LOCAL AFFAIRS.
Things That Have Happened in and
Around the Town.
IS HELD TO DISTRICT COURT.
John Knox, the Yoauj Man Who "Bor
rowed" a Horse Out at Alvo, Will
Be Tried For IIorse-Bteal-lug
Other Notes.
Bound Over to the District Court.
J no. Knox, the young man who is
charged with stealing a horse belong
ing to C. J. Vincent of Alvo, on the
night of Aug. 25, was taken before
Justice Archer this afternoon for a
preliminary examination. The evi
dence showed clearly that Vincent's
horse had been stolen, and that Knox
was the guilty party, and the only
plea the defense set up was
that of insanity. Knox admitted to
the justiee at Alvo that he knew
it was wrong, under the statutes,
to steal a horse, but he did not think
he had done anything wrong, lie said
he was going to Lincoln to look for
work, and was too tired to walk, so he
intended to "borrow" a horse and re
turn it when he reached his destina
tion. The animal stolen was a race
horse, and it is probable that young
Knox could not manage it, as he only
had a halter. He turned the horse
loose in Mr. Weed's barn-yard, and
tried his luck with another one, but
it had "too sharp a back" for him so
he turned it loose, also. He was then
unable to capture Mr. Vincent's horse,
and, as it way not daylight, he laid
down in a wagon box, and went to
sleep, where he was discovered and
subsequently arrested.
t3 After hearing the evidence Justice
Archer bound Knox over to the dis
trict court under a bond of $500, which
he was unable to furnish, and was sent
back to jail to await trial. A. J.
Graves represented the prisoner.
Ten Years Each .
The two U. P. train Robbers, Knud
and Hans Kuudson, were arraigned in
the district court at North Tlatte yes
terday afternoon and both plead guilty.
Judge Neville seutenced the brothers
each to ten years in the penitentiary
and they were taken there today.
They said they were born in Denmark,
but had lived in Dakota county, this
state, for twelve years. They ascribed
as their motive that they had been out
of work and had but little money. It
is believed that an agreement was
made that if they would plead guilty
that they would not be prosecuted on
other counts. They claimed to have
gotten but $45 and some papers and
drafts.
LETTER KltOM COLORADO.
A Former Plattsmouth Boy Witnessed the
Recent Bull Fight.
Cripple Creek, Colo., August 26,
1S95. Editor Journal I thought
that I would write a few lines for you
today. Talk about your mining dis
tricts, Colorado is all 0. K." There
are some fine mines here. And that is
not all Colorado is good for. They
have, what you might say, regular
Mexican bull Oghts. La3t Saturday,
August 24, was the first day of the
great Fiesta Carnival. The program
began about 2:30 o'clock, and the first
feature was pistol shooting, by "Ari
zona Charley," pony riding by "Kid
Meadows," lassoing and riding wild
ponies and steers. The next was shoot
ing glass balls and eggs with a riile,
from a running'horse. The next was
the bull fight, which was a grand suc
cess. The first bull that entered the
ring was tantalized for awhile, and
then he was killed. Then they brought
another in, and he was tortured and
turned loose, but he ran the people
and was shot.
The second day, Sunday, August 25,
there was only one bull killed. The
first two that were turned loose in the
ring would not fight, and the third
bull was struck three times before he
was killed. It was a cruel sight to see
them stick their lances into him. Once
the sword which the Mexican used to
kill him with stuck in the bull's neck,
and was jerked out of his hand, leav
ing the animal to run around the ring
with the sword in his neck. They then
took their red and blue capes and
would throw them at him, and the
sword was recovered. The next on
the program, Sunday, was the riding
of a Texas steer, which was great
treat sport. "Kid Meadows" was
thrown from him, and a Mexican was
knocked down by the steer. The third
was the lassoing of wild ponies and rid-
them, which greatly amused the crowd
"Kid Meadows" was thrown from one
of the ponies, but was not hurt. In
lassoing one of the ponies "Kid Mead
ows" threw one and broke its neck.
The program for Monday was just a
wild west show no bulls were killed.
