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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 23, 1897)
5 loom and County -peas, t K A A AAA A AAA & A A A4t IMPOETANT MEETING. "We are requested to announce tliat a- meeting- of the depositors . and stockholders of the North Platte National Bank will be held ai Keith's hall on Saturday, July 24th, at 2 p. ra. A full attendance is desired. Edvardl5rElHott. came up from -Lincoln last night for a visit with his parents. The Gordon Cornet Band will give its usual street concert to morrow evening. ' The city council will hold an executive session this evening for the purpose of considering matters of importance. Jno. Grady, who had been the guest ot Frank "McGovern for a couple of days, returned to Council Bluffs this morning. Miss Etta Barraclough leaves to night for a visit in Denver and Colorado Springs. She will be absent two or three weeks. Miss Emma Letty, of Pittsburg-, is the guest of of her sister, Mrs. John Singleton, having arrived in in town last night. Attorney Gantt was able to get down town this morning after suf fering for several days with a bad attack of asthma. At noon to-day Dr. Bedell re ported no change in the condition of Mrs. E. P. Seeberger and had no hope ot her recovery. Rev. McCarthy will close his pastoral duties in this city Sunday and on Monday will leave for his new field of labor at Blair. General Manager Dickenson and party came in last night and lett this morning for the Wyoming-division to inspect recently constructed bridges. A number of our citizens were treated to a serenade last night by seven colored porters who were in charge of the Wagner sleepers side tracked at this place. Tuesday evening a night blooming cercus was an attraction a.t Schmalzried's cigar store. The same evening one of these beautiful flowers bloomed at the home of Dr. Warner. The Women's Relief Corps will hold a lawn social on Saturday even ing Julv 31 at the residence ot H. M. Slack. Ice cream and cake will served for ten cents. The two year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Casey has been seriously ill for a day or two past. Yesterday and last nicrht he suffered from severe spasms. Miss Swaiger, of this city, was a Sutherland visitor Wednesday and we learn that while there she secured a position as school teacher for the next year in a district south of Sutherland McCormick Binders and Mowers at Jos. Hershey's Joe C. Clinton returned last nisrht from Omaha where he had been for a week receiving treat ment for an eye which was injured some time agro. The condition of the eye is much improved and Joe hopes to be able to return to work about August 1st. Applications for marriage, li censes are not very brisk during this hot weather, yet Judge Ray is cauec on now ana tnen to issue one. Wednesday he crave Aaron Kane legal permission to wed Nellie P. Farmer, both residents of Wallace. Harrington oc room are now shipping baled hay from Suther land, Hershey, Nichols, North Platte and Maxwell, and average about one car a day from each of these points. Hay on the track is worth $3.75 to $4 with a falling market. This season's hay is ex ceptionally good, being free from weeds. The Chicago weather forecast for North Platte and vicinity: Local rains to-night and Saturday The maximum temperature yester day at North Platte was 95, mini mum in past 24 hours 68, at 7 p. m. 68, precipitation 00. For the same period and time one year ago the maximum temperature was 72, mini mum 57, at 7 p. m. 58, precipita tion .04 of an inch At the council meeting last evening- it was suggested by a member of the council that a special election be called to vote bonds to pay the floating indebtedness of the city which amounts to about$5,500. It might be well, however, for the council to thoroughly look up the law and see if there is not another way in which these claims can be paid. It would be less expensive to get these claims into a judgment, if such can be done, than to vote bonds. The claims against the city were honestly contracted, and it would seem that it is a poor law that would permit of a repudiation of , a just debt through a. mere technicality. There are lawyers in to wn who say that these claims can" be collected through the judgment process. w,Tke rew Chamber Suit I presume you would. We cannot sell you one for that money but you cau purchase a good one for a little more money. We have the finest line of FURNITURE ever shown in the city. Call and see our new Couches and Lounges. We have something cheap in an extension table, and our dining room