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About The North Platte tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1890-1894 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 12, 1894)
IRA L. BARE, Editor and PnorniETor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. IF PAID IS ADYAXCE, - $1.00 PEB ANNUM IP HOT PAID IN ADVANCE, 1.50 PER ANNUM En tered at the North Platte ( Nebraska) postoffice as second-class matter. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1894. If certain negotiations now pend ing are consummated The Triijuxe will be issued semi-weekly after Jan uary 1st. Several newspapers are alread' talking Jack MacColl for governor in 18. It's a little early for that kind of work, but it, is evi dence that the popular Jack lias lost none of his popularity. The friends of Judge Thurston claim that they have secured suffi cient support to elect him United States senator. The Tribune ! trusts this claim will hold good when the ballot is taken. Rev. M. T. Maize, of Custer county, is a candidate for chapain of the house. He is a good preacher and his pra-ers are likely to be as fervent and productive of as much good as those of an v man who could selected. be Lincoln county should have a large delegation at the irrigation convention at Kearney next week. This is one of the banner irrigation counties in the state, and the peo ple of the state ought to know it. if thev don't alreadv. It is said several local sought to convince Judge last week that the- were of a state appointment. understood the governor-elect populists Holcomb deserving but it is rave them little encouragement. Too bad all pops cannot be given office. It looks as though some of the pop patriots in this county, who have been hugging the delusion that Holcomb would appoint them to office, will be compelled to start out and look for work. Some of them have been hanging- on the ragged edge ever since the fall of 1892. The Tribune copies liberally from the Chicago Inter Ocean for the reason that it is a clean-cut ad vocate of true republicanism, and every good citizen can well afford to heed its advice. The journals from which the Era draws its in spiration are of the kind that en courages anarchy. The recent attack of the Bee on Secretary Allen shows how unfair the little joss is to all who have in one way or another incurred his displeasure. The charges made by the Bee are completely refuted by Mr Allen, and the latter clearly shows that his administration of the office of secretary of state has been an economical one. Havinc. re-elected Mr. Kern to congress some of the populists of the Sixth district do not seem to be very much elated over the feat. A late Custer County Beacon, a pop ulist paper published at the home of the congressional nonentity, con tains a liberal sprinkling of edi torial paragraphs like the follow ing, all aimed at Mr Kem: Is it possible Kem has actually reappointed the Lincoln egotist as his private secretary? Is there no one in his big congressional district with brains enough to plav second fiddle to Kem? Til wipe my feet on you: I'll kick 3'ou and stamp you in the earth, but don't you squeal, because if you do I'll hurt the party. It's big I and little you." Such is the spirit which a little authority gives a fool. Kem says, "So far as the news papers of this district are con cerned they had as well be in the bottom of the sea." The other rep resentatives of the press may think it all right, but we wouldn't relish it from any one, much less from a fellow who spells bottom with one t and God with a little g. The St. Paul Pioneer Press gives an instance of the way in which the democratic tariff effects the farm ers. The owners of a big buck wheat mill at Fairchild, "Wis., have been paying the "Wisconsin farmers SO cents for buckwheat. A few days ago they were offered Canadian buckwheat for 60 cents a bushel, and have ordered a lot of it at that price. A short time before this a firm of Milwaukee distillers had im ported from southern Russia 103. 000 bushels of barley which by rea son of the reduction ot the duty thereon by the democratic tariff, was laid down in Milwaukee over 5,000 miles from it place of produc tion, some 10 cents a bushel lower than the price which had been pre viously paid for barley to American farmers, a reduction of 20 a bushel in the price of buckwheat and ot 10 cents a bushel in the price of barley through the competition of the Canadian farmers and Russian peas ants with the farmers of Minne sota and Wisconsin. This a speci men of what the democratic tariff has done for the fanners of these states. The attorney general elect, Mr. Churchill, thinks the maximum rate case ought to be taken to the su preme court on appeal from the de cision of Judre Brewer. General Churchill maintains that until the reasonableness of a rate is deter mined, as it ultimately must be by the supreme court of the United States, there can be no certainty in