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EOBTH PLATTE, KEBEASKA, FKIDAI EYEMM OCTOBER: ig, 1896.
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GREAT
. Slaughter! Slaughter! Slaughter!
We have got to make room lor our
immense line--of Fall Goods and for that
Reason will sell all of our goods at marvel--ois
low prices Alower than ever known -in
:Western Ifebraika.
. No.w is Your Chance!
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We positively will allow .no one to
umdersell us. Comparison solicited. Goods
freely shown.
SM Mill ill,
WEBER & VOLLMER, PROPS.
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First National Bank,
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EE THEXA AIE ON THE LEG.) tnem, wlien 1 1 biS OT SU.
If you are posted you cannt be deceived. We write
this to post you. SOLD ONLY BY
A I H A VI Sie Sreat and Only Hardware Man
- 4 in. Lincoln Go, that no one Owes.
Full Line of ACORN STO YES AND RANGES, STOYE
PIPE, ELBOWS, GOAL HODS, ZINC BOARDS,
etc., at Lowest Prices on Record:
NORTH PLATTE, - - - NEBRASKA.
FINEST SAMPLE ROOM
Having refitted our rooms in the finest of: style, the public
is invited to call and see ' us, insuring courteous treatment.
Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars af the Bar.
Qur billiard, hall is supplied with te best make of tables
a'd competent attendants will supply all your wants.
ELTrFS BLOCS:,' GPPOStTE x'BE UmOF PACIFIC DEPOT
3496 -
CAPITAL, - - 50,000.
SURPLUS," ' '$22,500.
- President
H S White- -
A. White, - - - Vice-Prest
Arthur MeNamara, - Cashier.
A c-opml hnnVrno- himineS
& a
transacted.
You caif t find in these
"Cmted States the Equal
of the Genuine
Beckwitli
Round Oak.
Yon may try: you-'ll get
left. Remember, ijs the
combination of good pointy
that rnkes the Perfect
StOYe. That's where "we
?et the IMITATIONS.
They can't steal the whole
stove. They steal one
thing and think they have
it all, bat it FAILS. They
build another. It fails.
Still they keep on crying
good as the ROUND
OAK. Some peculiar
merchants say they have
IF NORTE PLATTE
T3"E BICYCLE jLafaes.
The bicycle tournament held
Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons
under the auspices of the Wild
West Wheelmen proved a very suc
cessful oner and brought to the city
a number of professional riders,
among- whom were Coulter and
Banks, of Denver, and McCoIl of
Omaha, who are very speedy riders.
Coulter holding- the world's record
for an unpaced mile. The tourna
ment was by far the greatest event
of the kind ever held m North
Platte, and the local management
deserves credit forgiving thepublic
such high-class amusement.
The result of the races were, as
follows:. .
TUESDAY.
'One mile -novice Maher. Chey
enne, first; Dieterick, Cheyenne,
secondr Moore, Kimball;, third.
Time 2:45 1-5.
- Boy's race, one mile Baskins
first, Filhon second. Time 2:46.
Two mile amateur Erswell,
Cheyenne, first; Crick, North Platte,
second; Zimmerman, Kearney, third.
Time 4:44 2-5.
Half mile professional Coulter,
Denver, first; ilcColI, Omaha, sec
ond; Collins, Denver, third. Time
1:10.
One mile unpaced Erswell
2:25 Crick 2:26 2-5, Pierce 2:33,
Hurst 2:30 45, Zimmerman 2:31 2-5.
WEDNESDAY.
One mile, county championship
Crick first, Filfion second. Time
2:31.
Quarter mile pfofessional-Banks
first. Coulter second, Green third.
Time thirty-three seconds.
One mile amateur Erswell first,
Zimmerman second, Hurst third.
Time 2:23.
Three mile amateur handicap
Dietrick, 300 yards, first; Erswell,
scratch, second; Crick, 15' yards.
third Timert4.
