Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-07-12
OVER THE STATE.

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ton to vote on the question OF issuing
bonds TO build a court house.
The dwelling house Of J. T. Peters,
Beatrice, was struck by lightning and
burned to the ground, together with
its contents.
Miss Hattie Little, elected state
president of the = Il. o. at Blue Hill
received an ovation on her return
home to Geneva
Sheriff Gillian of Seward county ar
rested presumed horse thief but
found out later that the supposed horse
thief was a lunatc.
The total assessed valuation of the
personal property of Sarpy county, ex.
elusive of railroads. telephone and tel
egraph, this year is $i0S,S09. Last
year it was $439, 1853.
An abstract of the assessors returns
Of Cedar county shows the actual value
of personal property as being $5,644,.
6S5 as compared with $4,S43,800 in
1905 and $4,193,400 in 1904
Mr.. Nicholson, head bookkeeper OF
the American Beet sugar company in
Grand Island, will leave In few days
for Madison, Wis, to join the sugar
company of that city in like capacity.
Coroner Armstrong was called to
Bellevue TO take charge OF dead body
floating in the Missouri river. The
body could not be identified, having the
clothing all stripped off and being so
long in the water
Mike Morris, q resident of Cass
county reported TO the police in South
Omaha that he had been slugged by
unknown parties and robbed of S65
and gold watch by couple of new
ly-found friends there.
At Fairfield funds have been sub
scribed and organization completed for
a farmers elevator and grain company,
with H. e. Mcdowell as president; B.
w. Campbell, vice president; e. T.
.Cowen. secretary and F. T. Swanson,
treasurer.
At Seward William Wilcox, thirty
five years old applied to the county
judge for q license to marry Grace
Seaman, girl of fifteen years of age
Judge Leavens refused to issue the
license on the grounds that the girl
was too young to marry.
While he and an employee at the
Taylor ranch in Hall county were try
ing to teach a broncho how to wear q
bride, a halter rope broke with
snap and flew with great force into
Mr.. Fagan's face, badly burning the
flesh and injuring one eye.
William Biting, a Gage county
boy, was badly cut and bruised about
the body while leading a COW. He had
tied the rope around his waist and
when the animal started to run he
was unable to release himself. He
was dragged about 100 yards.
Within the past two years Friend has
expended in churches alone upward of
$4,000, as follows: Catholics, $4,000;
Congregationalists $4,000 Baptists,
$4,000; Methodists, $4,000; German
Methodists, $1,000 The Methodist
church was dedicated June II.
Surveyors who are working on a
railroad line west of Fremont are now
in Colfax county about ten miles north
OF the line of the Union Pacific, the
line being a straight one from where
1t leaves the northwestern corner Of
the town, are about ten miles north
east Of North Bend, and an equal dis.
lance southwest of Scribner Leavitt
is passed about mile to the north.
AT ENrnmnUf IIA1IADhao1, l.
cided the divorce case of Cora G. Kell
against Rev. j. L. Kell in favor of the
plaintiff. awarding her the custody of
| their children. The court reviewed the
| evidence at some length. He held that
the evidence sustained the plaintiffs
charges Of cruelty Rev. Kell is in
good standing in the United Brethren
| church.
At the mass meeting held by the cit
ibens of Seward at the court house,
last Thursday night in regard to the
| Burlington leaving Seward four or five
miles away from the main line of the
railroad, speeches were made and a
committee of nine on comforting with
the railroad officials was appointed
The Denver & Omaha railroad, which
is supposed to be the Rock Island,
is likely to come through Seward soon.
Ord has candidate for a Carnegie
medal A 3-year-old son of Nes John
son fell in an old we'll nearly sixty
feet deep. He was caught by a plat
form before reaching the water and
held thereby till Daw Harris, who Is
working for Mr., Johnson, lowered a
rope and climbed down. He put the
child on his shoulders and climbed to
the top, using the rope and getting an
occasional foothold on the rough sides
of the well.
A gang of worl5men were put to work
last week on the changes to be made
in the Burlington yards at Ashland
The first work to be done is the re
moval of a large hill south of the sta
ton and the extension of the yards Il
a distance of mile with added track
age. This will be followed by com
plete change in all the service build
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