legislation upon the subject of either passenger or freight rates, and for this reason the case ought to be appealed and these questions settled as soon as possible. The State Banking Board has prepared its report from Nov. 5, 1892, to date. The report shows that seventy-three banks have in that period discontinued business. Of that number all but nineteen went into voluntary liquidation for the purpose of retiring from busi ness, paying creditors in full. Of the nineteen in the hands of receiv ers, the report says that all but six will pay 1(H) cents on the dollar, and of the six it is believed that three will do likewise. There are 500 banks now doing business iu Nebraska, exclusive of the national banks. The report will sav that no better showing of state banks is made by any other state in the union. The total capital stock of the seventy-three suspended banks is $1,340,500(1. The total amount of the deposits in the same banks was Sl,f72,-138.34. The total precipitation for the month of November in Neberaska was only eleven hundreth of an inch, the lowest in twentv-four years without a single exception The deficiency in rainfall for the month was 1.11. and the accumu lated delicienev since the lirst of January amounts to 15.24 inches The year has been one of the driest on record and also one of the warm est, the excess of temperature since the first of the vear amounting to an average oi J. jZ.w degrees per dav. In looking over the records for the past twenty-four years it is found that there is nothing parti cularly discouraging in the dryness of the past month. Pry summers and dry falls are often followed by wet weather in the following spring and summer. It will be rembered that the fall of 1890 was very much like the fall of 1S94, while the sum mer of 1891 brought an excess of rainfall and one of the most bounti ful crops ever raised in the Missouri vallev. State Journal. a crop. Thorough cultivation and careful irrigation is the rule tliat prevails even-where and under all circumstances, but the study of the soil and the plant is necessary with the farmer in order that he may receive the highest reward for his. labor, or in other words, intelli gent application is necessary to the irrigation farmer the same as all other business and while necessary in all farming it is doubly neces sary in irrigation farming. -Irriga- THE "BALTIMORE PLAN' A. B. Hepburn, iu December Forum, says: "The Baltimore plan proposes to amend the national bank act so as no longer to require governmet bonds as security for circulation, but provide a safety fund instead; to allow banks to is sue circulation to 50 per cent of their paid up unimpaired capital, and. in an emergencys 75 per cent. All notes of failed bauks are to be redeemed by the government, as under the present law. A guaran tee, or safety fund, equal to 5 per of .' the outstanding circulation. From this fund the government is to redeem notes of failed banks. The government also retains a prior lieu upon the assets of failed banks, including stock holders' liability, as now provided by law. in order to replenish this safetv fund and protect itself against pos sible loss. Practically, the onlv change is to substitute a guaran tee fund for goverment bonds as security, the other changes being in cidental. The details are open to discussion and improvement, but I believe the principles to be right. Just such a law as the one pro posed by the Baltimore bankers is now in successful operation in the Dominion of Canada, except that the Canadian law allow circulation to the par of unimparied capital and the goverment assumes no responsibility for the redemption of failed banks' notes beyond the application of the 5 per cent fund. The law has proved eminently suc cessful and satisfactory in Canada. In the light of these facts no one can dispute the safety of the plan." tion Farmer. To the irrigation farmer we desire to impress upon his mind the im portance of deep plowing. Because you have plenty of water to irrigate your five acre spot and can irrigate it frequently is no reason why you should not plow deeply. Soil plowed deep and properly irrigated will yield more than shallow plowing frequently irrigated. In a report from Fort Collins made some years since, the subject of deep plowing was urged very forcibly and fall plowing was advocated. It was demonstrated, so this report says, that "one irrigation of land that had been plowed deep was as good as three irrigations on shallow plowed ground." Deep plowing- is the very first step toward the conserving of mois ture in the soil and vegetation growing from a soil that is deep and moist becomes more rank and luxuriant. Cultivation conserves the moisture. The best mulching is said to be fine dust. Irrigation Farmer. Maxwell Notes T. Ilanrahan has been quite ill all week with symptoms of malaria. The bridge builders put up a lit tle sod house on the Island to live in while working on the bridge, but