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STEVENS & BARE, Editors and Props.
SATDBDAY. MAKCH 26, 1887.
The flood in the Missouri at Bis
marck was very destructive resulting
in the loss of life and great destruc
tion of property. One whole fam
ily was swept into the river and
perished.
A Washington doctor is trying
to make put that Cleveland is is dan
ger of going off in a fit- of appoloxy.
This is denied of course, but does
not change the fact. The fat man
is a powerful high liver.
The railroad wreck in Massachu
setts was promptly followed by a
hotel horror in Buffalo, resulting in
the cremation of a dozen or more
human bodies. The accidents com
menced early in the year seem to be
holding out remarkably well.
Lauer's second trial resulted in a
verdict of acquittal, as anticipated
by all who had read the evidence.
This does not change public opin
ion in the least. If he did not kill
his wife intentionally, he was not
sorry for the act. A fellow who
sleeps in bed with a loaded pistol
has murder in his heart anyway.
Rosewater having "skipped the
bounty," the legislature was com
pelled to drop the investigation of
charges against the judiciary com
mittee. A resolution of censure
was adopted, for which Rosy cares
about as much as the snap of a
finger. Firing windy resolutions
at Rosy is as good fun as the Bee
wants.
The assessors of Keith County
agreed to assess cattle, 2, 5, 10 and
15 dollars per head: horses 8, 15, 25
and 45 dollars; mules the same;
stallions 100 to 150 dollars: sheep
50 cents per head and hogs 1 cent
per pound. Land at from one to
three dollars per acre, and personal
property at a one-third valuation.
It will he noticed that the rates are
somewhat higher than those agreed
upon in this county.
The Omaha Bepuhlican names
Myron Reed of Denver as a fit per
son to succeed Mr. Beecher in Pty
mouth church. 31r. Reed is a very
eloquent preacher and speaker. He
was the democratic nominee last
fall for member of congress from
Colorado, and came very near being
elected. In politics he is what is
called a "mugwump" or Republican
pharisee.
The Lincoln State Journal, in
order to keep up with the demands
of the times, has put in a Hoe per
fecting press, capable of printing
10,000 papers per hour, the whole
plant consisting of press, stereot7
ping outfit, &c, costing 816,000. It
signalized the event by printing for
Sunday morning's issue a 24-page
paper, giving a review of Lincoln
from the time of its location in
1868. The Journal is and always
has been one of the best papers in
the West, and its success is de
served. Mar it continue to prosper.
Gr. W. Randall, a quack doctor,
who had been operating in and
around Hastings for some time
committed an outrage upon a girl
said to be only eleven years old,
assisted by his wife. The pair had
been before the court on prelimin
ary hearing, and had been held to
bail. While awaiting the making
out of papers, a brother of the. out
raged girl fired a pistol ball through
the head of the doctor, killing him
almost instantl. The general
verdict of the people is that the
act was justified. The young man
will probably never be tried for the
offense.
The Cleveland orgaifc are point
ing with pride to the fact that the
president vetoed 132 bills during the
life of the Forty-ninth congress, or
twentv-one more than the total
number of bills vetoed from the
foundation of the government to
the beginning of that congress.
But this isn't the only reason they
have for "pointing with pride" to
the fat man. As H. Clay Dean
would have put it, the great vetoer
is the first president of the republic
who ever hung a man or debauched
a woman while in training for the
high office. If he doesn't deserve to
be "pointed to" with something,
who does? Grover is a very great
man in girth.
Tne iouowin is Lue ac
cording to the Atchison Ghbe, in
which a Topeka real estate dealer
told of a bargain he held in the
shape of a single lot: "It is all
wool and extra wide. No such
bargain between here and the head
waters of Bitter creek. Price 2,000.
Dirt cheap, you say? Well, yes.
It is worth 3.000, but I am com
pelled to sell it before next Satur
day in order to meet certain obliga
tions. It makes me groan to think
I cannot hold on to it a month and
sell it for 4,000. But what is my
loss will be somebody elses gain.
It must go at 2,000."
TAXING RAILROAD LANDS.
The following is the full text of
the act in reference to taxing un
patented railroad lands: That no
lands granted to any railroad cor
poration by any act of Congress
shall be exempt from taxation bv
States, Territories and municipal
corporations on account of the lien
of the United States upon the same
for the costs of surveying, selecting
and conveying the same, or because
no patent has been issued therefor;
but this provision shall not apply to
lands unsurveyed: Provided, that
any such land sold for taxes shall
be taken by the purchaser subject
to the lien for costs of suryeying,
selecting and conveying, to be paid
in such, manner by the purchaser as
the Secretary of the Interior may
by rule provide, and to all liens of
the United States, all "mortgages of
the United States, and all rights of
the United States in respect to such
land: Provided further, That this
act shall apply only to lands situat
ed opposite to and coterminous
with completed portions of said
roads, and in organized counties:
Provided further, That, at any sale
of lands under the provisions of
this act, the United States may be
come a preferred purchaser, and in
such case the lauds sold shall be
restored to the public domain and
disposed of as provided by the laws
relating thereto.
