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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1909)
The - Plattomouth - Journal CZZD Published Semi-Weekly at Plattsmouth, Nebraska m R. A. BATES, Publisher. Ei'.jrjl at PJito.1ij4 at PhtH.u-wth, Nebraska, s ftcon c is matter. f!.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Cook and IYary cun settle their dispute at t lie iliautauquaa next Rea son. :o:- Sunny Jim Sherman, acting vice president, Is not making much noine these days. Fuct Is n vice president amounts to but little at any old time. -:o- Vie Itosewal.er for senator, Tom Majors for governor and Will Hay ward for congress is now one of the slates on the Republican side of the house. A rather queer combination. :o: if Ed. Tutt Is elected Kherlff of Cass county, he will guarantee, that he will not have the audleity to run for n third term. Is It right for a county official in a county that has so many competent and trustworthy men, to ask for a third term? You know Jt Is not. :o: Frank K. Schlater Is serving his lirst term as county treasurer, und hns filled the office to the entire sat isfaction of the taxpayers of Cass coutny. Do you, Mr. Voter, find any cause for n change? You know you do not. :o: T. J. Majors is Hn out and out candidate for the Republican nomi nation for governor next year. When Tom was a candidate for governor several years ago ho tore the Repub lican party wide open. Will he do ho again? The elder Uosewater, now dead, was the cause of Senator Major's downfall at that time. :o: Can you point to a county super intendent In Cass county that ever filled the position more energetically and with greater competency than Miss Foster? Remember her excel lent qualifications as you go along, and that she has to deal with over 100 female teachers and only about fifteen male teachers In the county. She deserves the support of every tter who hns the Interests of the schools of Cass county at heart. The editor of the Nebraska City News Is a very consistent cuss, if one does not care what he says. A few weeks ago he took the Journal editor to task for expressing himself In regard to Henry Richmond for chairman of the Democratic Btate committee, and now he Is caught In the same act of crltlzlng. Listen to what ho has to say about Mayor Dahlnian: "The News In all kind ness would say that tho state of Nebraska does not Want a man of the stripe of James Dahlnian In the governor's chair. We believe he could not be elected should he re ceive the nomination, and we believe that flovernor Shallenbcrger can be elected. The time has passed when brass band and pyrotechnic displays can win an election in Nebraska. The people are thinking for themselves, and when a voter goes to tho polls he has studied the question thorough ly and will vote as conscience dic tates. Dahlnian is a big enough man for Omaha, but not for the Btate." :o: Says tho Ited Oak (la.) Epress: A Linden farmer wa3 recently fined $50 for selling stale eggs, and an Elliott farmer's wife comes out In defense of the culprit and threatens to keep her eggs at home. We hard ly bellove there will be an egg famine, however, as long as eggs command almost the price of a hen at every dozen. There is abouf. as big a percentagd of dividends from tho average hen as from any other source on the farm, and this is not counting the eggs that havo been sat upon until proven unfertile and then washed up and taken to market. We do not believe many farmers of this vicinity a'e guilty of doing such a thing, but we have heard of several in other localities who made a spe- flaky of dropping In a few eggs over which the old hen had hovered for a week or ten days Into the basket with the fresh ones. It is certainly no fault of the consumer who pays from 18 to 20 cents a dozen for eggs, and should not be his mlsfortdne, If there are a few bad ones in each lot. Dolled eggs are among the most delectable of dishes these days, but it puts a decided damper on the cook as well as the epicure when one Is found boiled that was about ready to feather out. The honest farmer will not objec t If the merchant can dles his eggs, and that Is what should bo done with every piece of hen fruit which comes to town. -:o:- It Is not expected that the con sumer will get the full benefit of all the Jokers In the Payne-Aldrleh bill for nearly a year. There are a lot of them to come. :o: From reports all over the state the third-termer is getting It in the neck everywhere. When a candi date is elected on that Issue after running two or three times we can no reason for trying it himself. -:o:- The discovery of the north pole seems to be in dispute between Peary and Cook. From all reports It looks like Peary was trying to rob Dr. Cook of his honors. Pity that the doctor didn't bring a piece of the pole with him, then he would have had a cinch. :o:- Ni:V IIOMKNTKAIt LAW. In speaking of the new homestead law, the Lincoln Journal says: "There are seven states and two ter ritories where the settler is permit ted to enter upon 320 acres of land belonging to Uncle Sam, instead of Hie 160-acre homestead tract, which Is the limit everywhere else. Hut It is only a certain sor.of land that our benellclent