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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 Tribune is personally well ac
quainted with not a few people busi
nessmen and others in McCook and
Bed Willow county who pray and vote
for tariff but who fail to practice the
virtue at homo
Now that the packers have acknowl
edged the corn and been fined 823000
for accepting rebates it is reasonable to
expect that the federal courts will have
smooth sailing in soaking the railroad
fellows who paid the rebates
The pass question is but one phase of
the graft business and is but one of the
obstacles to a square deal In the rail
road world it is in the same class as the
rebate proposition Cut out the pass
expunge the rebate give all men a fairly
even honesthouorable opportunity and
there would be a levelling down and a
leveling up in America which would
disturb present ideas ofthe cleverness
of the few financiers who by graft by
the use of the money of others by the
assumption of the law making and law
enforcing powers have quite succeeded
in dominating the country and making
all others pay tribute to them Heres
success to the fight for a fair deal and
confusion to graftersall
It may be as some intimate that Sena
tor Burkett has seized the psychologic
moment for his break with the railroads
whom they claim have raised him from
a lowly barrister to the United States
senate I say it may be but that the
senator is on the right track is admitted
by many more perhaps than his oppo
nents will be willing to credit The
Tribune entertains no doubt of the cor
rectness of Burketts action in the late
state convention while not entering in
to the local Lancaster county situation
which is on the side of the main issue
entirely The people will honor any
man who has the courage to stand for
something against the corporate and
political bosses who are making the
people of Nebraska and of all America
tired
The decease of the Alliance Grip
with last weeks issue was a rather
pathetic incident in its particulars It
is another instance of the fact that suc
cessful newspaper business is a business
by itself not a plaything or side issue
or side incident It requires money and
skill and labor and the most persistent
pertinacity to make a weekly newspaper
nowdays that will meet the demands of
the people It requires lots of money
much work no end of practically and
skillfully directed effort to produce a
satisfactory weekly paper and this will
account for the decease of many week
lies in Nebraska during the past few
years and the trend will likely continue
and doubtless with good results to the
craft and the people
It is reassuring to think that out of
all this investigation of the great New
York insurance companies will come
some gain to the honest policy holders
of the companies When thieves fall
out honest men get their dues Some
times that is about the only way such
corruption comes to light After read
ing of the wild and rotten manner in
which the officials of the companies in
volved in the disgraceful disclosures
have piled up unearned millions it seems
but just that the policy holders of those
companies should come in for an inning
and that laws should be enacted to
make the accumulation of such stupend
ous surpluses impossible The manner
in which those officials have misused
the funds of the people would put to
shame a tin -horn gambler or the boldest
montebank And this right at the seat
of Americas financial clearing house
where financial honesty should be pro
verbial
Rheumatism gout backache and
poison are results of kidney trouble
Hollisters Rocky Mountain Tea goes
directly to the seat of the disease and
cures when all others fail 35 cents
L W McConnelPs
All will not be serious exhibition of
lorses at the Omaha horse show which
will be held during the weefc of October
9th at the immense auditorium in Om
aha Many interesting features have
been added which will add life and fun
to the whole show One of these feat
ures is a gymkahna afternoon and even
ing which will be filled with fun and
frolic One of the events on gymkahna
evening will be a cigarette race Riders
will race from one end of the arena to
the other end The cowboy race is also
an interesting number The entries for
this event come from the cattlemen of
South Omaha and also the eastern
horse owners who enter for the very
sport itself The race is in the nature
of a potato race Each contestant fr
from one end of the arena to the otfier
in a statetOJme WibbT The unhorsing
of the riofereandtntfialfingfdf te ponies
make the event full of life
PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES
Books must not be brought to the
library and left not during library hours
they are liable to be destroyed
The library board have ordered new
books which we expect in a week or two
Wo would be very glad if people want
ing new books ordered for the library
would come to the librarian and give
her the name of the book and the author
