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NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, TUESDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 10, 1896.
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GREAT
CLEARING
Slaughter! Slaughter! -Slaughter!
We have got to make room for our
immense line of Fall Goods and for that
reason -will sell all of our goods at marvel
ous low prices lower than ever known in
Western Nebraska.
Now is Your Chance!
We positively will allow no one to
undersell us. Comparison solicited. Goods
freely shown.
STAR MIS
WF3ER & VOLLMER, PROPS.
No 3498 W
if First National Bank,
SOUTH PLATTE, XEB,
There's no Use!
l-im. ""T J"r
(see the name on the leg. them, when I f'b JN OT SO.
If you are posted you cannot be deceived. We write
this to post you. SOLD ONLY BY
A I DAVIS Tlie Great and 0nly Hardware Man
AvJ in Lincoln Co. that no one Owes.
Full JLine of ACORN STOYES 4ND R ANGES, STOYE
PIPE, ELBOWS, COAL HODS, ZINC BOARDS,
etc., at Lowest Prices on Record.
NORTH PLATTE, - - - NEBRASKA.
FINEST SAMPLE ROOM IN NORTH PLATTE
Having refitted our rooms in the finest of style, the public
is invited to call and see us, insuring courteous treatment.
Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars at the Bar.
Our billiard hall is supplied with the best make of tables
and competent attendants will supply all your wants.
BEITETS BLOCK, OPPOSITE I'flE UNON "PACIFIC DEPOT
You can't find in these
United States the Equal
of the Genuine
Beckwith
Round Oak.
You may try; you'll get
left. Remember, it's the
combination of good points
that makes the Perfect
Stove. That's where we
get the IMITATIONS.
They can't steal the whole
stove. They steal one
thing and think they have
it all, but it FAILS. They
build another. It fails.
3f Still they keep on crying
good as the BOUND
OAK. Some peculiar
mercnants say they have
NICHOLS NEWS,
Miss Lottie Wiels, from the east
ern part of the state, is the guest
of Miss Stella Goodwin.
The attendance at our Sunday
school was very light last Sabbath.
Russ Calhoun. Will Brooks and
Will Lokar were hauling hay from
up the country the first of the week.
J. W. Lyle has been south of the
river for the past week working
with the Funkhouser alfalfa huller.
Preachiner will be held at the
school house next Thursday even
ing at seven o'clock.
. Miss Sadie Brooks entertained a
scqrepV more of lady Maccabees at
her home on Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. F. M. Terry will be at home
to the ladies' aid society to-morrow
from ten a. m. until four o'clock.
Our school is progressing finely
under the capable management of
Miss Nellie Lonergan.
A dance was held at the Kelly
farm on last Friday evening and
was quite largely attended.
The wedding of J. W. Hoover, of
Hinman precinct, and Miss Cora
Zook, formerly of this place, was
one of last week's pleasant sur
prises. 'The young couple have
many acquaintances in Nichols who
wish them the greatest prosperity.
The Maccabee dance which was
to have taken place last Friday
evening at Hershey has been indefi
nitely postponed.
John Feeken started his corn
sheller up last week, shelling at
Tilford's Friday, and Gibbon's Sat
urday and Monday.
A singing school will in all prob
ability be organized some time soon
bv a gentleman from the eastern
part of the county.
As Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hoover
were returning from the Kelly farm
last Friday evening their team be
came unmanageable, upsetting the
rig and throwirg Mr. Hoover
against a barb wire fence, lacerat
ing his hands and face badly. His
wife being more fortunate escaped
with but few bruises. The team
was jininjuredL Although Mr. !
Hoover is' somewhat restless from
his wounds he is to be
congratu-
lated on escaping with his life
MYETLE HEWS.
Mrs. W. T. Banks and little son,
of North Platte, visited her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. Combs, a few days
recently.
W. Combs and Jno. Combs, took
in the sights of North Platte the
first of the week.
L. P. Derby erected a windmill on
his place, last week.
