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NOTICE OF A SPECIAL CITY ELECTION
The qualified electors of the city of McCook
Hed Willow county Nebraska are notified tuat
a special election will bo held in said city on
Tuesday June 5th 1906 between the hours
of nine oclock a m and seven oclock pm
central standard time for tho purpose of sub
mitting to the qualified electors of said city tho
following proposition
Shall tho city of McCook Hed Willow county
Nebraska borrow money and issue the bonds of
said city in the sum of nine thousand dollars on
the 25th day of June 1906 in a serios of 50000
each bearing interest at fire per cent per an
num payable on the 25th day of June of each
year after the issue thereof the principal and
interest pajnble at the fiscal agency of the state
of Nebraska in the city of New York Said
bonds to mature on the 25th day of Juno 1926
provided that ony or all of said bonds may bo
redeemed at any time after the 25th day of June
1911 at the option of the city of McCook Shall
tho mayor and council of the city of McCook
annually at tue time required by law for mak
ing estimates for tho levy of taxes for city pur
poses and in addition thereto levy a tax of two
mills on the dollar valuation of the taxable
within the limits of the citv of McCook
Eroperty
oth real and personal to pay the interest on
said bonds and to create a sinking fund to pay
said bonds to be known as the sewer tax Said
bonds to be sold at not less than par or face
value and tho proceeds applied to the construc
tion of the mam sewer of McCook sewer system
The proposition to be submitted upon the bal
lets to be For Sewer Bonds and Sewer Tax
Against Sewer Bonds and Sewer Tax Tho
voting place of the first ward will bo the base
ment of the Commercial hotel and the second
ward at the hose house
Authorized by tho mayor and council of the
city of McCook
W A Middleton City Clerk
McCook Tribune May 4-11-18-25 and June
1st 1906
No Mother is
knowingly careless in
choosing food for her
children From
CALIFORNIA
Flaked Wheat Food
Cooks in two minutes
all the fibre and irritating im
purities have been removed
while all the wholesome
wheat is preserved
In two pound packages Sealed to protect Its
purity and flavor AH good grocers
INDIANOLA
Miss Teeters visited with Miss Jennie
Sbouse last week
John Hedges spent Sunday with his
parents who live west of town
Miss Annie Sargent left for Dodge
City Kansas last Friday night
Jack Johnston of Friend is a visitor in
the household of James Carmichael
Frank Fritsch and II C Wbitmore
shipped a car of hogs to St Joe Monday
morning
Mrs Gerver who has been visiting at
her daughters returned to McCook
Sunday night
A H Bell is causing a new sidewalk
to be laid in front of bis residence in
westlndianola
Miss Adelaide Streff returned Satur
day from Orleans where she has been for
the paBt two months
W A Dolan and familyjxpect to
start for California the latter part of
the week on a pleasure trip
Word has been received here of the
marriage of Luther Lee to a young lady
living in McCook No cards
Mrs M Whittakor came down from
McCook Saturday morning to attend
the funeral of Grandma Russell
Mr T Walker real estate man of
some eastern firm was a passengor on
No 5 going to McCook Tuesday
I M Smith was a passenger on No
12 Tuesday of last week on his way to
visit his daughter Mrs Ben Coffey
Mrs Byfield and Miss Ethel Middle
ton drove down from McCook last Sat
urday and visited with E S Byfield
Frank Howe has gotten back from
Wray polorado and will get plenty to
keep him busj here in his line of work
Jack Powers returned from North
Platte Sunday evening where he had
gone to attend the wedding of his friend
Dell Teel
Mr flaskins of Missouri Eidge bought
a farm near flaigler and moved hisTaniis
Jy and house hold goods to the same on
Tuesday last
At the meeting of Building Loan
Association Saturday evening a short
session was held in which they elected
their directors
John Townley who accompained his
son Eddie as far as New York city on
hia return trip to Merry England ar
rived home one day last week
Miss Lucinda Harvey who has been
spending the winter with relatives in
the vicinity of Danbury came to her
home in Indianola a few days ago
Mr Rishell arrived in Indianola on
No 5 Wednesday evening and will
work at the carpenter trade We can
insure him plenty of work in that line
An entertainment was given at the
opera house Wednesday evening to a full
house and came up to the expectation
of the people A good program was rend
ered
Miss Anna Smith went to McCook
Tuesday evening where she was joined
by her cousn Miss Gracie and together
they will go to Oklahoma on a visit to
relatives