Chairs are the best made for the money. ODD FELLOWS BLOCK. t "Renme"s Vh st Stock of at COST AND LESS. The chance of your life. I am positively going oufc of business. Those people owing this house -will please call, and make arrangements to settle their accounts, either in cash or note. We will sell no more goods on credit to any living person Beginning Monday, June 14th, 1897. Come and see for yourself. Eating the pudding is the proof thereof. All goods one-half price. EirNote this Positively out of business. No ifs or ands about it . H. i ELEGANT 1 1 SOFT BOSOM SHIRTS I flt ffS (fl (fl fl jp p j( jj Await your inspection. Notice Front Street window for new and up-to-date wear..... Star Clotting House, WEBER & VOLIiMER. We learn that John Weir will close out his stock of .drugs in the immediate future. Ruth Streitz is entertaining a large party of her little friends this afternoon at a tea party. The ladies of the Lutheran church gave a very pleasant and succesfullawn social Tuesday even ing as the home ot Mrs. Scharman. George The ice cream social given by the Christian Endeavor Society last evening in the McDonald building on Spruce street was liberal!' pat ronized. The officers of the Presbyterian church have given Rev. Verner a two weeks' leave of absence from August 1st. Mr. Verner will spend the time in Colorado. A verjr large crowd attended the social given by the Catholic ladies at the home of John B. Murphy Tuesday evening. The event was as great a success social ly as it was financially. John B. Ruth, state manager of the Standay Oil Com pan', re turned to Omaha yesterday, after looking over the field here for a couple of days. He was well pleased with the manner in which Claude Weingand conducts the oil business in this city. Klondyke is not heaven after it is reached, and Jordan is a hard road to travel. The chances are that twenty-four in every twenty-five who undertake the trip will wish but once that they had stayed at home, and that once will be all the time. J. I. Smith says that he never saw a better crop of small grain between this city and Grand Island than that grown by the farmers this year. He sa'ys that in many sections along the road where small grain has never been successfully grown before, there is this season a big crop. A recent writer in answer to the question, "Where is the hottest place on earth?" names "the lower valley ot the Ganges, where the daily summer temperature is trom 105 to 110 degrees. During the monsoon the Euphrates country registers from 115 to 120 degrees. The sandy wastes of Arizona frequently send the thermometer to 110 and 115 de- f-grees, but Massowah and the Red" sea country lead all. In the sun tlie thermometer reaches 170 degrees, and in the shade 130 to 145 degrees, j and life in the open air is sacrificed. of thre& pieces E. B. WARNER. t Dry Goods, Shoes Coats Millinery s C. RENNIE. t i XjIHSTIE OIF Julius Essig was up from Brady Wednesday buying haying tools. Several additional coal heavers were put to work at the coal docks Lo-day. Victor Meyer has some first class second hand binders for sale at a great bargain. Nels Newman has sold his property in the Third ward and wil soon remove his family to Utah. Mrs. John Scharmann's condi tion has improved during the past week, and it is now believed that she is out of danger. Some very unique costumes will be worn by the young ladies taking part in the merchants' earn ival this evening. Mrs. Gnswold, of Council Bluffs, arrived in town Wednesday night, being called here by the sick ness of her sister, Mrs. Seeberger, Heyse, the local manufacturer of soft drinks, is doing quite a bus iness. He ships from four to twelve cases daily to Sutherland, Ogalalla and Julesburg. Contractor Walker received a carload of brick Wednesday, part of which he is using in repairing the house recently purchased by Fred Letts. Ten empty Wagner sleepers were attached to No. 2 yesterday morning, making a train of twenty cars. The deadhead sleepers were taken off at this place. THE CHILD'S EYES are worth more to him or her than any other organ. They are as dear as life itself. They must be pre served. The first sign of disease or defect must be attended to. A good optician should be seen at once. I make a specialty of examin ing the eyes and fitting glasses. All jsvork guaranteed. ejyelgi4 and Optician. COUNCIL PSOCEEDDfGS! The city council held an ad journed meeting last evening, the mayor and five of the six council men answering to the roll-call. Geo. T. Field had on exhibition a fire alarm box, a description of which was published in