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NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1895.
NO. . 22.
IffMCH THIS SPACE
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I have just returned from the , eastern
markets where I purchased one of the
largest stocks of Late Designs in Patterns
' for the Season ever shown In this city. I
am too busy io write up am "ad" giving
itprices, but will do so by Friday. The pub
lic is assured of bargains in every depart-
nient. Look out for Saturday, March 23d.
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The Boston Store.
GEO. W.
PROPRIETOR OP THE
PIONEER COAL YARDS.
-ALL KINDS OP-
Anthracite and Bituminous Coal
l Always on hand. Your patronage respectfully solicited.
Orders for coal left at Douglass' DrugStoren Spruce f
y?T - - street will be promptly filled..
--ilSlOST . DELICIOUS COFFEE IN THE o WORLD,?!
MOCHA
AND
REVERt
JAVA.
"HARRINGTON & TOBIN, SOLE ACTS, NORTH PLATTE, NEB.
For Sale
DITCH :-: FARMS !
. rOne-half mile from North Platte. We will sell you
ia farm .of any size you may desire.
PEICE $15.00 TO $25.00 PER ACRE.
Terms to suit the purchaser
FRENCH & BKLDWIN.
nsro. 3496.
NOETH PLATTE, NEB.
Capital, -Surplus,
$50,000.00.
$22,500.00
E. M. F. LEFLANGr, Pres't.,
ARTHUR McNAMARA,
Cashier.
County Correspondence.
Hichol Huggets.
K Mrs. C. B. Merry is visiting ai
College View, Neb.... Fred Stod
dard, of the Platte, was up this
country Monday, We understand
that he will jeside on and work a
part of his .father's farm in Hinraan
precinct, this .season J. B. Mc-
K!ee moyed'frpm North Platte to
his farm last Friday. . . .Presiding
Elder was greeted by a large audi
ence at Hershey Sunday forenoon
N. J. Snow, the blacksmith at
Hershey, has put out his sign and
is now ready to attend to the wants
of those who wish anything in his
line F. L. Terry and wife were
the victims of- a surprise party on
Thursday evening of last week. A
pleasant time is reported by all
present.. ..There is a report in
circulation that Sam Funkhouser
will xide the ditch this season
Rev. Graves, of North Platte,
preached to a well-filled house at
Hershey Sunday evening Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Liles are rejoicing
over the arrival of a new boy of
usual weight. All doing well, es
pecially J. W Eugene Goodwin
departed for hishome in Kansas
on Monday, going- ot team ana
taking a number of horses with him
which he had wintered here . . . . O.
H. Eyerly and family now occupy
one of Paxton & Hershey's new
tenant houses near the Sisson
school house Louis Toillion will
try a- small patch of sugar cane
this season Mrs. Fanny Ran
dall is reported on the sick list at
present Friends from North
Platte are visiting T. W. Ander-
son ana, aaugnter ;viame rue
amous roadster "Turkey Kate"
we were lniormea recently is not
ior saier...A tew larmers aiong
the ditch are talking of trjing a
small patch of broom corn this sea
son: . . .An unusually large amount
of vegetables and vines will be cul
tivated in this localitj' this season.
.rThe Sunday school at this
place -has down trodden all obsta
cles the past winter and will start
out this spring with renewed vigor
arid bright prospects for the future
. ."Observer" would like verv
much to convey the idea to, the.
public through his brilliant imag
inations that, the shoe which fitted
lim so nicely was made to order,
but it don't take. All we ask of
you "Obby is to practice what
you preach A young man by the
name of Magnetson. of Logan
county, rented a tract of laud about
a mile nortn or this place ot i'ax-
lon & Hershey the fore part of the
week. While here he was the
lest of A- O. Randall... The
members of our Sunday school will
meet at the home of Mrs. Mary
Spurrier on Friday evening of this
week to practice. All are requested
to be present if possible Elmer
Berry, who resided on the Frederici
farm near Pallas last season, will
take a trip to Colorado in the near
future with a view of locating
David Brunk and family, of North
Platte, formerly of Myrtle, are now
located on a Paxton & Hershey
farm in this precinct A man by
the name of Baley, of Overton, has
purchased a lot of hay of Paxton
& Hershey aud is baling and ship
ping it to that place C. B. Merry
has rented a farm of Henry Ab
shire north of Sutherland where he
will reside this season. For the
past two seasons he has resided on
the Chas. McAllister farm The
Hostetter stock of goods of Suth
erland are not visible in the town
site building at Hershey as yet
The Wash Hinman ditching outfit
began work on the Farmers and
Merchants' ditch in this section
Tuesday. Pat.
