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By F M KIMMELL
Largest Circulation in Red Willow Co
Subscription 1 a Year in Advance
The rnilroads of NebraBkn seem to
havo given up the idea of holding off the
conventions and senatorial endorse
ments but no one can safely charge
them with keeping their eyes off the
gun tho state legislature
The Tribune has been asked already
what tho policy of the delegates to the
several conventions from Red- Willow
county will be in view of the anti pass
resolution passed by tho late county con
vention We cannot authoritatively
answer the question but we note that
tho resolution itself condemns unresorv
edly every effort made to make of that
doctrine a farce and a sham and we
cannot now make up our mind to think
that such patriotic men as constitute
our state delegation will do anything to
embarrass tho Republicans of Red Wil
low county after such a straight and
strong pronouncement on that question
There is only one thing for them to do
pay their fares
Fifth Congressional District Convention
Tho Republicans of tho Fifth Congressiona
District of tho state of Nebraska are hereby
called to meet in convention in the court Jiouso
in Hastings Adams county Nebraska August
8th 190C at 3 oclock p m for tho purpose of
placing in nomination one candidate for con
gress from the Fifth Congressional District
and for the transaction of any other business
that may regularly come before said convention
Tho said convention shall bo made up of del
egates chosen by tho Republicans of the respec
tive counties of the district apportioned one
delegate at largo from each county and one for
each one hundred and twenty five votes or
major fraction thereof cast at the last general
election for the Honorable Charles B Lotton
nominee for judge of tho supreme court Said
apportionment entitles the several counties to
the following representation in said convention
Adams 13 Harlan 8
Clay 14 Hayes 3
Chaso 3 Hitchcock 5
Dundy 3 Kearney 9
Franklin 8 Nuckolls 11
Frontier 7 Perkins 2
Furnas 9 Phelps 9
Gosper 3 Red Willow 7
Hall 14 Webster 11
It is recommended that no proxies bo admit
ed to the convention and that tho delegates
present cast tho full vote of the county
George A Allen Chairman
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Republican County Convention
The Republicans of Red Willow coun
ty met in convention in McCook last
Saturday and named candidates for
office selected delegates to the several
conventions resolved selected county
committee and several other matters
It was in some aspects one of the most
remarkable conventions in tho history
of Red Willow county
At the morning session J E Kelley
was made chairman and J E Ryan
secretary of the convention Commit
tees on resolutions and credentials were
appointed and the convention adjourn
ed until 130 in tho afternoon
Promptly at the time adjourned to
the convention took up its work The
first nomination made was that of coun
ty attorney Preston E Reeder of Mc
Cook and Samuel R Smith of Indianola
were candidates The first ballot gavo
Reeder 82 and Smith 44 Mr Reeder
acknowledged the honor in a brief
speech
Phillip Gliem of Danbury was renom
inated by acclamation and made a
clever square deal Rooseveltian
speech of acknowledgement
Samuel Premer was made the nominee
for commissioner in the second district
in the same manner
The following named delegates were
named on a committee to select the
state congressional and senatorial de
legationsbeing one from each repre
sented precinct in the county W H
Honton Charles Skalla T Steve Bolles
W M Sharp W V Miller I H Was
son H L Brown C M Goben B W
Benjamin G W Burt C H Nichols
John Doveny C H Harman Elias
Canaga Ernest Pearson Chester Rcdg
ers H PWaite WAMiddleton R W
Devoe I L Rodstrom
Congressman G W Norris was court
eously civen permission to name the
congressional delegation but preferred
to have it named in the usual manner
He wanted to take the whole convention
with him if he could
It was decided to invite Congressman
G W Norris and Attorney General
Brown to address the meeting during
the absence of the nominating commit
tee
Congressman Norris responded with a
vigorous presentation of the accomplish
ments of the late congress congratulat
ing the Republican party and the people
of the nation upon the many good and
great and useful things secured in that
session against immense opposition
The attorney general made a ten
stroke in his opening tribute to the con
