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I C. C. PARMELE, President.
If. U. DULULKLn, baaiuci.
Staa-t a Bank
Account
Murray State Bank
Mvirray,
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Robt. Shrader from Furnace county
is visiting friends here.
Mrs. Walker is home from the springs
and i3 entirely recovered
Miss Kennedy from Plattsmouth is
visiting at Al. Kennedy here.
Chas. RatelifT, of Union, visited
friends in Murray Sunday.
Mrs. Stikes will soon take charge of
the telephone office in Murray.
Mrs. Smith and the Rev. Mr. Smith
attended the ball game in Omaha Fri
day. Mrs. Klarence and children were Om
aha visitors, spending the afternoon at
Lake Manawa.
Mrs. White from Cal.. is visiting at
the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
F. M. Youn;r, sr.
Mrs. Marks and daughter Genevia are
quite sick, and hope for their speedy
recovery is entertained.
Miss Carrie Allison spent Monday in
Nebraska City and went from there
to her sisters in Nemaha.
There will be services at the Presby
terian church on Friday and Saturday
evenings of this week. Communion
services on Sunday conducted by Rev.
X). B. Smith, of Pawnee City.
The children of the Presbyterian Sun
day school will give a flower festival
at the church on Tuesday Aug. 11,
from 2:G0 to 9:30 p. m. There will be
a program at 4 and 8:30 p. m. given by
Miss Oldham's reading class. Light re
freshments will be 6erved on the lawn
by the children. Everybody is cordial
ly invited.
A Plcsant Lawn Party.
A very pleasant time in honor of Miss
Elsa Stokes, of Mynard, Nebr. A lawn
party was given at the home of Mrs.
Addie Stokes and children, Guy and
Tressa, near Murray last Friday even
ing. The evening was very plesantly
spent in social conversation and various
games of all kinds. At the usual hour
a delicious lunch was served by Mrs.
Stokes, assisted by Mrs. D. A. Young.
Miss Tressa and Elsa Strokes in serving,
of which all did amply justice.
Those present to enjoy the event was:
Misses Mary Moore, Willa Moore, Lelia
Vallery. Uilla Gapen, Vera Yardley,
Lucile Rice, Lizzie Wheeler, Mae Lewis,
Clara Young, Genevive Marks, Tressa
Strokes, Elsa Strokes, of Mynard.
Mabel Keiser, Zelma Keiser, Ruth
Beck, of Mimphis, Nebraska. Messrs.
Cyrus Daniher. Arthur Hansen, Tom
Tilson, Lee Kniss, Omar Yardley,
Harry Baxter, Levia Rice, Loyd Lewis,
George Wiley, Harry Creamer, Percy
'Wheeler, Arthur Gopenheaver, Walter
Read, Rex Young, Albert Young,
Glen Wiles, Myron Wiles, of Mynard.
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Young, Mr. Loyd
Gapen and Mrs. Addie Stokes.
Enjoyed a Picnic.
About 40 of the Murray people pic
niced at Mr. Larch's near Union Tues
day. They had plenty to eat. Went
bathing in the pond, and enjoyed them
selves looking around at the many
things on their place. Will Seybolt and
Arthur Young were the heroes. They
killed a tig rattle, snake with seven
ratles.
Dr. Gilmour won out in the tub race.
Carr e Allison and Margie Walker
proved to he the best of the lady swimmers.
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FRED L. NUTZMAN, Vice-President
Better be a bank-account man than
a no-account man. The way to
prosperity and happiness is paved
witn good intentions put into exe
cution. If you feel that you really
ought to be saving something out
of earnings for after life, don't let
the good impulse go unheeded. The
person who is soured on life is the
one who has neglected to put into
force the simple rules of success.
Start an account with the bank to
day. Pay your bills by check and
vour money troubles will be over.
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Nebrska.
Mrs. Geo. H. Gilmore and sister,
Miss Margery Walker, of Murray were
in the city last evening visiting friends
and doing some shopping.
Mr. Larch and family ate dinner
with them ard it was due to their enter
tainment that all had so good a time,
j anl were invited back again next year
' and ail will go.
Shortlicrn Bull for Sale.
One good yearling shorthorn registered
bull for sale. Mark White, Rock Bluffs
Grand Bail at Murray.
George Berger announces that he will
give a grand ball with a capable orches
tra to play the music, at Jenkins' hall,
in Murray, on Saturday evening, August
8, 1908. The public is cordially invited
to attend and a good time is guaranteed
i Stimulation Without Irritation
That is the watchword. That is what
On no Laxative Fruit Syrup does,
j Cleanses and stimulates the bowels
j without irritation in any form.
WOMAH'S BODY CUT TO BITS
CHICAGO POLICE WORKING ON
SHOCKING MURDER.
Hacked Off Limbs and Mutilated Torso
Found in Different Places
Head Missing.