The following is the list of books in
our new traveling library
fiction
Short sixes Bunner
Children of the sea Courad
Wire cutters Davis
Pratt Portraits Fuller
Golden age Grahame
Aunt Serena Howard
Uncle of an angel Janvier
Soldiers three Kipling
With edged tools Merrimnn
Court of Boyvillo White
MISCELLANEOUS
Story of the 19th century Brooks
Yellowstone national park Chittenden
The child Drummond
True religion Farnu
Little book of Tribune verse Field
Inexpensive country homes
Story of the earth in past ages Seeley
Gondola days Smith
Robert E Lee Trent
Penelopes progross Wiggin
FICTION
Books for young people and children
Sweet William Bonvet
Gunnar Boyesen
Two little pilgrims progress Burnett
Little Sunshines holiday Craik
Legend of Sleeply Hollow Irving
Big brother Johnston
History of Whittington cope2 Lang
Mr Stubbs brother Otis
Bravo coward Plympton
Laurie Vano Seawell
MISCELLANEOUS
Fifty famous stories retold cop2
Baldwin
n brook and bayou Baylis
Chatty readings i elementary science
book 1 Read in physical geographj
Dodge
Brave little Iiollaud Griffi
Young folks history of the United
States Higginson
Sundown songs Richards
Letters to a daughter Starrett
All the year roundWinterVol2Stroni
Stroies of the American revolutionVol
1 Tomlinson
These books may be taken out the
same as other books and magazines
SCHOOL NOTES
The foot ball boys are out evenings
practicing and getting in shape for a
game soon
The time has passed when beginners
can enter the baby classes No new
classes will be organized till spring
Mrs Margaret E West a former Mc
Cook seventh grade teacher is a candi
date for county superintendent of Hayes
county
Mr W K Fowler formerly state
superintendent of public instruction
was a business visitor in McCook Wed
nesday night
Rev A B Carson entertained and
stimulated the pupils at the high school
assembly on Monday morning of this
week by a wholesome talk
Rev G B Hawkes addressed the
high school pupils at the assembly last
Wednesday morning His theme was
fidelity to duty It was an interesting
and profitable occasion
There are a number of boys attending
the high school who desire work where
by they can defray a part of their ex
penses Information as to what kind of
employment citizens have to give will
be gladly received at the superinten
dents office
Word has been received that the Mc
Cook junior state normal school was
awarded second prize for good work in
school gardening at the Nebraska state
fair this fall The prize is a five dollar
library It will be cared for and used
by the city schools
An interesting music program the
first of the year was rendered at the
high school assembly exercises last Fri
day morning Misses Clair McKenna
and Alice Benjamin each acceptably
played piano solos and Miss Ruth
Wiehe sweetly sang aballad
The total enrollment at the close of
school last Friday night the end of the
second week was S05 This represents
an increase of 19 over the same period
one year ago 38 pupils entered the
school last week The indications are
that this year will witness the largest
attendance in the history of the public
schools
PUBLICATION NOTICE
Lafayette Roshong Alrst Roshone wife of
Lafayette RosLodk first name unknown to
plaintiff Edward C Ballew Mrs Ballew his
wife first name unknown to plaintiff defend
ants will take notice that Henry C Gooden
borger plaintiff has filed his petition in the
District Court of Red Willow County Nebras
kn against Eaid defendants the object and
prayer of -which are to quiet title in the plaintiff
to the following described real estate situated
m Bed Willow County Nebraska to wit
The northwest quarter of section twenty eight
S8nPM north range twenty nino west
remove certain cloudB from
plaintiffs title to said premises existing by
realn0 a certain warranty deed executed
by William H Gerver to Lafayette Roshong re
cordwLin book 13 at page 33 of the deed records
of said county and a warranty deed from the
defendant Lafayette Roshong to the defendant
j icwiucu iu book i as page
provided with sharpened lath and KefggF
interest in Raid
that can carry tne most potatoes
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Plaintiff prays that each and all of said in
stromefits bo set asido cancealed and declared
to bonjjHaiKl roiri
iqa rfreredtfired to answer said petition on
or before Monday November 6 1905
By J E Kelley his attorney
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High Salaried
Insurance Men
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Careers of Presidents McCall McCurdy
and liegeman Each of Whom Receives
5100000 a Year Purpose of New
York States Investigation
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Investigation which a special
committee of the New York leg
islature Is conducting into the
operations of life insurance com
panies has brought into the public eye
the men at the head of the big Insur
ance concerns of the country It will
be the duty of the committee to report
