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By F M KIMMELL
Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Subscription 1 a Year in Advance
Official Paper of Redwillow County
The question now agitating the court
and Bix is Will Stephen put back
that water Quoth the raven Never
more
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The Tribune points with pride to at
least one Nebraska Btate official without
a pass State Treasurer Mortensen A
sneak thief relieved him of the whole
bunch the other uight But perhaps
there are more where those came from
The pass question is being given most
generous attention in Nebraska just now
and very properly so Its a graft
that ought to go with the rest of the
ilk The pass is clearly inconsistent
with the- idea of a square deal equal
opportunity Incidentally the Ameri
can people need to have the lesson burn
ed deeply into their souls that they are
only morally entitled to what they earn
or pay for The pass is equally indefen
sible as a matter of equity morals or
economics Prithee what is the precise
and real difference between a free soup
house ticket and a free pass Other
than that of degree The president of
the United States is under moral and
commercial obligation to pay for his
special trains just as truly as is the
humblest business man farmer or me
chanic to pay for his ride in the day
coach The moral aspect of the pass is
usually overlooked but it is just as
pressing for solution as the business
side of it The pass is in business a
plain and palpable case of discrimina
tion and in a sense a rebate In morals
and politics it is some times not inac
curately denominated a bribe
CITY CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Catholic Order of services Mass
8 a m Mass and sermon 1000 a m
Evening service at 8 oclock Sunday
school 230 p m Every Sunday
J J Loughkan Pastor
Congregational Sunday school at 10
oclock Preaching services at 11 a m
and 8 p m Morning subject The
Living God If you do not go else
where come and help us
George B Hawkes Pastor
Christian Sunday school at 10 a m
Preaching at 11 a m subject Pro
crastination Y P S C E at 715
p m Preaching at 815 p m subject
Temptation All are welcome
L F Sanford Pastor
Baptist Theme of the morning ser
mon The Modern Church Its Mission
and Its Methods Evening The
Way Home A cordial invitation to all
A B Carson Pastor
Episcopal Services in St Albans
church as follows Every Sunday in the
month Sunday school at 10 oclock am
Morning prayer at 11 a m and evening
prayer and sermon at 8 The third Sun
day in the month Holy Communion at
730 a m All are welcome
E R Earle Rector
Methodis t Sunday school at 10
Sermon at 11 a m and 8 p m Class
at 12 Junior Epworth League at 3
Epworth League at 715 Prayer and
praise service every Wednesday night at
eight oclock Morning subject The
Church I Would Like to Have Even
ing subject The Mystery of Iniquity
Preaching in South McCook next Sun
day at 4 oclockSunday school at three
All invited
M B Carman Pastor
Populist County Convention
The electors of the Peoples Independent
party of Bed Willow county Nebraska are
called to meet in the city of Indianola on Sat
urday September 16 1905 at one oclock p m
for the purpose of placing in nomination candi
dates for the various county offices to be filled
this fall and for selecting delegates to the state
convention and to transact such other business
as may come before the convention the basis
of representation will be one delegate at large
from each precinct and one delegate for every
fifteen votes or major fraction thereof cast for
the honorable Geo W Berge for governor in
1904 giving the following representation to
precincts to wit
Alliance 3
Beaver 5
Bondville 4
Box Elder 2
Coleman - 1 2
XJanbury 3
Driftwood 2
East Valley 3
JFritsch 4
Gerver 2
Grant 2
Indianola - 6
Lebanon 4
Mo Ridge 2
North Valley 3
Perry 3
Red Willow 3
Tyrone 3
Valley Grange 2
Willow Grove 13
Total 71
It is recommended that no proxies be allowed
but that the delegates present be empowered to
cast the full vote of their precinct It is fur
ther recommended that the various precincts
hold their causus on Thursday evening Septem
ber 14 1905 at 730 p m and at same meeting
that their committeemen for the coming year I
selected
H H Pickens
I M Smith Secretary Chairman
Members of McCook Lodge No 135
There will be important business 61
the lodge at the next regular meeting
-Tuesday evening of coming week A
ull attendance of members is requested
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Attempted Jail Delivery
An almost successful attempt at jail
delivery was made here last Saturday
evening The fact that Miss Mabel Wil
cox was working in the county clerks
office directly over the jail alone render
ed the effort unsuccessful l
There were two occupants of the jail
Clarence Gill charged with an attempt
at murder and J H Hub Hatfield
who is wanted in Kirksville Missouri