these columns a couple of weeks ago, and gave a practical demonstration of its workings in the presence of the council. Mr. Field sent in an alarm from the box and the whistle at the waterworks responded with prompt ness. The members of the council and all spectators were well pleased with the alarm system, and the former practically agreed to ap propriate $250 for the rental of the system for one year. This sum will pay for ten or twelve boxes. In the opinion of the writer Mr, Field's system is a superior one and the city will make no mistake in adopting it. The clerk presented a statement showing that the amount available in the general fund against which warrants could be. drawn was '..3,593.65, and of this amount 2,400 had been appropriated for officers' salaries and 500 for the firejdepart ment, leaving less than 700 to pay the bills on file and meet the ex penses of the remainder ot the year, It was therefore plain to the coun- cilmen that it would be necessary to discontinue the use of the street lights, and the lamp-lighter was notified to cease work until further notice from the council. North Platte will therefore be in dark ness, except", perhaps, ' on special occasions. Bills aggregating about 575, all of which were contracted since the beginning of the fiscal year, were allowed and the clerk instructed to issue warrants for the same. under a suspension ot rules, an ordinance relating to swill wagons was passed, and the council ad journed. THE KLONDYKE GOLD FIELD. Chas. McDonald is in receipt of the following letter from Con Weary, who twenty or more years ago was a resident of North Platte: Seattle, July 18th. 1897. Mr. McDonald, North Platte, Dear Sir: I send you the paper giving you an account of the rich mines on the Klondyke and Bon anza Creek in British Columbia, what is termed the northwest terri tory. People were so excited when the Steamer Portland came in that business was practically suspended I never saw such an excitement and never heard of such rich mines. should not believe it but I was here to see the gold "dust. Mining on the Yukon is done by burning holes m the irround or in other words thawing the ground through the winter and piling the dirt until the river breaks up or the ice goes out. It is the most remarkable country in the world, and the richest in mines; but not as much farming ground in the whole of the 600,000 square miles as would make a re spectable size garden. I was up there live years ago to look over the country, but only along the coast. It is tue place tor a young man with some means that likes adven ture. People are wild with excite ment and all who can get away are going. Yours, etc., C. Weary. MASON JARS. 1 pint fruit jars 45c a doaen. 1 quart fruit jars 55c a dozen. 1-2 gallon fruit jars 75c a dozen. at the WILCOX DEPT. STOHJE Mr. and Mrs. Will McDonald went up to Hershey last evening. The ladies eruila is Holding a ten cent social at the home of Mrs John Bratt this afternoon. The populist county central committee has been called to meet Saturda', July 31st, when a call for the county convention will probably be issued. A number of the business men have signified their intention of decorating their buildings on the occasion of the Epworth League convention next week. Smoke Wright's Havanna Rose 5 cent cigar. A. Kunkle, living southwest of town, has purchased of Joseph Her shey a 14-foot windmill which he will use for irrigating a garden patch. His well is 260 feet in depth. Chas. Ivubns, the Maxwell merchant, was in town on busi ness yesterday. He is wearing an extra smile on account of a boy baby which arrived at his house a couple of nights before. 1 For the first time in four years the Missouri Pacific railroad shops are working sixty hours per week at De Soto, Mo. Thos. J. Kelly, formerly of this city, is an em ploy of the boiler shops at De Soto. Mrs. D. W. Baker was given a pleasant surprise-party Wednesday evening by a small party of rela tives and friends,-the occasion be ing a birth anniversary of that lady. Mrs. Baker was presented with several handsome articles. Wanted A thoroughly competent servant girl and housekeeper who will appreciate a good home,for small family, dwelling with modern conveniences. Address with references, and wages de sired,to Box 56, Gothenburg Neb, You Need Tools m m m m m m m m m Hay Porks, ; i ' , Header ! --Drills,, ' Saws,. ' - - Grindstones, Pulleys,. Oil Cans, Lace Collars, Harness, In fact you can find just mi W. E. Bock went to Council Bluffs last night. H. S. White went to Lexington this morning'. Miss Electa Eenwick went