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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1906)
THE MAYERS CELEBRATE Great Crowds Visit Their Stare and Received Souvenirs. There are many residents in Platts mouth today who remember the May er Bros, when they did business iu this city over twenty years ago. From this city, like many other Platts onlans, this place cot too small for them and they removed to the capital city. Last Saturday they closed thcii twenty-fifth year of business in Lin coln, and celebrated the event in a very novel manner. In speaking of the celebration the Sunday Star says: "Yesterday was a day of souvenirs and congratulations at the store of Mayer Bros., which has Just closed Its twenty-fifth year of business In Lin coln. Each lady who called at the store was given a bos of line candies, and the men friends of the Meyers were regaled with cigars. The inte rior of the Meyer store was beautiful yesterday, with the lights in the ceil ing all aglow and the palms and ferns placed at every pillar and at the end of many of the tables, l'romlnent in the front of the store is displayed a photographic view of the first store building of the Myers. This was a shack of a building at l'lattsmouth. A stock of general merchandise was kept thore, and the brothers, Charles and Simon, slept on blankets spread on the counters or on cots. Those were frugal times, and the prosperity of the firm has made the celebration of theirj quartcr-centenial a most pleasing one. "The store on O street was gaily dressed for the anniversary. Outside great arches span the sidewalks, and revolving domes at the corners and in the center are painted with the caption, "Twenty-fifth Anniversary." Tall palms stand on the curbstone under the arches and lend a unique ciTect." November Forecasts. The rustling corn Is In the shock, straw hats are now a laughing stock, the housewife dons a heavy frock, and at the price of coal we knock. The leaves are falling from the trees there's frost upon the morning breeze, likewise mosquitoes, bugs and llees, (but please excuse me while 1 sneeze.) The nuts are falling In the woods, the squirrel barks In playful mood, and stores away Its winter food just as a thriftysquirrel should, but squirrel meat is mighty good. The candidate attends the sale and when he's there he never falls to shake hands with the adult males and tell them yarns and funny tales, as one by one their vote he hails. The meadows are all brown and sear, the hunting season now is near, the timid rabbit's full of skeer, its time for pumpkins to be here while watermelons disappear. It's twenty-three, likewise skiddoo, for waists of gauze and peakaboo, for winter winds to whistle through and make the women's necks turn blue and bring the doctor's revenue. We'll now dig up our heavy hose, likewise our winter underclothes, pre pared for any breeze that blows what smell is that, do you suppose which furiously assails my nose? It is the moth ball's pungent smell that casts upon the air a smell which none can subjugate or quell ! Its fetid stench is worse than well, but language fails, I cannot tell ! The festive sausage now tastes tine the spare ribs and the tenderlolne.and In the morning when she wakes, and the housewife mixes buckwheat caks. "7 southward geese wild the when And It's nearly time for pumpkin pie, If you have lost your boyhood spirits, courage and confidence of youth, we offer you new life, fresh courage and freedom from ill health in Ilollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. 33 cents, Tea or Tablets. Sold by Gerlng k Co., druggists. A cold Is much more easily cured when the bowels are open. Kennedy' Laxative Honey and Tar opens the bowels and drives the cold out of the Kvstnm of vounir or old. Sold by F. 0 Frlcke & Co. and Gerlng & Co. Stops Itching Instantly. Cures piles eczema, salt rheum, tetter.ltch, hives hemes, scabies Doan's Ointment. At any drug store. KILL thc COUCH AND CURE the LUNGS H Dr. King's Nor; Discovory foC ONSUMPTION Prlct OUGHItni 60C $1.00 OLDS Frit Trial. Surest and Quickest Cure for el) THROAT and LUNO TEOUB. 