I'LATTSMOLTTil WEEKLY 1LEUAX.D, THURSDAY, SKTXfiHBKi: 22, 1387.
Benefits of a Cas Well.
Through the kindness of Mr. Artnficld,
urupr clerk for Will Warrick, we have
been furnished with full price lists of
the gas companies of his homo where
there aro three wells, ut Elwood, Ind.,
and also of Pendleton where a well has
just been completed. The cheapness
of gas from'.wells as a fuel and benefits
in saving time, trouble, and dirt, makes
the Bubject worthy .of contemplation
everywhere, and since the contract has
been let for the boring of a well, 1500
feet deep at Plattsmouth, we believe our
readers will be interested in anything on
the subject. Tho wells are all under 1,000
feet in depth and have been sunk and
operated during the last two yeare.
Anderson, Ind., has four wells as fol
lows:
Anderson gas well No. 1, depth, 858
feet, daily flow, (5,000,000 cubic feet of
gas.
Gas well No. 2, depth 833 feet, daily
flow, 14,031,421 cubic feet of gas.
Gas well No. 3, depth, 900 feet, daily
flow, 8,000,000 cubic feet of gas.
Gas well No. 4, depth, 002 feet, daily
flow, 8,000,000 cubic feet of gas.
Total product of the wells, 31,001,-
421 cubic feet. Tho largest of any local
lty in Indiana.
The following is taken from tho El-
wood Free Pre.su of Sept. 9: .. .
; PKICKS KOU NATURAL. GAS IN ELWOOD.
Cooic stoyes for families, 50 cents a
month. Cook stoyes for hotels and res
taurants 1 per month. Heating stoves
for families per month $1 for the months
of October, November, December. Jan
uary, Febnary, '""March and April, with
the privilege of warming ten thousand
cubic feet of space for one family only
The second heating stoves used to warm
the same or a part of the same ten thous
and feet, will be charged half price
For all space warmed in excess of ten
thousand cubic feet ten cents for each
one thousand cubic feet or fraction
thereof. Heating stoves for business
rooms, shops and offices,'' SI per month
for the months of October, November,
December, January, Febuary.'March and
April witu tue privilege ot warming
ten thousand cubic feet of space in the
same room, n or an space warmcu in
excess of ten thousand cubic feet in the
same room, ten cents for every thousand
cubic feet of space warmed in addition
per month. Inside lights, single jets,
with a power of five candles, five cents
per month. Outside lights with a power
of ten candles, ten cents per month.
Double jets, double price. All heating
stoves must- be filled with fire brick or
clay to hold the heat. All gas bills are
payable on the first of each month in
advance, and if paid on or before the
7th of each month, a discount of five
per cent will be allowed. If not paid
on or before the 15th of each month in
"advance, the gas will be shut off without
further notice. Parties contracting for
a year and paying for the same
in advance will be allowed a dis
count of ten per cent. Parties
contracting gas for heating stoves by the
year will be allowed to use the same for
warming purposes during the months of
May and September free of charge, others
will be charged half price for theso months.
Parties reporting stoves not in use, and
using the same will forfeit their contract
and the gas will be shut off and no con
tract allowed them after. We ask the
citizens of Elwood to compare their prices
with any town or city in the gas belt
and see if tuey are not getting tneir gas
for less than any of them.
Lhe above prices do not show any
tendency toward monopoly. We don't
believe it is the intention of the present
able management to charge extortionate
prices. They have shown this dispositon
all along, notwithstanding the tocsin
sounded bythe Bulletin some time 6ince
to effect that. The first companies prices
were so high that a second company was
absolutely necessary. Which up to the
present time has not been shown. Nor
do we believe will be under the present
management
! OAS MATTERS AT PENDLETON.
The Pendleton Gas Co. are getting
ready to lay their mains and supply cus
tomers. Their well is located three
fourths of a mile from . town, and con
siderable expense will be incurred before
the gas is brought to the point of dis
tribution. Quite a large amount of stone
will have to be blasted when the trenches
are dug, 350 feet at least, which will add
larcrelv to the labor and expense. One
and one-half miles of ditches are already
dug, and the pipe will go in rapidly
when the laying begins.
