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I YOUR CHOICE.
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r . THE FIONEEB HABDWABE ,
I i f LaTOURETTE & CO. ,
li j f3T * Brick Store , Main Avenue , 4 doors south of J. C. Allen & Co.
A. OPPENHEIMER
IS NOW OPENED UP AND .
? r READY H BUSINESS !
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p - ' I CARRY AN IMMENSE LINE OF
I MY GOODS ,
1 , ' ' , CLOTHING , Etc.
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S - " * THIS WEEK I WILL QUOTE A FEW
f f SPECIAL LOW PRICES
i ONE LOT OF SUITS AT $5.00.
I ONE LOT OF CHILDREN'S SUITS AT $2.50.
1 - . - ONE LOT OF YOUTHS * SCOTCH SUITS AT $3.50.
I SIX FINE ALL-WOOL MEN'S SUITS AT $12.50.
f & ONE DOZ. MEN'S BLUE BEAVERS AT $12.50.
I ' ? ONE LOT WORSTED SUITS AT $8.00.
| v ; JEANS PANTS AT 90 Cents TO $1.50. ' '
If ' * . BOYS' JEANS PANTS AT 75 CENTS.
r \ ; % ; BIG CUT IN ODD VESTS. " "
f | Y ODD PANTS BELOW COST. l-1-
1 14' ONE LOT OF COTTONADE PANTS AT $1.50.
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I 1 V Big Bargains in Dress Goods , Ginghams , Etc ,
I li .Boot 0 Shoes
B 1 \ * AT PRICES THAT DEFY COMPETITION.
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1 . 3\.t \ BABCOCK BRICK , - McCOOK , NEBRASKA.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
J. BYRON JKNRIHG8. JOnHWILET.
JENNINGS & WILEY ,
ATTORNEYS - : • AT - : - LAW.
Will practice in tbo State and United Stato
Courts , and boforo thn V * . Land Offlcca.
Carsrul attention rivon to Collection * . Office
over Citizens Bank , McCoolt , Neb.
THOS. COLFER ,
ATTORNEY - : - AT - : • LAW ,
AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
Hoal Bstate Bougrht and Sold and Collocions
Made. Monoy loaned on real estate and final
proof. Agent Lincoln Land Co. Offlco , oyer
Farmers & Merchants Bank.
R. M. SNAVELY ,
ATTORNEY - : • AT - : - LAW ,
INDIANOLA , NBBRA8KA. *
Will practice In all the Stato and United
Btates Courts. Al6o , boforo the Land Office at
McOook and the departmout' Washington.
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HUGH W. COLE ,
LAWYER ,
McCOOK. NEBRASKA.
Will practice in all the Courts. Commercial
and corporation law a specialty.
MONEY TO LOAN.
Booms i and 5. First Nat'l Bank Building' .
A. J. BtTTENIIOUBE , W. tl. STAnit ,
McCook. Indinnola.
Rittenhouse & Starr ,
Attorneys * at * Law. '
OFFICES AT
McCOOK AND INDIANOLA.
T. X. HEI f. C. V. DAVIB.
UU Iiritti : V. 6. L nl Lata ef flea. Lwl Oflei ,
Offlei.Zinria , Z&t. WaiUagttB , 9. C.
HELM & DAVIS ,
Attorneys , Land g Loan Agents.
McCOOK NEBRASKA.
If you have a difficult contest ense to prose
cute or defend and want to win consult us.
Offlco , north of U. S. Land Office. Front base
ment of the Citizens Bank.
H. G. DIXON ,
Real Estate and Loan Broker ,
McCOOK , NEBRASKA.
Special attention given tc tho salo of city
property. Houses rented and collodion ?
made. Office : Bear of Citizens Bank.
T. B. STUTZMAN , M. D. ,
Eclectic Physician and Surgeon.
OCULIST AND ATJEIST.
McCOOK , NEBRASKA
Eff Office In MoNeely Building , Main St.
B. B. DAVIS , M. D. ,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ,
McCOOK NEBRASKA.
