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Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1910-10-06
GROUND TO PIECES
Louis Rooknau Meets A Horrible
Meath The Wheels of u
Freight.

Louis Booknau, one of the pionee
in horrible manner Sunday mornin
while trying to board a moving freig
train at Hazard, about thirty-five
miles east of here. Mr.. Booknau
owned property in Sherman county
and went down to Hazard Saturday
night in order to attend to some de-
tails regarding it. Sunday morning
he was ready to return home and
signifying his intention of boarding
No. AZ mad riding as far as Ansley
the nearest railraod point to West
erville, his destination. Instead of
No. At an extra freight came along
and Mr. Booknau seeing that it did
not stop made an effort to catch one
of the cars. Being an old man he
was probably not sure of his footing
and the bystanders were Mortified
to see him drop between the cars on
to therails. The wheels passed over
both legs severing them completely;
and then as if to prolong the awful
seght a brakebeam caught the body
and drew it under where it was
ground to a shapeless mass. Thir-
teen freight cars passed over the
spot where he fell and when the re-
mains were gathered up pieces Of
sacking and cloth had to be used to
hold the particles of flesh and bone.
The remains were taken to Ansley
and put in a coffin. They were
moved from there to Westerville, at
which place the funeral occurred on
Tuesday.
Louis Booknau was about 65 year
OF age and had lived in Custer coun
ty nearly thirty years, having orig
inally come here from the state of
Iowa. For number of years he ru
a hardware store at Westerville and
later Oh went into the stock business
and then farming on a large scale.
He has always prospered, from the
business point of view, and at the
time of his death was counted anon
the wealthy men of the county, his
fortune being estimated somewhere
in the neighborhood of $150,000.
He had never married and during
the past two years has made his
headquarters at Lincoln, living there
with his sister Jennie. Many of his
business interests were centered in
the county, however, in and about
WesterVille, and he spent much of
his time up here looking after them,
Mr.. Booknau is survived by sister
two brothers and a half brother,
Press Booknau, who lives about nine
miles east of here. Ono of the bro
theirs lives in Iowa and the other
in Washington. Miss Jennie resides
"a Lincoln.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1910-10-06
The Big Log Rolling.

The second annual Log Rolling of
the Broken Bow Modern Woodmen
will take place here next Wednesday
II the weather man does the right
thing and regulates storms and high
winds to the wishes of the people,
there will probably be the biggest
gathering here the Woodmen ever
had. All OF the camps in this sec
ton of the state will be represented
ard hundreds Of people will take pa
in the celebration. The streets will
monopolize the attractions during
the day, while the opera house is to
be the scene of the nights program.
1t will be a carnival of day and nigh
with lots of sport, good attractions
and excellent music. The 10000
trophy cup won by Ansley last year
will be competed for by various for
ester teams, while another beautiful
trophey cup has been prepared for
the Royal Neighbors in their COM
petitive drills.
There are also prizes in cash for
the best floor work, the camp send
ing the largest percentage of men,
bership and the camp sending the
largest delegation. Not the least
pleasing feature of the occasion are
the unlimited quantity Of good thing
to eat that will be on tap to all visit
ing Woodmen free of charge.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1910-10-06
CLAIM PETlTINOS
ARE NOT LEGAL
NJ and&mus Proceedings Commenced
to Compel the County Board to
Reconsider their Action.
MANY IRREGULARlTlE