CtauuaiiMMa Pmeedingi.
March 9. Board' inifwotod Maxwell
bridge. . &
March 11. Claim of, p. 8. Clinton
84.50 for clocks allowf on general
-fund
ance
A General Banking Business Transacted.
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F. J- BROEKER.
MERCHANT TAILOR.
A Fine' Line of Piece
Goods to select from.
First-class Fit. Excel
lent Workmanship.
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FINEST SAMPLE ROOM IN NORTH PLATTE
Having refitted our rooms in the finest of style, the public
it invited to call and see us, insuring courteous treatment.
Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars at xne tsar.
Our billiard ball is supplied with the best.make of tables
and competent attendants will supply all your wants.
JOITffS BLOCK, OPPOSITE x'BE UNION PACIFIC DEPOT
SOMERSET SNAP SHOTS. '
Zero weather again Friday mornr
ing in this localitv.
J. H. Knowles was a Maywood
visitor last week.
Harvey Jackson transacted busi
ness in North Platte Friday.
J. McConnel was a passenger for.
Maywood Saturday.
S. I. McConnel recieved a car of
coal Saturday.
W. A. Latimer did Wellfleet Sat
urday. J. F. Brittain went to North
Platte Monday to attend a meet
ing of the assessors of the county.
J. H. Knowles is reported on the
sick list.
Rev. Randolph of North Platte
recently closed a meeting at the
Kunkle school house.
A. H. Mullikiii and James Ovens
were in North Platte last week.
Mrs. Ratliff whose sickness we
mentioned last week, died at the
home of her father Henry Welch on
Friday morning. The family have
the sympathy of a large circle of
friends in their sad bereavement.
O. I. C.
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l iwlicies & ourt lagMaPolicy No;
239 in AetnfWr f60dO;l No. 1102
in North Britkh?c6Mfjsnor IBOK
Following jraipitiuov'-aaoi , k. jy,
Tho&iBon votiafrin thaBptivet Re
solved by" the 'board-ot commisBioiiera
that they will Woefttha Maxwell bridge
from J. R. Seelejr& Cbwben said J. R
SeeleyiJCoMComBlywah, following
conditions: Put up.a baod-f or $500 for
the payment of all ncanic9. and. labor,
and material, and xeraft) railing aa per
contract and put on -railing poete in the
place of the ones that acfe.raieed up by
drivibg in the bolt orib-a paid 75 for
the 'same and apply curbing. plank in the
place of some condemad.plank.
jMarch 12. Board , opened bids for
county physician. ClaVii of J.-Ji. Lewis
for $40 grading on roaiNo. 195 allowed
on Eureka bridge funoV x .
March 13 Claim of iC B. Jordan for
work in relief store for 136 allowed on
general fund. s
Contract entered injw with Lee Arnett
state agent of Western Wheel Scraper
Co. for one car of twelve-inch Dickey
tiling at 26 cents per foot -delivered at
North Platte. Atefi contracted with
him for one Western -WaaflScraper Co.,
blade machmeJLo Jw dWjpwl at -JCoore
field for $225. :
3Iarch 14 Propoaalfaf Dr. N. McCabe
for county physician waa accepted and
county attorney ordered to draw con
tract, f
Road 212 comes un for final action and
is granted as petitioned. Surveyor ord
ered to make neceeeajry survey.
March 15 Claim of W. D. Fulver for
$28 for bridges on road No. 166 allowed
on bridge fund.
Marion Chester appointed justice of
the peace for Blaine, jrecinct.
Board worked on delinquent personal
tax last. T
WE PAY CASH 100 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR AND SELL
CHEAPER THAN ANY HOUSE IN THE CITY. "
f EMIE'S SLAUGHTER SALE -1895.
THE NEW TARIFF
On All Imported Woo en Goods and
IS IN OPERATION JANUARY 1ST.
We must close out our stock of nice fine goods and make room for our new stock
under the new tariff regulations. : : : $1.75 Silk Henrietta at $1.10; $1.50 Silk
Henrietta at 85 cts.; $1.00 Henrietta at 65 cts.; $1.25 Bedford Cords at 85 cents; $1.25
French Serges at 85 cts.; $1.00 French Serges at 65 cts.; all wool 1 yd. wide $1.25 Broad
Cloth at 75 cts.; 65 ct Flannels, 46 in. wide at 50 cts. : : : In our Shoe department
we offer the choicest line in the west, C. D. and E. widths, in fine new goods. : : :
Call and see for yourself the Wonderful Bargains at Rennie's for January and February in
1895. : . ; Amoskeag Ginghams at 5 cts. per yard, Lawrence LL uslin at 4 cts.
per yard, Lonsdale Muslin at 6 cts. per yard, at RENNIE'S.
