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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1897)
Wk M$vm fTOETE PLA1TE, MBRASEA, TpSDAI EVENING, AUGUST 17, 189T. NO. TO. yol. im. 1 A beautiful line o .dress goods: strictly up to d:ite patterns for the fall and -winter season, with trimmings to match. We respectfully ask our lady friends to examine these goods before purchasing elsewhere. Eo trouble to show goods and quote prices. We have no closing-out sale, or removal sale, but we can sell you new goads at a less price .than we could old stock. All goods cheaper this season than ever befpre. Our Motto: One price to all Cash only Tot going out of business A small profit xm all goods we sell Goods just as represented or money refunded. THE fR. J. W. BUTT, DENTIST. Owr First Nan Boat, NOiCFK FHATTK ATTOB3TErS-AT-LAW, ."9EXH PLATTE, - Ofiee orerforth. ffciita Sa&ranl Bfurfc. D K. N. F. DONAlJ)SOX, Assistant Snrjeon Cn Eacfic Bp aad Member of PnaiHU BoaaA 3TOEXH FLATTE, - - - XEBfiifiEA. Office ever a ere it: V Dnu; Stare- E. KORTHKXTP, DENTIST. Boom Ne. G, 0tenstei BaSUOmg, 2ORHhI PLATTE, KEB. "pKENGH & BALDWIN', ATTORXE TS-AT-LAWr XOIiTH PLATTE. - - .VKMtASO Office ever N. P. NtLJlhwfc- T. TvTTQ R M S V-Trr-I-TOrZ. Office First Nj.IwmI Bimk Btt;., NORTH PLATTE. KXB- Carl Brodbecfc, Fresh Smoked and Salted Meats. ; forty wheels at 0 apiece. The ' ! coatpaay has a plant worth S15.000 Havin-re-opened the CStv Meat aad fe evidently .pretty anxious to Market, opposite the Hotel Nenlfe, j ?et z7 frora Denver. I am prepared to freish custosers Miss "Etta Draper was out driv with a choice qnalitv of meats of j jg- with a Chadron man named aS kinds. 1 Raiterge." She picked np a gun A share c your patronage-is -f,frocJ lbe b and shot herself spectrnlly sohoted. , .flea PURE LAKE ICE i am aeam in pc&iuuu. w pi the people of North. Platte with a J superior quality of pore icl from well water. It is as dear" as ! 1 1 - a tki.w. i crystal and oi gooa thickness, aot frozen saow and siosh. A trial i order will convince yoa of itsfcrop. qsaiity. I have plenty to fest through the season. WM, EDIS, the Platte Collegiate Institute... A Home School for Boys aad Girls. Best in the State for price and advantages. For cat alogue, address HARRY N. RUSSELU Kearney, Neb. Principal. J. F. FILLM, H txntr General Kepairer. Special attention given to us mi. 1?! WHEELS TO RENT HZf t P flier 11U1IV IK II J T 1' UB W. T. The figures for July show the total membership of the Ancient Order of United Workmen in Ne braska to be 20. SIS. Schayler merchants declare they already feel the favorable influence of the chicory factory and creamery, both new industries. The Norfolk council has decided to keep the Salvation Army off of the principal streets. They are instructed to stay on the side streets. - The Nebraska Federation of Re pefe4can Editors wiH hold a meeting st Lincoln August 26th, to make psreiiciisary arrangements for the coHtissr political struggle. . M reports be true pop candidates i fwtr caHHv offices are so numerous- H 1 ' ifrfijija.wisoa coaaty that yon can't 7 tkrow a cittb aad miss one unless j yoa throw it straight up. Lexing i tea Pioaeer. Drisr the month of Julv there .ws received at the Sonth Omaha stock yards from Nebraska, 32.036 cattle. 135.553 hogs, and S.dOO 4Kp. This is an increase of 5,693 over the same poath of 1S. York has a proposition from a Denver bicycle factory to locate . there, provided the citizens will buy dying- next morning-. A lovers, quarrel was given as the cause tor the the tragedy. S. S. MeKelvey threshed ten acres of wiater wheat which was feiW. petting 291 busheis. ma- truiinnrp for damage or hail was $4 per acre, "77 - - winch at prevailing- prices will give r r r f Cozad Tnbcn Aa iasctkn was issued by lurc Sll(vaa, while here on Wed nesday, at the instance of several erit-iwrha. rvr T,fTt"rfnn. rptnuTuno- fa " e 1 Georsre James from bringing some i hs fro the Wood River country. where ckeiera in hogs is more less nrfrolen- The iniunction was i ofeeved, at coarse, although Mr. 1 Tanws rmtivelv asserts that the ; hogs were not diseased. Lexing ; toa Clipper. j Hog: cholera during- the past few t moatks has caused the death of 1 hundreds of hegs in Wood