back to the legislature recommenda
tions as to needed legislation for the
better control of insurance companies
chartered in the state of New York or
doing business under its laws The in
vestigation aims at discovering where
there has been unwise management or
extravagance In administration of such
companies or lack of safeguards in the
interests of policy holders There has
been much talk about the large sala
ries paid to men high up in these insti
tutions and the testimony adduced by
the committee has confirmed the popu
lar impression that princely sums are
given such officers for their services
The first witness before the committee
Robert A Grannis vice president of
the Mutual Life testified that he re
ceives 50000 a year Another insur
ance official who appeared before the
committee was John A McCall presi
dent of the New York Life who re
ceives a salary of 100000 a year Two
other Insurance presidents who draw
100000 salaries are John Rogers Hege
man of the Metropolitan Life and
Richard A McCurdy of the Mutual Life
Mr McCall is one of the best known
men In the world of insurance and it
would be hard to say whether he him
self or his magnificent country seat at
Long Branch enjoys the most fame
He has amassed large -wealth in tbe
course of his forty years career as an
Insurance man and over 1000000 of
his fortune went into the building and
furnishing of this palatial home which
Is known as Shadow Lawn and is one
of tlie show places of the New Jersey
coast a region containing not a few
homes of millionaires One of the fea
tures of the residence is the social hall
measuring 70 by SO feet and GO feet
In height to the great glass dome
PRESIDENT JOHK R HEGEMAN WHO RE
CEIVES 100000 A YEAR
mounting the court Lofty lluted col
umns arches decorated beam ceiling-
rich colorings and sumptuous furnish
ings make this a superb apartment
surpassing anything of the kind in the
homes of rich Americans Shadow
Lawn has a roof garden for open air
entertainments and refreshments on
summer nights and a roof promenade
hundreds of feet In length giving a
fine view of the whole splendid estate
Mr McCall was one of the wealthy
men who led in subscribing to the
popular loan of ex President Cleve
lands second administration He is
fifty six years old and his father kept
a tavern in Albany N Y When John
was sixteen years of age he began his
business career in a humble clerkship
Before long he obtained a position in
the state insurance department of New
York He was deputy superintendent
of insurance during two administra
tions of differing politics and Grover
Cleveland when governor of New York
made him superintendent He became
president of the New York Life in
1S92 It was while he was deputy su
perintendent of insurance that he was
active in investigating insurance
frauds As a result of his work sev
eral men went to prison
Richard A McCurdy is a very hard
worker even at seventy years of age
He graduated from Harvard and be
gan business life as a lawyer He
was at one time a partner of Lucius
Robinson who was afterward govern
or of New York His connection with
life Insurance began when he was ap
pointed attorney for the Mutual Life
This was In 1860 He was chosen vice
president of the company in 1865 and
its president twenty years later Mr
McCurdy Is noted for his modesty but
is as aggressive In business as he is
retiring in private life He lives very
simply and it is said what he spends
upon himself would not be extravagant
expenditure for many of his clerks
John R Hegeman has been president
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
company since 1891 He was born in
New York In 1844 and at twenty two
became accountant for the Manhattan
Life Insurance company Four years
later lie was appointed secretary of
the Metropolitan and the same year be
came vice president He is a director
in about a dozes financial and Indus
trial concerns
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t t j rikt a visitor to the Black
jioi n nore forcibly than the per
fect security of a country where every
man is a warrior and goes about his
daily business with his revolver in his
belt The traveler Is sacred to the
Montenegrins whose manners prove
the truth of the saying that they are
the aristocracy of the Servian race
Dressed in their picturesque national
garb of blue knickerbockers white gai
ters and crimson jackets with pork pie
caps of scarlet and black on their
heads the mountaineers look the beau
ideal of a nation of fighters such as
the old Greeks must have been In the
days when they all carried arms Their
whole history during the five centuries
of Montenegrin independence has been
one long series of frontier feuds and
even now guerrilla warfare on the Al
banian border is not extinct But to
the stranger within their gates what
ever be his nationality the mountain
eers are friendly and hospitable
Westminster Review
The Stars and Stripes
A German periodical has the follow
ing story as to the origin of the stars