Dr and Mrs Eskey and son Clifford
left for California Monday night after
a few days visit with Mr and Mrs H
W Keyes Their home is in Prophets
town Illinois
Mike Morosic Sr returned from the
eastern part of the State Tuesday even
ing where he had been visiting his
daughter Mrs Traer who accompanied
him home for a short stay
Mrs William Mullinix and sister
came over from Danbury Sunday even
ing intending to take No 5 for McCook
butmissed the train so they had to drive
the rest of the distance as a consequence
Quite a number of the young people
of this place attended the entertainment
given by Miss Lydia McCools school
Saturday evening A basket social was
part of the program which was carried
out with good results
BRITISH BRIEFS
T
The infant child of Mr andMrsClark
Hedges died Tuesday morning and wm--buried
at 2 oclock in the afternoon THa
little one lived but two days The young
parents have the sympathy of all in the
loss of their first born - -
Mr and Mrs I Beardsleo left Indian
ola Tuesday night for Colorado where
they will visit at different points jFrqm
there they will go to visit their children
at Chicago and Jerseyvillo IllinoisThey
will be gone all Bummer
Word wasjecaryed here Monday
that Mrs Dqane formerly Miss Jennie
Barr and a teacher in the public school
at this place 4vasdeadat her home near
Pueblo Colorado Her remains were
taken to Holdrege for burial
HOW THE TIGER KILLS
Never Face HIm Prey lint AttncLrs It
on the Flaulc
I have taken considerable trouble to
Qnd out how tigers kill large game
Some time ago I -was asked to come
and see a full grown bullock that had
been killed by a tiger On examining
It I found the animal had its neck
broken and there were claw marks
on the nose and shoulder but nowhere
else There was no doubt that the
tiger had jumped at the bull and land
ed on the shoulder and when the bull
turned his head to gore the tiger he
must have put his claw out and with
a sudden jerk broken the neck
On another occasion I went to see a
young buffalo which had been killed by
a tiger and found the same thing hjul
happened There were similar marks
on the nose and also on the near shoul
der which clearly indicated that this
animal had been killed in the same
way Malays who have actually seen
a tiger killing a buffalo told me they
saw the same thing happen also that
In dragging off a heavy carcass such
as buffalo or bull he gets most of the
weight across liis Shoulder
if airly correct as I
have often -followed a kill and tho
tnjajcks ilejftcindicnJQthatnlya portion
0uQ8 animal was trailing along the
ground I have known a full grown
bull which ten men could not move
dragged for two miles by a tiger in a
heavy jungle where roots of treesand
swamp had to be gone through 1ft 4io
case have I seen the pug marks facing
the wrong way except when stopping
to feed which proves he must carry a
portion of the animal over his shoul
der
The old idea of a tiger killing large
game by a blow from his paw is non
sense besides in India a tiger never
faces his prey but attacks him on the
flank unless charged Another curious
fact that may seem very like a fairy
tale is that a tiger does not seem to
mind a small lamp being tied over a
kill about ten feet high but will come
and feed I have known three occa
sions when this has been tried and
each time a tiger has come to feed
upon the carcass London Field
Englands first representative parlia
ment assembled in 12G3
Caesar conquered Britain in the year
55 B C The Roman occupation con
tinued nearly 500 years or until 410
AD
In 1G79 was passed the habeas cor
pus act which along with the rightjjof
trial by jury is the great bulwark of
Anglo Saxon liberty
The great plague was introduced into
Londonin 1664by bales of cotton ini
portedjrfrom Holland 100000 persons
succumbed to the disease in one year
Cromwells long parliament assem
bled in 1640 Gharles I was beheaded
Jan 30 1G4G and Cromwell became
lord protector in 1653 In 1G60 the
Stuarts were restored to the throne
Westminster abbey where the kings
and queens of Great Britain re
crowned was originally a Benedictine
monastery It was founded by Se
bert king of the East Saxons about
616
In some South American tribes the
women draw the front teeth esteem
ing as an ornament the black gap thus
made
1 invested in a package of 1
M UHOdl BlSCHIf H
11 teaches you many truths II
IK That soda crackers are the best of all food made from flour j
Yka That Uneeda Biscuit are by far the best of all soda crackers mK
jffl That Uneeda Biscuit are always fresh always crisp always jI
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Writers of Songs
Twenty Thousand Compositions Copy
righted Per Year and but
Twenty Genuine Hits Made