1X8, or MONET BAOX. The Great Commoner, WM.J. BRYAN, win be in l'lattsmouth. Nebraska, on Monday Night, N ovember 5th, to address the people of Cass county. Begin to make your arrangements now to attend this great meeting. Bring your wife and children that they may see and hear the greatest living states man, and the pride of Nebraska. MASSACRED BY THE INDIANS he Hungate Family, Well Known to Citi zens in Cass County. While visiting lately with my old time friends, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Ferguson, south of Louisville, I was given the full history of the massacre of the Hungate family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Hungate and their two children, which took place near Den ver, Colorado, in 1800. Mr. and Mrs. Ferguson were at the time living In Denver, when the news of the terrible affair was brought to Denver by a herder of cattle, and Mr. Ferguson was one of a party of men who volun teered to go after the bodies and bring them into Denver, by the way a dan gerous undertaking, as the country was overrun by Indians. It seems Mr. Hungate at the time was engaged herding cattle for a company and had built a cabin near Box Elder Creek, some ten miles east of Denver. Box Elder is a branch of the Byjoc, a dry stream, and while Mr. Hungate was attending to the cattle some distance from the cabin, a party of ten Sioux Indians came onto the cabin cf the family and forthwith each one of the devils abused her and then with their tomahawks killed her and cut her up in a terrible shape. Even cut oil her breasts. They next killed the poor in- nocent children and cut them up ter ribly. They next set the cabin on lire, Mr. Hungate, from the distance, saw the smoke of the home of his family, and suspecting something wrong, bur rled to the scene and was met by the Indians, who killed him and also, cut him up very badly with their toma hawks. After the terrible affair, t herder came by the cabin and finding the terribly cut up bodies, put spurs to his horse and brought the news to Denver. A party of men, Including Mr. Ferguson, volunteered to go after the bodies and bring them to Denver When they arrived, there was a terrl ble excitement. Men stood horrified when they looked at the fearfully cut up bodies. Women shrieked and fainted. The citizens took care of the bodies, but It was a hard undertaking They were placed in cofllns and burled in a beautiful cemetery a few miles from Denver, in one grave. Today a fine marble monument is placed over the grave. The Inscription says "Killed by Indians." And to the credit of the citizens of Denver, their grave is kept green and flowers can be seen all over the grave. Mr. Hungate had relatives living here in Cass county. Mrs. Hungate was reared and was living with her mother, Mrs. Rosanna Decker, on a farm near Louisville. A brother of hers, Jeff Decker, is now living in Louisville. Mrs. Ferguson was well acquainted with her while they were young girls. The brute Indians received their re ward soon afterward. Colonel Chiving ton, who was then living in Denver, raised a company of men to punish the devils. They knew the Indians who committed the murder of the Hungate family. They overtook them on Sand Creek and killed all, women and chil drcn Included. Tills raised a terrible outcry among the eastern people, who had never seen a live Indian, and all they knew about them was what they bad read In Fcnlmore Cooper's novels about the "Noble Bed Man." But the court martial of Colonel Chivlngton never took place, for he was the hero of the people of Colorado. CONKAI) SlIil.ATEll. A sour stomach, a bad breath, pasty complexion and other conse quences of a disordered digestion are quickly removed by the use of King'i Dyspepsia Tablets. Two days' treat ment free. .Sold by Gerlng k Co'i drug store. GOES INTO THE SCHOOL FUND All Fines Exacted Under Statute are Re- quired to 6a Into It. When a tine is assessed fur selling liquor contrary to the laws of Ne braska, the money goes into the school fund of the county and not that of the town or village where it is imposed. This is a ruling of the state superin tendent's office, based on an opinion by the attorney general and a supreme court decision. The inquiry which prompted it came in from Stratton a town In Hitchcock county. C. C. Yen num, treasurer of the school district at that place Is the man who wrote to Superintendent McBrlen. The fine collected In the present Instance amounts to 1100 and its disposition Is awaiting the receipt of otlicial instruc tions as to what shall be done with tho money. The attorney general quotes a ruling of the supreme court In a case which came up from Omaha to tho ciTect that all lines, penalties and license money derived from prosecutions un der the general laws of Nebraska shall be paid over to the county In which they are collected, for the use of the schools in that county, and not re served by the town for its own schools. Where prosecutions are conducted under local ordinances, it Is supposed that the money may be retained by towns or city authorities. THE THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION he President Designates Thursday, No vember 29, as the Day for Thanksgiving. The taxt of President Roosevelt's Thanksgiving proclamation is as fol lows: "The time of the year has come when, In accordance with the wise custom of our forefathers, it be comes my