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J- u . THE TRIBUNE. STEVENS & BABE, Prop's. TERMS: One Year, in Advance, - - - . $1.50. Six Months, in Advance, '- ,- - .75. Three Months, in Advance, - - .50. Advertising Rates on Application. RAILROAD TIME TABLE. Took Effect Nov. 16,1685. GOING WEST: Central TlilE. Trains. No 1 Tf,V; W " t.'V.", w "J ." " No. 3, Demer Express Sio. 17, Colorado Fast Ft.. Ho. 19, Cal. & Ore. Fst Ft.. No. 21, ThronRh Freight.. No. 23, Way Freight, Arrive. "8:50 a." in! 10:05 p. m. 4:20 p. ra. "Oft p. m. 7:15 p. m. 3:15 a. m. GOING EAST: Trains. Arrive. rz.p. m. Depart WdOaVm. 10:15 p.m. 3:40 p.m. S).O0 p.m. 9:10 p.m. 11:00 a.m. Depart 7:15 p.m. 7:15 a.m. 5:15 p.m. 755 p.m. 450 p.m. 220 p.m. No. 2, Atlantic Ex iio., i.meago.tx 1 1 zlij a. m. no. 10, i.oioraao rrnst j? t.. . 4i&u p. m. o. : UU, i;aL & Ore. Fst Ft.. C:40 p. m No. 22, Freight 430 a. m mi. a, .creiguc lzrzup. m. Trains 1, 6. 17, 19, 2, 4, 13 and 20 leave daily Trains 23, 22 and 21 leave daily except Sunday. Train 21 leaves daily except Monday. Trains west o North Platto use Mountain Time, one hour slower than Central Time. A. H. CHURCH'S LAW AND LAND' OFFICE. "Will Practice is am, Courts or the State. YOL. T. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, JANUARY 9, 1886. 0. 51. The M Fut Tea Store ! 4 o o o o o o o o o o o o o STATE NEWS, i oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo, $5- FIVE DOLLARS. $5. .0... 00 o o o ..o.. .0... .Q... ..o o... "o o"" .0.. o" O. o o o"" ,.o. o" .0. "6'" 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 CO years experience in Contest and With manv other cases before U. 8. Land Office, we will irive vltici. micnuoa 10 lanu Dusmes Uriels prepared uiiuiurKumenui niea in uie ja:enor .Department. Office, Boom 12, Opera Jfoose Block. Oppo site Kailroad Hotel. NORTH PLATTE, - - NEBRASKA. HINMAN & NESBITT, AtTOP.XEYS-AT-L.VW, NORTI PLATTE, - NEBRASKA. :0 Office in5 ttnman's Block on Spruce Street, over ' ' .' the Poet Office. f M. DUNCAN, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. 'mcc: Opera House Block, over Tlmcker's -Drug Store. Residence on West Sixth Street Leave onlers at Thacker's Dnig Store. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. B. A. STEVENS, NOTARY PUBLIC, THOELECKE'S BLOCK, UP STAIRS, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. Prof. N.Klein Music Teacher. .Instruction on the Pianc. Organ, Violin or any xieea or Jjrass instrument. Three Chances For a Tow lot Sugar, any kind you choose, for $1.00 Coffee, any kind you choose, for 1.00 Tea, an' kind you choose, for 1.00 Soap, an' kind '0u choose, for 1.00 Spices, any kind 'Ou choose, for. 50 Lemon Extract, one bottle 20 Corn Starch, one package for 10 Gloss Starch, one package for 10 Candy, one package for 10 5.00 KaT'Everybody buying the above goods known as the " FIVE DOLLAR PRIZE PACKAGE," will receive free three chances for a TOWN LOT IN NORTH PLATTE. :0: McCook is gaining an unenviable repu tation as a resort of gamblers, thieves and thugs. It is said that 700 teams vill be put on the Ehvood extension as soon as the weather will permit steady work. J. C. Maulick yesterday sold to a Mr. Tower, of Omaha, SO acres of land, adjoin ing town on the east, for 4,000. Custer Republican. The Union Pacific is building a depot at Lodge Pole that will out-shine anything they have now between Denver Junction and Cheyenne. The structure is seventy five feet long and is being finished up in Jiandsome style. Kimball -Observer. Charles P. Comstock,"vMo was sent up from York county in lSl for the crime of rape and incest on his 9-ycar-old daughter, has made application for a pardon, and the case is now being consid ered by Gov. Dawes. The Ainsworth JFeics reports a man in that neighborhood who some time ago secured a deed from his mother, 02 years of age, to the homestead on condition he should keep her, but is now treating her with extreme cruelty. A Tribune reporter who has been look ing the matter up, finds that a good many of the .grocers of Fremont sell ole omargarine, but each one protested tliat he sold it for just what itnvas, and did not attempt to palm it oil as choice dairy butter. Pianos carefully tuned. NORTH PLATTE, - Organs repaired. - NEBRASKA. STUDIO! A Trial Will Satisfy Anybody. A H. 5- MISS E. Y. ROSS. JIlKDEBGABTEN' ROOMS, OPERA HOUSE BLOCK. Open every afternoon from-.li30 until 430. All -those interested in art work please