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N wishing all pur friends and
patrons a Merry Christ mas
and a Happy New Year we
wish to thank you for your liberal
patronage during the year about
to close
During the coming year shall
try harder than ever to keep a
stock of goods suitable to yoi r
needs of the best lines manufac
tured and give you such service
and accommodations as will mer
it your continued favors
McCook Hardware Co
W B Mills R B Simmons
MAIN IINB HAHT DElAUT
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MAIN LINE WEST DEPAIIT
1 Mountain Timo 1220 p M
3 1142 p m
5 arr 850 pm 9150 A M
13 905 AM
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OnrrVYliOam 700 a m
IMPEEtAL LINE
No 17G arrives Mountain Timo 420 p m
No 173 departs 720 A M
Sleeping dining and reclining chair cars
seats froo on through trainR Tickota sold
and hnffgiico chocked to any point in tho United
States or Canada
For information time tables maps and tick
ets call on or writo D F Hostotter Agent
McCook Nebraska or L W Wakeley General
PasstitKor Agent Omaha Nebraska
RAILROAD NEWS ITEMS
ChHrles Nelmg is night caller for the
company now in tho engine service
with his home folks
Engineer M R Gates is up from Re
publican City today He has been ail
ing for a few weeks but is better
Albert Berry arrived at home Satur
day night to visit thp parents and fnmi
ly and friends over Christmas hoidajs
Machinist George Enoch returned
home last week from a visit to the
folks in Appleton Wig reporting severe
winter weather as prevailing there alsc
All the coal yards of the city will be
closed next Saturday on account of
Christmas and those in need of coal
before Monday morning should govern
themselves accordingly
This office is under due obligation to
the Burlington passenger department
for a copy of their new edition wall
map known as the Map of the West
As to dimensions it is 60x40 inches and
in its scope covers the entire country
west of Chicago and from Canada al
most to the Gulf of Mexico
The old dispatchers office at the head
quarters building has been thrown into
the telegraph room giving thht depart
ment much larger ana needed accommo
dations in which to instal the increased
equipment This office is now one of
the most important in the state and is
doing an increasingly large volume of
business
0 R T Pleeting1 Sunday
An important O R T meeting wa
held in the Car Distributors office Sun
day last the meeting being well attend
ed by the local telegraphers and by the
boys from different points on the Mc
Cook division
C Li Lamb general chairman of the
O R T delivered an earnest address to
operators
In addition to the local operators there
were presort from out-of-town C M
Osborne local chairman of the order at
Wray Colo T P Haines of Arapahoe
L H Flint of Arapahoe J O Premer
of Holbrook J T Bauer of Woodruff
Kansas W C Hansen of Benkelman
W J Mallery of Fort Morgan Colo
H C fivers of Wray Colo E P Swee
ney of Lyons Colo J A Nieman of Ft
Morgan Colo A B Sprall of Burns
Junction Colorado
A noteworthy incident of the meeting
was the presentation to Chief Dispatcher
W F Pate of a handsome and valuable
Howard watch and gold headed um
brella by the operators dispatchers and
members of his own office force C M
Osborne of Wray cleverly made the pre
sentation speech
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Giirisfmes Presents
LCZ AUNTIE
Grandmother will appreciate a sew
ing basket of the straw variety which
will save her the trouble of hunting
about in the depths of a bag for her
sewing materials This convenient
model is carried out with a straw bas
ket somewhat on the order of a mat
basket has an openwork rim of straw
through which ribbon an inch and a
half is threaded On the inside at in
tervals the ribbon is passed through
spools of silk and then threaded in and
paper of needles is attached in the
same fashion The ribbon threading
ends at the sides of the basket in
prettily tied bows The bottom of the
basket is fitted with a sachet pad of
silk and in the center is a tomato like
pincushion of the same silk To the
THE NEWEST SEWING BASKET
inside rim is attached with baby rib
bon an emery and a small pair of
scissors have their handles decorated
with a rosetto of baby ribbon and on
the underside is a white dress hook
which is secured to a loop of silk made
in the ribbon The scissors when
needed are merely unhooked and re
placed at will
When Grandma Goes Visiting
Grandmother will appreciate a sew
ing bag as a Christmas gift perhaps
more than anything else you can give
her This bag is especially suited for
a sewiug bag as it is easily folded and
can be carried in a small hand bag
when she goes visiting One yard and
a quarter each of plain pink taffeta and
Dresden silks are required Both silks
are cut on the bias and divided into
three pieces then sewed together alter
nately thus first pink then Dresden
then pink and so on The foundation
of the bag is a circle of soft cardboard
five inches in circumference This is
covered neatly with pink taffeta silk
on both sides for which a quarter yard
of pink taffeta silk is required After
base is covered gather silk and sew
on to base This forms the bottom of
bag To make top turn in silk about
two inches from the top and stitch
down neatly then make another row
of stitching one half inch above this
row This forms a place through
which the running string is run One
yard of narrow soft taffeta ribbon is
