Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-03-01
OVER TINT STATE.

ers and w. r. Davis forty with the
dreaded disease.
Forty-eight japanese laborers, who
have been employed by the Union Pa
cific unloading steel west of Kearney,
struck and were at once discharged.
Sam Coon, Chinaman, has been
sent to the county Jail at Norfolk be-
cause he threatened to shoot his wife,
a colored women.
Peter Nelson was severely kicked by
Brooks farm west of Bancroft. The
horse kicked him in the face, knock
ing out several teeth.
Word has been received in Beatrice
from Glendora, Cal, announcing that
Mrs Maggie V. Netzley, until recently
a resident of Adams, Gage county, was
burned to death at that place.
Charged with brutally beating Rob-
ert Ricken, 3 years old Mrs. Myrtle
Heckathorne was fined So and costs by
Beatrice. She paid her fine and was
released
A fire at Winside totally destroyed
the general merchandise store Of G. S.
Farran, F. S. Tracys furniture and
hardware stock and caused a loss of
more than $1,000 to A. H. Carter on
goods stored in the building.
DR.. Charles Raver of Tekamah sue
ceeded in bagging three more Cana
dian geese. The doctor made new
record. He went out and killed these
three geese in the first three shots
and was back to town in just one hour
and fifteen minutes. This makes ten
Canadas the doctor has killed in one
week.
At a special meeting of the city
council called for the purpose, the city
of Aurora granted the Aurora electric
light and power company a twenty
year extension of it's franchise, modi.
ned by a quinquennial option to the
city to purchase the plant, should the
city so elect, at a price to be fixed by
stipulated basis of appraisal.
Robert Wilbert, a farmer living ten
miles northwest of Ainsworth, was in
town and bought load of lumber AS
he was driving out and was seated on
top of the load, when he went to go
out of the door he jerked his head
down and the top of the door caught
the back of his neck and it was so
badly mashed that fatal results are
| feared
Prof. e. H. Barbour of the state uni
versity expects to attend the meeting
of curators of museums to be held in
New York City May Is. Organization
will be perfected at this meeting,
which is the first of it's kind. DR..
Barbour says that one of the great
est reforms that will be brought about
by this organization will be uniformity
in classification of exhibits.
The officers of the farmers institute
of Gage county have decided to organ
iZe school for boys of Gage county
for a corn-growing contest and the
school girls for a cooking contest.
Each boy will receive a pint of Sc
lected corn, which he must plant and
cultivate and make his exhibit and re-
port next fall The girls are to COM
pete in the making OF wheat and corn
bread.
Much excitement prevails among the
citizens OF Clear Creek valley and
Westerville, Custer county, over the
promised extension of the Union Pa.
cific railway from Loup City through
Westerville. Bonds are requested OF
the townships through which the pro.
posed extension runs. Westerville
and Myrtle townships have been re-
quested to each vote $25, 5000 in bonds
as bonus.
State Oil inspector Ed Church ex
plains that he was unable to turn into
the state treasury more than 1897 Ga
. for the month of January from fees
of his Office because he spent $500 fol
railroad mileage books for himself and
his deputies. The railroads did not re
new the passes of the people in the
state oil inspection department, none
= were requested, and Mr.. Church was
: obliged to buy mileage books.
Among the inmates brought to the
: Nebraska state insane hospital at Nor
: folk are man and his wife Sheriff
Mears of Wayne county, who brought
: them, carried home with him a little
one-year-old baby girl and led by the
hand another little girl three years
old, children of the insane pair, who
are to be given away into homes thai
can be found. The demented couple
recently came from Chicago.
5 The twelYe-yearold son of Miltor
5 Hudson, farmer residing near Elba
? saved a train from being ditched The
: boy happened to discover a broker
1 rail. About eighteen inches of the raj
had evidently been torn out by a pre-
/ vious train or in some other manner
l Though the weather was approaching
: that of blizzard the boy managed t.
3 attract the attention of the engineer
and the train was stopped within {
few feet of the break.
John Cox, an engineer in charge O.