Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-03-15
NEBRASKA BRIEFS

Mr. and Mrs. c. G. Moore of Saun-
ders county last week celebrated their
golden wedding.
The Nebraska Telephone company
has large force at work installing an
entirely new plant at Superior.
Ghe Pacific hotel at Norfolk has
| been sold to j. Harry Foote OF Blair.
Mr.. Foote will take charge at once.
! At Hastings, S. ]. Baker was
/ kicked by horse and so seriously in.
| jured that his recovery is doubtful.
The Adams County Abstract com.
any of Hastings filed it's articles Of
incorporation with the secretary of
state.
Frank okorny OF Saunders county,
aged 81, single. of Chapman precinct,
son OF Joseph Porkorny, was adjudged
insane by the board and sent to the
asylum.
! The j. W. Anderson Grain company
of Holdrege has filed articles of incor-
poration with the secretary of state.
The capital stock is $4,000 and the
paid uD capital $4,000.
Mrs. hewitt OF Dorchester, arrived
in Beatrice and with the assistance of
the officers succeeded in locating her
16-year-old daughter, who had run
I away from home several weeks ago.
The progressive citizenship of Nc
Cook won out in the election held to
vote on the proposition to bond the
city for sewer purposes. The vote
! stood 325 for to "a against the prop
osition.
Henry Theede OF Saunders county
has sold eighty acres of land that cost
him S35 an acre just twelve years
ago at $50 an acre an increase in value
of S3,7G sr acre each year he has neld
the land.
Burglars entered the saloon of John
Brothers of Havelock, pried open a
money drawer, but found it empty,
as Brothers had taken all the cash
home with him. The only things miss
ing was a quantity of whisky.
Secretary Piper OF the State Board
| OF Charities and Correction has re
turned from a trip to the Hastings
asylum and the industrial school at
kearny and both institutions he re-
ported are in the best OF condition.
At the January term of the circuit
court OF Cass county, Mrs. Edward
Daily was awarded verdict of $1,000
| against ten Toluca saloonkeepers, who
were found to be guilty OF selling IL
quor illegally to her husband.
Slayer OF wolves have gobbled up
600 of the $4,000 appropriated by
the legislature as a wolf bounty. The
claims for bounty continue to pile up
! in the auditors Office, though no more
WI be paid at present.
Investigations by Postottice lnspec-
| tor Moore at the postottice OF Cornlea,
Platte county, showed a shortage in
| the funds amounting to $376.S1, and
William f. Berg, the postmaster, has
| been arrested upon a complaint sworn
out by the inspector.
Ex-senator e. II. Dietrich of Hast
ings notified the authorities that he
will give reward of 500 for the ar
| rest and conviction of the men who
assaulted the Chinese laundryman,
Hop Lee, Saturday, kicking and bruis-
ing him almost beyond recognition.
While on his way from Tripola Ia,
where he attended his fathers funeral,
to Brunswick, Neb., where he is a
harnesmaker, Albert j. Brown blew
out the gas at the Hotel Vendome in
Sioux City, Ia, and at last accounts
was still unconscious.
Land Commissioner Eaton returned
from Pierce county, where he went
to attend a suit in which the state
was trying to GUST Frank Guendel
from Ilece OF school land which aqd
been forfeited to the state. The state
| had leased the land to another party
and tic former tenant refused to give
possession The jury found for the
state.
Prof, G. w. Sievers Of Sturgis, S.
D., has been elected to the position of
professor Of manual and physical
training in the State Normal at Peru,
Pro-. Sievers is a disciple of Yost,
the famous Michigan coach, under
whom he has taken special training in
athletics. Prof. Sievers will have
charge of the new gymnasium and all
the athletic work in the school.
Ball playing on Memorial day is I'M
lawful in Nebraska. according to the
Hughes law enacted by the last legis,
lature, and the managers OF the West
ern league may encounter trouble in
arranging their schedule of games.
The law provides that any persons
: who shall engage in horse racing, bali
playing or in any game OF sport which
may tend to disturb the public peace
on May 80, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and shall be punished
, by fine not to exceed 500 or by i'm.
prisonment not more than thirty days,
or both.
A condensed milk plant may replace
the old Norfolk sugar factory sug'
: gestion has been received in a letter
} from Monroe, Wis, where a condenser
| is in ODeration showing how such q