call. L C. BAYER'S 0.1 Toiisorial w, Silverware, W Mi raro P. T Front St, over Star Clothing House. Handsomest Barber Rooms in NORTH PLATTE, and excels any three-chair shop in the Suite. , First-CJass Artists Always in Attendance. H. MACLEAN, And Dealer In "MEN'S LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S BOOTS AND SHOES. H. M c E V O Y. No. 2, McDonald's Block, Spruce Street, ? North Platte. - - - Nebraska. Full Line Tobaccos and Cigar Pprfpct Fit. Rest Work and Goods Represented or Money Refunded. REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE. as Guns and Sporting Goods. Watch and Clock Repairing a Specialty. FINE ENGRAVING PROMPTLY EXECUTED. ront Street, one door east of Nebraska House, NORTn PLATTE, NEBRASKA. J. F. SCIIMAI.ZIUED. J. W. IIITOX. Schmalziied & Hinton Manufacturers of Havana and Domestic Cigars And Dealers In DEijDs, Tobaccos, And All Kinds of Smokers' Articles. Spruce Street, NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. Gazette - Journal Co., HASTINGS, NEB., Blank Book 11 I in mini TIM 'Li) PRINTERS, Lithographers, Stationers, AM) DEALERS EN PRINTERS' STOCK. Daily Gazette-Jockxal, $( Per Tear. Weekly Gazette-Jo dkxal,-$ 1.50 Per Yr. US. Land Office, North Platte, Neb., ) November 27, 1SS5. ) Complaint having been entered at this office by HiasS. Cooper against Alfred J. Scott for aban dondinc bis homestead entry ?o. 7392, dated May Uth, 1885, upon the northwest quarter section 2y, township 10 north, range St -west, in Lincoln oonnty, Nebraska, with a view to the cancellation of said entry; the said parties are hereby sum Boned to appear at this office on the 25th day of February, 1886, at 9 o'clock a. m., to respond and fernifth testimony concerning said alleged aban 'doament. Wji. Nevuxk, Kegistcr. W- C. Loctos, Attorney. 6. G. T. A. NIXON, CONFECTIONERY, MIT TniTTm Tl Ll IS. Dealeii Lx met j X ltUllj Lemons, Cakes, Jumbles, Crackers, A full line of Stationery, Embracing blank books, pass books, pens, pencils, pen holders. Etc., Etc. Groceries, Butter and Eggs and a fine stock of Cigars, Tobaccos, &c. EsSr I hope bT strict attention to business to' receive a fair share of the public patronage. PACKARD & KING ft General Land -and Real Estate Agents, STERLING, COLORxiDO, jETarc-o Por Sale Clioico Bargain FARMS, STOCK RAfTOHES AND TOWN PROPERTY. The second anmial-ifceeting of the Union stock yards company of this city was held 'luesday, and a 4 per cent dividend on the stock declared. Duriii"- the year the receints at the vard 150,000 head of cattle,-; 170,000 head of hogs, 40,000 sheep and 5,000 horses. Omaha Bee. The Pumpkin Creek country is coming to the front in splendid shape. A great many families will be living out there by next spring. The store keeper for the colony is already making his arrangements, and a blacksmith will set up his forge there in the spring. A nost office will probably be established without delay. Kimball Observer. A car of furnishing goods for Flynn's new hotel at Buffalo Gap was entirely destroyed by fire at Florence on 3Ionday night of last week. The origin of the fire is.ejtLrjynuccounte-ir,.as.the car had. Deen seaieu lor several hours before the train started. The' car was worth 500, and the goods "comprising the load cost over $3,000. Though it is nearly midwinter and land hunting generally is having a lull, the trips through Plum Creek to Broken Bow in Custer county by capitalists from Lincoln, St. Joseph, Omaha, and towns farther east, indicates a confidence in the building of a railroad into those "back woods" so long fifty miles from market -and a consequent local boom in land and lots. Plum Creek Gazelle. A walking match for fifty dollars a side between Corporal Stohl, of C compar and George McCarty, of F company, twelve hours go-as-you-please, has been arranged to take place at the skating rink January 15th Myrtle Brown, the little daughter of Mr. itnd Mrs. II. M. Brown, living on Pumpkin creek, narrow ly escaped burning to death one day last week. Her clothes caught fire accidently and only the opportune arrival of Mrs. Brown saved her from a terrible fate. Sidney I'degraph Mr. McEntee the sub-contractor of the Grand Island railroad is in the city engaging men to go to work at once. The contractors Messrs. Fitzirerald of Lincoln t-7 hope to have 1,G00 men at work before long, and have already sent a large gang to Beaver Creek, 35 miles northwest of here who will begin grading both wa-s, and