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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1897)
* THE FRONTIER. HJBLISHEI/ IVFUY THURSDAY By Tn Fbowtim Printing Co. O’NEILL, NEBRASKA. t i NEBRASKA. The B. <fc M. is making' many im provements at Tecumseh. Many farmers near Tekamab arc erecting handsome residences. Early corn in the vicinity of Rising City is said to be out of danger. J. C. McCleary of Exeter claims to have a sure cure for hog cholera. • Near Niobrara VVcndel Vilar, a boy of 13, while crawling under a fence with a loaded shotgun, shot and killed himself instantly. The charge entered the back of his head. The general merchandise store of Stahlhut & Hobein at Nebraska City was entirely destroyed by fire. The bnilding and contents were valued at 930,000, with 913,800 insurance. John Marazaleks, a Polish farmer living about ten miles north of St. Paul, filed a complaint against Victor Mc Cracken, a young man of St. Paul, charging him with attempted rape. Miss Emma Davis, one of Nebraska City’s best musicians, and a graduate of the New England conservatory of music at Boston, has been elected as piano instructor at the state normal school at Peru. A fortune teller has been consulted In regard to the strange disappear ance of Agent Roy of IthTca. She says he was murdered by two men, his body put in a wagon and taken to the Platte river and thrown into it. Martin Kazda, recently given his freedom from the county court of Burt county on his personal recognizance to appear for trial on the charge of ille gally selling Intoxicants in a temper ance town, has disappeared. Mortgages filed and released in Dixon county during August: Farm— filed, sixteen, 911,376; released, twen ty-one, 915,400.93. Town—filed, four, 9878.77; released, four, 9861.95. Chat tie—filed, 104, 945,639.40; released, forty-nine, 917,358.90. Rev. T. E. Kimball closed a three months’ service as pastor of the Bap tist church at Tekamah last Sunday and next day left for Rochester, N. Y., where he will finish his college course. This leaves the Herman Baptist chnreh _ without a pastor again. »’ M. L. Williams left Lincoln last week with a special earload of farm rroducts and fruits for the Iowa and llinois fairs. Mr. Williams will stop first at Mt. Avr, Iowa, where he will put his exhibit In shape. He has a car load of as fine agricultural produots as were ever taken out of the state. The greater part of the samples were made up in Lancaster county. Word was received in South Omaha last week to the effect that the investi gating committee of the United States senate would most likely arrive there on September 31 to inquire into the workings of the Bureau of Animal In dustry at that point. This Committee is composed of Senator! J. C. Pritch ard of North Carolina, Horace Chilton of Texas and W. A. Harris of Kansas. A motion was filed by the attorney general in the office of the clerk of the supreme court last week to have the proceedings in error in the J. 8. Bart ley case dismissed because the brief had not been filed by Bartley's attor neys in thetime required by the'rule of the court. This motion will be heard the supreme court on the first day of the sitting, which commences Sep tember 81. E. H. Andrews the Union Pacific lam agent, Kansas City, was in Omaha las week. He reports that he brough from La Porte, Tex., five families tha left Nebraska three years ago to settl on the plains of the Lone Star state They all have bought or rented Nebrns ley farms. Mr. Andrews also says tha he knows of many other farmers \vh went into Texas and Arkansas a fen years ago who are getting ready to re turn to Nebraska or Kansas, The Nebraska India relief comml aion, composed of H. O. Rowland: president; M. D. Welsh, secretary an treasurer; A. H. Wier, J. E. Utt an W. N. Nason, have filed the report < its work with the governor. Tne ri port shows that the commission hum led thirty-six carloads of corn, amoun ing to 24,557 bushels, which wi donated by the people of the state, an all of this was shipped to the fas tne district of India, besides 9509.07 i cash, donated by Nebraska's people. _ The family of Mr, Hull, a farm living southeast of Tekamah, we surprised the other morning on goii to their barn to find a boy baby snug tucked in a box with a nursing botl and a label saying it was born Augu *« and a present to Mr. Hull. M Hull, 8T., being away from home. I wife dead and the children of the fai tly being alone, the little one w taken to Tekamah and turned over the county authorities, who placed ir charge of the superintendent of t poor farm. A peculiar instance of the pavme «f conscience