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( , . fa -J 'rut a s S VOL. XIII. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1897. NO. 5. I 1 Wat Mmilx Bmtk Mnlh r V Closing Sale! Owing to an expected change in business we are . . going to sell our entire stock of . . Clothing, Hats, Caps, Gents Fur nishing Goods, Boots and Shoes, Trunks and Valises -AT- Slauglitering l Call and be convinced tbat what we tell you arc facts. Star Mi . . Weber & Vollmer. . . All parties indebted please call and settle. m First Nati m mmmmmmm, j H. U P. Si There's no Use! (see the name on the leg. them, when 11 b JN U T b O. If you are posted you cannot be deceived. We write this to post you. SOLD ONLY BY A' I FIAVK The Great and Only Hardware Man A Jb. im T IP, in Lincoln Go. that no one Owes. Full Line of ACORN STOVES AND RANGES, STOYE PIPE, ELBOWS, COAL HODS, ZINC BOARDS, etc., at Lowest Prices on Record. NORTH PLATTE, - - NEBRASKA. FINEST SAMPLE ROOM Having refitted our rooms in is invited to call and see us, Finest Wines5 Liquors Our billiard hall is sunnlied ud com netenfc attendants KEITH'S BLOCK, OPPOSITE vF Low Prices, otial Bank, 1 OUSf), PLATTE, ATJSJ?, CAPITAL, SURPLUS, $50,000. $22,500. S. White, - - President. Vice-Pres't. A. White, - Arthur McNamara, - Cashier. A general banking business transacted. 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. Still they keep on crying good as the SOUND OAK. Some peculiar mPvMmnfc can rliotr Vioito IN NORTH "PLATTE the finest of style, the public insuring courteous treatment. and Cigars at the Bar. with the W. will nnnlir all x'HE UNTION PACIFIC IXEPOT BEADY BUDGET. Fred Ouimette and Miss Loner gan, ot North Platte, were the sruests ot Mr. and Mrs. St. Marie Christinas. Miss Hooper is visiting" friends in Central City this week. E. L. Mathewson transacted bus iness in North Platte Saturday. Mrs. Odie Abercrombie and Miss Holcombe are attending" the teach ers' meeting" in Lincoln this week Wm. Mclntire and Walter Eavey were visitors at North Platte Mon day. Mrs. Yohe, who had been visit ing" her daughter, Mrs. J. H. Giffin, tor several weeks, returned to her home in Iowa Monday. Harrv Yohe made a visit to Goth enburg" Wednesday. yuite a number or our oung folks attended the 4 'literary" at the Brown school house Wednesday ev ening". Quite a number assembled at the Methodist church New Year's eve and did ample justice to the excel lent supper served by the W. C. T. U. G. D. Mathewson shipped a car load ot horses to Nashville, Teun., on Wednesday, Morris VanTyle is visiting" in town this week. Several from here attended the New Year's ball at Maxwell. F. MAXWELL MELANGE. Mrs. David McNamarra left for a visit with relatives in Sumner, Mo. She will remain until spring". Miss Pearl Snyder came down from the Platte to spend Christ mas with her parents. John Moore and brother Charlie spent Xmas at their home in May wood, j Miss Johnson, of North Platte, pen.t a few days with friends south of here. Frank Home is better and hopes are uow entertained tor his recov ery. Mrs. John Murray and son Ray spent Sunday at their home in Cot tonwood. A. W. Plumer was a North Platte visitor Thursday. Wheat not first qualit sold lere last week for forty cents a bushel. Miss Blanche Widme'er spent Xmas day with her parents. C. H. Kuhns and Austin Brown 00k a trip out north last week. A little grand-daughter of Mr. Huntington arrived from Colorado Christmas morning" to make her home here. Miss Mary Hanrahan arrived rom Lexington on the 22d accom panied by her cousin. Mrs. Naff- zijrger, and child. Albert Snyder has been confined to the house bv an attack of tonsil- itis. Mrs. Samuel L. Smith spent Saturday and Sunday with North Platte friends. The Christmas exercises and tree of the two school, held at the upper school house, was a very pleasant affair. The children ac quitted themselves with credit to themselves and their teachers and Santa Claus (Michael McCollough) and Mrs. Santa (May Dolan) were especially good. The tree was loaded with gifts foryound and old and every one felt that it was a success in every way and reflected great credit upon the teachers May Dolan and Ellen McCullourh. The Misses Caroline and Doro thy Roberts and Master Paul, are visiting" with their aunt, Mrs. W. H. Plumer. Tour Boy Wont Live a Month. So Mr. Gilman Brown, of 34 Mill St., South Gardner, Mass., was told by the doctor. His eon had lung trouble, fol lowing typhoid malaria, and he spent three hundred and seventy-five dollars with doctors, who finally gave him up