THE FALLS CITY TRIBUNE
Consolidations—Falla City Tribune,
Humboldt Enterprise, Kulo Record,
Crocker's Educational Journal and
Dawson Outlook.
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Entered as second-class matter at
Falls City, Nebraska, post office, Janu
ary 12, 1904, under the Act of Congress
On March 3 1H79.
Published every Friday at Fall* City
Nebraska, by
The Tribune Publishing Company
One year- .. Sl.fjO
Six months . . .7;>
Three month* .JO
TELEPHONE 226.
Does anyone know what has
become of the Falls City Chatan
qna?
Have you been at Lending the
ball games? lie!ter drop down
this week and help the 1m»vs out.
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Don't let anyone worry about
the future of the Tribune, ll
will still continue to he the re
publican organ it) the county.
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An artificial iec and old slot
age plant is one of the things of
Ihe immediate future. 11 will In*
a good investment and will fill
an acutely felt want.
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Prof. Hurst would make an ex
cellent county superintendent.
Ills qualifications are unsurpass
ed and his youth and energy
would tend to make him very
valuable in the office.
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Just bear in mind when 1h<
primaries roll around next month
that Judges Lctton, Knot and
Itose have given service on the
supreme court of the highest
character and are entitled to a
second term.
Hadn’t Me.Quiro bettor wake
up ami do something about the
local post office? We heard all
sorts of promises from his manag
ers during the campaign but no
thing has come of them. Some of
his friends had better stir him
up a little.
The state republican conven
tion should unequivocally indorse
President Taft. There are doubt
less features of his administration
that do not appeal to all of us.
but despite party dissent-ion and
contrary purposes, the President
has made a splendid executive
and deserves fair treatment at
the hands of the party.
Saturday is the last, day to]
file. Some republican would
have an easy time in being elect-j
•d to succeed most any of the,
tcany termers that seeui unable
to let loose. A large number of]
democrats are in open revolt
against Gagnon. Fentmi and
others who seem determined, to
hold their offie.es for lift^j
The republican party in the
•ounty discloses an aparthy al
most beyound understanding.
Other counties are holding «oun- j
conventions, filing for nomin
ations and preparing to wage a
vigorous campaign. Richardson
•onutv alone seems to be content
with present conditions. Isn’t it1
about time for the county chair
man to get busy and do some
thing T
Who lias the west end that it
wants to offer as a candidate f 1
The county clerk, clerk of the
eourt or any of the other offices
might just well be filled by a re
publican for the next term, and
the west end as elsewhere. This
is the most favorable year the re
publicans have had in years and
it seems a shame to let it go by
without improving the opportun
ity.
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If you want to reach the rail
road men and their families you
must do it thorguh the columns
of this paper. During our sub
scription contest one of their
members was a candidate and to
keep him they all put their names
on our list. An advertisement in
the Tribune will reach them as
no other paper will. This can be
demonstrated if you care to in
vestigate.
Dick James is said to have as
piartions to fill Gagnon’s shoes,
but the ring are after him and
will probably scare him out. Of
course Dick has always been a
consistent democrat, was a sol
dier in the Philli pines where he
received a wound that has
crippled him for life, is splendid
ly qualified and all that, but
what are little things like that
to the ring. The court, house and
all the offices are theirs now and
forever. If you don't believe it
just suggest that sis and eight
ami ten yours are enough, just
ask them if they hadn’t hotter
give some other men in their
party a chance, and see what
t hey do to you.
President Tuft \s reciprocity hill
seems to he having a pretty hot
time during these days of torrid
weather. Ho far as tin1 Tribune
is concerned we hope iL will he
defeated, blit at the same time il
is iihiiisng to watch insurgent
congressmen stand from under.
The reeiproeity treaty is the log
ical outcome of the attacks made
upon Ihe tariff system by < on
grcHsman Norris and .Murdock
and La Follett and Cummins.
Tiles > gentlemen suddenly dis
covered that the economic
principle which has made
the republican party great, and
lias built this nation intoa n em
pire; the principle to which Lin
coln, (Jart’ield, Maine and Me
Kinlcy gave the hast, work of
their lives, was infamous, and
with a loud voice demanded the
destruction of the tariff to re
duce the “cost of living."’ From
such demands has collie the reci
procity treaty which removes the
tariff on live stock and cereals
and leaves the western fanner at
the mercy of the Canadian far
mer. Those who are responsible
art* now s eking cover, howling
against the treaty, end refusing
to father their own offspring.
Their opposition to the treaty
will not deceive anybody. The cry
of “Stop Thief” lms lieen over
worked, Too much protesting
has been unpopular since tin
days of Lady Macbeth.