One mile professional Coulter
first Banks second. McColl third.
Time 2:16.
Fiyemfle handicap, professional
Coulter, scratch, first; McColI, zO
yards, second;Banks, scratch, third.
Time 12:12. The last mile in this
-race was. rum in which, is for a.
quarter mile track, exceptionally
fast time. The record of 12:12 in a
five mile unpaced professional race
on a quarter mile track is a world
record beater.
E. B. Warner, Dentist, office in
Hinman block, up stairs Spruce st.
EUTKAff FRECrUCT.
Mr. McDonald, of Kem precinct,
arrived yesterday from Fillmore
county. He says crops are good
but people cry bard times.
Ernest Minney and sister May
of Gothenburg, are visiting their
brother W. H- Minney in this pre
cinct. Will Sjpe and Hans Miller, of
Cambnge, visited friends here
while attending the irrigation fair,
also Howard Eaton and Mr, Moore,
of the same place.
SIBEEY BSPLEE3 TO OSS.
Mr. Editor: I see by the last
issue that mv friend Orr is still af
ter my scalp, and perhaps I should
surrender at discretion, but with
your kind indulgence I would like
to analyze his "statistical table."
Now, friend Orr, Thave always told
you that yau vvould hold that silver
dollar so near your eyes that it
eclipses your vision, in fact you
have to use an X ray mental effort
to see anything beyond that dollar
and statistics become so dim when
seen under such difficulties that
they lose their legitimate meaning.
Please 'IetlooseT of that dollar for
a moment and let us examine sta
tistics. In your letter of Sept.
21st you write: As silver has, de
clined prices have Jecined. an
when silyer- has advanced prices
have advanced; statistics prove this
statement." And you seek to cor
roberate this statement by the fol
lowing table, which you say are
the highest export prices in ten
year periods from 1S25 to 1S86:
Corn Cotton. Oats Wheat Bar Silver
London
1S25 .73 27 .40 L06
1SS3 U2 20 .75 1.50 L308
1843 -8j G9 .51 -tifl 1.299
1S55 1.1.1 U JO. 2JS0 l:ui
1S65 .97 L22 .90 LSS 1.338
1873 .75 17 -tH 37 L215
ISSil -2 9.C9 .25.5 SOI
Coin's Financial School page 108
says average export price of wheat
ranged from $1.30 to SLQ7 from.
1875 tj) 1SS4. which, might tend to
discredit your last quotation for
the eleven year period, but then we
have to give you free silver advo
cates a poet's license to vary. Now
referring vou to vour letter ofr
Sept. 21st of silver being the cause,
where does your assumption lead
you? If a tall of one cent per xunce1
in. silver caused a drop of ten cents
per be she! in. wheat from 1S35 to
lS45r why wiE not the- proposed?!
raising of the price of silver from
sixty-six cents per ounce to $1.29
per ounce cause a rise of $6.30 per
bushel in. the price of wheat? And
the next one: if the rise in silver ot
-k6 cents per ounce caused wheat
to rise $1.40 per bushel, why will
not the proposed rise of sixty-three
cents per ounce in silver cause a
rise of nearly $20 per bushel in the
price of wheat? Ain't you too
modest when yotuonly claim wheat
will be doubled7 Don't your esti
mate of prosperity need revising?
Now friend Orr if you really be
lieve that .a rise in silver of 4.6
cents caused a rise of $1.40 in
wheat, if you arej, willing to stake
your reputation, -for sound judg
ment on that proposition and ignore
as factors our own Mexican war
and the Crimean war which sealed
the Black Sea po.rts against the
export of wheat, I wish you much
joy in your belief. Now don't get
that dollar up to your eye until we
go a little further. Under what
conditions were the forty cent oats
and $1.06 wheat raised trom 1815 to
1S25. These were the highest
prices, then there must have been
lower prices. They were sowed,
reaped, bound and threshed by
L hand, marketed over poor roads in
crude vehicles or else by water.