up to Sutherland this morning. Mr. and Mfs. W. T. Wilcox left for Montana yesterday. C. F. Jennings, the well-known traveling man is in town to-day. A. . S. Baldwin returned last night from a brief visit in ton. Lexing- Mrs. E. W. Zeibert and daughter Nellie are visitirisr friends in Grand Island. Edward Betts, ot St. Louis, is the Sfuest of his aunt Mrs. James Fonda. Frank Mooney will return to night from his visit in the east part of the state. Milton Doolittle'came in last ev ening from Omaha, where he had been for a day or two. Miss Mary Scharmann is visiting relatives in Omaha havinjr left for that city Tuesday night. JR. L. Graves returned home Wed nesday night from a visit in Omaha and Council Bluffs. Chas. Simpson returned Wednes day night from his overland trip to Wyoming and Colorado. H. J. Page, secretary of the North Platte Land & Water Co., was in town a day or two this week. John Flyu, who had beenyisiting his brother James Flynn, returned to Minnesota Wednesday night. Mrs. F. J. Dentler and children left yesterday for Chicago, where they will visit relatives until Octo ber 1st. Mrs. E. W. Keys, of Council Bluffs, is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Patterson, who live north of town. Miss Callie McDonald, who has been visiting friends in the east part of the state for a month, is ex pected home to-night. Miss Lillian Hawthorne and Miss McGill, of Kearney, arrived in town last evening and are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Williams. Major Turpie and wife came in from Indiana Wednesday evening and will visit their son at the Tur pie ranch southeast of town. Dan Fowles and Sherman Lloyd of Logan county, returned yester day from the Pacific coast, where they went with the C. E. excurson. Mr. and Mrs. John Luny, who had been visiting the latter's parr cuts, Mr. and Mrs. A. 'Sherman, returned to Indiana Wednesday night. M. M. Fisher returned last night from a week's visit in Kansas City. He will probably remove to that city, having secured the promise of a position. W E. McCarthy came up from Cozad Wednesday and will pack and ship his furniture tothatplace, Mr. McCarthy will not relinquish his position ot fireman on the U. P. County Clerk Burritt succeeded in getting the most urgent business of his office cleaned up, and in com pany with his wife left the early part of the .week for Salt Lake, They will return the early part of next week. Prof. Beecher, of Peoria, 111., is the guest of his brother Rev. Geo. A. Beecher. Prof. Beecher is prin cipal of one of the Peoria public schools, and has been spending the past tews weeks at the mountain resorts in Colorado. He feels much benefitted by reasonpf his western trip. a-WE-HAVE THEM Forks,. . Barley -Forks . ;B races, ; , Leather; . Fly Sheets, Collar Pads, Hames, Hame Straps, Snaps, Bale' Ties. what you want and at prices that save you money, at Jepar meotS COX loirtlj iPiatte, Xefoiraska. The half dozen boys who had been camping in Cottonwood pre cinct for a week past returned home Wednesday evening. J. M. Cotton was with the boys looking after their material needs. The Tribune has received from London a copy of Lady Cook's essays on Social Topics, with the complimentsof theauthoress. Lady Cook was formerly Tennessee Claf lin, one ot the most widely known women in this country. Several North Platte citizens have become more or less excited over the big gold strike in the Clon dyke section of British Columbia, and are apparently anxious to visit that section. It is not likely that any of them wilL make the trip. At the meeting of the Epworth League Tuesday evening arrange ments were made for entertaining seventy-five more delegates to the Epworth League convention. Ac commodations have now been se cured for about three hundred dele gates and officers. The summer normal being con ducted in this city by Professor Snyder, while not as largely at tended as some previous normals, is doincr jrood work, and the stu dents who are taking advantage o the school are making rapid pro gress in the special studies. A letter from from J. R. Shaw.of Walker precinct, announces that camp of Sons of Veterans with seventeen members was mustered in at Farnam on July 12th. We predict that the camp will be an active one; the people down in that section don't do things in a half hearted way. Ouite a number of hogs have been marketed in town this week. the price paid beirg S2.60 per hun dred. There is a big crop of young pigs in the country tributary to North Platte, and if corn is a fair crop the revenue derived from the sale of hogs this fall