Sec. 2. That if any railroad cor
poration required by law to pay the
costs of surveying:, selecting:, or con-
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any lanas granted to sucn
company or for its use and benefit
by act of Congress, shall, for thirty
days, neglect or refuse to pay any
such costs, after demand for pay
ment thereof by the Secretary of
the Interior, he shall notify the
Attorney General, who shall at once
commence proceedings to collect
the same. But when any sum shall
be collected of such railroad com
pany, as costs of surveying selecting
and conveying any tracts of land
which have been purchased under
the provisions of section 1 hereof,
the Secretary of the Interior shall,
out of such collections, reimburse
said purchaser, his heirs or assigns,
the amount of money paid by him
as the costs of such surveying, sel
ecting and conveying.
Sec. 3. That this act shall not
affect the right of the Government
to declare or enforce a forfeiture
of any lands so granted: but all the
rights of the United States to said j
lands, or to any interest therein, j
shall be and remain as if this ' act
had not passed, except as to the lien
mentioned in the first section here-'
of.
Sec. 4. That section 21 of
chapter 216, approved July 2, 1864,
is hereby so amended that the costs
of surveying, selecting and convey
ing, therein required to be paid
shall become due and payable at and
on the demand therefor made by
the Secretary of the Interior as pro
vided in section 2 of this act, and
nothing in this act shall be con
strued or taken in any wise to affect
or impair the right of Congress, at
any time hereafter, further to altar,
amend or repeal the said act, as in
the opinion of Congress justice or
the public welfare may require, or
to impair or waive any right or
remedy now existing in favor of the
United States. This act shall be
subject to alteration, amendment or
repeal.
The beginning of the end of the
anarchists is more than half-way
accomplished, and this without anT
reference to the legal ending of
them; they are tumbling to pieces
by the centrifugal force of cranki
ness. It is ever thus with too great
spirits. The souls too great for the
medium-seized garments of common
sense never dwell in unity.
That which has befallen others
has befallen the great souls who,
finding that the best government on
earth was too bad for them, re
solved that they would inaugurate a
universal no-government by the
persuasive oratory of dynamite.
Even in the little group of anarchists
there could not be equalit7. Poor
Mr. Salomon was not allowed to
speak in court, and great Mr. Black
was. Brassy Mr. Spies was every
where made a center of observation
and thinking Mr. Parsons was af
forded only such vicarious notoriety
as floated from the strident oratory
of his wife. Mr. Fielden, the most
endowed with thought of all the
otherwise clattering: sang has been
allowed to sink into oblivion. Alas!
there are aristocrats even in anar
chy! What with the ciuarrelinsr law-
Ters, the discarded- dogs, and the
egotism or. spies, tne ingntiui in
tensity of tragedy has been height
ened by a touch of almost simian
comedy. Inter Ocean.
A citizen of Overton tells us of a
hunter of that town who had a very
unpleasant experience and one that
he will long remember, last week
He was duck and goose hunting oil
the river near the Overton bridge
when the ice broke up and com
menced to move. , Making lively
tracks for the nearest point of safe
ty one of the piles of the bridge
now in course of construction and
there saw the rush and whirl of the
ice and waters as they swept past
him. It was nearly dark when the
ice broke and the hunter was com
pelled to maintain his equilibrium
on his shaky perch the long night
through, and until daylight dis
closed him to the bridge workmen,
who rescued him from his tiresome
and uncomfortable situtaiton.
Plum Creek Pioneer.
THE COMMISSIONERS APPOI NTED.
The President has appointed the
following inter-state commerce
commissioners: Thos. M. Cooley,
of Michigan, for the term of six
years; Wm. R. Morrison of Illi-
nois,for the term pf five years;
Augustus Schoonmaker of New
York, for the term of four vears;
AldaceF. Walker of Vermont, for
the term of three years: Walter L.
Bragg of Alabama, for the term of
two years.
Thos. M. Cooley was bornatUtica,
N. Y., in 1824, studied law and re
moved to Michigan in 1843, w here
he has since resided. He was elect
ed a justice of the supreme court of
Michigan in 1864, 1869 and. 1877.
He is the author of some standard
legal works.
Wm. R. Morrison was born in Il
linois, is a lawyer and was in con
gress from 1875 and 1887.