Jos. Pigman on behalf of the anti
divionists of Custer county has COM
menced action in the district court
for a writ of mandamus TO require
the board of supervisors to assemble
and set aside the order to submit the
question of dividing Custer county
and erecting therefrom the pro.
posed new counties of Corn and Rose
Only the petitions of these two
named proposed counties are ques-
toned. The plaintiff asks that he be
permitted to offer evidence that the
said division petitions have not been
signed by a majority of the legal
voters in the two counties ramed.
The action of the county board
in granting these petitions was some
what unusual. When the northeast,
or Corn county petition came in Mr..
Pigman filed a request asEing that
the petition be laid over for thirty
days, in order to give the anti-divi.
siCuists a chance to thoroughly eX-
anime it. A tie vote was had on
the matter. Supervisors Norris, Gill
more and Grint voting to reject the
Pigman request, while Supervisors
Dewey, Cushman and Foley voted to
sustain the request. Supervisor Head
le was absent. The following day
TIE presence of Supervisor Headley
was occurred and he joined with the
first named Supervisors in rejecting
the Pigman request. E.
Chairman Morris then appointed
committee consisting of Supervisor
Grint. Gilmore and Dewey to examine
and report on the petition. Super
visors Grint and Gilmore submitted
majority report declaring that the
petition was signed by a majority of
The legal voters of the proposed
county, the said majority being a..
Supervisor Dewey submitted a min
o.itv report, stating that he did not
believe that the petition had the re
quired number of signers ard recon-
mended that the Pigman request be
grated,
At this point Jos. Pigman filed a
second protest declaring that the pc
tition was referred to the committee
at 1890 a. m. and that the time
which had elapsed from that until
the report of the committee which
was made on the afternoon of the
same day, was utterly Insufficient
for a reasonable Investigation to be
made. Pigman further stated in his
protest that the committee of Super
vi3Grs had taken no steps to ascer-
tain the actual total number of legal
voters in the said territory and that
there lad been no evidence before
the board to show the same. The ma
jorty report granting the petition
was carried by a vote OF 4 to g.
Supervisors Morris, Grint, Gilmore
and iIeadley voting to order the
election and Supervisors Dewey, Cush
man and Foley voting against it.
The southeast, or Rose county pc
tition was rushed through in prac-
tically the same manner, The com
mittee reported that the petition
had majority of Is of the legal
voters in said proposed county. Mr..
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1910-10-06
A LIVELY FIRE

Fire broke out in p. M. Towsley' S
barn, Tuesday, and was under fright
full headway before discovered. A
number of citizens apparently dis
covering it at the same time gave the
alarm, the firebell was rung vigorously
and the hremen were soon there in
force but the fire had reached a build
ing belonging to Mrs. w, d. Hall
opposite the alley and also the adjoin-
ing barn belonging to n. T, Gadd
A heavy stream of water was pour
ed on the flames and the fire brought
under control before it could reach
any of the other buildings in the
vicinity The hremen did excellent
work and many of the citizens also
did valiant service in placing the fire
under control.
We understand that the property
was fully covered by insurance.
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1910-10-06
CUSTER COUNTY,
FINANCES
Cash in Banks at Close of Business
September. 80, 1910.

Broken Bow State Bank, Broken
Bow, Nebr. 8432.78
Security State Bank, Broken Bow,
Nebr. 1885
Custer Nationa. Bank, Broken
Bow, Nebr. 7979.7S
Peoples State Bank, Arnold,
Nebr. 5000. 90
Farmers State Bank, Arnold,
Nebr4 $500. 90
Farmers State Bank, Merna,
Nebr. 100000
!Home Bank, Merna, Nebr. 5264. 03
Bank of Merna, Merna,
Nebr. 100000
bMason City Banking Co., Mason
| City, Nebr. 100000
State Bank, AnSelmo, Nebr. 100000
First National Bank, Galloway,
Nebr. 100000
State Bank, Galloway, Nebr. 5000. 90
Farmers State Bank, Galloway,
Nebr. 1000. 90
Farmers State Bank, Oconto,
Mebr. 1000. 90
State Bank, Oconto, Nebr. $500. 90
Farmers State Bank, Ansley,
Nebr. 100000
First National Bank, Ansley,
Nebr, 80O0.O 90
Citizens State Bank, Comstock,
Nebr. 1000. 90
Farmers and Merchants Bank,
ComStock, Nebr. 5000. 90
State Bank, Sargent, Nebr. 100000
First National Bank, Sargent,
Nebr 100000
State Bank, Berwyn, Neb. 1000. 90
Kountze Bros. (Neb. Fiscal Agency
New York, n. Y. 1924.52
Total 1897. 10
Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1910-10-06
COPYRIGHT 1909. by c. E. zImmsrman Co. mo. 5

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1t need not be dream any longe, i
you have found the right girl. Come
into our store and You will find the right
ring ard you will also find our prices
equ-l to those of any in the land Be.
sides we are here where you can walk
right in to us; and where your friends
and our customers come to buy; so even
it we wanted to, we could not afford to
sell you anything but honest goods
This fact should surely be sufficient to
insure us your patronage in anything
yur may need in the jewelry line.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-03-31
> oCIALLY and politically the dinner