Eff" Offlco atChonery's drug store.
L. J. SPICKELMIER , M. D. ,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Bpichl Attistln Qiren to Feailo Cizoases.
Office hours , from 9 to 11 A. M. , and 2 to * P.
M. , mountain time. Office * Over Farmers &
Merchants bank.
Db. Z. L. KAY ,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
McCOOK. - - VKIUSAtKA.
0f Rooms : Over new First National Bank.
A. J. THOMAS ,
DENTIST.
Administers Gas if desired. { 2TOfflce over
Scott's brick.
( J. W. MINKLER ,
FOItMEBIiY
COUNTY - : • SURVEYOR ,
McCOOK , NEBRASKA.
Will do all kinds of Surveying , Grading and
Civil Engineering. Residence north of school
house.
THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL ,
Geo. E. Johnston , Prop.
McCOOK , 'NEBRASKA.
This house has been completely renovated
and refurnished throughout , and is first-class
in every respect. Rates reasonable.
W. M. SANDERSON ,
DECORATIVE - : - ARTIST ,
SCENIC PAINTEB ,
Caleimining , Graining. Paper Hanging , etc.
with noatneBS and dispatch.
JOHN G. W. F. FLEEMING ,
House and Carriage Painting ,
QBAIKIXa , CAIiCIKlKIRQ , MARBURG ,
McCOOK. NEBRASKA.
Leave all orders at the drug storo of Albert
McMIIlen. First-class work guaranteed.
J. H. BENNETT ,
GONTRAGTOR
or
BRICK AND STONE ,
McCOOK. - NEBSASKA.
F. D. BURGESS ,
PLUMBING ,
Steam and Hot Water Heating ,
North Main Ave. , McCook , Neb.
OF" All work receives prompt attention.
BUCKLEH'S ARHICA SALVE.
Tbo Bcbx Salve in the world for cuts , bruis
es , sores , ulcers , 8altrheua , fever sores , tot-
.tor , chapped bands , chilblains , corns , and nil
skia eruptions , and positively cures piles , or
no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per
fect satisfaction , or , money refunded. Price
• Mtsvtrfeax. * orsirA.McMillen.
MR. PERKINS AND THEC , R. & Q.
STOCKHOLDERS.
The Boston Advertiser has somo interesting
correspondence between tho stockholders and
officials of the Burlington system , showing the
pressure that is being brought to bear upon
the latter for stopping competitive railroad
wars and putting the stock on the old dividend
paying basis.
One "large stockholder" writes : "It seems
as though the subordinate officials of the roads
( all of them ) are running a mod race to see
who can first destroy his property. Allow me
to ask , is it under your orders that tho service
of your company is sold for less than cost , or
are theso 'transactions contrary to your or
ders ? " He further Bays that it seems to him
that more injury 1b being done to railroad
property byits own officials than by legislative
action. Ho wants to know If there Is not some
remedy.
President Perkins , to whom the letter is ad *
dressed , replies at length. He says that if
there is any blame to be attached to railroad
managers it belongs to the heads and not to
the subordinates. He is responsible for the
C , B. & Q. and if that management is bad or
unsatisfactory he shoulders tho responsibility.
He has done what ho thought was for the good
of the stockholders.
He then speaks of the peculiarity of railroad
competition. Tho percentage of the total ex *
pense which is practically fixed and which
goes on whether much or little business is
done is larger than in trade generally. Prac
tically , all the business of the C , B. & . Q Is
oompetitive. The business of to-day must be
done to-day or not at all. It can not be stored
away for a better market. Tho road must
take the business as it comes at such price as
it can get or go without it. Hence there is no
other business so sensitive to the law of com
petition. Under conditions of freedom , the
history of railroads in this country is a record
of sharp competition , constantly decreasing
rates , rapid increase in the value of land and
rapid growth of general trade and manufac
tures.