river I valiev. The disease made its first j appearance, we are told, in Eddy vilie, having" been brought over from the Loup country by an outfit that shipped hogs irom that town. It has keot soreadinsr until at the i- cr present time it rasres at nearlv all j the localities along-the valley east Li or Eddwiae. and has caused a 1 direct less ta farmers of manv ! thoosaads of dollars. Lexington ! Pioneer. I Lucy Boone, of Omaha, has ap-r I plied for a divorce and the grounds are very unusual. She says she was sick ea May 31st and Harver 1 1 Boone visited her at her home and f , put morphine in "her medicine, that I while she was insensible from the effects of this medicine he went to the county judge's office, got a 1 license, came back with a minister t M DAT. BASKS, prop. and they were married- He after wards threatened her that if she told on him he would kill her. John Staller bought 80- acres of paying- a small amount down andj giving- a mortgage for S1.500. He has just threshed his wheatahd has 2200 bushels, worth $l,320-at:6& cents a bushel, nearly enough to pay the mortgage. Many of bis neighbors have done equally as welL Still some of the pops say farming in Nebraska don't pay. ! A fakir drove into Shelton a day J or so ago and began the sale of some nostrum at a dollar a bottle from a wagon around which blazed a gasoline smoke and flame. After he had hypnotized and drawn a good many dollars from the pockets of his customers, "he undertook to drive Jiway, but the rabble, coming to its senses, unhitched the tug's of rthe Trarness and delaved his de parture until he had paid back the money he had buncoed out of the crowd. The 2iew Xork, New Haven. & Hartford railroad has now had its local trains oat of Hartford running by electricity long- enough to cast a fairly accurate balance on the profits oi the "third rail sytem." The business has increased from an average ot 400 tickets a dav when steam locomotives were used to an average of 2,527 tickets with electricity as the motive power. A part ot this increase can no doubt be fairly attributed to experimental riding", but the railroad people are satisfied that it comes mainly from the increased frequency of the trains, the lower price of tickets and the increased comfort of this kind of travel. The daily earnings are now 5462 asrainst less than S100 under the old svstem. The "third rail" is a good, success on tms snore section of road in Connecticut. UNCLE PETER'S RECIFES. Pirst. To keep jocr free dry c a n:iuy dnrs: !ram on yniir I end. Second. Tfce Irrr wrsv to mind a fcibyr Do everything fce J Hs toti o. Third. The zvz vrr.y to pnthcr efcest vatsr Tnfcca piiraf scLcrsnd cut them oat of the camic papers. Fourth. Haw g Foda tracer as ajudy for nothing:; Persuade some body else to bny it for yoa. Tlth. How to cisfca a dalhir pa a km wcys: Put it in an envelope addressed to roniefaody in the Sandwich Islands and mail ic Sisth. How to go wrsc ot no expense whatever: Tnrn yourbacfc on tho east and walk straight ahead. Seventh. To avoid stammering, whis pering end impndencer Dcn't talk. Eighth. To avoid swallowing water melon seeds and cherry stones; Eat no frnis but bananas or apples. ISinth. To learn to dance in one lesson: Walk on the hot sand ot the seashore at midday in midsummCr barefooted. Tenth. The surest method of remem bering dates: Fix them firmly in your mind end. don't forget them. All children following these rules, which are the result ci many years of ex perienre on Uncle Peter's- part, will find that they can accomplish the special ob jects for which the rules are made without any added effort. Harper's TL-i-mr. AW E0UT2. Couimencrag- Sunday, June 13thT the USION PACIFIC witt inaugurate through, tourist car service to Portland, Oregon and "Washington points via Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Ey's thereby giving pa-cengers the benefit of two tourist routes via Ogdeu to Port land. This route will take them up through the beaunifui Sacremento Talley, dis closing all the notable features along- the Shasta. Route, from Sacremento. For rates, time tables and full infor mation, call on X- B.Oiss. Agent 0U2. TEACHERS A3T3 T5EK"W0E. The attendance to hear the lec ture Friday night delivered by Prof. JL E. Covell, was more than usually large, probably because I Herbert is a North Platte boy, and quite a number went to hear him through a desire to learn what he could do with a subject which to say the least, very few of our thinkers of more mature years would care to select as the subject of a discourse. 