THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1895.
Semd Exclusively to u
.Over Twenty-One Million People
, Tidktted&World's Fair Grounds
Universally accepted as the
Leading Fine Corree of the World.
JOHN HERROD
Sells tlie above Coffee
together with a complete lino of
STAPLE HI F IK
Prices Always Reasonable.
HIGHEST MARKET PRICE
Paid For Country Produce.
MINOR MENTION.
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Phil Lonergan will give a mid
summer social hop at the opera
house this evening-.
"W. L. Park received several
thousand celery plants from Denver
yesterday which will be set out on
his ditch farm.
The officers of Signet Chapter,
O. E. S.. will go to Sidney next
week to assist in organizing" a
chapter in that town.
O. A. Bacon, late of "Well pre
cinct, has located at Golconda.Cal..
and writes that he is well pleased
with the country and his position.
Barring- destruction by hail, a
tenant on an eighty-acre ditch farm
west of town estimates that his
share of crops will net him $2,000.
The remains of Geo. Smith,
who died in McPherson county Sun
day, where brought to town to-day
and shipped to Iowa for interment.
The Lady Maccabees held in
stallation services Saturday after
noon and followed the ceremony
with a social, at which refreshments
were served.
Dog- owners are gradually coming-
to the front and paying- the
license on their animals. Tag- No.
100 will probably be issued before
the close of this week.
Geo. AV. Diilard, the latter part
of the week, moved his office and
scales to the north line of Front
street, and is therefore more con
spicuous than formerly.
David Hunter, living- about a
mile north of Sutherland, has har
vested this season thirty bushels of
red raspberries from a patch covering-
about a quarter of an acre.
It is said that C. E. Osgood
will leave in a few days for Colora
do where he has secured a position
with the Colorado Coal and Iron
Co., of which his brother is secre
tary. The county commissioners have
exhausted the 1S95 general fund
levy and find they have claims ot:
hand amounting to S1560 which will
have to la' over, probably until
next year.
For sale, a good heavy work team.
Inquire at the Wilcox Dept. Store.
The ladies" wheel club made its
initial run Friday evening-, which
resulted pleasantly to the members.
Mrs. Jos. Morsch had a collision
with another lady and rather badly
demolished her bicycle.
The report that the North
Platte and Hershey baseball teams
would play a g-ame at the latter
place Sunday was incorrect. The
date of a return g-ame with Hershey
has not been definitely settled.
The entry list for the bicycle
races at the fair grounds to-morrow
evening- includes some of the
best riders of the town, which
means that the races will be well
worth going- to see. The U. P.
will run a special train to the
grounds.
The school board of District
No. 11 in Nichols precinct, advertise
in our columns to-day for bids for
the construction of a school house
the main room of which will be 30x
40. The plans call for a modern
building- and when completed will
probably be the finest country
school house in western Nebraska.
We learn that the irrigation
enterprise in the Big- Horn basin,
of which Co!. Cody was president
and E. Vanderveldt engineer in
charg-e. has been abandoned. After
the preliminary surveys had been
made, it was found the scheme was
not practicable. We understand
Mr. Vanderveldt is temporarily lo
cated at Sheridan.
Wc learn that a number of peo
ple Jiving- in the south part of this
county wrote a letter to Governor
Holcomb last week, petitioning-him
to provide means to relieve their
destitution until the- can harvest
a crop. The letter was turned over
to the state relief commission, who
found that there yet remained in
stock a ton of flour and a barrel of
rice. These goods were shipped to
Moorefield and turned over to the
jjroper pennons, ;
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At the Fair Grounds on the Wheel Track.
WEATHER PERMITTING. '
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JULY 1 111 I
$149
GKveri By CLXJNTTOINF; Trie Jeweler.