As the roads increased in number their sen *
Bltiveness to tho law of competition tended to
carry them to extremes , to wars of extermina
tion. To this the present owners of course ob
jected , as it destroyed their properties , and fi
nally even tho strongest and best located lines
became willing to join their weaker brethren
in agreed rates. Experience , however , de
monstrated that a mere agreement to maintain
rates accomplished little. Shippers created
suspicion of each other , and the roads , rather
than lose the business of to-day , which was
lost forever , preferred to cut rather than lie
idle , even if but a small part of the fixed ex
pense should bo recouped. These agreements
breaking down , the pooling method was adopt
ed. This helped and was working well when
congress passed the interstate act forbidding
pools.
Since then as no way could bo devised to ar
range an agreement that would let the weak
er roads live without violatlug the law , the C ,
B. & Q. had nothing to do but to meet competi
tion or abandon the field. The evil the "large
stockholder" complains of is inherent in the
situation. "We do not carry any business be
low cost or at anywhere near cost , if you elim
inate from cost the fixed expenses , which are
there and must bo paid , business or no busi
ness. But we do carry business frequently
below cost including the fixed expenses , be
cause it is better to do so than to let the busi
ness go to another line or not have it go at
all. "
"It is easy to say that the roads can agree
upon rates and maintain them if they choose
and all be richer. So it is easy to say that if
all the nations of Europe would disarm and
keep the peace all would bo richer. As a mat
ter of fact , however , tho railroads would not
all be richer if equal rates were absolutely
maintained , because as I have endeavored to
point out , the inferior lines wonld get very
little , if any , of the competitive traffic under
such circumstances. "
The long and short haul clause in the law In
creases , in Mr. Perkins' opinion , the difficulty
of maintaining agreed rates , as a road with
much intermediate business which is effected
by through rates has a very different interest
in through rates from the road that has much
through business and little intermediate busi
ness. The complications are endless.
Mr. Perkins does not know whether there is
a remedy under the present laws. The plan
of central agency to fix rates and divide traffic
so as to brace up weak lines would , if lawful ,
be a practical remedy , but all the lines do not
favor it and one or two can do nothing.
The managers are anxious to maintain rateB
and are engaged in an effort to provide for
this , but whether any agreement that does not
divide the traffic to compensate weak lines ,
can succeed , remains to be seen. If not , then
such a division must be secured. If it cannot
be secured without the help of congress , con-
gross must help , or railroad property will con
tinue to suffer until the weaker lines arc wotn
out and sold to the stronger at half their cost.
Mr. Perkins closes by saying : "If people
would stop flghtiDg wind mills , imaginary
evils which have no existence , and leave rail
roads like other commercial undertakings , to
work out their own salvation , all would be
better off. Like treatment to all and reason
able charges , which is what people want , and
all they want , can be secured in no other way.
ButlsuppoBeitis loo much to hope for at
present and no doubt we shall go on flounder
ing in the dark until some new Adam Smith
comes to show ub that the supreme natural
laws of trade apply to all trade , not excepting
railroads. "
Gen. Harrison continues to show the same
good judgement which characterized him dur
ing the campaign , lu spite of the criticisms
which have been made upon his cabinet ap
pointments , iu spite of the fact that many
newspapers have tried to lead him to commit
himself by publishing cabinet news alleged to
be authentic , the president-elect has kept his
own counsel , and probably not over a dozen
persons to day know anything regarding his
intentions. It is becoming more and moro ap
parent that the next president is a man to be
trusted.
The senate tariff bill reposes quietly in the
hands of the houso ways and means committee
and there it will probab'y ' remain to the end
of the session. It is idle to expect the demo
crats to do anything honest and practical to
ward tho reduction of the surplus. They still
cling to the repudiated Mills bill as tho only
proper scheme of tariff reform ; and the peo
ple will therefor have to wait for the next
congress to adjust the matter in accordance
with their wishes , as expressed in the Novem
ber election.
The Omaha Bee has recently done some tall
lying about bow prohibition works in Iowa.