saying: "Your boy wont live a -month." He tried Dr. Kings New Discovery and a few bottles restored him to health and enabled him to go to work a perfectly well man. He says he owes his present good henlth to use of Dr. Kings New Discover', and knows it to bo the best in the world for lung trouble. Trial Dottles free at A. F. Streitz's drug store - 4 Advertised Letters. List of letters remaining uncalled for in the post office at North Platte. Neb., for the week ending January 1, 1897. GEJfTLEMEJ. Sbery, J Tift, L Stout, David H Thomas, II H LADIES. Ferbrach, Mrs Emma Thomas, Mrs A E Wilson, Mrs Ed Persons calling for above will please say advertised." M. W. Clair, Postmaster. . Maccaline will cure any case of itching piles. It has never failed. It affords instant relief, and a cure in due time. Price 25 and 50 cents. Made by Fos?e Manufacturing Co. and sold by A. F. Streitz. - NEBRASKA NEWS. A Boone county iarmer.it reports are true, received a Christmas pres ent from his wife of five Sfirl babies. The Presbyterians of York will adopt the tithing" system the com ing" year, devoting" a tenth of their net income to sustaining" the church. No clue has vet tjeen found of Detlefsen, the Schuyler murderer. The Quill is of the opinion that the sheriff knows a thing" or two but dosen't care to divulge his secret at this stag"e of the game. A Chadron physician offers to trade his electric light stock for real estate, horses or cattle, take twenty-five cents on the dollar in cold cash. The scheme to annex Omaha and South Omaha is being" revived. The South Omaha Tribune thinks the plan a good one but that the time is not ripe. Joseph Melnard of Arlington is all bunged up. He was hauling hay when the wagon upset and the hard, cold earth struck him with great force. A horse kicked J- M. Carlson of Newman Grove square in the mouth. As a result his jaw was broken in three places and he has four teeth less than he had prev ious to the accident. Members of the Omaha commer cial club have been investigating the project for the Norfolk & Yankton railroad and report that it is only a paper line. They have no confi dence in its being built. About $200,000 in operating ex penses have been paid out this tall by the Grand Island sugar factory which the same keeps the wheels of commerce greased and bread and meat in the larders of the laboring men. A number of the farmers living in the vicinity of Cook are organ izing an elevator company for the handling of the grain business. Enough have taken hold of the en terprise to practically . assure its consumalion. A Greenwood couple arranged to be married on Christmas, but ne- :cted to get a license the day previous. Un Ul:nstmas the court house was closed and the judge and deputy both out of town. The dding was of necessity, post poned till the following day, Joe Dunham hired out to Charles Geiger, a farmer living near York, to husk corn. He soon made love to Mrs. Geiger and her husband :ing the business going on started in for satisfaction. It cost Dunham already $25, one watch one big licking and a milllion dol lers' worth of mental anguish. Such love comes high. The annual report of the state fish commission has been compiled. For U12 year 18 the commission has distributed these numbers of 1 throughout the state: Wall- eved pike frv, 16,335,000: rainbow pike fry, 238,500: lake trout, 152,500; brook trout, 9,900; black bass, 28.- 575; croppies, 9,740; striped perch, 2,035; German carp. 10,725; channel cat, 3.S45; gold fish, 4,248; miscel laneous, 5,000; total, 16,878,288. A dispatch from Sioux City date, December 28th says: Donald Mc Lean, the original organizer of the Pacific Short Line, arrived here to day to arrange for a survey of the road from O'Neil, Neb., to San Francisco. The road was started six years ago, but only got from Sioux City to O'Neill before the crash of local business enterprise in 1893 forced its abandonment. As planned it will be 264 miles shorter than any other transconti nental line. Mr. McLean claims to be backed by $32,000,000 of Eng lish capital and says the work will be rushed through. POWDER Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for its great leaveningstrength and healthfulness. Assures the food agalnsi alum and aU forms of adulteration common to the cheap brands. HOVAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW VOKK. pjsjlJj 11 Lloyd's Opera House Evening, Jan. 5th. SPECIAL The Latest Craze: The Electric Nitacope, at every performance, and JULE WALTERS, The Gentleman Tramp, in his famous comedy-boom Side Tracked Wonderful Scenic Embellishments. Great Specialties. Attorney-General Churchill be gan a suit in the district court at Kearney last week against the de funct Buffalo count national bank, which failed on Oct. 11. 