Will you pretend tor one moment
that the farmer got cost then for
his oats and wheat? Again we find
that wheat under free silver fluctua
ted from S1.06 to $2.80 and this
being highest prices do not mark
the extreme fluctuations, but here
is a difference of more than 16S per
cent. Can you find the like under
limited coinage since the crime of
'73. and don't it strike you that the
price of wheat at tftnes slipedout of.
the control of silver? Again you
affirm ail dictionaries, etc., say
silver was the unit," and here you
have given the great weight ot your
assent to a table that.quotes silver
six times at six different prices
and never once at its unit price,
$1.29. Now while that dollar is
away from your eye let us s'ee what
that table proves:
1st. -That "conditions- which
caused fluctuations in corn, cotton,
oats and wheat also caused silver
to fluctuate. ,
2d. That free silver like limited
coinage was unable to prevent
wheat, oats and cotton, and prob
ably corn, to be raised and sold at
an actual loss to the producer.
3d. That free silver like limited
coinage has no control over prices
whatever.
4th. That silver was not during
all the year the commercial unit,
all these values being based on
gold. We can only judge the future
by the past. We cannot expect
free silver to have any more effect
on prices in the future than in the
past. It would have been quite in
structive friend Orr had you held
up to the gaze of the Era readers
the lowest prices of the peroids
mentioned. Was you fearful that
the lowest prices would be too heavy
a burden for free silver to carry?
Five cent cotton and other articles
in proportion under free silver
would not look well you know, but
they were facts.
One more matter and I am done.
You came to Nebraska in May,.
1S84. You came here a democrat;
vou -favored the election of Cleve
land and opposed Blaine. You did
not vote because you could not and
I did not say you did. If the fore
going is not correct I leave you to
settle the matter with your two
brothers-in-Kw, who are my author
ity. Are you fearful friend Orr
that the knowledge you were once
a Cleveland democrat would injure
your chances for the populist nomi
nation for county treasurer? Brace
up and stand by your colors. As
to your vote in '92. I always sup
posed you voted for Weaver, but I
never have said anvtbinjr to anv
one about ifc. And now, friend Orr,
my part of this newspaper contro
versy is done. I have lots more in
struction for your silver blindness
and I should be. pleased to meet you
out among vour old acquaintances
in. joint discussion qf this financial
subject which, you think I am so
short on, I don't own The Tribune
and cannot monopolize its columns,
but if you will make an. appoint
ment I will guarantee to answer
every question you have put to me.
Now, friend, Qrrt if you wish to
air your knowledge and expose my
ignorance, come out into the clear
air of the country, away from the
pessimistic populist air of thecouct
house and let lis country people
gaze on their would-be Moses, L e
treasurer- C A. Sibley.
irmLEtTOYOTEES.
HAS SPOKEN TO 200,000 PEOPLE AX
HIS HOME.
riie Voters Have 2ot Waited To lie
Crammed Up bat Drammed Themselves
Up and Viaited the Ohio Statesaian at
His Iloiae in Cantoa.
Major ilcKinley has, it is estimated,
spoken, to 200,000 voters at his home
since his nomination. These voters
have notwaited to be drummed up,
but have drummed, themselves up, and
in delegations numbering: thousands,
have journeyed to Canton to pay their
respects to the Republican . candidate
at his home. There has never been
anything- on so enlarged, a scale in any
other presidential year, and, in fact, it
must be regarded, as anew develop
ment far the mode of political stuggies.
As many as three delegations have
made the pilgrimage to Canton in one
day, and each of the delegations has
been introduced, in a speech by it3
spokesman, to which Major ilcJOnley
has had to reply. He has thus made
many speeches, requiring as much ver
satility as it does to conduct a newspa
per with distinction.