The comoanv ha3 issued a price list
which is said to give general satisfaction
The following are the prices of most in
terest to customers: Single cook stove
per" year, in advance, $12; cook stove
and first heater, per year $20; cook stove
and two heaters per year, $25; cook
stove and three heaters per year, $28;
cook stove and four heters per year, $30.
It paid monthly: Cook stoves, $1.10;
first heaterjf 1.50 from October 1 to May
1, and 75c for May and September; sec
and heater, 75c October 1 to May 1. No
rate has yet been fixed for business rooms
and mixers will not be furnished by the
company.
Tho company is deserving of much
credit for the energy and grit they have
displayed in organizing and pushing the
business so far toward completion in so
short a time."
Tho wells at Elwood are older than
those at Pendleton but it will be noticed
there is little difference in tho price of
gas.
At Anderson a beautiful fountain has
been made at the park by placing a pipe
under water and turning on the gas.
The water is thrown 75 feet in the air
and falls in fine spray and on a clear day
the fountain is decorated with a beautiful
rainbow.
About a year ago a How of gas was
obtained at Creston Iowa, while an attempt
to bore an artesian well was being made
and it is not at all improbable the same
substance can be found here, but the
problem will soon be demonstrated, yes
or no, and the people will wait patiently
for the answer, hoping for the best.
Errors in Criminal Trials.
mi i i t -i
inc remarks or JuugciuuiKcy in giv
ing ins assent to.tne opinion in the case
of the Chicago anarchists should be
framed and hung up over every Supreme
Bench in the country. "I do not wish
to be understood as holding that tho
record is free from error, for I do not
think it is," he said frankly; and then
he added, in a spirit of practical judicia
conscientiousness, too infrequently pres
cut at such times, "I am, nevertheless.
oi the opinion that none or tno errors
complained'of are of such a serious char
acter as to require a reversal of the
judgement." This brief statement is
quite as interesting and important in its
way as the long and able opinion to
which it is related. It announces a doc
trine which is unquestionably sound, in
law and in morals, but which the re
viewing courts are disposed as a rule, to
put out of sight the doctrine, to wit,
that in cases of alleged errors in crinina
proceedings, the higher court is not
bound to reverse a iudgement of the
lower court whenever an error of any
sort is discovered, but that it may proper
ly refuse to take such action unless it
shall appear that the error was of a vi
tal nature. In other words, it is a pro
test against the common judicial policy
of permitting mere technicalities to de
feat the course of justice, and save crimi
nals from deserved justice.
it is well known that the errors upon
which verdicts in criminal cases are re
versed do not once in a hundred times
have any bearing upon the question of
guilt or innocence. As a generel thing,
they pertain only to formalities of plead
ing, cr rulings upon points raised solely
for the purpose of delaying and confusing
the proceedings. The lawyers find such
things interesting and profitable, and the
Courts are bound to take account of them
in a certain degree; but there is no good
reason why a man who has been convict
ed of a crime on sufficient testimony and
according to general forms of fairness
and propriety should be turned loose be
cause the court trying him has made a
mistake in some purely technical partic
ular. In such a case it is the right and
the duty of the reviewing court to
let the verdict stand. regardless of
fact that the record is not free from error.
That is not what the courts usually do,
however. They choose, rather to mag
nify the importance af trivial details, and
to reverse judgments on grounds of strict
construction when srtict construction
clearly implies favor to the criminal at
the expense of society and to the reproach
of the cause of justice. It sometimes
seems as if they cared more to display
their skill in hair-splitting than to win
public praise for service of a substan
tial kind.