gressman and then proceeded to warm
up the Burlington and Union Pacific
railroads in a manner entirely new to a
McCook audience for their tax shirking
and meddling in the politics of the
state Taking into account the setting
it was the most humorous thing the
writer has seen and heard in several
moons But it brought the endorse
ment
The following resolutions were then
reported by Chairman Barnett who
however gave Charles Skalla credit for
the almost entire effort They are the
warmest bunch of resolutions ever
adopted by a Republican convention in
Red Willow county Here they are
RESOLUTIONS
The Republicans of Red Willow coun
ty meet again in convention to reaffirm
their staunch allegiance to the princi
ples which have brought peace and pros
perity to this great land of ours and
have prompted in a high degree the con
tentment and happiness of the people
We take pride in following the in
trepid leader of our party Theodore
Roosevelt and we commend his un
wavering loyalty to our party principles
his patriotic zeal in the discharge of
of public duty his popular policy of the
square deal his watchful and unrelent
ing care of the interests of the whole
people and his firm stand for equality
among men in all matters be they pol
irnnl pnTnTriftrpal or social His
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splendid character is a bulwark of
strength to his party and a guaranty to
all people of a faithful impartial and
forceful administration of the executive
affairs of the nation
We commend the loyal support given
the President by all the Nebraska mem
bers of both house and congress
Especially do we commend the record
of Hon George W Norris who has well
and faithfully served the people of the
Fifth Congressional district and is a
forceful worker for the welfare of his
constituents We instruct our delegates
to the congressional convention to ex
press the confidence in him reposed by
the republicans of Red Willow county
by their cordial and unanimous support
of him in the convention
We recommend all the republican
state officials for the clean and conscien
tious administration they have given our
state
We demand that the anti pass doc
trine as enunciated by our party to be
made a settled policy to be faithfully
observed by ourcandidates and officials
and we condemn unreservedly every
effort made to make of that doctrine a
farce and a sham
In the most emphatic manner do we
express our approval of the course taken
by our state officials to compel the Bur
lington and Union Pacific railroad com
panies to pay the taxes justly assessed
against them and we condemn the action
of the railroads in attempting to dodge
taxation as a display of corporate greed
and unfairness
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We favor an elective railway commis
sion charged with the important duty
of equalizing railroad tariffs and endow
ed with power to punish all forms of re
bates and private graft and we insist
that the members of such commission
be men of known convictions who will
discharge their duties with equality
thoroughness and fearlessness
Wo realize that the coming state con
vention is to be one of great importance
It has some momentous duties to per
form It is essential to the welfare of
our party that the convention of 1906
align itself fairly and squarely with the
issues which have for their leader tho
President himself and for their followers
the great mass of the American people
That such results may be assured it is
necessary that the delegates to that
convention be men of right and open
convictions men that will vote tho will
of the people in the selection of party
candidates and -the adoption of platform
planks To the end that Red Willow
county will be found in warm and open
sympathy with those questions we
pledge our delegates to the support of
candidates for state officers who with
their characters their principles and
their associations commend themselves
as worthy of our confidence and trust
The nominating committee then re
ported and the following delegations
were announced
State delegation W T Henton J
E Kelley R W Devoe Charles Skalla
JERyan C W Mallory E S Hill
Congressional WA McCool Alonzo
Cone G H Thomas U G Etherton
J F Cordeal Phillip Gliem J R Mc
Oarl
Senatorial P E Reeder C B Gray
W S Morlan F S Lofton H L
Brown C M Goben C II Harman
On a call of the precincts it was de
cided to express preference for United
States senator 73 voting for to 48
against the proposition The proposi