1894. At the time there were $5000 of state money on deposit there, and this suit is against the bondsmen. It is the first one brought under the depository act. The bond is thought to be good, and a disposi tion on the part of the bondsmen to settle has been evinced. The Oxnard Beet Sugar company has issued a circular to the farmers from whom the company bought beets calling attention to the late decision of the supreme court re garding sugar bounty. The com pany bought the beets on a con tract providing for such a contin gency, paying $4 per ton at the time ot delivery, the other $1 to be paid when the bounty was paid by the state. Now only 54 will be paid. The company agrees how ever to keep the state agents at the factories till the close of the season to protect the interests of the farm ers. Incidentally the circular ad vises beet raisers to get together and urge the incoming legislature to make an appropriation covering the amount of bounty earned dur ing the past two ears. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. The cocoaine habit has taken such a hold on the residents ot Man chester, Conn., that steps are being taken to obtain legislative restric tion on the sale of the drug. The evil had its inception when a local druggist a year ago made a prepar ation of cocaine and menthol which could be used as snuff. It was in tended as a specific for asthma, and now hundreds of persons have be come slaves to the snuff. Experiments made with small-pox patients in Oaxaca, Mexico, show that by administering honey di luted in water to small-pox patients the pustules of the worst variety disappear and the fever is immedi- atly diminished. The matter at tracts much attention. The remedy was accidently discovered by a young girl who was down with the disease, who secretly refreshed her self with honey and water, with astonishing curative results, and it was then tried on soldiers sick with the disease. The inaguration suit that Major McKiuley will wear March 4 next will be American clear through. The cloth will be woven especially or the occasion by the Hockanum Manufacturing Company, of New York, and will be a single weaving. It will be of American-grown wool, and no more will be woven than will suffice to make the suit. When woven the cloth will be sent to the Major's tailor at Cleveland, and by lim the suit will be cut and made. England's new cruiser, the Power ful, is undoubtedly the most formid able war-ship in the world, and in every way entitled to be called a floating fortress. She is 538 feet ong and 71 wide, and her hull con tains 100 steam engines for various uses. Her speed is twenty-two and cne-halt knots an hour is produced by 26.497 horse-power, and one coaling will carry her 96,000 knots. For offense she has guns that throw eight tons of steel a minute. In other words, she can direct upon an enemy 266 pounds of steel shot a second, and keep it up without cessation. Modern war-shios are gradually abproaching the Great L Eastern's 080 feet in lenjrth and 83 feet in width. Buoklen's Arnica Salve The best salve in the world for euts bruises, sores, ulcers, 6alt rheum, fever sores, teter, chapped hands, chilblains corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi tively cures piles, or no pay required, It fs guaranteed to give perfect satisfac tion or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For tale by A. V. Streil? U. P. TIME TABLE. GOIXG EAST CENTRAL TIME. No. 2 Fast Mail 8:45 h. m. No. 4 Atlantic Express 11:40 p. m. No. 28 Freight 7:00 a. m. GOING WEST MOUNTAIN TIME. No. 1 Limited 3:55 p. m. No. 3 -Fast Mail 11:20 p. m. No. 23 Freight 7:35 a. m. No. 19 Freight 1:40 p. m. N. B. Olds. Agent. Legal Notices. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Land Office at Narth Platte, Neb., ) December 8, 1896. ) Notice Is hereby given that the following-named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim and that said proof will be made before the Register and Re ceiver at North Platte, Neb., on January l'Jth, 18V7, viz: JOHN HANSEN, who made Homestead Entry No- 15.739. for the southwest quarter section 34, township 10 north, range 28 west. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous res'donce upon and culti vation of said land, viz: Rasmus Hansen, Peter Homl, George Schniid and Honry W. Miller, all of Curtis, Nob. 103-G JOHN F. HI N MAN, Register. NOTICE TIMBER CULTURE. U. S. Land Office, North Platto, Nebr, December 10th, lSvHi. f Complaint having been entered at this office by James C. Crow against Octavus Robertson for failure to comply with law as to Timber-Culture Entry No. 131572 dated December 10th, 1800, upon the northeast quartor of section 28, town ship 12 N., range 30 W.. In Lincoln county, Ne braska, with a vlw to the cancellation of said en try, contestant alleging that the claim has been wholly abandoned for the lost five years and that planted on the claim; the said parties aro hereby summoned to appear at this office on theOthdny of February, 1897, at U o'clock a. m., to respond and furnish testimony concerning said alleged failure. D22-5 JOnN T. UlNMAN, Register. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Land Office at North Platte, Neb., December 21st, 189t5. Notice is hereby given that the following-named settler has filed notlco of his intention to make final proof in sunnort of his claim, nnd that said proof will be rumlo beforo Register and Receiver at Norm Platto, Neb., on .January 2Ulh, 1897, viz: JOHN W. JOHNSON, who made Homestead Entry No. V88S for the west half of tho northeast quartor. northeast quar ter of the northwest quarter, northwest quarter of the northeast quarter section 23, township 10 north, range 27 west. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: James Roberts, of Brady Island, Neb., and I. Newton Dempsoy, Jacob Lillian and Albert Maddox, all of Moore- field, Neb. JOHN F. HINMAN, 2-U Register. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Land Office at North Platte, Neb., ? December 21st, 1890. ) Notice is hereby given that the following-named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before Register and Receiver at North Platte, Nebraska, on January 29th, 1897, viz: Jacob Vincent, who made Homestead Entry No. 15,688 for the Northwest quartor of Section 32, Town 12 North, Range 30 west. Ho names the fol lowing witnesses to prove his continuous resi dence upon and cultivation ot said land, viz: Wil liam W Hunter, John R. Chapln, Francis Mon tague and Joseph H. Baker, all of North Platte, Nebraska. JOHN F. HINMAN, 2-ti Register. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Land Office at North Platto. Neb., ) December 21st. 1MK5. J Notice Is hereby given that tho following-named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in snpport of his claim, and that said proof will be made before Register and Receiver at North Platte, Neb., on January 29th, 1897, viz: JACOB LILLIAN, who made Homestead Entry No. 15337, for the southwest quarter section Si, township 10 north, range 27 west. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cul tivation of said land, viz: John W. Johnson and James Roberts, all of Brady Island, Neb., and I. Newton Dempsey and Albort Moddox, all of Moorfield, Neb. JOHN F. HINMAN, 245 Register. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF LINCOLN 1 County, Nebraska. Caleb T. BuFruir, 1 Plaintiff, I vs. - NOTICE. Frank Krueoer, et. al., Defeudants.j The Lombard Investment Company, a corpora tion, will take notice that on tho 1st day of De cember, 1SD8, Caleb T. Buffum, plaintiff herein. nieams petition in tno district court of Lincoln county, Nebraska, against said defendants, the ob ject and prayer of which are to forejloso a certain mortgage executed by the defendant. Frank Krue- ger to tho Lombard Investment Company upon tne loiiowing uescnoeu real estate owned by nim situated in the county of Lincoln and state of Ne braska, to-wlt: The west half of the northeast nnarter and the east sixty-three (ft!) acres of the east half of the northwet-t quarter of section number twenty- eight (23) in township number ten (10) north. range tnirty (:juj west 01 the sixth principal me ridian, containing in all 143 acres according to government survcy,to securo tho payment of a cer tain promissory note, with coupons attached. dated July 13th, 1889, for the sum of 0).00, dne and payable on the 1st day or July, 1891; that there is now dne upon said note the sum of $M0.00. with interest thereon at ten per cent from July 1st, 185; also the further sum of ?10.C0. with interest at ten per cent from tho 28lh day of September. Jhy, lor whicnsum, with interest from this date, plaintiff prays for a decree that defendants bo re quired to pay tho same, or that said premises may be sold to satisfy tho amount found due. xou are required to answer said petition on or before the 1st day