Well, as I have told you about all the
particular parts of the bull fight, I will
proceed to close.
I will say this for the benefit of the
people of Plattsmouth, that if they
want to see a good country and a good
climate, come to Cripple Creek the
only place. About all you can hear
here is free silver, which, I believe,
will carry the state tins spring, or at
least I hope so, for it will make better
times in .the west. While rambling
around the streets the other day, the
writer sawD. A. Campoell, an old res
ident of Plattsmouth, taking in the
sights. I also saw Ed McMaken and
wife, who are here for a two or three
weeks' visit. The writer got a few
hairs from the bull's head for a sou
venir of the famous bull fight. I will
close for this time. Respectfully,
C. B.C.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
W.D. Jones was a passenger for
Omaha this morning.
Wescott & Son nave in most of their
fall stock. Look out for bargains.
li. & M. train No. 5 was thirty min
utes late this morning.
A force of carpenters are engaged in
repairing the roof of St. John's Oath
olicchurch. Henry Smith, of McCook arrived
this morning for a visit with his
brother Washington.
J. II. tlaldeman and J no. A. Done
Ian came in from Weeping Water
Wednesday morning.
Wait till next week tor Joe & Frank's
new advertisement. They will have u
great announcement to make.
Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Marshall returned
home yesterday afternoon from a
week's visit at liurliugton, Iowa.
Elder JJritt and Mrs. Jiritt went to
Omaha this morning to help their son
Hoy and his wife fix up their new
home.
A suit for $200 on a promissory note
was filed in county court today by Dr.
J. W. Thomas vs. Henry aua u. a.
Ashman.
Another load of new com this of
the lied River variety came to mar
ket from over the river Tuesday. It
was quite dry and hard.
C.J. Vincent of Alvo, the gentle
man whose horse was stolen last week
was in town today to attend the pre
liminary hearing of Jehu Knox.
Jos. Fetzer was able to be down
town today for the first time in two
weeks. He has been struggling with
a severe attack of typhoid fever.
Messrs. Herokl & Son have been get
ting in a vast quantity of new goods
for the fall trade and many were
bought before the rise in the market.
They mean to be at the head of the
trade.
When you come to town be sure to
call for harness and fixtures at the
sign of the big horse, where you will
find an enterprising man who wants
your trade and means to get it if qual
ity and prices will bring it.
Miss Mell Frederick, who has
been visiting in this city for several
weeks, returned to her home in Can
ton, Ohio, Wednesday. She was ac
companied to Omaha by her cousin,
Miss Dora Swearingen.
Dr. J. A. Hassemeier of Louisville
was in town Tuesday. He has recently
returned from a visit out at Denver,
Colo., and says that while there he saw
M. B. Murphy, formerly of this city.
Mike is now dealing in mining stocks.
Chas. Sullivan returned home last
Saturday from a two weeks' visit at
Chicago, Milwaukee and Ottumwa.
He brought with him a fiue St. Ber
nard dog for Hob't Troop of Eight
Mile Grove precinct. The animal is a
beauty.
Swoboda vs. Kolosek was the title of
a case tried in Justice Aicber's court
this morning. Swoboda brought suit
to recover an account against Kolosek
for merchandise purchased in I8S9.
and the case was dismissed as the debt
was out-lawed.
A prominent republican remarked
the other day that "Cass county had
better pay J. M. Patterson a salary of
$2,000 a year and have him to continue
to serve as county commissioner than
run the chance of electing somebody
else." He wasn't far from right.
Ilev. II. B. Burgess, rector of St.
Luke's Guild, returned this morning
from a three weeks' outing in Detroit
and other Michigan towns. He came
back proud to think that he lived in
Nebraska, where the crops are so
much more abundant than anywhere
else.
Statp ralr Managers' Meeting.
Omaha Bee.
At the meeting of the state fair
managers yesterday afternoon the
resignation of L. M. Bheem as one of
the parties to arrange the exhibit of
agricultural implements was accepted
and Churchill Parker put in his stead.
