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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1903)
rgiratwntrifrf ffn v F M KIMMBLL Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co Subscription 1 a Year in Advance The Tribune is tho only newspaper in Bedwillow county that now has a circu lation exceeding one thousand a week or whose circulation during the entire year of 1902 exceeded one thousand a week The relative and comparative lengths of a senators and a congressman elects political poles are perhaps fairly well shown in the Fairbury postofflco matter The senators knocked the persimmon notwithstanding tho congressman elect lives in that burg Twas a hot fight and a sudden and unexpected termi nation Editor Wislev of the Culbertson Herald has scarcely been in his editor ial chair long enough to warm it before he finds occasion to take a shot at Mc Cook along tho line of assumed compe tition over the location of tho sugar beet factory which in due course of events if the gods be propitious will be erected somewhere in tho Republican valley The declination of the Hitch cock county people to join in the district organization exhibited tho animus of our ambitious brethren on the west but the action of the Herald is conspicu ously premature and inopportune Tho location question is one of tho future Just now the important question the practical issue is the increasing of the sugar beet area under the most favor able and most profitable conditions It will be time to cross the bridge when we come to it A Few Burlington Statistics In the current issue of the Burlington folder is found a statement of the mile age of the system correct to date In this statement it is said that the mile age of the road if 8431 miles including the Q the B M the Missouri lines the Keokuk and Western and the Burl ington and Western Tho statement follows The Burlington system comprises the following railroads Chicago Burlington Quincy 267642 B M R R R in Nebraska 419175 Missouri lines 108546 Keokuk Western R R 35503 Burlington Western Ry 12320 Total miles operated 843186 These lines traverse eleven of the greatest states in the union They em ploy 38000 men own 1275 engines7520 passenger and 44555 freight cars ope rate 600 trains a day and maintain sta tions at 1300 different towns and cities It costs 34000000 a year to operate the system The total population of the 1300 cities and towns located on the Burlington Route and of the 199 counties adjacent thereto through which it runs is 7218 000 which is one eleventh of the popu lation of the United States The in crease of population during the ten years from 1890 to 1900 was 1238000 or 20J per cent From this it will be seen that the cost of operation per mile of road is 4031 CITY CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS Catholic Order of services Mass 8 a m Mass and sermon 1030 a m Sunday school 230 p m Every Sun day J J Loughran Pastor Episcopal St Albans church next Sunday February 15 Sexagesima Sun day Holy communion at 8 a m Sunday-school at 10 Prayer and sermon at 8 p m E R Earle Rector Congregational Sunday School at 1000 a m Sermon Self Mastery 1100 a m Y P S CJE 700 p m Sermon Hand Help in the Harvest Fields 800 p m Wednesday prayer and conference meeting All are made welcome Frank W Dean Pastor Methodist Sunday School a 1000 a m Preaching at 1100 a m and 800 p m Epworth League at 700 p m Preaching at South McCookat300p m L H Shumate Pastor Valentines Valentines Newest and finest line we have ever had Ready in a few days Ir W McCONNELL Nearly Forfeits His Life A runaway almost ending fatally started a n horrible ulcer on the leg of J B Orner Franklin Grove Illinois For fonr years it de fled all doctors and all remedies bnt Bucklene Arnica Salve had no trouble to euro him Equally good for burns bruises skin eruptionH and piles 25c at McConnells drug store Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat This preparation contains all of the digestants and digests all kinds ol food It gives instant relief and neve jails to cure It allows you to eat all the food you want The most sensitire Stomachs can take it By its use many thousands of dyspeptics have been cared after everything else failed Ifc prevents formation of gas on thestom acb relieving all distress after eating Dieting unnecessary Pleasant to take It cant help oeit ao you gooa Prepared on7y by E O Db Witt Co Chicago JEbQ fL Dottle contains a times tborocsizew Fifty Ytirs the Standard w Awardtd Nigbesi Honors Worlds Fair Rights tests US Govt Chemists Lincoln Letter Lincoln Neb Feb 9 1903 Special Correspondence The legislature has not been in session the past week but the special commit tees for the framing of a revenue bill have been very busy and have accomp lished a great deal The work has been divided up in sections with three or four men to each section and the work of each is reviewed by a committee of the whole daily In this work it is under stood that the committees have drawn upon the Nebraska Kansas and Missouri revenue laws and the general belief is that if they are given reasonable time a bill will be prepared which will be ac ceptable to a majority of the legislators and will produce the much desired reve nue for the state One of the important points which has come before the