finding it too inconvenient have come to board in Maxwell City. Nearly every one is complaining of having a severe cold. Mrs. P. F. Dolan was a North Platte visitor last week. Miss Annie McClellan visited her parents in Gothenburg last week. The singing class received its first lesson from Mr. Moore last Monday night, and every one went home feeling much pleased and benefited also by his teaching. Frank Martin returned from his trip to Brady Island last Saturday. Miss M. Hanrahan attended the play Killarney" in North Platte last Tuesday night. At the last meeting- of the Liter ary Society the following question was debated "Resolved that the Louisana State Lottery should be abolished." The affirmative leader was Mr. Myers and the negative leader was Mr. Clark. It was decided in faver of the affirmative. The attendance at the literary was better than it has been before and every one seemed much inter ested in the evening's proceedings, 3'et the programme was not all car ried out owing to illness, disap pointments etc. Miss Pearl Snvder was very ill last Friday, but is getting well Nichol Nuggets. Several from these parts have BRADY BREEZES. J. E. Gibbons and daughter. been taking in the meetings in the j Myrtle, of Kearney are the guests new school house in Hinman pre cinct the past week or so. Will Brooks and I. N. Ball shelled corn for E. Spitsnogle up in the western part of the precinct Mon day. Quite a stream of water is flow ing down the south river .past this place at this writing. We are told that it washed .about 250 feet of the flume, which was being constructed across it near O'Fallons, out of place and' that work on the same had to be suspended. We saw the crew as they were slowly wending their way toward the Platte midst the wiud and sand on Friday. Will Loker and F. L. Terry had their corn shelled the latter end of the week. Don't forget to attend the mask ball a Hershey on Friday evening, this week. Foreman Burkman of Hershey purchased a house recently over in the hills and has moved it over to the city, where he is having it re built. " Large herds of stock are now feasting in the many large corn stalk fields along the ditch. The Sullivan boys have their reservoir for their irrigation pump and wind mill about completed. Several loads of shelled corn were taken to the county seat from this community on Saturday last. Mrs. A. B. Goodwin expects to depart about the middle of this week for a visit with her people at Belvidere. Dee will follow suit shortly after. They will remain until after theholidays. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather on Friday evening last a goodly number turned out to listen to an excellent discourse rendered by Rev. Foulk, of the Platte. We are told that Mr. and Mrs. William Porter of Hershev are now weary traveler. This week will about wind up corn shelling in the vallev. The collapsing of the North Platte National Bank caught a number in this neck of the woods for limited sums. A series ot meetings are being held in the new school house in Hinman conducted by a Latter Day Saint divine. Interesting meetings are reported. T. J. Winters is enjoying a visit with his peoplet.ancl old time friends in Wiscoupsiu.j, the - scenes of, his boyliPQd:dayg?7t?lr,ggr)g .'.. onsbVableiJHf liay-tis beiig hauled outrSf We "vallev to different parts of the country t this writ catering to the wants of the and hungry again. Mr. Martin went to North Platte las Tuesday. There is to be a Christmas enter tainment and Christmas tree in Miss Ma' Dolan's school house in the sand hills Christmas eve night if nothing happens, to prevent, all expect to attend and enjoy it. Clctie. tins week, child doing Mother and in Omaha IRRIGATION NEWS. Reports from the irrigation dis tricts of Montana show the wonder ful success of "farming under the ditch." The average yield of grains, (corn. oats, wheat barley, etc..) is 41i bushels: vegetables 240 bushels: hay. cultivated and wild 1 34 tons. Irrigation is proving to be such a success that there is no question of its general adoption as fast as means can be had to develop it. The question of how much water is needed for a given crop varies with different localities and different soils. One soil retains moisture more perfectly than another. It will then take more or less water according to the soil crop. It therefore water in one locality crop than it will in another, depend ing upon the soil. Irrigation agri culture being subject to varying conditions it is necessary that each farmer study his soil and his plants. There are given principles that prevail everywhere, and one is that too much water and too little culti vation is destructive to any kind of for the same requires more for the same SUTHERLAND NEWS. C. E. Osgood of North Platte was on our streets on Tuesday. Win. Brown is passing the cigars Its a bov n ii-rl i- O. A. llostetter was the first pat of the week. The letter written by a certain Justice of the Peace