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By F M KIMA1ELL
Largest Circulation in Re d Willow Co
Subscription 1 a Year in Advance
Tiikkb are some evidences thnt thoro
is a God in Innul Oklahoma has gone
prohibition by 30000 majority notwith
standing it has gone Democratic by a
substantial majority also Lo k out for
the next turn Nobraska takes at the
question There will be Bomothing do
iuf brethren
TllK fraternities and sororities at Lin
coln seem to be giving the university
faculty no little trouhlo The arro
gance insolonco impertinence and
snobbishness of tho average present
day frat or soror is an appalling
proposition Tho state of Nebraska is
not budding socinl freaks Education
is the serious business of the university
Whilk tho mnttor of graft is every
where receiving needed attention Ne
braska should not overlook longer that
supremo court clerkship graft Tho
pay in that office in common decency
should not exceed that of the judge on
tho supreme bench it is now four or
five times as much according to com
mon report besides being a rotten spot
on the body politic
The rank and file of voters the
great common people so far as The
Trihune has heard expressions favor
the primary law notwithstanding it has
admitted defects which require atten
tion at tho hands of the next legisla
ture For example it should be made
much more difficult for our friends
the enemy to break into our party
The politicians and so called leaders
are still unconverted
CENSORSHIP IN RUSSIA
Forging Seals on Letters and Replac
ing Stamps
The modus operandi of the political
postal censorship which has for some
time past been unusually active in its
scrutiny of private correspondence has
not materially changed since the time
when the nihilist propaganda first
aroused its energies
The boiling kettle and steam vapor
application are still in vogue except
where the intercepted letter bears a
wax seal or seals To open and re
close a sealed letter without leaving
any easily noticeable traces of it hav
ing been tampered with is a process re
quiring some little delicacy of manip
ulation on the part of the inquisitor
A thin sharply edged steel blade
heated just to the requisite degree to
pass under and remove the seal intact
Is used but if this Is done clumsily
writes the Odessa correspondent of the
London Standard then unless the let
ter be appropriated or destroyed a
new seal must be made This is ef
fected by taking a mold of the seal
with a substance whose chief ingredi
ent is gypsum and the elaborate ap
pliances of the cabinet noir quickly fur
nish from the mold a new seal of the
same kind of wax practically indistin
guishable from the old one It is cus
tomary in this country to attach the
postage on a letter as a wafer in
stead of a seal that is the postage
is placed on the reverse side of the en
velope covering the point of the join
ing flap
This almost invariable custom ren
ders the application of the steam ket
tle a comparatively easy matter and
if the postage be occasionally destroy
ed It Is readily replaced by new post
age of the same denomination and
the obliterating stamp of the place of
origin is again applied A suspect let
ter may be opened at the postoffice of
its destination but that is of no con
sequence as every branch cabinet noir
possesses obliterating stamps for ev
ery city and town in the empire and
should the intercepted epistle be of for
eign origin the expert officials can very
rapidly prepare a perfect counterfeit of
the obliterating stamp
A different process and a very sim
ple one is employed when the cover of
the arrested letter is of stout texture
such as the official stationery common
ly used in the diplomatic and other
official services and is sealed The up
per or lower or one of the end folds of
the letter is carefully cut with a nar
row and extremely sharp paper knife
and the slit fold is rejoined with a
special kind of very fine and strongly
adhesive cement which is of various
colors to match the particular shade of
envelope operated upon The natural
crease in the fold of very thick paper
greatly assists the success of this proc
ess
It was first publicly revealed some
twenty years ago through a curious
blunder on the part of a postal inquisi
