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t Semi - Weftkly Tribune wtf,"-w "ftr Ira L. Bare F'JIIor and Piiblithrr. SDIMCKHTION HATES. One Year by Mull In mlvmce $1.2.') One Year by Cnrriet in advance. . . ,$1.&0 Bntored nt North Pintle, Nebraska, Post ofllco as Second Class Matter FRIDAY, MAY 2. 1913. Local and Personal. Jack Wolcott, of Omahn, came yes terday to visit Guy Swopu for a few days. Jamon McNcal is enjoying a visit from his brother who caino from Wood Uivor yoMerdtiy. C. II. Doyle in making arrangements to open a plntnliig huainess :it his homo in the NoriBU property on cast Gth. atrwt. Chief Dispatcher. George W. Wig genton, of Grand Island, visited town friends yosterday nnd attended tho Engineers Hull. Tho Masonic lodge celebrated Ascen sion Day yesterday witn nppropiinto ceromonies and lust evening installed the recently elected oflicors. A. E. Timmerman left yesterday for Gothenburg where ho will open a saloon today. Terry Snwyer of this city will be placed in charge of tho now business. II. H. Gay, of Grand Island, district plant, chief and E. I. llama, of Omaha district plant superintendent, are trans acting business nt tho local telephone office. Architect Reynolds has drawn plans for the nw pressed brick front which will be put on the Howe & Malonoy furniture store. Interior improvements will also be made and the back rooms extended seyoral feet. Degree of Honor Attention. It is earnestly requested that a full membership bo present Monday night nt their regular mooting. Duslness in regard to tho convention held here noxt month will be transacted Dy order of tho president, M. K. Duke. ' Hcnhey Times Itcmi. Dr. Sadler purchased n quarter soc tlon in 17-14-31 from the N I. L. & W. Co. yesterday. No improvements but all und-r tho plow and all can bo watered from cannl, consideration $11,000.N A twister tore up things nt Spuncor Edmistcn'H Tuesday about midnight completly demolishing his buggy shed and somu of his outbuildings, but for tunately the house withstood the storm. No one was injured. Fred Huebner shipped oightuon head of steers Saturday to tho South Omaha markut. Tney nvoraged 1G61 lbs., or about $120.00 each and wurevns slook and fat n bunch us hnvobeen. piarkoted In Horshoy in many years.' Just For a Chanoe. Tho grunt celebrity was seriously 111. mid the attending pli.vHichuiH had diag nosed Ills cane im appendicitis, Ttiey HO lllfoi lllt'll llllll. "Very well." he replied calmly. "I bavo only oih ieijut'.st to inuko 1 pre BHino mi operation is IncvltnlilLV' "It K" they (old him. "That being n." tlu giv.it man went on, in tlii' miiiK' culm manner, "please nrraugo to iipoiritu on u.c frotu below. It is my desire, when the time couuh to operate, that 1 bo rigged up soeuivlj In some lmiuniork-llui iirriiiuicnio.nl nml that tlu mirgi'otiH work iipnii un iih I swing HiiMpt'iided over thulrheudH." "Ills mliiil Is wandering," whUpuud tub iittoiuiiinls. "Not o." eoiivited tho patient, "not nt nil. I wish merely to glvo the news impers u eliance to H'ly soniDthliig oImi than that I am 'under tho Unlfu.'" Brooklyn TlnivH. How Qonp Cleansos. A Delginn ehuiiilst who has studied tho net Ion of miap on various soiling BUbstnneeM of different colors has ar rived at I lie conclusion that the cleans ing of mi object coiislsta III a process of Httbstltutloii. Theru s brought nliout a colloidal combination of the BOtip nnd tin soiling Hiibstniuv, which, by reason of Km constitution, no longer lias the power of Using Itself by ah Horptlon on to tho solid body, with the result that It Is easily carried away by the water. TIiiih In washing wlthmmp ouo puts It tu contact with one's soil ing substances, thoso latter having a greater ulltiilty for tho former than for oiio'h Rkln. Sonp Iiiih oven a greater iilDnlty for one's