south of town to a Massachusetts paper regard ing the starving people in Fair view precinct and stating that he only knew of one dollar and ten cents in the precinct has caused quite a sensation in eastern as well as western circles. If the papers should gather the facts and see that some farmers in that precinct had money out at interest and others were purchasing wind mills and other irrigation devices it would perhaps cause another kind of dis turbance. Of course we have our people who will have to have aid but when it comes to asking the that far east to send us old clothes and pay fjeight on them it would look like slightly overdoing the matter. Wm. Holtrv wears a broad smile now days. It's caused by pound boy at his home. John Coker shipped two cars of steers to Omaha on Tuesda- and is now taking in the sights at that place. Miss Emma Hawley has returned from North Platte, where she had been attending the business college. Mrs. M. E. Yates purchased a car load of Lexington flour this week, and is now fixed to supply her customers with "Patent" at way down prices. This is very satisfactory news to the head of the average family .these hard times. Ed. Richards, foreman at Bratt's Birdwood ranch, is in Omaha with cattle this week. Miss Hosford our capable and obliging county superintendant at attonded the teachers meeting on Saturday. Willis Record of Ogala was a Sutherland visitor on Tuesday. C. B. McKenstry and family spent Sunday in Keith county at the head of the Sutherland dicth. John H. Conway is in Omaha on business this week. Citizen. an eight nig, . j 4 . Ditch Sup;t. ,iL Seeberger has been up in this-vicinity with several parties from abroad latel- showing them over the company's land with a view of purchasing. We have not learned wnetner any sales were made or not. The Patterson & Alexander ditching outfit is still at work on the west end of their contract. Monday this week being Freddie Cole's fifteenth birthday and as there was school upon that day a number of little folks spent Satur day previous very pleasanth' with with him at his home in honor of his birthday. All report a jolly time. Archie Strickler is still in a criti cal condition with faint hopes of recover'. Dr. McCabe of North Platte is in attendance. A sister of foreman Erickson of this place-is visiting, him at pres ent. We think that she resides in the vicinity of Lincoln. Several people in this locality are on the sick list caused by bad colds. Fatty" Nauman of the hub passed up the line Monday morning in search of fat cattle. C. C. Wetzell is repairing his residence. s B. R. Gibbens is baling and load ing hav for Paxton & Hershev. It is stated that S. H. Phinecie is negotiating with the ditch com pany for the farm which he has resided upon the past couple of years. There were quite a number of wild geese in theK'alley the first of the week. We were, told, a few days ago In reliable authority that the ditch company was I going to charge $3.00 per acre rent for their land in the future instead of one-third as in the past. We have beeninformed, within the past few .days that George Gib bens. who-left this country early in the fall for Iowa, has announced his intentions of returning to this land of plenty the coming spring. Miss Mattie Ball is here from Iowa visiting her numerous friends. Messrs. Koch and Beaty of the of J. K. Stockton J. H.' Giffin transacted business at Gothenburg, Wednesday. L. C. Stockton, editor of the Peoples, Poniard of Sidney. Nebr. was in town Friday shaking hands with old friends. Frank Martin of Maxwell was seen on our streets Friday. G. D. Mathewson was in North Platte Thursday. Several couples from here attend ed the "hop" held at Browns, on the south side Friday night. Dr McCabe, of North Platte, was in town Monday. W. N. Howdin. of Denver, was iii town on business Monday. Miss Mamie Neugent started for Lincoln Friday morning, to attend the Western Normal College. Miss Neugent will be greatly missed by the young people of this place. It is reported that Nelo Cover who started last week to attend the Wesley University, is about to return home having become home sick. Charley Seyferth of North Platte took in the sights of Brady on Sat urday and Sunday. TheTJgoveniinent surveyors who have been working in this vicinity for the past two months have gone into winter quarters at the race track. Everybody that can beg. buy. bor row or in any other way procure a gun is out, these times, after the geestj. which have been'' coming in very thick for the past few days. As usual there was a large at tendance at the literary Wednes day night. The question debated was "Resolved that Great Brittian is more powerful than the United States." Weire sorry by some hook or crook tive side succeeded iu judges, decision. Kmor Boad a young man living south of the river was seriously hurt Wednesday. While riding at a fast gait his horse fell, throwing him and falling on his head. It is understood that the Athen ian literary society wilj accept the challenge of the L. L. A's. of North Platte for a joint debate to be held at Brady sometime in the near future. The funeral of James Sullivan who died Saturday was held Mon day at the residence of the deceased after which the body was interred, at Ft. McPherson. , Wiggins. Great Clearing Sale AT THE- STAR CLOTHING HOUSE. Boys' Suits and Mens Pants. Children's Suits former price Sr. 2, i.o and r.75, a;o at this sale for ONE DOLLAR. Children's Suits which sold for 2.00 and 2.50, go at this sale for 1.50. Children's Suits formerly sold at 3.00. 