government will let loose Into private hands In this large sized chunk. . "Congress on February 19 of this year passed what Is called the 'en larged homestead act.' It was to permit the' settler to take a sufficient acreage of non-mineral, non-timbered and non-irrigable land, so that while he might 'dry farm' on a part of It, the remainder might be allow ed to lie fallow each season, that congress enacted this measure. The provisions of tho law apply only to certain lands In Colorado, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming, and the territories of Ari zona and New Mexico. Up to the present time there have been desig nated by tho secretary of the In terior ns prima facie subject to entry under this act, In round number: 20,250,000 acres In Colorado, 26, 000,000 acres In Montana, 1,550,000 ncres In New Mexico, 1,300,000 acres In Oregon, 3,500,000 nrres in Washington, and 11,000,000 acres In Wyoming. Large areas In Utah have also been designated under a special provision In the act. ' "Under the enlarged homestead act, resldenco must bo established on the land by the entryrnan within six months from date of filing, and be continued, together with cultivation and improvement of the land, for five years. The law requires that ono-elghth of the land bo cultivated beginning with the second year, and one-fourth of the land beginning the third year, the latter area being re quired to be cultivated each year thereafter until date of final proof. The fee to bo paid the register and receiver at time of original entry Is not exceeding $10. The commis sion pnyable at the same time, also at date of final proof, are 3 per cent on the cash value of the land. No pnyment for the land homcsteaded under the act Is required to bo made, except In cases where the lands were formerly embraced In Indian resrva tions and are required by law to be disposed of at a fixed price for the benefit of the Indians." . :o: That fellow In Omaha who it. try ing to get his automobile from the young woman whom he thought he would marry is merely another il lustration of a fool and his money. :o: Well, the state fair got one good day's sunshine, anyway. That's more than Old Sol would give the Platts mouth carnival, but next year we will have about six good bright, sunshiny days. :o: Louisville Is to have a street fair, and right here it can be remarked that if Louisville has one It will be a daisy. Louisville always does things the right way, and it's clean, moral street fair will be just what you want to see. -:o:- From the quotations iu the wheat market the last few days, it looks like Patten was back at the old stand and doing business Just as he did a few months ago. It looks like the shorts were due to get another good squeezing. :o: Dissatisfaction over the tariff does not die out. The Republican papers of the middle west still continue to devote their attention to decrying the act of congress, which belied their party In the face and they speak with prescience. Defeat Is In store for the majority which passed this act, one of the most Infamous In the annals of tariff legislation in the United States. :o: The dash for the newspaper center In New York may be said to be fair ly on now. Peary Is coming In from Labrador with his story of how he discovered It, while Cook is on his way from Copenhaven with the true and exact facts as to how he made the trip. Drooklyn will be a storm center in about ten days, and there will be a polar wave In sight when both these Artie heroes get there. :o: The Democratic county ticket Is one of the best ever placed before the Cass county voters. It deserves the support of every one regardless of party lfllliations. The candidates are Individually pledged to a safe, economical and non-partisan admin istration. A- vote for the straight Democratic ticket is a vote well placed whether you be Democrat, In dependent, Populist or Republican. It Is clean, capable and honest. -:o: The patronage of the state fair excursions from this section this year was the poorest In years. There were several causes for this in ad dition to the bad weather. One of them Is the dissatisfaction with Lin coln In general on account of the dictatorial spirit It dlsplaye toward other parts of the state which do not agree with Its policies. The re sult of Lincoln narrow-mlndness can be figured by Its merchants in dol lars and cents this year. :o: LDWAKI) II. IIAItP.lMAX. Vain, Indeed, are worldly things. Surrounded by everything which colossal wealth could buy, with every pleasure at his door which the pos session of millions could secure, and with every means which this same vast storehouses of riches could pro duce to allay or avert the Inevitable end, Edward H. Harrlman went to his reward Just as the commonest of men. it Is a curious study why men strive and strain to secure the little things of the earth, to mold them Into such shapes as their fancy may dictate, to accumulate and pile them up until the end Is beyond human ken and still strive for more. There comes a time when all this endeavor goes for naught when these things of the enrth which have been bulld ed with so much labor and upon the blood and toll of millions of fellow