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SEVENTEENTH YEAK.
NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA, 5IARCII 10, 1001.
NO. 16.
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OUR SPRING GOODS
Will be hero before long and in the meantime
we desire to dispose oE Odds and Ends in
Furniture and offer you attractive prices
on these goods. If you need a piece of
Furniture you can find it here, and the
price will be as highly satisfactory as the
article. ,Wc have established a reputation
for selling, good furniture at low prices;
we propose to maintain that reputation.
How About a Range?
Do you need one? If so let us give you
low prices on a good one.
Ginn
JOHN BR ATT.
...JOHN BRATT & CO
Real Estate, Loans m Insurance
X NORTH PLATTE, NEBRASKA. X
PTHoforoixoo:-Axiy 33o.xxls. xx 3NTol3X-colt.n.
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: fsforth piatte fQocir :
lylaijUfactU ed by Ifotti) JPiatte Koiiet njllis
Used by economical housewifes in fifty towns in
Nebraska and Wyoming and pronounced the
equal of any flour manufactured in Nebraska.
fl Trial Sack u)iil Corvirjce yoii of its fljerit
North Platte Roller Mills
C, F. I DDINCS
iUiirjumiiimJiimjiiiffiuiirJiiflrjuiHiimriuiiriiimiuiirK
Say! Is Your Wife Cross?
IF SO, BUY HER
SOME OF THE..
H New Aluminum Ware
at A. L. Davis' Hardware Store. Just like a
S mirror and will make her smile all the time.
Si Capri C Wo have Rice's Northern grown Gar
5 OCCUo den and Flower Seeds in bulk or pack- g
g We sell Hardware, Stoves and Tinware g
Gives us a call. 3
I A. L. DAVIS,
CARRIE NATION!
Public opinion seems to be divided as to the course
pursued by this ladv, but the universal opinion is
that PALM UK'S
CAR NATION
PINK (the juice of the Ilower) is the most lasting and
exquisite odor to be obtained. We have it in bulk.
NORTH PLATTE PHARMACY
"Pasteur Vaccine??
Trade-Marks
SAVES CATTLE FROM
BLACK LEG
"BIACKLHGINB."
Neatly 2,000,000 successfully treated in U. S. nnd Canada durlnc; the last 5 years.
Cheap, sa c and easy to use. Pamphlet with full particulars, official endorsements
and testimonials sent FREE on application.
Pasteur Vaccine Co., chicK0.
SELLING AUGNTSs Live Stock Vaccine & Medicine Co., Denver. Colo.
For Sale by A. F. Streitz.
& Weingand,
E. R. GOODMAN.
The Hardware man that
no one owes. 5
joyco Escapes from ShorlfF. j
Jack Joyce, the alleged horse J
thiel who was arretted In this city
nnd held until the arrival of
Sheriff Goodall of South Dakota,
escaped from that ofticer Friday af
ternoon at South Omaha, Goodall
left here Friday, morninn with hia'
prisoner unshackled, and took a
seat in a chair car. The Sheriff
did not regard Iiih man aa a bad
character, hence did not put him in
iroiiH. Just at. the train was leav
ings iiith Oinalu Joyed asked the
Sheriff' permisbion to step to the
trout of the car aa he wanted to
buy a magazine of the news agent.
i ne ouicer saw ins prisoner mining
to .the news agent, and a moment
later, when he looked again, the
former had disappeared.
Goodall had approached the agent
an'd. asked: "What became of the
man you were just talking to?".
'Why'' said he "I opened the trap
door of the vestibule and let him out
on the platform'.
Father conversation along this
line brought out the fact tint the
agent didn't know Joyce was a
prisoner, and granted his request
to open the trapdoor as he would
that of any other passenger. He was
very aoiry it had occured.
The annual meeting of the
Mutual building and loan nssocin-
tion will be held at the court house
Saturday evening, and the annual
election of officers by the share
holders will be held. The annual
report of the association, in printed
form, willbeyiven to the share
holders at this meeting. This re
port will show that the number of
-.hares in force March 1st last was
1.446 and that during the past vear
469 shares were issued. The
receipts for the year were $31. 013.
S2. Of these receipts $22,953 37
were paid out on loans, SI 457 00
mi withdrawals and $3,600 00 on
matured stock. The loatifc now in
effect aggregate $114,000.