National Pads In the
Musical World
HENTUETTE B
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ONSIDERING
the fact that
nearly 20000
musical composi
tions are copyright
ed each year at the
office of the librari
an of congress in
Washington and at
the same time about
twenty of these be
come genuine hits
It Is only reasonable
that the music pub
lisher feels as though he has drawn a
prize in the lottery when a real hit is
secured There Is some doubt as to the
biggest selling hit on record as condi
tions are constantly changing and at
the present time a song or instrumen
tal number to be a hit must sell in the
neighborhood of 300000 copies while
a few 3 ears ago If a publication sold
100000 copies It was acknowledged a
hit This Is owing to strong competi
tion and largely to the reduction in the
price of sheet music When sheet mu
sic sold at 50 cents a copy the publish
er was perfectly satisfied If the sale
reached 100000 copies and was willing
to pay the composer 5 and G cents roy
alty on each copy Today the composer
receives 2 and 3 cents per copy and
sheet music retails for 8 and 23 cents
a copy which clearly explains why a
song must sell many thousand copies
to mean great profits to publisher and
composer Then again in the days of
fifty cent sheet music the public would
accept a song and cling to It for months
or possibly years but today a song or
instrumental number may become a
hit and be shelved in less than three
months This applies principally to
popular songs such as Everybody
Works but Father and Tammany
which sold faster than the printer
Sv
J BODBWAIT IiAJirE
could supply copies for a short time
and were forgotten just as quickly
After the Ball probably netted more
actual profit than any song published
during the last twenty years for the
whole world was humming the refrain
within a lew months after it was issued
In the past few years many hits have
been recorded such as On the Banks
of the Wabash The Blue and the
Gray In the Good Old Summer
Time She Was Bred In Old Ken
tucky Navajo Bedelia In the
Shade of the Old Apple Tree and just
now a ballad When the Mocking
Birds Are Singing In the Wildwood
by Henriette B Blanke who by the
way is one of the two women song
writers in the United States today who
enjoy the distinction of having written
a 1006 song hit the second Avoman be
ing Miss Klare Kuunner composer of
Dearie Instrumental numbers have
proved an important factor in music
publishing the greatest successes prob
ably being the marches by John Philip
Sousa which were suddenly dropped
by the public after the Spanish-American
war and characteristic marches
became popular such as Georgia
Camp Meeting Smoky Mokes and
Rastus on Parade These negro
compositions in turn gave way to the
Indian Intermezzos such as Hiawa
tha Laughing Water Navajo
Big Indian Chief and a score of oth
ers which according to many savor
very much of the genuine old ragtime
The reign of Indian songs and Indian
intermezzos was interrupted by the
sudden popularity of Irish songs and
Irish intermezzos such as A Bit o
Blarney A Sprig of Shillalah etc
and then came the Mexican songs and
the Mexican serenades which have
been more or less popular the past six
months until just recently the public
decided that the Germans should have
a chance and as If by magic a new
march entitled Happy Heinie by J
Bodewalt Lampe which Is decidedly
German caught the popular fancy
Music publishers realizing this abrupt
change in public taste are now issu
ing German marches and German
songs expecting the German craze to
last until some other nation possibly
Sweden asserts its rights and estab
lishes a new swing In melody that will
become contagious There is little or
no jealousy shown when a melody be
comes a craze as the sons of Erin en
joy the melody of Happy Heinle and
dance with as much vim as they did to
j the strains of A Bit o Blarney
OLD TIME LEGAL METHODS
When he Evidence of Glioatn Sufficed
to Ilanar Men
Tho testimony of a ghost would not
now count for much in a court of la
but the day has been when It has
sufficed to hang a man There was a
ghostly accuser in n case with which
the readers of Scott are familiar Soon
after the 45 an English soldier wan
dering near Braemar met a violent
death Years passed and then came a
Btory of a communication from another
world
A farm servant declared that In the
night a spirit had appeared to him de
claring itself to be the ghost of the
soldier whose bones it is said lay
still unburied The Highlander must
see to their decent Interment and
have the murderers two men named
brought to justice The Highlander
promised but did not keep his word
and a second and third time the spirit