tor in St Petersburg A member of the
clerical staff at the Quai dOrsay had
written a private letter on official pa
per to a friend in the French legation
in the Russian capital The envelope
bore three seals and was apparently
intact when delivered
On opening the letter the recipient
was astonished to find Inclosed a Rus
sian translation ot the same in pencil
script The postal inquisitor had inad
vertently inclosed his Russian tran
script The indignant receiver made a
very Btrong protest in the proper quar
iter and sis weeks later he was politely-
informed that the errtn official
had been severely reprimanded and
that there would be no repetition ot
UbQirjecularitT
WEST NEBRASKA CONFERENCE
CONTINUED fllOSI 1AOE ONE
But we cannotfurther follow his
thoughts If you failed to hear the
bishop you missed a great treat
Tho services on Saturday wore largely
routine Committees reported and
connectional causes were represented
Of them wo specially note tho Omaha
Hospital and tho Mothers Jewel Homo
at York
Tho Board of Stewards distributed
among tho superannuated preachers
and other claimants tho sum of 81723
Gothonburg was selected as the place
whoro the next session of our conference
shall be held
Tho following names wore admitted
into tho conference on trial Charles S
Hawley William P Harpor Dan W
Parder Charles M McCorkle and
George Tabor William Hagorty and
O ERichardson were received as can
didates from other churches
The bishop was requested to appoint
as conference evangelists E E Thomp
son James Leslie J W Morris When
Dr Huntington reported that Andrew
Carnegie has offered to give 825000 to
the endowment fund of the Nebraska
Wesleyau University provided the
church add to the present productive
endowment of 840000 making it 875000
The message was received with ap
plause A field agent is to be em
ployed and we hope to see this work
completed soon
When the committee on Sabbath
observance presented their report Bish
op Warren spoke of the Sabbath as
the dearest right of the laboring man
and urged that in the interest of labor
if we had no other reason we should
with utmost endeavor resist all encroach
ments on tho sanctity of the Christian
Sabbath
The present secretary of the confer
ence Rev George P Trites is about
to leave the conference by transfer to
the Nebraska conference and B F
Eberhart was elected to take tho place
thus vacated
On Saturday night there was a forci
ble presentation of the work of the
Crowell Home for the worn out
preachers by Rev Mr Crews the super
intendent Then after a magnificent
anthem by the choir Dr Huntington
chancellor of the Nebraska Weslyan
University took the floor His ad
dress was a vivid presentation of the
claims of Christian education
The conference was then called to
order by Bishop Warren for a brief
business session which closed this part
of its work Nothing now remains to
be done but the service of worship and
the ordinations and the reading of the
appointments on Sabbath evening
The business of the evening was merely
routine and not of general interest
bTATISTICS
Probationers 849
Full members 10909
Local preachers 35
Total membership 11793
Babtisms infants 208
adults 501
Deaths 120
Chu rches 137
value 368200
Parsonages 82
value 8102100
Sunday schools 157
officers and teacher 1639
scholars 11668
COLLECTIONS
Support of pastors S70186
presiding elders 4284
bishops 520
conference claimants 8940
Improving church property 846495
Board of education etc 996
Nebraska Wesljan University 82384
Expenses general conference 367
American Bible society 881
Womens Foreign Missionary 81104
Home Missionary 376
Homo missions and ch ex 2384
Foreign mission 85164
Total collection ordered by
general conference S12350
NEW PASTORS ASSIGNED
Sunday evening after the service in
the Methodist church the following as
signments by Bishop Warren were an
nounced
HOLDREGE DISTRICT
C C Wilson presiding elder Hol
drege Neb
Alma G F Cook
Arapahoe B F Eberhart
Atlanta M L Gardner
Axtell H H Meeker
Bartley J F Hageman
Beaver City- G H Wise
Benkelman and Max J S Davis
Bloomington JameB Leonard
Box Elder Supplied by W J Miller
Cambridge D A Leeper
Culbertson C A Nolin
Danbury and Lebanon Harry Shep
herd
Franklin W T Gatley