Prizes:
1 rnile open to Lincoln Co.,
1 mile, boys under 17 yrs.,
2 mile open to Lincoln Co.,
1st 2d 3d
10.00 5.00 3.00
8.00 5.00 3.00
15.00 8.00 5.00
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Prizes: 1st 2d 3d
One-half mile for girls, 5.00 3.00 2.00
1 mile for men over 45 yrs 6.00 4.00 2.00
5-mile Handicap,Lincoln Co. 20.00 10.00 5.00
$SO TTTVTFI PXHSSX!.
Races called at 6:45 P. M. Sharp. :-r-: Admission 25 cents.
Special Train will leave depot at 6:15 and 6:30 p. m. Concert on the grounds by the Cornet Band.
Handicap entries close Tuesday at 6 p. m., all other entries for races close Wednesday noon. Entry
fee will be $1 for first race; 50 cents for each additional race. Girl's race 50 cents.
SEE THE PRIZES IN CLINTON'S WINDOW,
Up. to last evening-an even hun
dred bicyclists had joined the organ
ization known as the "Wild West
Wheel Club,"
The Lexington flouring mill is
soon to be illuminated by incandes
cent lights from a dynamo placed in
the building-.
Rev. Mr. Cisel, of Grant, will
fill the pulpit at the Methodist
church next Sunday, both morning
and evening-.
S. A. Douglas Circle No. 20,
Ladies of the G. A. R., will give an
ice cream social at Mrs. J. F.
Schmalzried's, Saturday evening,
July 20th. Everybody cordially in
vited. An order for a carpet for the
Knights of Pythias' hall was sent
in yesterday, the lodge concluding
to not further wait for a settlement
with the insurance company for the
loss sustained.
One of the safest and surest
cures for a bad case of "blues" is a
trip up along the irrigation canal.
The crops in that locality arc such
as to drive all gloom from any one
who sees them.
A. B. Dempster, president of
tke Dempster Windmil Co., was in
town Saturday and took a trip up
the river f or the purpose of examining-
some of the irrigating- plants
which his company had sold to
farmers.
The ladies of the Lutheran
church will give a lawn sociable at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gus An
derson next Tursday evening-, Jul'
ISth. All are cordially invited to
attend and be served to some splen
did icecream and cake.
J. G. Crabtree, who was in from
Myrtle precinct Saturday, says the
dry weather of the past ten days
has about ruined the prospects for
small grain. Similar reports come
from certain sections in the south
part of the count'.
Several residents of Birdwood
precinct who are anxious to get
water for irrigating- purposes em
ployed a surveyer to run aline from
the Birdwood in McPherson county
to the Birdwood table. It was
found that the water could be got
down to the fiats, but it could not
be run west on the lands desired to
be watered, hence the scheme has
been abandoned.
Thos. Knight", a civil engineer
of Kansas city, passed through
town Saturday en route to Green
River, WTyo. Mj Knight repre
sents a Kansas City syndicate
which has secured land concessions
in Wyoming and will irrigate the
lands by means of elevators placed
in the Green river. Mr. Knight
claims that ' an elevator costing
S1200 can be made to water 20,000
acres.
The Paxton and Sutherland
irrigating ditch runs through a
thirty-foot cut northeast of Suther
land. The formation of the soil is
loose sand and considerable trouble
his been caused by the sand sliding
and filling- the ditch. To obviate
this the sides of the cut were cov
ered with manure and grass seed
sown thereon. This seed is now
takins- root and will soon form a
sod that will keep the earth from
slipping-.
Another use has been found for
that succulent herbage, alfalfa,
says the Republican City Democrat.
L. W. Poor says that when the
grass is about two inches high, il
then cut and boiled with bacon, it
makes the finest salad far superior
to spinach or asparagus, having a
flavor similar to the latter. He
also said that it makes excellent
pies, and whan the usual ingredi
ents are mixed with a reasonable
quantity of "Otard" or "Old Hen
essey" excel the faF-famed Virginia
mince pies of aute-beiluin day. '
This immediate section was
visited by a refreshing- rain Satur
day evening-.