Election parsed off quietly in this
precinct, the pops carrying it by a
majority of one or two votes. It is
said one republican was elected,
and that was for justice of the peace,
and his name was A. E. Moore.
Elmer F uller threshed his grain
Saturday.
Corn husking has been a thing of
the past, the last week, the snow
that fell last week having not en
tirely disappeared yet.
A. E. Moore is erecting a corn
crib this week.
The following named persons were
passengers to North Platte the last
of the week, Jno. Combs, Elmer
Fuller, Mrs. Riggs and Cora Combs.
Hayseed
THE SUGAE BEET.
In a recent letter to an. eastern
paper W. H. Michael, formerly a
resident ot this state, says:
I have a letter from a former
neighbor, one of the most success
ful and enterprising farmers in the
state, which says: "I am in the
midst of my beet harvest. I have
ten acres this year and the yield is
fifteen tons per acre. I am getting
S5 per ton and my net profit is $60
per acre." This man's name is
Henry Rief, and his address is
Grand Island, Neb. He is a mem
ber of the county board of super
visors. What he is doing others
are doing and the same results may
be obtained bv any industrious, in
telligent farmer in that state.
I have been making some figures
on the possibilities of beet sugar
husbandry in Nebraska and I will
give them in this letter. The im
portation of sugar for this year is
about 3,896,327,557 pounds. This
vast amount of-sugar can be pro
duced from beets grown in five
counties in the Platte valley and
there will be over 400.000 acres of
Buokleit's Arnica Salve
The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, teter, chapped hands, chilblains
corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi
tively cures piles, or no pay required,
It Is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac
tion or money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box,
For e&le by A. Fi Srreitz .
cultivatable land -left in those
counties for other purposes. The
average yield of beets per acre will
produce about 1,700 pounds of
susrar. The number of factories
necessary to work up the beets to
produce the required amount of
sugar will be 920. The capacity
of the factories will be limited to 360
tons per day. It will be understood
that the factory never stops during
the "campaign." Hence a day in
the factory . means twenty-tour
hours. Each factory would con
vert in the aggregate 18,400,000
tons of beets from 1,840.000 acres.
To accomplish all this would give
employment to 2,500,000 people.
The money expended for the beets
at $5 per ton would be $92,000,000.
It would be alow, estimate to place
the proportion of this that would go
to the farmer at 40 per centum,
which would be $35,800,000. The
cost of the factories would be about
$400,000,000. This would, of course,
go to the machine shops and the
various building trades. In other
words the vast sum would go to the
laboring people.
Captain Lundeen informed the re
porter that the beets raised by the
syndicate on its forty acres of
ground just east of the city test at
the factory 15 per cent saccharine
matter. The monevr of the svndi-
cate was invested forf-a term of six
months, and the profit to the inves
tors will be about 15 per cent.
This is equal to 30 per cent per an
num, and ought to be a good indica
tion to our people of the value of
the sugar beet industry. The
profits, Mr. Lundeen says, would
have reached nearly 100 per cent,
for the fact that the syndicate did
not begin to prepare the ground for
its planting until after the time
when the beets should have all been
in the ground, and as a result the
stand was not as good as it would
have been. York Times,
Germany is the greatest beet
sugar producing country in the
world. In 1895 they produced
14,000,000 tons of beets from 880,-
000 acres of land, a yield of 15 tons
per acre. These beets produced 3,916
to 4,000 pounds of sugar per acre,
that is 260 pounds of sugar per ton.
Consider in Nebraska the beets run
about 200 pounds per ton, but with
seed development and increased ex
perience in raising beets it will
equal Germany. The increase in
Germany in sugar production from
160 pounds to 260 pounds per ton of
beets has been within the past few
3'ears. The beet is an artificial
plant built up by German - seed
raisers to its present state of high
perfection, and still subject to
greater improvement. Grand
Island Independent.
BETUBBING PE03PEHITY.
