Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-19
THE NEWS IN NEBRASKA,
NEBRASKA BRIEFS.

held at Table Rock.
st. Edwards school building will
have an addition costing $3.50.
The statue of ]. Sterling Morton
will be unveiled at Nebraska City
October IA.
The potatoe crop in the vicinity OF
Gordon is good, and at least 300 car
loads will be shipped from that town.
Thomas Whitehead of Mason City,
a brick mason, fell into cistern and
dislocated his shoulder and broke his
arm.
A jail delivery occurred at Nelson.
Only one escaped, however. Why
others who might have gone did not
go is not accounted for.
The 3-year-old daughter Of Mr. and
Mrs. Zach Carter, residing few miles
southeast of Galloway, was scalded
quite badly by tipping a pot of boil
ing coffee over herself.
The mortgage record for Cass county
for September is as follows: Farm
mortgages fled Is, amount $19,0S2;
released, II, s24,999. City mortgages
filed, 8, $6.250; released, 10, 1851.
Charles Marsh of Fillmore county
was killed by horse that he was
riding. His neck was broken and his
skull fractured. He was riding the
horse which became unmanageable.
Claus Haimsen, a young farmer,
aged Is years, living with his parents
one mile east of Papillion, was struck
by a Union Pacific westbound train,
and will die from the injuries receiv.
ed.
Anna Louisa Olson, the wife of Rev.
J. M. Olson of the Free church. Oak
land, died last week while sitting in
chair at her home. Deceased had
been ailing for some time with con-
sumption.
One daughter dead, the father I'M
conscious and not expected to recover,
and second daughter critically i'll,
is the sad plight of the family of Will
liam Phillips, old residents Of Dodge
county. They are afflicted with ty-
phoid fever.
One of the finest elevators in South
western Nebraska is completed at
Arapahoe. The Farmers Cooperative
Grain association of Arapahoe will
now operate it's own elevator. 1t is
the largest and most complete, with
all modern machinery and convent
nrnctnd in III OF 1nno1ifv
Chancellor Andrews, in his talk to
the university students at convocation,
earnestly warned the freshmen against
being too hasty in entering fraterni-
ties and sororities. He pleaded for
time and better acquaintance before
plunging into a Greek letter organiza.
ton.
Governor Mickey has received
son county, Kansas, asking for the
payment of a reward alleged to have
been earned through the capture of a
train robber at Omaha in 1885. Moth
ing in the executive records shows that
any such reward was offered by the
state.
The yield of corn throughout Muck
oils county is enormous and many
farmers are preparing to feed cattle
from the proceeds. The Superior Cat
tie company has already on feed 400
head of very fine heavy cattle and in
tend to follow the business up with
other heavy installments during the
season.
The footing of the Cass county's tax
list for 1905 which has just been com.
piled, places the assessment of all
property, real and personal at s246,
1929 OF this amount the railroads
will pay $42,416.61 The general fund
of the state will receive $32527.30:
university fund, $72SS; school fund
$3,614.14.
Last Sunday for the first time in
over twenty years, the cid" was on in
West Point. The saloons, business
houses, barber shops and butcher
shops were kept tightly closed all day
A petition to the city authorities was
, circulated and signed, with the result
al III DuylllS anu Selling
will be discontinued hereafter on Sun
days.
On request of Chief of Detectives
Dunn Of Omaha, Sheriff Mencke OF
Washington county arrested J. viii
Bradley, aged 10, and Cloe Campbell
/, aged Is, at the court house in Blaii
just as they were about to apply for 8
license to be married They arrived
at Blair last evening from Omaha ant
registered at the Clifton hotel as mar
and wife.
At special meeting of the board
of regents of the University of Ne
braska the following designations o
= members of the faculty were present
ed by Chancellor Andrews and &C
cepted by the board. taking effect Sep
TENDER /: Frank w. Smith. adjunc
professor of education; Edwin F
Piper, instructor in rhetoric; Herber
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