for forgery The inmates had in some
manner secured possession of saws and
one of the large iron bars had already
been severed when the alarm was given
and an end put to their operations
Both Miss Quick and Miss Wilcox
were working in the court house late
that evening and both noted the pecu
liar noise Finally they courageously
undertook to locate the same Satisfy
ing themselves that the prisoners were
sawing through the jail widow on the
alley side of the building they informed
Judge R C Orr who happened to be
in his o ffice in the basement of the court
house Judge Orr finally secured assist
ance and keys and the prisoners were
placed in the steel cells and locked in
for the night Just why the prisoners
were given the liberty of the jail corridor
as late as ten oclock at night is not
plain Had they been properly placed
in the steel cells for the night the inci
dent would not have occurred And un
less this precaution is taken there is
nothing to prevent a jail delivery any
time the prisoners are mindful of gett
ing away V
Hatfields interest in getting away
Saturday night is explained by the fact
that the Missouri official was expected
to arrive Sunday night to take him
back to Kirksville where he is wanted
for forging his uncles name to a note
for 815000 The officer made his ap
pearance on No 3 Sunday night and
left on two the following morning for
Missouri with his prisoner
L R Clyde and R D Austin assisted
in the stirring events and a few amusing
incidents might be noted in which friend
covered friend with shot gun and re
volver until identification became evi
dent but all ended well when a false
move might have been uncomfortable
Red Willow as a Fruit County
Red Willow county caused no little
comment this year at the ftate fair by
capturing everything in the line of
premiums on peaches Samuel C King
who has an orchard a few miles north
of McCook made a little exhibit of his
peaches and was awarded premiums as
follows
First premium on collection of
peaches S 1500
First premium on plate of Cham
pion peaches
First premium on plate of Cros
by peaches
First premium on plate of Hills
Chill peaches
First premium on plate of Rus
sell peaches
First premium on plate of
Wright peaches
200
200
200
200
200
Total premiums 8 2500
Secretary Russell of the Nebraska
horticultural society adds that Mr King
had more and better peaches at the
state fair than all the other exhibitors
combined
The Tribune takes pride with Mr
King in this victory believing that Red
Willow county will be heard from in the
future as a fruit producing county
The New Sins
The Atlantic Monthly is one of the
most conservative publicatons of today
Yet in its number for May it mustered
courage enough to publish an article on
The New Sins by a brilliant writer
in which he says We are pickpockets
with railway rebates murderers with
food adulterants We cheat with a
company prospectus or scuttle a town
instead ofa ship How decent are the
pale slayings of the quack the adultera
tor the purveyor of polluted water The
healings and slayings that lurlr in the
complexities of our social relations are
compatible with immaculate linen
They carry silk hats and lighted cigars
Sin presents a calm countenance and a
serene soul Good and kind men let the
wheels of commerce and industry redden
rather than decrease or loose dividends
The corrupt bosses and combines are
murdering representative government
Fradulent promoters devour widows
houses Monopoly grinds the faces of
the poor The child beater is outdone
by infant toil we grant to mine
operator and railroad the power to com
mit murder in the name of business
Among the principal sinners are now
enrolled men who are pure and kind
hearted loving in their families faith
ful to their friends and generous to the
needy We thus lull the conscience of
the sinner and blind the eyes of the
other people We dont see that bood
ling is treason that speculation is gamb
ling that the factory labor of children
is slavery that food adulteration is
murder
For Sale A molane beet puller
Second hand Gpod as new
L W Brinton
JL Plnntible
Hixon I wonder
managed to live to
age
Dixon Probably
Theory
how Methuselah
such a ripe old
because there
were no bacteria and disease germa in
bis day
Typhoid Bate and Fore Water
In Vienna the typhoid rate of 12L
deaths to 10000 inhabitants fell to ii
after a pure water supply was ob
tained In Dantzig the mortality feU
from 10 per 10000 to 15 In Munich
after the introduction of a good water
supply and proper sewerage the rate
fell from 21 per 10000 to 63 and In
Boston from 174 to 56
TAKING AN AIR BATH
Aa Opportunity Given to Allow the
Skin to Breathe
It must be remembered that we rare
ly If ever give our skin the opportunity
to breathe properly Our perverted
condition In regard to heavy unventl
lated and very often restricted clothing
has given us a skin that is constantly
moist clammy and cold to the touch