duty to set aside a special day of thanksgiving and praise to the Almighty because cf the blessings we have received and of prayer that these blessings may be continued. Yet an other year of widespread wellbelng has passed. Never before in our his tory or the history of any other na tion has a people enjoyed more abound ing material prosperity than Is ours a prosperity so great that it should arouse in us no spirit of reckless pride, and, least of all, a spirit of heedless disregard of our responsibilities; but, rather, a sober sense of our many blessings and a resolute purposc.undcr Providence, not to forfeit them by any action of our own. "Material wellbeing, indispensible though it Is, can never be anything but the foundation of true national greatness and happiness. If we build nothing upon this foundation, then our national life will be as meaning less and empty as a house where only the foundations has been laid. Upon our material wellbeing must be built a superstructure of individual and na' tlonal life In accordance with the laws of the highest morality or else our prosperity itself will, in the long run turn out a curse Instead of a blessing. We should be both reverently thank ful for what we have received and earnestly bent upon turning it Into a means of grace and not of destruu tion. "Accordingly I hereby set apart Thursday, the 29th day of November next, as the day of thanksgiving and supplication, on which the people shall meet in their homes or their churches, devoutly acknowledging all that has been given them and to pray that they may In turn receive the power to use these gifts aright. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. "Doneatthecityof Washington this 22d day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States, the or.e hundred and thirty-first. By the president. TlIEODOKK ROOSKVELT, (Seal) Eli hu Root, Secretary of State Three Distriot Conventions. The Cass County Sunday School as soclation will hold three district meetings this fall as follows: First district at Murray, November 1st. Jesse Perry, superintendent. Second district at Louisville, Octo ber 31st. Jas. Stander, superintendent Third distrlctat Wabash, November '2nd. J. A. Lenilng, superintendent. Good programs have been arrange for these conventions. Miss Maml llalncs, the state primary superlnten dent, will be present at each one Every Sunday school in the county Irrespective of denomination, Is asked to send delegates to the nearest meet Ing. An afternoon and evening scs slon will be held at each place. lie member the date and go. Look After Your Umbrellas. Currcy, the umbrella man, has re turned to fix the umbrellas and scis sors here. Covers can be furnished any size and colored ones too. All frames repaired free where you pur chase a cover for thorn. All work left at Krochler'i hardware store will be promptly looked after. Cntortaliied at Marshall's. A pleasant gathering of several friends occurred at the homo of C. A. Marshall Tuesday night, in response to Invitations to spend the evening with Miss Mae Mel'allen who departed this morning for lar future home in ma ha. The evening was much enjoyed at various social games, Interspersed with music, and soon after refresh ments were served the participants departed for home. Those present were, Misses Gretehen Donnelly, Kuth Johnson, Mao McCallen, Frances Weld man, Messers. Ed. Kates, Ed. Scotten, Fred Weldtnan and Ernest Wurl. ARE PLEASED WITH VENTURE Boating on the Lower Missouri River Attended With Success. IT IS NOT OF A MUSHROOM GROWTH Packet Company Declares its Rate is But 57 Per Cent of the Rail road Scale. The Missouri River Packet Com pany, which recently sent out the Steamer Thomas H. Benton, its first boat to demonstrate the feasibility of reopening the waterway trafllo be tween St. Louis and Kansas City, has concluded that the venture 13 a suc cess, and will buy twelve additional boats to ply In the trade. Two of these will be purchased by the com pany before Thursday afternoon, for mmediatc use, says the St. Louis lie- public. These statements were made by Hugo F. Koch, of No. 1X!2 Laurel ave nue, promoter of the enterprise, who spent yesterday on the river front, looking over available steamboats. The Tennessee and Saturn were among those Inspected here, and the Electra, at Paducah, Ky., is another one under consideration. Captain Koch declared the other day that the movement was not of a mushroom growth. He asserted the positive conviction that Missouri River navigation can be reopened on a large scale, and to clinch his state ment he told of a sagacious protective measure the company Is taking. He said that ten-year contracts have been signed by 75 per cent of the Kan sas City shippers to pay the Missouri River