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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1911)
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Latest 'reports on Uio" stale election which includes returns from 990 pre cincts, gives Hamer for supreme judge a lead of 1,614 over Dean, his nearest democratic competitor. Tho republican candidates for regents are far ahead of tho democratic candidates. For rail road commissioner Hall, republican, has a lead of 6,136 over HarrnaH, demo crat The remiblicans have elected twenty-two district judges and tho democrats Bcvon. In most of tho counties doIIUcs did not cut much figure In tho vote for county officers, j Everybody Happy- Everybody seems happy oVer tho re suit of tho election Tuesday. A ro publican victory In Maryland, anothor In Now York, another In Khodo Island, another In Nebraska nnd a partial Vic tory In Lincoln county checrsthc hearts of the republicans. Tho democrats are made glad by tho re-election of Govern or Foss in Massachusetts, won victories In all the larger cltfes of Ohio, gained a congressman in Kansas nnd elected Ave candidates in Lincoln county. The heart of the socialist is cheered by tho election of mayors In a dozort different towns In Ohio and by an increase in tho vote in Nebraska and In Lincoln county. Now, as everyboy is happy, why not all join in n barbecue. Engines Equipped to Fight Fire. Tho Missouri Pacific railroad com pany is preparing to equlpj'cvery en gino on tho lino "with flro fighting np nnrntus. The machine is an Invention of W. B. Barton, flro prevention in' spector of the system, and can bo, In stalled for $35. With tho machine Invonted by Mr. Barton, an Inch and one-fourth hose can be attached to a plug between tho boiler and check injector, pressure turned on and n stream of water thrown sixty-fivo feet high. Tho Idea Is that when there is n flro in tho railroad yards or along tho tracks, an onaine can bo run to tho scene and in a short time water can bo turned-on. How He Killed His Antagonist By EDWARt7?OMUNSON Copyright by American Press Asso ciation. Mil'. LOCAL MENTION. Fred Johnson Is enjoying n visit from his parents, who reside In Kearney. Charles Thompson left a fow days ago for Omaha to visit his brother Hibner. Miss Mary Inman returned yesterday from Omaha where she visited friends "this weeTc, ' Airs. J. u. vjainoun went w n.uuruvy yesterday Jto visit hqr mother for n week or. longer. V ."! Miss Alice Wnkemun, of Chicago, .will arrivo the first of tha week' 'ft. visit the Singleton family. Misses Kate and Etta Clark7"who spent tho foro part p the jweek, in. Omaha, have returned hpme. Mrs. Frank' Bretzcr and three chll ren left this morning for Grand. Island to spend a week with relatives. Mrs. Sam Richards, of Omaha, will arrivo noxt week to visit friends and transact business for a few, days. ( Mrs. Charles Perkins has returned from Broridwater where sho spent the early partof. the w66k with friends:.'- Mrs. R. G. Kelly and son Olto, of Paxton, came down' last evening to spend se,yerai days in town with friends. Christian SciencoSgcfcty Sunday 11:00 A.M. Subject: "MortaW and Immor tals" Sunday school 12:00 M. K.P. hall. For rent Modern )tom residence with bath, electric light, steel rango and sewer connection.' ( W. V. HOAGLAND. Mrs. John Ottenstein. of Salt Lake City, Is tho" guest of her sister Mrs. Charles Austin, having arrived yester day. . . finv Hover, and family, who were called here from Wyoming by ho'death of his mother. will probably remain here, r - Irs. J. '.J. Sullivan, ' q Omalja will arrive In the near futuro to visit local folkB and transact business foria few' i days. 1 " , ' .Superintendent Tout will return to morrow evening from Omaha where ho has been attending; the. teachers con vention. Miss Majorle Cross of tho Kearney Normal, who has been visiting the home folks for a weeV wijl. return to Kearney. Sunday. ' Beautifully marked pups from my Registered Scotch Collie. Half price . for this week only. Phone 227; 315 W. j 2nd St O: B. Frazer. Mrs. E. P. Rodgers,11 of Omaha, In- spector of the Ladles Auxiliary to the B. of L. E., arrived last evening and . will Inspect tho localdlvlslon this afternoon. Weather Forecast: Unsettled weather with snow tonight or Saturday, con ' tinued colder. Maximum temperature yesterday 61; one year ago 52. Mlnl " mum temperature this morning 13, 'ono year ago 18. