Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1908-01-02
NEBRASKA POINTERS
STATE NEWS AND NOTES IN CON.
DENsED FORM.
The PRESS, PULPIT AND PUBLIC
What iS Going on Here and There That
Is Of Interest to the Readers
Throughout Nebraska.


At Hoskins, BERTHE Judge was &C.
cidentally shot with small rife by
her brother, Henry, the bullet lodging
in her neck.
Charles j. Balbach, pioneer of On
aha and for many years superintend-
ent of the smelling works, died in
Sandwich, Ont, where he was visit
ing his daughter.
Word was received in David City
by John Litty from Billings, Mont, an
nouncing the drowning of his son,
Fred Litty, at that place. The body
will be brought to Nebraska.
A petition is in circulation at Ok
ford requesting the appointment Of e.
p. Reichardt as postmaster to sue
coed ]. l.. Lashbrook, whose term ex-
pires the latter part Of February.
John Stevens, of Grand Island, a
hickman, attempted suicide in the
yard of one Of the houses in the pro-
scribed district, mile east Of the
city. His condition is very serious.
The members of the Congregation
al church of Pierce have extended
call to Rev. William Ellwaad Of An
thony, Kas, to become their pastor
and their invitation has been accepted.
AS result of two sensational Cases
in district court at McCook, coming
from the restricted district of the city,
the lid is on tight and the mayor and
entire police force are sitting on the
| lid.
Word has been received in Falls
| City from the Consolidated Lyceum
bureau cancelling the lecture course
as planned for that city this winter,
as the jump from Chicago is too great
and expense will be too high.
Brown county has no bonded debt
and no outstanding warrants. One
third of the 1907 warrants were paid
in the last six weeks. Land that sold
three years since for $1,000 has sold
recently for $4,000 and $4,000.
Special Commissioner John H.
Marble of the Interstate Commerce
commission, who was sent to Lincoln
to take evidence in the complaint of
the State Railway commission against
the Union Pacific Railroad company
mer student of the University of Ne
braska.
The appointment Of Miss Hattie A.
Little as postmistress of the office in
Geneva, meets with general satsfac.
ton among the patrons, in fact, there
was at no time any organized opposi-
ton to her, and it was generally con-
ceded that she ought to have the Of
fee. She had served several years as
deputy.
Friends of Robert Zahnow, the
Cunning caunty farmer whose valuable
team was stolen from the streets Of
| Bancroft three weeks ago have sub
scribed to a fund of S215 to be given
as a reward for the recovery OF the
stolen property and the arrest OF the
thieves. This makes a total of $515
offered in this case.
The eighteen pair of Hungarian
cartridges ordered for the vicinity Of
Long Pine arrived and were distrib-
uted at different points along the
canon. The birds created no little
amount of curiosity to people on the
streets as they are new bird in that
county. They somewhat resemble the
quail, but are considerably larger.
The Nebraska supreme court holds
that the drainage law is good and the
preliminary work was well done and
the work on the $4,000 ditch to
straighten the crooked Nemaha will
soon begin. Over two years ago the
Richardson county drainage district
No. was organized for the purpose
of retaining $4,000 acres of the most
fertile soil in this county from over
flows.
Evansville Ond) dispatch: John
Partenheimer, aged IS, and Edward
Harvey, aged 10, were arrested at Fort
Branch Ind, few miles north of
here, on information received from
Fremont, Neb. The lads are wanted
at Fremont on the charges Of bur
glary and grand larceny. Under close
examination Harvey admitted taking
$25 from his employer at Fremont
and dividing it with his partner, but
both deny the charge of burglary.
A st. Joseph (Mo.) dispatch says:
Fred Casey, whose arrest has been
sought by federal authorities for shoot
ing to death Jesse Murray, February
"a, last, near SCOTS Bluff, Neb., where
both were engaged in work on gov
eminent irrigation plant is under ar
rest here, and has been identified by
Mrs. Murray as the man who killed
her husband. Casey admitted the
shooting. The trouble started ovel
. Casey accusing Murray of stealing ;
$40 check from him.
Two brothers named Ellis arrived II
Beatrice from Orleans, in search o
their two sisters, who left that place
on the night of December 8. Th'
young women stopped in Beatrice TO
several days and purchased tickets
, later for Omaha.