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BURLINGTON TIME TABLE
East Depart Central Time
No 6 1130 P M
16 500 A M
2 550 A M
12 635 AM
14 920 P M
10 530 P M
West Depart Mountain Time
No 1 1220 P M
3 1142 P M
5 arrive 835 p m
13 930 A M
15 1230 A M
9 625 A M
Imperial Line Mountain Time
No 176 arrives 330 P M
No 175 departs 645 A M
Sleening dining and reclining chair
cars seats free on through trains
Tickets sold and baggage checked tc
any point in the United States or
For information time tables maps
and tickets call on or write D F
Hostetter Agent McCook Nebraska
or L W Wakeley General Passen
ger Agent Omaha Nebraska
RAILROAD NEWS NOTES
Conductor F F Neubaurer
is on the sick List
Brakeimm A F Denton is
in a hospital in Denver
Mrs E II Wooldridge went
down to listings Wednesday
Engineer II Goldensky is
moving his family here from Den
vex
Brakcman C L Davis was
a Trenton passenger Tuesdav on
No 13
The Rack Island had several
trains stuck in the snow in Kan
sas Tuesday
Clyde Rankin and K D Ja
cobs took a trip to Iloldrsge on
Tuesday night
Brnkeman E E Smith 1m
been transferred from the Lin
coln diviision to McCook
E B Barris representative
of the 1yle Headlight Co was
at headquarters yesterday
Conductor J II Broker of
the Orleans St Francis branch is
vise ting his parents in Denver
Shoving a cut of cars in
on the house track last nights the
bumpcir was torn loose and a set
of trucks knocked off the fore
mes tear
Mel McCord has been
at Red Cloud in his peti
tion with the company by Chas
McCord Mel has moved onto a
farm 8 miles east of Red Cloud
Another snow plow was sent
out from McCook to the Kansas
branches yesterday afternoon
Both branches were pretty badly
tied up by the snow last night
Wednesday and Wednesday
night s snow an dwind storm was
severer on the west end of the
division ithan it was east of Mc
Cook more snow and higher
wind
Mrs Harry Glick died en
route from Denver to Chicago
Monday night on Xo 2 and was
taken off at Akron She was ac
companied by her husband and
father Consumption was the
cause of her death
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EMPIRE OP 80000
ACRES RECLAIMD
NEAR STERLING
Sterling ColMarch 9 People
in Sterling and Loigan county arc
jubilant at the news from Point
of Rock that water began flowing
an to the1 reservoar at 1U o clocic
last niehb It took iust 15 days
and five Siours from -the time the
headgates of the big canal at the
Plaitte river were raised letting
the water into the channel until
it was running over the dam of
the enormous reservoir 16 miles
northeast of Sterling The peopi
consider at one of the greatest
events that has occurred since
town was incorporated It means
thousands of dollars to this town
and country It means S0000
acres of the finest prairie land in
the West will be reclaimed as
the North Sterling irrigation dist
met is one of the largest dn tlhe
state
The canal and reservoir were
constructed at a cost of 2
0S0000 the length of the dam be
ing 5077 feet The heiighth is 87
feet and depth of the water in
the deepest place when the reser
voir is filled will be 77 feet
which will increase to 85 feet
when folic enlaigements of tho
daim are completed The area
covered by water in the reservoir
is practically -1000 acres and one
will have to travel 33 miles to got
around the big body of water one
at the high water mark o ne
would have to travel 40 miles
The big tbasin at the present
time will store S0000 acre feet of
water and when the enlargement
is completed it will add 10000
more acre feet sto the capacity
The canal is 40 feet wide at the
bottom and is capable of carry ins
water at a depth of G feet
Land that would be worth 10
to 20 an asre without Avater will
now command the fancy price of
from 100 to 100 per acre It
also means that the county reve
nues will be increased many thou
sand dollars that the output of
alfalfa sugar beets and every
other crop that is grown in this
county Avill be practically double
and many people will be required
to cultivate and harvest the crop
raised on this big increased ac
reage
The above is from the Denver
Post of last Sunday Messrs Dc
Remer Olson were the con