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Waltemath en tertalned the Harmony high five club last evening In n most hospitable man ner. Ten tables wero In use, and aa tho men nlav airalnst the ladles, the irames wore spirited. Tho ladles sue ceeded in winning tho greater number of games, and wero of course quite elated over this demonstration of their skill. Enloyauio roiresnmenia were served at tne ciqpo oi me games. J Iieo Vollmer, formerly -of this city, has been visiting In town for several days. Miss Graham expects to lc'dvo shortly for Omaha to spend Thanksgiving with friends. Ginn, White & Schatz are Installing a new heatlng.plant In the JBastn bun galow. ' "For 'llent Tirhished' rbom with No Jobi' After Forty. furnace heat, nt 221 So. Locust Phono- .Mrs. Moore Mitchell lqft yesterday 'forBrady to visit Her sister Mrs. 'J.. O. Rourke. Wanted to Rent Good moderriVcot tngoj.Bot Jess than six rooms. H. L. Greeson. 'Mrs.' ' Frank Winklemari returned Wednesday from a short visit In Broad water with friends. Miss A. Errlcson and brother, of Cqttonwood, are guests at the Salisbury home this week. i. Mrs. George Robert and son, oftMax- well, came up this morning to 'visit Mre.v Charles-Stamp,. ,r, H . .Mrs. .Wernett, of Brady, . ifl.yis.lting Mr. and Mrs. Art Salisbury this w$ek, having arrived a few days ago. " Tim O'Keefe stepped on a rusty "nail yesterday while at work in his yard and his fqot is proving very painful. Attorney W. V. Hoagland will go to Bridgeport Monday to attend tho No braska State irrigation Association. Miss Hazel Rourke and sister Mrs. OUe Rasmussen returned from Don mark yesterday where they visited rel atlves for Bevcral days. ' Dan Sheedy went to Hastings on business yesterday he expects to bo gone a week or longer. Mrs. Alexander accompanied Mr. and Mrs. TIley to Sutherland yesterday to attend the Yeomen meeting. Billy Dbwhower was fined five dol lars and costs In tho police court yes terday for taking nn overdoso of spirits fermenti. For Rent Five room house at 309 W. Second street, modorn except heat. Inquire of P. A. Norton or phono 203. Mrs. W. D. Waldo has been placed temporarily in charge of Sheriff Milton- berger, and probably later will bo taken to a hospital for treatment. The G. I. A. to tho B. of L. E. will give a reception to the inspectors and visiting members and tho brotherhood and their wives nt tho K. P. hall tonight. Little Hazel Lewis entertained a number of small friends yesterday afternoon at a birthday party. Many games were played and a nice lunch served. Tom O'Nell, traveling boiler Inspec tor for tho Burlington, who was in town last week, said he was willing to bet dollars to uougnnuts tnat his com pany win eventually miua its line up tne Platte Valley. It may not bo during 1912, but certainly tne year following. Wagon load after wagon load of Mc Pherson county potatoes are being hauled to tins market nnti sola to mer chants. Tho prices paid are seventy five cents cash or eighty-five In trade. A local grocer said yesterday that from what he can lenm there are not enough potatoes In tho country tnbu tory to North Platte to supply tho de mand later than March and after that date they would bo shipping from other points. 3Thnt"n man cannot get a position after he is forty years oiu was as serted bofero tho employers' liability and workmen's eomnensntion commis sion nt Washington Wednesday by Arthur E. Holder of tho American federation of labor. "The man who Is over?fortv. and who has a few gray hairs, cannot get back when he once loses his job. but he can hold oh if ho has a place, ho said. "It Is tho same hero that it Is in England, and it is tho same in Ger many and throughout tho continent." xms conuttion was not uue satu Mr. Holder, to any legislation, but whs tho result of economic conditions and came of tho determination to get the great est possible product out of tho human Deing empioyeu cy ouiers. - TuesdayTVbte. The voto cast at the cenernl election Tuesday was canVasseu yesterday and the vote received by each candiduw will bo found below. The letter follow ing tho namo designates the . political complexion of tho candidate R for re publican, D for democrat, S for social ist and P for prohibition: For Supremo Judcre Hnmer, R 1305 Lotton. R 1329 Rose, 11,.,., 1307 Dean, D. 1009 Oldham, D 912 Stark; D. . 