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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1895)
THE. NORTH PLATTE SEMWEEELY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE-' 18, 1895. svu Exclusively to iOverPwtyOne Millioa PtopM V Universally cea iLenalng rtocstfti World JOHN KERROD Sells tlie above Coffee together with a complete line of mil m m mm. Prices Always Reasonable. HIGHEST MARKET PRICE Paid For Country Produce. MINOR MEfJTION; Smoke the 'Royal Sport" cigar. Dr. Salisbury, the Ogalalla dentist, is in town this week. John McMichael returned from Grand Island Saturday night. Miss Gertie Friend has accepted a position as clerk in the Wilcox department store. The "Wilcox department store invites your attention to the prices quoted on this page. See Fair ad. 2d page. New potatoes, raised in the sandhill district, were offered for sale in the city Saturday. Another fine rain Sunday evening-. Vegetation never grew more rapidly than it is at present. Win. Large and Win. Munson leave this week for Colorado Spring's, making- the trip by wagon. Once more has-it been demon strated that North Platte has no fire alarm system. D. W. Baker informs us that the P. & M. ditch will be ready to have the water turned into it within a week. Wanted A situation to do housework by a competent woman. Address Mrs. C. Conway, North Platte. Some unscrupulous cuss entered Charley Pass' garden Friday night and carried away a liberal quantity of vegetables. Alonzo McMichael lost a-valuable cow during the rain storm Sunday evening", by reason of a stroke of lightning-. Frie works of all kinds and larg-e stock at C. M. Newton's. Company E, N. N. G., received a handsome 8x12 flag- Saturday. It now floats from a thirty-foot pole in iront of the armory. H. M. Grimes has been invited to deliver an oration at Cozad on July 4th, but whether he will accept this deponent saith not. T. C. Patterson, H. M. Grimes .and W. T. Wilcox went to Lincoln yesterday to argue the irrigation case in the supreme court. Rev. S. A. Potter, of Kearneys officiated at the Church of Our Saviour Sunday. On next Sunday Rev. Beecher, of Sidney, will occupy the pulpit. The arrangement committee will meet to-night and complete the programme for the Fourth of July. Major Walker has been selected as j marshal of the day. The Wild West show has been in Boston for the past ten days, and the papers of that city say that the seating capacity has been taxed to accommodate the crowd. Dr. J. W. Butt, the dentist, has sent east for an assistant, Ins practice having grown to such an extent that he is unable to attend to it without working a good part of the night Several Knight Templars of this city are sizing up their bank accounts and figuring whether the balance will warrant them in at tending the Triennial conclave to be held in Boston in August. Reports received from the coun try indicate that there will be a big crowd in town on July 4th. North Platte will see that these visitors are well repaid -for the time and expense of coming to town. Hammocks at C. M. Newton's, 60c 75c, $1.00, $1.50, $1.75, up to $6.00. : W. M. Adamson, a" former North Platte boy, butfor" a number of years a resident of . Butte, Mon tana, will be married in that city on the 25th inst. The to-be fcride was born and raised in Butte. In advance of the ceremony The Tri bune extends its congratulations to Will. It is believed that the summer normal which opens in this city next Monday will have an attend ance of at least one hundred. Messrs. Orr and Snyder, the in structors, have secured board and rooms for their out-of-town pupils affhe extremely low rate of $2.50 per week. - . r . H. Otten last week cut fourteen tons of alfalfa, from eight acres, which is an excellent yield for the first crop. Lightning struck the barn on the farm of Mrs. Abner Votaw in Well precinct Sunday night and killed two horses. A young man working for A. H. Frame, of Nichols precinct had a leg broken a few. days ago while in the act of getting off a horse. Two picked ball teams con tested for supremacy on the dia mond .Sunday afternoon, but the rain interferred after six innings had been played. The scoje stood six to eight. A. L. Davis has received some of those ball nozzles for lawn hose, which attracted so much attention in the east last season. The prin ciple on which this little thing works has so far baffled scientists. The Tribune has learned of a young lady who last Saturday went in search of the edible mushroom, and after quite a lengthy search proudly returned home bearing about a half bushel of large toad