Stat
Wahoo proposes .taa vera ball team
this 'year that can beat the world.
The Columbus TMiiftta 'declines' to
visit the chief execuMnrplees paid for
at regular rates. 'JC-
There is na.clothufcretara at Weeping
Water- and the pebalalwagloce to locate
H. D. Smithy sMHjifi)acator at
Hemingford, just eacidydeiath by tbe
poison rdflte tbtoaiMP action
ot aoctorlLSa;: J ' ,
A' jury atHoMf brought- in j
verdict against r$'Jfot M.road J or-
vn rrrm . ' a i i I
53,wu ior jmrioBpsgaieujyvjav man
Frank Dvofaoekjofc 5 wanton tried to
shoot a rabbit, buttiie.. bullet was de
flected and bit him iothe. face. He will
recover, but ne will, ngveripe. as pretty
as he was. . - '.'S,'
Schuyler hopes tq.g?t a. sugar factory
and the Herald is.onecof the few papers
not averse to giving a. .bounty to-, en
courage the industry'...'
. An O'Neill man., m. sick with what
some of the citizens -Up there declare is
smallpox. It is sai the disease was
brought into the, county in old clothing
shipped to the county (relief commission.
W. K. Lay of Cohimbus wants the
district court, to set aside the verdict
that he Is.tnorally insane. He pleads for
justice on the spot, and wants upon its
books the court to say; that he is not as
crazy as he looks. pW
The youths of Arlington were funny
the other evening: Q They- stretched a
wire across the siderallr about ankle
high and several persons got very bad
falls. The identity of the young rogues
was discovered, but-iaayet no charges
have been preferredsagainBt them.
At a meeting of the "Kearney fire de
partment it .was decided- to start a de
partment library. The plan for raising
funds is the "10-oenthain system, by
which sufficient money, ia hoped to be
raised, with subscriptions to -make a
good beginning; - -j-.
Walter Stump of Fans ' City thought
lessly pounded on a cartridge with a
knife. After the explosion there was
nothing left of the knife but one blade
and that was embeddedun hiB ear. He
will recover, but he is scarred for life.
The Otoe county commissioners have
taken advantage of the war between the
gas and electric light companies of Ne
braska. City, and the;.cerart house will be
lighted tbe ensuing year for $175, a sav
ing to the taxpayere.of ,8225 per year.
Harry and Mpaee Roberts of Rulb are
in jail at Falls Cu)y fojan attack they
made on Jacob Sweinfurth. iDuririg-the
festivities one oJLjhe boyB took wein
furth's ear between hjavtaeth;jndtore it
off. They stand' an JexcellentMBhow of
going to the penftefeiarV for Jffieir fun.
C. ScheUmann, living near Ulysses, is
troubled with asixjpepy wire nail in
his stomach. It has been there some
forty days and he is .unable to retain
food, so that he is very, much reduced
in flesh. He waa carrying some nails in
his mouth while chasing hogs that had
oroKen inrougft a rence, and in taking a
quick breath the nwl 'went down his
throat. - w : --'
The sooner you begin to fight
the fire, the more easily it may be
extinguished. The sooner you
begin taking Ay erV "Saraaparill a
for your bloc-diseaae, tie easier
will be the cure. In both cases, de
lay is dangerous, if not fatal. Be
sure you get Ayer'a and no.other.
A son of Jacob Boyer of Gering con
cluded to get rid of the lice on a horse.
He poured coal oil over the animal while
it was standing in a stable and then set
jire to it. The result is one stable
burned, one dea"d horse, theee sets of
harness burned and a million and a half
of vermin. The boy escaped.
The night operator of the Union Pacific
at Cozad was held up by a masked man
at the station the other night and com
pelled to disgorge $13. The burglar put
a revolver to the head ot the operator
and ordered him to open the safe, but as
the operator did not have the combina
tion the intruder left without accom
plishing his purpose..
The house of Chris Schrump of Weep
ing Water has been turned into an
arsenal. A number of boys have been
in the habit of stoning Chris' residence
and the owner doesn't propose to stand
it. any longer. He has loaded his guns,
and the first boys who attempt any of
their "funny" work will have theirhides
punctured with shot Chris says he will
not shoot to kill, but he will fire to
.hurt
Coroner Clements of Cass county,
who resides at Elmwood, held an inquest
ovproneof his Jersey cows the other
day and discovered a queer state of
affairs. The cow had been ailing for
some time and the coroner was obliged
to .shoot her. . The autopsy develo
that a ten-penny nail had worked
the-animal's heart- half its length, aa&
the-condition--of 'the nail proved corP
clusively that it had been in the animals
heart for some time.
