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ffORTH PLAITS, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY EVMMG, APBIL U, 1896.
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over onr Great
GlothiQGents, pai?nishing Goods, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps,
GHloves and
-Surprised, First at the Large Assortment
' Second at the Superior Quality:
Tliird at the Immense Yariety;
Fourtk at the Low Prices.
We have been some
prises here and
able to announce
Bargains all Through the House.
"We solicit a comparison of Goods and Prices,
knowing that you will find our stock the Best and tlie
Cheapest.
Star Clothin
WEBER & YOLLMEK, Props.
CLOSING : SALE
OF ENTIRE
Boots and Shoes
AT
Otten's Shoe Store
FOR CASH.
A large line of the best makes of Ladies, Hen and
Ghildren's Shoes. All goods will be closed out for what
they will bring. A largeline of oyer shoes and rubbers
will be closed out cheap enough that you can buy for next
year. A complete line of the celebrated Lewis Boys'
Shoes, Children's Red School House Shoes the best
.made, Ludlou Ladies' Fine Shoes, Lily Brackett Men's
Eine Shoes, I will sell cheap for cash to quit business.
Will also sell show cases, counters, shelves, safe, etc.
Otten's Slioe Store.
C. F. IDDINGS
LUMBER,
AND GRAIN.
Order by telephone from jNewton's Book Store.
NOETH : PLATTE : PHABMACY,
Br. N. McCABE, Prop., J. E. BUSH, Manager.
ISTOPuTjE: i A rjyjyEl3 - - IN Jj ,HB,ASKA
"We aim to liandle ih.e IB est Grades of
Groods, sell ih.em. at EteasonaHLe
IT'igTLres, and Warrant EveryxliixLg-
Orders from the country and along the line o the TTnioir
Pacific railway respectfallj solicited.
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Issued in 10 Parts-:-10 Cents Eacl.
FOR SALE AT TRIBUNE OFFICE.
Stock o-
Mrfcfceiis.
time in getting these Sur
ready for you, but at last are
nouse,
STOCK OF
COAL
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AICHDLS AMD mHMHKT SXWS.
An old faeciooed rain, prevailed in this
locality all day Sunday.
Wray and Jay Stuart, of North Platte,
visited their grandmother, Vrs- Brown,
at Nichols a few days ago.
Pas ton Hershey shipped. lour cars
of fat cattle from their ranch in this pre
cinct to Omaha the early part of tnV
week. W. H. Hill and J. H. Hershey
went down ?iih them.
It hailed and rained quite brisk for" a
short time at Nichols last Saturday, but
did not rain a drop at Hershey.
John Schick, who resides upon the
Cottonwood ranch in McPherson countv
and who is well and favorably known by
many in this locality, was thrown from a
horse recently and badlv bruised. He is
confined to the house, but no fears for
his recovery are entertained.
TT T . t
nenrv uruwn wuiao nis oest to con
quer the Maccabee goat at Hershey to
morrow evening.
Aavier ToiUion marketed a couple
loads of barley at the countv seat at
twenty-five cents per bushel last Friday,
H. Y. Brown expects to depart the
first of the coming week for Grand Junc
tion, CoL. on a prospecting tonr.
namcKHjn r iodic ot ice nuo, re
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cently purchased about two hundred
tens of hay in the stick of Paxton &
Hershey. G.A. Staples and crew are
baling and loading it upon the cars at
Hershev.
J. Jj. Strickler, the Hershey merchant,
was a North Platte visitor on business
last Saturdny. It is saidbe will soon
erect a large new building at that place
to be used as a hotel and drug store
.several acres of early potatoes have
already been planted in this community.
The railroad up through this country
has been lined with tramps for the past
week or so. They go in squads ranging
from two to twenty, and have to be dealt
with quite severely in many cases.
beveral hundred bushels of potatoes
have been hauled and shioted out of
the valley recently. Thev will soon be a
scarce article in this countrv.
Ellis McCord. one ot the section gang
atNichols, was off doty a couple of days
ast week owing to Eickness,
W. A.-Paston, of Omaha, who has
been- nsirxngMrrand Mrs. J.'Hi Hershey
lately, departed Friday for Ogden and
Salt Lake. He is expected back to-day
or to morrow.
V. E. Myers, the north side hardware
man at the county capital, repaired the
Sullivan boys' irrigation windmill a few
days ago.