Chicago, Aug. 6. The police force
of Chicago is working on what it is
believed is a mysterious and singular
ly atrocious murder. The hacked and
torn legs of a young woman were
found Tuesday in Mud lake, a small
branch of the Chicago river, and
Wednesday the dismembered body
was discovered under the Santa Fe
railroad bridge, which spans the
drainage canal four blocks from the
place where the grewsome discovery
of the maimed limbs was made.
The head and arms had been sev
ered, evidently with the same instru
ment with which the legs were cut
off. As yet there is no clew to the
identity of the victim or to her mur
derer. The place where the body was found
is in no way connected with Mud
lake, and, in order for the two por
tions of the body to be in two such
widely-separated places, it is certain
that one or the other was carried
across the intervening distance.
Further examination of the torso
disclosed a gaping wound in the
breast, evidently made with an ax.
A boy's cap and shirt was stuffed into
the wound. Examination also disclosed
that the arms and legs had been
hacked off with an ax or meat cleaver.
Boys swimming in the river found a
satchel a short distance from where
the trunk was discovered, containing
blood-soaked collars and a shirt. The
linen bore the laundry marks of the
"Morning Star" laundry, in West Polk
street. Several of the collars were
marked-with Chinese laundry marks.
A woman has told the police that
she saw a head floating in the river
last Thursday, near where the legs
were discovered.
G. F. S. Burton and wife are in the
metropolis today visiting and transact
ing business they having been passen
gers this morning on No. 19.
Mrs. Chas Foster was a passenger
this morning on No. 6 for Glenwood
where she will visit with her daughter
who is employed in the institute at that
point.
WORST IS OVER
IN CANADA FIRE
FLAMES NOW RAGE IN SPARSELY
SETTLED COUNTRY.
ESTIMATES OF THE LOSS
Fifty Lives and Property Worth
$7,000,000 Probably Destroyed
Origin of Conflagration
Not Known.
Vancoifver, R. C, Aug. 5. The ter
ribly destructive forest fires which
have swept through the Crow's Nest
district of the Elk river valley in
British Columbia since last Saturday,
devastating a vast stretch of territory,
destroying many lives and millions of
dollars of property, wiping out entire
towns and rendering thousands of per
sons homeless, are still raging, but
are now sweeping a wild and sparsely
settled country, and it is believed the
worst is oven
It is impossible at this time to
arrive at a summary of the situation
as regards loss of life and property
with even approximate correctness, so
widespread has been the destruction
and so scattered are the people who
lived in the burned area of more than
50 miles in length and three miles in
width. Stories of missing settlers are
coming from Fernie, Cranbrook,
Michel, Hosmer and other places, but
many of these have turned up at some
point far from their original habita
tion and it is not believed the death
list will exceed 50.
Property Loss Very Great.
The property loss has been very
great, but this, too, is difficult to esti
mate correctly. A conservative
valuation would probably place the
amount at $6,000,000 and $7,000,000.
Several thousand persons have been
rendered homeless, principally resi
dents of Fernie, which, according to
all accounts, is almost completely
wiped out, scarcely more than a score
of buildings being left where once a
prosperous town of 5,000 inhabitants
stood.
There has been suffering among
the homeless owing to lack of food
and shelter, but this has been partly
Map of District Swept by Fire.
relieved by the prompt action of the
people of every city in British Colum
bia as well as many of those on border
states, in sending both money and sup
plies to the burned districts.
Summary of the Results.
A summary of the results of the
fires has been prepared here which is
believed to be a conservative esti
mate as to loss of life and property
destroyed. It is as follows: -
Town of Fernie, about 5,000 inhab
itants, practically wiped out, loss of
20 lives and $4,000,000 or $o'.000,000 in
property. Insurance about 50 per
cent.
Town of Hosmer, about 800 inhab
itants, partly burnedy with loss of
one life and $250,000 in' property.
Three hundred persons homeless.
Town of Michel, believed not seri
ously burned, but four persons re
ported killed and property destroyed
in vicinity estimated at $1,000,000. De
tails unobtainable, owing to lack of
communication.
Town of Sparwood, sawmill village,
two killed and large mills destroyed.
Damage estimated at $250,000. Dam
age to standing timber throughout the
burned area estimated at from $1,000,
000 to $2,000,000.
Many pathetic stories of flight and.
In many instances of the death cf un
fortunate settlers who were caught
in the swirl of flames as it swept
through the great forests of pine and
fir, are coming in from the various
points with which communication has
been re-established. It has not been
detenrhiCd Imw the Gro ttaried.
-tjSit ill
The Choicest Weaves
of the Orient
in rugs, with colors and designs wo
ven like a poem in fanciful pictures
of beauty, we are showing in our
new stock of fine Oriental Rugs.
Our fall styles in carpets are pro
uounced elegance and oi exclusive
patterns, and the values are as at
tractive as the goods.
Fl. H1LI
No Premiums, but a dis
count for cash
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA
whether through carelessness or de
sign. Army Officers in Test Walk.