stools. The rain Sunday evening was very heavy in the section south and west of town, one farmer avering that the fall amounted to four inches. If it amounted to half that it was a very heavy rain. The Hershey ball team has written for information concerning the game to be played here on the Fourth. If the prize offered is of sufficient inducement the Hefshey ites will probably want to be in the game. The Platte vallev has been pronounced by an expert to be the best alfalfa growing- section in the United States. Ditch farmers are realizing this and the acreage de voted to alfalfa is -being doubled each succeeding year. The fact that Hershey & Co. received a carload of harvesters and and mowers Saturday is evidence that there will be a crop to harvest in Lincoln county this year. Deal ers do not order such machinery unless there is to be a demand. C. M. Newton has reduced the price of wall paper: 10c paper for 8c, 12j!'c paper for 10c, 15c paper for 124c, 20c paper for 15c, 25c paper for 20c. Mrs. Jennie Armstrong has rented the Baker building on Front street and opened a restaurant The building has been thoroughly renovated, repapered and presents an inviting appearance. The meals furnished are pronounced excellent The military ball to be given Company E. at Lloyd's opera house on the evening of July 4th will be a fitting wind-up of the day's festivi ties. The members of the company will spare no pains to make the ball a pleasant event for all attend ants. The tickets will be one dollar. Cards are out announcing the coming wedding nuptials of Miss Evalyn Grady, of this city, and Francis J. Bon, of' Cheyenne, the ceremony to occur at St Patrick's church June 26th at 8 p. m. The couple will be vat home" in Chey enne after July 20th. A meeting of the North Platte Wheel Club will be held at the office j of the president on Wednesday evening, June 19th, 1895, at eight o'clock. Object: reorganization. All wheelmen are invited to attend. E. F. Seeberger, Pres. Several large weeds purporting to be Russian thistle have been gathered from vacant lots around town the past week. In order to satisfy himself that they were Rus sian thistles, E. F. Seeberger sent one to Prof. Ingersoll at the state university, who pronounces it the genuine article, and advises our people to get rid of them as early as possible. The four fire companies wejre brought out at eleven o'clock Sunday forenoon by alarm turned in from box 41, but were unable to locale the fire, no smoke or blaze being visible. It was afterwards ascer tained that a gasoline stove at the residence of C. S. Clinton had caught fire and threatened to do some considerable damage, hence the alarm. The flames were, how ever, extinguished before anf ma terial damage ensued. Sheriff Miller returned the lat ter part of the week from Omaha having in charge Robert Edwards, who was arrested on a charge of rape sworn out by Scott Vaughn, who lives near this city. Edwards lived in North Platte for some time and became acquainted with Elea nor Vaughn and paid her some at tention. Later Edwards went to Omaha and a few weeks later the girl followed, and since that time they have lived in that city as man and wife, though it is claimed no marriage took place. The case is badly mixed up and the preliminary examination of Edwards, which will prdbably he held to-morrow JrrprwequitieB&atipiJ. A CYCLONIC CATASTSOPH3. . The Idea Dlsproven tb&t Lincoln County la Outside the Cyclone Belt. A portion of Sunshine precinct, about ten miles southwest of Suth erland, was visited by a veritable tornado during the rainstorm" Sun day evening. Benjamin Young; who , has been tanning the jEJ. Sherwood. place,;was killed, the buildings completely de molished andrscattered -over four or five square miles of territory. The storm hejran about 3 o'clock; in the afternoon and .-lasted until dark, Young and the childreif attended a Sunday school that day, arid took refuge from the storm' at Mr. Muir's. About 4 o'clock a huge funnel-shaped cloud was seen ap' proaching- from the;southwest Two gentlemen who had stopped in qut of the storm took ref ligfein thecave, leaving Mr. Young alone in the house. Everything on the premises was destroyed, including "windmill, farm implements, and even the posts of the corrall. The buildings including a house and a large frame barn appeared to rise into the air, and then vanish like a puff of smoke. The prairie, within a radius of a mile, is strewn with fragments as fine as kindling-wood; in fact only a few pieces of house or barn can be found more than two feet long. Several windmills were blown