tion was warmly opposed by A Barnett
of McCook and as warmly espoused by
S R Smith of Indianola The result
shows that the farmers were in favor
and the city fellows and politicans for
the most part opposed
On call of the precincts the following
vote was cast on preference for United
States senator and instruction to the
state delegates in the ensuing state con
vention on that point
Brown 79 Norris 32 Meikeljohn 7
Rosewater 3 scattering 9
The following county committeemen
were chosen upon call of the several
precincts
Alliance Samuel Premer Bartley
Beaver W T Henton Danbury
Bondville Charles Skalla Indianola
Box Elder Stephen Bolles Box Elder
Coleman W M Sharp McCook
Driftwood I H Wasson McCook
East Valley H L Brown Bartley
Fritsch C M Goben Indianola
Gerver Not represented
Grant B W Benjamin McCook
Indianola G W Burt Indianola
Lebanon C H Nichols Lebanon
Missouri Ridge John Deveny Indian
ola
North Valley Not represented
Perry C H Harman McCook
Red Willow Elias Canaga Red Willow
Tyrone Ernest Pearson Cambridge
Valley Grange Chester Rodgers Mc
Cook
Willow Grove 1st ward 1st pre H P
Waite McCook
Willow Grove 1st ward 2nd pre W
A Middleton McCook
Willow Grove 2nd ward 1st pre R
W Devoe McCook
Willow Grove 2nd ward 2nd pre I L
Rodstrom McCook
The candidates were permitted to
select the chairman and secretary of the
committee and the committee was auth
orized to fill any vacancies that may
curr in the ticket or committee
It has caused more laughs and dried
more tears wiped away diseases and
driven away more fears than any other
medicine in the world Hollisters
Rocky Mountain Tea 35 cents Tea or
Tablets L W McConn ll
To Cure a Cold in One Day
T Take laxative bbomo quinine tablets
All druggists refund the money if it fails
to cure E W Groves signature is on
each box 25c
A little love a little wealth
A little home for you and me
Its all I ask except good health
Which comes with Rocky Mountain
Tea LW McConnell
Mlstatees Made at the Mint
John Erhard of Philadelphia has a
coin dated 1S91 which has a head en
either 3id5 showing that miEtaJ ei are
nade evin the inint Every fin
ished coin passes through the hands of
a great many experts and there is lit
tle chance of an Iwperfecs piece escap
ing this scrutiny There are sail to
be many of them In circulation how
ever No particular value 13 attached
to the coinB outside of their rarity a
curiosities
McCook Market Quotations
j Corrected Friday afternoon
Corn
Wheat 55
Oats 25
Eye 3S
Barley 25
Hogs 6
Eggs 12
Good Batter 15
Prominent People
Big Tim Sullivan Admiral
skys Case Fletcher D Proctor
Iron Brigade Bragg Joke on
Mayor McGIellan
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BIG TIM SUL
LIVAN
T is rather an un
usual thing for
a member of tlio
house ef represent
atives at Washing
ton to give up his
seat in order to go
to the legislature of
his state but Con-
rrrnccnian Timnthv
D Sullivan of New
lOrK WHO J LU1MU
of as tho next boss
of Tammany Hall
does not look at
the matter in thi9
war Before his
election to congress as the represent
ative of 200000 people he served sev
eral terms in the New York legislature
Now he proposes to go to Albany again
instead of returning to Washington
Big Tim as he is known In New
York deserts Washington because it is
too far away from the Bowery to
suit him and because it seems to him
that Uncle Joe Cannon is all there is of
congress that counts Congress is
dull he saj s and its too much of a
one man game to suit me Just imaglno
a game with about 300 men sitting In
and one man taking all the pots
Big Tim was a newsboy at eight
years of age and a politician at eight
een He does not smoke or chew At
one time he owned six saloons but ho
has never used liquor as a beverage
There isnt much about the sporting
life that Big Tim is not familiar
with and one day at Washington he in
duced a rural representative to accom
pany him to a pool room in Virginia
Little Jack Horner Is a cinch Sul
livan told his guest Give me 5 to
put on him
The representative produced a five
dollar note and Big Tim put it on
for him at odds of 10 to 1 Sullivans
guest knew nothing of the mysteries
of the pool room After the race was
run Sullivan handed his friend 35
Do I get all this he exclaimed
wonderingly And all for 5 Sure
theres no mistake
Its all yours the horse won Con
gressman Sullivan told him
Say Sullivan the other statesman
cried how long has this thing been
going on Why didnt you put me
next before
Vice Admiral Petrovitch Itojestven