or else it Is dry and dead and can be
rubbed off by the hand with little ef
fort Restricted clothing not only dam
ages the lungs and Internal vital or
gans of the body but causes the circu
lation to the skin to become stagnant
and poor A great many ills that we
do not understand are caused by the
unhygienic practice of smothering the
skin
Give your body an air bath Reani
mate your skin This is a splendid
time to begin the habit of doing so
since a cold need not be feared at
this time of the year and you -will
strengthen the skin against the more
severe season Exposure and drafts
against the body is a superstition more
or lass The writer has often stood be
fore a cold draft taking an air bath in
winter and the practice has yielded a
days tonic to the body that cannot be
explained but must be tried upon ones
own person to be understood and apprer
dated
Open your windows wide and exer
cise until the pores have become awak
ened Then let the cool fresh morning
air play upon your body lying down if
you desire It will be a treat that you
will never want to miss again It acts
as a delightful tonic to the nervfB
There is no better medicine for weak
nervous people than the air bath The
very blood tingles with the unaccus
tomed freedom of the body and its con
tact with the energizing air New York
MalL
Oratory In the Campaign
Oratory as a compelling force in a po
litical campaign is duly appreciated by
the party managers who are on the
lookout for every resource that will add
to their vote getting power The spell
binder who is clever enough to size up
the temper of his audience and who
knows just what to say to the ones
about him on any and all occasions is
supposed to be worth all his services
coBt the campaign committee As a
Btudent of the subject has put it the
most convincing address is one that has
profundity without obscurity perspicu
ity without prolixity ornament with
out glare terseness without barren
ness comprehension without digression
and a great number of other things
without a great number of other
things But a rare speaker with and
without all these things is a rare speci
men There is never enough of him to
go around Boston Herald
DANGER IN POISON IVY
How to KnotT the Plant Simple
Remedies If Affected by It
If one knows how the Rhus toxico
dendron that is the scientific name
for poisonous ivy looks said a man
of the woods he can avoid it with
ease It is sometimes a low shrub
about a foot high and it Is also a
graceful vine with stout hairy stems
This vine sends out horizontal branch
es The bush and the vine do not look
alike but both have coarse toothed
oval pointed leaves These are alway
three In a group and the plant also
bears small greenish white berries
Poison oat otherwise Rhus radlcans
and poison sumac or Rhus vlnenta
are other plants to be avoided by vis
itors to the woods The sumac has
groups of four leaflets oval pointed in
form arranged on a tapering stem It
differs from the real sumac In so far
that Its leaflets Incline upward In
the autumn the foliage is a brilliant
scarlet The little berries look like
grayish white grapes
A good antidote for ivy poisoning in
its first stages is a solution of ordinary
baking soda A bottle containing a
pint of water and a heaping teaspoon
ful of baking soda is carried by many
persons who take walks in the woods
for while some people may handle the
poison vines without danger others
are poisoned if they pns within twelve
feet of them New York Tribune
She Pitied His Distress
An artist who was making a sketch
ing tour through a picturesque region
of Connecticut chanced one day on a
barn so alluring to his eye that he sat
down on a stone wall and went to work
at once
He soon became conscious that he
had two interested spectators in the
persons of the farmer and his wife
who had come to the door of the house
to watch him
The artist by and by discovered that
he had lost or mislaid his rubber eras
er and as he wished to correct a slight
error in the sketch he went up to the
door and asked the farmers wife if he
might have a small piece of dry bread
This as every artist knows makes a
good eraser
The farmers wife looked at him with
an expression of pity not unmixed with
surprise
Dry bread she repeated Well I
guess you wont have to put up with
any dry bread from me young man
You come right into the kitchen with
me and Ill give you a thick slice of
bread with butter on it
Now dont say a word she contin
ued raising her hand to ward off his
expostulation T dont care how you
came to this statenor anything about
it All I know Is youre hungry and
thats enough for me You shall have a
good dinner
A CRUSHED GENIUS
The Firat Musical Effort of tha
Composer Olriep
One day I must have been twelve or
thirteen I brought with me to school
a music book on which I had written
in large letters Variations on a Ger
man Melody Forthe Piano by Edward
Grieg Opus I I wanted to show it