During the past week Charles
Burke has shipped several cars of
cattle to the South Omaha market.
Victor VonGoetz and W. H.
Broach were up on the ditch a day
or two ago taking snap shots at
the waving fields of grain.
Quite a number of bicyclists
who will take part in the races to
morrow evening- have been sprinting-
on the track for a few evenings
past.
The school furniture was moved
yesterday from Keith's hall, and
that room will now be devoted ex
clusively to public meetings and
entertainments.
The devotional committee of
the Y. M. C. A. has decided to in
vite the ladies to join them in their
devotional meetings Sunday after
noon. Select music will be fur
nished if possible.
One of the good acts ot the last
legislature was the amending-of the
election law so that registration is
no longer required in cities of less
than 7,000 population. For the
present this useless bit of expense
will be dispensed with in this city.
We regret to learn that our old
friend Alex. Adams is confined to
the house and that his general con
dition is such as to cause fears of
ultimate recovery. Mr. Adams is
an old-timer, a pleasant gentleman
and his condition is a source of
general regret.
C. S. Clinton received a tele
gram yesterday from Fred Gerlach,
secretary of the L. A. W. in which
he sanctioned the bicycle races to
morrow evening. The track was
scraped yesterday and is now in
better condition than ever before.
John Neary exhibited at this
office yesterday sample stalks of
rye, barley and oats from his farm
southwest of town. Mr. Neary's
iarm is located in the sand district,
and the heavy winds of last spring
drifted the sand and seed first this
way and then that way, but never
theless his crops up to date promise
to yield very abundantly; in fact
the samples he showed were excep
tionally fine. Mr. Neary does not
farm extensively but he farms well,
and as a result he otten raises
more from twenty acres than do
some larmers from 160 acres. Many
other farmers in this county could
with profit follow Mr. Neary's example.
A meeting of the North Platte
gun club will be held at the U. S.
land office next Thursday evening-.
A full attendance of members is
desired.
A half dozen or more west
bound immigrant wagons passed
through town yesterday. Some
very nice looking- stock accompanied
the outfit.
Major E. J. Fechet, 6th U. S.
Cavalry instructor, is expected to
arrive in the city this week and in
spect Co. E, N. N. G. The inspector
is very strict, but he will probably
find the local company in good
shape.
The North Platte District Meth
odist states that a church building
will be erected at Hershey as soon
as a deed to the necessary land is
secured. Sufficient funds are in the
hands of the trustees to warrant
them in going ahead with the edi
fice. This office is in receipt of a copy
of the Mountain City Gazette, pub
lished at Cullman, Ga., and of
which yen Newman, for many
years a resideut of this city, is one
of the editor. The paper is a neat
one typographically, and is ably
edited. ,
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If Lincoln county is to win one
of the prizes for county collective
exhibits at the.state fair this fall,
it will be necessary for the farmers
to lend a helping- hand to the im
migration and agricultural socie
ties. Every farmer should feel an
interest in this matter and assist
by preparing samples of grain.
Some little trouble has arisen
between the leader and members of
the cornet band and the former has
tendered his resighation. Mr.
Bristol has brought the organiza
tion up to a high degree of perfec
tion, and it is regretted that mat
ters have come to the present state.
It is not likely, however, that the
band will become disorganized.
While passing out of the gos
pel tent on the north side last night
Mrs. Ada Lee had her gold watch
and chain stolen. There was quite
a jam at the entrance to the tent,
and the supposition is that the
thief pushed alongside Mrs. Lee and
succeeded in extracting the watch
without attracting- her attention.
It had the name of "Ada" on the
back, and the words "Ada, Oct. 6,
"92", on the inside of the case. The
theft was reported to the police this
morning- and they are at work on
the case.