men, can comfort the possessor no more. When their possession seems so pltably smalt and mean In the presence of that great, vast creation called death. Edward H. Harrlman was one of those who had toiled and builded vast things In his life, laboring him self and shaping the labor of mil lions of his fellow men all for the little fleeting glory which goes with the possession of great wealth for a few fast flying hours. He lived long enough to- hear the fulsome adulation of those who worship the g-jlden calf, Just as he lived long enough to hear the painful and pov erty stricken cries of the thousands who were the hewers of wood and the drawers of water that he might be rated a3 among the great men of the world. And hearing all these things he continued on, struggling to the end in the hope that tomorrow would bring into his maw something more which today was In the possession of someone else, but for which he had an insatiable longing. And thus came his end. Still with the ever reaching, the unceasing grasping for the goods cf others, he sank into that last dreamless sleep from which none awake. In many respect a great man, Har rlman was the embodiment of the latter day gospel that he who can by craft outwit his neighbor and take from him his miserable, petty goods cf the world, Is truly great. That he who can find laws framed to his liking and so finding, rise to great wealth through their opera tion, is truly great seems a latter day tenet deplorable, as it Is. Yet to him has come the end, just as inevitable, just as inexorable as It comes to the dull earth clod who toils and sweats day in and day out for a miserable portion to keep the spark of life aflame. So It Is with all and it must always be. Great or small, wealthy or In dire poverty that Ommnlpotent Ruler calls them to him and they go. Harrlman was but a man. -:o:- CAITI'AMZIXtt THE T.AKIFF The Lincoln Evening News Is be accused by some Republican papers of being Democratic because of Its stand on the new tariff bill. Here is one of its editorials which shows why: j "Lincoln people who are suspect ed of having surplus money to in vest In alluring propositions are Just now given an excellent illustration of how the promoters utilize the tar iff for their own ends, how they cap italize It and issue Block on It. The mall of these fortunate persons con tains a prospectus and a letter. The prospectus is intended to help sell stock In Missouri zinc mines. It tells In large letters this frank story: "New tariff causes tremendous re vival In district. Ore prices advance with a rush. Low grade mines be ing reopened." There is a quotation from a newspaper of standing in which It Is shown that 69 mines on the big capitalization already made 72 per cent, for the first seven months of 1909. "The letter contains this: "Gen eral Hancock was much criticised for stating that the tariff was a local Issue. We are all more or less sel fish and are willing to let the tariff be taken off the other fellow's Indus try, but want It kept on ours. That Is why we, who are mining lead and zinc, mnde such a fight in Washing ton for protection against the im portation of Mexican ores. We suc ceeded and the results are most gratifying. What effect it has al ready had upon our Industries is shown by the enclosed pamplet." "Another circular gives the Infor mation that zinc is selling In Missouri as high as $52.50 per ton, and ex plains this by saying that the smelt ers are taking the ore in the antici pation of much higher prices for spelter, which is commercial , zinc. People who buy household utensils of zinc Will be pleased to know that in order to boost the price of zinc min ing stock In Missouri and thereby enable a hundred of promoters and owners of the ground containing zinc bearing ore to accumulate a pot of money, they will have to pay at least 20 per cent more for what they need In that line. These poor little Infants have only been making 72 per cent In seven months on their capital Block, and they need more $1 1 1 yd LOUISVILLE. MSB. Good Clean EVIoral Shows Open Air Free Attractions. Grand Base Ball Tournament. Games Every Day. Band Concerts each and Every Day. FUN FOR DOTH OLD AND YOUNG help. Zinc ore has been on the free list. It is now $20 per ton, thanks to Joe Cannon, as the zinc district papers proudly claim. This will ab solutely shut out all competing ores from Mexico, which were low grade anyway. The Missouri district will command the market and fix the price of zinc, ore and spelter both. Under the old tariff big fortunes ought to be made, If the promoters don't wildcat the district and water their stock to freely, which they nearly always do. The people who use zinc products in their homes will foot the bill. They will have to be cause the new tariff puts in the hands of the men who own the zinc and smelt it into spelter the dub wherewith to get what they ask. :o: The British Geographical society will hate to pay that prize money, which has been a standing offer to the discoverer of the north pole for many years, to an American. Cook Is an American, and what will affect the British public most, is that he Is an American of German descent. :o: A good farmer can and does pro duce