appeared and upbraided him for his
breach of faith Alarmed at last and
no longer daring to delay the man
called a companion and went to the
spot which the spirit had Indicated
and there found the bones of the mur
dered warrior concealed in a moorland
tract called the hill of Christie
The story of the highlander came to
the ears of an anti Jacobite who caus
ed the matter to be brought to trial
before the court of Judiciary Edin
burgh There the tale was corroborat
ed by a woman who had seen a naked
figure enter the place on the night
spoken of by the man It was an age
of superstition in a district more than
commonly given to superstition and
the jury seemed disposed to find the
two men charged guilty of the murder
but it happened that the principal wit
ness spoke only Gaelic Now said
the counsel for the defense in what
language did the ghost speak In
as good Gaelic as I over heard In Loch
aber was the reply Pretty good for
the ghost of an English soldier said
counsel and that question and com
ment saved the necks of the men at the
bar The jury could believe In a ghost
but not in an English ghost speaking
Gaelic London Standard
NAMING A TOWN
How Abilene Came to Be Selected by
Mm Hersey
Abilene was named by the wife of
the founder of the town T F nersey
With her husband she had come to
central Kansas in the spring of 1S5J
They lived in a log house on the west
side of Mud creek and were the first
settlers on the town site although no
town then existed nor Avas there one
until 1SG0 Thou C n Thompson who
had moved to the county from LeaAen
worth bought from the Kansas Pa
cific Railway company a tract east of
Herseys and laid out a town
When it came to the naming of the
future city Mr Thompson Avent to
Hersey and asked him to suggest a
name
No was the reply let my wife
do it She is a great reader
Mrs Hersey Avas a graduate of a
Seminary in the east and her little
Avhich she carried Avith her in
her wanderings was one of the ties
that bound her to the girlhood life She
was a deout Methodist and knew her
Bible from cover to cover When
she was asked to name the town she
turned to tho New Testament for sug
gestion There in the third chapter of
Luke first verse she found this Noav
in the fifteenth year of the reign of
Tiberius Caesar Pontius Pilate being
goA ernor of Judaea and Lysanias
the tetrarch of Abilene
Call the toAvn Abilene said she
It means City of the Tlains and that
exactly describes the location
So Abilene it was and in the fight
for the county seat wherein it contest
ed with Newport Smoky Hill and Un
ion City all long since passed away
good fortune attended it and the new
town became the county capital for
the 37S dAvellers then in Dickinson
county Kansas City Star
Flesiimalciupr Food
Cream gruel according to an emi
nent English authority is the ideal
nourishment for thin folk A teacupful
taken at night immediately before re
tiring is said to give marvelous results
To be at its best it must be perfectly
made then thinned Avith sweet cream
Taken in that condition and warm it
is agreeable as well as fattening and
produces just that sense of satisfied
hunger essential to ideal rest It is
claimed that perseverance in the treat
ment yields such apparent resultsthat
the cheeks can be seen to expand from
day to day
The Pepper Vine
The pepper vine grows best in a
wooded valley where there is plenty of
moisture and abundant foliage to pro
tect it from the heat of the sun It is
given a rude sort of cultivation The
growers plant it keeping the grass
from its roots and when the tree near
which It is planted has no lower
branches strings or poles are placed in
proper position to enable the vine to
climb the tree It needs no further at
tention
Sarcastic
Yes my dear I believe in transmi
gration of souls I may be a brute in
my next life
Wouldnt that be discouraging or
dont you care for a change Hous
ton Post
In Plain Words
What asked the judge was the
cause of the altercation
I didnt see anny yer honor but It
was him callin me a liar that shtarted
the fight Chicago Record Herald
The Bengal canal 900 miles in length
is the longest artificial water course in
the world
WtfNDERFUL mFrAGES
Thowe Scon In the Winter Tvrnijckti
In Northern Alaalcit
r The most wonderful mirages ever be
held by mortal eyes are those that are
seen in the twilight winter days la
northern Alaska These remarkuble
ghastly pictures of things both Imag
inary and real are mirrored on the
surface of the waste plains Instead of
upon the cloiids or In the atmosphere
Mimic lakes and water courses fringed
with vegetation are to be seen pictured
as real as life on the surface of the
snow while grassy mounds stumps
trees logs etc which have an actual