skin than for tho sub Htauces. whlcli It proceeds to replace nnd to sot free to bo taken up by the wntor nnd removed. She Paid the Duty, An EnlfaU traveler, leaving Alox nndrln; refc'vvcd ft parting present of n largo enko; JiiiU received It with what nthuslnsin sho could, but lauded nt Vcnlco with the cako entire. Tho oyc of tbo dogana spied It. "Duty In due lor tbo design on whlto sugar tbnt doc orates, tho top of that cake." Tho trav eler answered that us tho duty seemed qulto heavy sho would prefer to mink tho cake Into tbo waters of tbo Adri atic. "But," snld tho official, "you can not do that Inasmuch as the design in Align r nforcsatd on tho top of the cako is the property of tho king of Italy." The traveler then courageously of fered to conmimo the sugar nnd drown tho cake; but not so might she cscnpo, nor did sho. FOOT NOTES Not stylish today nnd com fortable tomorrow, buBtyllsb nnd comfortable today and to morrow. WAMK-QVEU shoes. Wilcox Department Store Stability, Efficiency and Service JIVO boon tho ltiataVH In tho growth oT tho First National Bank, ol- XOJtTJI J'hATTH, 2CKUHASKA. CAI'l'lWh AA'D SUitl'LUSt One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars. Mich HricsiJ Koomo. What Is the highest pike ever paid hy a publisher for u puem? It would be Interesting to know whether any all iance has cvor been made on tho 3.000 i?in.()00 that Scott received for Uoke by." Stephen Gwynn. In his "Life ol Moore." tells im that Murray offered 2.000 guineas foi the copyright or 'l.n!!a Itonkh." "but Moore's friends thought he should have more and. lug to Longman, they claimed that Mr Moore should recelvo no less than the highest price ever paid for a poem. That," said Longmnn, 'was 3,000. paid for "Kokoby."' On this basis they treated, and Longmnn was inclined to ttlpulato for a preliminary perusal. Moore, howovor. refused, and the agreement was finally worded, 'That upon your giving into our hands u poem of tho length of "Uokeby" you shall re celvo from us tho sum or 3.000. " London Chronicle. The Alps Will Do Washed Away. The Alps, from n g6olog!cal point of view, aro very recent. Tho Welsh hills, though, comparatively speaking? Iiislgnldcnnt. are far more ancient They hnd been mountains for ages and ages before tho materials whrfh now compose tho lllgl or tho Hiatus were deposited. Indeed, wo may say that it Is because they aro so old that they havo been so much worn down. The Alps themselves are crumbling and being washed away, nnd If no fresh elevation takes place the time will como when they will bo no loftier than Snowdon or Ilelvcllyn. They havo al ready undergone enormous denudation, and It has been shown that from the summit of Mont Wane srinie 10.000 or 12.000 feet of strata have been already removed Uoniidatloii began as boon as tho land two'itbove tho seaand tho main river valleys Voro excavated. Pearson's Weekly. Tho Word "Lubber." Tim word "lubber" Is In "Unlpli Hols ter Pointer." circa l.V.O. Ill Ami where .ho la loutcil anil lunched to scorn For tlm veriest dolt that over wan horn And thu veilt'Ht lubber, sloven and beaut l.lvlns In thti world from the wosl to the enst. Tusser uses the word In "Klve nun died Polntes of Good lliishandrlo." lr.SO. page 131 (E. I) Si: For tempests nml nliowern decnliietll n motile, And ItaKuritiK lubbera loose muny a pcnlu. The word "lubbers" was In constant use In thu sixteenth century and oc curs nt lenst twice In Udal's transla tion of Ernsinus' "Aiophth"egpies.M Al most 2(H) years before this Laiiglnnd told of the "gretc lobres and longu" who wore too Idle to work. London Notes and Queries. Not For Fashion's SnUo. Tho criminal lav? or England wua for merly marked by Indlscrlniliiutlng se verity. Thcjrtornn article valued above 10 shllllngi was punished with death, lu writing