'Man, physical, mental and reIigions.r'is a- creation which few understand, and fewer vet have been able fully to explain to a thinking- people. However this may be, the young- man showed from his disconre to which the peo ple listened with marked attention that he had bestowed considerable thought on the subject and for a young man handled the subject in a way pleasing- to many present. There has been some adverse crit icism, but to those who were in clined to deny to Mr. Covell any merit, we wish to say put yourself in his place. Remember he is but young, and in place of finding" fault commend him for the very many good things he-said. Be to bi3 .faults aIittle Mind Be to His) eilartrery kind, and some time - in : the future we may listen to - a lecture from the same source which will be pleasing Ltothe ear and a joy to the souL The work in the institute this veek has been exceedingly pleasant, and while it is possible that the in structors may be somewhat weary with the continuous labor per formed, the teachers would be glad if thev could have the advantage of such teachin; during" the summer mouths. Monday morning- Miss Haas changed from primary reading-to primary geography, and the lesson riven in this branch was most in teresting and beneficial. In the teaching- ot this study in the last few years there has been a wonder ful change, and every departure from the old method ias been an improvement. In fact the different new methods could not well help but be better than the ordTfor-itwas" about as dry and senseless as are some of the old fogies of to-darwho tell us the methods ot t each in g" when they were children were bet ter than those now adopted. Geog raphy as now taught is on the syn thetic plan, starting- with the objects with which the child is familiar first learning- direction the school house and its appur tenances, the school district and its officers, the precinct and those who have charge of its affairs, the county state and nation, going step by step from the known to the unknown, from the simple to the complex, till the child-mind is strengthened and developed until it reaches the full round tone so much admired, and so well adapted to the present advanced condition of the American people. Such teaching- of this interesting- and imoortant branch, as above de- 4- scribed. Miss Haas is doing", and doing- it well. The most interesting- feature of the lessons in the Speer number work occurred vesterdav in the comparison of rectangles and other figures, as to relative size. Miss Haas had requested two of the teachers to step forward so that she could better illustrate the work. and in the course of the explana tions which followed, one of the young- ladies by the table said she did not think the child would see it as explained by Miss Haas, when a little boy in the audience held up his hand and in an excited tone said, -I see it, I see itV He was immediately called forward. and gave an exhibition of keen per ception and accurate judgment marvelous in a boy of his age. His Quickness to compare and tell the -4- POWDER Absolutely Pure. Celebrated! for Us great "teiveniag streazta andneallaralness. Assures the food, agal nst alnm and. al forms ox aiinireraiioH cosaos to the cheap brands. iiiiTAL IlAKISC. Ctl 3tEW TOTK. raft relative size of different figures drawn on the board, went far to convert many to a belief in the Speer number method and make them its champions. Truly if all the little ones can approximate any way near the work done yesterday by little eight year old Johnnie Burrows, the system is par excel lence and should be used in every school in the country. There are no new features in the classes in didactics, advanced read- j ingv history or nature study wWchj cannot be noticed in Friday's issue, j until then, An Revoir. L. A3Tew ?3e Plant. J. L- Johnson, of Bronson. Neb., writes to the Sidney Telegraph of a new forage plant, as follows: 