to pieces, and several sheds and out buildings destroyed for some of the farmers, but so far as we can learn no other dwellings. The cyclone appeared to move south into the sand-hills and there probably spent its fury. It hailed nearly ail the time during the storm, many hail stones that fell being larger than hen's-eggs. The body of Mr. Young was not found until yesterday morning. It was lying about 200 yards from the house, every portion of clothing hav ing been torn off; both legs and both arms broken, and the skull terribly crushed. Funeral services took place at the Sunshine schoolhousethis forenoon Rev. Nichols, of Paxton, preaching the discourse, and the remains were taken to the Wallace cemetery for burial. The deceased Jtvas a native of England and a member ot the M. E. church. All the secret societies of this city have been invited to partici pate in the Fourth of July parade. J. S. Hinckley came down from Sutherland last evening and gave the first information of the cyclone southwest of Sutherland. "Brownie" overalls are consid ered very recherche by the juvenile portion of North Platte, and the 'kid" who is unable to sport a pair feels that he is not "in it." Farm hands seem to be, in de mand in this section, one farmer complaining yesterday that his" corn fields were suffering from lack of cultivation because he could not secure the necessary help. Wm. Munson completed the school census of the city Saturday. He found the number of children of the district to be 1025, which is greater by thirteen than shown by the census of 1894. The Y. M. C. A. will give a re ception to the citizens of North Platte on the evening of July 12th.. The entertainment committee of the association will meet in a day or so and prepare a programme. Parents should forbid their small boys from bathing in the irri gation ditch west of town. There is a hole eight or ten feet deep at the point where the Cody & Dillon ditch crosses the old ditch, and if the kids persist . in using it as a swimming hole a funeral is likely to occur. We are the People who have The BEST FLOUR, The BIST COFFEE, The finest grades of everything in the Grocery Line in the City; always fresh and at prices that DEFY COM PETlt ION. : HARRINGTON & JTOBIN. in Ladies' Blouse Waist Sets, very pretty, not expensive; also a new line-of Cheap Belts and Belt -Pins, S.ide-Combs, Hair Ornaments, and the new Long Watch-chains. It you want anything in the A'. way of a neat little Jtfiad- itiianour line of rnti 'if 3& -v3T J ? ' '"CLINTON, THE JEWELER. v.x PURELY. PERSONAL. .Will-Wobdhurs oesto. Omaha to-nignfc' ; Mrs. W;"W. -BirgeiiVisiting Rev. T. Mt Co.njwjaycof Cheyenne, is visiting ;fnen3s.uii;town.' Ed Rebhauseri'rretrned from Lrrana lsiana a. iew. days ago. - J. W. LemasterhasTbeen spend ing the past few days in Denver. JMiss Anna Cole, of , Lexington, is a guest at the Baldwin residence. W. H. Plumer, of Maxwell, trans acted business'in tea'qity yester day. - . r. Lester Eells left this-morning. on a business trip to 'the .Republican valley.- Mrs. A. Struthers, of Sidney, ;is visiting North Platte friends this week. . , - j -. ,: w Mrs. H. M.-WebeP'iB,Genjoyiri'g a visit from her sister, who resides in Illinois. . Mr, and Mrs. ..Gusf. Norton re turned from. Omaha :theglatter part of the week. . iy. ..-iv . Miss Zaidie Henderson, of Omaha, a iormer resident or tins city, is a guest of Miss Hannah. Keliher. Mrs. W. C. Reynolds returned Saturday night frorna ten days' visit in Lincoln arid. Omaha. Mrs. Bresnahan left"'' last night for Reno, Nev., at which point her husband has been located for some time. H. V. Hillikerlett Saturday night for the easterri paricpf the. state. MrsHilliker preceded him several days. Mrs, H. M. Grimes jvhb had been visiting at several points in the east for about.a month, b returned home. oaturaay nignt. Dr. C. M. DuncaaAis in Spring field, Mo., having leftgfpr that city Saturday nighLr Herexpects, to. be absent about ten daypj' -. . v C. E. Barber goes to Kearney to morrow, where he wilL remain, for a couple of weeks andjthen go to the meeting of the national educational association at Denver. T. F, Gantt is itfj Lincoln week on business' 'before, the this sup- rem e court. Miss Thea Hansen opened a summer school in thet3entral build ing yesterday, -aif:. Engineer Kittelf.iwho came up from Cozad Saturday -to" visit his family, informs us that the irriga tion work on which h - is engaged will require his services for at least two months. -; The debate -on"; the, financial question last evening in which Tim Keliher and H.;S Rj4gJeyras silver grubs were pitted -agajnst Frank Edmonds as a gold bug, resulted in a decision for - thejiormer. Ed monds' assistant? failed to.