SHOT WKLL NOT AUTHORIZED
F. A. Sliotwell, of Omaha, sec
retary of the Nebraska Frogrcs
sive Republican League, went
clown to Washington last week
arul evidently thought he couldn't
got what ho went there to see the
president for without declaring
himself for Taft for another
term. The Washington reporters
gave Out the inference that the
Neharska League* was, therefore,
for Tuft. Accordingly a meeting
of the officers and executive com
mittee of the League met at Lin
coln last, Friday and expressed
themselves strongly that .Mr.
Sliotwell spoke his own opinion
only, and was in no way author
ized to speak for the League and
formulated a telegram to Con
gressman Norris to give publicly
to tin* correction. The League
was organized to fight for cer
tain progressive principles and
to fight for certain men only as
a means of getting those princi
ples. Since the presidential pri
maries do not come until next
April it was decided to leave any
r"?pression of choice for candl
dates ofr president alone for the
present, - and do what could be
done towards getting prgoressive
delegates to the coming state
platform convention which meets
at Lincoln on the 25th of this
month. Last year John L. Web
ster was allowed to write into
the platform a lot of his old time
flowery campaign thunder that
didu t suit or reflect the senti
ments of the progressive repub
licans of the state. The Norris
resolution punctured it and let a
lot of hot air out of it but it
never should have been allowed
to go through and wouldn’t have
had it not been presented to the
convention with the majority re
port lor county option, and the
county option folks were afraid
to make a fight on it for fear of
losing what they had their
hearts set on, namely, county op
tion. This question is now settl
ed or will be when the initiative
and referendum is adopted, and
the republicans of the state shoud
this year write a genuinely pro
gressive platform on both nation
al and state issues, and thus
show our true colors. Let every
progressive in the state bead his
energies to this point and make
whatever sacrifices necessary to
see that the coming platform con
vention faithfully reflects the un
questioned progressive sentiment
in this great and good state of
ours.
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The Hastings Republican re
marks that this is the first year
in the history of Adams coun
ty- :ind perhaps in the history
of Nebraska, that new wheat
has heeu harvested, marketed,
milled and sacked ready for use
as early as June 27. The thing
really happened, for the editor
of the Republican was sitting be
side a sack of flour when he
Avrote. J he earliest date at
Avliich flour from new wheat was
milled in Hastings previous to
this year was on July 7, 1910.
RINGLING BROS. COMING.
World’s Greatest Circus Soon
To Visit This City.
With an entirely new outfit
Mingling Brothers’ World’s Great
est Shows will give one perform
ance in Falls * ity on Tuesday.
August 1, afternoon only.
Bach season finds tin's cirrus
larger and better. The progress
that will lie noted this year is
exceptional. It manifests itself
first iri the new pageant, built
by foreign artists and designers
at the European workshops of the
show in Stoke-on Trent, Bngland.
When visitors apporach the show
grounds the size of the city of
tents fills them with amazement.
The menagerie has been inereas
ed and the main exhibition tent
is the largest in the world. It is
a labyrinth of stages, rings and
gymnastic and aerial equipment,
filling the arena from ground to
dome. There are 37b performers.
Over 300 of them are liurupeans.
There are at least fifty sense- j
tion arts on the long program.
There is an introductory spec
tacle, built on a scale of nnigni
ficcnse never attempted in the
past. In it 1,200 people, oyer half
the elephants in America and
hundreds of horses are used. The
magic touch of the Mingling man
agement i;} evident thorughout
every department of the circus.
New York City unanimously
through its newspapers, stamps
this show as the best ever seen
iu Manhattan. The porgram is
delightfully fresh and new, and
varied enough to suit all tastes.
This is the twenty-eighth year
of the Mingliug Brothers as show
men. On April 3, 1883, they gave
their first performance in the
public park of their native city,
, Uaraboo, Wis. The tent was
homemade. The seat planks were
borrowed from a neighboring
lumber yard. The boys made
their own ring porperties and
gave the performance. They had
but one horse. They all doubled
in brass. It, would be impossible
| to begin in a smaller way. They'
had the right stuff in them and
they did not know there was
such a word in the dictionary as
i “fail.”
During their first summer they
did not go many miles from Bar
I aboo. They had to travel entire
ly by wagon, and their one horse
I was not equal to the task of a
long tour, t’he following season
they had three horses, and some
times showed as far away from
their home tow n as a hundred
miles. Today their one horse is
supplanted by a train of over
one mile in length. In a single
season they often go from Maine
to California and from Canada to
Mexico. Their history between
that one horse and their fif>0
horses of today reads like a tale
from the Arabian Nights.
There are five brothers in the
firm. A1 Kingling is the eques
trian director. No circus director
or stage manager in the world
can equal him in the art of spec
tacular gorupings or in giving
style and speed to a performance.