money has occurred liincoln, or rather the money comes that place. Ten years ago Tom Drar was running a restaurant and a boai *r named O. Christiansen ran awe leaving a 910 board bill unpaid. Up last week the man had never be heard from. Then Draper receive! letter from Christiansen, dated Germ ton, South Africa, and enclosing i money, amououag to about •CO. The man wrote that he had wan dered Into the land of the barbarians •nd had made considerable money, and S*‘i , “ow desired to pay his debt, with some interest added. v W. Stokes, a farmer residing six ■dies south of Elmwood, came to town with his wife to do trading. The team became frightened and ran away, throwing Mrs. Stokes ont over the dashboard. The wagon, which was heavily loaded, passed over her body. She died in twenty minntee. J Tux packing house plant at Nebras ka (Sty has closed down a few weeks for repairs. Tine Rock Island has advanced the date on which the hard coal rate of $3 from Chicago to Missouri river points was to go into effect September 30, to September 13. The other roads will it the reduction. jfT " v .. ■' - S: -ir& ' STRIKERS FIRED ON NINETEEN KILLED AND FORTY ONE WOUNDED. Marching Anthracite Coal Miner* Come Into Deadly Collision With a Penn* Sylranla Sheriff and Deputies— An Attack Made by Strikers Upon Officers the Cause* DIMS ter to Marching Striker*. TTaki.etox, Pa.. Sept 13.—Nineteen marching striking miners were killed and forty-one wounded in a conflict with county deputy sheriffs, led by Sheriff Martin, on the highway at Latimer yesterday afternoon. All of the victims of the officers’ Winchesters were foreigners—Poles and Hungarians—imported some time ago to work in tho anthracite coal mines of this region. The shots were fired because the strikers had refused to heed the sher iff's proclamation to disperse and had assaulted the sheriff and threatened his deputies. as a remit of the riot and further threats of trouble, the Third brigade of the Pennsylvania national guard, commanded by General Gobin, the new national commander-in-chief of , the G. A. R., was at once ordered to this section and the Ninth regiment under Colonel Dougherty of Wllkes barre, arrived this morning and other regiments followed during the day, , until the whole prigade was here in camp. The strikers left Hazolton about 8:30 o'clock, and it wus their inten tion to go to Latiner. As soon as this became known, a band of deputies was loaded on a trolley car and went whirling across the mountain to the scene where the bloody conflict fol lowed. After reaching Latimer, they left the car and formed into three companies, under Thomas Hall, E. A. Hess and Samuel It. Price. They drew up in line at the edge of the village, with a fence and a line of houses in their rear. Sheriff Martin was In entire com mand, and stood in the front of the line, until the strikers approached. They ware seen coming across the ridge, and Martin went out to meet them. The men drew up suddenly, and listened in silence until he had once more read the riot act This fin ished, a low muttering arose among the foreigners, and there was a slight movement forward. Perceiving this, the sheriff stepped toward them and, in a determined tone, forbade advance. Someone struck the sheriff, and the next moment there was a edmmand to the deputies to fire. The guns of the deputies instantly belched forth a terrible volley. The report seemed to shake the very moun tains, and a cry of dismay went up, from the people. The strikers were taken entirely by surprise, and as the men toppled and fell over each other, those who remained unhurt stam peded. <: The men went down before the storm of bullets like tenpins and the groans of the dying and wounded filled the air. The excitement that fallowed was simply indescribable. The deputies seemed to be terror stricken at the deadly execution of their guns, and, teelttg the living strikers fleeing like wild and others dropping to the earth, they went to the aid of the unfortunates whom1 they had brought down. Along the bank of the trolley road men lay in every position, some dead, others dying. Three bodies, face downward, lay along the incline and three others were but a short distance away/ t On the other side of the road as many more bodies lay. The school house was transformed into a tempo rary hospital and some of the wounded were taken there. All along the hillside wounded men were found on the roadside and in the fields. Many mlners who hud been carried to a dis tance could not be found. Martin Itoski, an intelligent Hun garian from Mount Pleasant, who was shot in the arm, was seen by a reporter and gave' this version of the affair: “We were going along the road to Latimer and the deputies were lined across the road, barring our progress. We tried to go through tdein. and did not attempt to hit or molest them, when they fired upon us. We ran, but they kept on shooting at us while we ran. It it all their fault.'’ Hryau Xabi a Tiller. Atchisox, Kan., Sept. 13.—A feature of the liryan meeting here yesterday was the orator's capture of a pick pocket. As the people crowded up to the stand after the speech, a pick pocket got in his work through the crowd until he had made his way up to Bryan. The light fingered gentle-' man tried to “touch” the orator while giving him the glad hand, and was seized by his intended victim, who sang out: “Hold him, boys.” People by the dozen discovered they had been robbed. The first policeman to arrive found Bryan hanging to the thief In regulation “cop” style. The man is a stranger in Atchison. Mont*. .«44« aurror. ' JoHAMNUBtTito, Sept, t S.—An esplo •ion of dynamite has taken place in the magazine of the George Uoeh Deep Level mine, causing terrible havoa Five white men and twenty-five Kafirs are known to have been killed. Thirty VUtvrmM Urownt.1 Dunkirk, Sept. 13.—The fishing fleet returned here to-day from Iceland and reported that out of ninety-eight boats, six foundered during the sea son. resulting in the drowning oi thirty men and boys. The fruit-eating bats do not live ot insects, nor attack animals and such blood, as do the vampires. The vam pire is a small bat, with exceedingly sharp front teeth, making a slit in the ■ weeper's leg and sucking the blood, t They are seldom dangerous to human I Mtagu but are to cattle. SHERIFF MARTIN’S STORY. Bays **e Ordered the Oepatlee to fire on the Uanitarleni—Badly Beared. Wilicesbarre, Pa., Sept 13.—Sheriff Martin arrived here on the 7 o'clock train from Ilazelton. He was cool and collected. He was met at the depot by his legal adviser. The two got in to a cab and drove to the court house, where they were closeted together for some time. The sheriff was at first re luctant to sav whether he hod given the command to fire, but aitevrard ad mitted that he had. The sheriff’s de tailed statement is as follows: “I heard early this morning that the strik crs were going to march to the breakers at Latimer and compel the men there to quit work. I re solved to intercept them, and, if pos sible, prevent them from reaching the breaker. One of my deputies told me that the strikers would probably be heavily armed. I got my deputies, seventy in number, to meet at a cer tain place. They were all armed. I told them to keep cool under all cir cumstances. The trouble began at 3 o'clock. I met the marching column, halted them and read the proclama tion. They refused to pay any atten tion and started to resume their march. men i caned on the leader to •top. He ignored my order. I then attempted to arrest him. The strikers closed in on me. They acted very viciously, kicking me, knocking me down and trampling upon me. I called upon my deputies to aid me, and they did so, but they were unable to accomplish much. I realized that something had to he done at once, or 1 would be killed. I called to the dep uties to discharge their firearms into the air, over the heads of the strikers, as It might probably frighten them. It was done at once, but it had no ef fect whatever on the infuriated for eigners, who used me so much the rougher and became fiercer and fiercer, more like wild beasts than human beings. “The strikers then made a still bolder move and endeavored to sur round my entire force of deputies. I fully realized that the foreigners were a desperate lot and valued life at a very small figure. I saw that parley ing with such a gang of infuriated men was entirely out of the question, as they were too excited to listen to reason and that myself and deputies wontd be killed if we were not res cued, or if we did not defend ourselves I then called upon the deputies to de fend themselves and shoot, if they must, to protect their lives or to pro tect the property that they had been sent to guard. “The next second there were a few scattered shots fired into the foreign ers, and a moment later the entire force of deputies discharged a solid volley into the crowd. I hated to give the command to shoot, and was awful sorry that 1 was compelled to do so; but 1 was there to do my duty, and I did it as best I knew how. and as my conscience dictated. The strikers were violating the laws of the com monwealth and flatly refused to obey tho proclamation that 1 read to them. They Insisted on doing violence and disobeying the laws, /. ‘‘The scene after the -shooting wa* simply terrible, and I would have willingly not had it occur, but, as a public official,' I was there to see that the law was obeyed and lived up to, and I merely did my duty. ” '.