committee is the change in the assessor system There seems to have been a unanimous agree ment that the present system of elective precinct assessors is defective and the cause of many of the present ills The plan adopted by the committee is the same as that of several of the eastern states One or more state tax commis sioners an elective county assessor in each county and enough appointive dep uties in each county to do the assessing There is also the provision that assessors cannot do the work in the precinct where they themselves live The question of valuation does not seem to have yet been entirely settled It was agreed by the committee that the present system is no system at all and some desire to assess all property at its actual cash value Others are of opin ion that property should be listed at cash value and then assessed at a valua tion of one fourth or one fifth as is the practice in Iowa Illinois and other states absolutely fixing the fraction by law so as to prevent gradual reduction in the rate They hold that this would give the actual figures and at the same time would keep the levies near what they are now thus avoiding the tendency toward extravagance Both ideas have adherents in the legislature and it is probable that they will provoke consider able discussion when the bill gets into the two houses The disturbing question of local tax ation of railroad terminals will not be handled by the revenue committees they having decided by vote that this question should come up in connection with the bill proposing changes in the Omaha charter In the preparation of the new measure much care is being taken in the matters relating to the collection of taxes and the committee is said to unanimously favor the provision for a seal for county treasurers so that good tax deeds may be given after a reasonable length of time instead of making it necessary to go the old circuitous and expensive way through the courts This proposition has been up before legislatures several timeB before but was never adopted It is evident at this time that while the committees have been industrious working night and day on the new mea sure they have not had sufficient time to complete their work and that at least all of the present week must be allowed them in the preparation of a successful bill There will be a tendency on part of some members of the legislature to hurry them or to show impatience be cause a bill has not been framed in one week but those who find fault have lit tle conception of the amount of work necessary not only in the discussion of means and measures but in the actual drafting of the bill in proper and legal language after the main points have been agreed upon The work is being hurried as much as is consistent with safety and two or three nights the com mittees have been up until after mid night engaged in discussions and re searches They draw no extra pay for this week of vacation and the people of the state must give them full credit for industry and honesty of purpose If the bill prepared by them passes muster its adoption will open a new era for Ne braska The Easy Pill DeWitts Little Earlv Bisers do not gripe nor weaken the system They cure biliousness jaundice constipation and inactive livers by arousing the secretions moving the bowels gently yet effectively and giving such tone and strength to the glands of the stomach liver and bowels that the cause of tho trouble is removed entirely These famous little pills exert a de cided tonle effect upon the organs involved and if their use is continued for a few days there nill be no return of the trouble L W Mc- CcBiieU druggist a srrE - fc v IBea utiful XtkO tights The sweet pure breath of the babe is suggestive of innocence and health A mothers yearning for children is in separable from a love of the beautiful and it behooves every -woman to bring the sweetest and best influence to bear on the subject of her maternity To relieve pain and make easy that period -when life is born again MotHers Friend is popularly used It is a liniment easily administered and for external use only Pregnant -women sh ould try this remedy it being undeniably a friend to her during natures term of suspense andanticipation flothers Friend if used throughout gestation will 6often the breasts thereby preventing cracked and sore nipples Ail muscles straining with the burden will relax become supple and elastic from its continued application All fibres in the abdominal region will respond readily to ihe expanding cover containing the embryo if Jlotbers Friend is applied externally during pregnancy Of all reliable druggists ioo per bottle Write for free book on flotberhood THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO ATLANTA GA SWmimtniiMWTiBKgsamni MWitEgff88 ADDITIONAL RAILROAD HEWS Pay day Monday C F Baboock iB in Lincoln on busi ness P J Yost is a new man in Walkers gang L R Allison of Walkers gang has resigned Way car 29 will be out of the shop next week i D F McFarland was at this place Wednesday William Unger of the rip track is off on the sick list R G Huffstutter is a new wiper in the roundhouse Fireman Mitchell was off on the sick list first of the week Emil Stamm machinist expects to quit the service in a week or so G C Caldwell of the roundhouse force has been transferred