used for a running string
Killing Time
She I heard you singing in your
room this morning
He Oh I sing a little to kill time
She You have a good weapon Bos
ton Transcript
The Flowing Fountain
A splendid poem flows from
Doms fountain now and then
But most of those In print like this
Flow from a fountain pen
Kansas City Times
Painful Progress
Ton dont seem to be getting along
well groaned the victim in the chair
No rejoined the dentist I have
evidently struck a snag Brownings
Magazine
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OPENED TO USE
Available for Farming
U S SPECS 3750000
While the Burlington Road has Al
ready Spent Half of a 10000000
Appropriation for a Road Through
a Valley Notable for Fertility and
Beauty
ting tray which is to be purchased in and traversed by a branch line of the
the shops for flttine -with utensils The same system has up to a few short
Did it ever occur to you that money
spent largely for mercenary reasons
years ago been practically unknown to
the outside world save for the casual
A New Awakeninq
The Big Horn basin however has
taken a new lease of life and bids fair
to become one of the most productive
sections of the United States within a
remarkably short period This sudden
enterprise in the basin country is
awakening to the fact that this vast
area of supposedly arid land can be
successfully and profitably farmed by
means of irrigation Several years
ago with the buffalo hunter the
Indian and the cowboy as the chief in
habitants the Burlington roads con
fidence in the future of the country
caused the building of a branch line
into the basin which has invested in
round numbers over 5000000 which
has not because of the sparsely settled
communities paid interest on the in
vestment The farmer living there has
always been able to find a local mar
ket for all of his products at profitable
prices
Now however comes a new era of
development which bids fair in a few
years to mark progress in farming
mining and commercial enterprise
surpassing the most sanguine hopes of
the early settlers Coal in abundance
of high quality underlies the whole
region copper sulphur oil and
ural gas have been found and the
industry incident to the discovery of
these minerals is fast taking on a
high state of development The govern
ment has by an act of congress ap
propriated 50000000 in the United
States for irrigation 6750000 of
which or 135 per cent of the total
appropriation has been allotted to one
enterprise up the Shoshone river for
supplying water to 150000 acres at
one time thought to be arid land in a
valley forming part of the basin coun
try
Nine miles west of Cody at the end
of the government wagon road in the
narrows of the Shoshone river whose
waters have year after year flowed
swiftly yet idly by land worth mil
lions of dollars there is now nearing
completion the highest dam in the
world Yes 4S feet higher than the
Flatiron building in New York city
Lying S5 feet below the river surface
the dam runs to a height of 328 feet
It is 108 feet in thickness at the base
with a maximum width of 205 feet
and made of solid concrete 80000 bar
rels of cement and J500C0 tons of gran
ite having been used in its construc
tion The work has been under way
more than two years
Making a Monster Lake
The temporary intake tunnel divert
ing the flow of the river so that the
dam could be built will be closed and
the flood waters of the Shoshone will
then be backed up one branch of the
river 5 miles and another branch
about seven miles to be dealt out at
will into the farmers irrigating
ditches by means of a tunnel bored
Z2 miles through the mountain The
importance of the project can scarce
ly be appreciated without a trip to the
dam across the country it is to irri
gate When completed it will store
456000 acre feet of water or enough
cr to cintr 4njuuu aervs or mmi untj
foot deep The ar ificial lake It will
form will be ten miles square with
an average depth of 70 feet Imagine
If you please storing enough water by
means of a dam to more than cover
the state of Rhode Island one ioot
iee a you have it Uncle Sams
faith in the basin country is such that
he iaK nm up 6750000
l m itr j In adviree
Rich Territory in Wyoming Made and proclaimed to the settlers throS
the medium of the reclamation act to
iaij mis land and he will nllow them
ton years in which to pay for it vith
perpetual water rights without Inter
est The amount
required for pay
ment of the land is 560 per acre the
first ycr of settlement While the
government has done much private
enterprise is not found wanting The
government has so carefully safe
guarded the settlers water rights that
investment in private lands may be
made with the assurance of safety of
supply and the price and terms on
which the hind may be secured are
nc dissimilar throughout the whole
egion Already iirivatn pnnitni hno
frequently results in greater good in manifested itself in similar irrigating
the uplifting of mankind than the as well as dry farmine crntprr rt
aamB uuiuum oi money expeiuieu ior
purely charitable purposes asks O L
Dickeson in the National Irrigation
Journal Here are two great powers
the government and a huge railroad
system contributing for one great pur
pose The governments investment of
nearly 7000000 is made ten years in
advance of the lime they expect the
principal to be returned and without
the consideration of interest on the
investment one half of the railroads