BETWEEN TICB RIVERS.
W. R. Brooks and wile returned
Saturday lrom a ten days visit
witn relatives and friendb at the
county seat.
Seeberger & Co. sold a car load
of hogs last week to a man from
Cozad who shipped them to San
Francisco from Hershey Monday.
Dr. and Mrs. Eves visited their
son George and family near North
Platte Sunday.
Misw Rosetta Bond, of Wallcce,
preached to a large audience in the
M. 15. church at Hershey Sunday
evening. ,
Ma ii ford Wilson has lately pur
chased the Jenkins farm in Ilinman
precinct.
Mrs. S II, Phenecie and children
departed for their new home at
Mayview, III., Thursday last. They
were accompanied by her mother
Mrs. S. L. Funkhouser as far as
the capital city where she will visit
her son Will and faintly for a time.
Maurice Fowler and a Mr. Kelley
of Iowa, were up in the valley one
day last week Hying to purchase
horses but failed in the attempt.
R. W. Calhoun of Nichols, took
about 100 head of cattle that he
had been wintering for Mr. Cool
edge home I he latter part of the
W'jek.
There will be but very little
spring wheat sown in the valley
this season. Fall grain is said to
be looking iair in tliib locality for
the time of year.
H. H. Hollings worth who lias
been at work on the Nichols sec'ion
for some time has charge of the
section at Sutherland.
0.car Sliipfer of Sigourney, la.,
in assisting his cousin 13. F. See
berger it slaying ducks and geese.
O II. Kyerly has leased the Louis
Toilliou land near the Nichols
school house for the ensuing year.
Mrs. Katie McClain spent Sun
day with relatives and friends at
Faxton, her former home.
Wild geese, ctanes and brandt
are quite inimeroub in the valley at
the present time.
A Mr. Ireland, of Mooiefield.
was up this way purchasing horses
or at least trying to do so, but
failed in the attempt,
The revival meetings at HerBhey
cltfbtol the firut of last webk.
The creamery at Nichols is doing
a good business with a steady in
crease of milk. J C. Gygcr the
manager in a first class man at the
business and understands how to
get all the cream out of the milk.
J. W. LileB is at this time re
painting S. L. Funkhouser's resi
dence just north of Hershey.
Roy Atkinson from down the line
visiting relatives at Nichols the
last of the week and also enter
tained a uumber of people in the
schoolhousc last Saturday night
with his ssnnophonc.
Mrs. Trent received a telegram
a few days ago announcing the
death of a sister at Concord, III.
W. C. Colo has lately purchased
the old canal farm containing
eighty acres upon which he has re
sided ior the past two or three
years. Consideration $2,000.
G. W. Smith who now is foreman
of the section at Hershey will be
assigned an extra crew about the
first of next month and Oscar
Goodwin who has been working on
that section for the past two years,
more will succeed him as foreman at
that place.
Rev. Gould and family of the
county seat were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Pickett at Hershey last week.
SICKENS DOINGS.
Several from here attended the
public sale of Joseph McMichael
west of Wellfleet Tuesday.
Merrill Fristo and brother Leslie
took a load of eggs and chickens to
North Platte Friday for Cecil Tuell
& Co. They returned home Satur
day. Mr. I5dmisten of Hershey un
loaded two cars ot cattle at this
station Friday which he drove
overland to his place.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Anderson
of Madrid, who have been spending
several days in town visiting re
turned Friday to their home.
-m Clifton, Riley left Monday for
Topeka. Kansas, where he will
visit for a short time.
Milt lSberts of Somerset brought
in a load of hogs Saturday which
he sold to Votaw &. Fristo.
Mr. and Mrs. 13. J. Baker ot Mc-
Cook, who were visiting with re
latives in town last week, have re
turned to their home.
Mrs. J. Bailey is visiting her
mother Mrs. Leech, who is lying at
the point of death in Hayes county,
Austin Cosselman moved to
North Platte the first ot the week
where he will make his future
home.
Hogs were worth S5.00 a hundred
Mouday. This is the top notch so
far this season.
B. D, Baker was a yallace visitor
Saturday.
v
(? Western Nebraska News
A. R Merritt ot Lexington re
cently sold six bulls, the lightest
of which weighed over a ton.
