Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-01-10
OVER THE STATE.

rIdllh OWODOud, an lnSdue uudu, III
the Norfolk asylum, committed sui
eide.
Geneva's new library and reading
room was formerly opened New Years
day.
Beatrice will select team to de-
bate with the humboldt High School
pupils.
Beatrice's Salvation Army distri-
buted twenty-five bushels of food and
$50 garments.
w. Il. Rose has filed with the gov
ernor his bond for $4,000 as deputy
attorney general.
Three cases Of smallpox are re-
ported in the family of J. r. walker,
north of Beatrice.
Attorney General Brown will move
to Kearney as soon as his term of Of
fee expires.
The Union Pacific will add to its
shop facilities at Omaha by erecting
an $4,000 paint shop.
w. r. Gore of Beatrice sues the
Burlington for $477.42 damages for
delay in shipping cattle.
II. e. Sweedy, editor of the Cort-
land Sun, was quarantined for several
weeks as a smallpox patient.
AS result of the Mcconnell meet
ing at Fairmont, 100 persons have
Joined churches united in the revival.
William Kline, a young man of
Sterling, was brought before the in
sanity commission at Tecumseh and
was adjudged insane. He was or
dered taken to the Lincoln asylum.
While husking corn at his farm near
Harbine, a German farmer named
Kratz in stopping strucw his right
zee against stalk, the end of which
pierced the eyeball. He will lose the
sight of the eye.
Mrs Mollie Garrens Smashed" the
business house of H. M. Townsley at
Union with an axe, alleging it was a
liquor Joint" The proprietor is I'M
der bonds on charge Of selling liquor
without a license.
William Kern died at the Soldiers
Home in Grand sland at the age of IS
years. He was member of Company
B, First Minnesota volunteer infan-
try, and was admitted to the home
from Arcadia, Valley county, in 1904
State Treasurer Mortensen has
started a conscience fund and at this
time it contains $25, received from a
man who once upon time broke
Nebraska law, since which time his
conscience has never ceased to trouble
him.
A Burlington conductor says that
more people travelled during the week
preceding Christmas than he ever
knew to travel during that period be-
FORE and he is wondering where people
get so much money to pay for rail-
road fares
On the complaint OF the officers of
the Nebraska Children's home, two
children have been taken from the
family of a man named HolJon, at
Nebraska City, and will be sent to
Omaha. They were being allowed to
roam the streets without restraint, the
girl being 10 years of age and the
boy
The State Teachers association
elected the following officers for the
ensuing year: A. H. Warehouse of
Omaha, president; e. e. Magee of
Ashland, vice president; Katherine,
Woods of Peru, secretary; r. D. Over.
holt Of Minden, treasurer; e. B. Sher-,
man, member of the executive COM,
mittee to take the place of w. H. Card
ner, whose term expires.
In his biennial report Insurance
Auditor John l.. Pierce recommends
the passage of a fire marshal law,
passage of a law limiting the liability
Of surety company on any one risk
to one-tenth of the amount of the
company's capital and surplus, an act
providing for publishing brief alb
stracts Of annual Statements of for
eign legal reserve life insurance COM
panies, and new section providing
for fees to be paid by all legal re-
serve life companies.
Two applications were filed with
Governor Mickey for pardons, Harry
Dow, sentenced for three years for
grand larceny from North Platte, and
Charles Schear, sentenced for three
years for robbery from Douglas coun-
ty. Both men entered the peniten-
tiary last December. Dow stole a grip
and an overcoat from Conductor An
ierson of the Union Pacific, which
the jury valued at $51. Anderson has
filed letter with the governor that
the value of the two articles when new
was, $26.
One OF the most interesting cases
before the supreme court, was the
contest case from Saline county over
the office OF county treasurer. The
contestants are c. ]. Bowlby, the In
cumbent, and p. f. Dodson, who claims
that his opponent Is Ineligible for the
reason that the statutes prohibit a
county treasurer from holding Office
for three consecutive terms. Mr.. Bowl
by, who has served one full term and
s.aks -