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ur guarantees are jood because we are
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Whr Quality Always Right
Union Block, Plattsmouth, Nab
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SPECIAL STOVE SALE.-One Car of Base
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large size for 44. 50
An elegant large size, splendid
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The Lillian Base Burner. .22.50
The Kendall Patent Air
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Fresh, crisp ginger snaps, lb..jjc
fancy .New lork white
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AYDEN OROS.
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PROSECUTIONS THAT
SHOULD FOLLOW
Startling Revelations Being Made of the
Op an and Flagrant Violations
of the Law.
The startling revelat ions U-iritf made
of the open 1'arant violations of the
law ly thf railroads of Nebraska at
the lime of the holding or the last re
publican state convention are of such
a character as to call for instant and
drastic action upon the part of the
authorities.
Attorney General Brown, says the
Lincoln News, cannot serve his state
and his party better than by taking
steps to call to immediate boolc the
guilty railroads. The evidence to sup
port the charge' that section 144a of
the statutes relating to corporations
has been grossly violated is positive,
direct and easily procurable. This
section says:
"It shall he unlawful and a misde
meanor for any corporation
to tfi ve or contribute money, property,
transportation, help or assistance in
any manner or form to any political
party or to any candidate for any civil
otlice or to any political organization
r committee or to any individual to
be used or expended for political pur
p ses."
The succeeding sections provide a
tine of $1,000 for the lirst olfense and a
tine or $2,00o and forfeiture of charter
for subsequent offenses.
The Merrick county delegation came
to Lincoln by way of the Union Pacific
because- it had free transportation
over that road. The delegation went
100 miles out of its way and subjected
itself to a lay-over of five hours ati
Valley. The Tnion Pacific at Central
City charges full distance tariff to
Lincoln, and if the delegation was
buying tickets it would have come the
cheaper and more direct route, the
Ilurlington. The Burlington refused
at Hastings and Tecumseh to sell
round trip excursion tickets, but part
of the members of the Adams county
delegation and all of those from John
son rode on these tickets, furnished in
one instance by C II. Dietrich and in
the other by Judge Davidson. Mr.
Davidson is local attorney for the Bur
lington, and nobody believes the tick
ets he presented to members of the
Johnson county delegation cost him
any money. If the Burlington did
sell to him these tickets, which it had
refused toothers, it violated the law,
as will be readily observed.
Mr. Brown is a very busy man just
now, we are well aware, but the News
trusts that he will see the wisdom and
necessity of taking instant action in
these matters. Prosecution should, of
right, begin in the counties by the
county attorneys, but it is doubtless
idle to hope that any of them in the
counties atfected have the nerve to
tackle the all-powerful railroads. Mr.
Brown has demonstrated that lie has
the courage, and he will please the
people if he will tirst call attention of
the county attorneys to the offenses
committed within their jurisdictions,
and if they do not act inaugurate pro
ceedings himself.
An Old Railroader.
Thomas Smithen, of Pacific Junc
tion, Iowa, who has been in the employ
of the Burlington for thirty-three
years, continuously, resigned last week.
He was by long odds (in point of ser
vice) at Pacific Junction. In speaking
of Mr. Smithen's resignation, the
Glenwood Tribune says: "Probably
no man on the "Q" system drew his
pay check with such persisent regular
ity as he. It is said of Tommy that
in all the 33 years he worked here the
only time that the pay car missed him
in its monthly visits while he was
back in England where he visited one
time for several months. He came to
these parts 40 years ago from England
when only a lad 13 years old. This
was before the "Q'' was built. His
first work for the company was down
at East Plattsmouth when the yards
and round house were there, long be
for the bridge was built."
Who Can Beat It?
Our friend, Fred Patterson, of East
liock Bluffs precinct, brought to town
this morning a pumpkin that weighs
one hundred and six pounds. It is the
largest one so far the Journal has
heard of that was rafsed in Cass coun
ty. If anyone can beat it we would
like for them to report at the Journal.
Asa pumpkin raiser, Mr. Patterson
evidently knows the trick by which it
is done.
After Twenty-one Years.