another force will be put at work from here northwest. The contractors are paying $1.50 per day foremen and 3 for teams. Grand Island Independent. Miss Minnie' Aiders, a young lady 22 years old, who lived with her parents one mile south of Grand Island, committed suicide Saturday morning by shooting herself in the head with a shotgun that she had concealed in her room for some I aays past, one had been m low spirits. Saturday morning she went to her room, locked herself in, wrote a letter to her parents, asking their forgiveness for committing the act, and another letter to a young man, neither of the letters give any reason for taking her life except that she felt unhappy. Death was instantan eous. She was a bright and promising young lady and was very popular among her associates. Rumor has it that a love affair was the cause of the suicide. MciNeeley's brick block in McCook, which was the finest one in the town, took a tumble one night last week and is now a mass of debris. The building was receiv ing the finishing touches, the outside work having been finished. The cause of the wreck was the giving away of the base ment wall which was built of local stone, a steady rain the day previous .had soaked the stone unlil it crumbled awaj. It used to be said that "the miller that stuck to his burrhs gathered a harvest of gold." This was true when it was first written but it -is understood now that the miller that sticks to his burrhs is left out in the cold when brought in competition with the improved roller system. The millers of Custer county are adjusting their machinery to the new'order of things, C. D. Munson on Clear creek beinjr the last, we believe, to adopt the roller system. Broken Bow Statesman. On last Saturday morning an explosion of gasoline occured at the residence of Dr. Maple which came near resulting seriously to the doctor and his wife personally and to their dwelling. A tea kettle was setting under the stove and the gasoline leaked from the stove and dripped into it. In the morning the gasoline stove was lighted to prepare breakfast; Mrs. Maple took the kettle from under the stqve and placed it over the fire; after it became heated, the gasoline which dripped into the kettle, exploded and for a few moments the room was a sheet of lire. Mrs. Maple's face and hands were severely burned and her clothing caught fire, but was smothered out by the doctor. Her dress being woolen, the llames were easily extinguished, but not before the doctor had burnt his hands and wrist in a terrible manner. The doctor's brother and a nephew were sleeping in an adjoining room and by their assistance the house was saved. Kothin pieces instantly after the explosion. Benklemcn Pioneer. lne causes lor this state or aiiairs are various, they are debatable questions, fit ii.ni. inn A ... it lUSb uui il IfH of bed clothing which were burnt The B. &. M. Railway Co., having bought the town sites for their stations in Ilalljcounty on their proposed extension from Grand Island, and decided to run their line to Broken Bow, and unloaded several carloads of grading machines at Grand Island to go to work immediately, so, hence, therefore Mr. "W. E. Robinstin a real estate man of Grand Island, came to Plum Creek and in company with Mr. Elum of this place started at 9 p. m. on Wedne5drtyTiiirlit: T.-ith one of Dave Ilanna's rigs and a driver for Broken Bow, 55 miles north among the hills of Custer; they arrived at the top of the big hill which hides Broken Bow from view from the south, at G o'clock Thursday morning and made a bus- day of it. A man from Omaha had got the SO acres joining town that he wanted, but he bought quite a number of lots. The Republican office is in a comfortable abode ; there is no court house built yet, but owing to distance to haul lumber 55 to 70 miles there arc more brick buildings than one would ex pect to see 'in a fontier town. Plum Creek Gazette. Plum Creole. From the Herald. It is an unusual occurance for robins to appear during the holidays, in this latitude, yet several were seen by our citizens last Sunday. The treasurer of the B. & M. company who was in town last week, stated most emphatically to Mr. James that thcr would be a branch of their line constructed from Minden to this place before another winter. Messrs. J. Avers and II. V. Temple killed between Sept. 1st and Dec. 23th 149 geese, G8 mallard ducks, 30 small ducks, 34 cranes, 521 prairie chickens, 23 