Haigler Supplied by J A Kerr
Hendley and Spring Green CSHaw
ley
Holbrook W S Porter
Holdrege M A Wimberly
Huntley and Border Chapel R N
Throckmorton
Indianola A D Burress
Loomis and Pleasant View W J
Crago
Lowell and Newark C H Chader
McCook M B Carman
Minden Byran Howe
Norman and Campbell GMBurnett
Orleans E E Crippen
Oxford M S Satchell
Ragan John Madely
Republican City E B Crippen
Riverton A S Nelson
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Upland J L Murr
Wilcox and Hildreth F E Kirby
Wilsonvillo C A Powers
KEARNEY DISTRICT
L II Shumate presiding elder Kear
ney Neb
Anselmo II S French
Ansley Raymond Rush
Arcadia A II Brink
Arnold 11 C Barrett
Broken Bow R II Thompson
Burwoll E II Kiefor
Callaway Supplied by E Markloy
Cozad W II D Hornaday
Elm Creek J M llaskins
Gibbon A J Clifton
Gothenburg J T Carson
Koaruoy First G W Abbott
Kearney Trinity W C Swartz
Kearney Circuit Supplied by Fred
JohnBon
Lexington B F Gaither
Lexington circuit E S Fox
Litchfield R R Fletcher
Loup City J O Hawk
Mason City T W Owen
Merna D C Hopson
North Loup Alfred Gilson
Ord Morris Bamford
Ord circuit To bo supplied
Overton E Smith
Ravenna C E Woodson
Ringold To besupplied A O Wright
P O Cozad R F D
Rose Vale George Tabor
Sargent W E Matthews
Shelton -A L Umpleby
Sumner and Miller M G Medlin
Walnut Grove P O Cozad W E
Hornaday supplied
Westerville Alfred Chamberlain
Whitman and Mullen H H Miles
NORTH rLATTE DISTRICT
Allen Chamberlain presiding elder
North Platte
Bayard and Minataire W F Harper
Bertrand F J Schank
Big Springs E W McMillon
Chappell H E MacFarlane
Curtis T H Ransom
Elwood G B Maj field
Farnam W H Mills
Gandy Supplied by D S Johnson
Gering J C Jewell
Grant C M McCorkle
Harrisburg and Pine Bluff Supplied
by D A Maclean
Hershey A E Murlless
Imperial William Haggerty
Keystone O F Chesebro
Kimball and Potter Supplied by E
J Hayes
Lewellen Supplied by A S Jenkins
Lodgo Pole To be supplied
Maywood Supplied by E Moore
Mitchell and Morrill Supplied by F
J McCaffree
Moorefield Supplied by H L Case
North Platte S J Medlin
Ogalalla Russell Link
Palisade D W Parker
Scotts Bluff R H Carr
Sidney A W James
Smithfield Supplied by R H Chrys
ler
Stockville Supplied by D E French
Sutherland and Paxton CEHousel
Wallace Supplied by W Horner
Wauneta J G Hurlbut
E E Thompson J W Morris James
Lisle conference evangelists members
North Platte quarterly conference
R E Gilpin missioaary to Utah
D W Crane missionary to Honolulu
A young child of Mr and Mrs Frank
Boyd of West Dennison street died last
week of cancer of the stomach
R M Douglass Co will give you
prompt and efficient service Phone 6S
Office in Bump real estate office lower
Main
The neighbors and friends of Mr and
Mrs M J Walters of Lebanon assisted
them in an enjoyable celebration of the
fifth anniversary of their marriage
Wednesday of this week
CITY CHDRCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
Christian Bible school 10 a m
Preaching at 11 a m and 8 p m by Dr
Finch Y P S C E 7 p m 8 p m
Wednesday prayer meeting
Episcopal Preaching services at St
Albans church at 11 a m and 8 p m
Sunday school at 10 a in All are
welcome to these services
E R Earle Rector
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 Looghran Pastor
Baptist Sunday school at 10 a m
Preaching services 1100 Evening
service at S00 p m The member
ship are urged to be present especially
at the forenoon service All are cor
dially invited to worship with us
E Burton Pastor
Christian Science Services Sun
day at 11 a m and Wednesday at 8
p m Subject Unreality Meetings
held in Diamond block Room open
daily from 2 to 5 p m except Sun
day Science literature on sale
Congregational Sunday school at
10 a m Preaching by pastor at 11 a
m and 8 p m Prayer meeting Wed
nesday at S p m Christian Endeavor
at 7 pm Subject Home Missions
Religious Progress in Our Cities
Jonah 11 3 31 10 49 11 Every mem
ber urged to be present on account of
business All young people ere cordially
inritod to come and get acquainted with
ug G B Hawm Pastor
MOVEMENT 01- 1HP PEOPLE
Miss Edith Waite is attonding school
at Crete
S Diamond has returned from his
Chicago trip
Mrs J W Hastv is in Orleans this
week on a brief visit
Cov Burnett is taking tho law course