A special from Weeping Water says:
"O. K. Cromwell has traded the
"Gibbon House'- to T. T. Pessler for
a farm near Pawnee City and will
give possession December 1st. By the
time Mr. Cromwell vacates he and his
wife will have run the Gibbon House
successfully for twenty-one years and
six months. They will be very much
missed both by the citizens here, and
by the traveling public."
CASTOR I A
Tor Infants and Children.
The Kind You Hare Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
Declared Unconstitutional.
The law extending the term of
county suprvisors was declared un
constitutional bv the court, says the
Lincoln Journal. Judge Barnes dis
senting, and a writ of mandamus was
issued compelling the county clerks of
Gage and Buffalo counties to place the
names of candidates for such offices on
the oilicial ballot. ' The court on the
previous day had held the register of
deeds act unconstitutional in a case
arising in Gage county. As a result
registers of deeds aud county super
visors will be elected this fall in ac
cordance with the provisions or the
old law. No suit involving the right
to extend the term of county com
missioners and county assessors have
been appealed to the supreme court.
This virtually settles the county com
missioner question, however.
PAUL MORTON A RAILROADER
OPPOSE RURAL ROUTE PLAN.
Iowa-Nebraska Grocers' Association Sends
Protest to Washington Against Num
bering Boxes.
A special from Council Bluffs, Iowa,
says:
"Opposition to an order of the postal
department for the numbering of rur
al mail boxeS and to the enactment of
a post parcel law by congress was ex
pressed by the united voice of the Iowa-Nebraska
Wholesale Grocers' As
sociacion at its meeting here yester
day. The association indorsed the
plan to confer rate ymaking power on
the interstate commerce commission
and elected its president, Samuel Ma-
hon, of Ottumwa, as delegate to the
interstate commerce law convention
at Chicago on October 20. A resolu
tion in favor of one-cent letter post
age was adopted.
The meeting instructed its secretary,
John Mehlhop, of Couucil Bluffs, to
prepare a protest against the mail box
numbering scheme, and this will be
laid before the postollice department.
It is claimed that the effect of the or
der, should it be carried out, will be
to furnish large catalogue and mail or
der houses with the means of reaching
3."o,000 families in the rural districts
of Iowa and Nebraska, to the detri
ment of wholesale and retail trade in
those states."
Cannot Give Cigarettes Away.
That portion of the anti-cigarette
law which makes it unlawful to give
away cigarettes and cigarette papers
is sustained by the supreme court, the
judgment of the district court of
Douglas county is reversed and John
Alperson, who was arrested under that
clause and who sought to secure his
liberty by writ of habeous corpus is
remauded to the custody of the otlicer.
Alperson contended that the part of
the act which made giving away of
cigarettes and cigarette papers was
unconstitutional because it was a sub
ject not sufficiently expressed in the
title of the act. The title prohibits
the manufacture and sale of cigarette
papers and cigarettes. The court says:
"If the barter and gifts of cigarettes,
cigarette papers is not prohibited by
the act it is manfest that the purposes
and intent of theligislature is thwart
ed, and we think that purpose and in
tent is plainly to be derived from the
title of the act itself' The court
holds that the intent of the act is suf
fisiently expressed in the title. The
legislature undoubedly supposed that
the use of cigarettes was injurious to
the public in general through its effect
upon the health and morals of the peo
ple. The intention was to remove
these articles from the avenues of com
merce, to banish them from the state
as guilty and illegimate things that
ought not to be offered to, or easy of
access by vicious or thoughtless people
who are or may be injurtd thereby."
Inheritance Tax Valid.
The inheritance tax law has been
held valid by the supreme court and
County Judge Yinsonhaler of Douglas
county has been directed by the court
to appoint appraisers to pass upon the
estate of Frank Murphy deceased.
Judge Yinsonhaler irefused to appoint
appraisers to pass upon the estate, he
holding that the law was unconstitu
tional. County Attorney Slabaugh
filed a petition in the supreme court
for a mandamus to compel him to ap
point. The syllabus is as follows:
The tax provided for in the inheri
tance law, so called chapter 54 the
laws of 1001, as amended, Cobb. sup.
100-j, sction 10.700, is not a property
tax upon the right of succession to
property by inheritance of will.