to Walkers gang O E Rees machinist will quit on Monday and expects to go to St Louis Claude McKillip is on the dry pipe work now in place of W L Rider re signed A L Barnes of the storehouse clerical force is visiting the homefolks at Alma this week R B A went west on the new 3304 first of the week to see what the ani mal could do H E Wootton of Egans gang was off first of the week on account of a sprained back J C Marshall returned home on No I Monday from his trip to the eastern part of the state Fireman A C Simmons returned home on 1 Monday from his visit at Utica New York Way carB Nos 97 144 and 145 have been dismantled and taken out of the service for the present Engine 264 will go into the shop soon for an overhauling The 289 is about ready to go out of the shop Ruf us flarp of the night force at the roundhouse was called to Alma last of last week by the death of his brother Hugh Holder is braking on passenger for George Willetts vice C E Hoffman who has been transferred to freight ser vice No 584 one of the Hannibal and St Joe hogs has been in theshop and yard part of the week having her valveB squared up The turret lathe will be moved to the east end of the shop near the tool room the lathe requiring more room to handle the work required of it Switchman Ed OConner has resigned from the service with the companys consent on account of the wreck at the stockyards a week ago Saturday night Ed Smith is on the night yard crew in his place On the trucks of No 3 last Friday night when the train reached here were found a few remnants of the man gled remains of what had at one time been a human being Word from Hast ings announces that David W Nicholas an old soldier of Kenesaw was the victim having fallen under the train near that city while passing from one car to another Nicholas was intoxi cated He was on his way home to Kenesaw after an absence in Oklahoma of two years The remains were scat tered along the track for same distance near Hastings The Strength of the coffee you buy adds to its value in the cup - Lion Coffee comes to you fresh and of full strength always in sealed air tight packages Bulk coffees lose their strength deteriorate in flavor and also gather dirt Uniformity freshneas ind fall strength are Iuum to um of LI On Coffea The Outlook Not Hopeful It was developed in the meeting of the Southwestern Nebraska Industrial association last Thursday in the report of the committee on Reservoirs and Irrigation that under the present law this part of Nebraska cannot look for any practical or valuable relief from that laws operations The law so re lates to and effects districts uninhabited as to Bhut out localities now populated and improved in a measure So here in the Republican valley where we are trying to place on its feet an industry that will benefit all the people of the country the farmer in particular we need look for nothing advantageous from the operations of a law which if properly framed would make it possible to impound the vast volume of water now running to waste in the Republican river and hold it for use in the summer months when it would water all the farms from Zucoth to Daradtha and prove of inestimable value But it is quite clear at this time that for the im mediate future at least we shall have to depend upon and be content with what we canget from private capital in that direction River and harbor bills have been passed for the benefit of commerce ever since loba yet we ol the west nave made no complaint as we well might and it seems to the writer that in view of what might result from the construc tion of proper reservoirs we of the west have a righteous kick a coming now Reservoirs have been constructed at the headwaters of the Mississippi to supply the channel in the summer months when navigation would other wise be obstructed by shoal places Why should it be thought strange for the government to construct reservoirs in the west for the benefit of so splendid an interprise as sugar beet culture es pecially when millions have been added to the public treasury from the very district which cannot now profit by a law which was evidently intended to meet this case The southland is frequently damaged by great floods and the government is constantly expending large sums of money to close crevasses made in the levees by flood water when the con struction of reservoirs in the headwaters would not only obviate much of this but would prove a positive blessing to the people of the northland Adequate reservoirs in the Republican and Frenchman valleys would soon de velop the sugar beet industry to gigantic proportions We have the soil the climate and all the other essentials Factories are at hand awaiting our de velopment ready to use all the sugar beets we can raise It only remains for Uncle Sam to do his duty in the prem ises and provide us with the necessary reservoirs and not expend in the Rocky Mountains all the money secured on the plains by the sale of public lands Give us some of our deserts in this respect and we will soon blossom like the rose Communicated A Most Liberal Offer All our farmer readers should take advantage of the unprecedented club biDg offer we make this year which includes with this paper the Iowa Homestead its special Farmers Institute Editions and the Poultry Farmer