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Semi -Weekly Tribune Ira L. Bare, Editor aud Publisher. SUBSCRIPTION KATES. Ono Year by Mail in advance $I.2j Ono Year by Carrier in advance $1.50 Entered at North Platte, Nebraska, I'ost ofllco as Secoml Class Matter. FRIDAY, MAR. 15, 1912. Evidently the people of Iowa con aider President Taft a progressive. That state is the center of insurgency and yet the national convention dele gates from the Sixth and Ninth con gressional districts wero instructed for Taft. The republicans of tho Ninth Iowa congressional district in convention at Council Bluffs Tuosday endorsed Presi dent Taft and instructed the two dele gates to the nationnl convention to support him to tho end. Out of more than 150 votes in the convention, tho Roosevelt-Cummins faction could sum mon but twenty-three votes. Well, we had another snow storm Wednesday and it was no "slouch" of a snow either. Three or four inches "fell, and then during tho night a wind swooped down on us that drifted the snow more or less. Thero is now nbout six inches of snow on tho level, prob ably tho greatest depth we have had in a dozen years -and this the middle of March when ordinarily the farmer is plowing in his fields. Western Nebras ka seems to bo undergoing radical cli matic changes. in Let We Forget. C. Cusack. of North Bend, Neb, writing to tho Omaha Bee says: I notice an article in your paper con cerning Senator Brown and I want to add my amen to it as it is all a fact. If the people of this itnte fail to stand by Senator Brown they arc not worthy to be represented by nnv honest man in tlw United States senate. Senator Brown compelled tho rail roads to pay their taxes of more thnn $1,000,000 after putting up the fight erf his lifo to win. Could ho not just as easily have fought and lost and so far as the people were concerned they would not be any the wiser? In this way Mr. Brown could have taken a wad and lived on easy street for the balance of his life and not have to worry about going to the United States senate. The trouble with us common people is that we forget too oasily what our honest representatives do for ua when there nro mlllons at stake. Tho railroads tried hard to Keep Norris Brown out of the senate six years ago. The hardest fought political battle that ever took place in Dodge county was over tho delegates to the state conven tion and tho cry was that we must clip Ross Hammond's wings to prevent him from being a political boss, but under the surface it was to keep Norris Brown from being nominated. The state owes Norris Brown a debt that thoy will never be able to pay and, regardless of party, he should receive a vote so that tho country everywhere will recognize that Nebraska is en lightened enough not to forget to honor her men who are always found in the front rank fighting for her best inter ests. C. Cusack. Former Stato Senator Sibley, of Lincoln county, said at Lincoln the other day that tho farmers prefer Roosevelt to Taft, and that tho chief objection to Taft was his stand for Canadian reciprocity. Weill Has Senator Sibley so soon forgotten, or has anyone one failed to remembor, that it was just a year ago that Col onel Roosevelt was commending Pres ident Taft for his stand for reciprocity with Canada? Tho two wore of one mind. Whero the difference? Kear ney Hub. After a conference Tuesday, partici pated in by President Taft, Senator Crano of Massachusetts, Director Mc Kinloy of tho Taft campaign bureau and Secretary to tho President Jlilies, it becamo known that hereafter tho litorary end of tho Taft bureau would not indulgo in personalities nor attacks , on Colonel Roosevelt or tho men who are supporting him. President Taft in sisted, it was said, that this method of attack bo abandoned. While no definite plan of campaign was mado public it was said tho Taft leaders would devote their attention largely to such issues as tho third term, tho recall of judicial de cisions and othor questions of national interest. To the Citizens of North Platte. I am a candidate bv petition fur the office of water commissioner nnd I ask and will appreciate your support and yotes the coming city election in April. As to my qualifications nnd fitness for tho office will state tnat I am fully competent to discharge the financial and other duties of the office in an equitable and just manner. I have designed nnd superintended the construction of a number of buc cesful waterworks plnnts in this and othor states and I also prepared the preliminary plans for tho new plant we honed to build in this city. While city engineer I made an ap praisement of the valuo of the present