Thomas Hudson of O'Neill has insti
tuted a suit against the Odd Fellows
and Knights of Pythias to recover $200,
the sum offered by them for the recovery
of the body of Barrett Scott. Mr. Hud
son was the gentleman who first hooked
bis probing rod into the dead man's
clothing. Other members of the search
ing party also filed claims for the amount
and are willing to pro rate. There will
be a fine question for the courts to
decide.
"Rev." C A. Luce, who preached for a
few months in Callaway and who sub
sequently got into trouble by attempt
ing to decamp with the box receipts of a
concert given in his church at Brown-
ville, Maine, was sentenced last Wednes
day to a vacation of nine months in the
Bangor jail. To a newspaper reporter
he recited a sketch of his career, taking
great credit for his successful work at
Callaway, where he assisted in convert
ing 225 souls at one meeting. He says
he still has unbounded faith in the
Christian religion, but thinks he will not
resume preaching after he gets out of
juil.
Alfalfa Agriculture
We find tbe following in the Ansley
Chronicle, to which we call the special
attention of the farmers of this county.
Supervisor Daily was giving the edi
tor some pointers, the other day, on the
value of alfalfa. John is given to exper
imental farming in his leisure moments
with his spare cash, and he finds many a
valuable lesson by experience. It was
while in one of these moods that he
sowed an acre to alfalfa in 1891 to
what it whs worth. It came up quickly,
and he pastured it until late in the fall.
The next summer he cut three crops of
alfalfa from the patch, but that was a
good year. In 1893 it was dry, but it had
little or no effect on this forage plant and
he cut three crops. This convinced him
that it was a good thing to have on the
farm, and last spring he sowed five acres
more. Notwithstanding the hot winds
and drouth it grew nicely, and he past
ured it late in the summer. The old
piece grew finely and he cut three crops
from it, yielding a total of three tons. To
test its vitality he cut the second crop in
the hot days in the middle of last July,
and just six weeks later-he cut the third
crop, which was standing twelve to four
teen inches high. Now, this early, his
alfalfa field is putting forth green shoots,
and with the first few weeks of warm
weather he expects to have good pasture
age. As a feed for stock Mr. Daily
thinks it is superior to our prairie hay,
keeping the stock in better condition.
Hogs eat it as readily as cattle, snd they
fatten and thrive on half the usual
amount of corn. Mr. Daily has so much
faith in alfalfa as a crop for this country
that he expects to plant seventy acres
during the next yearor two. The alfalfa
he now has planted is not on valley land,
but on the top and side of a bill, or high
as tbe average hill in this section, snd he
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sowed itoa a clean corn-field stubble in
the early spring, and cultivated it in with
a disk harrow. Some have said alfalfa
would not do -well in a wet season, but to
this Mr. Daily recalls his experience in
the. wet spring and summer of 1891, the
first year he planted it, when he walked Irrigation is our only hope; let the good
into the patch in the middle of the sum
mer and could just oonveaieutly stretch
out his arms over the top of the alfalfa.
So strong is Mr. Daily's faith in the
strength and vitality of alfalfa that he
believes all our hill lands that are now
idle and wasted could be covered witfi a
rank growth of this forage plant, and in
years to come would be the most valu
able part of the farm. Mr. Daily is not
given to visionary schemes, but4 is a
practical, successful farmer, and the
farmers of Lincoln county could not do
better than heed his advice, and profit
by his experience.
IRRIGATION NOTES.
Chas. Rose, of North Platte, was in the
city last Tuesday, and, we understand, ia
getting ready to run another preliminary
survey for the Dawson and Lincoln
county Irrigation Co. Gothenburg In
dependent.
W. W. Young received the lumber for
the head gate ot the Oshkosh ditch
Tuesday niaht. It will soon be hauled
over and put in place, when the ditch
will be ready for use. This is the first
ditch, of any size, completed in Deuel
county.- -
Bus Couch will put in an irrigation
ptrmn to be run bra thirteen foot seared
steel windmill. His well will be about
fifty feet deep.... j S-M. G. Bradley and
son will soon erect a big-jumbo windmill
eighteen feet long by Bixteen feet high,
for irrigation purposes and to help sup
ply their fish pond with water. It will
also be erected so that a cable can be
run from the wheel to a building in
which will be a feed cutter and some
other useful kinds of feed machinery.
They expect to go into" the hog raising
business principally, and steam the
alfalfa hay before feeding. Their well
laid plans, successfully carried out will
doubtless make good profits L. B.