881 Burleigh, S 343 Campbell, S,., 348 "For Re crents Hnller, R .V. .......... .1403 Lyford, R '....1310 Miller, D 875 Knapp. D '. 913 Morrow, S 342' ' Porter, S..... ..;... 340 Fitch, P 62 1 Frazler, P 59 For Railway Commissioner Hall, JC 1380 Mr friend Dr. Wobel. a Gertnuii by Mrtyi. Is out" of the must quiet, modest llttw men I ever knew. lie Hast a large priutlee with women uml' idl dron not that he Uuowm any iuon .ilfout the dlsi'nro porullur lo them tlAiu'"iher do tow', but lie is bo ceulle In Ii.n uanner lhut he bxtecA tlsem run ply !.. KVUiiHiiliy. tie bus nlta h hm b' li'ii-t very isfiimstru. Hi" m-u thehi JiiJt ilu Weill hu he v(m tUeA mutit lie trtUcti nt ivs'r.lar Interval .: tho mrolM of the $ocU. l One day I wet, man win tfcu known Wohcl In .Germany. i k me the doctor had, beiivod n . nr" Koon In the Kraneo-PimKl.m i .u und been cousldcred by hlx "i'fn :tu ions a very brave miiu. " ll" v. fought a duel with n eaptnlu oi lory and killed mm. Whou Wobel canio to m ' M again I told blm whnt this prs)i,i said. Ho seemed very much. uu;.r rasscd, coloring to the "roOta 'of t! hair. "Tell mo nbout the ttnol." I said. "I wish to know how you killed the "p- tnln." "I didn't kill nnybody." he Knld "l wns all n mistake. 1 will vouro to yoil If you will itgreo not to nr Ion tlio matter to mu again or to n::." one else. 1 am what you sco tue, n quiet man with a great deal of feeling When the Frnncd-Prusslou war broke out 1 had Just been graduated (ro-:i the medical college My fnther. who had paid for my education, insisted on ;my going with tho army an n sur geon. I felt that I would be out or nloco In war and would gladly have .stayed at home, but by father war. u stem man, nnd I unro not aisouey n m "We marched rapidly across tho imr dor. Tho corns that 1 was with nrw very Ilttlo fighting during the who'e war, ho I was not called upon to nt tend men on tho battleflold. My com rndes saw at onco that I was or n timid dlsnosltlon nnd noon begun to rally mo on my unfitness for wnr From rallying mo they came to tnir i lng me. nnd from taunting me hi ic of them dually Insulted mo. I wan no twoon two fires. In the German nn iy where duelling is prevalent, u i m i i resent nt least one of these Insults I mlcht better lcavo the service, if I challenged ono of those who tnsn'ted mo I hnd not HiUUclent bravery tnnd up to bp shot at. mn nlllior event t was a une oi wnnt of counme. sl"Uno day tins captain wnom i ny been minposed to have killed enien mo a coward before the who !, irfia'tho meillcitl director, lienrlrig of It. tdltl tut that I must either chnllriin1 hlrtl or roslcn. I cou d not bear1 to leave the sorvlco under fucii eon temntuous clrcurastnnces. so, ti.'vr struggling with' myself fpr a whole nlKht. I sent tho captain n challenge fie accepted lit once, nnd from mat moment my comrades changed their treatment of me- restoring mo to their friendship nnd nssoclatlng with me terms of equality. . . . i . ... . . . M "I KI1CW tins would hoi mm, mi Was auto that when -I should moot my antagonist 1 would quail nnd. th:il would throw mo back to my prcVloun coridltlon. I wns thd most mlsernble man In tho army. I counted the hours between the present and tue time of tho mcotlng-not thnt I wmneii them to pass, but that I dreadod the approach of what might deprive me of life. "Ono thins cave mo hope. Before tin tlrao appointed for tho meeting nrrived we began a desultory fighting with the French. Since 1 was not oxposcd.. the nmbulouco corns bringing all lhe 10 Per Cent . Reduction 1 During the continuance-of ,thc present business depression and labor troubles, we luil) make a u . 