2 OCIALLY and politically the dinner
} given for Speaker Cannon at the
White House recently marked some
hing of an epoch, for not before in
many years has president enter
aimed in honor of the speaker of the
louse of representatives, Speaker
Cannon was never entertained at the
White House with an exclusive official
junction during all of the seven years
of President Roosevelt's occupancy,
md no previous affair has been given
n his honor by President Taft.
About fifty guests, nearly all of
whom were senators and members of
he house, accompanied by their
wives, looked on and applauded when
The speaker tempted President Taft
.nto a test of terpsichorean agility in
The east room. Both stopped, pant
ing, when the trial was ended, but
he opinion was unanimous that the
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-03-31
DURUM WHEAT ON DRY FARMS
n Soil is Sufficiently Retentive, FIJI
teen Inches Of Rainfall Is Enough
for Crop.

Probably fully two.thirds OF the
acreage of durum wheat is In locan'
ties where, ON an average, other
wheats would be failure. There are,
therefore, about 40.000,000 bushels
Of wheat added yearly to the total pro-
duction in the United States by vir-
tue of the production of durum, which
was accomplished in the year of
1900.
Although durum wheat Is now a
thoroughly established crop both agri-
culturally and commercially, its intro
duction has been attended with many
difficulties, and, unfortunately, these
difficulties have been unwittingly
brought about at times by the friends
of the wheat. For example, 1t Is ex'
tremely important to grow durum
only where the rainfall is, on an aver.
age. at least below 20 incnes per an.
mum. If the soil is sufficiently retent.
i've of moisture Is inches is sufficient
for a good crop. Whete the rainfall
is greater than 20 inches there is
certain to be a deterioration in the
quality of the kernel, more so than
in other wheats, but because of the
great yielding power of this wheat
enthusiastic farmers have grown 1t
where it should not be grown and
have thus injured the reputation of
the wheat. 1t is, therefore, also true
that durum wheat should never be ir'
rigated. In many cases under expert
ment durum wheat when irrigated and
grown on lands similar in every other
respect to that where there was no
irrigation has furnished samples OF
wheat so very different from the 9th.
er that they could not be identified
by ordinary parties as being the same
wheat. Also durum is strictly a
spring wheat under ordinary condi'
tions and, therefore, cannot be grown
profitably in the south, unless suffi'
ciently far south to be sown in the
fall or midwinter without injury by
cold weather. An effort is now being
made by the department to develop
winter variety of durum with al
ready partial success, but from three
to five years will probably yet be re.
quired to establish such a variety
Durum should be kept constantly free
from other kinds of wheat, no more
| because of injury to the other wheat,
| however, than because of injury to the
| durum. Importers will promptly re.
fuse durum wheat that has any con
siderable mixture of common wheat
| There are several varieties of durun
but the most common one grown III
the United States, and by far the best
for breadmaking, is the Kubanka,
The names Arnautka, Wild Goose.
Beloturka and Nicaragua are syn
onyms.
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President and Speaker in "Hoe Down

honors of fancy steps were even. The
dancing followed the dinner
The dinner ended, the company
went to the east room, which boasts
an ample and smooth dancing floor.
An orchestra played a gentle waltz
and the president led off with Mrs.
Joseph H. Gaines, wife of the repre-
sentative from West Virginia. The
speaker, with Miss Laughlin. sister
OF. Mrs. Taft, glided out on the pol
ished floor in the wake of his chief.
Then the dance was on.
In the intermission, however, when
the orchestra struck up lively tune,
Uncle Joe stepped briskly into the
middle of the room and brought his
heels together sharply, There was a
patting of gloved hands and voices
called encouragingly to the guest of
honor. In a moment the speakers
heels were swinging in brilliant
highland fling.
Excellent, eh?" he called, eXulting-
ly to Mr. Taft. 81 was something Of
a dancer when | was a youngster."
For answer the president stepped
smilingly forward, and those who
were present say the two executed
several steps of an old-fashioned hoe
down" that delighted every one. Both
were putting when they finished
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-03-31
yAY ASHINGToN's Dirty Dozen" has

