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l3 f lie fribuu. STEVENS & BARE, Editors akd Props. ATUBDAT. MABCH 10, 1M7. f ' 7 , - '.f?' - 1 Vy, v". . "--if There were three things absent from the anarchist funeral in Chi cago last Sunday that had been counted on to make it a grand suc otae the crowd, Neebe and Mrs. Parsons. It was a thin and cold fair, there being a notable absence of dynamite in the addresses of the- speakers. 1U. Rosiwatm has filed charges against members of the judiciary committee accusing them of having received bribes on the gambling bill and the Omaha charter bill. Tfc ic believed to be one of his artful ito. avoid an investigation of, KoraiMuferul election Roar is. sharp .and icam r handle the membess of the legisla ture to perfection. Tmx Omaha Republican has put in a Bullock we primting press, the only first-class machine of the kind in the State. In his article des criptive of the same, Mr. Rounds gives quite a history of the advances made in the printing art during his experience of over forty years. The Republican has always been a good paper, and under the new Manage ment it is excelling and meeting with deserved success. Judge Russell, the gentleman elected Commander of the Depart ment of Nebraska 6. A. R.,is chair man of the judiciary committee of the house. He does not stand well in the estimation of the Bee, and that paper abuses him in its usual strain. Few people have the cour age to stir up a skunk like the editor of the Bee, and Judge Rus sell received a hearty endorsement at the hands of the veterans for his braverv. The most scrupulously honest man ever appointed receiver of the U. S. Land Office at North Platte has been again rejected by the senate. This time, as before the cause is laid to Van Wyck's influ ence. An influence such as Van is capable of should make no difference when an honest man is interfered with. The administration is cer tainly justified in re-appointing Mr. Shannon aad keeping nim re appointed until-a senate is elected vhowifr confirm the-appointment. -Ogallala News (Dem.) From letters recently received it is evident the News is correct as to the cause. It appears that Van Wyck begged the committee as a last personal courtesy to report ad versely. That Republicans of the committee should depart from a just course and reject a nomination for such reasons is certainly not commendable. glass with the bis end to his eve when he views a rich man's proper- J 3 11 . 1 1 1 f- jj ana me smaii ena wnen ne views a poor man 's property, immediatly sprang w nis ieec opposing tne motion and advocating the old wav. that is to set a value on lands, a certain value for. rough lands, a cexffr vakwvfor hay lant etc?, which wouW ffrtatly assist the as sessor, for The would not Hate to racg-Juf ghrins (and probably show "his ignorance) to seta value on lands, and by implication hinted that the county assessors were too ignorant to set a proper value upon lands. Mr. Dick promptly answer ed him that the same measure used for personal property should be used for real estate; that it would be im possible to classify lands in that way so that they would pay an equal tax on their value; that the assessors were intelligent men elect ed by the people; were on the ground and were better capable to place value on their lands than those who had not seen them. Several of the country assessors expressed them selves in the same vein and it was plain that all the country, assessors were agreed upon it, whenMiv Van BrotSdm gained the everlasting gratitude of the people of Worth Platte by amending the motion by including the Real Estate in the citv of North Platte. The amend ment was promptly accepted by Mr. Dick, the motion was put and al most unanimously carried. At a first glance the great import ance of the action of the meeting is not seen, but effects will be felt for all future time; for it has estab lished a unit of measurement of values (the same as a foot rule is of distance.) It places the poor man's possessions on the same level as the rich: it enables the tax paver to know if he is assessed too high, and it takes away the power from stupid and corrupt commissioners of unjust unequalizing. All honors to the late Board of Assessors for they have earned our everlasting gratitude. James Belton. LATE INTERESTING EVENTS. The prohibition amendment was killed dead in the house, and we shall, not have the pleasure of wrangling over that vexed question next fall. While all good people earnestly desire the evils of intem porance abated, under the present condition of society the high license system with local option seems to be the best for regulating the traffic. We know that our radical friends say that it is a sin to license an evil; but the question is, is it not better under certain cir cumstances? There are certain evils that are not licensed but are outlawed; yet with all the power of the law and public opinion against them they are as rampant to-day as they were fifty years ago. The law should hold the liquor business with a firm hand by the throat, keep gradually tightening the muscles until the life (the profit) is choked out of it; then it will die. If or Good to Flow From It. Editors Tribune: The meeting of the assessors Tues day was one of the most important meetings ever held in Lincoln coun ty, and there will more good flow from it than any meeting ever held in the county, for the assessors established a just and equal system of assessing, using one unit of measurement for the poor and rich, for personal property and for Real Estate. They tore away the veil which our whilom assessor hid