Grandma Erickson. mother of Fore
man Ericksoa of Nichols, who h been
visiting relatives in the vicinity of Lin
coln for some time, started for home re
cently and was taken sick on the train,
and had to stop off with a relative on the
way. We understand that she is improv
ing and will soon be able to resume her
jonrney homeward.
Several enjoyed a leap year party at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Cook
last Friday night.
F. P. Morgan,of the Cbappell Register,
stopped off at Hershey the latter part of
the week and visited his old friend W.
H. HILL Mr. Morgan was en route to
the congressional delegate convention at
Broken Bow, and also to the state dele
gate convention at Omaha.
The lecture entitled "Tom, the Com-
ing Man," delivered in the Maccabee hall
at Hershey last Saturday evening by
Rev. C C. Snavely, of North Piatte, was
well attended and is highly spoken of by
all in attendance.
The actions of the county commis
sioners in raising the assessment of the
county from one-fifth to one-fourth of
the valuation is causing consider
able kicking by the tax-payers in
the different precincts throughontthe
county, and when they are talked to
about votimr bonds for the erection of
bridges or anything else, they simply go
wild, as they can hardly make both ends
meet as it is without any raise in their
taxes. Pat.
SUTHESLA5T) SEWS.
C. J. Farnham has returned from Yal-
entine- and was in town Fridav.
m. Tatum. of Perkins countv.Dassed
through our village Thursday.
Geo. Emerson is letting out sweet and
field corn to responsible parties.
Hobos and green grass are both he- I
coming quite plentiful these warm days.
FredPierson has rented the Lord &
Harvey land west of town for this sea-
gon. I
O. A. Hosteller and wife were county
seat visitors the last of the week. I
John Pierson, of Parian, was on our I
streets Saturday mom in h1.
Mrs. F. A. Carpenter returned from.
St-Paul the middle of the week and
Frank is smiling once more.
The irrigation canal on Front street
Las been cleaned up in first class style
&sd re now ready for water.
"Wsa. Holtry shipped s carload of hogs
to Dearer ti first of the week.
MiesAlfis Moir will tecch school a
ooepfe aC sas&s in the Thayer is Steck
seighhcKiMocl.
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The water was turned into the Suther
land & Paxton canal Thursday ami the
scraps as to who is iifiext" wBbsbortiy
commence between the water users.
Rev. 2uchols,of Paxton,passed through
town Monday.
Geo. Emerson shipped a carload, -of
-potatoes to Schuyler Monday.
Miss Mabel Johnson has been engaged
to teach a school over in the vicinity of
Jas. Bouhams and commenced the 13th.
T. A. Roberts and G. W. Ferbrache.
of Birdwood were on oar streets Satur
dav. J. H. Abshire has 'completed sowing
small grain over south; and is at home
again. i
James Perkin, of Grant, is in charge
of the Perkin store while Joseph Perkin .
is visiting at home.
Mrs.Dotson, of the north side, has
been quite sick the past week. Dr. Mor
rill is in attendance.
Jos. Huffman is helping put boxes into
the irrigation canal this week and the
saloon door has been closed.
Jt. i. btone transacted business at
North Platte Friday. :
3TE3XASO. JfGTES.
QWork on the improvements on the
Kearney canal will be recommenced
this week.
The number of section hands on the
St Francis branch of the B. k, M. has
been materially reduced-
Nellie Lashbrook, a prominent young
woman of Fairmont, was thrown from a
horse and her brokan leg is doing nicely.
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The town marshal pf Johnson was
a
severely pommeled by four tramps who
resisted arrest. He succeeded in land
ing- them in Jail.
John Skeen shot and slightly wounded -
a fellow citizen at Nemaha. The fellow
citizen was helping himself to Skeen's
coal pile and escaped in the darkness.
A prairie-fire burned down the tele
phone lines near Rodgers, thus cutting
off all communication with surrounding j
towns, and breaking the entire circuit
William Falkners horse ran away at
Falls City, and in the -excitement, Wil
liam Heintz an old German fanner, was
internally injured JSwIll -hardly re
cover.
The oldB. & M. roundhouse atBrown-
viftV, ose of the landmarks, was recently
Ieveted by a frisky cyclone. It had been
a free lodging house for tramps many
years.
A 10-jear-oH son of George Simeon in
Deuel county trailed a wolf two miles,
cornered it and killed it with a club.
The wolf measured 5 feet 10 inches.
from nose to tail..