waterworks nlant for the citv. durintr the mnking of which I gained an insight into the condition ot tne plant, lenrnea the sizes and locations of the various mains, valves, hydrants, etc., and I belieye that I know better than any other man just what extontions and betterments should be made to give the host service to the greatest number of citizens of North Platte. I am and always have been a firm believer in the municipal ownership of waterworks, whose profits should go to the people instead of a corporation. I have kept myself well posted and up to date on all questions of waterworks construc tion nnd operation and. if elected, I will do all in my power to make the North Platte waterworks a success, financially and otherwise, and give the citizens an economical administration of the plant. I have been a resident of North Platte tho greater portion of my life, am a graduate of our high school nnd also of the Iowa City business college and the the University of Iowa. I am a tax payer and property owner, all my interests being centered in this city and I am anxious to see the water works a success. I therefore solicit your votes, believing I can faithfully and successfully mscliargo tne duties of the office. Hekshey S. Welch. Socialists at Work. What promises to be the most inter esting of nil of the Socialist lectures is tho last one of their lyceum course which will be given at Lloyd's opera house, Tuesday, March 10th, at 8 p. m. Tho speaker will bo Mr. Ralph Korngold and his subject is "Socialists at Work." Both socialists and tho opponents of socialism will welcome tho opportunity to henr something about what tho so cialists are actually doing, even ti.jugh it bo from a not unprejudiced observer. Naturally, such a wholesalo program of changes ns is advocated by their party loaves tho socialists little- to do but talk until thoy shall acquire a measure of power. What are tho socialists do ing with their power where they have acquired a limited amount of it? For in no nation have they ns yet a major ity in any legislative body, though in dications arc thattney will havo soon. Mr. Korngold will tell his nudienco of tho socialist program and what social ists in office are doing in tho steps to ward tho co-oporativo commonwealth. Socialist Pkess Agent. Political Announcements. STATU SENATOH. CHARLES A. SIBLEY Farmer and Stock Grower State Senator. 1907 8 Is a Candidate This Year. Your Sup port Will Be Appreciated. LEGISLATIVE UEI'UESENTATIVE. At the solicitation of friends I hereby announce myself a candidate for the republican nomination for representa tive from Lincoln county, subject) to the approval of tho voters at tho flri mary election to bo held April 19th, 1912. Haiiky P. Stevens, Maxwell, Neb. nHHHHMHHHnMMRM r i rezHijt. 4jijfii ... ffl A. NmysKK, Win W'Z According to officials of tho anti-saloon league only nbout fifty towns and villages in Nebraska havo taken advant age of tho now law to voto directly on tho quostion of license or no license at tho town oloctions to bohold April 2. Evory incorporated city and village in the stato oxcopt Omaha and Lincoln has its municipal elections on thntdatc. It was to tako tho question of liconso, which is gonornlly tho Issue in such elections, out of the fight over offices that tho law was passed, but not many towns seemed to caro enough about it to circulnto and file tho neccssaiy pe titions thirty dayB before tho election. Tho Nebraska Signnl says: "Mr. Roosovelt'a anliouncomont of his will ingness to nccopt a presidential nomi nation seomB to havo had tho offoct of making frionds for President Taft. Many newspapers' that wore either in different in their utterances or very kindly disposed towards tho roilgh rider colonel havo come out with rathor strong criticism, oven donuhicntion, of the colonol's apparent determination to unhorse tho mnn to whom ho gnve such strong support four yonrs ago. When a considerable numbor of news papers go in a cortain direction, polit ical or otherwise, it is fair evidence that some political opinion is headed tho same way." Wyoming Stock Suffers. Stockmen in centrnl and northern Wyoming nro making a heroic fight againBt tremendous odds in tho attempt to save their cattle, and despito their efforts tho loss will be heavy. The ontiro country is covered with deep snow, nnd tho cnttlo aro unable to rustle any forage. Hay is selling at $1G to $18 per ton and senrco at that and corn at $1.40 per hundred. Buying high-priced foed will financially ruin many of tho stockmen. yes- LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Tho Lutheran Aid Society mot terdny with Mrs. John Rodino. Frnnk Tnylor