tractors in this large enterprise
The secretary of our commercial
club wrote these people and the
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the effect that the work was sat 1
isfaetory
Engineer M II Griggs Fire
man A A Grigsby Fireman
Hugh Kelly and Engineer B F
Bowen were ordered to report at
Trenton in connection with a
law suit which the company has
on there
Dont Pump Your Life
Out
Get one of our Chore Boy Gasoline Engines You will find it
the cheapest help you ever hired We have in stock engines from
V2 to 4 horse power ranging in prices from 3500 to 9000 with
freight added from factory You will find all manner of uses for
these engines
Every Bit of Feed
Should be ground as it will go about one third farther and your
stock will do better with one third less feed We have Grinders
Saws and power Wasliing machines to be run with engines wiliich
we can sell you for less money than you can buy for elsewhere
Spring Time Should interest
You in how to make the most out of your chickens by using a
Cyphers or Old Trusty incubators and brooders Come in
and get a book free for the asking entitled Profitable Poultry
Raising and Poultry Growers Guide and let us show you
How to
Make Money
Witlr your cows at the least ex
pense by purchasing De Laval
Sharpies or Blue Bell high
grade separators on our easy
payment plan
Our Complete Stock of Implements
Buggies ajid Wiagons now ready including Aspinwall Potato
Planters and Deere Beet Tools j
A Dependable Automobile for 350
2Wall interest every farmer and business man- The Brush auto
mobile has no competitor If you are interested we will supply
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McCook Hardware Company
McCOOK NEBRASKA PHONE 31
PLAITS WIDOW A BRIDE PREDECESSORS OF CAPT LUX
Mrs Lillian Janeway Platt Once Popu
lar in Washington Marries
W B Atwater j
Washington The marriage recent
ly of William B Atwater to Mrs
Thomas C Piatt united a somewhat
noted aviator and the widow of a
United States senator whose fame
may be said to have been almost
world vide As the bride of Mr Piatt
Mrs Piatts youth contrasted most no
ticeably with the decrepitude of the
aged senator Now in the culmination
of her latest and by the way third ro
mance she having been Mrs Lillian
Janeway a charming widow active in
the society life of Washington when
Mr Piatt made her his bride it is
her husbands youth which may be
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Mrs Atwater
looked upon as the incongruous fea
ture of the alliance Mr Atwater im
presses those who know him as a
light hearted life loving boy while
the lady of his heart well shes sti
charming in appearance and mannc
but not by the greatest stretch cf
the imagination could one call her
girlish
As the wife of the senior senator
from the Empire state Mrs Piatt was
prominent socially As his widow she
has lived a somewhat retired life in
Central Valley N Y and there while
deputy town superintendent of roads
Mr Atwater made her acquaintance
His members buncalow is not far
from that vhich has been occupied by
Mrs Piatt
For seven years Mr Atwater was
in the United States navy and served
en berd a dispatch vessel plying be
tween Hong Kcng and Manila at the
of the Spanish American war
Foi a time he was third assistant en
gineer on board the steamship St
-Paul He is considered an expert
with automobile and other motors
Mr and Mrs Atwater will spend the
winter on the Pacific coast where
the young aviator will pursue his
study of aviation
SOME OF WARS HORRORS
Cruel Death of the Prisoners in the
Stone Quarries of Ancient
Syracuse
London All the horrors of war
have not been eliminated in these
modern days by any means although
fighting between nations is becoming
less frequent and less ferocious than
of old Today no nation would be
perniitted to deliberately starve to
death its prisoners for instance as
was done in ancient Syracuse We
have passed the rude barbaric age it
seems but there is room for further
improvement for all that
The picture shown herewith has
the appearance of quiet peaceful
days yet it is a wonder that the
rocks are net covered with red