about "Sweet Ilatnpstj'ud and Its Associations" Mrs. White re cords a pleasant thing of Lord Mahs Held, who as a rule leaned to tho sldo of mercy. It was Ixrtl Mansfield who directed a Jury to llud a stolen trinket less in value than 10 shillings In order thnt tho thief might escape capital pun Ishinont. To this the Jeweler who pros ccuted demurred, asserting thnt tho fashion of the thing hnd cost him twice that money. "Gentlemen." replied the Judge, with grave solemnity, "wo ourselves atund lu need of mercy. Let us not, bang a mun for the fashion's sake!" ( A Qrewsomo Wedding Present. A.rnong tho Brass rlvor tribes of wost Africa when it young couplo get mnr rled It Is tho custom for the oldest membor of tho brldo'ri family to pro sont tho bride with a plot of ground bIx feet long. TultMs for tho grnvo of her family and hersolt when they die. The first member of tho now family who dies Isbuiied about twenty fet below the ground and tbo next ono al most sixteen feet, and this goes on un til nil the family die nnd are burled The grim holds them nil, and this, they think, prevents them from being depurated. This grewsomc wedding pieseut Is the ouo most valued by the bride, the favorite tmtlvo saying being, "When all other things nro gouo this remains." Cure for Stomach Disorders. Disorders of the stomnch may be avoided by the use of Chnmbarlain's Tablati. Many very romnrkablo cures have boon afTectod by these tablets. Sold by all dealers. Maddonsd by Consus Qut,st(on8. Serious results follow ed the taking of tho first census In Japan years ago. Observing with approval the work ot western countries, the authorities thought It advisable to take statistics of population and for that nurposo sent out to all householders noticed enjoin ing them to furnish them with full par ticulars of their families, age, oex, etc. This step was misconstrued lu .one of tho villages, where suspicion was ex pressed that Japan wns about to be Bold or at least some of the people wero to bo Bold to foreigners who were dcslrlous of ascertaining tho number of males, etc., before closing tho bur gnln In order to tlnd out what price to pay according to tho quantity of blood that would be forthcoming. It wns n Jnpancso belief tho foreigners squeezed tho blood from nil who came Into their power. Excited and onrnged mobs soon collected nnd nttacked tho village offices, and It wns some time before order could bo restored. Argo naut Mexico's Goat. To get your gont in Mexico tins no mpnnlng other thnn to lay unlawful hands on tho quadruped. Tho goat is to Mexico what the sheep is to Aiw tralla and beef to old England, and more, because It Is both meat ,nnd drink. The republic of bullllghtsiind bandits could not get along without tho humble little animal we have al ways associated with Harlem back yards and a diet or tin cans. Its llesh sells tit 14 cents a pound, Mexi can money, and a steaming stew or tender young kid Is not to be despised by a hungry man. Every Mexican hotel serves goat meat In. some form or other A fat goat sells for $5 on the hoof, and a lean one brings1 Only 51.B0. The tallow1 sella at 112 cents a pound nnd Is commonly used in place of lard. Tho skins aro worth $1.G0 each, and the mill; retails nt WVJi cents a quart New York Press. Mermaids. Ml the world over there ore legends about uiermnlds. The Chinese tell sto ries not unlike others about tho sea woman of their southern seas. -Man kind is taught on the most excellent evidence that n mermaid was captured nt Dangor, on the shores of the Bel fast lough, In the sixth century, while nuothcr caught at Ed.im In 1403 was carried to Haarlem nud kept there for many years. LoqIcuI. "John, dear, why uro bohio women called Amazons?" "Well, my dear, you remember our geographies said tbo Amazon has tbo largest mouth" Hut shr went out and slammed the door beforo ho could say any mora. -London Mall. You can get your worn-out carpots mndo into beautiful durable rugs. Writo the Lincoln Rug Factory, Lincoln, Neb., for illustrating folder. 