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    THE. NORTH PLATTE SEMWEEELY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE-' 18, 1895.
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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. -
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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
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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.