The live bird shoot at Cozad be
tween Tappan and Miles Ma ryot t
resulted in the latter killing
twenty-live straight, while Tap
pan killed but nineteen.
John Crouch sold his 400-acre
farm live miles northeast ol Lex
ington last week for eight thousand
dollars, the purchaser being Mrs.
Mary Middlekauff of Sioux City.
The Sidney Telegraph says that
the report published in the State
Journal to the effect that Carnegie
had offered Sidney a gilt of fifteen
thousand dollars for a public
library was only a pipe dream of a
correspondent.
D. Newman & Co. of Gothen
burg gave af bill of sale of their
entire stock of merchandise last
Wednesday to the People's Stale
Bank, from which' the firm had
borrowed several thousand dollars.
The bank will close out the stock.
Curtis has a few light cases of
small-pox, and as usual the sur
rounding towns are greatly magni
fying the number of cases. This
is done to frighten people from
trading at Curtis, and thereby in
creasing the trade of the towns
circulating the reports.
Lexington iB preparing lor a warm
political campaign. The uu-licbuifo
i JOSEPH HERSHEY,
WINDMILLS i PUMPS
PIPES AND FITTINGS
BARB WIRE.
ROUND AND
STOCK TANKS "
LOCUST STREET,
NORTH PLATTE, NEB.
71s
people have nominated 15. A. Cook
for mayor, while the people leaning
to the other persuasion are marsh
aled under the banner of G. W. Fox
Will the Cook Bkiu the Fox or the
Fox kettle the The Cook is an in
teresting qneaton.
The Union Pacific steel gang,
composed of seventy five men, were
busy laying the new steel rails
through town Thursday. The
track will be newly equipped from
Brady to Cozad by another week,
giving the Union Pacific Railway
Co, a track ballasted witli gravel,
equal to the Pennsylvania Central,
which is ballasted with crushed
stone. Gothenburg Independent.
L. S. Deets gave hia experience
at the farmers' institute at River
dale last week and told what he
had done with fiye cowb. Last
yfcar he sold 950 pounds of butter
at twenty cents a pound. Besides
this his family of eight stronir,
robust people were provided with
all the butter, cream and milk that
they could use. He said these five
cows were fed nothing but alfalfa,
excepting pasturage during the
summer. Kearney Democrat.
Fire bioke out at Callaway at
half past one Friday morning in Os
good's restaurant and an entire
block of buildings was consumed.
Moran's big store, Bocock'a drug
store, Hopkiu's cash store, a butch
er shop, a jewelry store, a vacant
building and the oflice of II. II.
Andrews, formerly the Seven Val
leys bank, were burned. Kearney
was aroused at half past two and
the fire department held in readi
ness, but firemen could not have
got there in time to be of service.
k is rather early to talk about
the next presidential campaign, but
the newspapers are at it just the
same for Bryan is credited already
with throwing out feelers lor a
third trip Gossips ay I hat Mc
Kiuley will nut be averse to stand
ing the third term, but the gossips
are wrong this time. There is
serious talk to the nomination of
Mark Ha una but Mark says it in
"tommyrot." There is abundant
opportunity for speculation. Ex,
Tub German army in China
persists in going out for fight
every day or two, notwithstand
ing that "peace" is sig-ned anil
the emperor is invited to come
back to his capital and enjoy
himself. They pitched onto an
encampment of the Chinese
army the other day that was
apparently attending; strictly to
its own business, and Killed n
hundred men and captured tour
guns. And they were probably
guns that the poor devils of
Chinese had paid a German man
ufacturer a big price for not more
than a vear or two ago. The
moral is that the Chinese
army must get off the earth
peace or no peace. journal.
Kate Mrmbruno fnr Wound.
Gormnn surgeons nave fl.Bcovorod
that tha dollcato membrane wh.ch
covers the contonts ot an eg; will
answer as well as bits of uW.n fiom a
human being to start tho hcal.ng of
open wounds which would not oihor
wise heal. Tba discovery has already
Uuvu twtifcawMXy taatoa.
DEALER IN
Farm Implements,
Buggies, Wagons,
Windmills, Pumps,
HALF ROUND
PROhbSSIONAL CARDS.
C.