sky who pleaded guilty before a Rus
sian court martial to the charge of
surrendering the gunboat Biedovy did
so it is believed in a manly effort to
save the members of his staff At the
time of the surrender the Russian com
mander was seriously wounded It is
doubtful if he was in possession of his
faculties at all The Japanese say
that he had nothing to do but surren
der anyway It is
said that the vice
admiral believes
that his officers
hauled down the St
Andrews cross
from the gunboat
on which he had
taken refuge out of
affection for their
commander and in
order to save his
life if possible He
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VICE ADMIRAL RO
JESTVENSKY
now takes all responsibility for the
surrender on himself and asks that he
may receive the full penalty which is
virtually an appeal for condemnation
and death
Admiral Rojestvensky was in com
mand of ail the Russian naval forces
present at the eventful battle of the
Sea of Japan He was born near Mos
cow in ISIS and his career in the Rus
sian navy has been a long and event
ful one
Governor Claude A Swanson of Vir
ginia who says the railroads by elim
inating competition in rates havo
forced the public to protect itself by
controlling the same was a member
of the house of representatives a short
time ago and one day he was leaving
Washington to deliver a speech at a
convention of Confederate veterans
As he stood at the wicket in the
Pennsylvania railroad station buying
CLAUDE A SWAN
SON
a ticket he placed
his little hand bag
on the floor When
he had folded up
his ticket and turn
ed to pick up his
bag it was gone
Inside it was the
speech which he
was to deliver to
the veterans A
cold chill ran down
the congressmans
back and then hot
perspiration oozed
from every pore
wilting his fine lin
en in a few min
utes Only thirty
minutes intervened before his train
would start and It was the only train
before the hour for the appointed
speech As Mr Swanson was born
while his father was fighting In the
battle of Malvern Hill and all his
knowledge of the various strategic
movements of the war and his stock
of anecdotes were acquired at second
hand he felt himself poorly equipped
to undertake an offhand effort to tho
grizzled veterans
He called up the station detective
and the telephones to police headquar
ters were set going with hot questions
as to how to find the bag In less than
same time Sena
torProetor has said
that ha woujd re
tire from the uppor
branch of congiess
in 1900 as ho will
be seventy - eight
years of age if he
lives until that
time It Is under
stood that he would
be gratified were
his son chosen as
his successor Sen
ator Troctor was
once governor of
Vermont himself
Eletcbor D Proc
fen aTTnufes woru came that the thief
whj took It was beld at headquarters
and the bag was there to bo identified
air Swanson rushed In a cab to head
quarters and told his story got his bag
and Just caught the train
Fletcher D Proctor who was nomi
nated for governor of Vermont by the
recent Republican state convention at
Moutpclier is a son of Kedfield Proc-
tor United States senator from Ver i
mont Should he be elected governor
the Green Mountain State would be
conferring its highest honors on two
member of trie Proctor family at the
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FLETCHER D
rnocTOR
tor will be opposed for the governor
ship by Peroival W Cloment nominee
of Democrats and independents The
younger Proctor is president of the
Vermont Marble company founded by
his father a concern with a capitaliza
tion of 7000000 and a payroll of
100000 per month An interesting
feature in connection with this Indus
try is its system of company stores
Last year the stores paid a dividend of
30000 to tho employees of the marble
company patronizing them
General Edward S Bragg to whom
congress voted a pension of 30 a
month has had a career as warrior
and statesman and he will perhaps be
remembered best by posterity as com
mander of the famous Iron Brigade
In the civil war and as author of the
now historic phrase We love him for
the enemies he has made lie has
been congressman minister to Mexico
and consul general at Havana and at
Hongkong and participated in the con
ventions which nominated Horatio Sey
mour in 18GS and Horace Greeley in
1K79 for nrnsiflfint
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GENERAL EDWARD
S I5RAGG
As commander of
the Iron Brigade
he won a record as
a soldier seldom
equaled It was at
the second Bull Run
that the Stonewall
Brigade of the
