Custer County's Soldiers

Kenoyer and Kerr, Two of Wounded, Went from There

Special Dispatch to the World-Herald

Broken Bow, Neb., Feb. 8 -- Hugh Kenoyer of Company M. First Nebraska Volunteers, wounded in battle at Manila on Sunday, is a young man 21 years of age, is highly respected by all who knew him. His home is three miles from Broken Bow.

Howard L. Kerr, Company M, First Nebraska Volunteers, also wounded in Manila engagement, is a young man of Ansley, Neb. He has the highest respect of all who knew him.

Both Ansley and Broken Bow are mourning the disaster.

Morning World-Herald - February 9, 1899

Waylaid and Murdered   

Fare of Arthur Bird, a Nebraska Collector

Calloway, Nebraska, November 1. – Edward Bird, a merchant of this place, received a telegram from Oklahoma today telling of the murder and robbery of his brother, Arthur Bird, a traveling collector.

He was waylaid in a country district and robbed of $2,000.  Bird was prominent in Masonic and Pythian circles and these lodges will try and capture his murderers.

Grand Forks Herald – November 2, 1899

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