Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1908-03-26
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
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Due Consideration.

number of shop men at Omaha.
License or no license will be the Isl
sue in many towns in the forthcoming
elections.
At the regular meeting of the Sew
ard school board the teachers of the
high school were reelected for the
coming year, with their salaries in
creased S. a month.
The resolutions of the Stereotypers
and Electrotypers union Of Omaha IA
voring abolition of the duty on paper
pulp was presented by Senator Brown
in the upper house of congress.
Suit has been brought in the dis
trict court of Antelope county by
Bertha May Saxton against her broth.
er-in-law, John X. SaXton of Tilden
for Islander, claiming damages to the
amount of $4,000
a number of citizens of Humboldt
met at the Presbyterian church and
organized a society to be known as
The Good Citizens league, the aim of
which shall be the improvement OF
moral conditions of the city.
Murray Putnam, local live stock
fancier, called at the Tecumseh eX-
press Office with an order for one pig.
Agent II. G.. Drysdale insisted on Civ
ing him seven. Mr.. Putnam had
bought fine brood SOW out in the
state and had shipped her to Tecum-
sch by express. In the night the
stork had invaded the express room.
In answer to letter written by
State Game Warden Carter TO Presi-
dent Carter to President Roosevelt,
the United States war department has
issued an order that will close the
grounds of Fort Niobrara to hunters
in all seasons on all kinds of game.
For the last three weeks, says an
Alliance dispatch, west-hound trains
have been hauling actual settlers H.
TO this county and west at an aver.
age of about twenty-five emigrant
cars daily. This Is the practical re.
suits of the advertising done through
out the east last fall and winter by
the Burlington in its agricultural car.
p. Coursey Richards, who is serv-
ing a twelve years sentence for a
crime alleged to have been committed
upon his young stepdaughter, has ap-
piled to Gov. Sheldon for pardon
Richards was convicted in 1902 He
was paroled by Gov. Mickey to the
commandant of the soldiers home at
Milford and is at the home now. He
was a soldier of the civil war.
The Nebraska Travelling Mems
Bryan club will hold banquet in Lin
coin just before the Denver conven-
tion. This was decided at a meeting
last week. The date selected was
July 3. A. V. Johnson of Lincoln,
president of the club, was present and
presided over the meeting. About
thirty members of the organization
were in attendance.
The exhibit car fitted up by the
Burlington with farm products of
western Nebraska, the Big Horn
Basin, Colorado, and Montana. was
on the tracks at Table Rock, and was
visited by great many people. The
exhibit was an eye opener to great
many, who have but crude ideas of
the possibilities of the great new
west.
sentatives covering Nemaha county
gathering catalpa seeds. The men
are paid by the pound and are able
to make from Sc to So per day and
have already shipped nearly a ton of
seeds. The nursery will grow seed
lings and sell to parties who desire
to grow posts, railroad ties and tele.
phone poles. Last fall this one con
Germ alone handled thirteen carloads
of seedlings and did not have enough
for the demands.
The sixth annual meeting of the
Northeast Nebraska Odd Fellows as
ISOLATION was held at Wakefield.
Nearly 400 Odd Fellows and Rebekahs
were in attendance, A program was
given in the Auditorium which was
free to the public and the house was
packed. After the program officers
of the association were elected as
follows; Charles Jones of Harrington,
president; A. V. Tweed of Ponca, vice
president II, L. Peck OF Randolph,
secretary, The next meeting will be
held in Harrington.
John s. Orr was confined in the
city jail at Lincoln after refusing to
plead in the suit brought against him
by State Land Commissioner Eaton,
who charges him with obtaining
money under false pretenses. Orr
was brought back from Crawford by
city detective James Malone. Eaton
claims that Orr represented himself
as citizen of Sheridan, Mont, with
a bank account in the Sheridan State
bank. He succeeded in inducing
Eaton to indorse a check which he
wrote on the Sheridan bank.
Mike Murphy, Hugh Stewart, Gus
Widick, James Beggs and Sam Shult2,
five prosperous farmers living near
Friend, We're caught SEEMING fish from
the waters of Turkey creek Each was
fined $40 and costs.
Nelson Jones and James Mckinney
found 272 pounds of copper in a sewer
near the Burlington shops in Platts'
mouth which had been hidden there nv