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Lorenzo Crounse
. ...T. J. Majors
',;„vrraor. .j, c. Allen
, - ...j, a. Hartley
;Vart,rv.George H. Hustings
■nil..Eugene Moore
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ESTATE UNIVERSITY.
i.rNTf Leavitt Burnham,
ll'Tl k 1 . Aimas E. P. Holmes.
Kearney! M. J. Hull,
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(■ /.. y, Mrtntlerson, of Omaha;
of •'y^,l,*1 1’hryan, LlnoolnrO.
*r,v'tnllow; Wm. McKoiflhan, Red
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jMcrAR^amnel Maxwe]|
,fiw.jmige Post ami T. L.Norval
. J.J. King of O’Neill
... Bartow of Chadron
' " A. L. Warrick, of O'Neill
'land offices.
o'neill. ^ ^jathews.
•. .A. It. Towle.
r NEi.iaii. c w_ Robinson
_W. B. Lambert
..COUNTY.
.Wm Bowen j
the District'" Court ....John Sklrvlng
■i'linolS.
.Rliody Hayes.
.Jas.Sullivan.
".C.E. Butler
.J. C. HarnlsI,
....H. C.McEvony
...John McBride.
....H. W. Dudley
..Mrs. H. W. Dudley
Dr. H. A. Skelton
".W. W. Page
.V.H. E. Murphy
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CUT OF & NEILL.
rvisor, M. I). Long; Justices, E.1 H.
t and B. Welton; Constables, John
and Perkins Brooks.
COUNCILMAN—FIRST WARD.
id years.—Ben DeYarman. For one
iaviu Stannard.
SECOND WARD.
ivo years—Fred Gatz. For one year—
,en.
THIRD WARD.
*o years—J. C Smoot. For one year—
liters.
CITY 0FFICER8.
r, K. R. Dickson; Clerk, N. Martin;
rer, hand Adams; City Engineer,
lurrisky; Police Judtre, N. Martin;
of Police, Charlie Hall; Attorney,
knedict; NVeighmaster, Joe Miller.
GRATTAN TOWNSHIP.
rvisor, John Winn; Trearurer, John
:Clerk, D. 1L Cronin; Assessor, Mose
e.l; Justices, M. Castello and Chas.
ill; Justices, Perkins Brooks and Will
e; Uoad overseer dist. ‘26, Allen Brown
>• 4. John Enright.
1ERV RELIEF COMNISSION.
lar Qieeting first Monday in Febru
each year, and at such other timeB as
iea necessary. iiobt. Gallagher, Page,
»n:, »m. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary;
■to*. Atkinson.
URICK’S CATHOLIC CHUKCH.
vices every Sabbath at 10:30 o’clock.
5\^Js$d3r» Poator- Sabbath school
uae!) following services.
'IIODIST CIIURCH. Services
l morning at 11 o’clock, im
?l0. ■ J'V Sunday school. Preach
> oramj utso’clock. Prayer meeting
-‘'rnlng at 8 o’clock. Epworth
■w'otlonal meeting Sunday evening
"«’«■ P. Ellis; Pastor.
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M.rcir„rJhfaay eTO“lng
Will Lowbie, Secretar;
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’ WITH THE BLIND TlQBR.
A Prospector** Uroly Etparleoea With
Mountaln«m«.
To the south of Yollowville, Ark.,
is a largo territory in the very heart
of the “moonshine district.” Here
the “blind tiger" has his lair, and
the "mountain dew express” makes
regular and frequently recurring
trips. To the east for a tier of
counties seven deep there are no
railroads, and towards the south
not enough revenue officers know
the country to interfere materially
with the business of the distiller of
illicit spirits.