It says our state has been decimated in popu
lation and pictures dire things about Iowa nil
of which arc so falso ns to bo absolutely fool
ish. Tbo oue-hundred-thousnnd majority of
voters in Town which would be on thesidoof
prohibition always and lu any election here ,
area living proof thnt tbo Bee has most ma
liciously lied. Dexter ( la. ) Sentinel.
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Hall * Cochran & Co. ,
SEALKRSIX
HARDWIRE ,
Implements , Etc.
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A complete stock of
CUTLERY ,
STOVES ,
TINWARE ,
BARB WIRE ,
WINDMILLS ,
OILS , ETC
Lowest Living Prices.
WEST DENNISON STREET ,
McCOOK , - - NEBRASKA.
File Woolens !
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5Toa will find a splendid line
of Cloths , Cassimeres , Wor
steds , London Suitings , and
Tronserings , and a complete
assortment of Spring and Fall
Overcoatings. Also Esqui
mau Beavers in all shades at
DRYSDALE'S
Fine Custom Tailor Shops ,
opposite the new postoffice.
Good fits guaranteed. Thir
ty-five years' experience in
New York City.
MAIN AVENUE , McCOOK , NEB.
ALLEN'S TRANSFER ,
Bus , Baggage Dray Line.
F. P. ALLEN , Prop. ,
McCOOK , NEBRASKA.
Best Equipped in the Citr. Leave order * ,
at Commercial Hotel. Good well water fur-
Dished on short notice.
Herian & DesLarzes ,
Proprietors of the McCook
Transfer % City Bus Line.
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SmmmmSSSSs Wm
Bus to and from all trains. Coal hanling
and general delivery. Three drays. All
work promptly attended to. Leave orders at
Frees & Hocknell Lumber Yard.
Blue Front Livery Stable
D. D. SMITH , Proprietor.
Livery , feed and sale stables. Finest turn
nuts in the city furnished. Ham , rear Mo
Entee HoteL
R. H. COLE ,
• The Leading"
Merchant Tailor
op McCOOK , for
First-Glass Tailoring" .
Ilaving a large stock.of Fine Suitings
and Trouserings , I will furnish them
cheap for the next 60 days.
t. e. Mccracken ,
The Insurance Ag't
McCOOK , NEBRASKA ,
Wriies Indemnity against Fire , Light
ning , Tornado and Hail Storm.
M. C. MAXWELL ,
BREEDER OF
Short Horn Cattle.
Stock on hand at all Limes. Farm :
one mile south of McCook , Neb.
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The "Mascotte , "
T Improved Heel-Plate 11
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B99 • Machine in town. j m
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JH R Kubbers of all kinds j I
1 Hj | at our STORE. ! I
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the 'mascotte. " IV IJ JLIJJ JLIVJ 1
With oitr IMPROVED HEEL PLATE 1
on and show them to your friends. I
They will make your rubbers.
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WEAR TWICEJS LONG. M
No where in this country can be found } MjMjjjjjjjjmj
a better assortment of rubber goods. See 1
Pnre - : - Cnm - : - Specialties. :
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In Rubber Shoes , all made of fine Jersey cloth , ,
are the most stylish , best fitting goods in the
market. These goods are especially adapted to
fine city trade. We sell "first quality"goods at I
the same prices other dealers ask for second and '
third grade brands.
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We ( ilre Headquarters
For Wool Boots and Leather Boots and Shoes of
every description. NOVELTIES in Ladies' and
Gents' Slippers. We save you money on every
purchase you make at our store.
BGWEN f LAYCOCK.
"BOSTON BARGAIN SHOE STORE. " |
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OPERA UOUSE I3LOCK , - McCOOK , NEBRASKA. j
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1 CITY BAKERY. I
I FRESHBREAD !
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TOBACCO-ETC-ETC- \
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\ Cakes Made to Order. St. Paul Patent Flour. \ I
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The Candy Kitchen I
Is now located in its new quarters in the I
8GOTT BRIGK. I
A fine assortment of Candies of I
OUR OWN MAKE I
Constantly on hand. OYSTERS SERVED IN EVERY STYLE I