Take the matter of confessions, for in
stance. It is a well-established and
wholesome rule of law that a confession
extorted from an accused, or suspected
person shall not be used in evidence
against him. But the majority of con
fessions are not thus obtained. They are
voluntarily made, either under the influ
ence or remorse, or with the hope of se-
curing rnercyaiui mere is no vana reas
on why any further testimony should be
required to insure a conviction. It would
seem as if a man's own acknowledgment
of guilt ought to remove all doubt and
leave nothing for the court to do but to
pass judgment upon him; and yet such
cases are often reversed because of some
technical legal. error in the manner of
procuring or admitting the confession.
The policy of the reviewing courts is so
very favorable to the defendant, that is
to say, that it frequently serves to pre
vent a man from being punished whose
guilt is practically not denied. Accord
ing to the common understanding, it is
the province of a court tp bring the truth
to light; but in actual practice the facts
are not allowed to count if revealed in
violation of any one of a' thousand
cchnical rules and conditions. Thus it
comes about that writs of error succeed
criminal verdicts with almost unfailing
regularity, and newtrials are granted, or
the'eonvicted parties set free, for reasons
having relation only to circumstances of
no real importance one way or the other.
The lynchings which occur from time
to time are largely attributable to this
tendency of the courts to permit the guil
ty to escape on pretexts of an inadequate
and unreasonable nature. When a spec
ially revolting crime is committed, the
best of citizens may easily persuade them
selves that the only certainty of punish
ment lies in an appeal to a process that
hangs the guilty wretch first, and consid
ers technicallities afterwards. So many
men annually escape who ought to suffer
the penalties of the law that there is a
constant anticipation of the failure of
justice, no matter how clear and conclu
sive the testimony may be. The courts
mean well, no doubt, from their point of
view; but the fact remains that in their
anxiety to purge criminal proceedings of
all errors, small as well as great, they are
too apt to correct one mistake by making
another, forgetful of their obligation not
merely to see that a prisoner has a just
and fair trial, but to protect society as
well against adverse and injurious influ
ences, If all judges would imitate the
course of Judge Mulkey, and resolutely
refuse to interfere in any case on account
of technical errors alone, the effect would
be to materially improve the general
character of criminal trials and to ad
vance the interests of justice in every re
spect. At the best, there must be enough
blunders of the .kind that should be cor
rected; and the courts owe it to society
therefore, that no time shall be
wasted and no harm done in consider
ing errors which are manifestly unimpor
tant. At. Louis (Jlobe Democrat.
A BICYCLIST IN PERSIA.
An Official's Keen Relish for Forbidden
Fruit Drinking "Arrack."
Although Mohammedans, and particularly
Bhihita Mohammedans, aro forbidden by
their religion to indulge In alcoholic bever
ages, the average high official in Persia is any
thing but a sanctimonious individual, and
partakes with keen relish ot the forbidden
fruit in an open secret manner. The thin,
transparent veil of abstemiousness that the
Persian noblo wears in deference to the sancti
monious pretentions of the mollahs and seyud
and tho public eye at large, is cast aside al
together in tho presence of Intimate friends,
and particularly if that intimate friend is
FerenghL
The Sartiep, soon after his arriral, inti
mates -with a humorous twinkle or tho eye
that be feels the need of a little medicine.
Mr. Gray, as becomes a good physician who
knows well the constitutional requirements
of his patient, and who knows what to pre
scribe without even going through the pre
liminary act of feeling the pulse, produces a
pale green bottle and a tumbler and pours
out a full dose of its contents for an adult.
The patient swallows it at a gulp, nibbles a
piece of sweetmeat, and strokes his stomach
in token of approval.
"What was the medicine you prescribed,
GrayJ"
"High wines," says the physician, "95 degs.
alcohol; a bottle that the entomologist of tho
boundary commission happened to leave here
a year ago; it was the only thing in the bouse
except wine. The patient pronounced it the
'best arrack' he ever tasted: the flerior these
fellows can get it the better they like it."