A sister of Mrs. Sfcremk, of Bratton,
was nearly burned to death recently,
but the doctors saved her life. Since
then they have grafted 35! pieces of
skin upon her body: but the new skin
has all came off.
Mail Carrier Shaw of 3Iurray is under
arrest for the destruction of an unad-
dressed letter. 2s ot knowins anvthinrr
else to do with it he threw it into the
stove. Now the federal government
proposes to teach him better.
Two years ago the ONeil city council
raised the salary of the mayor from S25
to S50 per annum, and of the councilman
from $ 1230 ger annum to 325. The
aldermen neglected to repeal the old or-
diance. Now suit has been commenced
to recover from the city officials the sal
ary paid in excess of the oldamount.
Isaac Crustafson, a Furnas county
young man, 19 years old, was almost
instantly killed byThe collapse of a sod
house. The heavy weight of thesod roof
crushed the life out of him, and he
breathed but a few moments after being
extricated.
The statisticians are troubling them
selves iver the reported increase of -the
population in Europe in ten years by 30,
000,000, nearly half of the increase being
credited to Russia. There had been no
general census in Russia since 185JL the
eaumaies oi popniaxion oeing oasea on
A a y V t m T -
enumerations msae oy statistical com-
niittees. On these estimates Rnssia made
a gam in twenty years, between 1S67 and
1S37' " nearly 25,000,000. The reported
increase m the last ten years may make
a tter showing, because of closer count
2113 better registration, but, taking the
avera5e Per year, it is not greater than
ths reported increase since 1S67. G er
man7 also reports a large increase in pop-
elation, while France in the last ten
years has to her credit an increase of
67,000.
The republican plurality of 11,273 in
Rhode Tsland breaks the record, with the
exception of the year 1S92, when a re
publican war governor was elrcted with
out opposition. The first straw of 1695
comes from a small state, but is is sig
nificant. Dr. A- P. Saiyer I firre ta&Bhesisaifssi since
I Yas 20 years old, test aaee nsfs jfisrlaSy
Care-BaTeteea frea from it- it alsocsred
fessfcasd o tae saae diemee. 3feXofe. Cost
1 slr.rDotljM,lw. Seii bj- y. H.
CEUDE MTOXICiS.
THE MANUFACTURE OF STIMULANTS
BY ABORIGINES.
jeersessed. and Distilled liquors "With
Which the U ariTiJizetl XatiTes of HiMex-
eatffexts of the World Produce "Dr-cak.'
Teaming From the White 3n.
It is a remarkable fact that up to the
tnna of the coming of the whites the
North American Indians generally had
no knowledge of intoxicants. As for to
bacco, they did not smoke it as we do
apparently, but merely for ceremonial
purposes. Going southward into Mexico
in these days, however, the traveler
might have found alcoholic stimulants
in common use. Even at the present
time the natives in that part of the
world make an odd sort of beer cut of
corn. They wet a woolen blanket, lay it
in the sun and spread whole grains of
maize upon if. The grains germinate,
sprouting and sending out rootlets
through the texture of the blanket,
which is kept moist. They are then
parched and ground to a coarse meaL
To this meal a little yeast, mad6 by
chewing some com and allowing it to
ferment, is added. Then the stuff is
mixed with water and put away in jars.
Fermentation follows, and as it dimin
ishes the liquor becomes as clear as yel
low amber, in which condition it is
drunk. It is quite intoxicating.
Several varieties of grasses, herbs and
flowers, the roots of sundry plants, the
juices of the sugar cane and aloe, and
even beets, are used by various tribes
and peonies as a basis of drinks. In
earlier times spruce trees, fir trees,
birch trees and ash trees were tapped fr
their sap, which was fermented to make
stimulating beverages. The willow,
poplar, sycamore and walnut are said to
yield palatable drinks. The Japanese ob
tain intoxicating beverages from plums
and from the flowers of the motherwort
and peach. The Chinese actually pro-,
ducean alcoholic drink from mutton.
The Atmaki Indians of New England
used to manufacture a kind of liquor
from the tops of fir trees, which they
boiled and pus into casks with molasses:,
The contents of the tasks were allowed
to ferment far three cktys.
TheEsMmos were entirely unacquaint
ed with the art of getting drunk until
they came into contact with the whites.