NT ASHINGTON'S DIRTY Dozen" has
w been reduced by three. Judge De
Lacy did it when he bade three very
mall boys, accused of stealing cigars.
pipes, milk and bread, to kiss their
parents and promise never, never,
never again to try to emulate the
Forty Thieves or any other bad people
and to turn back to the owners of
The property three dollars and some
cents to compensate for the loss.
And remember" said the Judge,
keep away from the gang you call
he Dirty Dozen. If you must have a
gang, make up one of good compan-
ons. who will teach you something
hat will do you some good"
Judge De Lacy has a way of making
boy tell him just what the boy is
when he has taken anything that does
not belong to him.
Now, what would you call the boy
who took watch of yours and didn't
give 1t back?"
The biggest boy hung his head and
visited his cap and wanted to sink
through the floor.
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DRY FARM SYSTEMS
Much Depends Upon the Amount
of the Annual Rainfall.
Various Methods Of Conserving Moist
ure In the Sol-lmplements That
Are Used to Promote
Greatest Success.

One might use the following terms
In classifying the different systems OF
dry farming: Crop annually, a sys-
TEN where there is a crop taken OH
of the soil each year. This could De
done If Is inches of rainfall was au-
nually received, writes c. w. Hen
bricks in Orange Judd Farmer. When
there is bu. 12 inches of rainfall you
could not expect to get crop every
year; then a biennial crop system Is
practiced. There is still another meth
cd, of probably more Importance
which is a combination of the two sys-
tens. That would be to have two
crops in three years; three crops IN
five years, or two crops in one year,
one being catch or cover crop. Inc
last system is used to furnish humus
for the soil The system used must
be suited for the district and must
be coordinate with the amount OF
rainfall used.
There are three different and dis
tinct types of water: Free, capillary
and Microscopic water The chief sup
ply of water for dry farming is from
the division known as capillary water.
This capillary water can be conserved
by various methods. The most COM
mon one is by plowing the soil exceed
ingly deep, thus forming a dust mulch.
From this deep dust mulch 1t re-
quires {. heavier dry gale of wind to
M Than
the other hand, the roughness of the
soil will tend to hold the snow and
materially add to the amount of rain
fall In other words, this is gain
of average rainfall.
Many other forms are used, such as
planting small windbreaks from a
shrub known as wormwood. This
tends to break the wind and lodge
the snow. Artemisia Is also a prom
Using shrub for this purpose These
small windbreaks are planted when
the grain is small, and used to break
the wind and hold the soil around
the roots in order that there is no ex
posure to the air. 1t has been said
that many crops are lost by the negli
gence of the owners in not having
these windbreaks. The wind is held
high, and the soil particles, such as
small sand, gravel and fine dirt, are
carried above the crop, and do moi
destroy the root system. Almost any
of the cultivated crops require from
800 to 500 tons of water for every tor
of dry matter Droduced ApproXimate
ly one inch of rainfall will amount tc
over 11S tons per acre.
A question that is often asked is
What implements are used to sue
cessfully carry on a system of DIR.
farming? A stirring plow, subsoi
plow subsurface packer, roller, no,
drill or seeder, disk harrow, weeder
harvester and thresher are the mos
important.
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NO HEALTHY SKIN Les

My little son, a boy Of sv. |
out with an itching rash. Tb,.l
tors prescribed for him. but i.
getting worse until we could nd
him any more. They finally N
me to try a certain medical n
but its treatment did no gOOi
the time l was induced to y,
cura he was so bad that I had
his hair off and put the Cuticp,
ment on him on bandages, AZ \
impossible to touch him with m,
hand. There was not one soma,
of skin on his whole body MI
not affected. He was one NJ
sores. The bandages used To \
his skin and in removing them n
to take the skin off with tho,
the screams from the poor chTp
heartbreaking. / began to thin
he would never get well, but an
second application of Cutlcun
ment l began to see signs Of i'm
ment, and with the third and
applications the sores commeu,
dry up. His skin peeled of b
times, but it finally yielded /
treatment. Now l can say that
entirely cured, and a strong
healthier boy you never saw |!
is to-day, twelve years or NOR
the cure was effected. Robertv
l14S Forty-eighth St., Chicag
Oct. 8, 1909"
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FAILURES IN DRY FARMING
careiessness and Bad Work, Poor
Seed and Shallow Flowing All
Tend to Sure Deterioration.

