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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 18, 1907)
I I i R 1 FRANK ROCKEFELLER Brother of John D Whose Hobby Is Collection Wild Animals Frank Rockefeller who denies the authenticity of a recent Interview in which he was quoted as calling John D a monster and other unpleasant names Is the youngest of the three Rockefeller brothers lie Is worth sev eral millions hut by no means so wealthy as cither of his brothers Formerly he was Interested to some H 3V3 ti Vv A lt7 fiSv hztit v w i4i - A 2- FKANK ItOOKEFKLIiEH extent in Standard Oil but now he has no connection with that business Mr Rockefeller lives near Cleveland lie has a country place on the lake several miles out of the city called Lakeland His chief hobbj is the col lection of wild animals On his place he has a large assortment of wild live stock including bears elk buffalo an telope and other interesting beasts Next to my family he once re marked I love animals more than anything else in the world and by simply having fun Avlth them I have found out a good many things and learned a good many lessons that I never could have learned otherwise In Kansas and Texas Mr Rockefel ler owns large ranches His Kansas ranch comprising more than 14000 acres is one of the largest in the world Mr Rockefeller has three daughters He spends much of his time traveling During the five or six months of each year which he spends at Cleveland he goes daily to his office and works from six to eight hours It is assumed that he is estranged from John D Rockefeller because of business deal- ings in which worsted the younger man was SHUMAKER AND HUSTON Men Mentioned In Connection With Pennsylvanias Capitol Scandal Criminal prosecutions are expected shortly in Pennsylvania In connection tvith the great graft scandal In relation to the building of the new state capi xol The investigating committee which probed the affair has made its report Following this report James M Shu maker who as superintendent of pub lic buildings and grounds was conspic uous in the construction of the capltol makes a statement In which he prom ises to spring a sensation Shumaker declares that he is inno cent of wrongdoing but that he knows a great deal about the big graft and will go on the witness stand and tell everything A certain man high In of ficial life at Harrisburg he says JAMES ai SHUilAKEIt AID HUSTON JOSEPH 21 should be in the penitentiary Shu maker also states that the grafting was to cover a shortage in the state treasury thereby saving the reputation of a former United States senator from Pennsylvania who Is now dead Another man who had much to do with the construction of the new capl tol is Joseph M Huston who was the architect of the building Public Interest In the matter Is con siderably enhanced by the committee report ond by the Shumaker statement nnmifi wirtWiMi Readeo Eccentric English Reades use of the English language too was eccentric hot to say ludicrous In A Simpleton when he wished to signify that two people turned their backs on each other in a fit of temper ho wrote They showed napes De scribing the complexion of the New Haven fishwives in Christie John stone he says It Is a race of wo men that the northern sun peachlfies Instead of rosewoodizing In Itendl ana he describes a gentleman giving a lunch to two Indies at a railway res taurant as follows He Bouped them he tough chickened them ho brandled nnd cochluealed one and he brandled and burnt sugared the other brandy and cochineal and brandy and burnt sugar being Reades euphemisms for port and sherry respectively While he was preparing his series of articles on Old Testament characters he read what he had written to John Coleman on one occasion and came to this star tling passage In his argument Having now arrived at this conclu sion we must go the whole hog or none Coleman objected to this phrase You dont like the hog I see said Reade Well its a strong figure of speech and its understanded of the people but yes you are right Its scarcely Scriptural so out It goes Gentlemans Magazine Bass Are Real Cute It Is related for a fact that the reason bass jump and it Is common practice of the fish is because they wish to ac quire grace and strength in testing their ability against that of fishermen Several men who say they know what they are talking about point out that bass do most of their jumping during the spring and are especially active just before the open season be gins At this time they may be seen doing long distance jumps somersaults and side stepping One bass expert goes so far as to say that he spent an entire afternoon watching a three pound bass dragging a long willow sapling through the water and acting as if it were caught on a hook Leaping into the air it would turn in a half circle as if to disgorge the barb and then it would swim back ward in nn endeavor to snap the branch This fisherman asserts that what jumping the bass do during the sum mer is merely to keep in practice and not get stale Philadelphia North American Improving Nature To paint the lily to gild refined gold when taken in a literal sense seem processes too absurd for serious deliberation Flowers of unnatural hues however bloom in florists win dows and the color green as applied to the carnation is no longer confined to the title of a book But the Persians do