PURELY PERSONAL.
o2s o'?7"cirfilr iWr fr'Vl'? fin'tBB
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"JSCONOMT IS "
We are the People who have
The BEST FLOUR,
The BEST COFFEE,
The BEST TEA,
The finest grades of everything in the Grocery Line
in the City; always fresh and at prices that
DEFY COMPETITION.
HARRINGTON & TOBIN.
WillGinn, of Perry, Iowa, is visiting-
North Platte friends.
Elder James Leonard went east
on train No. 2 this morning-.
Mrs. Ida Wamsley left this morning-
for Denver.
W. Pat Miles, of Sidney, was in
our city for a brief time this morning-.
Miss Albertina Carlson, of Gothenburg-,
is visiting- friends in town
this week.
Dr. J. W. Hingston. of Cheyenne,
was here on professional business
Sunday.
Mrs. J. D. Mathews left Saturday
night for a visit with Cheyenne
friends.
Jack MacColl. of Lexington, last
evening made his semi-occasional
visit to this city.
County Treasurer White, of Lex
ington, visited friends in this city
the latter part of the week.
Thos. Hughes, Sr., who had been
in Adams county for ten days, re
turned to the city last evening.
Miss Blanche Buckworth leaves
this week for a visit with her sister
Mrs. C. A. Diamond, at Lincoln.
Messrs. Burklund and Coker. of
Sutherland, were among- those who
transacted business in town yester
day. Miss Dollie Sherritt, who had
been visiting her sister. Mrs. G. E.
Loveland, left this morning for Lar
amie, Wyo.
J. S. Hoagland was called to Lin
coln the first of the week by the an
nouncement of the serious illness of
his parents.
Dr. F. M. Somers is passing a
few days in town while en route to
Colorado, where he expects to locate,
probably at Ouray.
Mr. and'-Mrs. E. D. Murphy and
children, of Brady, were the guests
of North Platte friends yesterday.
They were enroute to Colorado.
Eugene Myers, for many years a
resident of North Platte, but now
working in the railroad shops at Ft.
Worth, Texas, is here
friends.
Mrs. Jas. P. McGovern left last
night for Iowa City upon receipt of
a telegram announcing the death of
her father yesterday. The children
accompanied her as far as Omaha.
Fred Ginn left Friday o-tensibly
for Omaha, but the boys say his
objective point was Perry, Iowa,
and that a young lady the magnet
which attracted him. He will prob
ably be home to-night.
Miss Alice Plumer, of Maxwell,
stopped over between trains yester
day while en route home from Den
ver. Miss Plumer finished her
course at the Boston Musical Con
servatory a few weeks ago.
M iss Josic Goodman arrived from
Denver yesterday morning and will
remain permanently with the fam
ily at the Cody ranch. The young
lady graduated from the Denver
high school last month.
Misses Ida and Frances Von
Goetz, Ruth Patterson and Berenice
Searle returned trom Denver jester
day morning where they had been
attending the teachers' association
convention. The young ladies re
port a very pleasant trip.
H. M. Grimes and W. T. Wrilcox
left Saturday for Sheridan, Wyo.,
where they will pass a week or ten
days camping out in compan.with
an uncle of Mr. Grimes', who has
charge of the Wyoming experi
mental station.
visiting
Subscribers knowing them
selves to be in arrears are respect
fully invited to call and drop a
dollar or so in the slot and receive
in return a receipt and the thanks
of the publisher.
When Buying
Minneapolis
FLOUR
Why not get the BEST?
Washburn's Superlative
Has no superior no equal. It is the result of studied im
provement in milling machinery the product of the hard,
excellent wheat of the north. If vou are not usin the
Washburn Flour, try it. It is sold by
SOLE, AGENT.
JOHN HERROD,
YOU CAN
BORROW MONEY
AT TEN PER CENT
To pay cash for what goods you need, and
then make from 25 to 50 per cent by
so doing if you bring your money to us.
T77"E SIEHH, :
4 dozen Hooks and Eyes for 1 cent.