investment of 10000000 has been
spent several years in advance with
out any return even of interest and
the other half 5000000 will soon
have been spent with advance knowl
edge that no returns from the invest
ment will accrue for years to come
Yet the people in whose behalf the
two investments are made may take ad
vantage of the condition thus created
and immediately realize independence
and profitable returns as a result of
the vast suras expended by these two
great powers
Out in Wyoming along the line of
railroad running south from Toluca
Mont skirted on the west by the Ab
soraka range of the Rockies on the
east by the Big Horn mountains and
thick with arteries of rapid rivers
notably the Shoshone Grey Bull and
Big Horn lie 1413000 acres of as
fertile soil as there is to be found in
the United States to day This won
derful valley called the Big Horn
basin located near the main north
west line of the Burlington railroad
irougn me section towns have
sprung up as if by magic with homes
rf lnmnn1
m uuuguiuv arointecture churches
iuu auiiuuis everywhere dotting the
country proclaiming in silent but nn i
mistalcable terms the enterprise of the I
inhabitants I
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VICE PRESIDENT OF THE BUR
LINGTON DISCUSSES SUBJECT
In the End the Public
Must Pay
Must Be Settled by Managers
and Employes
If the increase asked by the en
ginemen and trainmen on all railroads
west as well as east of Chicago is
granted the people will pay for it
The foregoing statement is said to
have been made by Daniel Willard
second vice president of the Chicago
Burlington Quincy railroad in an
interview with a representative o a
Quincy newspapers recently
Mr Willard was asked regarding the
present and future outlook of the rail
road situation His reply was that
business was increasing right along
and the future seemed good After
expressing himself concerning the re
vival in business Mr Willard added
that this question of an increase in
wages of the enginemen and trainmen
on the railroads must be met soon as
it has been announced that conferences
will be held in the near future to con
sider the general request that has been
made by enginemens and trainmens
organizations west as well east of
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tourist making a side trip to Cody the Pt0fr - 1
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rhpVhnrmnnnli sPfVin th hvhiv they are re1ired to buy costs more
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out of the straw beading until the next j curative waters of the Big Horn hot 1
Dispatcher John Dugan of Wymore I ore or tJeir rIf A0f course there
DosItion ls reached bout six snools springs has to be
got a limit to such demands
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a resigned and naa to the Southern
has goes
Pacific at Frisco
Conductor Ira Converse nnd family
are spending the holidays at Hendley
oi sine or cotton are supplied anu a
from railroads as well as from other
corporations for railroads are required
to pay more for what they buy than
they have been doing
Present Railway Expenditures Un
usually High
Continuing Mr Willard stated that
in 1907 when the country reached a
high mark in business prosperity the
railroad employes were granted an in
crease that seemed to be the limit even
for those prosperous days Then came
the 18 months of depression when the
railroads were hit about as hard as
any line of business but in spite of
this depression wages were not re
duced and now when the railroads
seem to be recovering a little of their
lost ground they are requested to ad
vance the compensation of a large
number of their employes above even
the scale of prosperous days of 1907
This last request comes at a time
when the earnings are not nearly suf
ficient to take care of the large sums
needed for improvements and better
ments and to buy material we must
pay more than we have done for some
time Our road recently purchased
50 new engines which cost 2000
apiece more than former purchases j
An element which causes the
railroad management to exercise more
care is the legislation which has been
enacted which necessitates the rail-
roads spending more money in the
operation of trains and the conduct of
general railroading These things must
all be figured into the final cost and
with any big increase must come
higher rates of freight and this means
the people pay for such increases
MEDIATION ON EASTERN ROAD
Illinois Central Telegraphers and the
Road to Settle Differences
Amicably
Mediation has been called for by
the joint action of the officers of the
Illinois Central railroad and the Or
der of Railroad Telegraphers By the
time this is printed Chairman Knaop
of the interstate commerce comvis
sion and Comn issioner of Labor X -ill
will be in Chicago to listen to the
arguments of both sides The teleg
raphers asked for an increrse in
wages and the right to make sched
ules for telephone operators who ire
said to be rapidly taking the places
of telegraphers
This is one step toward the ulti
mate submission of wage dispute- to
mediation as prescribed by the Frd
inan Act It is not a small step The
Order of Uai rond Telegraphers has
for example GC OO members Tr
are naturally because of their occu
pation men o1 tnnding and of ia
ence and th Jr action will in all
ability insure
ful settlemer
nearly 35000
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