These speeches have feeen reported
verbatim, and in good part have been
read by the voters who can. read. And
without flattery, it can be said that
these offhand addresses show a prac
tised man. of affairs. . who is full ot
tact, and who says the right thing in
the most direct way. He addressed a
delegation of workingmen from this
state on Thursday evening, in the
course of which he said many things
that go to the root of matters at issue,
and will be remembered lay men .who
think before action. "I am one," said
Id. McKinley, "who believes it is the
business of this country to make laws
for its benefit. I believe it J:o be the
business of this free government to
preserve the American market for the
American producer, whether in the fac
tory or farm, and to preserve the
American mines, and the factories of
the American workmen."
This, he said, ar. l truly, is all there
fs of a protective tariff. We do not
see how this utterance can be dissent
ed from by any true American, ner do
we believe any thoughtful man will
dissent from it. "We want a tariff that
will defend every Industry competed
for by foreign producers to the extent
of the difference in wages here and
there. Tc demand less than, this is to
propose to subject our men of enter
prise to unfair competition. Wages
constitute not less than SO per cent, ot
the cost of production, and it is against
much lower wages that a tariff should
defend.
As iEajor ilcKinley forcibly said on
this occasion, this doctrine ef protec
tion has been a cardinal doctrine of the
party from its birth. While we cdmlt
that for the time being we have to de
fend against a menace of national dis
honor, embodied in. a demand that our
financial policy snail be on the lines-of
sixth-rate nations, and while we pro
pose to meet that imminent danger on
the threshold and avert it, we shall
do so without discarding any principle
enunciated and any policy declared in
the platform adopted at St. I.ouis. First
and foremost, said Major MoKlnley, In
substance, we must work for a revival
of- confidence, and hence we must re
gard the issue of finance as paramount.
Iu order to have the wages of labor
maintained at their present remunera
tive rate, we must provide for the pre
servation of the currency at its fuU
par value as a purchasing agent. For it
will matter much to the wage earner
whether he has work to be paid for in
depreciated currency or less work paid
in. money or its present purchasing
power. What the country wants-is re
lief from the menace of repudiation,
and when that relief Is afforded confi
dence will be restored, and business will
revive "What the workingmen want."
said Mr. McKinley, "is to be paid for
their work in dollars that are equal to
the best dollars In the world, dollars
that will not depreciate In the future,
but wiH be as good one day and in any
country as in another." That is what
we have to provide for, and the way
to secure it la to vote for McKinley
and Hobart against the field. Het the
question ef cheap money be settled
once and for alL Philadelphia Amer
ican. WORLD'S SCHOOL HOUSE.
Workinginan'. Share of the Product Which.
He Helps to Make.
What the workinman wants is a
larger and larger share of the product
ha helps to make. That is what "prog
ress" metins.
The facts of the last hundred years
show that he is steadily getting this
larger share except when the money
system gos wrong;
This is what the United States census
iays about that:
In 1360 our factories made ?l.SSo,000,
QOQ product, and paid $378,000,000 wages,
or 20 per cent, ef product.
In 1S70 they made 54.232,000,000 prod
uct, and paid $oa,0Q,fl00 wages, er IS
per cent.
In 1SS0 they made 55,26300,000 prod
uct, and paid 5347,ff00,00 wages, or
IS per cent-
In 1300 they made $9,372,000,000 prod
uct, and paid 52,171,000.100 wages, or 24
per cent.
This does not tell the whIe story.
Most of the value of product is labor
value. These figures of preduct count
the material several times the cot
ton, the cotton yarn, the cotton
cloth; and the wages only once. But
the proportions remain, the same.
These figures show that In 1860 work
ers received only one-fifth of the prod
uct; in 1880 nearly a quarter af the
product.
Ih cotten mills the hands can buy
nearly twice as many yards of sheet
ing with their week's wages as they
could have bought with their week's
wages thirty years ago.
Let each workman, reckon how
much he can buy with, his week's
wages today of what he helps to make.
Then let him reckon the figures when
h first began to -work. In almost ev
ery case he will find that prices have
gone down more than wages, that low
prices have meant high wages.