Walter L. Bragg was born in
Alabama in 1838. but resided in
Arkansas from 1843 to 1861. He
was educated at the Harvard and
Cambridge law schools. He has
been the law partner of Senator
Morgan. He has been president of
the Alabama state railroad commis
sion. Aldace F. Walker is a Arermont
republican lawyer, forty-four years
old, who studied law with Senator
Edmunds. He has studied the rail
road question extensively as a mem
ber of the Vermont state senate
Augustus Schoonmaker was bom
in Ulster count', N. Y., in 1828,
and is a lawyer in active practice;
was a state senator and a close
friend of Gov. Tilden and in 1878
attorney general of New York, suc
ceeding Fairchild,
Of the five commissioners, Messrs
Morrison, Schoonmaker and Bragg
are democrats, and Messrs. Cooley
and Walker republicans.
Considerable criticism is indulged
that a republican should be named
by the president as the first on the
commission, but the law creating
the commission gives the majority
power to select a chairman from
this number. It is stated that the
president gave Judge Cooley the
longest term as a recompense for
his surrendering the receivership of
the Wabash railroad system, which
is more lucrative than his present
appointment.
More Good to Flow From It.
'Editors Tribune:
The meeting of the assessors Tues
day was one of the most important
meetings ever held m 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 see how
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
at twenty-five cents and all other
personal property at one-fifth the
actual value. When farm lands
were reached, Mr. Dick moved that
they should be assessed the same as
personal property, that is at one
fifth the actual value. The asses
sor who looks through a spy
glass witli the big end to his eye
when he views a rich man's proper
ty and the small end when he views
a poor man's property, immediatly
sprang to his feet opposing the
motion and advocating the old way,
that is to set a value on lands, a
certain value for rough lands, a
certain value for hay lands, etc.,
which would greatly assist the as
sessor, for he would not have to
rack his poor brains (and probably
show his ignorance) to set a 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, when Mr. Van
Brocklin gained the everlasting
gratitude of the people of North
Platte by amending the motion by
including the Real Estate in the
city 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 payer to
know if he is assessed too high, and
i it takes away the power from
1 stupid and corrupt commissioners
of unjust unequahzing. All honors
to the late Board of Assessors for
they have earned our everlasting
gratitude.
James Beltox.
Conway & Keith,
DEALERS IK
fiardware: and ftarniiare
Have the exclusive sale in this city of the
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Quick-Meal"
We have them with both high and low oven. This
is the only stove with movable loth oven that can
be used for balling, washing, etc. Other low
ovens are stationary and can only be used for
bahing. We handle these stoves with from one
to si.v burners; no other stove has more than-four
Uurners. Another advantage or safeguard is that
the tank cannot be filed while one or more
burners are lighted.
DAYS
No section of Nebraska, will re
ceive as heavy an immigration this
season as the South Loup country.
Large numbers are coming on the
recomendations of those who have
settled here; no doubt thinking that
their friends word is worth a great
deal more than the land agents.
Gaudy Pioneer.
Yesterday the cases against Ford,
McComas and Haeberio for selling
whiskey contrary to law, were called
up and disposed of, by the parties
pleading guilty. The court assessed
a fine of 100 and costs in each
case. He gave the bors some
wholesome advice and excused the
low fine on grounds of its being
their first offence, "but assured them
if repeated they would not likely get
off for less than 500 each. We
presume they went on their way re
joicing feeling that they could stand
a fine occasionally and it would be
cheaper by the year than license.
Broken Bow Republican.
A settler residing across the
Nortli Platte had the misfortune to
get one of his horses legs broken
while crossing the North river
bridge last Sunday night. The
cause was in one of the planks
being improperly placed . The set
tler has instituted proceedings
against the county to recover dam
ages for the loss of his horse
A wedding reported to occur Sun
day evening failed to materlize for
the reason that the high contract
ing parties failed to appear though
the clergyman summoned from
Nortli Platte for the occasion was
on hand. Ogallala Neiv s.
The first election in Box Butte
comity was had on Tuesday of last
week. Nonpareil was made the
county seat by a majority vote of
136. The total vote cast was 240.
The entire republican ticket was
elected by majorities ranging from
36 to 126.
cured every jear bj Acker's celebrated
English Remedy. It "Vs a guaranted prep
aration ; if it does not lelp you it will cost
you nothing. Try it. A. single dose will
ihrvr iisgood e:Isct. Trial bottles 10 eta.
For sale at Thacker's.
Quite a serious accident occurred
in Curtis last Saturday evening.
Our townsman. P. A. Harris had
been out with a party hunting, had
returned and was entering his store
with a couple of guns in his left
baud, when one of them, a Win
chester rifle, was discharged, and
the ball passed through his arm,
entering at the arm-pit and passing
out of the top of his shoulder. No
bones were touched though a pain
ful wound is the consequence. At
the time of the accident Mrs. Harris
was leaning on her husband's arm,
and the bullet sped by her face and
entered the ceiling above. Curtis
Record.