A prospector recently related his
experience as follows, to a St. Louis
Globe-Democrat reporter: “I started
up the canyon, occasionally stopping
to hammer a likely looking piece of
shale or to put in my pouch a speci
men containing the mineral I was in
search of. It was the most promis
ing strip I had yet seen, and I spent
some time locating it and in making
a rough ^ap of the surroundings to
enable me to again find it in the
event,-tnat developments proved as
promised by the specimens. Mean
time I was slowly forking my way
toward the head of the canyon, and
was paying littlo attention to any
thing else. When near the head I
noticed a well defined path running
diagonally across, and as its direc
tion seemed favorable to my course I
turned into it without hesitation,
not stopping to note the fact that
broad, beaton paths are not com
monly found in the roughest portion
Of a rocky gorge half w«y up a
mountain side. I walked along the
pathway, expecting every minute to
turn a corner and find again the road
which I had left several hours be
“Suddenly a bend in the road
brought me abruptly into view of a
mountain hut, before which two wo
men were busily engaged noting the
swimming of something in a large
kettle which stood at one corner of
the cabin. I had time to note this
much when the woman discovered
me. One of them darted into the
cabin while the other, with a shrill
whistle, dodged into the brush. The
shrill whistle had not ceased echoing
when the crack of a rifle and the sing
of a bullet warned me that I was in
for something, I knew not what. Be
fore I could turn, three mountaineers
stepped into view, and, as each was
armed with a long rifle, I threw up
my hands and yelled, ‘Don’tshootf’
“I was taken prisoner with some
what more formality and flourishing
of the suggestive-looking rifles than
I thought was necessary. As my
captors led me toward the cabin I
saw at a glance what had befallen me.
I bad stumbled onto a moonshiner's
home, and his illicit distillery was
probably then in full blast in the
rear of the cabin. Once inside, the
three faced me and the oldest, in a
threatening tone, inquired:’
“ ‘Thought yu was purty slick,
didn’t yu?’
“I hastened to assure him that I
had never entertained that idea and
then I told him who 1 was, what was
my business in that section and how
I had happened to turn into the path
way leading to the cabin, with other
verbose statements as to character.
I deemed this necessary and politic,
for the echo of that whistling bullet
was still ringing in my ear. I did
not relish the sour, ugly looks with
which the three regarded mo.
“ ‘Don’t yu try tu fool us,’ said one;
•yu air revenoo, that's what yu air. ’
“I was profoundly thankful at that
moment that I was not armed.
Barring a pocket-knife, a hammer
and a stout club I had nothing that
looked suspicious. I showed letters.
I pointed to my hammer and argued
how unlikely it was that the govern
ment would select me as an object
of extermination for bold, bad moon
Burners.
“My eloquence prevailed, and
after a long consultation beyond ear
shot the bearded proprietor—the one
who had tried to nip my career with
a rifle ball—came forward, grasped
me by the hand and roughly apolo
gized.
•“We allowed yu war revenoo,’
he said, ’nd weuns war r'eddy fur yu. ’
, “I assured him that the mistake
was of no consequence, and that I
was delighted to make his acquain
tance, even in such an unconventional
way. Then I started to leave again,
apologizing for taking up his time.
But they would not allow mo to ga
it was getting late, and I was told
that no stranger could go through
the district at night in safety. It
was a risky thing in daylight and
not to be thought of at night.
“ ‘Low yu’ll hev tu bunk hero,’
said the bearded moonshiner, ‘’nd
Zeke’ll take yu safo out to-morrow.
“The night was an uneventful one.
I entertained my hosts with stories
of the world beyond Bull Knob moun
tain, and they in turn told hunting
stories. In the morning Zeke ac
companied mo across the mountain.
I soon found how true was the re
mark of my late host, the moon
shiner, when he said that 1 would
need a guide. We were halted by
natives several times, but in each in
stance a word from Zeke was a ready
passport Finally my guide halted
and briefly said:
“ ‘Hayr’s the road to Yellville;
keep in the middle of it’ ”
Blade an Impression.
City Girl—Lord Nabobb must have
made quite an impression in this
section, didn’t he? Country Girl—
Yes, indeed. We took him to a pic
nic and he sat on a pie.—New York
Weekly.
Ammunition.
Mrs. Bitter—What kind of ammu
nition do they use in these magazine
guns?
Mr. B.—Poetry, I guess. All mine
1ms been fired. ■■iaag’L- i-. » . ~
FIRST STEAM WAR SHIP.
Bail* In Canada, ai Waa Also tba first
Steam Troop Ship.
It is generally known that th« first
steam driven vessel to cross the Atlan
tic was built in Canada. The inform
ation is not so general, however, that
this same craft was subsequently con
verted into a cruiser, and was the first
steamship engaged in actual war.