Mr. Ilheem found it impossible to per
form his duties in this connection and
those devolving on him in other capa
cities. It was resolved to make Tuesday,
September 17, Golden Kod day. All
visitors, and especially citizens of the
state, are requested on that day to
wear the floral emblem of the state.
The management has arranged to
decorate official headquarters with
golden rod that day, and will employ
several young women to hand out the
flowers to visitors.
Thursday, September 19, was set
apart as Woodmen of the World's day.
Permission was granted to J. S.
West to display an exhibit of Arkan
sas products.
PERSONAL, POLITICAL AND PERTINENT.
Mr. Teodoro II. Mangel, commis
sioner from Costa liica to the Cotton
States and International exposition, in
in Atlanta arranging the exhibit
which that country will make at the
exposition. Mr. Mangel sajs that
Costa Itica'a display will be particu
larly fine. In addition to the exhibit
of coffee, which is the staple product
of the country, a remarkably fiue col
lection of relics taken from the tombs
of the pre-historic races of that coun
try will be made. -
Four newspapermen beat four bank
ers in a bicycle team race at Grand
Island the other day. This should be
an admonition to the banker to stick
to his desk. He can give the news
paperman points on some tilings, but
the latter can rediscount hiui when it
comes to any of the manly bpoi is.
Kearney Hub.
The happiest man I ever knew was
one who all day long stood straight up
for Nebraska ami sang her praise in
song. No matter where her footsteps
led nor who was round about, nor if
all else but he had lied, 'mas joy for
him to shout the praises of the prairie
state, with all his might and niain,and
when the wheels were all run down, to
wind them up again. He'd never been
a pious man, but oft of him 'tis said a
harp was placed within his hand as
soon as he was dead, and that amid
the happy throng beyond the shining
diore he plas and sings Nebraska's
praise, and will fottver more. Kear
ney Hub.
The Omaha correspondent of the
Lincoln Journal says that "United
States Marshal White, who has taken
part in the hunt for Union Pacific
train robbers from Brady Island, has
come home, and says the two men
captured will be prosecuted by the
state. It is expected in some quar
ters that they will also be indicted by
the federal grand jury for interfering
with the mails and also lor obstruct
ing a train on a road in the hands of a
court."
Anglo-Saxon moralists have regarded
the bull-lights in Spain and Mexico as
a species of barbarity as degrading and
as brutalizing as the gladiatorial com
bats under the Romans. Gladstone
said they were a disgrace to our civil
ization. The Spaniards retorted by
insisting that prize-fights were infin
itely worse. The eminent citizens of
Cripple Creek are evidently judging
for themselves which of the two is the
morw brutal. They are having bull
fights followed by fistic encounters.
Chicago Record.
J. D. Calhoun, the veteran news
paper man who i3 known to every Ne
braskan, has at last returned to Lin
coln to see his old friends. lie arrived
yesterday, accompanied by his wife,
and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W.
Q. Bell. His son and daughter are in
Johnson cotinty visiting relatives. Mr.
and Mrs. Calhoun will spend a vaca
tion in the Rocky mountains before re
timing to their home in Tampa, Fla.
State Journal.
It is surprising indeed to see the in
crease in numbers of w ealthy men who
spend their vacations on a nicely fitted
and well regulated farm instead of the
once popular resorts, and for no other
reason than to refresh the pleasant
memories of their boyhood days.
It is estimated that the American
peoplehave already invested this year
$2-5,000,000 in bicycles. $:,000,000 in
arnica, and $1,000,000 in sticking
plaster. It has been a little hard on
the horses and savings banks.
"Curses on the luck, I am caught in
the act !" exclaimed the heavy villain
as the drop curtain swooped down and
pinned him to the stage.
Col. Polk seems to be printing his
paper chielly for the purpose of "get
ting even" with people. lie will prob
ably have his hands full as long as he
lives and away over into the next
world, too, if he keeps it up.
Dennis O. Dwyek, it is reported, is
seeking the democratic nomination for
county judge. Some very mean things
could be said of Dennis that , would
make him tired, but it's unnecessary.
His name is bad enough to kill him off.