to a schoolfellow who had taken some
interest in me But what happened
In the middle of the German lesson
this same schoolfellow began to mur
mur some unintelligible words which
made the teacher call out half unwill
ingly What is the mntter7 What are
you saying there Again a confused
murmur again a call from the teacher
and then he whispered Grieg has got
something What does that mean
Grieg has got something Grieg has
composed something
The teacher was not very partial to
me so he stood up came to me looked
at the music book and said in a pecul
iar Ironical tone So the lad is mu
sical the lad composes Remarkable
Then he opened the door Into the next
classroom fetched the teacher In from
there and said to him Here is some
thing to look at This little urchin is a
composer Both teachers turned over
the leaves of the music book with in
terest Every one stood up in both
classes I felt sure of a grand success
But that Is what one should never feel
too quickly for the other teacher had
no sooner gone away again than my
master suddenly changed his tactics
Beized me by the hair till my eyes were
black and said gruffly Another time
he will bring the German dictionary
with him as is proper and leave this
stupid stuff at home
Alas To be so near the summit of
fortune and then all at once to see
oneself plunged Into the depths How
often has that happened to me later In
life Edward Grieg in Contemporary
Review
AN OCEAN GRAVEYARD
Sable Island Is a Most DangcrouN
Place For Navigators
SaWe Island sometimes and not too
extravagantly termed the graveyard
of the Atlantic is set among shoal wa
ters that afford the best of feeding
ground for the particular kinds of fish
that Gloucester men most desire hali
but cod haddock and what not and
so to Its shoal waters do the fishermen
come to trawl or hand line
Lying about east and west a flat
quarter moon in shape is Sable island
Two long bars extending northwest
erly and northeasterly make of It a
full deep crescent Nowhere is the
fishing so good or so dangerous as
close in on these bars and the closer
in and the shoaler the water the better
the fishing There are a few men alive
in Gloucester who have been in close
enough to see the surf break on the
bare bar but that was in soft weather
and the bar to windward and they in
variably got out In a hurry
Two hundred and odd wrecks of one
kind or another steam and sail have
settled in the sands of Sable island
Of this there is clear and indisputable
record Of how many good vessels
that have been driven ashore on the
long bars on dark and stormy nights
or in the whirls of snowstorms and
swallowed up in the fine sand before
mortal eye could make note of their
disappearing hulls there is no telling
A Gloucester fisherman needs no tab
ulated statement to remind him that
the bones of hundreds of his kind are
bleaching on the sands of Sable Island
and yet of all the men who sail the
sea they are the only class that do
not give it wide berth in winter
James B Connolly in Scribners
Mother Natures Children
One of the most wonderful things
Mother Nature does is to teach her
children how to accomplish things with
means and appliances that seem en
tirely inadequate for the purpose A
bird will build an intricate and beauti
ful nest with no better tool than her
beak birds do not use their claws for
this purpose a caterpillar can shape a
symmetrical cocoon and bees the sharp
angled cells of their combs These are
familiar instances of this but by no
means as wonderful as those shown in
the work of some sea animals that live
in shells St Nicholas
Curiosity Satisfied
A woman cycled up to a butchers
shop and went in with a smiling face
I want you to cut me off twenty five
pounds of beef please she said The
butcher was Incredulous Twenty five
pounds Yes please It was a big
job and when he had finished he asked
her whether she would take it or have
It sent home Oh I dont want to buy
it she explained You see my doc
tor tells me I have lost twenty five
pounds of flesh through cycling and I
wanted to see what It looked like in a
lump Thank you so much
Explained
An old Scotch lady who had no relish
for modern church music was express
ing her dislike of the singing of an an
them in her own church one day when
a neighbor said Why that Is a very
old anthem David sang that anthem
to Saul To this the old lady replied
Weel weel I noo for the first time
understan why Saul -threw his javelin
at David when the lad sang for him
EnconniRlng Her
Stationer What do you do with all
the lead pencils you buy Mr Smith
You average about three a day Mr
Smith Oh thats all right My wife Is
taking whittling lessons Columbus
Dispatch
Few enterprises of great labor or
hazard would be undertaken If we had
act the power of magnifying the ad
vantages we expect from them John
son
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New Goods for Fall
and Winter
are now ready for your inspection and your attention is