San Francisco, Aug. 5. Seven army
officers stationed at the Presidio and
Benicia, nearly all of them pa3t 50
years of age and several nearing the
three score mark with more than a
quarter of a century's service to their
credit, Tuesday completed the first
day's walk of the 50-mile walking test
ordered by President Roosevelt. They
covered 19 miles in 6V& hours without
the loss of a man.
FORMER BANDIT CHIEF SLAIN.
VV. F. Downing Killed in His Saloon
by an Arizona Ranger.
Douglas, Ariz., Aug. 6. William F.
Downing, a member of the old Stiles
Alvord band of outlaws who ten years
ago operated in southern Arizona,
was killed Wednesday in his saloon
at Wilcox, by Arizona Ranger William
Speed. Speed sought to serve Down
ing with a warrant when the latter,
it is said, displayed a gun, whereupon
Speed fired.
While not present. Downing is said
to have been an instigator of the rob
bery of the Southern Pacific station
at Cochiz, about ten years ago, by the
Stiles-Alvord band. For this he was
sentenced to ten years' imprison
ment, and after serving seven years
he wa3 released.
Iowa Elks in Convention.
Waterloo, la., Aug. 6. The state
convention of Elks opened here
Wednesday with several thousands of
Elks and other visitors present. Spe
cial trains are arriving from all over
the state, all of them being gaily deco
rated. Nine bands are furnishing
music.
Organize Against Black Hand.
New York, Aug. 6. Representatives
of most of the leading Italian societies,
many of them Italian bankers and im
porters, met Wednesday to organize
a society for the suppression of vio
lence, particularly by members of the
Black Hand.
No Amalgamation of Teamsters.
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 6. The Inter
national Brotherhood of Teamsters
Wednesday rejected the overtures of
the United Teamsters of America to
amalgamate the two organizations.
acts geatlyyet prompt
ly on the bovveis, cleanses
the system ejectually.
assists one in overcoming
habitual constipation
nevma n ently. 1 o get its
beneficial ejects buy
the 6enuine.
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b ig Syrup Co.
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California
MILLINERY!
Over 300 fine trimmed
hats will be sold at a i-ac-rifice.
All at less than
one-half price. In fact,
make your own price.
Must have the room for
our monster fall stock
now arriving1.
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Railroad Men's Organization Favors Kis Nomi
nation For Railroad Commissioner.
There was a fair attendance of mem
bers last night at the meeting of the
Railway Men's Protective Association
held in A. O. U. W. Hall last evening.
The purpose of the meeting as an
nounced was to start up enthusiasm
among the members of the local organ
izatioa, and get them interested in the
campaign.
President W. L. Cooper presided at
the meeting and Secretary Thos. L.
Murphy acted as secretary. The speak
ers who were S. E. Mecumber, F. II.
Crosby and F. M. Ryan were all receiv
ed with generous applause and close at
tention "was paid to their speeches. The
general burden of their remarks was
much as the speeches they delivered
the evening the local lodge wa3 organ
ized, which speeches were analyzed in
detail by the Journal when they were
delivered. In addition a strong endorse
ment of the candidacy of George Bro
phy of Omaha, for railroad commisoner
was asked for.
The speech of S. E. Mecumber, an
Union Pacific conductor of North Platte,
and a member of the executive com
mitte of the organization, was the prin
cipal one. Mr. Mecumber dwelt at
length upon the power of the railroad
employes if they voted together and
claimed that they could elect the presi
dent and forty-two of the governors of
the state if banded together. There
are one and a half million employes of
railroads in the country and there are
eight millions of people or one-tenth
the total population dependent upon the
railroads for sustenance. He, however,
disclaimed any intention of injecting
national politics into the organization
this fall but declared the organization
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I would attempt to effect a change in
j state politics. He thought it highly
advisable for the local lodges to select
the men they wanted for the legislature
and send them there. He made a strong
attack upon Commissioner William who
is seeking re-election and urged the
railway employes to support George Bro
phy who has filed as a democratic can
didate for that office. Mr. Brophy is a
conductor on the Union Pacific and a
laboring man. Mr. Mecumber further
quoted facts and figures to bear out his
statement that further reduction in
rates would be disastrous to every busi
ness interest in the state and declared
that the only people who were urging a
reduction were the jobbers.
F. M. Ryan, chairman of the execu
tive committee also spoke at length
urging the employes to unite and secure
protection for themselves and families
by judicious legislation. He told of a
visit he had made to a picnic of farmers
and of the pledge they got gave him of
their support. He also assailed Com
missioner Williams and charged that
Williams supported Edward Rosewater
for United States Senator in return for
this position of commissioner.
F. H. Crosby also addressed the meet
ing along lines much similiar. He urg
ed strengthening the organization
where ever possible and that the rail
road employes watch the record of
every candidate for office to the end
that only their friends be chosen.
The session was not a lengthy one
owing to the heat, and little actual busi
ness was accomplished aside from stir
ring the members into more active ser
vice. The speakers departed from the
city on train No. 14 last night immedi
ately following the meeting.
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