Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-03-28
NEBRASKA NEWS AND NOTES.
GATHERED FROM EXCHANGES
AND PRESS DISPATCHES.
Miscellaneous Items Of Interest Bear
ing Upon Many Subjects of
General Concern.

was held at Gordon.
Work has been begun on the Y NJ.
G. A. building at Fremont.
Union Pacific taxes paid in Butler
county amount to $24,289.03.
A gray wolf weighing about forty
pounds was killed near Beatrice.
Modern Women of North Bend will
probably build for their own use.
The Ben Hur lodge at David City in
itiated 100 members in single night.
r. w. VallerauX of Omaha succeeds
c. M. Gearez as Missouri Pacific agent
at Union.
The smallpox situation at Alliance
has improved and no new cases are
looked for.
The Burlington is protecting its
track at Schuyler by placing rock in
the Platte river.
Yankton and Southern railroad sur
veyors have been operating in the vi
cinity of Schuyler.
The Union Pacific and B. & NJ roads
are calling Off contracts since passage
of the two-cent law.
Thirty students were suspended
from the Grand Island Business col
lege for taking part in a public dance.
The Standard Bridge company of
Omaha was the successful bidder for
the bridge contract for Cunning
county
Frank Taylor of Burt county,
young men II years old, was arrested
ard fined $50 for shooting into
school house.
George H. Davis of Blue Springs is
just finishing the erection of the larg-
est stone crushing plant in the state
at a cost of over $4,000.
One of the worst prairie fires to &C.
cur in the section around Sutherland
for years destroyed thousands of acres
of valuable range for the ranchmen
and homesteaders.
A party of Union Pacific surveyors
have established an office at North
Bend and are laying out plans for the
new double track to be laid between
Valley and Kearney.
While returning to his home in a
buggy A II. Hill, a well-known resi-
dent Of Lyons, was held up on the
road three miles north of Lyons. He
Cost SIS and his watch.
The Hfmingford Creamery com
pany has ceased to do business, a
final dividend to the stockholders hav-
ing been declared and the affairs of
the corporation wound up.
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guilty to assaulting Mrs. w. j. De-
venney and Mrs Grover Devenney at
Tecumseh. He implicated Clifford
Chadwick, who will be arrested.
The Union Pacific followed the lead
of the Burlington and paid into the
Howard county treasury delinquent
taxes for which Judgment had been
rendered in the United States supreme
court in the amount OF $16,957.9O.
Mr.. Durdin, city marshal of Blue
Hill, has received letter from Coun-
Gil Bluffs warning him to be on the
lookout for gang of lightning rod
grafters who were supposed to be
working in that part of the state.
James Taylor of Diller was killed at
Guthrie, Okla, where he had taken a
car of goods for his father. He stuck
his head from the car door as a
switch engine ran past and the door
was forced against his neck, breaking
st.
James M Cook, former prominent
lumber merchant of Julian, who was
arrested and heavily fined several
months ago for selling liquor without
a license, was again arrested and has
been sent to Lincoln as a dipsomao
MAC.
Set April % as the day for dedicating
their new church. The pastor, Rev. J.
p. Yost, has been to Kansas City for
the purpose of securing Bishop Will
son for this occasion. The bishop has
consented to be present.
The Bikhorn river by it's recent ca
pers abandoned its usual bed east of
Fremont and is now cutting through
a farm owned by Peter Ryan. Mr..
Ryan will lose twenty acres Of val
uahle land by the change in the
course of the stream.
Directors of the Farmers independ-
ent Elevator company of York coun-
ty, have decided to sell the elevator
building and business 1t is under
stood they have about $500 invested
in property. The elevator has not
been a paying investment.
Parties near Brownville made big
catch of ash in the Missouri river.
One thousand pounds of big catfish
were shipped to a butcher in Tecum-
sch The fish weighed from five to
forty pounds, most of them being
above the ffteen-pound mark.
Two-cent-a-mie rate, the state re-
quirement, is all that the Northeast
ern Nebraska Teachers association
will be given by railroads for its Ere.
mont meeting April 3-5. Senator La
Toilette will speak.