at the state university
Rev M B Carman is visiting in Uni
versity Placo this week
Harold Sutton is also attending tho
state university this year
Mrs F M Kimmkll arrived home
Monday night from hor Lincoln Aurora
visit
Miss Edna Waite returned to hor un
iversity work at Lincoln Saturday on
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Mrs C W Britt will entertain chap
tor X P E O September 2Sth at two
oclock
C A Rodgers deputy clerk of the
district court was a Lincoln visitor fore
part of the week
C D Ritchie returned Tuesday
morning from a brief visit to Lincoln
and North Bond
Mrs G W Roahr of Ellinwood
Kansas is visiting her parents Mr and
Mrs A R Clark
Charles F Bush has been visiting
in the city this week and attonding to
some business matters
Mrs C II Stennett arrived home
Monday night from spending some time
with Holdrege relatives
Mr and Mrs W II Cooper are
visiting their son Warren and wife in
Colorado Springs Colorado
David S Farnham of Newton Center
Mass is here looking aftor some inter
ests in this part of the west
J C Acheson and family and J S
Cranor and family departed Tuesday
for their now home near Sparta Mo
Mrs Ira Converse arrived home
from her Hendley visit Tuesday ac
companied by his sister Miss Ada Con
verse
William Hiersekorn and family are
over from Lebanon taking in the races
and log rolling and visiting Charles
Knosp
Mrs A Backstrom and children will
remain in Lincoln during this fall and
winter instead of returning to McCook
as contemplated
Prof Ireland who has been in
charge of the singing at the revival ser
vice at the Christian church left last
night for Denver
Miss Lillian Roman well known to
McCook society was united in marri
age with Charles O Hanson of Lincoln
Wednesday of last week
Mrs C W Kimball of Greeley Colo
rado is visiting with her sisters-in-law
Mrs J H Stephens and Mrs Jas
Doyle Her husband will join her soon
and they will spend some time visiting
relatives and friends in this community
Holton Longnecker since his re
turn to Rollinsville Colo from his
recent visit here and at his home near
Red Willow has been in bed with a
threatened attack of typhoid fever
which it is hoped to break up and to
avoid the usual run of the fever
MINOR ITEMS OF NEWS
McConnell for drugs
Say you saw it in The Tribune
Kodaks and kodak supplies L W
McConnell druggist
Big corns little corns all corns jield
to McConnells Lightning corn cure
Our White Pine and tar cures coughs
Woodworth Co Druggists
The only place in town where you
can get the famous Three Star Cof
fee is at Magner Stokes market and
grocery
We have made arrangements to se
cure fresh chocolate cream candy every
week m the future Barney Hofer
McCook News Depot
W II Applegate a minister of the
Christian church of Maroa 111 is
spending a short time in our city He I
will continue the meetings at the Chris
tian church next week
Sheriff Peterson is covering the coast
county with circulars descriptive of the
supposed assailant of Mrs Laura
Spaulding May 22nd 190 and for
whom 82100 reward is offered
Every boy and girl interested in pic
ture taking should see our line of cam
eras We have fourteen different kinds
both plate and film ranging in price
from 100 to 25 Were alwajs glad
to show them
WoonwoRTH Co Druggists
The Womans Missionary society of
the Congregational church will hold
their annual Thanks Offeringmeetingat
the parsonage Thursday afternoon
Oct 3 at 3 oclock A cordial invitation
is extended to friends of the society
and church
Dr Beach is practicing
again Office at residence
same old place Telephone
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do well to see our large
assortment
We are offering full
Satin Lined Coats for
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Half Lined Coats for
20 down to 7 each
in Ladies sizes
Childrens Cloaks
from 275 up
The best stock ever
shown in McCook
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H C Clapp
Exclusive Dry Goods
Walsh Block McCook Nebraska
Ladies Furnishings
Telephone 56
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Fresh Bread Daily
WHITE GRAHAM and RYE BREAD
BUNS LAYER CAKES
COOKIES ANGEL FOODS
CINNAMON ROLLS COCOANUT KISSES
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