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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1910)
m Phone No 1 L fcSPBFERSKSl jlll I mean business If you hive nionny I can prove to you that Money Talk lam offering for sale the following properties No 1 Lot 8 blk 11 2nd add to Me Cook unimproved except sh to a few trees location No 903 W 2nd st No 2 Lots fiund 6 of blk 27 2nd add to McCViok improved htm e No 401 5lb at East one block from school 7 room hon e good repair fittpd with gas for cooking and light shade lnwu and cement sidewalk corner lotn No 3 A lovely suburban home ad joining tho town of Indianola 40 acres of land hricK house of 10 rooms one half roil from pnt office frame barn THE TRIBUNE saacsaasgggacraggssBBgiB With a Base BaJS Bat Somo men shoud bo beaten with a base ball bat instead of with a broom If there is anything thai will try a good womans putienco it is bum coal If you want coal that will please 1 t us sell you If your wife does not say that she never had bet er coal for the money we will take the beating and roinovo the coal at no oxponse to oil All wo ask is a trial order You take no chances Wo agio to deliver coal with all good qualities Give us a trial order Ask our customers Stansberry Lumber Co ffggJ r MmiM wwim MMaaMMBaEffdM5BJKrTM llUglti t iUf iiirairgnnLflamiiBggmCT Clo Out cll well wind mill and three cisterns Posses-ion March 1st No 4 -E Y 320 acres im proved frm 8 miles from McOok 140 acres in cultivation 160 acres in pasture Tlii a nice farm and in plain view of city with good roads Frame house of 4 room stable 10x40 well wind mill anil cistern some tree Posses nin Mar h l t Object for selling is to quit business I will miUo reasonable terms If interested come and sbo mo and look over the properties If they suit you we can deal If you deal with me jou have no commissions to pay I M Smith Owner 20i flain ave McCook Neb Phone 191 D W COL FIRE INS ANC E Residence and Business Property for Rent Office Phone 16 Residence Black 333 McCOOK NEBRASKA gywyspwum W i mrpn1 vVfi n H y W n inffwnviiVi V Franklin Pres G H Watkins Vice Pros R A Green Cshr The Citizens National Bank of McCook Nebraska Paid Up Capital 50000 Surplus 25000 DIRECTORS V Franklin A McMillen R A Green G H Watkins Vernice Franklin -if - ivaViiiMttiiiiU i rt V iiiiiU i rV iW i I - i HIGHPRICED McCOOK Living expenses have advanced 50 percent in the past few years but you can get the BEST OF ALL KINDS OF COAL at the SAME OLD PRICE of the Bullard Lumber Co l M 0 McCLURE Mgr 150 Value for 100 TEE TRIBUNE Office for Office Supplies DARIUS 0 MILLS How the Late Financier Rose From a Poor Clerk The dentil recently ot Darius O Mills recalls remarkable rise of the famous tinam ier and philantliro plst who began IIIi a ptiur boy with out a dollar Alter working several years as a clerk he went to Sacra mento Cal iu IMS and opened a gen eral store for the patronage of miners and the adventurous element that was rushing to the Hhlorndo during thosa famous days In one year lie cleared i f DAltlUS O MllitS 10000 and after a time everything he touched literally turned to gold He finally became a banker and it was he who furnished money to develop the great Comstock lode which was found at Virginia City Nov in Ih7l This was the mine of which John W Maekay one day pointing to a shaft opening out of it said I have taken SMOUOOOOO in silver bullion out of that hole When Mr Mills came to New York to reside in 1S70 he was called the Pacilic slope Monte Cristo and some fabulous accounts were printed of his wealth It was said that he positively refused to eat from any dish or plate that was not of solid gold and that even his furniture was made of the same precious metal Many people thought that he would prove an easy mark but he quickly surprised them Probably his name is best known in connection with the Mills hotels which are noted the world over as the model hotels for poor men There the men of slender means can find comfortable and pleasant homes without loss of self respect and without their being encouraged to live upon the bounty of others The three Mills hotels in New York city accommodate several thou sand men hundreds of them pernvi nent guests paying for their rooms 100 sometimes 200 nights in advance and getting as much for their money as it is possible tosgive CHARLES W RUSSELL New Minister to Persia a Man of Bril liant Legal Attainments One of the recent diplomatic appoint ments that gave Uncle Sam a most able representative abroad was that of Charles W Russell for the post of ambassador to Persia he having worked for the government many years and become exceptionally well posted on international law and diplo matic procedure The new ambassador is a native of Virginia where he was born in Wheel ing fifty three years ago and since 1SSG he has been with the department CHAEIiES W IUJSSEI1I1 of justice at Washington the past four years serving as assistant attorney general Mr Russell has heen much abroad for the government He was sent to Paris in 1902 to investigate the Fanama canal title again in 1904 to effect the transfer of title and prop erty of the canal to the United States and in the same year was this gov ernments legal adviser in Panama In J900 he investigated peonage