Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-08-03
News in Brief

1t is announced that the king of
10th.
Secretary Wilson and Mr.. Hays will
have charge Of all crop reports in the
future.
Mrs. c. p. Huntington Of New York
paid $4,000 for copy of "Fads and
Fancies."
Charles G. w. Malley, of Nebraska,
has been admitted to the naval
academy as midshipman.
John d. Rockefeller is said to be as
expert writer of shorthand as any Of
the army of typewriters he employs.
The directors Of the Amalgamated
Copper company declared quarterly
dividend Of IL per cent. 1t is an in
crease OF u of per cent over the last
quarterly dividend.
Admiral George Dewey has sold one
Of the four houses that he owns In
Omaha. Though Dewey has never lived
IN any Of his Omaha houses, he has
owned them for several years.
State Health Officer Tabor issued
orders to all roads having lines be-
tween New Orleans and Texas, posi-
lively prohibiting the entrance of any
person from New Orleans into Texas.
The Siamese minister Phya Akharaj
aradhara, who is spending his summer
at East Gloucester, Mass, for the
fourth year, has recently purchased
and put IL commission a handsome
yacht.
China's official notification to the
powers that she will not recognize any
arrangement regarding Manchuria
concerning which she has not been
consulted beforehand has reached
Washington.
DR.. A. " v. Raymond, president of
Union college at Schenectady, N. Y,
refused an offer of $4,000 to become
pastor Of the First Presbyterian
church of Buffalo. His salary as presi
dent Is $4,000.
Baron He yashi, the Japanese minis
ter in London, declares his nation is
not confident that peace will result
from the coming negotiations, and
scouts the idea that Japan's demands
will be moderate.
John e. Wilkie, chief of the United
States secret service, who has arrived
in San Francisco from the Orient,
says the Chinese boycott of American
goods Is not so serious matter as
has been reported.
The directors of the Union Pacific
Railroad company declared dividend
Of 2h per cent on the common stock,
payable October l. The last seminar
nual dividend declared by the Union
Pacific was per cent.
Owing to the wholesale business be-
ing done by the ticket scalpers operat-
ing in Portland and other cities in the
northwest, the various passenger asso;
Citations have begun relentless cam
paign against ticket brokers.
Rev. ]. G. Launing formerly of Ne
braska City was arrested at Troy,
Kas., accused Of disposing of mort
gagged property and of raising a prom
ssory note. He alleges complete inno-
cence. He is known all over Nebraska.
Dr. Mary A. Latham, one of the
most prominent physicians at Spokane,
WASH, was sentenced to pay fine Of
$1,000 and serve four years in prison.
DR.. Latham was convicted of arson in
setting fire to drug store at Mead,
Wash.
The steamer City OF Savannah,
which arrived from Colon with score
of Panama canal employees who have
quit their positions, on board, was de-
tanned at quarantine and a close in.
spection Of the boat for yellow fever
was begun.
General Elliott, commander of the
marine corps, has received cable
gram stating that storm had swept
over Midway islands destroying the
marine camp, but injuring none of the
men. A detachment of twenty ma
rines Is stationed on the island.
Advioes received at Victoria by the
steamer Iyo say the steamer Cecilia
has been wrecked on the west coast
of the island of Sakhalin. A German
correspondent going to VladivostolS
in anticipation of the investment o.
that port, was aboard the vessel.
Quarantine against New Orleans
was put on at Mobile, Ala, Friday ant
quarantine inspectors we're placed OF
all southbound trains leaving this cit!
for New Orleans after that hour. This
action was the result Of the discover!
OF yellow fever in New Orleans b!
three Mobile physicians sent there I,
investigate.
Judge Ford at Cleveland In the com
mon pleas court enjoined the Nation
al baseball commission from trying
Howard G. Griffith OF New Jersey oil
charges preferred against him of al
tempting to form an organization
among five of the stronger mino
leagues for the purpose of waging wa
upon the American baseball league
President Roosevelt stands benin,
Becretary of Agriculture Wilson In hi