Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-07-25
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Polit.
leal and Other Matters Given
Due Consider alton.

Former Governor Mickey has decid- |
ed to return to Osceola, which place
was his home before he was elected |
governor.
Soellner Bros Clothing and fur
nishing store at Scots Bluffs, was al
most destroyed by fire. The stock
was valued at over $4,000.
The Carroll Lumber and Grain com
pany has filed its articles of incorpora
ton with Secretary of State JenlSin.
The capital stock is $4,000.
Seventeen new members were re-
ceived into the Presbyterian church
at Lyons on Sunday three of them
being received by letter and fourteen
on confession of faith
Treasurer Brian has received word
from eighteen banks which refuse TO
pay the per cent interest on state
deposits and he Is now withdrawing
the state money from these banks.
The Primrose Record scores farm
ers and others who drive into town
and hitch their horses in the scorch-
ing hot sun, leaving the animals with
out shade or water for hours at a
time.
Frank Sohlegter, proprietor Of q
fruit stand at Hastings was seriously
and perhaps fatally injured by falling
into the elevator shaft of q wholesale
| house, where he had gone to place an
order.
State Superintendent McBrien has
gone to Los Angeles to attend the Ma
| t.,,1.v
at which he is to appear twice on the
program. He expects to be gone Mt
least ten days.
Peace reigns again at the brick
plant in Humboldt and the machinery
Is again running at full blast Prac
tically all of the strikers have been
taken back on application and are ell.
ing their old places.
Monday morning William Vande-
berg, Of Nebraska City, who was sent
to the asylum some time ago as a dip.
somaniac, was taken to Lincoln again
as he had violated his parole. He is
a resident OF Talmage,
Alexander Maril, Bohemian farm
er who lived near Morse Bluff, lost
his life on the Superior line Of the
| Northwestern when freight train No.
204 ran over him. Maril was asleep
on the track. He had been drinking.
At mass meeting of the citizens
and business men of Beatrice 1t was
voted to mold three days celebra-
ton and trade carnival in commemo-
ration of the fifteenth anniversary of
the founding of the city of Beatrice.
ton, charged with criminally assault.
ing Miss Mary Koehn. The story of
the alleged crime as related by a
younger brother of the victim, is that
one of the men held him while the
other bound and gagged his sister and
then committed the crime with which
they are charged.
A report was received in Beatrice
from Marysville, Kan, to the effect
that the first new wheat marketed at
that place tested siXty-four pounds to
the bushel. Farmers in Gage county
are of the opinion that there are
number of fields which will yield as
high as thrty-five bushels to the acre.
1t is said that the big cut of the
Burlington near Milford is nearing
completion, and that but about SOY.
enty thousand yards of dirt yet re
main to be moved on that particular
part of the work. The big steam SHOW
els have been burrowing into this hill
for year, with thesresult that a great
cash has been cut.
All Nebraska dairymen have been
asked by the state railway commission
to attend public hearing on August
6 when the new proposed rates on
milk and cream will be discussed.
The commissioners are of the opinion
that the new schedule increasing the
rates on cream will discriminate
against the small creamery.
Herman Boche, awaiting trial at
Madison for numbering Frank Jar
mer at Norfolk tried to commit sui.
eide four times during the day, but
lived. Three efforts were by hanqing
one by battering his head against the
cement floor of the Jail Earlier Boche
also tried to run away while walking
about the jail yard with Sheriff Glen.
ents.
A travelling man who spent Thurs
day and Friday along the line of the
Union Pacific in Nebraska said he sa
@ carload Of hogs turned out of a
stock car into the yards at little way
station, and that half Of the hogs died
from heat soon after. When they
were unloaded some of the animals
were almost exhausted, and they died
soon after.
A. ]. Anderson, pile driver foreman
for the Burlington railroad, lost his
life by drowning, while at work near
Gibson, four miles south of Omaha.
He was working on the driver and in
some manner lost his footing and fell
into the river.
The State Board OF Equalization
will meet this week to begin work of
equalizing between the values of the
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