1 Eog- millet is a new forage plant j trx. t t r 1 1 j -l. 1.1.; season. The stalk and blades re semble common millet, only larger and of a more lusty growth, the heads being-more cane. It is of rapid growth, and under moderately Sfood conditions will mature in fifty- five or sixty days. It stands drouth oetter tnan any plant 1 ever saw. It grows as well on upland as on bottom. It is an enormous yielder of seed, which makes excellent hog feed when ground The straw, after being- threshed, makes excel lent feed for horses and cattle, be cause when the seeds are matured he stalks and blades are still green. Farmers are invited to call and see my crop before it is harvested, as they can then better decide whether to put in a crop of it next season. My crop will be ready to harvest in in a week or ten days." The TerpMe Fife of IBS. 1'HEX I was a child and lived ' ' with mv mother, who owned vast landed estates, stocked with cattle bv the thousands and horses" by the hundreds, it was not un common to see at anv time in the ate fall and early spring- a prakie fire- At this- particular time the wind had been blowing- from the north for several davs and bringing" with it the usual forerunners of cinders and ashes, plainlv telling- us of the approaching- danger, but still hidden bv the long- range of hills. Our ranches, of which there were three, were noted for their hospitality; were being- visited by some retired army officers who owned small stock interests a few miles away. One was a captain whose family resided in town and with whom mv mother was in timate; the others a doctor and a Iieutenant. On this day they had called at the home ranch, as they did quite orten. Mv mother, who was a fine musician and owned a handsome piano, gave them several fine selec tions of instrumental music after which, as was the custom of the countrv, a meal was prepared and partaxen ot. as tne guests were ting, our foreman came in and asked for my mother, who was her own manager. He suggested that the cowbovs be started to gather the cattle that could be found neai by as soon as possible. She re plied that it was a good idea and to start them at once. This aroused the interest of the officers at once, as in those davs all stock mingled ana roamea at will. &o evervone turned out as quickly as possible and mv mother, having- ordered her favorite saddle horse, .prepared to mount and direct wherever possi ble. She was an accomplished horse woman so had no fear. Everv one was soon gone and I was left alone. but as I was the only child and had alwavs lived on the ranch, did not stop to think of danger. The generous hearted cowboys often brought me wild animals and I had quite a good many. Although alone I did not get Ionesome.but thought of my pony near by as a solace. I could ride almost anvthing- and could use a rope with fair skill tor a girL I rode to a near bv stream a favorite resting-place of mine and there I played childlike not realiz ing- the danger. Mother wen straight to the north not thinking of going very far, but the fast running- fire almost overtook her, and had the Captain not seen her from the crown of a big- hill, she would have been burned to death. Her horse in being-forced to run. became unmanagableand as the officer drew near, the cinches of the saddle broke letting- her fail to the ground which only dazed her for a moment. The only thing" to be done was to take the saddle, blankets and cover Mid-Summer Sale BOSTON ffi The proprietor is away east buying- fall aad printer stock. Jfy fi ye have instructions to sell goods to make a mark for the sea- ff to k memory of the Boston Store before our' M i patrons. - jfe The store has to De remodeled and we would like to reduce 6 or stock as much as we possibly can. We are not after profit; fl 4- A 4.T j vt C J y jfuft we want tu save me trunuie ui BT1AT) THESE PBICBS: I J We ve placed ra our bargain fords, Tans, Blacks, regular - -r One lot spring- heelchildren's shoes sizes 4. to S at 43 cents. One lot youths'" lace shoes sizes m Men s tan snoes, lace, o 10 q, lormer price 2.75J. somsr at 1.4.0- DRV GOODS. jjjjl We still give 25 yards Sheeting-for -f- -1- i-t t- ronxteen yaius rzm Lm-uie-x,uJiii iui 1.00. Riverside Shirtings, fast