"Why, it didn't even make him gaspl"
"Gasp nonsense; you haven't been in Per
sia 03 long as I have yet, or you wouldn't say
gasp' even at 05 degs. alcohoL"
The sartiep strokes his beard and stomach,
casts a linsrerine glance at tho above men
tioned green glass bottlo, smiles and replies;
"Having accomplished so wonderful a jour
ney, you are now prettier with your rough,
unshaven face than you ever were be 'ore;
you can now survey yourself in tho looking
glass of famo instead of In a common mirror
that reflects all tho imperfections of ordinary
mortals." Having delivered himself of this
compliment tho 6artiep's eye wanders in the
direction of the 05 degs. alcohol again and the
next minute is again smacking his lips and
complacently stroking his stomach, Thomas
Stevens in Outing.
Fierce Greetings in the Sondan.
As we approach the town, and when least
expected, a party of horsemen in fierce Bed
ouin like array will spring from behind some
cliiX or out of an unseen hollow and, with
marrow piercing" war cries and unearthly
screams, spears leveled or sword3 uplifted,
bear down upon us like a whirlwind, amid
clouds of dust, apparently bent on annihilat
ing or sending to Gehenna such infidels as
ourselves. But even though you feel a do-
oided want of backbone, a dozen spears, as it
were, already quivering in your bodies, and
your heads not worth the purchase, pray do
not run away nor even blench for one mo
ment. Assume an indifferent expression, as
if being chopped up or spitted on spears was
a doily experience. If you can smile in the
emergency all the better, for just as wo seem
to feel the hot breath of their horses on our
cheeks, and in a bewildered sort of way real
ize the disagreeable proximity of several
spears, another shout will fill the air, tue gal
loping horses as if by magic will stand stock
still, enveloping us in a cloud of dust, and by
the cordial shouts of welcome and hearty
salams we shall find a most pleasant assur
ance that all this fiendish display is intended
as an honorable welcome to their town. -Har
per'a Magazine.
Always Get a Check.
Thieves are up to a new trick. A man
sends a valuable watch to a jeweler for
repairs. A messenger boy goes after the
watch, pays the charges and brings the
timepiece to tho man who sends for it, ,
but who is not the owner. When you
have your watch repaired get a check for
it. New York Commercial Advertiser.
The Japanese have lately been examin
ing the German breweries with a view to
native production.
is
(SUCCESSOR TO J. M. ROBERTS.)
Will keep constantly on hand a full and complete etock of pue
Drugs and Medicines, Paints,
Wall Paper antl a Full Line of
IDIETTGr-G-IST'S STTlSriDIEIIES.
PURE LIQUORS.
A woman's curiosity is sometimes
very great, At Oxford the other even
ing a lady on the train became attracted
by something on the outside and tho
train was starting, so she put her head
out of the window through irlass and all.
I We did not hear what she wished to see
but think she must have forgotten the
color of the feather in Mrs. Brown's hat
Tiieiie can be no mistake about the
fact that local option is rapidly gaining
ground everywhere, and when it is
adopted it is usually followed by prohi
bition. lhe political aspect ot the
mater is growing more important every
day, as public sentiment on the temper
ance question bas.undergonc a remarka
ble change in recent years under the
presence of moral, social and business
considerations, and the excessive use of
liquor is being looked upon with gen
eral impatience; and the successful men
of the future in this country, evidently,
will be sober men.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF CASS COUN-
Y, NEBRASKA.
SARAH ELIZABETH COPELAND, )
vs.
8 VAC OLIVER COPELAND. 1
To Isaac O.Coneland non reidnt defendant
You are 'hereby notified that on this Auk. 9th
1x87. 1 filed my petition hi the district court of
Cans County Nebraska, in a suit therein pend
iiptf, wherein yon are defendant, the object and
prayer of which is to declare null and void the
pretended marriage of plaintilf and defendant,
because oi defendants having a legal wite nv
ing at the time of said marriage ; and, that said
marriage wfis contracted in pood faith on part
ot plaintilt. and that the 1-stie of said pretcr.d
ed marriage be adjudged legitemite, and if the
court Hud said marriage legal to obtain a di
vorce from you on the ground of extreme cruel
ty. and for the custody of the minor child
Clarence C. Copelaud. You are required to
answer said petition on or before October 10th
tSi7, or your default will be taken therein.