and stripes The Idea originated with
a Dane named Marker He was born
on the island of St Croix of the Danish
West Indies where his father and
grandfather hitd lived In 1795 he left
his native island and proceeded to Phil
adelphia He was among the first to
join a company of volunteers for
American liberty and independence
For valor shown at Oriskany he was
elected captain and to show his grati
tude he designed a flag In whose upper
corner he applied the thirteen stars
emblematic of the thirteen original
states of the Union This was the first
occasion upon which the star span
gled banner was unfurled The origi
nal flag of Captain Marker is supposed
to be in existence in some national col
lection of relics of the war of the Revo
lution
lints In Parliament
During the reign of King John 1199
the king agreed to settle the difficulty
with Philip II of France respecting the
Dutchy of Normandy by single com
bat John earl of Ulster was the
English champion and as soon as he
appeared on the field of combat his
adversary put spurs to his horse and
fled leaving the earl master of the
field King John asked the earl what
his reward should be Titles and land
I want not he replied but in remem
brance of this day I beg the boon for
myself and my successors to remain
covered in the presence of your majes
ty and all other sovereigns of this
realm This request was granted and
never revoked and it is said to account
for the custom In parliament of mem
bers wearing their hats London Stand
ard
Webster ns n Farmer
Webster was a scientific farmer He
believed thoroughly in the Aalue of
blooded stock At Marshfield he had a
herd of sixty or eighty head of cattle
composed entirely of thoroughbred an
imalsof Alderneys Ayrshires and
Devons He had several yoke of Dev
on oxen which were his particular
pride Besides there were blooded
sheep and swine All in all Webster
was considered by his neighbors the
best farmer of the country He was
moreover a friend generous and con
siderate There used to be a saying
down Plymouth way that a stranger
could always tell when Webster was at
home by the cheerful looks of the peo
ple for ten miles around Oliver Bron
son Capen In Country Life In America
Roman Lamps
Roman lamps were of many sizes
but most of them very closely resem
bled what is at present denominated a
sauce or gravy boat At one end there
was a ring through which the finger
was passed when the light was carried
The body of the vessel was fiJled with
oil and at the other end there was a
small tube through which a rag wick
was passed When this was lighted the
smoke and odor of the rancid fat cm
ployed were extremely offensive Many
Roman poets mention the abominable
enluvium sent out by fie lamps at the
feasts
A South African Xame
The hardy Boer voortrekkers had a
fine sense of poetry in naming places
in South Africa In the Transvaal
there is a place which rejoices In the
name of Waachteenbeitjebeidebasch
fontein It is a pame says a Cape
Town exchange which speaks of lei
sure whose gentle invitation to the
thirsty traveler to rest a little by the
brook beneath the cool shade of the
tree calls up at once the thought of a
green oasis in p dry and barren land
Mmc de Mnintenon
Once when Mme de Maintenon who
had risen from the gutter to grandeur
was looking pensively in the golden
pool at Versailles her companion not
ing the fish In the crystal water ob
served How languid the carp are
Yes replied the famous beauty with
a sigh they are like me they miss
their mud
Mnns Helpmeet
She was not made out of his head to
top him not out of his feet to be tram
pled upon by him but out of his side
to be equal with him under his arm to
be protected and near his heart to be
loved Matthew Henry
Not Trnrellner Incognito
Miss Smiley is going to travel un
der an assumed name
You surprise me
Yes she Is going to be married next
week and start on her honeymoon
To be sure that you are right is
proper certainly but also be sure
when you are right to go ahead Kan
sas City Star
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of New Goods
Come in and see them A new and complete
line just received this week
Fall and Winter Underwear
for Men Women Boys Girls and for the Baby in
allweights styles and goods
Mens Winter Caps
The new stock and new styles have ar
rived and are just opened Get one to
wear these cool mornings and nights
JLadies Belts
An elegant assortment at most an old
price Leather Kid Stitched and Em
broidered Silk Wide Girdles and Chil
drens Buster Brown Belts
Ladies Stylish Collars
in Silk Washable Goods Dainty Turnovers Cuff and
Collar Sets in Lace and Linen All colors and every
variety of styles
Come in and see the new stock before it
is broken It may be the only chance to get
JUST what you want this season
SAY MEN I have a new lot of ODD
PANTS AND VESTS from the Mile End
Mills that are the best bargains Lhave ever
had It was a snap and I took it
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