jack rabbits, and 35 rabbits. These sports men were out but a few days of the time specified. TTo learn from Mr. Hess who was out all last week with members of the B. & M. Town. Site Co., locating sites between Broken Bow and Grand Island, there will be seven stations between those two points and that work will begin on Mon day. The contract requires that the road must "be completed on or before June 1st, 1SSG. for the consideration of literary societies. A hint to the wise is sufficient. The Murder Trial. The jury- that tried Jim Renolds in the district court this week did its duty and found a verdict of guilty of murder in the first detrree. Under the evidence and the law as presented by the court in the instructions it would have Jbeen hard for jury to have done otherwise. By his own confessions the prisoner killed the two men, but as he alleged in a quarrel. This statement was net justified by the wounds on'the dead men, both having been struck on the back of the head, or by subsequent acts -of the prisoner in burying thp bodies diircinir up the blood snots, setting the tent on fire and chansrinir his clothimr. It was the most cold blooded, brutal low and cowardly murder that has ever been perpetrated in this region of the country, but fortunately for the good name of the county all of the parties interested were new arrivals from another state. The Reillys, father aud son, made a hard fight for the prisoner, which was their duty as his consel to do, but the evidence was overwhelmingly againstthem and their only hope of saving the neck of the guilty wretch was the insanity plea which has been of no avail. The evidence of that insanity was the queer acts of the prisoner, the testimony of the men in jail, and perhaps might be included flic trilling cause for which the prisoner alleged he committed the crime. Against that is the testimony of the five doctors, and others who have come in contact with him and the knowledge he showed of having done wrong in murdering the men by attempting to hide the crime. The fact is the prisoner is a weak man mentally and a coward. The crime has haunted him from the day of its commis sion and the fear of punishment has constantly burdened his mind. He has become weak and nervous and recogniz ing that silence is golden and lunacy his only hope has persisted doggedly in maintaining that silence. But the guilt man should not be allowed to escape the full penalty of the law for his dastardly deed and if any one has sympathy let him bestow it on the widow and orphans of Renolds' victims, as the district attorney fittingl' remarked in closing his address to the jury. Sidney Telegraph..' Mr. Laird's Speech. "When the House was-debating tho bil for a revision of the rules, Congressman Laird made a speech upon tho subject. Referring to the order of Commissioner Sparks suspending final proofs he said "Mr. Speaker there is another question of great moment to the country which I have the honor to represent and to the country west of the Missouri River, and for that matter to the entire country. On the 3d of April, 1SS5, the Commission er of the General Land Office issued the following order: JOB WORK A SPECIALTY. o- Reasonable Bates. SUSPEXSIOX OP KXTKIES. action in this office upon Settlers located on tree claims, pre-emptions and homesteads. ' Good land can yet be had convenient to town, to the railroad and the Platte river. " No trouble to get water. The Chicago and aJsorthwestcrn has just let the contract foi the extension and grading of their road from Chadron, Xeb., directly west to Fort Fetterman, a distance of ninety miles. This shows that the 2sorthwestrrn is pushing west ward to the' Centrri Pacific at Ogden or Salt Lake City. This road will run about eighty miles north cf Cheyenne. It is the intention to have the new ninetv miles completed by next September. The road from Chadron northward to the Black mils is now completed to Buffalo Gap and grading is going on north of that point It is the intention to have this line completed to Rapid City in the Blue Hills, early next spring. ' A, Gothenburg. From tho Independent. There was a' rumor current here the first of the week that a man living on the table north of this place, had been buried in a well 300 feet deep, the sides caving in on him. Iso particulars. "Wild geese are still numerous along the river, and knowing ones say we will not have severe cold while they linger near. It is also reported that the beavers, which are quite numerous in the vicinity of Brady Island, have made no dams a never failing i-ign cf mild winter. So mote it be. Many of the country school districts have organized literary societies. This is commendable, and the movement might be followed, v.