Travelers have observed that they drink
extraordinary quantities of water when
they can procure it. That is not always
so easy in a latitude where the normal
condition of water is that of a solid. In
winter on a-of the mcisrimportant occu
pations cf the women is the thawing of
snow to get water. The snow is cut in
to very thin slices as a preparation far
the thawing process, and it is fetched to
the hut from a considerable distance in
order that it may be perfectly clean.
The Eskimo greatly dislikes water that
is many degrees above the freezing
point.
The Chilcat Indians of southern Alas
ka distill a fearful beverage called
"hootch enoo. " The process adopted was
probably suggested to them by United
States soldiers originally. Molasses or
vegetables of any sort, made into a
are employed as raw ma-
teriaL The mash is put into a large tin
can, which is connected with another
tin can by a tube of the hollow stem of
the giant kelp. This tube is buried in
snow. A fire is built under the can that
contains the mash, and tho alcohol passes
over into the other vessel. The liquor
thus distilled is drunk fresh and pro
duces temporary insanity.
The aborigines of Mexico and farther
to the south were acquainted only with
fermented, in toxicants up tothe time
when they learned from the whites the
principle of the still At present, haw
ever, this contrivance of civilization is
in general use among savages on this
continent The Apaches of southern
Arizona make whisky from the sap of a
small species of eactus. They cut out
the hearts of the plants, resembling lit
tle cabbages, and in the cup shaped re
ceptacles left behind the sap accumu
lates. From this sap they distill the
famous "mescal," which drives those
who drink it to sheer madness. 3Iany
spirituous drinks are made from the
banana. Banana wine is obtained by
pressing the fruit through a sieve, after
which it is made into cakes, dried in
the sun and dissolved in water when
wanted for use.
On the west coast of Africa it is a
common thing to see a bare legged wom
an climbing up a gigantic palm tree,
with a calabash of immense size hung
round her neck. "When she has reached
the top branch, she taps the tree, and the
sap begins to flow. Then she hangs the
calabash beneath the stream of sap and
descends. Twelve hours later she climbs
the tree again and takes down the cala
bash, which by that time is full of palm
beer. Itresemfales mead somewhat, but a
small quantity of it Etupefies the drink
er. .African natives universally know
how to prepare drunk producing liquors
from such simple materials as the tops
of broom corn, sugar cane juice and co
coanut milk.
All over eastern Asia is consumed a
drink knerfrn as 'arrack." The best of
it is distilled from the un expanded
flowers of certain varieties of palm. A
vile kind of arrack is made from impure
molasses that is left over as refuse in
the manufacture of raw sugar. It makes
the drinker crazy, and under the influ
ence of it; whole parties of .Malays some
times "run amuck" together, the sport
uniy conciuomgwitn tne ceatn oi au
of numbers of innocent people. This is
a favorite Malay plan of committing
suicide. Aman makes up his mind that
he wants to die, and so he fills himself
up with arrack and starts to run amuck,
stabbing everyone that comes in his
way until he himself is slain. St. Louis
Blotting paper is wholly unsized, the
lack of sizing enabling it to take up and
retain the ink of tie writing cn which
it is laid.
We are too busy to-day
unpacking goods to write
"ad" for this space,--Come
in and look over
an
our new stock.
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Richards Bros.
The Story of a. Hit field Picture.
On the grand staircase of Hatfield
House Is a portrait of the fourth earl of
Salisbury to which" a eurioua story at
taches. A casual glance at the picture
gives one the impression of a man with
two heads behind the features of the
earl peers another face in much fainter
outline and of quite a distinct type the
face, in fat, of the unfortunate Duke of
ilaumoutfa. It seems that the duke,
when a favorite at court, was a friend
of the then Earl of Salisbury, and as a
mark of his esteem presented the earl
with his portrait. After Sedgemoor,
however, it was not safe for the earl to
keep the picture on his walls, and it
was accordingly hidden away in the
lumber room. Years after the discarded
canvas, from which the features of the
rebel duke bad entirely disappeared, was
found by the fourth earl of Salisbury as
a time when he was about to have his
own portrait painted, and in a spirit of
economy he resolved to utilize it far this
purpose. When this portrait came to bo
cleaned some years ago, the face of
Monmouth reappeared, to the confusion
of the person engaged in the task. This,
at any rate, is the explanation of the
mystery which Lord Salisbury himself
has accepted, if only for the want of a
better. Cassel Us Magazine.
2ioTel Headache Cure.
The latest "cure" suggested for the
relief of headaches is a hair cat. Acer
tain physician in London has mef with
great success lately in his treatment of
persistent cases of "nervous" headaches,
and he has disclosed the secret.
