Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-05-18
NEBRASKA BRIEFS.

Geneva will have but two saloons
this year, each paying a license OF
$175O.
Peter Berlett, before the court at
Auburn for illegal voting, was ac.
quilted.
The Burlington is preparing to make
some extensive improvements at Te-
cumseh.
The farmers of Table Rock precinct
are agitating the subject of q country
telephone line, with every prospect of
success.
The new Christian church which
has recently been erected in Peru, at
a cost of $4,000, was dedicated re-
Gently free from debt.
The contract for reroofing certain
sections of the buildings at the peni-
tertiary has been awarded to the
Nichols Roofing company of Lincoln
for $500.
Mrs. Polly Anderson, an aged wild
ow, was found dead in her house at
York. Neighbors who called and found
the house locked broke open the doors
and discovered the body.
Earl Terwillerger, a farmer, living
one mile south of Bee, accidentally
shot himself through the hand while
handling a target rifle. The wound is
not serious.
Several residents of Beatrice left
for Casper, Wyo., to work for Kilpat-
rick Bros, who have the contract for
constructing large irrigating canal
near that place.
The Commercial club of McCook
has determined upon two matters of
Importance to the city, a Fourth of
July celebration and street fair and
stock exhibit in September.
The mortgage record for Polk coun-
ty for the month of April shows:
Twenty-Five farm mortgages filed,
amounting to $54,622; released, TWEEN
ty-two, amounting to $34,996.
A thousand feet of track was wash
ed out between Mason City and Ans
ley the milldams at Ansley and West
erville were destroyed, and many cat
tie killed by the recent storm.
A prairie fire in Mcpherson county
and northern Keith county burned
over the pastures from Blue Creek to
White Tail, forty miles east and west
by thirty miles north and south.
The body Of a man who froze to
death last winter was discovered in
Omaha under sidewalk platform of
the Omaha Implement and Transfer
company, Ninth and Jackson streets.
2-Neb briefs E. :. E. :. ihich pleZe
ing their convention at Pawnee City
from May II to June 7. The program
committee met and arranged a very
interesting program for that occasion.
The contract for the construction of
the Seward county court house was
let to Rokahr & Marxen of Avoca,
Iowa, for the sum of $S1,350. The
building is to be of light colored
stone.
Martha L., wife of Charles O. Daley,
living twelve miles south of Mason,
committed suicide by taking arsenic.
She had%ome trouble with step-son,
and it is thought this caused her to
kill herself.
William Chattan made the mistake
of killing four ducks after the open
season and Deputy Game Warden
John Stapleton had him arrested and
taken before Judge Taylor, at York,
who fined him $40 and costs.
Gerhard Heyne, a farmer of Logan
township, Dodge county, had two colts
stolen from his premises. At present
there is no clue to the thieves. One
of the horses was a bay, 2 years old,
branded l., and the other an iron gray
yearling.
Two representatives of the Railroad
Trainmen's unions of Omaha and
South Omaha were in Nebraska City
and completed arrangements for the
holding of their annual picnic in River
side park, north of that city, on Sun
day, June is.
The two-yearold daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. A. o. Roos of Nebraska City,
while toddling over the floor fell and a
large darning needle, which it had in
its hand entered the abdomen and
punctured the bowels. The injury is
likely to prove fatal.
Hilda, the siX-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. II. B. Brown of Sterling,
ran stick into her eye while at play,
which penetrated the ball near the
pupil. She was taken to Lincoln to
consult a specialist, and it was found
necessary to remove the eyeball.
The Southeastern Nebraska Grand
Army of the Republic reunion will be
held in Wymore in August, beginning
on the morning of the 14th and contin-
uing through the week. Wymore citi.
zens are preparing an interesting pro-
gram for the occasion.
Mrs. l. S. Wooster has returned to
Plattsmouth from an Omaha hospital
where she underwent an operation for
the removal of pin from the thumb
bone of her right hand. The pin got
into her hand fourteen Years ago while
doing the family washing.