behind and made the people believe the art of assessing was a great mystery, would not let them seehow much he would assess their lots at; and when exposed for unjust asses sing would tell the injured that he was not to blame, the commissioners ought to have equalized. The assessors placed the value of horses at twenty dollars, cattle at six dollars, hogs at one dollar, sheep i at twenty-five cents and all other personal property at one-fifth the j actual value. When farm lands were reached, Mr. Dick moved that they should be assessed the same as j personal property, that is at one fifth the actual value. The asses sor who looks through a spy Forepaugb and Barnum. r orepaugu ana ournum maae a combined street parade in New York Saturday night last which was wit nessed by fully a million people. Thev play together in Madison Square Garden six weeks, taking the place or tsunaio Bins wild West, then in opposite directions, Barnum east and Forepauph west. They have mutually agreed by con tract, good for four years, to divide the country, only one of these big shows to exhibit m the same place during the saine season. Fore pauglrs demonstration in New York Saturday night was a most magnifi cent affair, well sustaining his claim of possessing the "greatest of all great shows." It required three special trains of about thirty cars each to bring his show from Phila delphia to New York, which is cer tainly more than was ever possessed by any showman in the world. He has added for this season all the features of the remodeled Wild West show precisely as presented under his management at Madison Square Garden during the past winter. James B.EadB Dead. Capt. James B. Eads, the eminent civil engineer, died at Nassau, N. P., on the 8th of March of pneu monia. James B." Eads, C. E., was born at Lawrenceburg, Ind., May 20th. 1820, removed with his parents in 1829 to Louisville, Ky., and from there after the death of his father to St. Louis in 1833, where he has since remained. In 1839 he served as clerk on a river steamboat plying on the Mississippi and in 1842 was active in forming a company to recover sunken pro perty and raise wrecked steamers on the Miss issippi and its tributaries. At the outbreak of the civil war in 1861 he submitted to the govern ment a plan for the defense of the Western waters. He designed and constructed in 1862 and 1863 the first eight iron-clad steamers in the United States navy. He afterward designed and built six ironclad gun boats wkh rotating turrets. He was the projector and constructing engineer of the St. Louis bridge, and has deepened by means of jetties the South Pass of the Mississippi from eight to 30 feet, and his remaining sole idea was to complete his scheme of the ship railway across the Isth mus. In August 1884 he was awarded the Albert medal by the Society of Arts in England in re cognition of the valuable aid which his" services have rendered to the commerce of the world. The steamer "Great Eastern" was reeently sold at auction at Liverpool bringing 26,000, or about $125, 000. She is used for exhibitions and excursions, although she is said to be still sea-worthv. The vessel is 798 feet long, 82" feet 8 inches wide and 60 feet deep, having about doble the tonage of any sea-going vessel afloat. After the failure of the cable laid by the Niagara and Agamemnon in 1857 the Great Eastern was employed for the pur pose, and laid the first successful Atlantic telegraph cable, and after wards grappled the broken cable lost the year previous in the center of the ocean and brought to the surface from a depth of two miles. Mr. J. W. Morse, general pass enger agent of the Union Pacific Road, reports that passenger busi ness is very heavy just now, and that under the rates charged the traffic is profitable. Red "Willow Precinct. Those ever welcome harbingers, the feathered tribe, remind us that spring. time is near. Farmers are prepanngtne ground for seeding and indicationfkiwint to the sowing of a large amount of small . . t grain, out we an oeueve corn win oe tung of the field. rtsmts DSqulfe Hay ward and wifel'aretyidting xmnds Utfs week atiiays tenter, v- ' j There wUrbefstfcre,e. weeks-bf, scbepl yet la district iso. 20. , t Rov. Giles preached last Sabbatlrat the house of .N. B. Xeeler. Isiah Brown talks of selling his farm in Iowa and using me receipts in improving nis land in tnis part of Nebraska. Schuyler Braugh has been selling his stock and making arrangements to go to Wyoming where he has twentv-six hundred head of cattle to bo looked after. Mr. Beckwith and family haye again returned to their claims after spending a very pleasant winter at North Platte. Henry PattPrson, after at severe spell of sickness at Grand Island has returned to his claim. E. N. Keeler is prepared to keep travel ers and their teams over night, furnishing them the best accommodations the coun try affords. Mr. Wilber was quite severly kicked by one of his colts a short.time ago, but is now better and able to be about Land seekers will yet find some good government land near the Keeler post office, in Lincoln County, where water can be had at a depth ot 40 to 70 feet near to school and church, thirteen to fifteen jl mues to umuer, ana irom six to ten miles from the Nebraska, and Colorado exten-i lesion of the B. &r tM. Railway. - Industri- ous ana wiae-awaKe settlers, with a firm determination to stay, grow up with and develop the country, will receive a cordial and hearty welcome. Come. The Tribune is welcomed as the paper giving all of the county news. You may expect more anon from Yours truly, E T Keelek P. O. March 15, 1887. It takes about