Charles Kingling is at the head
of the pictorial advertising. Three
special ears, traveling ahead of
the show, do this work. Each
car lias a force of twenty-five
advertisers and billposters. Ot
to Kingling is the financial direc
tor. lie is a marvel of system
and knows how to handle big
things with nerve and sure aim.
John Kingling is the router of
the show. He knows every city
and town in the country i.nd is
well posted ou agricultural and
mercantile conditions. Alfred T.
Kingling heads the bureau of
publication. Every editor and
important newspaper and maga
zine man in the United States
knows him.
Scramble For Hay
Ilay will be hay this year. That
much is assured now. Wild
meadows will cut but a meager
crop and the second crop of al
falfa has quite generally been
cut very short by drouth. We
talked with a western Nebraska
farmer last week who was in the
market then for his next win
ter’s hay. He figured that he
wouldn’t be able to get it any
cheaper later in the season and
he wanted to be sure of a sup
ply before the scramble began.
An exchange relates that three
train loads of hay were recent
ly shipped from western Nebras
ka to Chicago, the price being
$2:1 per ton on the track at the
shipping point. That certainly
forebodes high priced hay next
fall and winter. But before fall
ing into a panic over the hay
question it is well to remember
that the corn crop has wonderful
possibilities as a forage crop
when it is all utilized. We have
become so used to wasting a
large part of the corn crop in
good seasons that we do not re
alize how much valuable forage
is may supply. A liberal acreage
of our corn will be converted in
to silage or fodder this fall, and
that will help to relieve the bay
shortage. Nebraska Farmer.
Turtles Bound To Stakes.
Muskogee, Ok., July.13.- Tin;
fullblood Creek Indians in this
vicinity of Wetumka, Ok,, have
become seriously alarmed over
the continued drouth which
threatens the loss of their crops
and a winter of famine, and have
resorted to ancient tribal cus
toms to induce rain. Farmers
near Wetumka have found num
bers of mud turtles bound to
stakes along the Canadian river,
which is at a very low stage. The
turtles were tied within a few
inches of the river, where they
could see the water but could
not reach it unless a rain and
consequent rise in the river
borught the water closer to them, j
Inquiry developed that tin* lull
bloods had caught hundreds of
turtles which were staked out
along the river to "[tray for
rain.” It is tin* Indian theory
that the turtles in their dying
agony will implore the ‘‘Great
Spirit” to send the rain and that
their prayers. Avid be granted.
Some of the compulsory prayers j
of the turtles seem to have been
answered, for there have been
several rains, but the Indians
are continuing their proxy peti
tions to Providence in hopes of
a deluge that will guarantee late
corps and provision for the Avin
ter.
Will this anti-tobacco law
teach the hoys to be dishonest?
In every country tlie fellows
who talk patriotism the loudest
are the ones who never go to
war themselves but manage to
profit richly from government
contracts or political office.
It is impossible to exterminate
all the flies, but there ought to
be some way to keep them out
of the victuals. Nothing is so
calculated to take (lie romance
out of a rare steak as to find
a crushed and humiliated fly on
the under side of it.
rhibseribe I >r the Tribune.
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WANTED: Stock to pasture.
Have about 500 acres of bluff
pasture Drop me a card and I
will call. 0. E. Rurgess, Rarada,
K F. D No. 1.
i OR RENT: Furnished rooms,
seven blocks north of Round
bouse on 11th and Fulton. Ray
mond Schloss.
WANTED TO RENT—Furnish*
ed rooms for light house keeping.
Inquire at Tribune.
Speaking of the j|
Divorce Evil
Trying to succeed in business
without advertising is like the
case of the man who, trying to
cut expenses, divorced his wife
and alone attempted to keep
house and raise his children.
It cost him more money for
doctor bills- and funeral ex
penses in a year than he gave
his wife in a lifetime.
When advertising is
divorced, business suc
cess becomes failure.
This paper is building your
neighbor's business. He has
I reasons. He tried advertising
I and it helped him. It is not
an experiment—this paper
brings results. Good, hard,
convincing results — dollars.
(Cbpjrrtslu, MW. »t W. M. U.)
Kk.
Groceries
w I . carry as good and complete
stock as any in the city. Give
your orders prompt and careful atten
tion with a prompt and free delivery.
We will offer you a Sficcial in China
later : : : : :
Chas. SVI. Wilson s
I^^THE GRAND«~
Theatre
L«™latest in—-e
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Our pictures come to us
direct from the factory
und you wiil always find
us showing all the new
and up-to-date pictures.
A visit wil) convince you.
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Cool!
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By attending the GRAND
Plenty of electric fans
placed in the house so as
to insure you a comfort
able seat. An evening
spent here will be a bene
fit to you both pleasing
and intellectual. Every
night is a special Pro
gram with us and we give
you value received.
Admission
Children 5c Adults 10c
DOORS OPEN 7:30 p. m.