Confederate army
and the Iron Bri
gade of the Fed
eral army grappled
in a deatli strug
gle When the sol
diers had exhaust
ed their ammuni
tion they clubbed their guns and when
these were broken they fought with
appalling savagery with the stones of
that historic railroad cut for missiles
It was at once a charge and a melee
In that battle and in the other engage
ments in which it participated during
the remainder of the war the Iron
Brigade lost more men in killed and
wounded than any similar command
of the whole Federal army
It was in 18S4 at the convention
which first nominated G rover Cleve
land for the presidency that General
Bragg coined the phrase that has been
so often quoted since Bourke Cock
ran and Thomas F Grady represent
ing Tammany Hall had made a fierce
onslaught upon Mr Cleveland then
governor of New York and in replying
to it General Bragg in an impassioned
speech declared
We love him gentlemen and re
spect him not only for himself for his
character his integrity his judgment
and Iron will but we love him for the
enemies he has made
When Attorney General Moody re
turned from Chicago where he wor
ried hard to put the beef trust officials
in jail he went to his residence to take
a short rest A visitor called to see
Mr Moody but met an obstacle in the
person of a negro butler who said
It would be agin de constitution to
wake the attorney general Cant you
call later
Mayor George B McClellan of New
York who narrowly escaped being in
the railway accident near Salisbury
England says there is no such thing as
honest graft and that gild it as you
please graft is grisly He was for
merly congressman from the Twelfth
New York district One time while he
was at Washington he was introduced
to a gushing young
woman daughter of
a western Demo
cratic politician
She was deeply in
terested in politics
but her knowledge
was not proportion
ed to her zeal She
had a brother living
in New York who
had ambitions for geohge r m clel
the career of a LA-
statesman and she was bubbling over
with tho young mans plans These
were the chief topic of her conversa
tion with the congressman from the
Twelfth
My brothers going to run for con
gress she remarked by way of in
troduction
Ah said Colonel McClellan
Yes she continued hes going to
run in the Twelfth district He thinks
there ought to be a gentleman in con
gress from that district and a horrid
Tammany man has the place now
Colonel McClellan did not disturb her
joy by disclosing the Identity of the
horrid Tammany man
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CirY CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Christian Sunday school at 10 am
Communion at 11 a m and Christian
Endeavor No preaching services this
week
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 Loughran Pastor
Episcopal Services on Sunday at 11
a m Holy communion and sermon at
8 p m prayers and sermon Sunday
school at 10 a m The Rector will ofli
ciate All are welcome to these services
E R Earle Rector
Congregational Services will be re
sumed as follows Sunday school at 10
a m Preaching by pastor at 10 a m
and 8 p m Christian Endeavor at 7 p
m Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
Let us rally after our vacation
Geo B Hawkes Pastor
Methodist Sunday school at 10 am
Sermon at 11 a m and 8 p m Even
ing subject Is Christ Divine Class
at 12 Epworth League at 7 pm
Prayer meeting Wednesday night at 8
p m Sunday school and preaching
in South McCook next Sunday after
noon M B Carman Pastor
Advertised Letters
The following letters remained uncall
ed for at the McCook postoffice July
26th 1900
LETTERS
Anderson E Housp Mrs Louis
Anderson Miss Ellen Hoffman Adams
Bailey Mr Edith Ivey Horace
Baily W F Jones Helen
Benner Win Johnson Carrie E
Brown H W Kennedy W E
Baumgast Con Klinger Miss Alice 2
Browning Tom Mulviano Boni
Bessell Chas Meckham S H
Billingt W H Moreland Smith
Clark R E Moore Theadore
Couth Mrs L Moseman Harry A
Cramer Frank McCord E F
CrawTW Oakley Mr
Crawford F S Piatt Wm
DenmanT W Petrel S W
Dixon C W Raymond Harri
Deneraux X Y Rogers Miss Lot
Davis D C Smith Mrs Edna
Flannery Tom Smith Allen
Ferguson David Thompson M G
Greene C Wood O B
Hine John Walter Mrs Emma
Hust Fred Wright Miss Letta
Henry R M Wilson Miss Maude
Huber Mrs Mary Williams Connie
Hunt Jane Young F L
cards
Andrews Raleigh 2 Carter James
Brown H D Dil Karl
Craham E C M
When calling for these please say
they were advertised
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