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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
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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
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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
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Residence and Business
Property for Rent
Office Phone 16 Residence Black 333
McCOOK NEBRASKA
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V Franklin Pres G H Watkins Vice Pros
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A New Line
To The Northwest
Through the Big Horn Basin
freight
A G BUMP
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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
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JOHN E KELLEY
ATTORNEY AT LAW and
BONDED ABSTEACTEB
McCook Nebraska
Agentof Lincoln Land Co and of McCook
Waterworks Office in Postofficu bnildinsr
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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
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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
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