VVCW woud enjoy your dinnor
J i? and are prevented by Dvs
pepsia, us5 Actor's Dyspepsia Tablets.
They are a positive, curo'for Dyspepsia, In
digestion, Fici,uli'i.;r and Constipation.
Wo Rtrcutort tiicv .;."! ond CO cents.
Sold by Thacker's.
C, i. R. h
Lloyd's Opera House,
MONDAY EVE'G, APRIL 11,
For the benefit of the Relief Fund of
S. A.
No invitations will be issued, all friends
generally being invited
TICKETS, $1.50,
to be had of members of the committee
and at the usual places.
C03I. of ARRANGEMENTS.
DOUGLAS
POST
FOR RENT.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure.
This powder never varies. A marvel of parity,
strength and wholesomeness. More economical
tfian the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in
competition with the multitude ollow test, short
weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only
in cans. Royal Baktno Powder Co., 106 Wall
Street, New York. k
FOR TEN
WE WILL OFFER
SPECIAL' INDUCEMENTS
-ON
Pianos and Organs,
For Cash or on Monthly Payments.
WE HANDLE
Chickering, Vose & Sons' and Behr Bros.'
Shoninger, Clough & Warren and Sterling
McEVOY, THE JEWELER,
(Licensed Jeweler for the U. P. Ry.
f. D. BucKwoirrii,
President.
James Sutherland,
Cashier,
STATE BANK
OF
NORTH PLATTE, - NEBRASKA.
Successor to the NORTH PLATTE BANK.
NORTH PLATTE,
NEBRASKA.
X)iscoTint Good Notes. JLoan on Chattels.
Foreign ad Dcmestic Exchange Sought and Soli on all Principal European Cities,
Accounts solicited and prompt attention given to all business entrusted
to its care. Interest paid on time deposits. Correspondence solicited.
HARDWAKE, STOYE, TIN AND
Agricultural Implement Store.
Full Line of Hardware,
BEST MAKES OF STOVES,
Celebrated Forst 4 Bradley Plows.
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LARGE LINE OF HOME-MADE AND CHEAP TINWAitE,
Special attention given to Tin. Copper and Sheet Iron Work and Re
pairing of all kinds.
L. STRICKLER,
Hinman's Brick Block. West Front Street.
1881.
1887.
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LUMBER, 3
Lath, Shingles;
POSTS, LIME, CEMENT,
Building Paper,
IN ANY DESIRED QUANTITY.
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Fifth Street, Cor. Locut. Opposite Baptist Church,
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Nebraska.
THE WILD WEST
IS OPEN AGAIN WITH A FULL LINE OF
Stock and Hay Kanche
Consisting of 1280 acres situated 7
miles vest of North Platte. Five
hundred tons of hay can be cut
from the land each 3'ear. Good
house and corrall on premises. Four J
miles ot wire ience on land. The
ranch will be leased for one or
more rears. Apply to A. H.
Church or T. D. Cotton, North
Platte. Neb.
NOTICE OF ELECTION.
I, G. K. Hammond, mayor of the citv
of North Platte, Nebraska, by virtue of
the power in me vested, do hereby
direct that on Tuesday, the 3th day of
April, 1887, a city election for the city of
North Platte be held for the election of
the following officers:
One maj'or.
One clerk.
One treasurer.
One city engineer. ;
One councilman, 1st ward. '
One councilman, 2d ward.
Two councilmerf, yd ward. 1
Two members of Board of Education ;
for district No. 1. for three yearfc.
That the polls for said election be open '
at 1) o'clock a. m, and remain open until !
7 o'clock p. m. of said day. j
Given under my hand this 2d dav of ;
March 1887. . " !
G. . Hammond,
C. C. Hawkins, Mayor.
City Clerk. 1
of every description.
H AE1TESS O I X-i
CONSTANTLY ON DK AUGHT.
ON THE SIDE.
Horse Blankets Knocked all to Pieces.
Come one. come all, and be convinced that we have the largest, best and
cheapest stock of harness and saddlery goods in the citv.
C. C. HAWKINS & BROS'.,
(Successors to Hawkins & Pearse.)
Spruce Street, next to Conway & Keith,
IfcTortikL Platte, - STebrasfesu
Stable.
Beick Liyeey
zeuLTL 1037- ZD. "T77 BesstcOs:,
FIRST-CLASS RIGS FURNISHED
on short notice and at reasonable rates. Horses hoarded bv the week or
month. Careful and competent employes. Stable opposite the Hawley
House on east Fifth street;
NOETH PLATTE. - NBBBASKA.