The Louisville, Ky., chair works.
employing 125 men, has increased
wages 10 per cent owing to McKin
ley's election.
The Ohio Falls car works of Jef
ferson, Ind., employing 2,500 men,
have a contract for 2,000 cars con
tingent on McKinley's election and
the plant will start in a few days.
A dispatch from Providence, R.
I., says: The jewelry business
here has felt the immediate results
of McKinley's. election. Several
shops this morning posted up no
tices of a full time schedule.
The great Pennsylvania railroad
company, which had been working
its shop employes twenty-five hours
per week, have increased the work
ing time to sixty hours per week.
The officers say that the increase
in time is due to the firm belief
that the election of McKinley means
prosperous times for the railroads
as well as all other branches of
business.
Since McKinley's election gold is
being paid on demand at nearly all
the banks in the larger cities of the
country. Banks in smaller cities
will soon follow the example of the
larger financial institutions.
Alexander Brown, a prominent
banker of Baltimore, says that the
election of McKinley means the in
vestment of sixteen-million dollars
in iron mills, pulp mills and other
industries in the state of Maryland.
The money is available at any time.
The rolling mills at Birmingham,
Ala., resumed work Thursday, giv
ing employment to 1,000 men. The
Gate City mills, employing 700
men. resumed yesterday.
The cotton and woolen mills at
Ipswich, Conn., employing 1,000
hands, has resumed, after a pro
tracted shut down.
At Pittsburg there is great ac
tivity in the rolling mills. Among
the mills which have resumed oper
ations by reason of McKinley's
election, are the Hainsworth, Zug's,
the Clinton, the South Side and
the Jones & Laughlin. These
mills will give employment to many
thousand men.
The immense King, Gilbert and
Warren plant at Steelton, Ohio,
Diew its wnist e Thursriav mnrnino-
for the first time in months, and
nearly 1,000 men seized their tin
pails and started to work.
The Big Four, Chesapeake &
Ohio, and Baltimore & Ohio rail
ways all ordered their shops opened
Friday, and ordered enlarged
forces at those which have been
running.
The Ensign car works at Hun
tington, W. Va., resumed work
Friday, as did also the works at
Mount Vernon, 111.
The Niles tool works, at Hamil
ton, Ohio, announce increased
forces. Furnaces at Ashland.
lronton, and other Ohio towns, an
nounce that they are getting ready
to go in blast.
Fifteen hundred men were "put to
work yesterday on the construc
tion of the Kansas City, Pittsburg
& Gulf railway through Arkansas.
Since election bonds have been
floated for the construction of the
Golden Circle and Florence South
ern railroad in Colorado, and work
will begin this week.
The United States Rolling Stock
Company near Chicago has posted
notice that it will give employment
to 700 men at once. The Standard
Oil Company at Whiting, Ind,,j wall
give employment to 450 additional
men.
A WOBD TO DEMOCRATS.
fWbile The Tribute does not believe
in giving aid to its political opponents,
it gives room to the following communi
cation on account of the democratic
party having no local organ in which to
have the same published. Ed.
The American people by their ballots,
in a most signal manner, recorded their
unalterable opposition to any form of
depreciated currency. They have said
that thy will not favor a dollar that is
one-half fiat any more than they would
one that would be one-quarter fiat, or
all fiat. It would only be a difference
of degree. A lie is a lie, whether it asks
excuse as being only a "white lie," or is
condemned as the grossest deception. A
sin is a sin, whether thou covet thy
neighbor's house, or steal his pocket
book. Fiat is either right or it is
wrong. It cannot be half right and
half wrong. Tho logic cannot be es
caped that if government's fiat will cause
any metal or substance of less intrinsic
value than a dollar to become a dollar,
the sam fiat can cause a thing of no in
trinsic value to become a dollar. It can
undoubtedly call it a dollar, and compel
people to take it in payment of existing
debts, but no government ever could, or
ever can, coerce any people into accept
ing any kind of money in trade except
at its intrinsic market value. The
history of nations records no instance
of its ever having been attempted with
out being follo.ved by aisaster. Man
nor governments cannot create value by
simply saying so, or by law . Man's de
sires and necessities can alone do that.