slavery In the southern states has frequently been sent to Cuba and in all his work has won the good will and unstinted praise of his superiors Some time ago there was consider able talk of appointing Mr Russell chief justice of the supreme court of the Philippines Etc was not a can didate for the office and did not seek it but his brilliant legal attainments caused consideration of his name lie rose by sheer merit from a clerkship In the department of justice to assist ant attorney general and has now be come Uncle Sams ambassador to Per sia r UGHTIIIIG 6 MRM This Phenomenon of Nature Is a Fuzzte to Science THE THEORY OF THUNDER In a General Way If Is Understood but as a Matter of Fact the Dslt From the Storm In Its Erratic Tend encies Defies the Investigator In a general way we understand 1 tie theory ot thunderstorms As a mat ter of fact there is no phenomenon of nature but excepting even earth quakes of which we know so little m mi m iil Hfrlitnimr that i elec tricity or the highest power which we can artificially produce will act according to certain known laws It will for instance travel along a ou ductor ot metal Hut a Hash of lightning will rre queiit leap from a well delined metal path and launch itself through the air which is an or some adjacent object infinitely poorer conductor This may be due to the almost m conceivable torce of a tlash ot light nlng says a writer in IeafMiu s eek ly It is estimated that a tlash ot lightning a mile long represents a pressure of discharge equal to nu OOOUUC volts As such a tlash lasts only about the thousandth part or a serosal the en ergy dissipated by the dscharue 1 equal to olMMRM horsepower INK in other words if we could tind ot saving and using lightum we should be the richer by a yood round sum for every tlash Lightning is as we know iisual accompanied by a peal ot thunder which is louder the uearer the liearei is to the point of the discharge nut this is not an invariable rule Then are cases on record of most destrur tive lightning hashes which were uu accompanied by sound Such a phenomenon occurred at Brad ford some years ago What is de scribed as a silent thunderholt tell in a graveyard destroying one monu ment and smashing to atoms nearly seventy glass cases containing wreaths and tlowers In the same summer Swanscombe in Kent was terrified by a freal of lightning All of a sudden a great mass of blue fire swept along the tnif -Mid next moment it was seen jthat the fine old parish church built nearly TOO years ago had been struck The building with all its tine old carved oak was soon a roaring fur nace and only a part of the chancel was saved Scientists are still hopelessly at sea as to the cause of that peculiar phe uomenon known as globe lightning At Coventry some years ago during a vu lent thunderstorm it passed along a street like a soap bubble built of blue fire and drifted iuto a shed where it exploded blowing the roof off the place At Rheims in France a similar tire ball came into a cobblers shop through the open window The soli tary occupant of the place sat pert en ly still paralyzed with terror while his fearful visitant hovered for sever al seconds overhead Then it moved toward the fireplace and presently passed up the chimney Next moment there was an expl sion like a shell bursting and the up per part of the chimney came crashing down Not long ago Count G Hamilton made a record of a similar freak of electricity lie was sitting at dinner at a house on Lake Wener in Sweden when just after a vivid flash ot light ning a brilliant white ball appeared over the table and after hanging poised there for some seconds went off with with a loud bang Fortunately it did no harm to any one although it was quite close to several people Those who saw it sug gested it was like a ball of cold light ning In November 11302 Sydney Austra lia was visited by a terrific dust storm in the midst of which a perfect rain of electric ti e balls began to fall These set tire to a number of houses and a most appalling panic set in A cry was raised that the end of the world was at hand and people rushed out of their houses into the ink black dust deep streets The most amazing and terrifying displays of the power of lightning are seen on mountains In 1S00 a party was on the top of a mountain in the Caucasus when a huge violet ball sur rounded by vivid rays struck a rock near by and exploding like a bomb burst into atoms One of the party was badly hurt Stilton Cheese The secret of making Stilton cheese was for some time confined to the fam ily of the original inventors who were under an engagement to sell all they could make to the famous Cooper Thornhill of Stilton Being thus to be obtained of him alone it received tln appellation of Stilton cheese but it would have been more appropriately named Wichcote cheese being first made in that village on the eastern side of Leicestershire about thirty miles from Stilton London Standard Helping Him Mr Backward Well er yes since you ask me I was thinking of consult ing a fortune teller Miss Coy To find out whom you will marry ehV Mr Backward Why er yes I- Mb C0yYVhy not ask me and save the fortune tellers fee toward the price of the ring The thicker the grass the easier to mow Alaric I mtifWTTTT I M