Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-02-08
NEBRASKA BRIEFS

appendicitis in Fremont in one week.
A grand union revival has been ar.
ranged by all the churches of Edgar
The public school at Chalco, Sarpy
county, has been closed on account Of
scarlet fever.
Charles Hacker. Fremont saloon
Keeper was fined SIS for selling IL
quor on Sunday.
George Roberts of Wahoo, was ad-
| judged insane and was taken to the
asylum at Lincoln.
The incubator factory at Clay Cen
ter Is being enlarged to accommodate
increasing business.
The price of live stock in Cunning
county is following closely the upward
tendency in prices OF land.
The price of live stock in Cunning
county is following closely the upward
tendency in the prices of land.
Will Wickham, young man resid-
ing in Elk Creek has the thumb and
front finger Of his right hand badly
hurt In buzz saw.
Hon. William e. Richie, promi-
nent farmer stockraiser, and ex-mem-
Der of the legislature from Seward
county, died last week.
The Lininger Implement company
of Omaha has filed articles Of incorpo-
ration with the secretary of state. The
capital stock is 100000.
The saloon men of Plattsmouth
have been called upon the carpet and
told by the county attorney that hence
forth they must obey the Slocumb law.
At Hastings the Y. NJ G. A. fund
of $4,000 has been completed and
work will be commenced by the first
of February, for the erection of the
new building.
The observation-disclosures Grain COM
pany has decided to close its elevator
at Fremont and Agent Morrison will
be transferred to some other point and
the building removed
Fire destroyed the large barn, to-
gether with the contents, including
eleven head of horses, belonging to
Paul Johnson, farmer living about
ten miles south of Ashland.
A rife club to be part of the nation
al rifle association is being organized
In Beatrice and paper Is being cir
culated for the signature of twenty
names who are to compose the charter
; membership.
At Elkhorn Miss Mary Beck has
commenced suit against the four sa-
loonkeepers for selling liquor to her
husband, John Beck, alleging that he
came to his death while in an intoxi-
Gated condition.
A. G. Buckmaster while hunting
along the Platte river shot fine speci-
men of the American eagle. 1t has
been mounted by local taxidermist
: and placed on exhibition in one of the
= stores of Ashland.
) The tenth annual meeting OF the
J Elkhorn Valley Medical society was
= held in Norfolk. This Is now said to
( be the strongest society of it's kind in
J.. the state outside of the state associa.
ton. 1t always meets in Norfolk.
J., John Borden of Arborville, York
. county, at great expense purchased
hounds and makes nice income
catching wolves and coyotes. Recently
= he brought to County Clerk C. G. Bos-
: low thirteen gray wolf scalps and
: eight coyotes.
: Nearly 100 men and boys engaged
3 in a hunt for coyotes south of Wood
River and as a result of the hunt a
large number of the animals were
killed. They are very numerous and
;, even getting so tame as to come into
!, the farm yards.
. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Barrick of Wood
c River, who are employed in the Gus
a tom house at Manila and who have
:. been visiting in the Nebraska town for
!, some time, left for Washington, D. C.
!, to try If possible to secure a similar
= position in the United States.
A prairie fire which began in the
northern part of Deuel. county swept
south over forty miles of prairie be
i fore it was extinguished two
u ranches and twenty head of stool
i were destroyed and twelve otheI
IL ranches damaged. Loss, $4,000.
II Samuel Parker of Thurston county
= under sentence to serve five year,
In the penitentiary for manslaughter
will be released from custody pending
decision in his appeal to the SUI
preme court, His attorney, r. L
d Sloan presented a $4,000 bail bone
Is which has been approved.
% A company of Omaha and Lincoln
H. stockholders has been formed 70
ID erecting crushed stone plant aloni
H. the bluffs bordering the Platte rive
st between Ashland and South Bend Of
et the Burlingtons old main line t
lie Plattsmouth. The timber has beel
p cleared. the formation uncovered an
d, the material for the crushers has bee
e. ordered, Two crushers will be in
IL stalled and about eighty men en-
ployed.
w. w. Camp, farmer, who reside