The result of the recent presidential
election may be recorded as a defeat of
Brvan and his followers, but it was not
a republican victory. The democratic
party, while rent and torn by dissen
sions, and having suffered recently
from "temporary aberration of the mind"
is still, I most sincerely believe, as 1
have alwajs believed, the hope of poor
and rich alike, while at the same time
the bulwark of the common people
againt the encroachments of arrogant
monopoly and corponte greed. I can
not bring myself to believe however,
that the democratic party will live or
should deserve to live, unless its plat
forms are built broad enough, so that on
them may stand alike rich and poor,
lowly and exalted, learned and ignorant,
employees and employers, producer and
consumers. Nothing is, or should be,
more readily xdmitted than that a
stable financial system, and our good
credit with the nations of the world, ar
of infinitely more importance to the
poor than to the rich. As I. have said,
the late election is not a republican vii
tory. Tho American people, regard ess
or party, have refused to accept what
they honest y believe would bo a ruin
ous" financial policy. The democratic
p'irty, that won so signal a victory four
years ago, has lost the confidence of the
majority of the people. How shall it
regain that confidence, so as to become
once more the majority? Let them
abandon at once and forever the financial
errors which have brought about their
overthrow. Let them understand at
once and for all that our people wi.l not
adopt a financial policy that has been
discarded bf the most highly civilized
nations of the earth. If they will do
this they need not be cast down. Let
them hold fast to principles that are
rk'ht, and because they are right, they
can fight for them and win. Let them
forever abandon principles which are
wrong, and because they are wrong,
have always brought, and will continue
to bring defeat; for this is not the first
time that the doctrine of inflation has
been repudiated. This will require
courage Nothing in the wor'd is so
hard for a proud man as to admit that
he has been wrong; nor is there any
truer cou-age than that of one who
admits bis error, dispite the abus, and
worse than abuse, the ridicule of ene
mies and former friends- As with men,
so with par'iep; for parties an but ag
gregates of individuals. Let the party
ponder long md well, before they again
refuse to listen to thp voice of wise and
conservative leaderp,whoFe character and
wisdom did more than nil else to regain
for the democratic party the confidence
of the people, and led them twice to vic
tory after being excluded from power
for twsnty-fonr years, to follow the
Whether
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should be in
the people's
ment and value
or
ability to point
off in sales here.
Some shoes
shams. Our
McKinley
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we guarantee
; is most carefully
the matter right.
is
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;built up the
Platte.
the
Winner
A. F. STREiTZ,
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils,
WINDOW GLASS, -
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WALL-PAPER, PAINT AND OIL DEPOT.
WINDOW-GLSS, VARNISHES, GOLD LEAP, GOLD
PAINTS, BRONZES, ARTISTS' COLORS AND BRUSHES. PUNO AND
FURNITURE POLISHES, PREPARED HOU E AND BUGGY PAINTS,
Kj LSOMINE MATERIAL, WINDOW SHADES.
ESTABLISHED JULY 186S. ... 310 SPRUCE STREET-
leadership of men, many of whom are
merely erratic or ignorant, but too many
of whom are revolutionary and danger
ous.
Let democrats of all shades of differ
ences bury the animosities engendered
by the recent conflict, refuse th- leader
stiip of those who would loster and en
courage them, and present a sol id i front
to our old antagonists, the republican
party. Let us come together un a plat
form of principles which we all know
to be right, and upon which we can win.
Let us present a united opposition to
the robber tarifLsubsidies or bounties of
whatever nature, the iniquitous and un
democratic spoils system, the prodigal
and wasteful expenditures of the public
money; let us distinctly and vigorously
oppo-e the schemes, not of all capital,
but of seltish capital, that seks to un
duly enrich itse f (aided by unjust- laws)
at the expense of the "people. Let us re
sist with our united streugth the forma
tion of trusts and monopo-ies, and in
sist upon the passage and enforcement
of laws which shall curb the powers of
corporations.