The facts in the case are quoted from
"Johnson’s Alphapet of First Things
in Canada.” The ship was the Royal
William. She was built at the Cove,
Quebec, in the winter of 1830-31, and
during the season of 1833-33 plied be
tween Qnebcc and Halifax. In the lat
ter season she was sent to London,and
was there chartered by the Portuguese
government to transport troops in
tended for the service of the
late Dorn Pedro to Brazil. Returning
to London, she was sold to the Spanish
government, by the latter converted
into a cruiser, and employed against
Don Carlos in tho civil war of 1838,
thus being the first steamer to fire a
a hostile shot. There is still another
curious fact that may have been over
looked—that troops withdrawn from
Canada,upon the close of the American
war of 1813-15, for the purpose of join
ing tho army intended to crush Napo
leon after his return from Elba, were
transported down the St Lawrence by
a Canadian steamer. This was prob
ably the first occasion on whieh a
steam vessel was used for purposes of
military transport Canada, there
fore, not only furnished the world
with the first steam vessel, but she al
most certainly provided the first
steam troop ship as well.
A NATIONAL AIR.
Wh»t (he County Vo .rr.s to Hear Some
One Compose.
The necessity for a national air that
has not been either borrowed or stolen
was very clearly apparent during the
naval rendezvous at Hampton Roads
and the subsequent ceremonies in New
York. In those places, if never be
fore, the chilly conviction struck many
a heart, and there was hourly empha
sis of our poverty and musical dis
honesty. When the band on one of the
British ships played “God Save the
Queen,” a young lady visitor was de
lighted with what she thought was an
international compliment, for she
imagined the bandsmen were playing
“America.” She was not alone in her
error; hundreds of others then in that
vicinity did not know that our great
est of patriotic hymns is sung to a
stolen tune, and that tune the most
royalistic of all airs.
There was similar misunderstanding
as to other melodies. “They’re play
ing ‘Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,’ ”
said a soldier who from the wharf was
listening to the Blake’s band. Ills
guess was wrong. They were playing
“Britannia, the Gem of the Ocean,”
but he was only one of millions who
are not aware of the fact that both
words and music of that song were
lifted bodily across the Atlantic, and
that somewhere on the way the word
“Columbia” was substituted for “Brit
annia.” Perhaps “The Star Spangled
Banner” came nearer to be generally
recognized as our own than any of the
other tunes, but foreign musicians did
nothing inexcusable when they dis
cussed among themselves the indis
putable fact that the words only are
American—that the air is an old Eng
lish production.
A QUEER TUO.
A New Craft Which Can Go on Land
or Water.
A new Canadian invention for use in
the lumber districts is coming into
general use in Northern Ontario. It
is called a steam warping tug. It
propels itself on land as well as on
water, and is used by lumbermen
whose operations are carried on among
small lakes connected by streamy of
uncertain navigation, bix of these
unique crafts have been built by the
inventors during the past season.
They are built in scow shape, with
steel-shod runners for moving over
land; are thirty-seven feet long, ten
feet beam, decked all over, and have
sleeping room for four men in the
how; the bottom and up the bow is
covered with steel boiler plate. An
engine of twenty-two horse-pbwer
furnishes steam for ten hours’ work,
with three-quarters of a cord of dry
wood.
In the water it moves six miles an
hour, forward or backward, as re
quired, propelled by side wheels. On
land it is propelled by having a cable
drum on which is coiled five-eighths of
a mile of steel wire cable, which is
fastened with pulleys to a tree or some
object in front, the boat moving as
the wire is coiled up. The boiler is
hung on an axle in the center and a
screw arranged on the front enables
the fireman to tip it forward or back
and keep it level going up or down
hill. It will move over an elevation
of one foot in three on land and draws
about twenty-eight inches in the
water.
Monogram Peaches.
At a large dinner party given in
London recently the peaches placed
on the table bore the monogram of
their owner traced distinctly in the
velvety bloom. Letters were cut from
paper and pasted on the peaches while
growing. When the fruit was ripe,
on removing this the letters were
found picked out in most delicate
green, the rest of the fruit being rosy
and deep-hued.
Hot Water From the Blot Machines.
A hot water fountain is now
in operation in Paris. The water
that feeds the fountain passes through
a coil of copper tubing 300 feet long.
By dropping a sou in a slot jets of gas I
are turned on and ignited. By this
means the water is heated. For each
son one is entitled to eight liters. It
is expected that this foantain will be j;
a great assistance to the poor, and if
successful others will be built
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