The most frequent causes of failure
in dry farming are first, carelesness and
poor work; the next is the poor
quality OF the seed and too much
of it, and the third is shallow plow-
ing. The average farmer tries to do
too much and as a consequence he is
not sufficiently thorough. Show us
a dry farm on which the crops have
failed and the cause is pointed out in
stantly, because any man of expert
ence can see whether a field has been
neglected. 1t is no mystery and does
not require any evidence to prove a
case Beyond the mere appearance of
the field itself. The soil Is not to
blame; the lack of rain is not alto
gether to blame, but the trouble is
with the man. He alone is re-
sponsible for the failure of his crop
because he has not followed the laws
of nature which are inexorable. At
the same time these laws are so sim
pie that the farmer becomes careless
and Indifferent. If he had other things
to do he would be more apt to attend
to them, but the greatest obstacle to
success in dry farming is its sim
plicity
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LIVE STOCK NOTES.

A temper under control is All inval
liable asset to man employed in
handling cows.
Any farmer who is raising 30 pigs
can well afford to pay $50 to $40 to
sire those pigs.
There are too many young pigs
whose usefulness is impaired by feed
ing too much corn.
Among all breeders and feeders
there are those incapable of bringing
out the best in any breed.
A few hours work with the team
and good scraper at the right time
will save lot Of manure in the barn.
yard.
Have the sheep shed convenient
so that the animals can run in out
of rains or be protected in bad
weather.
If nodular disease shows among the
ewes, at once separate the lambs from
their mothers, putting the youngsters
on clean pasture.
In connection with Argentines cen.
tennial celebration next year an agri
cultural and live stock exposition will
be held at Buenos Ayres.
Feeders of live stock will do better
in the long run If they give a small
daily dose of digestive tonic to each
of their feeding animals.
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wan 11I'l!4 PI'lH4T
Af44l|A55A fE4|55AiR9 R!E|;5'Z(Frs !E|1';5'
Believes Monkeys Do Not Know Much

call trial in error.
The professor is satisfied that the
monkeys have no memory of things
in the sense that they are able to call
up a picture, place, person or thing.
There Is no question that they are
able to recall having seen person
when that person stands before them.
In other words, they are the equal OF
any of the domestic animals in that
respect.
He can not even subscribe to the
Darwin belief that they have imagina'
ton, such as Darwin thought dogs
have because of the evidence before
him that dogs dream in much the
same way that human beings do.
Professor Shepherd did not enter
upon the experiments with view to
establishing a theory or to disprove
a theory advanced by another, but
simply to find out for himself the
mental capacity or want of capacity
of the lumenoids available for his ex-
perimental work The professor is
convinced that when a monkey
scratches HIS Uedu, NSIy IuuCH do %
man does when he is perplexed, it is
no evidence of thought on the part OF
the monkey. His idea is that it is
purely physiological phenomenon, per
haps due to the similarity of construc-
tion of a man and monkey
Another thing the professor feels
warranted in saying is that the mon
key is not any more initiative than
many other animals. He shows that
monkeys that have had a merry-go-
round in their cages, that revolves
when they jump on it, will continue to
Jump on contrivance of that kind
that is fastened so that it will not
revolve and continue to go through
the motions necessary to make prop
er merry-go-round perform its proper
functions, just as If the first trial had
produced results.
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Bandits" Seal Promise with Kisses

iell me, now, Wnat WOulu you cali
him?"
The biggest boys lips framed the
words:
"A thief"
And in that way Clerk Harper.
listening attentively, knew that the
did, for that matter.
The Judge ordered the middle-sized
youngster to step around and kiss his
mother and ask her to forgive him.
and to understand that he would
never, never do it again, and would
have nothing to do with the Dirty
Dozen.
The middle-sized boy sulked. The
spirit of the proud rover of the Span
ish main told him that to kiss wom
an in court, even his mother, was a
puerile thing to do.
Kiss me-" whispered the mother
The boy still stood debating with
himself.
do you want to go to the reform
school?" thundered the Judge.
And then the proud rover of the
Spanish main turned and fled, and
the erstwhile dirty digit became his
mothers little boy again, and was
caught in loving pair of arms. and
tears ran down the faces of the boy
and his mother and several other
women who were in court.
And the other dirty two had to
kiss their fathers, that the ends of
justice might be met
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Fo ""I'I0!T and Home. A rome
which passes around the horses neck
is passed back through the belly
band, 1t has small pulley on the
end and through his rope is run
that fastens to strap at the hook
of each hind leg. The horse is not
hindered in any way from using its
hind legs except to extend tlem
backward an unn 'cessary distance.
The contrivance can be easily made
and is inexpensive.