streaks for it was in these old quar
ries near Syracuse that some 9000
Where Prisoners Perished
Athenian prisoners were confined and
left to die of hunger and thirst This
Uappened in 413 B C when the Athe
nians under Nicias and Demosthenes
were defeated by the Syracusans who
were aided by the Spartans History
records that the ships of the Athe
nians were destroyed and about 30
C00 men killed while 9000 were made
prisoners The quarries where the
prisoners were placed to perish so
miserably cover many acres in extent
having been hewn from the solid
rock by a multitude of slaves Tradi
tion does not say whether they are
haunted but it would be no matter
for surprise if the spirits of those
rid Athenian soldiers yet hung around
the scene of their greatest misery
watching for a chance to get even
with some one
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Colonel General Zirlinden
and Others Have Escaped From
Prisons in Germany
About a dozen precedents for the
Escape of CaptailrLux frbm his Ger
man prison can JjfeMdund in the his
tory of the Franco German war and
a largre proportion of the heroes of
them lived to become famous
A notable etise was that of General
then colonel feaussier ultimately
commander-in-chief of the French
army who was detained at Grandens
in the extreme east of Prussia It is
said that he put his bolster to bed in
stead of himself hid in an obscure
corner of the fortress until nightfall
and then having obtained a dis
guise by the help of his orderly was
allowed to walk out of the main
priso gate
He crossed the frontier to Poland
and returned to France by way of
Austria and Italy
General Zurlinden was another pris
oner who got out of his prison at
Glogan in Silesia on Christmas eve
He made his way in disguise through
Berlin Frankfort and Karlsruhe to
Basel a feast which was not difficult
for him as berg an Alsatian he
spoke German quite is well as his
jailers
Thirdly we may note the experi
ences of M Paul Deroulede who es
caped from Bresiau and it i piquant
to recall that that vehement anti
Semite did not disdain to disguise
himself -as a Polish Jew He was verj
nearly betrayed Ly a peasant whom
he haC bribed to guide him into Bo
hemia but he divw his knife with it
ferocious gesture and the peasant
changed his mind with the result
thai M Derouludo saw the final ftght3
of the war as a sub lieutenant of Tur
cos
CKiLDREM A REGENT FIND
Noi Before the Nineteenth Century
Were Thsy Truihfuily Portrayed
in Literature
Children were only found yesterday
Before the nineteenth century the
child mind and the child heart were
not supposed to have enough in them
to Interest the majestic adult It is
true that you iind a delightful baby in
Homer that in Virgii there is the
prettiest glimpse of a liitie girl and up
and down in the classics you may
meet half a dozen ether pleasant
shadows of children But they are
only shadows only at the most charm
ing pictures They give you much
as if they were painting or sculpture
for in childrens LoiIies art has always
had interest enough only what a
jhild looks like the pretty v eaknes
the instinct for play the naive ges
ture and movement Not till the re
turn to nature not till the spirit of
romance moved on the waters at the
end of the eighteenth century do you
find -poets beginning to teil of the
thought and faith in a childs mind
the mysteries of the childs heart the
fancies that are dreams and the fan
cies that are visions You may think
that they have gone too far that they
read into childhood the laborious phil
osophizing and sometimes the labored
sentimentality of the ad It But no
one who loves children will deny that
the best of the children in nineteenth
century books have a far richer real
ity a far fuller life than any that were
born in early works And some of
the best are in Dickens London Tel
egraph
An Indian Day
In the dew bespangled sunrise while
the air was caressingly cool we went
forth to ride along the river bank
and beside fields of yellow mustard or
dun stubble then on our return to
the shadowed tents a bath breakfast
and the days occupations then again
in the swift dusk of evening when fur
tive jackals rent the twilight stillness
