Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-04-19
OVER THE STATE.


After a campaign of six months by
leading members of the York CONNER.
cial club, York will pave most of its
principal strets.
The Farmers Grain and Stock COM
pany of Kenesaw filed a statement
with the secretary of state that as soon
as 1t could wind up its business 1t
would cancel IL charter.
John Mick, son of George Mick, died
at Schuyler, of consumption. Mr..
Mick had come home Thursday after
noon, having been out west for his
health He was an attorney.
M. B. Thompson, president of the
Albion National bank of Albion, who
was stricken with paralysis several
weeks ago, is yet alive and his con-
dition has not materially changed for
the past two weeks.
County Clerk Conlee of Gage coun-
ty has issued twenty-four hunting
licenses during the past few weeks.
Sixteen of these have been to Beatrice
sportsmen, six to Wymore nimrods
and two to Filley sports.
A lively fight for possession of the
Fremont hospital terminated last week
In the, surrender of Manager Miss
katheryn Fox and Misses Eoline Clark
and Mary Ostrand, who bought the
building recently, have assumed con-
troll.
The oldest woman in Cunning coun-
ty, Mrs. Susan Miller of West Point,
was "a years old last week. A very
largely attended birthday party was
given by her friends and neighbors
in her honor, and a handsome reclin-
ing chair was presented to her.
G. A. Wilkinson, a farmer living
northeast of Beatrice, made thorough
investigation of the peach buds on his
place and reports that he was unable
to find a good bud in his orchard. He
is of the opinion that there will be no
peaches in that section this year.
r. e. Harris, secretary of the coal
dealers association of Iowa and Ne
braska, with headquarters in Omaha,
has resigned and is succeeded by E. H.
Belts of Sioux City. The office re-
mains in Omaha. Mr.. Harris goes into
the wholesale coal business at Chi
cago.
There is strong probability that
fair and driving park association
will be organized at Pierce in the near
future. The enterprise is being push
ed by number of local horsemen. A
meeting was held to talk over the
proposition and was attended by a
large crowd.
Miss Anna Caldwell, director of kin
dergarten work in the state normal
school, has gone to Milwaukee as a
representative of the school and of the
state of the International Kindergar-
ten union. The took with her a fine
exhibit of the work done in the kinder
garten at the normal school.
The fight for the reward offered by
the state for the discovery of coal is
now on in earnest. A. M. Borst, the
owner of the land on which the coal
was discovered, near Peru, and F. M.
Medley, who says he made the dis
covery, have both filed claims with
Governor Mickey for the money.
The Northwestern Realty company
of Omaha filed it's article of incorpora-
ton with the secretary of state. The
capital stock of the new company is
100000. The business of the corpora
ton is to buy and sell real estate,
mortgages, and act as trustees or
agents. The incorporators are J. M.
Drummer, Franklin I. Reber, Charles
w. Lyman and Wallace Lyman.
The state board of assessment met
to pass upon the question of where
cattle should be assessed, in the coun-
ty in which they are pastured or where
the owner resides. The assessor of
Dawson county assessed cattle which
were being pastured in Custer county
and the assessor of the latter county
also got them on his rolls. The board
decided the cattle should be assessed
where they are pastured.
Solomon Yanson was killed by Bur-
lington train No. AZ while he was try
ing to mail letter on the train at the
depot on Lincoln avenue. He had writ
ten the letter to his wife, who was at
Scotsbluff, and went to the depot to
mail it. When the mail car passed
where he was standing, he endeavored
to put it in the car and it is supposed
the letter fell and that he stopped over
to pick it up when he was struck by
one of the car steps and was dragged
under the wheels. His chest was
crushed and he died almost instantly.
Thrown out of the second story
window of the old court house at
Grand Island, now undergoing disman-
Element, there are the complete parts
of an old scaffold, built for an execu-
ton in this county over twenty years
ago, an execution which never took
place. A policeman named Hart kill
ed a saloon man. He was tried, con-
victed and sentenced to death. Before
the day of execution drew near he es-
capped. Recaptured at Omaha, he was
held there until the day of his expia-
tion should he near In the meantime