The enumeration of subjects of tax
ation in section 1 article o of the con
stitution is not exclusive. The legis
lature has power to provide for tax
ation upon the inheritances.
The act does not rexuire the tax to
be levied upon the property constitut
ing the whole estate of the decedent
but upon the share by each heir or de
visee takes therein.
The last legislature passed aD act
authorizing the state treasurer to re
turn to the various counties the
amount in his possession which is de
rived from this tax. The money sore
turned will be used for building roads.
At One Time an Employe of the Bur
lington at Plattsmouth.
! Paul morion who is now the head
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oi Hie i i'ui Kciiii.ttj i.uniiJi- iMc in
surance company of New York that
has been going through such a lot of
free advertising by reason of the graft
played upon it by its old directors,
was once a boy who resided herein
the MisNOuri Valley, at Nebraska City.
His father was the late J. Sterling
Morton, secretary agriculture under
Cleveland. Paul was only recently a
member of Roosevelt's cabinet. As a
boy he was a poor scholar.
"Paul," said the boy's father one
day, "you are not a success at school.
What do you want to do? Do you
jvish to go to work at once?"
The boy's ambition to become a sol
dier had suddenly left him, and he
wanted to become a railroad man. In
a short time he secured a position with
the Chicago, Burlington & (uincy
railroad at Plattsmouth. At last he
was in his element. From the begin
ning tli is boy of 1G was a success in
the railroad business He learned
every detail of railroading, and was
soon doing double his share of the
work that he might learn more. The
manager learned his ability, and when
a vacancy occurred Paul Morton be
came a station agent at a salary of $15
a month.
One day an acquaintance happened
to be getting on the train in this
city and saw Paul.
"What are you doing here?" he
asked.
"Station agent," laconically replied
Morton.
"What pay do you get?"
"Fifteen dollars a month," respond
ed the boy.
"And how much do you have to pay
for board and room?" asked the friend.
"Four dollars a week."
"Sixteen dollars a month! How do
you do it?"
"Well, you see, replied the fut u re
railroad magnate, "one of the duties
of this office is to keep up a corres
pondence with my father."
About this time Paul's mother died.
Her husband and sons adored her.
Soon after her burial the grief-stricken
husband assembled his four sons
around the grave one evening, and,
pointing out their names inscribed on
the monument, said:
"Boys, if anyone of you does any
thing to disgrace the name of the an
gel who was your mother, his name
shall be forever erased from that
stone, and to me he shall be as dead:"
After this Paul Morton went to
work with redoubled ardor. When 11
years old he married Miss Charlotte
of Kansas City, and the result of the
union has been two daughters, one ofJ
whom is married.
Hold the Railroad Responsible.
A special from Weeping Water, un
der date of yesterday, says: "Coroner
Henry Boeck held an inquest here
today over the bodies of Engineer Ben
jamin Franklin Young and Fireman
William Sheffield, who were killed in
the Missouri Pacific railway wreck be
tween this place and Nehawka. The
jurors found that the men came to
their death in the wreck which was
caused by the decayed condition of the
bridge and track approaching thereto,
causing the engine to break through,
and that the division engineer, or
whoever is responsible for the condi
tion of the roadbed, is responsible for
the wreck of the train causing the
death of the men. The bodies of the
men were taken to their homes in Ne
braska City this evening."
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bright eyes, red lips, good health, take
Hollister's Itocky Mountain Tea.
There i5 nothing like it. 35 cents,
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IN THE GOOD OLD
Summer time
You want to save your
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Chronic Diseases a Specialty
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V Abstracts of Title V
THOMAS WALLING
OFFICE: Anheuser-Bush Block.
JOHN M. LEYDA.
ATTORN EY-AT-L A W
ABSTRACTER OF LAND IT LES.
Preparing abstracts of title, conveyancing
and examining; titles to real estate a special
ty. Work properly done and cliarses reason
able. Office: Uootris and 7. John Ound
Huildini;. near Court House. Piattstuouth.
Nebraska.
J. M. Greene, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Can be reached by 'phone night or day
Manley, Nebraska.
R. B. WINDHAM
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW.
Plattsmouth : : Nebraska.
Probate, Commercial Law, Real
Estate Litigation
And Foreclosure of Mortgages a Specialty