■■■■ In another interview Sheriff Martin said he first met the marching miners at West HazcUon. He asked them whore they were going and they re plied: “We are going to I.atimer and get the men out there.’* » Then tho sheriff and seventy dep uties, armed with Winchesters and re volvers, boarded a trolly car for Lat imer and, marching down the public road, headed the column of Poles and Hungarians. According to Martin’s story, when the strikers reached the line of dep uties he ordered them to halt and dis perse. One of the Hungarians said in broken English: “Go to hell, you Martin then attempted to arrest the man who made the remark, and, as he claims, was fiercely assaulted by the man’s friends. Then the firing began. Mr. Martin was asked: “When you met the men, were they on company property or on the public road?” He replied: "No, they were on the public road.” “Were they marching toward Lati mer?” • "Yes.” 1 1 “Had they, up to that time, com mitted any overt act or acted other wise than peaceably?” "No." “Why, then, did you order the depu ties to fire?” , “1 did not order the deputies to fire; some one else did that. First came a single shot and then a volley. I gave no order.” ■ *; “How many were killed?” "There were twelve dead when 1 left and about forty wounded.” “Were any of your men hurt?” “One of my deputies was shot through the arm.” CZAR’S CENSUS RETURNS. Nicholas Dscerlbss Blaualf h UmIw of BauU'l Loads aad Aj;rlealtnrl»t. London, Sept. 13.—The czar recently filled up a census paper in hts own handwriting, giving his name and sur name as “Romanov;” -ils social status as “czar of all the Russians;" his pro fession as “master of all the land of the Russian empire,” and his accessory occupation “landed proprietor and agriculturist.” For the czarina, the czar wrote “czarina of all the Russians, mistress of all the land belonging to the Rus sians empire and patroness of all the houses of employment ” GREAT IS NEBRASKA. PROSPERITY IN INEXHAUSTI BLE QUANTITIES. Threshers Running Night and Pat Ereo In the Early Fart of the Harvest— A Tremendous Yield—Nebraska Samples Helng Shown at the County fairs fn Illinois* 1T« Speaks From Eiiwrlmer. A Red Willow county correspondent pf the Omaha Bee gives the following account of the situation in that section of Nebraska: “Harvest lasted live weeks in Red Willow county, and some machines ran day and night, only stopping long enough to change teams. The whis tles of the steam threshers are heard long before sunrise, calling the men to work. They have been at it five weeks and it looks as if snow would fly be fore they get through. From What has been threshed it is estimated that 2,000,000 bushels were raised in this county this season and the land is not half under cultivation yet. Some farmers have 4,000 to 6,000 bushels. There are thousands of acres where the crop this year on one acre will pay for three acres of nice, rich land. One fine quarter, all under plow, lay idle this year. Had it been sown to wheat the crop would have paid for the land, built a house worth 8600, a barn worth 8400, sunk a well and erected a wind mill, paid for a team, harness and wagon, a stove, three cows and a dozen shoats. A man rented some land last fall. Seed wheat was furnished and he got half the crop. He sowed fifty-four acres, and his share brought money enough to pay for a nice eighty-acres and had 8100 left. Where seed is not furnished the renter gets two-thirds of the crop. There are a good many fields where the renter’s share of 100 acres will more than pay for 160 acres of nice land. I have farmed here f ’teen years, but never saw so much wheat raised here in any one year. Some seasons it yielded a little more per acre, but the area sown was not nearly so large. Corn indicates a yield of forty to sixty bushels per acre. Alfalfa will bq cut three to four times. 