iiniiiniiriin n r A New Line To The Northwest Through the Big Horn Basin freight A G BUMP S D CLEM BEAVER General Agent Land Seekers Information Bureau Room 6 Q Building Omaha Neb The Big Horn Basin is fast settling up and oilers tho greatest opportunities for fanners and especially FARM RENTERS to secure lino ffrnniont irrgaW ed farms at the mere cost of the water and often A SINGLh CROP CAN UL MADE TO PAY FOR THE FARM Ten yearly payment without interest This is c heapor than paying rent in am 1 cality With the completion of tho new line this promises to become a great woaltns producing region - The oil gas and irrigation of the Big Horn Basin will make that country combination of farm and industrial prosperity t Write me for full descriptive litoraturo Go with me to tho Basin and let me select you a new home DOLLARS FAID FOR RENT ARE LOST TO nrra Trees and Seeds That Grow For the past 24 years we have supplied our customers 1l CMao fpono nnfl Snorls flint OTOW We carry a most complete line of Fruit and P5m0gS Com- B niah Buibs etc at low prices Apple fSB of all kinds of 6c Plum 12c Cherry 15c Peach im Farm Garden and 5c all budded trees Con- ftfcmg Flower Seeds to select cord GrapesS250 per cfeM from Write for our larue 112 Real Estate and Insurance Room Two over McConnelPs drufc store McCook Nebraska TEMPERANCE COLUMN Conducted by the McCook W C T STRAWS One of the nun who make the engrav ings for this pppr said to the editor some time ao Prohibitions coming in namiiiKii northern stit all right What mulcts you think so Well I have fiiends up there who have money invps trcl in the browing liusuirs s and theyre getting it out as fast as they can As The Union Signal has stated before acres of stonw space are rnquired for the saloons fixtures returned to the brewers from oted out saloons One great brewery at leastit is re ported has begun burning theso fix tures The same brewery is reported to be running only three days a week instead of seven days and seven nights as form erly And now comes the information from a reliable source that the head of this brewery is quietly seeking to borrow nionej civertisinejfor small sums un der an aent8 name The figures of the internal revenue depaitment are all that is needed to show that the consumption of liquor is falling otT Liquor men aro desperate and they continue to pour money without stint into anti prohibition campaigns But there must be a ultimate limit to the source of suppl with pionibition ter ritory increasing and the liquor mns revenue consequently falling off These things are not repeated in any spirit of exultation over anothers loss we should be glad to see these men prosperous if they would earn their pros perity in a clean business In California and other wine growing states the grapes are being used in creasingly for unfermented grape juice Breweries are said to be conxertible in to icejplants and there will be increasing demand for commercial alcoho a use for distilleries The facts citpd point to the prog ress of an evolution A number of months asjo The Union Signal made the statement that men who have money in vested in the liquor business will un doubtedly withdraw it as the profits of that business fall eff before the advance of prohibition so that by time national prohibition is achieved there will be com paratively little loss to anyone through the closing of liquor plants It is not necessary to repeat here that the pros perity brought by prohibition will pro vide emplojment for many times the capital now invested in liquor making It is a dangerous thing to take a cough medicine containing opiates that merely stifle your cough instead of curing it Foleys Honey and Tar loosens and cures the cough and expels the poisonous germs thus preventing pneumonia and consumption Refuse substitutes and take only the genuine Foleys Honey nnrl Tnr in thf VplloW nackatie A Mc- 1 Alillen page catalog and Garden Guide Wo moiT snmn free of charcre to anyone intnrPQted nlsn samole Dackane of our New Coreless Tomato the finest of all Tomatoes rPPMAM NURSERIES BOX 225 BEATRICE HE3 wo k F E Whitney svv jnfnrrf JOHN E KELLEY ATTORNEY AT LAW and BONDED ABSTEACTEB McCook Nebraska Agentof Lincoln Land Co and of McCook Waterworks Office in Postofficu bnildinsr 1 Walter Hosier WHITNEY HOSIER Draymen Prompt Services Courteous Treatment Reasonable Prices GIVE US A TRIAL Office First Door South of DeGrofPs Phones 13 and Black 244 FRED WIGGINS AUCTIONEER will cry your sales any tim any where Bills post ed in the Sappa coun try and tin cups fur nished for your free lunch witb o u t extra charge Terms S10 first S1000 or less 1 per cent on all sales r u ning over 81000 Dater made by The Uanbury News Danbury iNeor KTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT7TTTT The Updike Grain Co sells the following coals Nigger Head Maitland Canyon City Lump Canyon City Nut Baldwin Lump Iowa Lump Pea Coal Wier City Lump Wier City Nut Sheridan Egg Rex Lump Pennsylvania Hard Coal S S Garvey Manager Phone 169 4 4 4 4 4 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 - 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 -4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 nAMXXAAMJkXXAAAXXAAXXAXXMXM FOIEYSHOHETHC gtps the coisglx and heals luxg K