received in Omaha H.
b45, 800 bushels of grain, as against
4,752,10 bushels for the correspond
| Ing period of last year
The Tecumseh Military band has
ordered twenty-five new uniforms for
its players. The suits will be bottle
green, trimmed in black, and the caps
will be trimmed in gold.
The city of Tecumseh has bought
| lot and will erect pen in which 1t Is
proposed to put city prisoners to
pounding rock. AS it is the city has
no work for it's convicts.
The two sons of Roselle Fenner,
living nine miles northeast from ALI
ance, were taken to the asylum at
lincoln. The attending physician
fears both are incurably insane.
Miss Carrie Elliott, a mission
teacher in Indian Territory, is in the
Beatrice visiting with her parents
She brought home with her a little
Indian girl, who will remain during
the summer.
have decided to start work at once on
the new dormitory. The location for
the building has been selected and all
bids for construction of the building
have been called in.
A young son of G. A. Banner Of
Cibhon woc occidoptol1y chnt in tho
side by one Of his brothers with a
small rifle. The bullet struck rib
and glanced around the body. The
outcome is in doubt
Important changes have been made
recently in the rural free delivery
service in Cunning county. A new
route has been established from the
West Point postoffice, making seven
deliveries from the city.
Charles M. Chamberlain, default
Ing cashier of the failed Chamberlain
banking house of Tecumseh, has Civ.
en- bond to the district court In the
sum of $20,S00 to appear for trial on
the charge of embezzlement.
Rev. G. w. Crofts of Beatrice has
been awarded first prize by the Chris
tian Endeavor World, published al
Chicago and Boston, for the best
poem paraphrasing the Lords prayer
There were about 100 contestants.
The land rush for the Indian lands
recently opened is on at Alliance
Quite an additional city is temperate!
located on vacant land just outside
the corporation. The people are liv
ing in tents, just as the people di'
when Alliance started.
]. II. Criss, who has brought t.
Beatrice from Lanham week ag
and lodged in the county jail with hi
, friend, w. II. Thompson, who |
| charged with stabbing Thomas Ricl
t ardson, was released. Thompson wi
= be held to await the outcome Of Ricl
ardson's injuries.
3 Paul Springer of Beatrice has col
L tory to Omaha, where number {
d business men have given him sue
q encouragement as will warrant til
Q change. The machinery will l
o shipped just as soon as the stock
& paper on hand is disposed of in til
manufacture Of bags.
After three days searching the DO
i les of the men drown at Hooper wei
u recovered. The body of L. C. Ne
i was found in the river five miles ca
of Hooper badly decomposed al
hardly recognizable. 1t was taken
II Elk City for burial. The body of
- G. Foley was found about mile fro
. the scene of the drowning.
- The faculty and students of Doal
y college, Crete, headed by the COLES
- band, marched to the depot to W,
= come home President Perry from h
7 successful financial canvass in t
~ east. He secured one gift of 500
\. from George Whitcomb of Worcestt
"a Mass, and several smaller gift
a which raises the total to about $3.50
"a and rumors have it that much larg
m gift is yet to come.