Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-09-06
OVER THE STATE.

A large force of men has been put
to work re-ballasting the Union Pa
cifc roadbed with crushed rock be.
tween Beatrice and Lincoln.
Mrs. Victor Kasper of Schuyler at
tempted suicide with a butcher knife.
Neighbors saw the act and caught her
before much cutting was done.
Mr.. Blallely of Sprlngvlew went to
sleep on the floor of a hotel in Long
Pine, and when he awoke found that
$50 had been taken from his pockets.
The badly decomposed body OF
man was found by the side Of the
road north OF the Sunnysidc cemetery
at WILDER. II was not identified and
has been buried by the county.
The horse stolen from the barn of
G A. Crannell, living four miles south
of Tekamah was found in a pasture
three miles east Of Hooper. No clue
| to the thief has been obtained.
Plans are being made to organize
n new cemetery association at Falls
City. The land which will be used
is the thirty acres joining the Steele
| CtiutLtTy Ou Iut tuSJ SluC anu NhlNh
belongs to Il. S. Towle.
Fremont Is completing arrange
nents for the celebration OF the city's
natal day September 3. The feature
of the day will be a big parade in
which the pioneer settlers will be
conveyed in automobiles.
One of the most pitlful cases that
has been brought before the insanity
board at Tekamah in many day was
that of Mrs. Lillian M. Peterson, a
woman aged 30 years, who has been
living at Crab Orchard. She was ex-
amined by tho board and pronounced
dipsomaniac. The board ordered
her taken to the Lincoln asylum for
treatment.
The father of Louis Woodruff,
convict in the state prison, has writ
ten several abusive letters to Govern
or Mickey The latter tore them up
as soon as he read them. Woodruff
was sentenced to four years for statu-
tory assault. His wife, who married
him soon after he was arrested, has
made many pleas for the pardon of
Woodruff. A petition is being circu-
lated.
Two records were broken last
week, in McCook. First, Judge B. G.
Orr of the district court made a new
record in the district court of the
county by naturallzing thirty.four cit
liens in one day, unnder the new law.
Secondly, the McCook postoffice
fractured all records in its money de-
partment by issuing $4,000 worth of
money orders in one day, of which
$4,000 were international, destined for
Greece.
Charles Gagnon, an old settler of
Richardson county and one of the
first merchants in the district died
at his home in Rulo. Mr.. Gagnon was
coming down the stairway between
the bank and the hardware store In
Rulo and fell almost the entire length
of the stairs and landed on his head.
/ He was picked up and taken to his
home In an unconscious condition and
remained in that condition until his
death.
fact a great interest to Nebras-
kans is this: The oldest living white
person born in what is now Nebraska,
Is Rev. s. p. Merrill of Squirrel Is
land, Me-, who dates from July 10,
1885, at Bellevue. Living at Lincoln
now is perhaps the earliest settler
still here, in the person of Mrs. Mar
tina A. Wheeling. She lived year
on the site of Omaha 1910, and for
five years beginning in 1S47 was at
Bellevue.
The ten days session of the York
Chautauqua was brought to a sue
cessful close. 1t was certainly one
OF the best attended meetings ever
held in York, and the management
is more than gratiGed with the re.
suits in every respect. Not day
was lost on account of bad weather.
The total receipts were $4,514.
Holiness meetings held in the vicn-
iiy of Seward were SHINY attended
or account of extreme heat.
Mrs. J. A. Murphy of Humboldt as
well as numerous friends, is becom.
, ing exceedingly anxious to hear from
, her daughter, Mrs. Joy Bullis-McKie
a Humboldt lady who is at present in
the city of Santiago, Chile, where the
earthquake recently occurred Mr.
and Mrs McKie have lived for sever
al years at Manzanillo, Mexico, where
the former was in the employ of Col
\ onel Smoot, the famous promoter Of
, harbor works at the latter city.
Names have finally been decided
upon for the two new towns on the
Union Pacific Railroad company
D extension from Stromsburg, which
/ have met with the approval of the
r postal authorities, Efforts to selec
!. names from local Indian nomencla
r ture resulted in failure from thei
g lack of euphony when given Englisl
}. pronunciation, and other names Il
honor of local celebrities were reject
ed from conflict with the names O
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