has severed his connec tion with tho Wilcox Dept, store. Mrs. Borgestron, ofBrndv, is taking treatment nt the P. & S. hospital. Mrs. E. W. Crano entertained tho Methodist Aid Society yesterday after noon. Mr. Jenkins, mnnnger of tho Horshoy Telephone Company, is a business vis itor in town this week. Harry O'Noll, who is interested in tho now townsito of Staploton in Logan county, wns in town a fow days ago and purchased 27,000 feet of lum ber and COO Backs of cement which will bo used in the construction of a new hotel at Staploton. At Lexington Wednesday tho fall of snow is snici to have been tho iieaviest tho oldest old-timer has over seen in that section. A mnn who was up from Kenesnw yesterday says there COUNTY ASSESSOR. ( I hereby announce myself as a can didate for the democratic nomination for county nssessor. subject to the action of the democratic voters at the primary election April 19th. My home is in Fox Cieek precinct, where I havo resided for tho past 23 years. I will appreciate any support given mo. PkteuJepson. I heroby announce myself as aicartdi date for the republican nominatibn'for county assessor, subject to the decision of the voters at tho primary election April 19th. I have lived in Lincoln county 28 years, 24 of which were spent on a farm in Plant precinct. F. J. DlENEIt. I hereby announce myself ns a candi date for the republican nomination for County Assessor, subject to the decis ion of tho voters at the primary elec tion In April. Lawrence P. Carpenter. I hereby announce myself as a candi date for tne republican nomination for county assessor, subject to tho decision of tho voters at tho primary election April 19th, 1912. I nave resided in Fox Creek precinct for seventeen years. I will appreciate support given me by tho voters. Homer H. Rodgers. I am a candidate for tho republican nomination of county nssessor subject to tho decision of the votors nt the pri mary election April 19th, 1912. I hnvo lived in western Nebraska for twenty one years, fourteen of which have been spent in Hinmnn precinct. For tho last four yoars I have been precinct nssessor. Any support given mo will bo fully appreciated. A. W. Arnett. COUNTY COMMISSIONER. I hereby announce myself ns a demo cratic candidate for county commis sioner from District No. 1, subject to decision of tho voters nt tho primary election on April 19, 1912. I will ap preciate any support given me. F. W. IlERMINGIIAUSEN. G. O. Shields, gavo a very interest ing Illustrated lecture on tho gnmo. nnd birds of this country nt tho Koith Tues day evening before nn nudionco thnt filled tho floor of tho house. Ho told of tho benefit birds were to the farmer in tho destruction of insects. Ninety por cent of tho birds In this country have already been destroyed, declared Mr. Shields, and the other ten per cent will go in tho next five years unless drastic means are employed to stop the slaughter. Tho farmers and fruit growers of this country nro losing over $1,000,000,000 n year by reason of tho ravages of insects. A quail killed in a cotton field in Texas had in its craw the remains of 127 cotton boll wcovils. Another killed in a potato field in Pennsylvania had in his craw tho re mains of 101 potato bugs. Another quail killed in a Kansas wheat field had in its craw tho remains of ovor 1,200 chinch bugs. A prairie chicken killed in a cotton field, in Texas had in its stomach tho remains of over 300 cotton boll weoyils. feet of snow stato. in thnt section is three of tho Send Us Your Shipments of Grain and Hay Wo pay tho top market Threo cou pons freo with returns on each car of hay you ship us to handle for your ac count Fifteen coupons and $3.50 in cash will sccuro for your homo an elo gnnt 42-Piece Royal Blue Dinner Set worth $10.00. Consign your hay to us nnd plenso the ladies and also get a good price for your liny. Our Motto: Fair troatmont and prompt remittances. Sample of tho quality of theso dishes can bo Been at tho ollico of the Semi Weekly Tribune. The F. C. Ayres Mer. Co., 20th und Wnzee Streets, Denver Colorado. THE LEADER. LPT the March Winds Blow; we won't, but if we WERE to boast a little, we would say that our line of SUITS, COATS, SKIRTS AND WAISTS for Spring of 1912 has never been excelled in style, cut, fit and workmanship. Styles are new and distinctive, including the one and two button models in all the new weaves, such as whipcords, basket weaves, homespuns, two tone and dou ble faced cloths in military, Norfolk and plain 24-inch jackets. These garments are the result of the best designing. SHOES Our Shoe Department is now complete and ready to handle your Shoe wants. Never has there been