10 Per Cdnt Reduction oh everything we sell (except Fmcfc's Detroit Special Over-' alls, which we are now selling, at 85c) ' ' Now is the time to buy your supply of. winter clothing un derwear and shoes, Buy of us andgetlthc bene fit of a 10 per centrcduction in price. CI .ah dug h Everythingjfor Men. I 520lDcweyW:- NorthPlatte, Nebraska. DR. J. S. TWINEM S PRIVATE HOSPITAL For tho treatment of MEDICAL nnd SURGI CAL patients. Also oc cominodntions for Con flriemcnt; cases.. -ijt.ii.l MJSl.t. : "2S2 1 wounded to us nt tho rcai', 1 rejoiced, .jwujr, u, SOU ..... ln,inrl Hmrn would do no opportunity ror uie uuoi But ono ovenlng I wns Informed that tho next morning ut daylight tho cap tain and 1 wero to go Just beyond the plckot lino and -bavo it out. This wns tho most terrible hlng that could have happened. I wns liot only liable to be shot 'by tho cnptoln, but by tho enemy "There wnB no necessity to arouse nu In tho morning, for 1 did not Bleep a wink nil night. 1 crawled out of bed. nut on my uniform and followed my second. I found the captnln wnltlng to kill mo. It hnd been arranged hat wc should flcht with rifles at n hundred paces. Wo wero placed In position, 1 trembling in every limb. After much dickering between tho secondx all was ready and tho word was given to flro f'l was conscious of but one circum stance that Is, aiming nt tho top of n tree behind my enemy and some forty or fifty feet abovo his head. At the signal I pulled tho trigger. All was n blur before me. Tho first thing I know my Becond Belzed mo by tho nrm and hurried mo away. " 'Am I hurt?' I asked. '"You hurt! Why, man, you shot your antagonist plumb through the hoart.' ' VBut,' I Interrupted. I aimed at tho ton of a tree.' "I didn't , shoot my captain. Borne sharpshooter of tho enemy mhst have got a gllmpso of him and saved me the Bin. But it was bellnved I fittd shot him, nnd from that moment I was con sidered a brnvo man. Tho war oon closed, and I was never ngaln in dan ger." Tho doctor paused, then added: "Theso tablets you will giro your daughter every two hours, and if there is raoro fever" "Good nlghtt doctor. Your instruc tions Bhall bo obeyed." For District Judce unmes, K 2485 r or county uierK Yost. R 20G5 Pnlmor. D 775 For Clerk of Court Pressor, R 1777 Dolan.. D. '. 979 For Treasurer- Durbin. R 1G38 McNcel, D 984 Bell. S 331 For County Judge crosny. k io ig Grant, D , 1448 Warren. S 523 For Sheriff- Salisbury, R 1717 Sullivan, u.,1. . . . k.. . . 11GG For Supt-i - .9 rJDrignt, K 9G0 Chappell, L) . . , i .... i .. 1074 For surveyor Moyer, it 1203 Cochran. D ,..f: J57C For Coroner Longley. R 1078 Moloney, D. .....1711 For Commissioner- Abbott, R... '. 1305 White, D 1480 Harry Byrne, of the City National Bank of Omaha, has been spending limb wcck in town on Dusincss, Tho Indies of tho Presbyterian church will hold their annual sale and fifteen cent lunch nt the church parlor Thurs- Uiy iNOV. o. Tho Nebraska State Irrigation As sociation will meet in Bridgeport Mon day and a number of local people will attend. Jumes Wilson and. E, F. Seebergor are among tnoso wno will attend the State Irrigation Association at Bridge port, iiual weex. Mrs. Alkire, of Hershey, was dis charged from the Twinom hnsnlfnl tho first of tho week and after spending Bcvunii uuya wiui me itosuau llimiiy, loft for homo yesterday. THE First National Battle, of North Platte, Nebraska. UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY. Capital and Surplus $140,000. ii.ii DIRECTORS: E. r. SEEBEROER, Preslilest, M. KEITH NEVILLE, Vice-President, P. L. M00NEY, Cashier. ARTHUR McN&MARA, J. J. HALLIGAN. GIVEN AWAY FREE A $250HarleyDavid8on 4-Horte Powers T MotorCycle,J;Magneto Ignition .... A Ticket With Eveiy Pair of Shoes. Yellow Front Shoe Store, DIENER & FLEISHMAN. A Modern Institution For tho treatment of fnedical nn(lksurtlcnl cases. Open to the medical profession. Special accomodations for confinement cases Training school for nurses in connection. Address all commu cations to tho superintendent. Phone 642 Cor. Eighth and Locust