-, appear and was therefore placed at a dis advantagei , J? The bicycle riders are-already "kicking" on the ordinance which the city attorney has been in structed to draft. Some of them are formulating a neat little joke which they, will spring, on a. certain alderman, who heartily, favored the proposed ordinance. . i The BEST present for some one. you can novelties, irom 25 cents to wish to po. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. After the clerk had read his minutes at the council meeting Monday evening, a numerously signed petition was presented to the council praying that a' 'braying jackass kept at the "White Elephant livery barn be removed." This animal, it seems, disturbs the peace and quiet of the neighbor hood and is' considered a great nuisance. The marshal was order ed to have the owners remove the animal or else have its "bugle' muffled. A petition signed by about every resident on Third street was read, asking that Third street be graded its entire length. The petitioners recited that this was about the only street in town running east and west that had been neglected. A petition was also received asking that Maple street from First to Front street be graded. Both these petitions were reierrea to tne com mittee on streets and grades. The marshal was instructed to have S. G. Smith remove his fruit stand from the sidewalk, and that officer was. also asked to clear the streets of other obstructions where- ever found. The city attorney was instructed to draft an ordinance prohibiting ridinsr a bicycle in the streets at a speed exceeding six miles per hour. The riders will also be required to sound their gongs when approach ing a crossing, and to carry lan terns on their wheels after dark. The dog question was debated at some length, one or two of the councilmen believing that the dogs should be impounded for a certain length of time before being de stroyed. This would crive the owners an opportunity to recover their animals if they so desired. E. B. Warner, chairman of the Fourth of July committee, appeared before the council and asked per mission to use the streets on July 4th for races, etc., and also the privilege of erecting a band stand on Spruce street. The committee offered the city the services of ten special policeman without pay. The council granted the committee the use of the streets and will accept the services of the policemen. The slough in the third ward was brought before the council and.con sidered at some length. It was the sense of the council that the Union Pacific should convey its waste water outside the city limits by means of tiling, and the committee on streets and grades was instruct ed to confer with the U. P. officials with this end in view. An ordinance providing for the election of a chief engineer of the fire department was brought up for passage, and atter several minor changes reached a second reading, when it was thought best to haye the ordinance re-written. A number of small bills were ap provvd, and the council was about to adjourn when the late election of fire chief was sprung again. The council did not seem inclined to de bate the question, and the desultory remarks were brought to a close by Councilman Scott moving to ad journ. RAILWAY RESUME. The pay checks for the shop men were received yesterday. Engine 816, which jumped the track at Grand Island Friday, was brought up Sunday and put in the back shop for a general overhaul ing. Wm. Whitlock was breaking in the 833 yesterday. This engine blew put aback cylinder head about a week ago and went in the shops for repairs. R. A. McMurray returned Satur day from the U. P. hospital at Omaha, muqh improved, and hopes to be able to return to work in a day or two. Engine 721 is now ready for ser- 11 1 -t vice, navmg Deen nanaiea arouna the yards yesterday by Bob Douglas who will run it in the future instead of the 685, which has been laid by. F. Elliott and son Fred returned from Lincoln Friday night, where they had been for the purpose of seeing Ed. Elliott graduate from the state university. The latter will probably remain in Lincoln and accept a position as instructor in university for the coming year. Engine 816, pulling passenger train No. 6, jumped the track while passing over the switch at the west end of the Grand Island yards Fri day forenoon and was thirtfwn over Washburn's Has no superior no equal. It is the result of studied imr provement in milling machinery the product of the