These three publication are tne oesc in tneir class ana snould be in every farm home To them we add for local county and general news our own paper and make the price of the four one year only 125 Never before was so much superior reading matter offered for so email an amount of money The three papers named which we club with our own are well known through out the west and commend themselves to the readers favorable attention upon mere mention The Iowa Homestead is the great agricultural and live stock paper of the west the Poultry Farmer is the most practical poultry paper for the farmer while the Special Farmers Institute editions are the most practical publications for the promotion of good farming ever published Take advant age of this great offer as it will hold good for a short time only Samples of these papers may be examined by call ing at this office Escaped an Awful Fate Mr H Haggins of Melbourne Florida writes My doctor told me I had consumption and nothing could be done for me I was given up to die The offer of a free trial bottle of Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption induced me to try it Eesults were startling 1 am sow on the road to recovery and owe all to Dr Kings NewDiscovery It surely saved my life This great core is guaranteed for all throat and lung diseases by L W McConnell drnggist Price B0 and 100 Trial bottles fre RIGHT ABOUT FACE FALL BACK IN LINE AND RETURN TO THE PURCHASE OF t WINTER GOODS AGAIN Our prices fell before this snow did so you can buy any of our HEAVY UNDERWEAR HEAVY HOSIERY LEGGINS AND OUTING FLANNELS A Weak Stomach causes a weak body and invites disease Kodol Dyspepsia Cure cures and strengthens the stomach and wards off and overcomes disease J B Taylor a prominent merchant of Chries man Texas says I could not eat because of a weak stomach I lost all strength and run down in weight All that money could do was done but all hope of recovery vanished Hear ing of some wonderful cures effected by the use of Kodol I concluded to try it The first bottle benefitted me and after taking four bottles I sm fully restored to my usual strength weight and health L W McConnell druggist The Tribune is only 100 a year Mysterious Circumstances One was pale and sallow and the other fresh and rosy Whence the difference She who is blushing with health uses Dr Kings New Life Pills to maintain it By gently arousing tho lazy organs they compel good digestion and head off constipation Try them Only 25c at L W McConnell druggist Miss Ida M Snyder Treasnrer of trie Brooklyn East End Art CInb M If women would pay more attention to their health we would have more happy wives mothers and daughters and if they would observe results they would find that the doctors prescriptions do not perform the many cures they are given credit for In consulting with my druggist he ad vised McEIrces Wine of Cardui and Thed fords Black Draught and so I took it and have every reason to thank him for a new life opened up to me with restored health and it only took three months to cure me Wine of Cardni is a regulator of the menstrual functions and is a most as tonishing tonic for women It cures scanty suppressed too frequent irreg ular and painful menstruation falling of the womb frhites and flooding It is helpful when approaching woman hood duripg pregnancy after child birth and in change or life It fre quently brings a dear baby to homes that have been barren for year3 All druggists have 100 bottles of Wine of Cardui WiNEorCABPUIj OVERSHOES FLANNELETTES COHFORTERS AND BLANKETS AT PRICES YOU WILL APPRECIATE Stock Up Now for Next Season There are a few of those extreme bargaiits left in MENS AND BOYS SHOES Call and look them over MENS TROUSERS STILL GOING AT COST Dont forget HONEST JOHN for the BEST GROCERIES J H Grannis PHONE 16 Fraternal Insurance Order Cards RCI P A IiOdge No 612 meets first and third Thursdays of each month McConnells hall 830 p m E B Hdbeb President W S Guteh Secretary ROYAL HIGHLANDERS McCook lodge No 307 mepte on second and fourth Mon day evenings of each month at eight oclock in McConnell hall R W Devoe Illustrious Pro tector J C Mitchell Secretary McCook Nebraska RHEUMATISM GUREDAT LAST Good News For all Who Suffer With Rheumatism Free To all who suffer with rheumatism I will gladly send free the wonderful story of how my mother was cured after years of suffering together with tho most elaborate treatise on rheumatism ever published No matter what your form of rheuma tism is whether acute chronic muscu lar inflammatory deformant sciatic neuralgia gout lumbago etc no mat ter how many doctors have failed in your case no matter how many socalled sure cures you have tried I want you to write to me and let me tell you how my mother was cured I am neither a doctor nor a professor simply a plain man of business but I have a cure for rheumatism and I want to tell everyone who suffers with rheumatism- about it I wish to bo clearly understood and trust that all who suffer with this terrible disease however apparently beyond the reach of cure will write to me this dav and I will send you by return mail this work of mine I appeal especially to the chronically ill who are wearied and discouraged with doctoring and to those who have been 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