22-9 SUPERIOR No. 41076 Dapple Gray Percheron For terms inquire of THOMAS E. DOOLITTLE North Platte, - Nebr. Eitray Notice. Taken up on the 9th day day of March, 1913, on Section 18, town 14, ranga 28, seven miles northwest of Maxwell, In Lincoln county, Nebr., by the undersigned who there resides, two black mares with white on forehsnd. Owner will please call, pay chargos and take animals away. C. II. James, Maxwell, Neb. The Old Reliable When your clothes need pressinc, clennlnp nnd repairing, let tho Old Re liable lailor do It nnd do it right. We hnvo been doing this work in North I'lntto for thirty yenrs, know how to do it and do it tho way it should be douo. Thnt means satisfaction to you. F. J. BROEKER. Entrnnco north of tho Nynl drug store. Pittsburgh Perfect" Fence Electrically welding innumerable exposed wire ends, and does away with sharply and tightly bending one wire acamat another, which cracks the galvanizing. Tho Electric Weld makes every ounce of wire count tor strength and durability no wasted wire, no useless weight dragging down Made In Piffcrent Stylet for HELD, FARM, RANCH. LAWN. I7TirkM OJ r,.,-.-,. CHICKEN. POULTRY and RABBIT YARD .nd GARDEN EVery KOCl VxUaraKteeU Ask your dealer for "Plttshnrh Perfect" and Insist on his furnishing It. you that some other fence is Just as good. If he doesn't sell "PittiWah Perfect" Brandt of Barbed Wire: Bright, Annealed & Galvanized Wire) Twitted Cable Wiret Hard Spring Coil Wires Fence Stanlet; Poultry Netting Staple.! Regular Wire Nailti GatvanUed Wire Nalltt Large Head Roofing Nalltt Single Loop Bale Tlet J "Pitts burgh Perftct".Fencing. All made of Open Hearth material. -s-tf.tj.tf-frtJ'C-fris-if-tj&e-ij-eiJ-e-tj.tts-e.ej L. A. LINE North Side Jeweler '& 11 yenrs experience nt the bench. Can do j nil kinds of repairing. Ilcd rock prices. All a-flsfl-s-s-as-flWi-s-s-a-A-s-fi-a-B-s-a Ofllce phono 241. Res. phone 217 L. C. DROST, Osteopathic Physician. North Platte, - - Nebraska. McDonald Bank Building. Oldent Bank In Lincoln County McDonald State Bank North Platte, Nebr. CAPITAL STOCK 3100,000.00 We Solicit Your Business. Bought nnd highest market prices paid PHONES Residenco Red 636 Office 459 c. h. Walters. Pure Lake Ice. I am prepared to furnish the citizens of North Platte with a fine quality of clear lake ice, frozen from fresh pumped water. Thanking the public for their liberal patron age last year, I respectfully solict a continuance of the same this seasons. L. W. EDIS. Phone 0555. The North Platte School of Music FFILIATED WITH The University School of Music, Lincoln, Nebraska Elizabeth Donner-Cramer N DIRECTOR. All tho principal branches of Ap plied nnd Theoretical Music taught by competent teachers. Address all inquiries to 122 W. Front street or phono Black 341 Quality Cigars In a cigar quality is the prime factor. Some cigars, even thoso costing a dime, don't have the quality. The reason our cigars arft popular is because quality is our first consideration. Some of our brands haye bsen on tho market for 25 years and they are the same good cigar as when first made. Our reputation for good cigars was eanied by making quality the first consideration. J F SCHNALZRIEn The Maker of -Good Cigars. Hojpd tattle Wliv the Electric Weld i Moat Effective Fence-Joint made Joints eliminate the fence. Electricity is the only medium' which truly amalgamates metals -mPkes two wires one. As we use it, the gal vanizing is piled around the joints, pro ducing a one-piece fabric with absolutely dependable joints. Electrically Welded fence-joints (patented) are used only in Pittflhlirrh Pnrfnr-t " e i "iHUi1 iwn sjw Wffl DR. HARRY MITCHELL GRADUATE DENTIST Telephone Red 450 G05K Dewey St. North Platte. Nebraska. j Signet Chapter O. E. S., I NO. 55 5 Meets 2nd and 4th Thursday of every I month at Masonic Hall at 7:30 p. m. nijTRONIZE THE nT fn' House of Good Show I HI When in North Platte. Motion Pictures. Runs Every Night. Matinee Saturday After noon nt2i30 O'clofk. 