hard, fYrpllfanf- wT-nf- rvf f-lif nnrfh Tf imn a rp nnf ncinnr tli Washburn Flour, JOHN HERROD, ieductioos that io not Reduce. IT is a practice, quent, for dealers to mark fictitious 7J and fanciful prices upon goods as a basis for reductions and a text This is sometimes done on a large scale, rositive evidence confronts us in which the net result of vaunted and much advertised bargains is simply a scale of prices which are more than we regularly charge. Delicacy The remedy for this "humbug" is with the retail buyers. . Note the following Prices: 4 Thimbles for 1 cent, 5 Lead Pencils for 1 cent, 1 pair Men's Socks, ribbed top, for 4 cents, 4 bunches Hair Pins for 1 cent, 4 dozen Hooks and Eyes for 1 cent, Window Shades on best spring roller for 17 cents, . Working Shirts for 17 cents, Ladies' Merrimac Print Waists 29 cents, Children's Shoes 22 cents a pair, . x. Ladies' Tan Oxfords $1 a pair, Olark's O N T Thread at 4 cents a spool. Prices and quality talk. If goods are not as represented back and get your money. The only store in North Platte where $ I will 1 00 cents worth of merchandise, We handle a full line of Furnishing Goods, Notions, Millinery, Stationery, Shoes;, Tinware, Hardware, Give us The wilcox Depar First door south of Streitz' Drug Store, - - NORTH PLATTE, NEB. on its side. Engineer Joe Morns, of Grand Island, and fireman How ard Jeffrey, of this city, jumped in time to save themselves from being pinned under the engine. Con ductor Wilcox sustained some bruises on his leg-. Messrs. Wood and Hughes, who had been visiting in Hastings for several davs returned home last night. The report that the former would bring home a wife proved in correct. "When he takes such a step the bride will be a North Platte product. Fred Thompson is running en- 03V wiine tne by is being overhauled. J. I. Smith has been sfiven the 649 while the 816 is in he shop. Pay your dog tax. Cut the weeds before your lot. Come to North Platte to cele brate "the ever glorious." John E. Evans came up from incoln Saturday night and made his family a brief visit. Prospects are said to be excel- ent for a large yield of wild plums in the canyons this year. It looks as if next winter west ern Nebraska would be able to re- urn Illinois the corn that was bor rowed last winter. Last year sportsmen thought it was too dry for a good crop of stub ble duck; the same reason will not apply, and the yield promises to be greater. John E. Evans is authority for the statement that the bill making dogs personal property failed to pass both branches of the leirisla- w ure, hence there is no law upon the ubject. A TIMID TRAVELER Need never fear to make that contem plated trip east if he or she will truBt to the Chicago, Union Pacific &Northwe3t- ern Jjme. yuickeft time. Fewest changes. Union depots. For full information call on or adarese N. B. Olds, Agent U. P. System. When Buying; Minneapolis FLOUR Why not get the BEST? Superlative: ? try it. It is sold by SOLO. AGENT. unforunately too fre for advertising. and other honorable dealers stops tha statement here. bring them Queensware, etc. ; a Trial. NOTICE. Property owners are respectfully requested to clean their alleys, cut the weeds and sweet clover and de stroy the Russian fhistle adjoining their property by the 1st of July, so that the city will have a clean appearance on the Fourth. D. W. Baker, Mayor. 4TH OP JULY CELEBRATION BATES. For this occasion the the Union Pacific will make an open rate of one and one third fare to within 200 miles. On sale July 3rd and 4th, limited July 5th. N. B. Olds, Agt. Latest Styles of WINDOW SHADES with fringe, AT PEALE'S. Studebaker "Wagons at Hershey & Co's. Strayed, about the 10th" of April one two year old bay mare, black mane and tail, weight about 700 pounds. A reasonable reward will be paid for the return of the animal to Herman Steinhousen, 3t North Platte, Neb. SMOKERS In search of a good cigar will always find it at J. F. Schmalzried's. Try them and judge. IT. E- A. at Denver, July 5th to 12th,1895. The quickest time and best train service is offered by the Union Pa cific System. Low rates and liberal arrangements for a charming va riety of Excursions to "Western Re sorts, comprising a tour through the famous Yellowstone National Park; trips to San Francisco, Port land and Salt Lake City; the fam ous mountain retreats of Colorado; the Black Hills and renowned Hot Springs. South Dakota: the Sum mer School at Colorado Springs, and other attractions. See your nearest Uuion Pacific agent or ad dress E. L. Lomax, Gen'l Pass, and Ticket Agent, Omaha, Neb. jl Store ment ft.