I.lnt of L.tt.frM
Remaining unclaimed in the postoflice
at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, August 2S:
Reardslee, II (i Frisch, Charles
Fasslir, Miss Maggie Gibson, Gnssle
Ilesserllow, E. S. Harmon, William
Levrn, Lent Wells, II. J.
Persons calling for any of the above
letters or parcel s will please say "ad
vertised." W. K, Fox, P. M.
Reduced lCnt-H to St. I-ouIh via M. 1.
The M. P. will sell tickets to St.
Louis, on account of the exposition, at
rate of one and a third fare for round
trip. Dates of sale Sept. 3, 5, 10, 1?,
17, 19, 24, 20, Oct. 1, 3, 8, 10, 15, 17,
with a. limit of return to five days from
date of sale.
C. P. Stoutenuokough, Agt.
MM1C IJKi:i:ZV MOIISKI.H.
Walt Masou lu Fremont Herald.
People who were murdered in a very
brutal fashion by II. II. Holmes are be
ginning to offer proof that they are
alive. This wort of tiling should be
discouraged. When the finest sensa
tion of the century has been so care
fully worked up, it is a siu and shame
for the victims to come to the front
with evidence showing that they are
not dead. The police have feelings
which should be respected.
. Speaking of soft snaps, the Queen of
England has a clock that is wound but
once a year, and a man is paid a good
salary and clothed in a gorgeous livery
for winding it. All he has to do is to
wind that clok on the day before
ChiMtmas, every year, and then draw
his salary, and look pretty ihe rest .f
the time. When he dies, his eldest
son will have the job. We wish that
this government would get a few clocks
of that kind, and engage eary editors
to wind them; we would immediately
apply for a portili'; e would almost
he willing to w ind an eight day clock
if we could get a salary and a livery
for it.
If the new woman really wants to be
on an equal footing with the old man
she will have to learn to fish. It is
very seldom that you see a wt.in.Ui who
can fish in strict conformity with the
rules laid down by llojle and Judge
Holmes. She doesn't like the bait
commonly used and would lather eat
salt codfish all her life than touch a
horrid worm. She will have to learn
to fill a demijohn with the liyht kind
of buttermilk, and it takes years of ex
periment and research to qualify "m
to select the proper buttermilk. And
above all, she will have to leain to lie
with a calm, confident e ie that will
disarm all suspicion. No cheap, wom
anly equivocation will do, on her re
turn from a fishing excursion. She
must reel off extemporaneously thoM!
larae quadrangular falsehoods hich
have brought the male angler to his
present proud height. Can she ever do
it? We doubt it. A woman has to
blush when she lies, and ablush wouid
be fatal.
The prohibitory law in Kansas
brings about some stiange things. A
Wichita man came out of a b.-tiber
shop the othcrdty, ladient in a misfit
shave, and a policeman met him at the
door, searched him, found a bo: tie of
whiskey on him and packed him iff to
a dungeon. The bottle had been
thrown in with :he shave presumably.
An officer went into a restaurant at
Atchison and found several fellows
sealed on high s'ools at the counter,
stirring some mixture iu their teacup
with spoons. Mie mixture proved to
be beer, with a dash of something
stronger, and the officer earned hi
pay. When a man goes into Kansas
wiiti a uau oreain, or acquues
a bad breath there, the sleuth hounds
of the law at once undertake the task
of discoveiing w here he got it. Most
of the citizens carrv walking canes
which hold a quart, and occasionally
you may see a thoughtful looking man
carrying a bible or a copv of there-
vised statutes. If you watch, you will
see him slip into a doorway ami pull
the cork from the volume, and absoib
a chapter or two of booze. The law
that makes all this sort of thing an
every day oecurranee can loudly be re
garded as a complete success.