10 CENTS. c A. J. AMES. MARIE AMES. fj Doctors Ames S Ames, j ti Physicians and Surgeons, U Ofllce over Stone Drug Co. J; Established in 1871. Contractor and Builder. Shop Corner Gth nnd Vino Streets NORTH PLATTE, NEB. . R. D. Thomson. The Kind o Clothes Gentlemen Wear Guaranteed Quality, Perfect Fit, Prices Right. Custom made Suit $20 to $45 Tailor made Suit. $25 to $47 Satisfaction guaranteed Karle Gerle, TAILOR. over McDonald Bank. Notice to Non-Resident Defendant John Ragnti, whose preaant residence or abode Is unknown, will taka notica that on the 24th day f April, 1913, Frederick W. Cross filed hia petition in equity in the district court of Lincoln County, Nebraska, for the purpose of removing a cloud from and quieting the title to the wet forty-four teot of lot two, in block one hundred and three, in the city of North Platte, Nebraska. The prayer of said petition is thnt the title to said premises be quieted and confirmed in said Frederick W. Cross, and that said John Ragan be barred from any right, titlo, interest claim or demand tharein, by reason of any de fect in n certain doarae of partition en tered in his action for partition ol said premises and other real estate, on tho 29th day of December, 1891, and while he was a minor. You are required to answar said petition on or before the 9th day of June. 1913. Dated April 25th, 1913. Frederick W. Cross, Plaintiff, By Geo. E. French his attorney. (i Phonea Residence 273 ; a . i iiiru - i - thn Do not allow him to pcrauade it, writo us direct. If rou are tntcretted in Wire Fencing, write for rREE copy of our ALMANAC, 1913 Pittsburgh Steel Co. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania fz3 DiiedfiBld-.t edfield, Physicians and Surgeons. WILLIS J. itEDFIELD, Surgeon. JOE B. ItEDFIELD, Physician. OFFICE: Physicians & Surgeons . Hospital . . FHONE C42. PROBATE NOTICE. .c1?,1".0 ,m"er of the estate of Walter B. McNeel, deceased. In the county court of Lincoln county, Ne braska, April 15, 1913. Notice is hereby iriven, that the creditors of said deceased will meet the administratrix of said estatn hnfnm thn rnllntv ttrlrrn nf ItnnAl.. n. ...... Nebraska, nt the county court room, in said ' county, on the 20th day of May, 1913, and on the 20th day of Nov., 1913, at 9 o'clock a. m. each day, for the purpose of. presenting their claims for examination, adjustment and allowance. Six months aro allowed for creditors to present their claims, and one year for the administratrix to settle said estate, from the 15th day of Apr. 1913. A copy of this order to be published In the North Platte Tribune, a legal semi-weekly news- nannr nilhll.linfl tn snltl ..mintv a. ..... ...... I weeks prior to May 20, 1913. B22-4 JOHN GRANT, County Judge. NOTICE VOIl I'UHMGATION Serial N". 0371(5. Department of tho Interior. U. S. Laud Ofllcu at N'nrth Platte. Nob, .. , , , Mar 17lli. 1P13 Notlcn In hereby clvun that Alvln T Ouycr. or ?.ortli VlattP, Nob., who. on February Hh. 1W3, niado Homestead Entry No 2.l7.'pl Ser ',al No. 01710, for ho'i, MfM und lots 3. 4 &. Hectlon U. Township 14. nlirtb, JafP '. W.. fitb Principal Meridian, has filed notloo of Intention to make final three year proof, to establish claim to tbo Innrt above ileserlbed, befoie Register nnd Receiver, at North Vlatte, Nob., on tho 21st clnv of May, 1U1J. Claimant names as witnesses: Tred J Maleno. Am7le Gutherless. Trert Slmants and .lesso Lout;, all of North 1'lattn, Nebr ti-6 - J. K. Evans. Ueglster. NOTICE FOK PUBLICATION. Serial No. 03749, Department of the Interior. U. S. Land OITIce at North Platte. Neb. ,, . . April 3, 1913. NOTICE is hereby trlven that Laura Shaw, of North Platte. Neb., whoon March 9. 