Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1908-02-20
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF
NEWS NOTES OF INTEREST FROM
VARIOUS SECTIONS.
ALL SUBJECTS TOUCHED UPON
Religious, Social, Agricultural, Pollt
cal and other Matters Given
Due Consideration.


ditional letter carriers.
The new brewery at Hastings Is
about ready for business.
The Northwestern railroad has
gathered big ice crop at Valentine.
The Indians trAro around Decatur
have just discovered that Herman has
an ample supply of fire water.
+. A. Brown of Plattsmouth acct
Sentally discharged his gun and put
22-caliber ball through his hand,
making bad wound.
William Cubbison of Columbus Is
more wives than the law allows. 1t
is alleged he has had a couple of wives
for more than three years.
Anna Zuber of Scribner has filed a
petition for divorce from her husband,
the landlord of the Harder hotel at
that town, on the ground of undue in
timacy with woman there.
Mrs. Oscar Albion was painfully in
jured at her home south of Wilsonville
by being thrown beneath her carriage
and dragged several hundred feet
while the team was running.
The receipts of the office of the Sec
rotary of state for the month of jan
uary are nearly three times as great
as a year ago. The 1908 receipts were,
$2,5B3.17, against $9929O last January.
The Farmers Elevator company of
Blue Springs has handled over $4,000
bushels of grain during the last two
weeks Much of the grain was shipped
to Colorado and as far west as Wash
ington.
York county farmers, owing to the
low prices paid for hogs, are killing
and putting up meat and many are
smoking and sailing meat and will
have more than necessary for their
own consumption.
The case of Lorenzo Hile against
County Treasurer Troupe of Buffalo
county and certain state officers has
| been appealed to the supreme court.
The case involves the lease of 100
acres of educational lands.
The republican county committee
of Dodge county has decided to hold a
| primary election for the purpose Of
| giving the voters an opportunity to
express their preference for presiden.
tial candidates on February 20.
William Ehmen, a farmer living
near Pickrell, was seriously injured
by being run over by wagon loaded
with sand. His team ran away, throw
ing him under the wagon. Both his
| legs were broken below the knees.
Governor Sheldon issued a requisi-
ton on the governor of Minnesota for
the return of John Donaldson, one Of
the four men charged with robbing
passengers on Rock Island train be-
tween Lincoln and Omaha last fall.
The numerous farm sales in Cum
ing county are notable for the very
high prices obtained for stock, pro-
duce and personal property generally.
At the farm sale of Otto Gehrhardt,
a renter, the receipts were over $4,000.
There promises, to be a hot contest
at the coming city election in wy
more. The question of wet or dry
will come up for the people to vote
on, and the saloon element and the
church element will each make hard
fight.
| Mrs. Louis Kreifels, wife of we'll
known farmer, living eight miles south
| of Nebraska City, secured a bottle of
carbolic acid and drank the contents.
Whether it was accidental or suicidal
is not known. She died from the eff
fects of the drug.
The residents of the north edge of
| do GOD -
Hall county participated in a wolf
hunt in which twenty-three wolves
were captured out of twenty-five round
ed up. 1t is claimed that this is a
record breaker for the state.
Senator Burkett, says n Washing
ton dispatch, called up and had passed
his bill granting about $50 acres of
land to the village of Valentine, which
is part of the Fort Niobrara military
reservation for reservoir purposes and
- be used for supplying Valentine
with water
A larger number of contest cases
than ever before are being heard this
winter by the clerk of the district
court of Kimball county. The price OF
ACCOMPLISHMENTS of homesteads has
gone so high, in many cases reaching
$1,000, that people are watching every
claim in the county for a chance to
contest 1t.
The report of Warden Beemer fol
the month of January shows there
are now in the penitentiary 402 con
victs. The first of the month the roll
showed 404; eighteen convicts were
received, nine were discharged, two
were committed and one executed
There were 272 convicts employed
under contract
Word comes from Marysville, Kas.
that plans are being made to resum,
work on the Marysville-Topeka cutof
of the Union Pacific road within tn,
next few weeks. Work was shut dowI
recently when the financial fur.
struck that section.
i Every railroad which enters Oman;
| and has executive Offices I'm Chicag,