5 Lead Pencils for 1 cent.
4 Thimbles for 1 cent.
A good Purse for 2 cents.
Tin Pans from 2 cents up.
A yard of Elastic Web for 2 cents.
Clark's 0. 1ST. T. Thread for 4 cents a spool.
Children's Shoes for 22 cents a pair.
Ladies' Hose for 5 cents a pair.
A good Sponge for 4 cents.
A 2-quarfc Fountain Syringe for $1.07.
A good book by best authors for 7 cents.
Boys' Waists for 17 cents up.
Men's Working Shirts for 17 cents.
We handle nothing but first-class goods. If you are
not satisfied with the quality or price bring back the goods
and get your money. We handle a full line of Slices, No
tions, Furnishing Goods, Millinery, Tinware, Woodcmvare,
Oucensware, etc. Call and get our prices.
cox taartait
First door south of Streitz' Drug Store, - - NORTH PLATTE, NEB.
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RAILWAY RESUME.
Seventeen refrigerator cars were
iced at this station yesterday, re
quiring twenty-one tons of ice.
J. S. Clinton resumed work at the
shops Monday, being given his old
position of running the bolt ma
chine. "Engine S16 came out of the shops
last night. The S35. which has
been in for some time, will be out
to-day.
Conductor Carl Pierce has re
covered from physical indisposition
and is in condition to resume his
run.
Supt. P. J. Nichols, accompanied
by several other gentlemen, is ex
pected here some day this week.
He will show his guests over the ir
rigated district west of this city.
An ice lift for filling refrigerator
cars will be erected at the U. P.
ice-house. The power for operating
the same will be furnished by the
air fan at the shops and conveyed
to the litt through a pipe line.
Koadmaster Connors has 19,000
cabbage plants in fine growing con
dition on his ditch farm, and four
acres planted to onions. The corn,
potatoes and grain on the farm
promise to yield an immense crop
and he wilt derive a handsome re
turn from his inyestmcnt.
Material for two copper fire boxes
was received a few days ago and
will be used on two of the engines
on the fast mail run. No fire boxes
have been constructed at these
shops for many months, and now
that these two have been ordered
made here, it looks as though there
might be a slight increase in the
boilermakers' force.
Geo. W. Vromau addressed a
meeting at the court house last
night and gave some additional
facts concerning the proposed rail
road, of which lie is president. The
Gordon cornet band rendered sev
eral selections prior to the opening
of the meeting. We understand
the railroad men of the city are sub
scribing quite liberally for stock in -the
road.
NOTICE FOR BIDS.
Sealed bids will be received up
to 12 o'clock noon of July 20. 1 895.
by the board of directors of School
District No. 11, of Lincoln county.
Neb., for furnishing material and
constructing a school house in said
district. Plans and specifications
can be seen by calling at The Tri
bune office. North Platte, Neb.
The board reserves the right to re
ject any or all bids.
F. M. Terry, Secy.
Tho Lincoln County Immigration
Association will givo $10 to any boy or
girl in the county Bonding or bringing to
tho Ottenstem building tho best display
of grain sheaves, consisting of rye, oats,
barley and wheat, showing tho longest
straw and heads. Sheaves should bo
four inches in diameter, tied up neatly
and tagged. Each straw may bo select
ed separately. All must bo immediately
wrapped in newspapers or cloth, and put
in a dark place until ready to bring in.
These specimens must include tho root.
The largest number of varieties of each
will bo considered in making the award.
Millet seed for sale.
C. F. IDDINGS.
Studcbaker Wagons at
Hershey &, Go's.
SMOKERS
In search of a good cigar
will always find it at J.
F. Schmalzried's. Try
them and judge. .
NOTICE.
Property owners are respectfully
requested to clean their alleys, cut
the weeds and sweet clover and de
stroy the Russian thistle adjoining
their property by the 1st of July.
so that the city will have a cleau
appearance on the Fourth.
D. v. i;Aia:n, Mavor.