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,
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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.
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pasty complexion and other conse
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quickly removed by the use of King'i
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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.