called especially to our unusually large and fine assortment of
Outing Flannels and
Blankets
at prices that could not be given if we had not bought them
before the advance in prices on these goods We have
just received our new stock of
Rugs and Carpets
It is large and varied If you need any floor covering of
any kind let us show you our stock and tell you how cheap
we can furnish you with just what you may desire The
new stock of
Shoes
has arrived and are just the kind the people want
dress or work at the right prices
McCook Market Quotations
Corrected Friday morning
Corn 35
Wheat CO
Oats 25
Rye 3S
Barley 20
Hogs 4 75
Eggs 15
GoodButtei IS
ADDITIONAL PERSONALS
Mrs E J Predmore who wassever
burned by a gasoline explosion is im
proving nicely
Mrs J E Kelley is receiving a
visit from a sister from Kiowin Kansas
V S Keckley and daugnter Hazel
Red Willow County
A bulletin recently issued by the State
Bureau of Labor containing statistics in
regard to the production of cereals in
Nebraska for the year 1904 is of espec
ial interest to residents of Red Willow
county because of the excellent showing
made by this county We have not
therefore considered ours as one of the
corn counties and yet a reference to
this publication will disclose that while
the average yield of corn in the state
last year was 367 bushels per acre the
yield in this county was 368 bushels
Our wheat averaged seventeen bushels
per acre the average for the state being
but 157 bushels Gage county with an
average of 172 bushels per acre was the
only county that made a better showing
than Eed Willow county and there were
only three counties Clay Nuckolls and
Phelps in which the average yield
equalled that of this county Oats of
which we raise only a small acreage
averaged 29 bushels with an average
for the state of 3112 bushels We grew
in 1904 1272222 bushels of tarley or
three times as much as any single coun
ty and about 23 per cent of all that was
produced in the state The average
yield per acre in tne county was 276
bushels and in the state 279 bushels
The average yield per acre of rye in this
county was sixteen bushels and in the
state 166 bushels
When it is considered that last year
the crops in this vicinity were a partial
failure the showing made by our coun
ty is remarkable It should be noted
too that these figures are carefully com
plied from authentic sources and that
they are official
Brown Miller
Henry F Brown of Steele S D and
Mrs Ella Miller of this city were united
in marriage last Saturday September
9th by County Judge Frank Moore
A superb selection of fine toilet soaps
at any price from 5 to 25c a cake
McCohneix Druggist
-for
There are still a few of those Mens Hats left we are selling
so cheap r Better and cheaper even than straw
Phone 16 McCOOK NEB
Omaha Adopts a Popular Theme For
Her Fall Festivities
It was a happy thought that prompt
ed the Knights of to adopt
Fraternity as the theme of their an
nual fall entertainment
It seems remarkable to us that the
idea of a fraternal week has not occurred
to them before
It would be hard to find a more fruit
ful source from which to draw the ma
terial for a magnificent electrical display
than the symbolism and legendry of the
fraternal orders
In devoting the electrical parade en
tirely to the fraternal societies Omaha
has paid them a compliment that
should win their friendly appreciation
The parade will take place at night on
October 5th and will be composed of
the following subjects
1 The World of Mystery 2 Grand
Army of the Republic 3 Mystic Shrin
ers 4 Odd Fellows 5 A O U W
6 Elks 7 Eagles S Royal Arcanum
9 Redmen 10 Woodmen of the World
11 Knights of Pythias 12 Royal
Achates 13 Modern Woodmen of
America 14 Turners 15 Danish
Brotherhood 16 Maccabees 17
Knights of Columbus 18 Scottish
Clans 19 Foresters 20 King
XI XI
Handsome prizes will be given the
degree teams making the best appear
ance in the day parade on October 4 A
prize will be given the team coming to
Omha from the greatest distance
COURT HOUSE NEWS
COUSTi JUDGE
Following marriage licenses have bee
issued by the county judge since our
last report
Frank E Marsh 24 of Guide Rock
and Delia M Andrews 24 of Indianola
H C Prall 27 of Hollenberg Kan
sas and Hannah M Randal 21 of Wash
ington Kansas
Henry F Brown 4S of Steele S D
and Mrs Ella N Miller of McCook
Neb They were married by the county
judge Saturday September 9th
Advertised Letters
The following letters were advertised
by the McCook postoffice Sept 14 1905
Blake James
Bryan Mr John
Crayne Mr C F
Harber Mr Harry
Henkle Mr Henry
Jennings Mr V W
McAlen Miss Jennie C
McMillen Mrs R A
Palmer Harry N
Turner Miss Margarete
Anderson Mr S
Boswick Mr
Frazier Mr Wiley
Howell Mr Fred
Harry Mrs Verna
Jones Mr Finn
McCarty Mr Earl
Schmidt Q E
Walsworth Mr G
When calling for these letters please
say they were advertised
- F M Kimmele -Postmaster
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