-ith profit by every school district in the county. If properly conducted such societies cannot fail to be beneficial to both the young and old of the communities in which they are held. Any movement that will awaken an inter est and cause the investigation of questions relating to the welfare of the public should be encouraged. The Americans are noted as a reading people, but it is also an indisputable fact that with too many of them reading is merely a mechanical operation; hence their fund of general information is very limited. Final action in this office upon all entries of the public lands, except private cash entries, and such scrip locations as are not dependent upon acts of settlement aud cultivation, is suspended in the following localities namely: All west of the first guide meridiau west in Kansas. All west of range 17 west in Nebraska. The whole of Colorado except land in late Ute reservation. All of Dakota, Idaho, L'tah, "Washington, A'ew Mexico, Montana, Wyoming, and Nevada, and that portion of Minnesota nortlt of the indemnity limits of the Northern Pacific Railroad and east of the indemnity limits of Saint Paul Minneapolis, and Manitoba Railroad. In addition, final action in this office will be suspended upon all timber entries under the act of June 3d, 1S7S; also upon all cases of desert-land entries "W. A. Spakks, Commissioner. April 3d, 1S35. As the report of the Commissioner relates to the 30th of June, 1SS5, all of the persons Who had made entries by that time would now be entitled to make final proof and receive their final receipts for these lands, if they could show, as most can, compliance with the law as to settlement and improvement. This would make the number of homestead and pre emption settlers on the public domain of the United States now entitled to patent, or to claim patent, as shown by the report, 84,251 that is 84,251 heads of families, representing at a fair estimate a popula tion of 252,753 persons, under the ordinary operations of the law entitled prima facie to an absolute title to 13,320 1G0 acres of land, and now deprived of their rights by the order cited. The order in question, it will be noticed, applies to all land west of the first guide meridian west, in Kansas, and all west of range 17 west in Nebraska. An examina tion of any map of those states will show thiX the suspension effects fully one half of the area of each of those states named. More than this, the order, it will be Observed, operates to withdraw from settlement all the land in the United States available for settlement in the States and Territories west, southwest, and northwpst. AH tho lands nwnpfl hv tho Government now beinc sought for settle ment by the people, except those in the south, are practicably unavailable to the people wanting homes. It must be borne in mind that million aires do not migrate to Nebraska, Kansas, or Colorado The people that go there go much as the first settlers came to the colonies in the old time. They bring neither gold nor silver. The are without resources; their only property Is their willingness to work. Their wealth is in tho future. They are surrounded by no splendor except that of hope. They are sustained alone by the faith of things not seen. In the light of extraordinary conse quence of evil to tho present and future of the States and Territories effected by this order, it becomes pertinent to inquire upon what authority of law and what warrant of fact this wholesale slaughter of the rights of 252,753 citizens of this country is based ? The authority of law is raised by construction, by implication, and that is " raised by what is called evidence furnished by the published report of eighteen special agents who are relied upon to impeach the sworn evidence of 8i251 claimants and 160,502 disinterested witnesses, and who must have sworn for them, and in additionto this the official finding of the trusted Wcm land officers of the Government. Some of the evidence (reports) of the special agents would seem to commend itself to the ridicule of all reasonable men b' statements of this kind : I give it as raj opinion that in Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota the proportion is 90 per cent, to 10 per cent, of bona jide and possibly successful cultivators. Here the gentleman is speaking of timber-culture claims, and, on the strength of this opinion of a man hired to hunt down these settlers of the frontier, an order issues suspending not only timber culture patents, but all patents. "When before, with the approval of civilized men, was the opinion of an informer taken as ground for the suspension of ihe due course ol law? JNoone iromme west, that region which has suffered most from the aggressions of the landed corporations, but will srmpathize with the Commis- sioner m nis eitort to protect tne pumic domain from the encroachments of the corporations of all kinds, whether cattle kings, so called, or railroads. We do not object to the suspension of timber-culture entries or to the suspension of any entry of whatever kind whenever a specific charge of fraud is made against that entry. We do protest against a cloud being cast upon the honest claims of settlers on the agricultural lands of Nebraska and other States and Territories by the dust raised by eighteen spies whose official heads hang upon the slender thread of caprice of an administration mad with reform and a department which believes itself laboring with a mountain of fraud, Avhich seem3 to breathe an atmosphere of .suspicion, and which appears more than willing to see in the sweat-stained fctf-rrf-the Weateru settler a masked antf contemptible scoundrel, intent on robbing the people of their great patrimony, the public land. Does not this congress understand that in Nebraska, where every hundred and sixty ajres of agricultural land is worth from 500 to 1,000 as soon as patented, and where there are from five to twenty claimants for every claim; where every man has the right to contest any entry, fraud upon the public domain is an im possibility? Does it not occur to the honorable Commissioner that he is doing in the States and Territories, where the land is valuable for agriculture, the very thinj- that the land-nrabbers and theives want done? This order makes it impossible for an honest settler to raise a dollar on his final receipt. Mr Speaker, these men are poor good proof the are not rascals. They are not prepared for a siege, much less can they withstand for years the fire of all the official batteries. They have some rights as human beings; they are not wholesale liars. Men do not commit perjury by the hundred thousand. This order covers half a continent. Men do not sin b the continent they do not attempt to take an empire by purjury. Men are not punised geographically, or condemned by the million without their day in court. The reasonable doubt .vhich saves the wretch trembling for his ife, "the presumption of innocence" which guards us all, speaks for these men nd demands that the heel of the Depart ment of the Interior be token from the neck of these settlers. No finer tribute was ever paid to Parnell, the great Irish leader, than that recently penned by George "William Curtis, the silvery-tongued mugwump : "He is, indeed, an uncrowned king, and should he die there is no one to take up his scepter. No fabulous monarch of Tara's hall, no lord of the round towers, no wiid Celtic chieftain, was so powerful a ruler." Secretary Manning has astonished the country by issuing a call for ten million dollars in three per cent bonds, to be paid off February 1st, 18SG. Gazette. Watch for it! The first symptom of true croup is hoarsness and if Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is freely given at once and the doses frequently repeated the dread disease may be entirely prevented and all danger and anxiety avoided- Sold by Gray & Co. Speaking of children being troubled with croup, Mr. O. B Hayden, druggist, Panora, Iowa, says : "I have used Cham berlain's Cough Remedy in the treatment of croup in my family for the past the past four years and have invariably had satisfactory results from its administra tion. I consider it a certain and speedy cure for this dangerous disease." Sold by Gray & Co. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy does not dry up a cold' but loosens and relieves it. It aids expectoration, opens the secretions and freis the system of the poisons of a cold. Its soothing, healing and strength ening powers have won for it the title of the best made. Every one who uses i$ says its a good medicine. Sold by Gray S; Co. i