even worse things in the name of beauty They dress up their flowers according to Mr Wills in The Land of Lion and Sun Persia Is not a land of flowers Zin nias convolvulus asters balsams wall flowers chrysanthemums marigolds and roses are the principal blooms of the country The Persians not content with the plain flower cut rings of colored pa per cloth or velvet and ornament the bloom placing the circles of divers hues between the first and second rows of petals The effect is strange One at first glance supposes he sees a bouquet of curious and bizarre flowers of entirely new varieties The Boomerang and s Inventors The boomerang is ier a puzzle One might think that the highest lawH of mathematics had been laid under contribution in the perfecting of it The convexity on one side the flatness on the other and the sharp knifelike edge on the Inside of the convexity have the air of having been carefully thought out Yet the people who in vented this singular Veapon cannot count higher than five and are desti tute of all the arts and amenities of life Theirs is perhaps the lowest plane of human life Some people have assumed that the boomerang was the creation of an older and higher civili zation but for this there is no evidence It must be the product of an age long empirical use of throwing weapons London Spectator Sandys Criticism A young Scotchman went to a Lon don school of music where he learned to play the violoncello fairly well On his return to his native village he gath ered his friends together to hear his new instrument When he had played one or two tunes he looked up expec tantly After a slight pause his old grandfather spoke Eh maun he said its a maircy theres na smell wl It Liverpool Mercury He Knew Lady Customer I wish to tell you how these shoes of mine are to be made Shoemaker Oh I know that well enough large inside and small outside Meggendocfer Blatter Pretty Bad Wife Arent you going to smgko those cigars I gave you Husband No Im keeping them till Tommy be gins to want to smoke Theyll settle It Illustrated Bits Authoritative So you are going to leave your stu dio Leave No Who told you so Your landlord Philadelphia In quirer Self conquest Is the greatest victory -Plato A FOG AT SEA it Frightens the Timid and Even countenances the Brave This curious picture of an arrival at the nook of Holland Is by C Lewis Hind I awoke suddenly It was full daylight My watch Indicated 4 in the morning We should be Hearing the Dutch coast But why had the boat stopped Why had the devastating scrunch of the crew ceased I clam bered from my berth and withdrew the curtain from the porthole Sea and sky had gone We were enveloped in a dense fog The wall of the siren roused the passengers A fog at sea unstrings the nerves of the timid and discountenances the brave I noticed that the landing platform had been ex tended and that two life lines were coil ed upon it On the bridge were five men The captain stood in the center with two of his subordinates on either side They leaned over the rail peering into the wall of fog I went forward Three of the crew were bent double over the bows seeking the black mass that might be moving toward us I could almost fancy I heard the crash the shouts and the rush of feet The air was damp I went below A dozen passengers were gathered around the breakfast table sipping tea and toying with toast When the siren wailed my neighbor a girl who was about to eat a mouthful replaced the crust upon the table and folded her hands A woman cried silently A large flabby man took the seat adjoin ing mine rested his elbow upon the ta ble and covered his eyes I thought he was praying but when the steward ad vanced and stood inquiringly before him he raised his head for a moment and said Ilani and eggs Those homely and unfamiliar word relieved our depression also the vessel began to 1 eve faster Soon tl ceaoOd ail Aken the captain slouLed into the cabin and called for a cup of hot coffee we well I think some of us could have danced a jig I went on deck There was Holland The sun was scattering the fog We passed the place where the Berlin was wrecked Pooh Who minds fear on the morning after with all the adventures of a new day waiting ENGLISH LOCAL SPEECH Peculiar Way the Names of Some Towns Are Pronounced We English are horribly phonetic and think nothing of spelling our name Featherstonehaugh and pronouncing it Beecham If you motor you must twist your tongue to the local speech There is a quiet village in Kent that is spelled Stalisfield and has achieved the distinction of keeping a railway station at nine miles distance But if you ask your way to it you must call it Starchfell or you will never find it Huntingdonshire claims the purest English as Hanover the purest Ger man But by the peasants Papworth is called Parpor And not far distant is another village of beauty The mo torist turned upon a rough road and asked the intelligent laborer where it would take him That road said the honest countryman wiping his brow will take you to Ell sir The courageous motorist went on and found Ellsworth which is merely El ser The trouble as to the pronunciation of place names makes one very diffi dent a correspondent complains as to venturing upon pronouncing any that one knows only by the eye and not by the ear Being a Suffolk man he knows that Waldringfield is Wunner ful and Chelmondiston is