Rector has his irrigation plant now about
completed. He first put down a well
sixteen inches in diamater, using com
mon wood casing. He then ordered of
Axel Nelson one of his galvanized iron
pumps thirty-eight feet long, his well
being thirty-four feet deed'. This pump
was pnt up and a ten foot Dandy wind
mill hitched to it and turned loose. In
an ordinary wind it dischargee forth
four gallons per minute on a seven and a
half inch stroke. Mr. Rector has a large
earth reservoir and ia now prepared to
do considerable farming under pump
irrigation. These pumps which Mr.
Nelson build are made of No. 20 galva
nized iron, riveted and soldered into a
pipe about one-half inch larger in di
ameter than the cylinder. Being thus
larger than the cylinder permits the
plunger to be withdrawn without tak
ing up the pump. The cylinder is of
twenty inch cast iron and may bo had
from six to twelve inches in diameter,
and a stroke of sixteen inches can be
had. The plunger rod is made of two
inch oak. 31 r. Nelson now has two of
these pumps in operation, both giving
satisfaction. C. F. Searle has the second
one built which is twenty eight feet long.
To it he has hitched his big jumbo mill
at a twelve inch stroke. Mr. Nelson haa
received an order from J. J. Sneddecker
of Brule, for a six inch pump sixteen feet
long; also an order from Ilus Couch for
one that will be nearly fifty feet long.
work go on. Keith County News.
We clip the following from the Irriga
tion Farmer published at Salina, Kan
sas, we claim, however, that it win .
never bar necessary for us- to deed back
this country to its former condition if
irrigation is adopted and utilized in
every way possible. It may be, 'perhaps,
that our table lands cannot be all used
in this way, but that portion which can
no't, can be made a free range or in Eome
other way pastured. Still an immense
body of land, enough to support thous
ands of people, can be watered. The
article referred to reads as follows: "It
is humiliating to the people of Kansas
and Nebraska to have carloads of provi
sions and old second-hand clothes
shipped from eastern states to what are
called the western sufferers. It will be
a happy day to Kansas people when that
term becomes obsolete. We would
rather have no western settlers than to
have the term western sufferers retained
in the American vocabulary. Give us
the coyote, the antelope, the prairie dog
the cowboy and the long horned Texas
herds, but never let us have western
sufferers again."
A good local paper aids in building up
and making known its locality and thus
adds to the value of property a thous
and fold more than any support it may .
have received from the vicinity.
Strangers receive their first impression
of a city or town from the local paper.
A home paper sent abroad to friends,
neat, attractive and apparently prosper
ous, is a message which brings capital
and population to a community. It is
the home paper. which has made and is
making the town known to the world as
a point for trade and business, and the
resident who does not appreciate it is
simply engaged in commiting business
suicide. Name the prosperous towns in
the state and you will invariably find
that they contain an enterprising, credi
table and prosperous newspaper, which
has helped the town, Niobrara Pioneer.
NOTICE TOR PUBLICATION.
Laud Omcx at North Plattx, Kxb.,
March 18th, 1885. )
Notice Is hereby given that the following-named
settler has filed notice of his IntenUon to make
final proof in support of bis claim, and that said
proof will bo made before the Begiater and Re
ceiver at North Platte, Nebraaka, on April
23d, 1895, viz:
JOHN CEDZRBERG,
who made Homestead Entrj No. 16,954, for the
east half ot the northwest quarter and the east
half of the southwest quarter section 30, township
15 north, range 25 west. He names the following
witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon
and culUvation of, said land, viz: C. F. Johnson.
C A. Erikson, Lars Blixt and C. A. Eodln. all of
TalUn, Nebraska.
JOHN F. HINMAN,
Register.
NOTICE FOB PUBLICATION.
Land Office at North Platte, Neb., 7
v , . , March 15th, 1895. f
NoUce is hereby given that the following-named
settler has filed notice of her intention to make
final proof in support of her claim, and that said
proof will be made before the Register asd Re
ceiver at North Platte, Nebraska, on April 27th,
189j, viz:
NETTIE A. PITZEB REECE,
on Homestead Application No. 15681 for the south
east quarter section 21, township 9 north, range 29
west of the 6th principal meridian. She names the
following witnesses to prove her continuous resi
dence upon and culUvation of said land, tIjk
Melissa E. VanNatta, William T. VunNatta and
Edward O. Eves, all of Buchanan, Nebraska, and
Jesse T. Will, of Curtis, Nebraska.
22-8 JOHN F. HINMAN. Register.
'ECONOMY IS WEAm
ALFALFA, POTATOES, CORN AND HAY
will make this country prosperous.
Buy your Seeds of Harrington & Tbbin.7 are here to star.