A Novel SlllliV
A big safe at Klmira, X. J., went
wrong the other day, and t he experts
said they would have to bore a hole
through the two inch door, to et it
open. This would take, they said; at
least ten weekt. Then," the Klmira
Advertiser says, "Chief Kleelrician
Hewitt of the Madison avenue elect! ie
station, conceived the idea ot forcing
an opening through the steel door,
which is about two inches thick, with
an electric current. Operations for a
test of the scheme were started, and
the two large re tost a ts. or railway
electric motors, in the west side snow
plow were secured. Heavy arc I lit
wires were led from the street into the
ofiic and the simple contrivance
placed in position. One of the w ires
was attached to the sale door and the
remaining wire fastened to a holder
attached to a pencil carbon, sim
ilar to the carbons used in the electric
arc lights on the streets. The electric,
current was applied and the caibon
placed within a fraction of an inch of
the massive steel door. A bright light
(lashed out ami the electricians were
satisfied that the direct contact was
successful. The point of contact
where the carbon touched the door
soon became heated to a white bent
causing the metal to drip on the safe
lloor. The burning was continued for
about three hours when the carbon
had reached a point within ene-eighth
of an inch of the inside of the door,
when with a few strokes of a chisel and
the scheme was pronounced a decided
success." -
The electrician who devised this new
way of drilling into t he safe is a Lin
coln boy, the son of Itev. .John Hewitt,
rector of the church of the Holy Trin
ity. State Journal.
Near Ilolyoke, Col., on the line of
the IJ.v M. a large artesian well is
being bored as an experiment for irri
gation. If it succeeds more of them
may be bored.
W.
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MANUFACTURER OF
Harness and Saddlery
Begs to announce to Farmers of Cass county that he has
again come among them and has opened an entirely brand
splinter new and complete stock of goods in his old line,
to the inspection of which he invites them. It will be his
aim to make none but
THE BEST OF GOODS ...
-AND
.... THE LOWEST PRICES.
NOVV'S THE TIME to get Harness made, from new leather,
made to suit your taste. He has new goods, new tools,
everything new and bought at the lowest prices possible.
He has secured the services of E. M. BOYKR, one of the
very best mechanics in the west, and PHIL. SAUTER,
already well known in this community.
CALL AND SEE HIM
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SIXTH STREET, PLATTSMOUTH, NEB.
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WHOLESALE
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DKALER IN
Fred Krugs ...
CELEBRATED
...Omaha Beer
KEEPS ON HANI) l'UKK
Wines, Liquors I Cigars
The (fCiiui.ie mid Excellent
I in ported French
HENNESSY BRANDY
Is a specialty. Call and Itecon
vlnceu. All orders for t'nse
lleer or other Roods will receive
prompt attention, and will be
liejivered Free to any pari of
the cltv.
F. G. EGENBERGER,
. . . l'KOPKIKTOli. . . .
51 IMuIii-hI, riutt Ktooiit Ii. Neb.
F. G. FRICKE & CO.,
Will keep constantly on hand a full and
complete 6tock of pure
B0 av
PAINTS, OILS, Etc.
Also a full line of Driiegltit'a Suiutrl.
Pure liquors for medicinal purposes.
Special attention given to
COMPOUNDING PRESCRIPTIONS.
Messrs. F. J. FRICKE & (.. are the
only parties selling our Alaska Cryptal
Krilliant
COMBINATION
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aj A h u u ax tin s I aw atm im vm n mm ma m I ma I
Spectacles and lye-Glasses
In Plattsmouth. These Lcnues are far
superior to any other sold In this city,
possessing a natural transparency and
strengthing qualities which will pre
serving the falling eye sight.
PROP. STRASSMAN.
SELL AT-
I Wm. Neville & Co.,
WHOLESALE pm! RETAIL
DHAI.KKS IN
I Pure Wines and Liquoi
AND THE BEST CIGARS.
Sole Agents for tlie Celebrated
MILWAU K si E
Pabst Beer.
Deliveries ni i.le to :n j.ort i-l tlo
city or iiippd to un pl.i
! WM. NEVILLE,
... MAN AG! It. .
41- Main Street. - rinnstinin'!. X h
; For the Campaign.
The Omaha
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now to ... .
December 31, 1895
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Over One Million People wear the
W. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes
All our shoes are equally satisfactcrv
They give the best value for the inonev.
They equal custom shoes In st vie nnd fit.
Their wearing cuallties ere urV.-rraJsciJ.
The prices are uniform, 't:r.trv. i ".i scfe.
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