enough food in a single season to keep his family for ten years. As suming that the things aside from food cost as much labor, he ought to live In comfort for five years for one year's labor. Can he do it? Who gets the balance of his products? Will the farmers never get wise to the ways and means by which his wealth is transferred to useless cap italists? :o: School teachers in the country districts havo heretofore, in their work found it necessary to under take the giving of box suppers, or other form of entertainment, in or der to secure funds to provide a few books for the school library. It will not be necessary for them to do that kind of work much longer, for a new state law requires each district to set aside annually the sum of ten cents for each pupil of school age as a library fund. This sum will be small in some districts, but it will start the foundation for a library create a sufficient amount to estab lish a good little library for each of the country schools. There ought to be great care exercised In the se lection of the books purchased, and In most cases the selection will be of the right kind. A consultation Low R.ates TO THE NORTHWEST: Cheap one-way Colonist fares to the North west, Fuget Sound and California, September 15th to October 3 5th; daily through trains to the Northwest via the Great Northern; also via the Northern Pacific. To California, daily through toarist sleepers via Denver, Scenic Colorado and Salt Lake City. ROUND TRIP TO PACIFIC COASTs- Very low Seattle and California round trip excurstou tickets on sale during September. , This is the last chance to obtain these cheap rates for the greatest railroad jour ney in the World. EASTB0UND: Special round trip rates to Chicago, Kansas City, Lincoln, Omaha, St. Joseph, St. Louis, August 28th to September 5th and from September 11th to September 19th. Daily low thirty day round trip rates from Chicago to Atlantic cities and resorts. September is the last month for the special vacation rates to Colo rado. Homeseekers' excursions September 7th and 21st. "1 Consult nearest liliiUiipii fJU'of special special rates. ifiUlit 23-24-23 on the part of the teacher with the superintendent will result in get ting together a library of Inestima ble value for the school for years to come. The state library commission, too, will be very helpful In this work, but the establishment 'of a fund for the country schools Is one of the best laws enacted of recent years. The time will come when each coun try school will be proud of the li brary at the disposition of its pupils. :o: If the only third-termer that is a candidate this fall should be elected that will give others a license to be come third and fourth termers in fu ture campaigns. Do you want to establish this rule? Is not two terms in a county office enough for any man? We think so, and so do you. :o: A Hurry Up Call. Quick! Mr. Druggist Quick! A box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve Here's a quarter For the love of Moses, hurry! Baby's burned him self terribly Johnnie cut his foot with the axe Mamie's scalded Pa can't walk from piles Blllie has boils and my corns ache. Its the greatest healer on earth. Sold by F. C. Frlcke & Co. IX TOl'NTV CO MIT. State of Nebraska,' County of Cass, ss. In tlie matter of the estate of Levi Itiisterholtz, Iieceased. To All J'ersons Interested: You are hereby notified that there will be a hearing upon the petition of the executrix for final settlement of said estate before this court at I'latts mouth. In salil county, on the 5th dav of October, 190!), at 10 o'clock a. ni That all objections. If any, must be riled on or before said day and hour of meeting. Witness my hand and the seal of the said county court of said county, this 9th day of September, 1909. (Seal.) ALLEN J. BEESON, County Judge. SIIEHIFF'S SALE. By virtue of an order of sale, Issued by James Robertson, Clerk of the Dis trict Court, within and for the County of Cass, State of Nebraska, and to me directed, I will on the 16th dav of Oc tober, A. I). 1909, at 10 o'clock a. m., of said day, at the south door of the Court House, In said county and state, sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, the following de scribed real estate, towlt: Lots five 15) and six (6), block four (4), in Munger's First addition to the Vil lage of Alvo, In the County of Cass, State of Nebraska, the same having been ordered sold under decree of foreclosure, by said court, to satisfy a decree of judgment In the sum ot $795.45 and costs recovered bv Mell elnth P. Stone, executrix of the last will and testament of Isaac Stone, de ceased, against Belle Bennett, liov Bennett, Wlllard L. elites (or Clyte). Eva Evalone elites (or Clvte), a a minor, and Wlllard L. Clites (or Clyte), her natural guardian, Elmer Bennett and Maude Bennett, his wife, Arzilla Foreman (nee Bennett), and (Jeorge 1 Foreman, Jr., her husband; Earle Bennett, a minor, and Belle Ben nett, his natural guardian, defendants. Iated at J'lattsmoutli, Nebraska, July 19, 1909. C. D. QL'INTON, Sheriff. Banisey & Kamsey, Attorneys for BlaintliT. for Autumn ticket agent; he has latest advice W. L. PICKETT, Ticket Agent. L. V. Wakuluy, G. P. A., Omaha.