This is because modern appliances
have helped the workingman to make
more prodnct with less work. In 1S30
a cotton mill hand worked fourteen,
hours a day to produce 4.600 yards a
year. In 1890 in ten hours a day his
product was over 20,000 yards a year.
The workingman Is the very last man
to desire1 high, prices for commodittes.
Sew York World.
A TERRIFIC
ah
UPSETTING OF
at
V s
A bold, determined move to make Fair
week the busiest week this year!
'ISTever were we so bounfcifully supplied witt bargain
; ammunition- JTowis the
choose from hundreds or special- purcnases1 too Ispod. to
last long-. Tot in our 6 years' experience Itaye sugIi all
around low prices prevailed: "
DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT.
Our shelves in this department are overloaded with: .Dress, Goods
Flannels, Ginghams, Prints, Sateens,. Mnslins, Table Linens,, Tbwefer
Handkerchiefs and Sundry Notions.
OUR SHOE DEPARTMENT.
Everybody knows that this department is the largest and, best as
sorted of any in the city. We are receiving new and np-to-date styles
every day. Call and see them.
CLOAK DEPARTMENT.
This department is filled to overloading in Jackets,, Capes and
Cloaks in all sizes and prices.
TRUNK DEPARTMENT.
We have one of the largest line of trunks in the city, all kinds.
I Lowest prices.
Clothing and Gents'- Furnishing Goods.
A fine line 6f Clothing, Shirts, Neck-wear, Overalls, Blouses
Suspenders, etc. :
Give us a call. Ask to see in all departments,, and defc not be
afraid to ask prices.
Yours for business,
THE
RICHARDS BROS, Props.
i QUAD CAMERA. t ; f
II " C. M. Newton 11
k Has them for Sale at -12
1L p. ffiS,00 J
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
The Bank of Sutherland,
At Sutherland, in the State of Nebraska, at the
close of business September oOtn. 1S9.
RESOURCES.
LoariB and discounts 44Jw 23
Overdrafts secured and nnsecnrtMl... 3 uO
Other aweta . 11 00
Baniinjr honse. furniture and fixtures. .. 1218 70
Other real estate 17B8 W
Current expenses and. taxes paid. ... f. ItW SO
Checks and other ca-h items Xi 30
Dae frauiicational, state and private bnni.
and hankers USS W
Cash 2110 7U
Total $11114 14
iiABrxxrxEs.
Capital toek paid io S00ft 00
Surpltw taml iS 00
Undivided profit 317 71
Ietlividoal depo-ita subject to check 4735 17
Demand certificate ef deposit 0
Time certificates of deposit JS21 S3
Ttai -Hllli 14
State ef Nebraska. Lincoln Cseerx. s. s.
r. C. B. iTcKinstrr. cashier of the above-named
bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement
y true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
C. B. McKEfSTRT. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th
day of October. 18W. Tisxux Coras,
Notary PnWic
Sly commission expires Hay 17. 1SUS.
SMOKERS
In search of a good cigar t
will always find it at J.
F. Schmalzried's. Try
them and fudge.
J. F. PILLION,
Mkf, Tinworker i
General Eepairer.
Special attention given to I1
III 1111
WHEELS TO BENT
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PRICES
The Fair!
time to buy, when yoji ?can
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DEALER EM
Coal Oil,
Gasoline,
Gas Tar,
And Crude Petroleum.
Leave orders at office
in Broeker's tailor shop.
r
P. J. BE0EKEE,
Merchant Tailor
A well assortedtock of foreign
and domestic piece goods in'
stock from which to select.
Perfect Fit.
kow Prices1
SPRUCE STREET-
GEO. NAUMAM'S
SIXTH STREET
MEAT MARKET,
Meats at wholesale and re
tail. Fish and .Game tin
season. Sausage at all
times. Cash paid for Hides-
Me
wen