Packet Company 10 per cent of all reductions In rates obtained from the railroads. As it Is estimated that the freight traffic from St. Louis to Kansas City amounts annually to $20,000,000, the revenue that will ac crue to the steamboat company can readily be figured. The packet company declares Its rate is but 57 per cent of the railroad scale. Captain Koch arrived In St. Louis Saturday morning from Kansas City, where he had gone on the Benton on Its first trip. He returned by rail In order to hurry negotiations for the two extra boats, which will result In a vessel leaving St. Louis for Kansas City every four or five days. When the additional ten boats are acquired, which will be during the coming win ter, In time for use next spring, St. Louis will then have a dally packet in the Missouri River trade. Strongly Reorganized. The company was recently reorgan ized at Kansas City on a larger scale than the temporary organization ef fected in St. Louis. Its capital will be $o00,000, Instead of the 1100,000 at first announced, the additional inter ests including many of the largest merchants and strongest banks In Kansas City. The following officers were elected at the reorganization: President, E G. Ellct of the Ellet-Kcndall Shoe Company; vice-president, A. H. Mun ger of the Burnham-Hanna-Mungcr Dry Goods Company, one. of the lar gest wholesale houses in the west; sec retary and treasurer, W. P. Trlckctt, State Transportation Commissioner, and the following directors: J. J. Swofford of the Swollord Bros. Dry Goods Company; J. F. Richards of the Rlchards-Conover Hard ware Company; E. G. Wilson of the Riley-Wilson Gro cery Company, and J. E. Lester of the Rldcnour-Baker Grocery Company. All are of Kansas City. The Benton started on its return trip to St. Louis last Saturday. It has about 2,000 bags of wheat, two car loads of hardware and a mixed man fest of freight, fifteen tons of which it picked up at Boonvillc, Mo. The Republic Is of the opinion that with the advent of spring the same kind of an experiment will be tried on the upper Missouri river from Kan sas City to Omaha and Sioux City. Thus It will be seen that the old steamboat nays of thirty years ago are about to bo revived. And they can't come too soon for the benefit of the shippers and farmers of tho west. It Is a well known medical fact that pine resin Is mast effective In the treatment cf diseases of the bladder and kidneys. Sufferers from backache and other troubles duo to faulty action of the kidneys find relief in tho use of Pine-ules. II buys 30 days' treatment. Sold at Gerlng k Co. 'a drug store. RID THE CITY OF NIGHT PROWLERS Go After Them In Such a Manner that It Will Mean Something. BETTER PUT ON A LARGER POLICE FORCE Or Else Organize an Active Vigilance Com mittee to 60 After Them. For tho past two weeks or more this city has been overrun with night prow lers, and every morning thlovlng has been reported to tho police. Persistent efforts have been made to apprehend the depredators, but without success. There should be a despcrato effort of some kind made to capture theso dis turbers of our citizens, but just what method to adopt remains to bo seen. Tho state of affairs that oxlsts In l'lattsmouth at present Is deplorable, to say tho least, and women and chll drcd and even men, have been made afraid of their shadows by theso night prowlers, and neighborhoods have been stampeded In consequence of theso scoundrels. Communities have been rid of those characters, but It has taken desperate efforts to do so, and such means will have to be adopted In this city. They are becoming desperate In their acts, and to retaliate, our citizens must or ganize and go after the thieves In a manner that means the apprehension and punishment of the thieves. The police force arc no doubt doing everything In their power to catch these fellows, but In a city like l'latts mouth it is Impossible for them to be In all parts of the city at one time, and theso burglars, with only two or three on the force, it Is easy enough to keep posted as to tho whereabouts of the officers. There Is undoubtedly an or ganized band of the prowlers, and the Journal can only seu one way out of the dilemma, and that Is to organize a band of one hundred, and put 25 or iO on every night, scrattcrlng them in very remote parts of our little city. Some strenuous measures should be adopted.and they should be adopted right now. And when one of these fellows are captured Immediate pun ishment should lie dealt out to them In a manner that will put a stop to their prowling. Matters continue to grow worse instead of better, and it has become a necessity for the protec tion of our people that action be taken immediately. Put on a dozen more extra police or let us organize a vigilance