1 have cut mine twice and the third crop will be cut soon. This is on upland, where it is 300 feet to water. I pick apples fresh from my trees for pies and dumplings. KEHRASKA CROPS LUP, The Burlington has an exhibit of Ne braska products at nearly all of the county fairs in Iowa and Illinois and reports from these gatherings show that the Nebraska exhibits excel those of the states named. The quality of the products shown is declared better than any grain in the states named this year. Especially are the small grains and the garden products at tracting much attention. In this connection it can be stated that the nine land buyers who were brought here from Illinois by R. N. Johns of Pontiac, a Burlington land agent, this week and taken over Ne braska were well pleased with the out look and several of them made pur chases. September 7 Mr. Johns will bring another party into Nebraska from Iowa and Illinois with a view of buying land. He states that the farmers of the middle states are very much interested in Nebraska land, and that he expects that this fall there will be many of them come here and locate. Mot MoiUiuir tip Irturaae* Companies. Lincoln dtsp&tah! It has been ru mored lately that insurance companies were being charged illegal fees by the state auditor, and, that some of the money thus taken was pocketed by in dividuals instead of being turned 'into the state treasury. “I just heard of the rumor.today,” said Auditor Cornell this afternoon, “and I understand it is being widely circulated in Omaha. I wish you would say that any story that I am holding up the insurance companies, charging more than the law allows and putting the surplus in my pocket, is untrue. If anyone is interested enough to go to the trouble to inquire at tne auditor's office in reference to the charges made to insurance companies, he will have free access to the books and the as sistance of the office force, that he may inform himself as to the matter. It is true that sometimes the clerks in the office make copies of the records at the request of the companies, but it is no part of their official duty, and when done after hours the clerks are entitled to pay for the work. If any of them have made overcharges 1 have not heard of it.” A* To Thurston's Resignation. Touching the recent declaration of Senator Thurston at the republican state conveution, a story is afloat that he contemplates resigning his seat in the senate if Governor Holcomb can be induced to appoint a republican as his successor. It is claimed that Senator Thurston haa talked the matter over with Senator Allen and that through the latter the matter has been pre sented to the governor. Of course in case the senator were to resign and a successor be appointed, the appoint ment would only run to the next ses sion of the legislature. The reason that political gossip assigns for this alleged contemplated step by Senator Thurston is that his position is too severe a strain upon his finances. He is anxious to return to his more re munerative law nractiee. Train* For State Fair Week. The passenger department of the Union Pacific has just completed ar rangements for three special trains from Nebraska points to the state fair, to be run on each of the following days of state fair week: September 21, 22, 23 and 24. These trains are so ar ranged that every point in the state will be afforded direct transportation to and from the state fair. The executive committee of the pro hibition state committee met in Lincoln last week. D.. L. Whitney, secretary of the Beatrice Chautauqua, was chosen to fill the vacancy on the state ticket for regent of the University of Ne braska. The committee adopted a white rose as the emblem to be placed on official state ballots this fall. Hmr Cattla Will 0a Fad. There will be more cattle fed in Knox county this season than ever before in its history. Already hundreds of head that have been ranging on the reservations west of Niobrara are be ing driven to farms for feeding old corn to make way for the new crop. MORE BODIES FOUND. Th« Death Liu of the Emporia Wreck Increasing—More Probably Horned. Emporia, Kan., Sept 13.—The death list of the wreck is increasing. Two bodies were found yesterday afternoon burned beyond all resemblance to hu man beings. After the finding of the body of the woman yesterday morn ing the wrecking crew increased their efforts and under the coaches found two men. It is thought that many more bodies are under the wreck, as the odor of decomposing flesh is very strong at various points. The Wolls-Fargo Express company recovered the safe which had been in the wreck, and although it had been in the fire for sixteen hours not a package in it was injured. Topeka, ICan., Sept. 11.—In refer ence to the responsibility for the wreck. Assistant Superintendent Tur ner said that the examination had nol been completed, but that the impres sion is gaining that the crew of train No. 1 ran by the stopping signal, or mistook it in some way. ' ARGENTINA RETALIATES Heavy Increases In the Import Datles oa American Good* Recommended.. Washington, Sept 13.