3.25 and 3.50, go at this sale for 2.00. to say that the affirma getting the Suits sold formerly at from 4. for St. 00. 00 to 6.00. go at this sale Men's Pants, former price 3.00, sold at this clearing sale for 2.00. . 4.00 and 5.0D, will he Positively strictly first-class goods, no this sale. no shoddy oods si'o at goods have not been moved from town to town for six or seven years, and have not been foreclosed on of our competitors' goods have been. lire goods, but Remember these the last THE STAR WEBER & VOLLMER, Props. as some iSTOHTEC EETTJE, NEB. Capital, Surplus, $50,000.00. S22.500.CO E. M. F. LEFLANG, Pres't., EARNEST DAVIS, V. P., ARTHUR McNAMARA, Cashier. A General Banking Business Transacted. The Teacher's Meeting at Sutherland. , The faachers meeting held here last Saturday Vas 4uie well at tended, there being about sixty-fiye persons present including teachers and visitors. The meeting- was called to order at 1.30. and after the opening exer cises a paper was read by Mr. Hinckley entitled "A review of the Keaaing-circie woric. rue paper dwelt principally on folk-lore and as an example of German myth he read in conclusion "The Pied Piper of Hamlin." "The advantages of a christian teacher" was the stib- lect of a very able paper by Miss Seymour. We were then entertained by a pleasant song by Miss Eva Yates and Miss Fannie Hawley. Mr. Porter then read a paper on The Present Crisis from an Edu cational Standpoint." in which that difficult subject was quite well treated: one good thought presented was "the government does not make the people, but the people the gov ernment." An excellent paper by Miss John son was then read on the subject of grammatical analysis. This opened up quite an animated dis cussion on the merits and demerit of diagraming as opposed to one anah'sism. Johnnie and Christine Meyers of Dist. 50 assisted the program by a declamation each, and a song. Citizen No. 2. WHAT'S THE USE OP TALKING About coughs and colds in the sum mer time. Yon may have a tickling cough or a little cold, or babv may have the croup, and when it comes you ought to know that Park's Cough Syrun is the best cure for it. Sold bv North Platte Pharmacy. A rugged hickory tree with a blasted top where struck by light ning, is the only monument to mark the head of the grave of James G. Blaine in Oak Hill cemetery at Washington, and this simple una dorned grave of the beloved states man is visited by more people than any other in AVashington. It was Mr. Blaine's request that the hick ory tree should be his only monument. A. F. STREITZ, a-1 Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, PRINTERS' SUPPLIES, Window Glass, Machine Oils, Diamanta Spectacles. DEUTSCHE APOTHESE. CORNER OP SIXTH AND SPRUCE STREETS. C. F. IDDINGS, LUMBER, COAL Order by telephone from Newton's Book Store. H1. J. B JEt O E !KI E 11, Merchant Tailor, OIjE IE XOl.! HOW'S THIS! We offer Ono Hundred Dollars Re ward for any case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. J. F. Chkkv & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We the undersigned, have known F. J. Chenev for the last 15 years, and be- LARGE STOCK OF PIECE GOODS, embracing all the new designs, kept on hand and made to order. PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED. PRICES LOWER THAN EVER BEFORE Spruce Street, between Fifth and Sixth. south side each had a Dempster lievo him perfectly honorable in all ;rrWmf?nn numn nnrl wind mill business transactions and financially irrigation pump and vwnd able to carrv out any obligation made erected last week. J. G. Feeken by their firm assisted in the work. J West & Truax. Wholesale Druggists, Mr. Rue and sons, who have been Toledo, O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, residing on one of Paxton & Her-, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall s catarrh uure is taKen internally acting directly upon the blood and land of the ditch company m Hin- -c bottl(? SoW bv a-H DrUBg;Btg. man lately. Pat. . Testimonials free. shey's farms the past year, we are told has purchased a large tract of JOS. F. FILLION, BI1TG- Steam and Gas Fitting. Cesspool and Sewerage a Specialty. Copper and Galvanized Iron Cor nice. Tin and Iron Roofings. Estimates furnished. Repairing of all kinds receive prompt attention Locust Street, Between Fifth and Sixth, North Platte. - Nebraska.