committee. In the organization of the latter, It means death to the depredators If ap prehended. Tuesday Night's Prowler's. Among the places to be visited last night by the burglars, was the home Attorney D. O. Dwyer, who Is minus several dollars that were In his trous ers when he retired last night. The night prowler gained admission to the homo by prying up one of the windows on the porch. After doing that, he quietly secured Mr. Dwycr's trousers and emptied the pockets of their con tents, then folded the trousers up and left them on tho window. The first Intimation that burglars had been in the house, was had this morning, when the trousers were dis covered to be missing from the place that they had been left by the owner when he retired last evening. The other evidence of tho visit was soon disclosed and the matter reported to the police. An entrance was obtained to the home of Col. M. A. Bates about three O'clock Wednesday in much the same manner as at Mr. Dwycr's. The noise of raising the window on the porch aroused Mrs. Bates, who after listen ing some time, Imagined that the cat bad come up stairs, and she got up to see whether this was true or not. She thinking that she heard the cat run down stairs, she returned to her bed, and while sitting there observed a man go past the bouse and stop in front of County Clerk Roscncran'shome, where where another man carrying a lantern was standing. After talking some time they disappeared and the affair was forgotten until this morning when Mrs. Bates discovered fresh mud on the carpet and the window propped up by a branch from the tree at the edge of the porch. It would seem that the house breaker was frightened before he had an opportunity to sccuro any thing. 1 1 was unfort unatc for the In truder that he did not get to Col. Bates' pockets the night before last, as he would have secured the magnifi cent haul of seventeen cents. Prowlers are reported to have been seen In the west part of town, and that shots were fired at them by some of the residents of that vicinity. Keep tho bowels open when you have a cold and use a good remedy to allay the Inilamatlon of the mucus membranes. The best is Kenedy'i Laxttlve Honey and tar. It contains no oplates,;movc$ the bowels, drives out the cold. Is reliable and tastes good. Sold by F. 0. Frlcke & Co. and Gerlng & Co. rm. 1 1 1 1 Edorht'impr Slein & & mill , WHAT is it that m.'ilvcs :i viinii!' man most noticeable on the street? It is nothing more or loss than intelligent dressing! What is it that makes yon admire ami won der where he jjot that elegant suit and what he paid for it? In ninety-nine eases out of a hundred he hason one of our styles that lit him Jit' his huilJ, Wight, complex ion a ml shit ion in lije If you will put yourself in our hands you will soon have the reputa tion of he'intf "a tfo(l dresser" and you'll save money besides. Hundreds of styles to SIO lo S25 C. E. Wescott's Sons. "Whr Quality CaunU." Relics of the Civil War. W. C. Snyder, who is en route home from an extended visit to the land of his birth In Old Virginia, stopped off here for a visit with old Cats county friends. Mr. Snyder's present home is near Edison, Neb., to which point he removed from this county. Mr. Snyder visited the scenes of his boyhood about two months, and while it has been thirty-five years since he removed from there, he enjoyed his visit very much, and viewed many In teresting points In the Old Dominion. Among them was the McDowell bat tlefield, from which he gathered many relics of that noted engagement be tween Stonewall Jackson and General Mllroy, fought on the nth of May, 1S02, which can be seen at this office for a few days, among them being sev eral cannon balls, one of which has never been exploded, and an old bay onet and several small shot and shells. Mr. Snyder also brought home with him about 1500.00 in Confederate money, and several shlnplasters. The money Is the genuine stuff, in denom inations from $1 .00 to $100.00, and some of It Is very pretty. lie also lias on exhibition at the Journal office one of the original bonds of the Confeder ate Statrsof America, of the denom ination of loo.co. These relics are prized very highly by Mr. Snyder, and he will carry them home tj exhibit to his neighbors. Mr. Snyder expects to depart for his home In Furnas county, on Friday or Saturday. Torments of Tetter and Eczema Al layed. The Intense itching characteristic of eczema, tetter and like skin diseases Is Instantly allayed ty applying Cham berlain's Salve and many severe cases have been permanently cured by Its use. For sale by F. G. Frlcke k Co., and atD'Ment's. rincsalve cleanses wounds, is highly antiseptic, unequalcd for cracked hands. Good for cuts. Sold by Ger lng & Co. 's drugstore.