SARAH ELIZABETH COPELAD.
livnojf Clakk. Att'y. for pill. 2i-i
Notice to Creditors.
STATE OF NEBRASKA, I
Cas Couuty. J
ss.
In the matter of the estate of Jacob F.
deceased :
Fox,
Notice is hereby given that the claims and
demands of all wrson again.-t Jacob F. Fox,
deoeased, late of said county and state, will be
received, examined and adjusted dv tne
county court, at the court house in Platts
mouth on the J3rd day of February, A. I), isss
at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. And that, six
months from and afterth20th day of August
A. D. 188o is the time limited for creditor.- of
said deceased to present their claims for ex
amination anu allowance.
Given under my hand, this 20th day of Au
gust A. D. 1887.
C. RUSSELL,
23 3t. County Judge
TN TOE DISTRICT COURT OF CASS COUN
TY NEBRASKA.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION 1
OF ANDREW STURM, GUARDIAN OF!
IDA II. STOLE. LENA M. STOLL AND
HERBERT L. STOLL. MINOR HEIRS OF
HANS .1. STOLL. DECEASED. FOR A
LICENSE TO SELL LAND J
And now on this day conies the above named
Andrew Sturm, tuardian of Ida II. Stol, Lena
M. Stoll and Herbert L. Stoll. minor heirs of
Hans J. Stoll, deceased, and presents his peti
tion duly verified praying for a license to sell
and convev certain strip of land north of the
line of theNebrsska City brandh of the Mis
souri Pacific Railway Co. in the s uth half of
the south east quarter of section number ten of
township number ten north of range number
twelve east of the Cth P, M. in Cass County Ne
braska.
It appearing to the undersigned, one of the
Judges of the District Court of the Second Ju
dicial District in and for Cass County Nebraska
that said land is not such a? to command a
rental to exceed 15.(0 and that it could be
sold for $12fK). 00 and that the interest thereon
would be more valuable to said minors than
the rental of said premises and that the inter
ests of said minors would ba promoted by a
sale of the same.
It is therefore ordered that all
persons interested in said matter
innear Deiore me at niv cnamuers
in the office of the Cl-rk of the District Court
in irausmoutn, i.rass ununcy, jNeorasKa at io
o'clock A. M. on the liuh day of October A. D.
1887, and that notice thereof be given by publi
cation in the PlattmouMi H f.uald, a weekly
newspaper printed and published in said coun
ty ana or general circuianon uiTein, at w men
time and place ad peisons interested may
show cause, if any there be, why licerjs? should
not be granted to said guardian as prayed for
in said petition.
Done at my cnamuers in tne city oi nans-
mouth Cass Comity Nebraska this 5th day of
septembef A. D. I8S7
oAm ij ai. uiir3u r juage.
J. II. Beii-ows Att'y for Petition.
nun-, Mri tfi' It If
- The best and surest Eemedy for Cure of
all diseases caused by any derangement of
the Liver, Kidneys, Stomach and Bowels.
Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Constipation,
Bilious Complaints and Malaria of all kinds
yield readily to the beneficent influence of
It la pleasant to the taste, tones up the
system, restores and preserves health. 9
It is purely Vegetable, and annot fail to
prove beneficial, both to eld and yoang.
I As a Blood Purifier it is raperior to all
others. Sold everywhere at SI. 00 a bottlo
WB
Sixteen Thousand Dollars Worth
OOTS
Last year, and if low prices
LOOK AT THE GREAT CUTS IN PRICES WE ARE OFFERING
YOU.
Ladies' Good Grain Button Shoe for $1.00. formerly sold for .fl.7.'5; Ladies!