V. 1115 DELL
t'HYSIOIAN AND SURGEON,
Oflloeo: North Phttto National Bank
Hulldintr. North Plrttte. Nob.
jjl F. DENNIS, M. D.,
IIOMOEOPATIIIST,
Ornr Flint National Dunk,
NOKTII I'LATTK, . .
KKtlKARKA.
J, HoAOLAND. W. V. IlOAGL-AND
Hoagland & Hoagland,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS
OIUoo oyer
MoOounld'a llntik. NOUT1I PLATTE, NED.
yiLCOX A 1IALLIQAN,
ATTORN K YS'AT.LA W,
rfOUTU I'LATTK, - . NKUKA8KA
OfUos oTr North I'Uttn NnUnnol Hank.
H.s
RIDGELY,
ATTOUNEY-AT-LAW.
OIHco in lliumun Ulook, D-wey etroot.
NORTH PLVrPR. . NEBRASKA
jyt. o. b.
DENT
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Office over Post Office.
Telephone 115.
North Plntto, - - - Nobrnska.
A. "D"
WIB,
ATTOUNEYS-AT-LAW."'
NORTH PLATTE,, - - NEBRASKA
Grady Block Rooms 1 & 2.
fhe Reason Why
80,000,000 ACRES l
tha llr:T GRAIN
UHOWIMH OltAK
I.NU LANDS m the on.
tlnrnt urn helnc olfcrtrf
VllIM Uthnt tltltral
r thet Tiut rt J re
quired r the Oertr'
Mrnt ertbe Iromletenel
Canada.
Loeatlon near llnet ol
railroad alreadr built 01
under eonttructton Id iSITOBA,
AeSIJIinUM, ALHKRTA 8ABIAT
CIIKWAX, moit farored district! In
Wetlern Canada.
Thousands ol Amerloana hart
taken adrantaf ol the offer madi
toaeenre
Free Homes.
Deep eoll, well watered, wooded,
wheat areraxee 21 to 40 bushels pel
aorei oats CO to 100 bushels, aral other
Brains In proportion. Cattle thrlre
and fatten on the natlra grasses.
Fuel abundant.ollmato healthiest
In the world, social conditions the
best. Educational adrantagee un
equalled. Taiatlon nominal.
free Farms ot 160 acres to mm
mala ot elihteen tears of ase, and
In erery female head of a famllr.
Kallmad am! Uorernment Lands
tor sale at low prices. .For fuller
Information anplr to V, Pedlar.
Hunerlntendent of Immigration.
Oltiwa. Canada, or to
VV. V. DENNETT, i, . .
fcOl N. Y. Ltfo BIdff.. Omaha, Neb.
Special low exouralon rntea during
February, Moroh and Aprils
W. V. Uainett, HI Ni.vY.Klf
BUIk. Oni tha, Neb.
Dr. Humphreys'
Specifics net directly upon tho diaooso,
without exciting disorder in other parts
of tho system. They Curo tho Sick,
no, cures. rnicui.
1-l'eyers, Congoitloui, Inflammations. ,23
U-Worma, Worm Kevor, Worm Colic. .
Ct -Teething, CollcCrylns.WakcfulDesi
4-niarrlicu, of ClillJron or Adults iH
7- Coughi, Colds, Uroncliltls 23
8 Xeiirnlgla, Toothaclio, I'aceache 'Ji
H-lleadarlic, Slclc Headache, Vcrtlco.. ,'J5
lll-llysiuplii,In(lli;fstlnii,WcaIcStomach,V!3
1 1-Kiippri'sscd or I'uliiful Periods 'J 3
I'J-Wlilfi's, Too Profuso Period 'J 3
lU-('roiii, I.nrnullls, Hoarseness
1 I-Snlt Illicuin, Erysipelas, Eruptions.. .'J 3
1 3-lllieiiiiiotl Ithcumatlo Pains S3
lO-Malurla, Chills, I'ovcr and Acuo 'J 3
lO-fntnrrli, Influenza, Cold la tboHejil .S3
UO-U'iiooiniM'oiicli ,23
C7-rUdncy IMsrnsra 23
On-Nervous m-Mllly 1.00
30-l'rlnnry Wcoliucsa, Wet tint! Cod... .23
77-lrlp. Hay Foter 23
Dr. Illlmphr(ly, Jlantnl of all Diseases at your
Pnm riv itrllucltls. nr jnt
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