—A cable gram was received at the state depart ment to-day from United States Min ister Buchanan at Buenos Ayres, reading as follows: “The Argentine tariff for next year has been sent to the Argentine congress. The Argen tine president recommends in view of the United States tariff the following increased duty: Sixty-six per cent on yellow pine; 135 per cent on farm wagons; 100 per cent on plows, har rows, kerosene and agricultural ma chinery not specifically mentioned; also recommends maximum and mini mum clause according to which the president can apply at will 50 per cent duty in addition to the regular duty. Am writing fully in regard to the sit uation." Iowa Patent Office Report. Patents have been allowed but not is sued as follows: To A. C. Diller of Marshalltown for an equalizer spring enclosed in a well tube and connected at one end with the tube and at the other end with a reciprocating pump rod to prevent concussion, wear and strain and to reduce the minimum of power required for elevating a given quantity of water in a given time. To D. W. Hooverof Lyons, Nebraska, for a wind motor that requires no vane to adjust it relative to the di rection of the wind and needs no gov ernor to adjust the sails of the wheel relative to the force of the wind or to regulate its speed. An undivided half is assigned to E. Crowell of the same place. To J. M. Lloyd of Dea Moines for a portable copyholder adapted to be readily adjusted laterally and longi tudinally for holding books or sheets of paper of different sizes to fasten a book or sheet of paper at the top ,and bottom and to allow a leaf or sheet to be turned over by the use of one hand, to prevent reaction of a leaf when turned over. Tiros. G. and J. Rai.ph Orwig, , • Solicitors of Patents, i Des Moines, la.. Sept. 9, 1897. Patent Pointer*. In a recent expired patent is shown a clever mechanism, by means of which a shaft was checked or stopped three times during one revolution by means of a swinging pendulum, provided with four shoulders, as is shown. The shaft was provided with three arms, which worked within the pendulum, and al ternately engaged the shoulders. The second illustration shows two gears, which are alternately rotated in oppo site directions by the continuously ro taing mutilated central pinion. Where a thing is marked “Patented’- as of a date not of its patent, but of the date of an earlier patent to the same paten tee, upon which it is an improvement, the U. S. circuit court recently held that the inventor had not complied with the law and so could not collect damages for infringement. Parties desiring free information as to patents should address Sues & Co., patent experts, Bee Buildin Omaha, Nebraska. LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE MARKET. Quotation* From New York* Chicago, c Lou In, Omaha and Elsewhere. OMAHA. Butter—'Creamery separator... 1ft 01 Butter—Choice fancy country.. 10 ® Eggs — Fresh. 12 ® Spring Chickens—Per lb...... 61401 Hens—per lb. Pigeons—IAve.. 01 Lemons— Choice Messinas. 4 00 ®4 Honey—Choice, per lb. 13 01 Onions— per hu . 50 @ Beans—Handpicked Navy.1 40 @ 1 Potatoes—per bu. 45 01 Broom Corn—Choice Green. 2 (ft Oranges—per box...... 3 75 (ft 4 Apples—Per bbl. 1 00 (ft 1 Hay—Upland. per ton. 5 50 @5 SOUTH OMAHA STOCK MARKET. Hogs—Choice light. 3 00 @3 Hogs—Heavy weights. 3 95 01 3 Beef steers. 4 25 01 5 Bulls. 2 00 Stags. 3 7;> Calves.. -v...3 50 Western Feeders. 3 4n Cows... 1 50 Heifers.. 3 00 Stockers and Feeders. 3 35 Sheep—Western Lambs. 4 00 Sheep, Western—Wethers.3 40 CHICAGO. Wheat^-No. 2 spring.. 98 Corn—per bu. 37 Oats—per bu. 24 Barley-No. 2. 38 Rye-No. 2. » Pork .9 60 Lard—per 100 lbs.4 85 Cattle—Native beef steers.4 60 Cattle—Stockers and feeders... 3 00 Hogs—Prime light.3 70 Sheep—Lambs.4 50 Sheep—Westerns. 3 50 NEW YORK.. Wheat-No. 2, red, Winter. 1 0514® 1 Corn—No. 2. 37 (ft Oats—No. 3. 24 Pork... ..» 50 Lard. 6 20 - KANSAS CITY. Wheat—No. 2, spring. 84 @ Corn—No. 2. 27*401 Oats—No. 2. 21 ® Cattle—Stockers and Feeders... 2 75 ® 4 Hogs—Mixed. 4 00 ft 4 Sheep—Muttons... 