Heavy Grain Button Shoe, the Jicst wear for if 1.7", formerly for $2. 25; Ladies best
Milwaukee Grain Button Shoe, $2.00, formerly sold for .$2.50;. Wc are ofTcriii"; all
our $2.50 liue of shoes for $2.00; Ladies' Fine Glaze Dongola Button and Tampcgo,
Goat for $2.50, formerly $:.()0. Men Heavy Boots for only $1.50, formerly $2.00
Men's Best Whole Stock Kip Boots for $2.50, formerly sold for $3.25; Men's Fine
"Whole Stock Ki Boot for only $:. 00, formerly $1.00; Men's Calf Boot, good and
solid, for only $2.50, formerly $:.00; Men's Fine Dress titton Shoe for only $1.85
formerly $2.50.
nw an inimiinii inn iiiiiiimiiihi hi ii
"We also have a great many other "cash" bargains in Children's, Misses and boys
that it will pay you to call and examine our goods and be convinced that we ar
selling cheaper than any other dealer.
Jonathan IIatt
WHOLESALE
PORK PACKERS and dealers in BUTTER AND EGGS.
BEEF, PORK, MUTTON AND VEAL.
THE BEST THE MARKET AFFORDS ALWAYS ON HAND.
Sugar Cured Meals, Hams, Bacon, Lard, &c., &c-
of our own make.
The best brands
WHOLESALE
CSrX'jSi ?BM CAT nT w 2
FURNITURE
PARLOR5
SET!
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FOR ALL
'b9m'M
Parlors, IScdrooms, Dining-rooms.
Kitchens, Hallways and Offices,
GO TO
Where a
magnificent
stock of
abound.
UNDERTAKING AND ER1BAL&1ING A SPECIALTY.
CORNER MAIN AND SIXTH,
RICHEY
Corner Pearl and
DEALERS in
I L.UUI!
Cement
umber
I AIM A'
laowesf SUsies. Terms Cqs
IN THE DISTKICTCOUKT OF CAS.S COUN
TY, NEBiiASAA.
JENNIE EE.LLSWOBTn, riaictifl,
vs
GEORGE W. ELLSWORTH, Defendan
To Georpe V. Ellsworth, non-resident de
fendant : YOU will take notice tli;it jn Seiileiil
ner Tth.lT.Jennie E.Ellwortli.pl iiritiff. herein
filed a petition in the district court of Cuss
C'ountv, Nebraska, afiinst you ; the object and
prayer of which are to secure a divorce on the
grounds of abandonment and desertion for a
period of two years last pat, and failure to
maintain and support ; aUn, asking for the
custody of the minor cniM ft plaintiJl and de
fendant. Nettie Luretta Ellsworth.
You are required to wnw;r said petition on
or before the 17th day of October, 17,
H, B. WisduamasdJohs A. Daviks,
25-lt. . Atty'8 for plaintiff
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& BIRDSALL'S.
SOLD
of-
AND S
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will pell goods, wo intend to sell inor
this year.
J. W. AIaktiiis.
uI-TD EETAIL
THAI
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of OYSTERS, in cans and bulk, at
AND RETAIL.
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BEQROOiYl
SET 1
CLASSES OF-
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FOR
Goods and Fair P
rice3
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
L, lW2SJBM !
BROS.,
Seventh Streets.
all kinds of
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IN THE DISTRICT CO CRT OK CASS CO U V
TV, NEBRASKA :
CHARLES R. METTEER. plaintiff
CLARA GELLE METTEER, dc-fendanr,
'lar:i Uelle Mettecr. defendant will take no
tice that on the 2oth Im- oiAtigu-t. ikst
CJmrles li. Metter. plaintilf. filed bin pf-t;lio:i
in the District court of County Nebraslc-i,
aLT-tiust said defendant, the object and prajv
w!:i;!i are. to obtain a decree of divorce fn.ti
the bonds of matrimony and tlie custody of the
tlir-e minor cii ldreti. the Nsueof aid marriage.
You are required to an-wer said l'etition on
or bef-uv the li;h dav of October 17.
Dated Aiy 22nd. 1S7.
CilAULK U. MKTTKF.R.
24-4 by J. U. Stk'jde hid Attorney.
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