will be greater than ever before. HORSE-SHOEING S2.50 for team. Haud-turned shoes $2.00 per horse. W. E. PRICE. Those who attend the enter tainment at the opera house this evening will be pleased and feel well repaid for the time and money expended. The young ladies have reached a high state of perfection in tueir anus ana win execute movements that are sure to call forth applause from the audience. In addition to the drills a well se lected musical programme will be rendered by some of North Platte's best talent. Local hunters have, it is said, been visiting the country precincts during the past week lor the pur pose of investigating the crop of prairie chickens. They have found the birds rather plentiful so thick, in tact, that they were compelled to kill a few in order that their walk' ing might not be impeded. There should be strict observance of the game law on the part of all, so that when the game season opens the true sportsman would find game to shoot. It is said on the streets that a number ot the most prominent free silver democrats ot the city are ad vocating putting up a county ticket this fall, the object being to per petuate the party rather than to entertain a hope of electing candi dates. These men argue that the democrats cannot hope for recogni tion on the populist ticket, and ol course they have little use for the republican party, hence they believe in reorganizing the democratic party, so that when the populist party dies as they believe it event ually will they will again be in position to meet their old-time re publican foe. Whether the advo cates of this plan will be success ful, remains to be seen. W.-V; .Vises, Forges, Bitsf --"Hammers,- Rope, Joseph Hershey sold five bind ers during the past week. "Twenty men are now employed in the Union Pacific ice gang. Train No. 2 ( Wednesday morn ing had seventeen cars attached N, O. Alberts, deputy state oil inspector, transacted business in town yesterday. Wheat will average from ten to twenty bushels per acre in Myrtle and Garfield precincts. Buggies, road and spring wagon, aud surreys, A fine assortment at low. prices at Jos. Hershey's. After several days of mild weather.the temperature has again been making its daily climb to ninety. The night police say tramps are not so numerous as they were a. month ago. Nearly all these indi- i" viduals are bound for the east. Green corn is being marketed in very liberal quantities by farm ers and is sold for eight cents per dozen ears. The price will drop within the next week; The increase of bank deposits throughout the country is conclu sive proof of the re-establishment of confidence. Timid people do not put their savings in banks until all their fears have been removed that the bauks are likely to suspend or fail to return the money on demand. Bee. Advertised Letters. List of letters remaining uncalled for in the post office at North Platte. Neb., for the week ending July 23d 1S97. GENTIiEMEtf. Donald C W Pickett Dr W II LADIES. Caraway Miss B Rost Mrs Wm Routson Mrs Lois Persons calling for above will please pay advertised." M. W. Clair, Postmaster. Or- ,Amm !E& BUFFALO, N. Y., AUG. 23d-2Slh. For the Annual Encampment of the G. A. R., at Buffalo, N. Y.. in August, the UNION PACIFIC will make the greatly reduced rate from North Platte of $31.60 for the round trip. Be sure your ticket reads via the -Official Grand Army Route," Union Pacific, Chicago & Northwestern and N. Y. C. & St. L?uis (Nickel Plate) railways. ni uuic iduies ana iuii iniorma- tion call on N. B. Olds, Agent. NEW EOUTE. Commencing Sundav. June 13ih. ihn UNION PACIFIC will inaugurate through, tourist car servico to Portland, Oregon and Washington points via Union Pacific and Snuthnm PnnlHn T?v'c thereby giving pa-sengere tho benefit of i ..:. r i . lmu luunaii ruuieb via uguen to Port land. This route will tnkn them tin thmiM.l. the beauuiful Sacrotneuto Valley, dis closing an me notauio roatures "long the Shasta Routo, Trom 8acremento For rates, time tables and full infnr. mation, call on N. B, Olds. Agent, PROBATE NOTICE. The two instruments nurnortlni? In hn Inxt wilta of Charles J. Johnson, one dated August J?I. 1801, and the other dated Atirust 2 1H1M. In nnrh t which T. T. Marcott I.h named as execntor, aro this day fllod for probate. The snmo nre set for hear ing Jn county court of Lincoln county, Nebraska, pn August 9th, 1SV7, at 1 p. ro. jaues 31. KAY, County Judo- This is a package of Schillings. Best tea. You can buy it (and get your money, back if you don't like ft)t . Machine OH, yfo ' . - X id an - McDonald's Cash Grocery.