3 00 00 3 (ft 3 01 4 & 5 01 3 © 3 01 3 (ft 4 & & (ft © 9 U 5 <tt 4 ® 4 (ft 3 St. 18 14 12*4 6 90 50 14 00 50 50 m 00 8.5 00 95 fO 20 75 00 65 50 85 65 00 00 50 98* 37 V4 24 5£ 40 5214 75 00 50 ftO 40 75 85 03 3714 2414 *5 00 9 7i 80*4 2714 21% 30 15 76 $1,000, oooSale, Dry Goods. A Special Sale of Dry Good , Cloaks*. * Clothing and Shoes, the Like of Which Was Never , ; y Known Before. AT BOSTON STORE, OMAHA Prom September 17 to 24, Boston, Store, Omana, will hold A Grand Fall Opening Sale, On which days everything in our whole establishment will be offered at special sale. Half-Rate Excursion. Every railroad running into Omaha, will sell half-rate tickets during the days of this sale, commencing Sept. 17 and ending Sept. 24, which will give you an opportunity to attend the state fair and see all the parades of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben. By attending this sale and making your fall purchases, yon will save many times the expense of your trip. We have exerted most extraordinary efforts to make this series of sales the most wonderful of any ever held in the west. Our buyers have made a number of deals, each one so success ful that the results are nothing short of sensational. Entire stocks, whole products of mills and factories, have been bought for mere fractions of their -* real value, and all these bargains will be offered from Sept. 17 to 24 at our store. An imported stock of high grade dress goods, silks and velvets. #120,000 bankrupt stock of Men’s and Boys’clothing, hats, caps and Gents’ furnishings. Six sample lines of the latest styles of Ladies’. Misses’ and Child’s imported and American made cloaks, furs, capes, jackets and wraps, The output of an entire factory of men’s, ladies' and children’s underwear, hosiery and knit goods. #100,000 stock of men’s, women’s and children’s hand made and custom welt boots and shoes, and a big stock of new rubber shoes. Two immense bankrnpt retail New York Jewelry stocks. A complete stock of new Fall Milli nery, including 3,000 imported sample hats and our own special products and creations. The largest stock of bed blankets in Omaha. We also make a specialty of horse blankets. The entire output of a carpet mill, hundreds of rolls of carpet at almost half price. The most complete line of yarns in the West, at lower prices than any where else. An immense line of staple and do mestic dress goods at prices that will ✓ agreeably astonish you. BOSTON STORE, Sixteenth nnd Dongles Streets, Omaha. Neb. When you visit Omaha make the Boston Store your resting place, your—^ office, your wash-up plaee, your lunch j room—make it your Omaha home—we 1 have everything ready for you, with < no expense to yourself. We will take care of your packages and check them free of charge. Boston Store. Omaha. Rabbits In Australia. An Englishman who recently passed through New York on his way home from Australia, whither he went to give advice upon tbo subject of the rabbit pest, describes that particu.ar curse as something beyond the imagin ation of those who have not seen it. When rabbits descend upon a planta tion in swarms, as they frequently da they leave whole acres baro of vegeta tion. The returning traveler is now manufacturing 200 miios of wire net ting per day for use as fencing against the incursions of Australian rabbits. When you visit Omaha you should call at C. S. Raymond Co.’s jewelry store, corner Fifteenth and Douglas streets, and ex amine their jewelry and art goods for wedding, birthday and Christmas presents, also steel engraved wedding stationery, in vitations and visiting cards. It is the' only first class, up-to-date jewelry, art and cut glass store west of Chicago and St. Louis. Engraving and printing 100 visiting cards (1.50 by mail. A Little Girl’s Better. A little girl, spending the summer at the seashore wrote lost summer the following touching appeal to her father in the city: ‘'Dear papa, can’t you scud me one dollar, or half of it? I am so hard up for it now. There’s a cent for one thing here, five cents for another, one cent for something else. Then there’s morry-go-rounds, toboggans, popcorn balls, etc. Sister got the money out of her bank, so she has plenty. Please send mo one dol lar. Your loving daughter.” una in «antiiMm<nu. You will enjoy this publication much better if you will get into the habit of reading the advertisements; they will afford a most interesting study and will put you in the way of getting some excellent bargains. Our adver tisers are reliable, they send what they advertise. Aa Old Irish Shilling. George Kussoll.of Raywick, Ky. ,has an Irish shilling which is probably one of the first issues of that coin. It is a family heirloom that has been bequeathed to the oldest 6on in his family through successive genera tions. It is silver and about the size of our twenty-five-cent currency. Mr. Russell has bequeathed it to his son Kelly Russell, with its tradition. A Museum Has Him. Visitor (dime museum)—What is . there remarkable about that man? Attendant—That man! He’s the greatest freak on exhibition. He is the man who says he’s staying in the city all summer because he’s too poor to get. away. Polite Literature. Gentleman—You are a devotee ot polite literature, I presume. Miss McShoddle—Yes, Indeed; I have* half a dozen books on etiquette.