In each case, he says, after the pa
tiens had laid bore a long tale of woe
of sleepless nights and miserable days
he prescribed briefly a simple hair cut
is is not necessary that the hair should
be cropped off short, after the fashion of
convicts.
The curative property cf the treat
ment is based on the fact that the tube
which is contained in each single hair
is severed in the process, and the brain
"bleeds," as the barbers say, thereby
opening a safety valve for the congested
cranium. A commentator in the Lon
don society press in referring to this
cure says:
"Try the cure when next attacked by
headache, and if the result be not satis
factory rest assured that it is noc the
faul of the prescription, but that the
head is so wooden that it wooden 'tact."
The 3Iorai ta fneer's Sear- Team.
"I was driving along a read in the
mountains of western 27crth Carolina a
short time ago," said P. B. Mayneld of
St. Louis, "when I heard a wagon com
ing around abend in the road. My horses
shied, then began to tremble, being evi
dently in the most abject terror. I could
not make them move a foot, and when
the approaching team came into sight I
saw the reason, and, getting out of the
buggy, succeeded in quieting my horses,
so as to allow the strange team room to
pass, the driver of the brutes ahead ot
me calling: 'They won't hurt nothin,
stranger. Don't be skeared.' Ha was
were pEn about as
fast time as a yoke of oxen would. They
were hitched to a wagon leaded with
legs. The upper part of the wagon was
like any other, but the wheels were
small and heavy, evidently the work of
a local blacksmith. The bears paid no
attention to me or to my team and
walked along leisurely, drawing their
load seemingly without effort. -Washington
Star. ;
Eale, tins. Hoodies people ahocW nse Dr. Ssrx
yers ITtatWg. It Is the. greatest reaiedy la tle
wnrld tar reafrrag the weak strong. Tor sale by T
The Fair."
Twelfth. Cestory TableclotXe.
In the twelfth century the tablecloths
were- very large and were always -laldr-cn
the table double. For a long time
they were called "doublers" for that
reason. The cloth was first placed-so as
to touch the floor on the side cf the ta
ble af which the guests sat Then all
the doth that remained was folded so
that it just covered the table.
Charles V had 67 tablecloths which
were from 15 to 20 yards long and 2
yards wide. He had one cloth which
was 32 yards long, and that had the
arms of France embroidered cn it in
silk. -AD of these were fringed-
In the sixteenth century "doublers,"
or double cloths, were replaced by two
tablecloths, one of which was gmnll and
was laid just as we lay curs today.
The other, which was put en over it,
was large and of Beautifully figured
linen. It was skillfully folded in such
a way that, as a book of that rime says,
"it resembled a winding river, gently
ruffled by a little breeze, for among very
many little folds were here and there
great bubbles."
It must have required much art and
care to make dishes, plates, saltcellars,
sauce dishes and glasses stand steadily
in the midst cf this undulating sea and
among those "bubbles" and puffy folds.
However, the fashion had only a short
existence, as is apt to be the case with
unpractical fashions, and toward tho
latter part of the century a single cloth,
laid flat and touching the floor on all
sides of the table, came into general
use. Tenth's Companion.
Dr. A. p. Sawyer Sir: After suffering fesr
Tears wid fersai vea&sess I -was persuaded by a
friend to trrjonrPastfllesTaaji after Bsiss the
for one year, tcaa say Iasx entirely -welt. leaa-
not reeonxnend thesx too highly. 5Trs.3LS.Broo2r
Bronsoc. Bethel Branch. Ccxaiich. Tsreale&yF.
H.Iongley.
State of Ohio. Crrr of Toledo, ?
Lucas Couttty, )
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he. is
the senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney iGx, doing business in the City
of Toledo, County and State aforesaid
and that said firm will pay the Eum of
One Hundred Dollars for each and every
case of Catarm that cannot be curecFby
the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure.
Frank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before- me and subcribed a
my presence this 6th day of December..
A.D-1SS6. . -
ti A.W.GLEASON.
j seal t Notary PnbKc
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internaSy
and acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Send
for testimonials free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo O.
i2f"Sold by Druggists, 75 c
GEO. NAUMAN'S
SIXTH STREET ,
MEAT MARKET.
Meats at wholesale and re
tail. Fish and Game -in
season. Sausage at all
times. Cash paid for Hides-