such a variety of classy shoes collected in one store in this city. White jSu Buck and Canvas Suedes, Tans, Velours and Vicis in shoes, oxfords, pumps, colonial ties, etc., in all the new toes, including the Chicago, Pug, Spartan, Atlantic, Coronation, Prudence, Kingsley. Perfect Fit Guaranteed. B wA En KL PI an IHbh Bn H i 1 1 Ij II Horses, Mares and Mules I will be at Garman' s Livery am in North Platte e e turday, March 23d, 12 Bring in all your, good sound horses that are fat. I buy for the Eastern and Southern markets and pay best prices. Mules wanted up to eight years old. Don't bring blemished or small horses. PERCY GOSLETT. coJzjr&Tr Tieylrtice, JyJFront" are to the women of America and Europe, what Paquin. Drecoll and Worth are to their followers. What a corset should be, the Gossard is; the tendency in fashions lies in low bust; straight hips, flat back and all of these essentials are correctly embodied in Gossard Corsets. You who may have found dis appointment in front-laced corsets, by being persuaded to buy one of the many imitation of the Gossard Cor sets, are especially invited to come now and learn what a perfect front laced corset really is. It is prat, ically impossible to correctly adjust a long, back lacine corsets, whereas the longest front laced Gossard Cor sets is adjusted with ease and accu racy before your mirror. The strength of Gossard Corsets is in the satisfaction they nfford.the marked improvement they make in the figure, and withal), their com fort. There is n model for every .woman nt her price. Wilcox Department Store Local and Persanal The coming Sunday Is St. Patrick's Day, and no doubt it will be more or less observed by tho Sons of Erin who reside in North Platte. In the police court Weduesday Stove Welch and Dave Conger were fined one dollar and costs for indulging in a fight the day previous. Mrs. Joseph Murphy left yesterday morning lor Wisner, xseu., to visit Miss Mary Carroll who formerly lived horo. Miss Kate Shaffer returned yesterdny morning from nn extended visit in Portland and Denver with relatives. Mrs. Mary Lundeen, who is taking treatment nt tho P. & S. hospital, is progressing nicely. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Samuelson is ill with chicken pox. Frnnk Cross, who has been ill for two weeks, is able to be up today. Mrs. Wm. Lewis is suffering with an attack of lagrippe. Myrtle and Vicinity. Among those who marketed hogs last week wos D. McNichol and W. S. Ross. Japies Bowers, who left these parts a year ago, is visiting old time friends. A family by the name of Beattie havo moved on tho George Stearns place. Mr. Depew is moving to North Platte. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Tatman were North Platte visitors Thursday. Will Lane and wife left for the east Sunday. Tho little son of Wm. Pittman is on the sick list. New Spring Millinery My stock for spring in entirely new and up to date, comprising a care ful selection of the Famous Fisk Pattern Hats and extend a cordial invitation to the Ladies of North Platte and vicinity to call and inspect the line and get prices now on display at the Parlor Millinery. Mrs. Edw. Burke. 300 East Third St. Notice to Bicycle Riders. Bicycle riding on the sidownlks of tho business districts is prohibited. Arrest will follow first offense. Wm. Otten, Chief of Police. 1 MILK fit CREAM We mnke a specialty of Dairy Products and can furnish the best in large or small quantities direct from our own Dairy Farm every ,. morning, Phone your order in and it will be delivered. Dolittle Bakery. $25 Low One-Way Colonist Fare North Platte to Cali fornia and Pacific Northwest MARCH 1 to APRIL 15, 1912. Special all-tourist-car trains will be run to Utah, Nevada and California on March 13, 20, 27, April 3, 13, 14, 15, 1912, on which reduced price ta ble d'hote meals will bo served. Other special features are Fast Schedule Lounging and Smoking Car -Victrola Concerts Destination of tho train is San Francisco, but it Will have sleepers for Los Angeles via Salt Lake Route, which will be handled from Salt Lake City in train No. 1, leaving Snlt Lake City at 11:50 p. m., arriving at Los Angeles at 7:00 o'clock third morning from Omaha. Also tourist sleepers to Los Angeles via Southern Pacific (Coast Line) from Oakland affordidg a daylight ride along tho coast. Popular priced meals Omaha to San Francisco only. UNION PACIFIC Standard Road of the West Protected by Automatic Electric Block Safety Signals, Excellent Dining Cars on all Trains. For Literature and further information relative to fares, routes, etc., call on or address F. E. BULLARD, Agent, North Platte, Nebraska. B 1 A- .