with wailing and demoniac laughter
or the silver bark of little foxes
echoed over the mist veiled rice fields
white under the moon we gathered in
comfortable deck chairs in a great
dim aisle of the mango grove while
the tents shone orange in the lamp
light to tell sad stories of the deaths
of kinds or listen to the Police Chota
Sahib who had a pretty sentimental
tenor singing The Long Indian
Day Charles Johnston in the At
lantic -
Some Shakespeare Statistics
A Shakespearean enthusiast with
much leisure time on his hands and
a regular mania for statistics has dis
covered that the plays of Snaked
speare contain 106007 lines and 814
780 words Hamlet is the longest
play with 3930 lines and the Com
edy of Errors the shortest with 1777
lines Altogether the plays contains
1277 characters of which 157 are fe
males
The longest part is that of Hamlet
who has 11610 words to deliver The
part with the longest word in it Is
that of Costard in Loves Labors
Lost who tells Moth that he is not
so long by the head as honoriflcabili
tudinitatibus
Advice From Kindly Busy Body
Ob my Your house has an odor
of burning milk Dont you know how
to avoid that asked the K B B
I didnt think it was so terrible
Im sure Everybody has accidents of
that kind said the woman she was
visiting rather irritably
Now its all right of course I dont
mind it my dear but next time just
sprinkle some salt on the stove at
once after the milk is spilled and yqu
will avoid thut HuiVUwaonf nrlrv
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RAILSOAD NEWS NOTES
Fireman C E MMahon is on
tliG sick list
Every snow ploiw ait McCook
headquarters is out and in
ove
Trains 6 16 and 2 are- being
held at Akron by itdic severity of
the storm and the drifted snow
Mr and Mrs Felix Kennedy
of Sheridan Wyoming liave
been guests of her mother Mrs
Mary Mullen this week lie is
master meehajiic at Sheridan
Mrs Roy Walker of Omaiia
arrived in the coty Tuesday morn
dng on 9 and was the guest of
lier friends Mrs C B Dallon
and Mrs L E Han ford part of
itbe week
Democratic City Ticket
For Mayor
Jiaines McAdams
For Clerk
L C Stoll
For Treasurer
L Thorgrimson
For Engineer -
C G Budag
For Members Board
C n Boyle
E D Perkins
For Couneibnan 1st ward
R A Green
For Councilman 2nd ward
F L Schwab
Republican City Ticket
For Mavor
D Fllostetter
For Clerk
Linus C Stoll
For Treasurer
L Thorgrimson
For Engineer
X J Campbell
For Councilman 1st ward
A X L fneburg
For Councilman 2nd ward
Fred L Schwab
For Members Board
Albert Barnett
C II Boyle
Peoples Water Ticket
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of Hirsh Wickwire clothes and I
Clothcraft clothes
Examine
the workmanship the cloth and
the style You will find our
qualities much higher than our
prices
Gordon Hats
Once a wearer of a Gordon bat
any other
The New Spring Styles
are Great
Model Dress
Shirt
you will be hard to please with 8
For Mayor
Jimes MeAdams
For Clerk
Clifford Naden
For Treasurer
L Thorgrimson
For Engineer
C G Budig
For Councilman 1st ward
R A Green
For Councilman 2nd ward
F J Rolfe
For Members Board Education
Albert Barnett
E T Perkins
Our hobbv is good groceries
The Best of Everything i
trial order will convince you
D MAGNER Phofce 14
I the undersigned will sell at public auction without ressrve on my ranch
miles south west of McCook commencing at 10 a m on
WEDNESDAY MARCH SOtli
18 Head of Horses 18
These mares are all bred to the Shire Horse owned by Wm Little 1 sorreS
mare 9 yrs old 1 bay mare 11 yrs old 1 sorrel mare 4 yrs old 1 span black
mares 4 vrs old 1 sorrel gelding 4 yrs old 1 bay gelding 4 yrs old 1 snus
buckskin geldings 8 and 9 yrs old 1 span bay geldings 3 yrs old 1 black geld
ing 3 yrs old 1 span black and brown geldings 2 yrs old 3 horse colts coming
1 yr old 1 3addle pony
5 Head of Cattle 55 Head of Duroc Jersey
Stock Hogs Farm Machinery Etc
FREE LUNCH AT NOON
Taic Sums ofSlO and under cash On sums over 10 -a -credit of S
1 CliUSe months will be given on notes having approved security at 10 per
cent interest No articles to be removed until satisfactorily settled for
MRS S E CHRISTIAN Owner
I COL C M MATS0N Auct F A PENKfcLL LierJt