1908, made II. E. No. 23325, Serial No. 03749, for NM. NW'i, SWK NWM. nnd NW SWW. Section 28. Township 15, North. Ilansre 31, West of tho 6th Principal Mcran has tiled notice of intention to make final three year proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before the register and receiver, at North Platte. Nob., on thn 6th day of June. 1913. Claimant names as witnesses: Arthur Tooks, II. F. Docbko, Wm Siebold. Dave Macombcr, all of North Platte, Neb. a8J J. E EVANS. Register. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Serial No. 0595. Department of the Interior. U. S. Land Ofllce at North Platte. Nebr. xr , . , . Feb. 25, 1913. Notice Is hereby. Riven that Edward Rima. of North Platte, Nebr.. who. on February 8, 1910, made Homestead Entry No. 04595, for NEW and tho EH of SEW, Section 2. twp. 15, N. nre. 30, west of the 6th Principal Meridian, has filed notice of intention to make final three year proof, to establish claim to the land above descrilmd, before the register and receiver, at North Platte, Nebr., on the 20th day of April 1913. Claimant names as witnesses: John Reeves, Robert Reeves, Frank Hood, Henry Greeley, all of North Platte, Nebr. m4-6 J. E. Evan. Register. ORDER OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR AP- lumuaciii ur AUAllIMiaiKAilUX. The State of Nebraska, Lincoln County, ss. In the County Court. In the matter of the estate of Dennis J. O'Brien, deceased On reading and filing tho petition of Corda .w...i.,,, HnIUK mm, UUIUiniBintUOn OI BaiU estate may bo granted to herself as admin- lltMlf4v Ordered, That May 20th, 1913, at 9 o'clock a. m. is assigned for hearing said petition, when nil h.rinn, Inta.aelml In anl.t .n,A .... .. at a county court to be held In and for said tuuuiy, nuu buuw cause wny prayer oi petitioner should not be granUd; and that notice of the nMlJ.nnu rf sol. I n.ttllAH ..! .1 1 I Ir '1 u .. '""" . " '" "taring thereof be tfjven to all persons Interested In said matter by publishing a copy of this, order In the North Platto Tribune a legal semi-weekly news- font inimw in miu ujuiur ior mree successive weeks, prior to said day of hearing. Dated April 24, 1913. 829-3 JOHN GRANT, County Judge. Referees Sale. By virtue of an order issued in tha district court in and for Lincoln County, Nebraska, on the 4th day of April, 1913, in nn action of partition wherein Rupert Schwaiger is plaintiff and Agnes Harris, EmroyTWpp, Minnie HootT a minor, Eddie Hood, a minor, Helen Colvin, a minor, Edward Triprj, Opal Tripp, Adeline Tripp, and Harold Tripp, minors and children of Mamie Tripp, deceased, W. L. Porter, first and real name unknown, as guardian of Minnie Hood, H. D. Hughes, first and real name unknown, as guardian of Eddie Heod, Earl H. Colvin as guardian of Helen Colvin, Russell D. Chase as guardian of Edward Tripp, Opal Tripp, Adeline Tripp and Harold Tripp are de fendants, I will sell at public auction at the east front door of trie court house in the city of North Platte, Lincoln County, Nebraska on the 24th day of May, 1913, at the hour of 1 o'clock p. m., the fol lowing described real estate situate in Lincoln County. Nebraska, towit: The east half (EJ) and the northwest quarter (N W 1) of section thirty-four (34,) township sixteen (16.) north of range thirty west of the 6th p. m. in Lincoln County, Nebraska, containing 480 acres according to government sur vey; the terms of said sale to be cash in hand. Dated at North Platte, Nebraska, this 14th of April, 1913. O. E. Elder, Referee. A-15-G t f