Chimston while in the adjoining county of Nor folk Happisburgh is Hazebro and Hunstanton Hunston and visits to the west country have revealed that Badgeworthy Is Badgery and Corn wood Kernwood The result is that he would not dare to make a shot at Uttoxeter or Bathampton never hav ing happened to hear either referred to by a native After all there are unfortunate differences of opinion among Londoners even as to South ward Brompton and the two Brom leys London Chronicle Dont Be Too Thoughtful Some people are often accused of be ing thoughtless but better that should happen sometimes than always being regarded as too thoughtful The habit of thinking too deeply on every iten has an immense amount of failure at the bottom Whether it was best to learn short hand or a language perplexed one in dividual for seven months He could not make up his mind as to which he would derive the most advantage from He might have learned any one of those accomplishments in the time he took to think about it This is the case with many people and Fortune has an awkward habit of crushing the too thoughtful just as much as the thoughtless London An swers What Is Sound The natural question What Is sound opens up a world of mystery and of delight to those that like that sort of thing Anything that sets up vibrations in the air where theee is an ear to receive them makes a noise An alarm clock in a vacuum jar may whir ever so busily but it makes no noise There must be air or there is no sound and there must be an ear to carry the vibrations to the brain or there is no noise Delineator Majesty My wife adores the majesty of the Alps whereas I the majesty of the ocean said Tfeif And your dr ghter inquired a friend Oh she just adores majesty by it Pelf Lustlge Blatter 9 9 T ONE WEAK SPOT Most McCook People have a Weak Part and Too Often Its the Back Everyone has a weak spot Too often its a bad buck Twinges follow evory sudden twist Dull aching keops up day and night Tells you the kidneys nond help For bachacho really kidnoy acho A kidnoy cure is what you need Doaus Kidnoy Pills euro sick kidnoys Curo backache and all urinary ills McCoolc peoplo recommend the reined L F Mutson fnrmor living in tho eastern part of McCook Neb says My mother sufforpd severely with kid ney trouble for a numbor of years She had a dull pain through tho kidney ro gions that annoyed her both day and night She was often annoyed with rheumatic pHins had frequent chills and suffered from dizziness at timos The kidnoy secretions were too frequent irregular ard accompanied by a burning sensation Her feet would occasionally BWell and at such times sho was unable to wear her shoes I learned of Doans Kidney Pills and thinking they might lie of benefit to her procured a box at McConnells drug store Sho took them according to directions tho kid neys soon bocamo more regular in action and the backaches and rheumatic pains soon disappeared Doans Kidney Pills restored her to perfect health For sale by all dealers Price 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York sole agents for the United States Remember the name Doans and take no other Say you saw it in Tjjk Trihukk aaaaaKaaaaja juH ran nxjMjuLrr vimTrr eH3a T v Stnto of Nobniskn Red Willow County bs o nl persons inUresdcri in tho ostntu of Iuvid h Jfortolutto Into of said county deceio ed Ion nro hiTuby notified tlmtoti tho Otli dny of October A J WW Myrn C Crntty filed lior iKJtitiou iti tho county rotirt of snid county for hor appointment it iidiniiiistriitrix of the estate of David K Hortolottc Into of 1 said county do ceased anil that the case will bo honrd at tho ollico of tho Count Judge in the county Court House lit tho City of McCook in Mild county on tho tuunt eighth day of October A I 1W7 nt tho hour of nine oclock A M It i further ordered that notice of said hear ing bo giion nil interested in said estate on the publication of this notice for three suc cessive weeks in tho McCook Tribune n nows imiier printed published and circulated in said county Dated this Uth day of October A D 1107 10-11-U HKAIJ J C MooitK County Judgo ORDKR OF HKARINU State of Nebraska Red Willow county ss In the county court To all persons interested in tho estate of Hiram C Plumb late of said county deceased You are hereby notified that on tho 1st day of October VI07 Alice Nii h lluinb Wade Alary Hell lluinb Ambler Hetsey Juno Ilumb Diuiitt and Nell Ilumb ialu lm filed their petition in tho county court of Miid county for the appoint ment of S J Stilgebouer as administrator of the estate of Hiram O Ilumb Into of said coun ty deceased and that the same will lie heard at the county court room in tho city of McCook in said county on tluOitli day of October UK7 at tho hour of one oclock p m It is further ordered that notice of -aid hear ing be given to nil persons interested in said estate by the publication of this notice for three successive weeks in tho McCook Tribune a newspaper published printed and circulated in paid county lM lts Dated this first day of October 1H7 siai J C Mooiti County Judge LFfi A L NOTICE To Charles F Lehn Mary Lelm Charles White Mrs Charles White wife of Charles White first name unknown Charles THoggs C T Hoggs Mary E Hoggs defendants will take notice that Jessie R Hyrd plaintiff has filed a petition in tho district court of Red 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