There are those among us who would
seek to keep alive the dissensions which
have rent us assunder. Avoid them.
It is absolutely false that all who may
differ with us politically are unpatriotic,
or unmindful of the welfare of our com
mon country. Some there are undoubt
edly in every party who are moved by
selfish consideration, but it has ever
that when real danger confronted us
party lines have been swept, and citizens
who have always differed politically have
joiued forces in a common cause to avert
he threatened disaster; showing most
conclusively that patriotism is not pos
sessed solely by one party.
Let us frown down the violent and un
reasonable partisan, and be governed by
an enlightened anI conservative pat
riotism. The heat and excitement of
the campaign being over now is tho
time to study, calmly. If I were to
choose a time to talft politics, it would
be ever' year but a presidential year.
It is a common idea that religi n and
politics should not be mingled. The idea
is correct. o fr as tb objection is to
the injectin into politics of the rancor
and narrowness denominationalism.
But if a little, nay! notonly a little, but
a great deal of spirit of true religion gov
erned our politios there would be no
need for anxiety about the future des
tiny of our beloved country, whichever
party might control its affairs. The
sentiments of "peacp on earth, good will
towards men", and whatsoever e would
that men should do to you, do .ye even- so
to them", should nobbe out oL place in
any party platform. Dzmockax.
will continue to be the leading dry
section of the country. It has ever been so since
the doors were first opened. Goods here are
always correct in style, reliable in quality and
right in price." In a word values 'are as they
order to obtain the larsreat share of
patronage.
This season we are, if possible, just a little
in advance of any previous one as regards assort
given. That accounts for our
to the fact that there is no fallin
I or.
SOME FACTS ABOUT SHOES.
are like some shoe ads, mere
shoes will stand the same search-5
; ing investigation that we invite for our ads. :
you should put them to any test
shoe should be able to stand, and!
they will not disappoint. If they
; do, which sometimes happens even when stock j
selected, we're here to make)
Can you ask any better treat-
Every shoe in this stock is!
give good service, fit and please
That's the basis on which we have
largest shoe business in North
Yours for business.
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THE PAIR,"
Richards Bros., PropsJ'
: - MACHIiNE-S
Spectacles. -
TO THE TAX PAYEES OF LINCOLN
COUNTY, NEBRASKA.
North Platte, Neb., Nov. 5, '96.
I desire to call jour attention to
the following- provisions of the
statutes of Nebraska in relation to
the duty of county treasurers and
the law governing' the payment of
personal taxes.
1S95 Statutes, page 903, section
4372:
"iVo demand 'for taxes shall be
necessary, but it shall be the duty of
every person subject to taxation
under the law of the state to attend
at the treasurer's office at the county,
seat and pay his taxes and if any
person neglect so to attend and pay
his personal taxes until after the
first day of January next after
such taxes became due, (J axes are
due October' 1st, of each year.)
the treasurer or the sheriff of the
county when directed by DISTRESS
warrant issued by -said treasurer
to said sheriff is directed to levy
and collect the same, together with
the penalty and costs of collection
by distress and sale of personal
property belonging- to such person
in the manner provided by law for
the lew and sale on execution."
Section 43S1, Statutes of 1895,
makes it the duty of each county
treasurer to make affidavit (before
settlement with the county com
missioners) that the personal taxes
unpaid on the tax books cannot be
collected. That the persons as
sessed have no personal property
out of which the personalty can be
collected.
I hereby give notice that I will
issue distress warrants Dec, 15,
18, to the sheriff of Lincoln
county for the collection of all un
paid personalty taxes for the year
1895. Butler Buchanan,
County Treasurer.
In search of a good cigar
will always nnd it at J.
F. Schmalzried's. Try
them and judge.
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