existence some place on the earths sur
face are outlined against mountaius or
snow in all kinds of fantastic shapes
Some of these objects are distorted
and ningnlfied Into the shapes or huge
ungainly animals and reptiles of enor
mous proportions The fogs and mists-
arc driven across these wastes by the
winds and as the objects referred to
loom up hi the flying vapors they ap
pear like living creatures and seem to
be actually moving rapidly across the
plain
At other times they appear high In
the air but this Is a characteristic or
the northern mirages that are scert
near the seashore When the vapors
and mists are driven out to sea the
Images mirrored in them appear to be
lunging through the waters at a terrific
rate of speed dashing the spray high
In the air while huge breakers rolL
over them aul onward toward the
mountaluous islands beyond and
against which they all appear to be
dashing Monstrous serpents appar
ently several hundred feet long some
times with riders on their backs mea
on horseback thirty to fifty feet i
height animals and birds of all kind
of horrible shapes and colors seem to
be scurrying past racing and chasing
each other until they are lost in the
twilight fogs or dashed to pieces upon
the rocky islands mentioned above and
which are twenty miles out to sea
THE RED SQUIRREL
He Stores Very Little Food For Uaer
In Winter
In Maine in fact all over New Eng
landred squirrels do not put by great
hoards of any kind for Avinter use
When a Maine red squirrel has filled
itself with acorns and beechnuts It
will hide a few here and there under
leaAes In hollow logs in cracks of
rifted trees and among stone heaps
An aAerage red squirrel having the
run of an oak grove in the fall of the
year may in the course of two weeks
hide aAvay from tAvo to four quarts of
acorns though they -will be in perhaps
twenty different places and in no in
stance Avhich Ave have noted has anj
nut been shelled
The squirrel Avhich plans a hoard of
nuts and makes deliberate preparations
for Avinter is the little chipmunk or
striped squirrel which seeks Ainter
quarters soon after heay frosts and
which remains in hiding all wlnter
The chipmunks often hide as many as
two quarts of shelled beechnuts in one
place Their storehouses are as a rule
under the ground in sloping and sandy
soil the burrows haAing been duff with
true engineering skill so that no fresh
et can drown them out
It is believed that most observing
woodsmen avIH say that the red squir
rels of this vicinity seldom make large
caches of provisions for winter con
sumption and never shell the stored
nuts In fact the red species have no
need to pay much heed to such matters
as they are abroad and actie in the
coldest days of winter as much as they
are In midsummer so precautions for
food are not demanded As the red
squirrels subsist for a good part of the
year upon the cones of pines and
spruces which hang to the limbs they
do not care hoAV deep or hard the snow
may be feeling secure in finding all
the food they AA ant among the tree
tops Bangor Noavs
Courapre
The greater part of the courage that
is needed in the world is not of a he
roic kind Courage may be displayed
in everyday life as aa oII as in historic
fields of action There needs for ex
ample the common courage to be hon
est the courage to resist temptation
the courage to speak the truth the
courage to bo Avhat Ave really are and
not to pretend to be what Ave are not
the courage to liAe honestly Avithin our
oavu means and not dishonestly trpoa
the means of others Smiles
Indian Ocean Serpents
Among the most venomous serpents
in the Avorld are the marine snakes of
the Indian ocean They are the dread
of fishermen and it sometimes hap
pens that vessels are obliged to thread
their cables through barrels to pre
vent the reptiles from sAvarming oa
board Great numbers of them may
often be seen floating on the surface
of the Avater as if asleep They arc
exceedingly fierce and will commonly
attack human beings without provoca
tion
When the Haven AVns 31111c White-
According to Mohammedan belief
the ravens which Noah took with Jiim
on the ark were both pureTvhiteTVhexi
the ark had been riding the billows of
the flood for thirty three days -one of
the giraffes died and the carcass was
thrown overboard No sooner nad It
struck the water than the ravens
pounced upon It For this Noah cursed
them and since that day they have
been coal black
The Disappointment
May It was too bad that Miss Trills
disappointed the audience at the ama
teur performance Elsie But she
didnt She was able to appear after
all May Yes but it was generally
supposed that she would not be able
to appear
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