colors, at Sjc, regular price I2,J cts.. Apron Jacks Gingham at 4 cents per yard. yjjj Simpson's Prints, all colors, at 5 cents per yard. yfjf All of our fine Dress Goods, Serges and Henriettas at prices to j ffi scare our competitors; in fact anything; in our stock of Dry Vi"- Vjooasr snoes, carpets, rmnnery ana i ouons annng; tnis -y, mrtrtt-"h -bbiTT cm Tjonrrtlc of rnrt- iKs JSemember we are selling- the F. C. Corsets. r,oco il pairs of the latest sovelties in button and lace Green Sc Willer's oaoes, just nnpacseo. ikc woma The Boston Store, J. PIZER, Prop, S 1 We are not Looking I for Trouble That's the reason we sell the better land 3 of Shoes. Shoes that don-f make trouble jjS E: for our customers, don't make us any 3 trouble. 3 E If you have shoe troubles come to us-, 3 EE "Well cure ?em. 2 There are some bargains yet in those Ladies7 Colored and Black Oxfords. I DECATUE & BEEGL1 i YELLOW FRONT SHOE STORE. if . GEO. M. GRAHAM, Manager. 3 their heads and crouch down in a buffalo wallow, of which there were many, and trust to God to spare them. The horses had run away and as they threw the blankets over their heads, the force of the fire broke over them. There thev were, sunk down breathless in that awful damp, smoky hollow. The fire lasted perhaps ten minutes when they ventured to uncover their heads, nothing- but a charred waste met their eyes. They of course wondered where the rest of the party were, but concluded the first thing- to do was to get to one of the ranches if possible, so they started waiKing- not Knowing- with any certainty the distance, the sun be- in sr their onlv sruide. and little thinking- of ever seeing- their horses again. But after having- gone a mile or perhaps a little more they came upon them, not badly burned, huddled in a little pocket which had partially protected them and being; so frightend they had not had courage to move. They were se cured and mother riding" the officer's saddle and horse for her saddle had been burned, and the officer using- the blankets on mothers horse, they started for their destination once more. They rode for some time, often coming upon burned and dying- cattle and horses, finally reaching the home ranch, finding- some of the cow-boys there before them, but neither the Doctor or the Lieutenant- During that time I had discovered the fire coming' and had mind enough to know I would be safe at hose, as all the biMixgs were sod ad coxkl STORE. moving arouna tne gooua. mm SHOBSI counters one lot of Indies' Ox- 535 prices $1.50, 1.75 and 2.00, kk 3 to 5, former price 2.25, at i.ro- $r-oo. 1- oe pieasea xo snow uiese gooas i not burn, so all this time I was safe and wondering- where mother could be. Imagine my joy when I saw her safely return once more. In the evening- the cowboys came in after havinjr had various exoeri- ences, which I will relate another time, also they brought the news that the Dr. and .Lieutenant were ron the road to their ranches t learn how the fire had left their property- The next day the boys went to see the extent of the loss, but finding- it so great they re turned to procure rifles with which to shoot the suffering- beasts death had not relieved. Those who had a little hay fed it.bnt as it was not the custom to put up much hay in those days, the loss by starvation was great, which together with the fire nearly ruined many a stockman The fire burned many miles and manv davs and every stockman in its path met the same fate. This is only one of my childhood ex periences in early days in Nebras ka. Mrs. TVniLor Sxebolb. KHtata rrwaraeat Insurance Xan 5aj3. H- 34. Blossom, senior member of. H. M.BIogsoHi&Co, 217 X. 3d St, St Ijoais, writes: I had been left with a very distressinpr cough, the result of ta nueuza, which nothing' seemed to re lieve, until I took Ballard's Horehound Sjrup. One bottle completely cured uTe I sent one bottle to my sister who had a severe cough, and she found in mediate relief. I always recommend this syrup to my friends. John Cranston 90S Hamsfaire Street Qnincy. IIL, writes; I have found Bal lard's Ha reio trad Syrup superior to any other couch aaeduune I have-ever ksewc. It never dtsappouits. Price S.wSfSOc. bold by The octa Hatie JPSwriiiev, . XT T E H -Hi,-. J. E. t