of February, 1897. CALEB T. BUFFUM. Plaintiff. D211 By A. B. Coffboth, his attorney. NOTICE. T. M. Dawson will take noUce that on the lf.th day of November, 189G, E. R. Huriburt. a iustico of the peace of Lincoln county, Nebraska, issued an order of attachment against T. M. Dawson in an action pending before him wherein K. M. Krccorlan is plaintiff and F. G. Dawson and T. M. Dawson are defendants; that property of the de fendant. T. M. Dawson, consisting of 300 bushels of corn has been attached under said order. Said, cause was continued to the 13th day of January, 18'.7, at 11 o'clock a. m. 3-3 K. M. KRECORIAN, Plaintiff. PUBLICATION NOTICE. Frank B. Sharon, Ammle E. Sharon, Lew E. Darrow, and T. & n. Smith and Company, a firm composed of Frederick Smith, Luppe Lupen, Habbe Vclde. and Dietrich C. Smith, defendants, will take notice that John II. Jewett. as executor of the last will and testament of Cyrus W. Dixon, deceased, plaintiff, has filed his petition in the District Court of Lincoln county, Nebraska, against the above named defendants, the object and prayer of which are to foreclose a certain mortgago executed November 1st, 18M, by the de fendants, Frank B. Sharon and Ammio E. Sharon, to ono Lew E. Darrow, and by him assigned to the said Cyrns W. Dixon, now deceased, of whose last will and testament, the plaintiff is the duly ap pointed, qualified and acting executor, upon ine following described real estate situated in Lincoln couniy, Nebraska, to-wlt: Tho southwest quarter of section thirty-four, in township thirteen north, inrr.nge thirty-four west, of the 0th P. M., o securo tho payment of their one principal note for SS00.00 due November 1st, 1891, and ten interest notes for J28.C0 each, due respectively the first days of May apd November, 18t0, 1891, 1892, 1MKJ and 1891; all of said notes bearing interest at the rate i.f ten per cent per annum after maturity. There Is now dne the plaintiff upon paid notes and mortgage, including the amount paid for taxes on raid premises, the sum of $1030.69, with Interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum, on said notes from the maturity thereof, and on the amount of taxes paid by plaintiff, from the date of payment thereof, nnd plaintiff prays for a decree that the defendants be required to pay tho same, or that said premises may be sold to satisfy said amount, with interest and costs of suit. You aro required to answer said petition on or before Monday, the 8th day of February, Dated December 29th, 1896. JOHN II. JEWETT, Executor, Plaintiff. By W. S. MoaiJiK, His Attorney. 4-3 Wanled-fin idea TTho caa thlnx of Bene simple Proteet yor ! e& ; they may bring you weulra. Write JOHN WBDDERB&RN &. CO.. Patent Ati wing to patent "M1' Cpior tfeefr prizo offer M& ifet e two m4f1 teYattoaa wasted. yiLCOX & HAIiLIGAN, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, rORTH PLATTE, ... NEBRASKA, Office over North Platte NaUonal Bank. D F. DONAIuDSON, Assistant Surgeon Union Pacflc Bj,' and Member of Pension Board, NORTH PLATTE, ... NEBRASKA. Office over Streitz's Drug Store. E. XORTHRUP, DENTIST. Koom No. 6, Ottenstoin Building : SOUTH PLATTE, NEB. "DRENCH & BALDWIN, JL" ATTORNETS-AT-LAW, NORTH PLATTE, - - ITEBRASEtt, Office over N. P. Ntl. Bank. T. C. PATTERSON, KTTORNEY-KT-LHM,. Office First National Bank BIdcr.,, NORTH PLATTE, NEB. . . SMOKERS In search of a good cigar J will always find it at J. f F. Schmalzried's. Try' " them and judge. J- v5 F. J. BR0EKEK, "f Merchant Tailor j A well assorted stock of foreign 4 and domestic piece goods in stock from which to select. -'5 r Perfect Fit jf how Prices? SPRUCE STREET. Carl Brodbeck, DEALER IN Fresh, Smoked iatidfe Salted Meats, ; Having re-opened the City Meat Market, opposite the Hotel Neville, I am prepared to furnish customers with a choice quality of meats of all kinds. A share of your patronage is re spectfully solicited. flc vveinpnt a DEALER IN Coal Oil, Gasoline, Gas Tar, And Crude Petroleum. Leave orders at office; in Broeker's tailor shop. GEO. NAU MAN'S SIXTH STREET MEAT 1ABEET. Meats at wholesale and re tail. Fish and Game in season. Sausage at all times. Cash paid for Hides. J. F. FILLION, rn: mv General Repairer. Special attention given to imi miss, WHEELS TO RENT Bnrs, ?Mm. Tiumt 1 C"ra for ImpotoK, ten of Man, SemtHat Emissions. Spermatorrhea. Netoousntt, 8tf Distrust los3ofMamn,dte. Witt mane you a STRONG, Vigor- lth emhBx. A44ress "'' auxiftMYiHBMte., T. I Ol HA 1 t, iay North PIatte Pharmacy, J. Vj Bush, Mauaeer. Clan TTT Pluinbe L lUWOW i In i; ft