three Montana snowflakes -to bury a steer clear out of sight, and Montana snow flakes have been plentiful this year. Mrs. Louisa Sturger, the last surviving member of the noted Ewing family, died at Fort Wayne, Ind., March 10 at an advanced age. Her father was the owner of one third of the land that Fort Wayne is built upon, and her brother, the late George W. Ewing, was the owner of the vast Ewing estate in Chicago. Sioux City Republican: The Pullman Palace Car compauy was beaten, it will be remembered, in the United States circuit court in the contest with the state of Iowa, the court deciding that the corpora tion could not sneak out of the duty to pay taxes on properly which the state is bound to protect. The State authorities accordingly pro ceeded with the proper steps to force the shirking corporation to pay taxes. Now the corporation has served notice that it will apply to the United States supreme court for an injunction to restrain the county treasurers from collecting taxes pending an appeal in that court. The Pullman Palace Car company is very small: except-in- llKeep it out of the papers," is the request newspaper men receive almost every week. To oblige often costs considerable thought The party making it hardly worth a "thank you." The subscribers ex pect the news, and there is always wonder when, for sweet charity's sake for the sake of those near and dear a thesi an item on the street and in everybody's mouth is not found in the next issue . of the pa per. The editor who honestly works for the good of all, will, as far as possible, suppress all items that will derogate from the interests and good oi his town. But he very rarely gets credit for this. The failure to note some scandal or row is often attributed to fear or favor, rather than the truth a desire to protect and perpetuate the fair name of the town. The Rev. Dr. Charles Henry Hall, rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, conducted the services over the remains of the late Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, both at the Beecher residence and in Plymouth church. That a clersrvman of the Protestant Episcopal Church had charge of the occasion is due to an arrangement made years ago by Mr. Beecher. During the war Dr. Hall was pastor of the Epiphany Church at Wash ington. That church became the religious home of many of the young men from the Plymouth con gregation who went into the army, and in this wav Mr. Beecher and Dr. Hall heard a good deal of each other. In 1869 Dr. Hall moved to Brooklyn. He and Mr. Beecher became fast friends. When Mr. Beecher's sister, Catherine, died at Elmira, Dr. Hall offered to ero to Elmira and officiate at the funeral. In declining Mr. Beecher wrote that he felt it a good time to inform Dr. Hall of something that the Beecher family had long known that it was his desire, should Dr. Hall survive him, that he officiate at his funeral. AKlH POWDER Absolutely Pure rh2 powder never varies. A marvel of parity, Btrraxtn sad vhotesomeiees. More economical 4 had the -ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition with the moltftnde of low teet short weight aluR'or phospaate powders. Bold only in cans. Hotai. JiAKinf Powder Co., 106 Wall gfr.New Xork. J The Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska. The latest word from the track layers on the C. K. & N. is that they had reached a point some eight or ten miles west of Hebron, and if nothing happens they are expected at iiuskin next week, and perhaps at Nora. Nelson Gazette. It seems to be settled that the Denver branch of the C. K. &" N. will start from Deshler instead of Iiuskin, as first contemplated, pro vided the localities on the latter line vote the aid asked, as they doubtless will. is the complaint of thousands suffering from Asthma. Con sumption, Coughs, etc. Did you ever try Acker's English lieiu.-dy? It 33 the best DreDaration knovr:: f'r rl Lunr Troubles. sold on a positive urautco at 10c, 60c. AtThacker's Drug store. I, G: R. Hammoa mayor of the city of orttrIfetifec'!I by virtue of the poweciaJ me-1, yelled, do hereby direct that od Teiday, the 5th day of April, 1887, a city Section forjthe city of North Platte? b held for the election of the following officers: One mayor. One clerks'. . , One treasurer. One city engineer. One councilman, 1st ward. One councilman, 3d ward. 5wo councllmen, 8d ward. Two members qf Board of Education for district No. 1, ior three years. That the polls for said election be open at 0 o'clock a. m. and remain open until 7 o'clock p. m. of said day. Given under my hand this 2d day of March 1887 , G. R. Hammond, C. C. Hawkins, Mayor. rCiiy Clerk: -7- ,.j'.r - a. 2- . ""AT 5 s 'A Liberal Offer ! if to rue and either of the following papers for S PER YEAR. 2 Chicago .Inter Ocean, Lincoln vT ournal, .Omaha Herald, Omaha . Republican. OasK must accom- pany.aJL orders. FOR RENT. irOU TEN DAYS WE WILL OFFER Stock aud Hay Raiiche SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS t-onsisnng or zsu acres situated 7 miles west of North Platte. h Five hundred tons of hay can be cut from the land each year. Good house and corrall on premises. Four .1 mi mnes 01 wire ience on ianq: rne ranch will be leased tor one or more years. Apply to A. H. Church or T. D. Cotton, North Platte, Neb. -ON- Pianos and Organs, For Cash or on Monthly Payments. V3r WE HANDLE North Platte Chickering, Vose & Sons' and Behr Bros MEAT :-: MARKET, Shoninger, Clongh & Warren and Sterling ELM k N, Props. A IiAIigk Stock of the Choicest Meats, Game, Fish, Poultry, Oysters, &c, . 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